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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is spoil Me covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters six

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through twelve. I always sort of debate on whether to

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read any of the chapter titles or anything like that,

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and it always just kind of gives me like a

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warm glow when an author doesn't even bother giving titles

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to the chapters. I appreciate it personally. In this section,

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we made our first boss and it's like, so horrible.

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Speaker 1: It's so much worse.

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Speaker 2: In every sense than I was expecting. Welcome to spoil Me.

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

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. I don't

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see you here in the chat, Michael, but hopefully you

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will be able to join us. So, my friends, this

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you know, I'm going to jump right to talking about

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the boss. Okay, I will go back, I will look

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at other things, and we'll talk about stuff in the

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beginning of this section, I absolutely will. You know, there's

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a plenty of other good stuff. But here's here's something

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that I actually kind of had a like one of

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those moments where you feel unexpectedly a wash of profound

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relief because when we first.

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Speaker 1: Meet this boss.

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Speaker 2: It's just like the way that this woman her body

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is described because she's fat, is really awful. And you guys,

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I have talked about this on some other podcasts that

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I've done, and we don't completely escape this here, but

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there is a real tendency when you are making like

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villain characters and you make them fat to have whatever

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their magical boss ability is be dependent on something regarding

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their mouths or food or throwing up. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's just such a thing.

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Speaker 2: There's like video games where the bad guy turns people

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into food and then he eats them, then he throws

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up bile and that burns you. There's another one where

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it's like an obese woman in a like one of

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those scooters, you know, and and she throws up on you,

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and it's just like, it's just so deeply offensive in

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so many ways. So when this villain is introduced, my

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very first reaction.

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Speaker 1: Was, oh shit, okay, okay, I just gotta I just

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gotta get through this.

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Speaker 2: And eventually bugs are coming out of her mouth and

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it's feeling like we're really on track.

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Speaker 1: But then.

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Speaker 2: Once you realize that this had been a real person,

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that this was being done to her, it humanized everything

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so immediately that I took it all back. And I

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am sure that there are other people who read this

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section and they would have the same hang ups about

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how fat people are depicted in media as I do,

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and they would not be able to let it go.

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They would feel still the same way they did to

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begin with. That's totally valid. We all draw the line

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in the sand about certain things in different places, and

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you know, there's just there's really no right or wrong

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way to react despite what a lot of people might think,

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as long as you have some awareness surrounding the issue.

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I think that's the important part. But I just appreciated that,

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like it felt the author was doing this thing, and

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then it went it like Jiggs left and it was like, no,

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the aliens are doing this gross thing to a fucking

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actual human being. And so what starts off as this

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really like grim dark humor seeming moment turns into like

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an actual scene from a horror movie. It's so awful,

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you guys. I Like there's a point later on where

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Carl thinks to himself how he couldn't understand anything she said,

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and he was glad because he had enough trouble sleeping

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at night, and I'm you know, I am sure plenty

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of you as well. As you're reading you can tell

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what she's saying and it's fucking heart wrenching. So anyway,

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I just wanted to get that out of the way.

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So let's start with chapter six. As Carl is going

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through his you know, all of his lute and whatnot.

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The Goblin past thing does indeed do what I was suspecting,

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but also it makes you look like you're with the goblins,

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which results in you getting more damaged done to you

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by creatures who don't like them. Enchanted night Gaunt Cloak

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of Stoutness plus four in a constitution resistant to poison

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and ice attacks, anti piercing, resistance to all armor. It

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also makes you look like a dollar store batman. If

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a night Gaunt spies you wearing this, they probably won't

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be too happy with you, which is interesting. And then

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Troll Skin shirt of Pummeling. The wearer gains plus seven

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to the regeneration skill. In addition, all melee based damage

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debuffs such as stun, knock back, disarm, and out of

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breath are negated. The shirt is also quite stylish. A

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lady troll might just want to haul you away for

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some one on one time if they see you in this.

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So Mordecai tells him for tanking, this is one of

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the best undergarments. A level seven regeneration skill means you're

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back to full health pretty quickly in as little as

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two minutes. That is something that would be in a

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platinum or legendary box. So he puts that on. And

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the toe ring also, which is uncomfortable, but it's a

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enchanted toe ring of the splatter skunk plus three strength

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plus three to skill powerful strike.

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Speaker 1: So this like the the I was sort of hoping

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that the toe.

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and I was a little disappointed that it seems like

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his foot is just as prone to being hurt as

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it ever would be. I think later he he might

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step on glass at some point. So, yeah, wish that

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there was something more to that, but what can you do.

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So he fiddles around with skills, and as he's doing this,

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he hears a voice, Really, Carl, if you're going to

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insist on wearing that hideous cloak, you might want to

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do yourself the dignity of putting pants on first. I

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just can't fathom why Miss Beatrice hired you in the

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first place. And it's donut and she can talk. I

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really really loved that she doesn't transform into a person,

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because I kind of thought that might be what we

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Speaker 1: It's great that she's still a cat.

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Speaker 2: I was hoping that there might be something involving communication,

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but I thought maybe it would be mental. I didn't

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think that she would speak out loud that everybody would

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be able to hear her, but honestly, that would make

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for much less interesting TV. So I had to focus

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on what they would want to film. And yeah, she

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she the stats, you guys, strength eleven, intelligence eleven, constitution

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two dexterity eight, charisma twenty five. You should have heard

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the snort that I let out when I was listening

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to this audiobook and he said charisma twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I lost my mind for a second. I had to

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pause it. There was just.

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Speaker 2: Something like, I genuinely didn't know we could go that high.

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I assumed that this was a out of five metric.

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So finding out that there's double digits and shit, and

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then she's like in the twenties, amazing and Mordecai is like, ah,

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now I have to start that tutorial over because she's

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like a regular crawler. And she's like, no, no, no,

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I heard everything you said to my manservant. So this

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is all stuff that I think, like you know, is

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very tropy that we have seen before.

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Speaker 1: The animal that views.

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Speaker 2: The person who cares for it as their servant, and

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they think a whole lot of themselves and you guys,

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she gets tomb of the Magic Missile and then the

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legendary box enchanted crown of the Sepsis Whore. This is

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a fleeting item. This is a unique asterisk item in

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viuswear with plus five intelligence plus five to the good

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first Impression skill. All attacks, including magical have a fifteen

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percent chance to inflict the Sepsis d buff warning. And

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this is supposed to be something you read before you

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put it on, but she saw that it was a

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crown and put it on instantly. As I understand personally,

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I might also be tempted to do. Placing this crown

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upon your head permanently places you within the royal line

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of succession for the Blood Sultanate on the ninth floor

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of the World Dungeon, removing this item will not remove

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this status. Royal members of the Blood Sultanate will be

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required to slay the Salt and all other members of

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the Royal family before ascending descending to the tenth floor.

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You'll only want to wear this if you're a bloodthirsty,

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raging psychopath.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Plus five intelligence, plus five to good first impression and

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fifteen to sepsist debuff, and in exchange, that becomes your

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new like side quest.

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Speaker 1: Is it just mirror? Does that not feel like that

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pays off nearly enough to put it on? It's like cool.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe I'm just underestimating what those stat

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amplifiers like, how good they really are, But it just

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seems to me that item doesn't feel like something I

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would see like most people encouraging players to use if

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we were in a video game, you know, I feel

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like most people would be sort of like, this isn't

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why would I ever do this, you know, unless you

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were playing one of those like, you know, some people

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enjoy doing a game where they're a bad guy and

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they just fucking kill everybody. But anyway, Princess Donut has

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named your party the Royal Court of Princess Donut. Princess

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Donut has changed your title to Royal Bodyguard. Princess Donut

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has changed her title to Grand Champion Best in Jungeon.

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She have the highest combined stat total, so she's a

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designated party leader. As such, she has more control over

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the party than you. Don't worry, the titles don't mean anything.

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Listen up, kids, She's quite a bit more powerful than

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you are right now. So you'll want to stick together

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at least until you get to the ninth floor. That

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will be a challenge. You can always leave the party.

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That crown is on her head, not yours.

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Speaker 1: So this is when they.

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Speaker 2: Set out, and Mordecai is like a by the way

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other training guilds. You're always going to be coming back here.

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I'm your guide now, so you know anytime you're just

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gonna run into me, you'll lose access to me once

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you hit the fourth floor. Good luck out in the

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universe once this is over. Mordechai looked at me sadly. Yeah,

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good luck to you too. He grasped a jacket and

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met my eyes and then whispered, It's not worth it,

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no matter what they tell you. Not until floor twelve,

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and even then negotiate as much as you can. Remember

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that he slammed the door, and my mind reeled. What

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did that mean? Was he saying it was better to

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die than to take whatever exit they offered on floors

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ten and eleven? Did that even matter floor ten? Who

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was Mordecai kidding? Three million people had died in this

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place in the very first hour. I wasn't expecting to

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survive until the next floor opened up. So I really

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took this to mean, like the way that Mordechai is

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looking at him, and the sadness this moment of having

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helped a person, getting to know them just enough to

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maybe like them a little bit, and then sending them

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out there and knowing full well that you may not

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see them again, and this being your job that you

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do all the time, probably fucking wears on your soul.

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And I don't know exactly how the contract works, the

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agreement that he made, but it occurred to me that

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I don't really know how time works in this universe

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with the aliens involved. And it may be when he said, like,

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my world isn't open to me anymore, that it's just

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gone because so much time has passed that it's been

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like stripped and the planet is essentially not like they're anymore,

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or maybe enough time has passed that it's just changed

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so fundamentally, you know. But it just really kind of

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once I stopped and considered how little I knew about

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so many different factors, I realized that, like, this could

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be such a terrible deal if you don't look at

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the fine print and find out yourself how things work

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with the aliens, because you know, they're gonna say a

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thing and we're gonna probably take a lot of things

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at face value for the way they work for us

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as humans from planet.

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Speaker 1: Earth, and then if it's not that way, they can

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it's like making a deal with a fay. So my

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like you almost can't get out of at all once

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you've on the papers. But I don't know, it's just

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like for me, it really felt in that moment that

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kind of like I just don't know, man, if I'm

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going to see you again, and saying like it's.

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Speaker 1: Not worth it.

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Speaker 2: I think he is sort of showing a little bit

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of what's optimism, I guess by being like, I think

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you will probably get that far. But I am very,

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very eager to find out what it is that Carl

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gets offered as he gets further on, because that is

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always something that I find really fun when somebody is

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tempted with an offer and there really isn't a right

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answer to the offer, and it's just about like what

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your priorities are versus what theirs are, or if you

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have like more anxiety about things going a certain way

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than another way, and it can be very fun to

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sort of debate what to choose. So I'm really really

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interested in that. So they have twenty nine hours before

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the television show begins, and Donut is like, we really

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need to do something amazing, but the first thing we

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need to do is get you pants, and Carl points

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out she isn't wearing pants either, and she says, nor

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am I wearing a cloak that makes me look like

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I want a participation trophy at the Special needs Comic

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con Carl, we could just not do the ableism.

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Speaker 1: We could just not do it.

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Speaker 2: That'd be cool if we just cut that, make that

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anything else. You know, you could make it like a

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participation trophy in a fifth grade costume contest, you know,

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something to indicate. But let's just not That's all I'm saying.

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It's surprising to me that line is under line so

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many times, and yet I guess it's not surprising.

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Speaker 1: Sigh.

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Speaker 2: So at this point, she's being so pushy and domineering

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with him that finally Carl is like, you know what, bye,

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good luck, and she's genuinely, I think, like, doesn't even

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get what he means. And finally he's like, look, I

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think you're probably going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot going for you. But if I'm

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gonna get killed, then I'll just get it over with.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time we put up with the fact

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that cats her assholes because we can't hear every fucking.

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Speaker 1: Thing you say.

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Speaker 2: But I can, and it's not worth it. Thank you, no,

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thank you, And she actually apologizes. Have you ever woken

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up from a long dream one where you're one thing,

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and now that you're awake, it takes you a moment

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to realize that's not who you really are. Which personally, yes,

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I have the most intense, realistic dreams, and I wake

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up disoriented frequently. I do not recommend it. Also, depending

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on the dream, it doesn't even feel like you got rest,

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because it feels like.

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Speaker 1: You were awake all night.

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Speaker 2: When I woke up back there, I had all my

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memories of all my time being me, of sitting in

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that window looking outside, watching television, all the hours, and

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the carrier, and then suddenly my mind looked back on

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all of it and I understood what had happened. I

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am a grand champion, I'm supposed to act a certain way.

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But sitting in your lap watching you get fragged over

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and over in Call of.

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Speaker 1: Duty, I like that too.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you really suck at that game, but you

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keep playing. I didn't realize it at the time, but

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I liked that. So what are you saying that you're

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not a crazy, stuck up asshole princess. Oh I am

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a princess, Carl, But I'll try not to be too

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much of an asshole. And I need you and you

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need me. Okay, Look, I'm really scared here. I don't

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want to be alone, and I know you and you

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don't want to be alone either. I saw you the

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other day looking at the map on your computer and

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then those apartments on Craigslist. What do you mean, I asked,

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but I knew exactly what she meant. There was that

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day when the passes were clear. You could have taken

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me back to Miss Beatrice's parents, but you didn't want to.

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You were looking at apartments, making sure they allowed cats.

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You were thinking about catnapping me. I just looked at her.

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It's exactly what I had been doing, but I hadn't

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even admitted it to myself. When she says there was

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that day when the passes were clear, I don't know

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what she means by that. I think maybe it was

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like the weather had been preventing him. He had been

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using the fact that he was snowed in or something

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like that. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: I love this.

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Speaker 2: The fact that he was even considering it is delightful.

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It wouldn't have worked, by the way. Her dad would

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have got me back right away, I sighed, that was

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true too. Bee's dad was a lawyer out of Yakima, okay.

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Speaker 1: I said, let's keep moving.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting because he asks her why didn't why

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did she jump out the window when she did, and

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they get interrupted. So I think this adds fuel to

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my theory that she felt something was wrong and jumped

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out there purposely. I feel like we're getting this interruption

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because there's a real answer and we don't get to

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have it yet. But I'm pretty sure we're going to

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find out about something with this later. And there's this

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thlumping sound. Two bolts shot out of donuts eyes, one

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after the other. They were like laser blasts from a

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sci fi movie. I was so surprised that I almost

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fell backward. Instead, I just stumbled a little. I remembered

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that she had that magic missile spell. I adore that

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she fires laser beams from her eyes. Fantastic, perfect, No

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notes it does like require a cool down period though,

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So there is a point later where she is pressed

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and they have to wait for it to recharge.

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Speaker 1: So then we get the bad Lama. I cracked up.

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Speaker 2: Look, guys, I said before, not all the jokes are

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gonna be winners. Writing comedy is hard, but more than not,

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they are working for me so far, And I think

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I'll tell you what I'm not trying to take anything

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from the author at all, but I really do want

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to give a lot of the credit to how well

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the jokes land, to the audiobook narrator and whoever produced

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the audiobook the way that they make it interesting by

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changing up the voices of the AI that he is

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interacting with the timing of the way the lines are read,

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which is crucial. So it's just a really perfect combination

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that makes jokes that I think if I just read

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this joke, it wouldn't It's not that it wouldn't be funny,

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but I just feel like I am getting a lot

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more out of this listening than I would just reading it.

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It just feels more cinematic because of the way it's produced.

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So so I uh, because I'm going to mention this

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in the discord as well, but I'm sorry, I can't

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remember who it was, but somebody was saying that people

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should listen to the audiobook, and another person was saying,

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I don't think I would want to sit through hearing

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all of the loot drop stuff. That's some of the

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best stuff. The audiobook is done in such a way

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that those parts are really entertaining, So I feel like

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give it a chance and see how you feel about it,

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because I could see why you would think that, and

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I might also if I hadn't listened before I started

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doing the text. And I just think, as much as possible,

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I'm just going to do audiobook for this because some

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books I have to mix it up a little bit.

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I have to go back and forth, and you know,

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depending on what the subject matter is, it's easier for

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me to absorb in text.

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Speaker 1: But this is something that.

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking really really benefits from the sound design

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and the narrator. So bad Lama level three. It's a lama,

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but it's bad. If he were human, he'd be covered

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in prison tattoos and would be hanging out in front

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of the circle k hitting on fourteen year old girls.

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They might be willing to sell you something. If you

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have good stuff to trade, you won't want to get

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hit by their spit. And eventually, when they kill the lama,

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he drops a bag of trailer park a grade meth.

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Speaker 1: Sorry two bags. He doesn't does he add them? Does

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he take the math?

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Speaker 2: No? Yes he does, because he gets food items and

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pharmaceuticals added to his menu. I do enjoy that it's pharmaceuticals.

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But yeah, this fight, I mean, the lama isn't impossible.

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It's just shocking. I think, you know, I felt bones crunch.

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My left hand exploded in pain, and I didn't know

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if the crunching bones were in the lama's face, in

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my hand or both.

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Speaker 1: Probably both.

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Speaker 2: And it the spit that it shoots is lava. The

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creature dropped like a sack of hammers. It tried to

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cry out, but nothing but gurgling came out.

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Speaker 1: You guys, I don't know if I could punch a lama.

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I don't know, guys.

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Speaker 2: It really depends making some of these baddies animals. That

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might be the death of me. That might be where

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I die, you know, I don't know. So because Donut

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det seventy one percent of the damage, she gets the

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first pick of loot. Poor lama. Skin uncooked lama steaks

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bag of trailer park grade meth, and he takes the

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steaks of the meth. I had a couple new achievements,

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one for looting a corpse and one for sharing experience.

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I received a pair of Bronze Adventurer boxes. That was

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no good, sloppy.

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Speaker 1: You can't be.

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Speaker 2: Injuring yourself every time you get into a minor tussle.

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Minor tussle. We need to be more cautious. We can't

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just blindly stumble around. No, we need to level up,

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and we need to do it quickly. I'm starting to

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think this main road is not the best choice for

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traveling or fighting. So eventually they get off of the

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main road and there's like sounds that he can hear,

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but he never actually runs into anyone, which I think

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makes sense because earlier Mordecai tells them that the map

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isn't connected to every other place in the world, so

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it's not like you can run into somebody who's from

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the other hemisphere just if you walk far enough, because

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it doesn't work that way. So I'm assuming that because

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it was so cold and there were so few people outside,

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that is why this place has like such a thin

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n number of human beings. But maybe not, maybe just

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like more people just opt not to go in at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The bathrooms, he eventually figures out every time you open

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the door, it's the same bathroom and it doesn't matter,

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So that's kind of fun. When Donut opens it, she

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finds a litter box, so she runs in there and

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we find out, like, let's see, what I really needed

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to do was sleep. The toilet thing and the fact

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that when she opens it something different is in there

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delights me a lot.

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Speaker 1: So then we get level two. Rats.

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Speaker 2: The cat was definitely making an effort to be less abrasive,

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but she was still a cat. She had a reckless

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streak and a quick mouth, often making quips before realizing

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what she'd said. But she was also showing very cat

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like signs of affection too. One time I leaned up

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against a wall to rest, and she spent the time

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purring and rubbing up against my legs. I looked down

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at her, and she returned my gaze.

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Speaker 1: What she said. I thought that was adorable.

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Speaker 2: So I hit three levels and gained a skill called

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foot Soldier and a second one called Smush. Foot Soldier

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increased damage I dealt by kicking smush. You, guys, when

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I talk about the audiobook narrator, this is this is

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not an easy thing to pull off, My friends.

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Speaker 1: I'm debating if I even want to attempt it. Smush

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skill level three, killing with your feet, your bare, beautiful feet.

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I couldn't. I couldn't. It goes on and on.

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Speaker 2: I remembered the weird message I'd received before when I

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jumped in on the Goblin Engineer. I thought it was

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just to throw away joke, like most of the descriptions,

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but it seemed the AI or whatever it was, really

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did have some sort of foot fetish.

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Speaker 1: It was fucking weird. I guess we're not getting you shoes.

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Speaker 2: Dona said, yes, we are. It sounds to me like

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the computer fancies you or your feet. At least we'll

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need to take advantage of that. If a system likes us,

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then maybe it'll go easier on us. It makes me uncomfortable,

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I said, being eaten by a bugbear makes me uncomfortable. Carl,

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So if your boyfriend goggling your tootsies keeps these easy

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ps bugs coming at us instead of more of those

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lava spinning lamas, then you better buck up, get over

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your human male privilege and take one for your princess.

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I loved it, like there's so many times where women

475
00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:54,359
are told to just deal with a guy being a

476
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,759
fucking creep, and it was very, very nice to see

477
00:30:57,759 --> 00:30:59,599
a guy you have to deal with that. You know

478
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:04,480
is you all don't know how much we are trained

479
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,559
to ignore throughout our lives. It's like there's always moments

480
00:31:09,599 --> 00:31:11,319
of why didn't you say something when a guy was

481
00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:13,000
being a fucking creep? But the thing is, if we

482
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:17,599
said something every time anybody was a creep to us, like,

483
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,519
we would never get anything done. It just like it

484
00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:25,880
starts to just kind of roll off you in a

485
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,559
way that's not healthy because you just expect everybody to

486
00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:34,039
be this way, you know. So that's one of the

487
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:37,880
nice things. Like even though getting older, gaining weight, and

488
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:41,799
just like aging in general sucks in many ways, I

489
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,440
miss being cute like I used to be. I will

490
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,480
say that not having a creepy factor like dealing with

491
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:51,920
that that is really nice.

492
00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: It's like such a relief.

493
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm into it, and I think that playing

494
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,440
this angle, they should definitely lean into it, in my opinion.

495
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,799
Speaker 1: So then we go.

496
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: To the first rest area and it's set up to

497
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,519
look like a kind of McDonald's, but instead of red

498
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:20,880
and yellow, it's white and blue. They had taken a

499
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,359
complete intact fast food restaurant from some random country in

500
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,839
place to here underground. We'd come in through a main

501
00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:32,440
entrance and there's a thing on the wall that says

502
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,880
countdown until the premiere twenty three hours, forty two minutes

503
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,240
remaining crawlers four million, three hundred and twenty two thousand,

504
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,240
three hundred and ninety five. It had been ten million

505
00:32:44,359 --> 00:32:47,799
just a few hours before. As I watched, the number

506
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,200
just kept getting lower and lower. Ooh, sorry, guys, I

507
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,480
had an interruption from a call.

508
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: There, my bad.

509
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: And there's going to be a leaderboard that they can see,

510
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:03,079
which hadn't really occurred to me. The you know, I've

511
00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:08,319
talked a lot about the alignments with like Hunger Games,

512
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,640
with this, but what is sort of interesting is the

513
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,759
fact that you are going to be able to see

514
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,920
who is ahead in what way. In hunger Games, you

515
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:25,240
can only tell how people are doing based on whether

516
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:27,559
they're still alive and whether it seems like they have

517
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,200
enough food, and you just really are kind of guessing.

518
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,960
But you don't necessarily know what they're getting from patrons

519
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,319
or you know, you can assume they had to have

520
00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:41,039
gotten something to get this far, but you never really

521
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:43,799
here you're going to be working with like more information,

522
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,599
and later on, Mordecai says something about how they'll like

523
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,119
take you out of the game sometimes to interview you,

524
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,519
and that is also something that does not happen in

525
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:54,599
the Hunger Games, but I really like because this is

526
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,640
a game that goes on a lot longer obviously Hunger Games.

527
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:00,599
You know it's meant to be like a few weeks,

528
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,559
and this is based on the timing of things. I

529
00:34:03,559 --> 00:34:06,200
feel like it goes on a couple of months minimum, right,

530
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,199
So the fact that you get pulled out to be

531
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:17,400
interviewed is really fascinating because like, there's so many ways

532
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,079
that that could be played, both as an author writing

533
00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:23,719
the scene and both as a character being pulled out.

534
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,320
Do you rage at the people who did this to you?

535
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,880
What is it like to see aliens? Do they just

536
00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:34,360
look like characters from the game? Do they look like people?

537
00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:38,000
You know? Are you going to be able to set

538
00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:40,920
aside your anger at what's happened to play to the

539
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,480
crowd and get things or are you going to be

540
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,880
so overwhelmed with disgust that you just come across as

541
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,960
surly and angry.

542
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: Both things can work for you, you know, like.

543
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 2: There's not just one way to play it, but also

544
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,559
are you going to be treated super well or just

545
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:02,440
like shuffled in and out when you come out? Do

546
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,079
you get given like a lovely bath and a change

547
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:11,559
of clothes and bottle of champagne. Or do they grab

548
00:35:11,639 --> 00:35:14,679
you out with a fucking like sheep hook, pull you

549
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,800
out onto stage, blinking under the lights, ask you a

550
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,440
few questions and shove you back out the fucking door again. Like,

551
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,440
there's a lot that I am curious.

552
00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:23,679
Speaker 1: About with this.

553
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 2: So this is when we meet Bopka, who, unfortunately, it seems,

554
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,800
is not going to be the guy that we meet

555
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,480
we see every time. I am very curious whether or

556
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:39,320
not he is responsible for how good the food is

557
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,000
or if this is part of the way things are built.

558
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:49,000
But he asks for the rat little he is a

559
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:51,519
rat looking little guy, right am, I let's see. No,

560
00:35:51,639 --> 00:36:00,079
he's a dwarf. The rat's Mordecai. But Mordecai Carl asks

561
00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:04,239
him to make something he recommends, which I thought was

562
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:05,960
taking a real fucking risk.

563
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,679
Speaker 1: I will tell you what. I was just full on like,

564
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,880
what are you doing, dude?

565
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: So imagine my surprise when he gets a lovely vindaloo.

566
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,599
It was really what a relief. And he says his

567
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,239
spice tolerance is four, which I wish. I am such

568
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,760
a whimp when it comes to spices.

569
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: Swear to God.

570
00:36:32,079 --> 00:36:35,639
Speaker 2: So he gives some yogurt too, and there's a mention here. Also,

571
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:40,440
I just want to say this, Uh Taly knows you

572
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,000
are new here. This dungeon has just opened. It opened

573
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,320
without warning, so Tally is not ready. This is also

574
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,039
what Mordecai said that he wasn't ready, which makes me

575
00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:55,480
wonder if there is a budget problem, Like it just

576
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,239
seems like they're used to things being a lot more organized,

577
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,760
and something seems wrong. So if there's something wrong, that's

578
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,079
something that is exploitable, and I would like more information

579
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:13,119
on that. I'm wondering if like Mordecai, because obviously they

580
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:15,400
have to be careful what they say because they are

581
00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:20,559
being filmed. I wonder how much info Mordecai can give

582
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,639
Carl if he starts to find out things. He's got

583
00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:27,559
to be real careful though. If you don't see him

584
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:30,599
after like level four two, then you.

585
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: Just lose that source. Eh. Eh, it's tough.

586
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:42,679
Speaker 2: So he has some water that is wonderful, and uh

587
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,519
Donut gets a bell talisman of the slate butterfly. He

588
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:53,039
is annoyed about the jingling of it because he feels

589
00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:57,400
like that's going to make it impossible to sneak. Those

590
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,239
who are who remember and commemorate the sad tape of

591
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,719
the slate butterfly are given a boon by the fairies

592
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,079
of the world. That story even made me cry. Adds

593
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:08,280
plus four to the light on your feet skill and

594
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,480
plus one two intelligence. Winged fairies will no longer be

595
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:15,480
automatically hostile toward you, which is nice because we had

596
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,280
the thing with his goblin stamp that would make fairies angry.

597
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:23,320
Maybe this will even it out. It's difficult to say

598
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,239
because it's on two different people. He's the one with

599
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,119
the thing, so the fairies might be like super nice

600
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:30,639
to her and total assholes to him, which would be

601
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:37,079
pretty funny. So this is when Tally comes out and

602
00:38:37,119 --> 00:38:43,599
he has this vindaloo. I apologize, I do not have lamb.

603
00:38:43,639 --> 00:38:45,840
They took my lamb for a mob in preparation for

604
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:46,599
the second floor.

605
00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: Don't like that.

606
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: Also, your Royal Highness, I have special ordered a fresh

607
00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:54,719
salmon for your meal upon waking. I will have it

608
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,960
properly prepared and diced and garnished for you later. I

609
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,400
love that he calls her your Highness, and Carl's so irritated,

610
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,599
and She's just like whatever, what's not my fault. He

611
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:12,320
thinks a thing, and he takes a bite, and he says,

612
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,599
it was literally the most delicious thing I had ever tasted.

613
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,559
I'd never been a huge Indian food fan, but holy shit,

614
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,519
which personally I don't.

615
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: Get people who don't like Indian food.

616
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: Like, I feel strongly that I could live on it

617
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,920
for the rest of my life and I would probably

618
00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:35,119
never get tired of it.

619
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,039
Speaker 1: I love it so much.

620
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,159
Speaker 2: It's just a it's a pain to prepare, it can

621
00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:43,320
be very expensive eating it out, like, so I don't

622
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,519
have it as often as I would like.

623
00:39:44,559 --> 00:39:47,119
Speaker 1: And it's also very rich, a lot of it, but

624
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,800
mouth's water and just thinking about it. Love it so.

625
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,079
Speaker 2: He and there's a moment where he's I thought the

626
00:39:57,199 --> 00:39:58,800
urge to lick the plate, and I was like, I'm

627
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,239
sure if you just ad asked him, he would just

628
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,800
make you another one, Carl.

629
00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: Like, probably you should eat too.

630
00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:07,079
Speaker 2: You're gonna be using a lot of calories in the

631
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:09,800
coming days. You probably want to, like carbol load get

632
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,840
some protein in there. Like, maybe you should start asking

633
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:19,079
for like particular nutritional profiles for your meals to optimize

634
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:19,880
your performance.

635
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm just singing, is.

636
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,559
Speaker 2: It possible for you to ask this guy for some

637
00:40:23,679 --> 00:40:27,960
like gatorades, you know, uh, maybe get a little like

638
00:40:28,079 --> 00:40:35,000
Camelback Water dispenser something. Just thinking out loud here, Oh

639
00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:37,000
my god, I'm so sorry. I'm just seeing Rob was

640
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,280
commenting in the chat, and I like missed a bunch

641
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,480
of them, he says. I'll say this for Dinneman. The

642
00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:43,519
stuff he writes is horrific, but every time he writes

643
00:40:43,559 --> 00:40:47,760
political it generally feels nuanced and reasonably well researched. I

644
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,039
can't remember everything in the series, but there was nothing

645
00:40:50,039 --> 00:40:52,400
that particularly made me go ah man. Turns out this

646
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:59,280
guy is a secret Wiener from the Secret Wiener is

647
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,679
going in my lexicon.

648
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,039
Speaker 1: That is very useful. It's just very evocative, you know.

649
00:41:06,199 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 2: I love it horrific in the sense he's clearly a

650
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,320
horror writer, and this is satire that really points out

651
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:17,519
the horror of our current zeitgeist. Once you finish the series,

652
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:20,440
there are videos of Jeff Hayes doing cold reads, and

653
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,280
if I could alternate between Indian and Vietnamese slash tie,

654
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:25,159
I'd be so good.

655
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: Yeah.

656
00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:30,119
Speaker 2: I love thie as well, but it really depends because

657
00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:32,800
some places do it very sweet and that is all

658
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,360
Owen has ever had. So he thinks he doesn't like

659
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,440
Thai food. Sorry, he's going by Marshall. Now I'm adjusting

660
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,320
my husband. But yeah, so he thinks he doesn't like

661
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,440
Tay food, and I think if he got good stuff

662
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,039
he would.

663
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: But there isn't a place like around here. But agree

664
00:41:48,159 --> 00:41:48,519
on that.

665
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: Vietnamese have only had like a couple things, and I

666
00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:54,000
liked them both. But I'm not enough to feel confident

667
00:41:54,000 --> 00:42:02,440
about it. Okay, so let's see. We need to come

668
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,480
up with a snappy way to kill them. Something exciting

669
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:06,159
yet cute, something with zest.

670
00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: I want on that show.

671
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,519
Speaker 2: Carl, we're not getting on that show. Were you paying attention?

672
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,239
Millions of followers? Loot boxes? We need to get on

673
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,840
that show. Maybe we need a catchphrase. I do really

674
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,400
love that we had to put somebody in here who

675
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,920
gave a shit about the competition aspect of it. Carl

676
00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:34,039
is clearly very fatalistic about it and doesn't really see

677
00:42:34,079 --> 00:42:35,440
himself getting to this point.

678
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: And she has a.

679
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: Totally different experience with like competitive stuff, so it's very

680
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,599
fun to see how completely confident she is. Plus or

681
00:42:42,639 --> 00:42:47,039
charisma stats are insane. So I am really looking forward

682
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:49,880
to eventually them getting interviewed, hopefully.

683
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:52,559
Speaker 1: So.

684
00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: He is able to the rooms that they go into. Thankfully,

685
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,159
there's not the kind of like time crunch yet where

686
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,000
I'm worried about him sleeping through the level closing up,

687
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:12,079
you know, but I have to assume that is something

688
00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:17,880
that becomes a problem a little bit later. So the

689
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,760
temperature in the rooms is chili, just how he likes it.

690
00:43:22,159 --> 00:43:23,920
And he is able to get a.

691
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: Shower, and.

692
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: I don't think he gets like fresh clothes, right, because

693
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,440
otherwise he would be able to get pants.

694
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: That's not how that works. And he doesn't get.

695
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: To launder the stuff that he was wearing. But let's see,

696
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,639
I'm trying to find the spot. Oh right, okay, showers

697
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:51,079
with soap and shampoo dispenser's cheap disposable razors.

698
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:52,679
Speaker 1: I had.

699
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: There were no towels, however, and I had to drip dry,

700
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:01,119
which I thought was weird. And again, is this because

701
00:44:01,199 --> 00:44:04,920
things didn't Like, there wasn't the warning that they normally

702
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,280
get do they normally have towels, but they just aren't

703
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,599
stocked up with everything yet because it opened without warning.

704
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:19,400
Like I'm very very curious about this. So he eats

705
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:27,519
his incredible breakfast. She has salmon patay, and he talks

706
00:44:27,639 --> 00:44:31,960
to Tally about personal spaces in the safe rooms, and

707
00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:34,800
he says, well, it transfer from level to level. Yes,

708
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,760
it will, and from safe space to safe space. Also,

709
00:44:38,159 --> 00:44:40,440
it's best to buy all the accessories as soon as

710
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,400
you can. Some of the items only upgrade when it

711
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,559
goes down a level. So if you wait several levels

712
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,960
before you purchase a crafting table, it won't get as

713
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:54,239
strong as one purchased earlier, which is uh. I can't help,

714
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,639
but wonder that's not part of like the tutorial in

715
00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:01,199
the guild. Carl found that out because he asked the

716
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,480
right question, And I wonder how many people aren't going

717
00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:08,079
to ask the right questions and thus don't know about

718
00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:12,400
these little advantages, you know what I mean, Like just

719
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,880
the kinds of things that if somebody doesn't really give

720
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,199
a shit about their job, maybe they just don't tell you,

721
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,400
and then you wind up with shitty equipment later because

722
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:29,920
you weren't warned about these things. So let's see Scatterer

723
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:33,920
brood Guardian level four cockroaches that had been baptized in

724
00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:37,360
rage and monster energy drinks, and.

725
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: He like the whole fight with them.

726
00:45:41,039 --> 00:45:43,639
Speaker 2: I am going to jump right past the way that

727
00:45:43,679 --> 00:45:44,800
these bugs explode.

728
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:45,559
Speaker 1: It's horrible.

729
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 2: We ended up killing a dozen more of the level

730
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,679
four US before we reached the door. Every once in

731
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,480
a while the scatterer would get inflicted with sepsis, and

732
00:45:57,519 --> 00:45:59,960
when that happened, it would turn and try to run off,

733
00:46:00,039 --> 00:46:03,639
would usually collapse and die after It took about thirty steps.

734
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,440
Both Dona and I were level five when we got

735
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:16,239
to the door. So the door says no entrar, don't enter,

736
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,360
or then the Centro de Salouth, which is by order

737
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:27,199
of the health department or health center. And I thought

738
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:32,800
that this was going to be like, maybe the door

739
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,440
isn't relevant. Maybe they just did this because this is

740
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:36,960
what it said on a door and they grabbed a

741
00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:40,880
random door. But it seemed because like earlier, he's talking

742
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,719
about the bathrooms and they all have signs on them

743
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,639
from different countries. Some say men or women on them,

744
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,400
but obviously they aren't gender specific because he can use

745
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,320
any one of them. So I was thinking maybe this

746
00:46:50,519 --> 00:46:53,400
like it's looking freeky, but it's not free hey, you know.

747
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: And he sends in.

748
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 2: Donut to check things out, and she says that she

749
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,960
can see a bunch of cockroaches and something that she

750
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,079
can't tell what it is. It smells like that bag

751
00:47:11,199 --> 00:47:13,559
you take with you on those days. That other guy

752
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:18,400
comes over to the apartment and he's like, are you

753
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,519
fucking serious? Just finding out that his girlfriend didn't just

754
00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:26,800
start doing shit when she went on this cruise or

755
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,360
whatever it was, which makes me kind of think she

756
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,800
might be alive, but that she had been fucking around

757
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,960
before that, And this is how he finds out.

758
00:47:36,679 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: That is very embarrassing. That is so humiliating.

759
00:47:41,079 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 2: I felt like an idiot. I also suddenly felt very reckless.

760
00:47:47,679 --> 00:47:52,679
The Goblin dynamite, This stuff is especially volatile. It's so

761
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,159
volatile you probably don't even need to light the stick

762
00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:58,280
to set it off. It's so volatile even loud noises

763
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,880
might set it off. Keep it in your inventory until

764
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,719
you're ready to use it. Be gentle and don't squeeze

765
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,639
too hard, or else you might get the The AI

766
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,679
didn't speak for a good two seconds. Boom, the AI

767
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,519
shouted that last word in my head, and I almost

768
00:48:14,599 --> 00:48:20,119
pissed myself. You are a fucking asshole, I whispered up

769
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:25,760
at the air. So he lights it. He throws it.

770
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,559
I prayed it wouldn't blow when it hit the ground.

771
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:33,079
Chapter eleven. It blew when it hit the ground. My

772
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,199
vision flashed and I received a danger low health warning,

773
00:48:36,599 --> 00:48:40,199
but it quickly abated. How much would it suck if

774
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:42,239
he didn't have those buffs and he just killed himself

775
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:47,679
right here with his own thing, that would be I mean,

776
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,159
at least he's not being filmed. I guess at this

777
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:56,639
point that's the one thing. Ahem. So they go in there,

778
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,320
and you know, there's all of these dead buff and

779
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,679
it's feeling like maybe we dealt with everything with this dynamite.

780
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,920
Maybe it's fine, but there's a lot of garbage. There's

781
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:12,440
piles of it that are stacked. There's a smell to everything,

782
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,400
and I'm not getting what's happening here. I'm curious if

783
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,599
anybody reading was starting to sense what we were doing.

784
00:49:21,639 --> 00:49:24,480
But finally.

785
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: They hear music.

786
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 2: New achievement, Boss, Babe, you've struck a blow against a

787
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,639
dungeon boss and cause damage. Here's a fun fact. For

788
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,079
crawlers who make it through the tutorial, this achievement is

789
00:49:38,119 --> 00:49:41,360
by far most often the last achievement they ever receive.

790
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,360
Isn't that interesting?

791
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: Reward.

792
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 2: Let's wait a few minutes before we decide on whether

793
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,480
or not a whether or not to waste a prize

794
00:49:49,519 --> 00:49:57,320
on you. The door opens and a woman comes out.

795
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:03,440
You have discovered the layer of a neighborhood boss. The

796
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,719
AI was louder than usual. He sounded like the announcer

797
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,320
at a monster truck rally.

798
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: Doughnut wants out.

799
00:50:11,559 --> 00:50:15,199
Speaker 2: But it turns out that almost you can almost never,

800
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,840
like just leave a boss fight. I don't know if

801
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,559
they can with this one, but it's usually not possible.

802
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,519
So a woman appeared, reaching into the air, screaming as

803
00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:28,960
she rocketed up like she'd been shot out of a cannon.

804
00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:34,000
A human woman about thirty five, enormously fat. She wore

805
00:50:34,039 --> 00:50:36,400
a filthy and ripped T shirt and no bra, and

806
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,239
her skin was covered in open sores and scabs. A

807
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,840
blue pair of sweatpants with the word Pink along the

808
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,840
leg appeared to be stretched to their limits. Her black

809
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,639
hair clung to her head in clumps, like me.

810
00:50:49,159 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: She wore no shoes.

811
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 2: She was also fifteen feet tall. And they all freeze

812
00:50:57,679 --> 00:51:01,960
and they get dungeon Crawler Carl Donut versus the Hoarder

813
00:51:02,639 --> 00:51:04,679
Level seven neighborhood boss.

814
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: God, this is awful.

815
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,119
Speaker 2: Half of the woman's face was burned to hell. She

816
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:17,000
had a health bar over her head and it was

817
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:21,039
already three quarters gone. I cheated the boss fight, killing

818
00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:25,280
her minions and hurting her before it even began. I

819
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:37,400
you noodul. This means, please help me. I don't know

820
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,639
what's happening. I have a stomach ache. I don't know

821
00:51:40,679 --> 00:51:44,440
where I am. Please, I'm scared.

822
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: You guys, this is so sad. This was like it

823
00:51:53,039 --> 00:51:56,119
was just it was horrible. It maybe like just reading

824
00:51:56,119 --> 00:52:00,280
that makes me so sad. I hate this.

825
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,639
Speaker 2: And he says, I like we should help her, and

826
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:08,840
Donut says, yeah, that'll be a no. And eventually she

827
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,280
starts throwing up more of these bugs and that's what

828
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:17,119
she's saying, like, I have a stomach ache. This they

829
00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:19,480
did this to her. They put bugs in her stomach.

830
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:27,360
That's actually happening. That is not a fun graphic. That's

831
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,920
clearly been done to a person, which is the grossest thing.

832
00:52:33,119 --> 00:52:37,440
And I just can't imagine not knowing what's going on,

833
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:44,800
and you start vomiting bugs, like, oh my god. Okay,

834
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,679
the woman was scared, disoriented, and she obviously didn't want

835
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,440
to be here, but she was also vomiting killer cockroaches.

836
00:52:50,519 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: Our only real choice was to take.

837
00:52:52,119 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 2: Her out, and honestly, I wanted to find an alternative

838
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,519
for a moment, but then I was like, there's nothing

839
00:53:00,519 --> 00:53:02,719
good coming for this woman if they did this to her,

840
00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:05,800
like get get her dead. It's a favor at this

841
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:15,679
point after everything they have done. So oh god, I'm sorry, guys.

842
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:18,280
I keep getting these calls and I do not I

843
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,000
can't answer them obviously, and I usually don't get calls

844
00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:26,559
because I have do not disturb set. So he comes

845
00:53:26,639 --> 00:53:31,239
up behind her and eventually he manages to get like

846
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,880
a chain around her throat, and Dona is very afraid

847
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,079
of actually fighting. She only wants to use her missiles

848
00:53:39,159 --> 00:53:41,559
because that's a ranged attack, but she doesn't want to

849
00:53:41,559 --> 00:53:44,840
get up in there because and like, honestly, I feel.

850
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: Like she had pretty low.

851
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,599
Speaker 2: Stats in terms of like her own durability. But he

852
00:53:51,079 --> 00:53:53,239
is just like, can you please even pretend to make

853
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,599
an effort? You know, the horder lay on her back,

854
00:53:57,639 --> 00:54:04,320
her health bar was all but empty. LUCIENTO if mala persona,

855
00:54:05,039 --> 00:54:09,880
I'm sorry if I was a bad person. No Kiia

856
00:54:10,519 --> 00:54:16,679
Jsse and Fermara. I didn't want my daughter to be sick.

857
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:22,519
No kio l n el inferno. I didn't want to

858
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:29,719
be in the fire. And vime a Jesus, please bring

859
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,480
me to Jesus or send me to Jesus.

860
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: Send me to Jesus.

861
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 2: She's basically saying, kill me. And I don't know that

862
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:46,159
I didn't want my daughter to get sick. I maybe

863
00:54:46,199 --> 00:54:50,400
they were threatening her daughter, this is what Maybe that

864
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,840
was the deal that she agreed to, like be this

865
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:56,599
character so that they wouldn't hurt her.

866
00:54:56,559 --> 00:55:03,039
Speaker 1: Kid, which U uh yikes.

867
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 2: Talking about her getting sick and also the fire, it

868
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,840
feels like there's a lot of horrible things, like choices

869
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,760
that people have to make. I'm wondering if this is

870
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,719
maybe some of the deals on the like later levels,

871
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,239
play a certain character, and if you survive and win,

872
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,639
you get out. You know, if you're a boss that

873
00:55:27,679 --> 00:55:33,239
somebody can't beat, you win your way out. But you

874
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:34,800
really reach a point where it's like, how much do

875
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,199
I believe they would even honor that agreement? I don't really,

876
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,320
there's nothing for me to base that trust in, you know.

877
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:51,239
So twelve, it's after this is over and they're talking

878
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:56,320
to Mordecai about the whole thing, and he explains about

879
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,639
the bosses and you know, just in general how they work,

880
00:56:00,639 --> 00:56:04,679
which is pretty typical. And finally, Carl says, the one

881
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,480
we fought was obviously a person from our world. Is

882
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:08,559
it always going to.

883
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: Be like that?

884
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: No, this was interesting. Mordecai didn't answer for several moments,

885
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,960
like he was trying hard to think of a proper response,

886
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,320
which feels to me like he's not allowed to say

887
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:30,119
certain things. No, not always, he said, finally, there will

888
00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:35,679
be a lot of recycling from previous iterations of the game.

889
00:56:36,599 --> 00:56:40,119
Some will be human stock, but most won't be or

890
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:42,760
even human from this world, or they will be human,

891
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,280
but it won't be as obvious.

892
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: And I just want to.

893
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,639
Speaker 2: Know what the hell he wasn't saying, because it just

894
00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:52,400
felt like he was parsing his words quite a bit there,

895
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,119
and that no, not always is doing a lot of work,

896
00:56:56,639 --> 00:57:01,880
and I want to know what the fun that was about.

897
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,199
So Donut is not pleased that they get a bronze

898
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,599
level boss box. She feels like this is not good enough.

899
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:17,760
And let's see, there's torches, pet biscuits, and she finds

900
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,880
a spell book and immediately applies it and then gets

901
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,119
angry once she realizes that it's kind of a shitty spell.

902
00:57:25,239 --> 00:57:27,599
Now I say shitty because that's what she thinks. I

903
00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:31,400
personally think this is a good spell. Mordecai laughs and

904
00:57:31,519 --> 00:57:33,679
is like, you really do need to read shit before.

905
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,159
Speaker 1: You use them.

906
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:39,719
Speaker 2: But this is a useful spell. It's called torch. It

907
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,079
makes a curl of light follow you around. The more

908
00:57:42,159 --> 00:57:44,199
she uses it, the more powerful it'll become.

909
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,679
Speaker 1: Which I played.

910
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: I played Starry Valley for the first time in November

911
00:57:53,039 --> 00:57:55,320
when I got really sick with COVID and I could

912
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,360
do basically nothing else. And I have never played a

913
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,679
game where if you didn't have a light source, you

914
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:06,480
just couldn't see the screen. But it was pretty like

915
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:08,760
because I had never played, and I wasn't looking at

916
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,639
tutorials or anything, it took me a little while to

917
00:58:11,719 --> 00:58:14,239
figure out that you could make a torch and like

918
00:58:14,639 --> 00:58:17,280
carry it or put it down somewhere. So y'all don't

919
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,840
know how frustrated I was at first. I couldn't see shit.

920
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:26,320
And I think that you've like this is a key element.

921
00:58:26,639 --> 00:58:29,400
You've got torches, which are clearly usable items. You're gonna

922
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,159
run out of those potentially, but if she just has

923
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:40,679
light with her, that is very helpful. So yeah, you've

924
00:58:40,719 --> 00:58:45,440
gained a skill level iron punched level three and he

925
00:58:45,519 --> 00:58:50,440
gets Tomb of Wisp armor, more dynamite, gunpowder, scroll of

926
00:58:50,519 --> 00:58:58,360
confusing fog, enchanted spike, kneepads, potion of iron skin, and

927
00:58:59,199 --> 00:59:04,039
the wisp arm sounds really cool. So it lasts five

928
00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:08,199
minutes plus one minute per level of spell. Five minute

929
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:12,639
cool down costs five manuta. Surrounds your body with tendrils

930
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:17,639
of light. While ineffective against physical attacks, this spell negates

931
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:22,800
seventy five percent of incoming damage from magic based attacks.

932
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:28,159
That's a lot like you almost never see those kinds

933
00:59:28,159 --> 00:59:28,679
of numbers.

934
00:59:29,679 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: When I say almost never.

935
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: What I am basing a lot of this on is

936
00:59:35,599 --> 00:59:38,800
playing Skyrim, and I know that there are so many

937
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,440
other games out there. I've played a few, but Skyrim

938
00:59:43,519 --> 00:59:47,000
was probably like the RPG I played the longest, and

939
00:59:47,079 --> 00:59:52,400
so I'm comparing a lot of this to that. And

940
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:58,719
you know, the kneepads adds ten percent damage, reflect cancels

941
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,360
all momentum a.

942
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:01,719
Speaker 1: Tax, which is kind of fun.

943
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to find the confusing file here it

944
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,159
is filled the room with the myths that could only

945
01:00:11,199 --> 01:00:14,239
the mobs could see. And the iron skin potion raised

946
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:19,920
my physical armor by one hundred percent for five minutes, which, like, granted,

947
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,840
five minutes isn't a super long time, but one hundred

948
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percent for five minutes, I mean that could save your

949
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life a few times.

950
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Speaker 1: In a row. Like, that's really really good.

951
01:00:30,679 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 2: So even though Donah sniffed and put her nose up

952
01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:40,000
at the level of box, all things considered, they've done

953
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:46,599
pretty fucking well. At this point, Dona asks Mordecai, is

954
01:00:46,639 --> 01:00:49,000
there were Worst Dressed award for the Dungeon And this

955
01:00:49,079 --> 01:00:51,719
is when he talks about they might take you out

956
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,079
to do interviews, like when they win boss fights. Sometimes

957
01:00:55,079 --> 01:00:59,800
that's when they pull people out. It's a commentator program.

958
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,800
The show is almost as popular as the official program,

959
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though they'll never let you watch this one.

960
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Speaker 1: And this made me.

961
01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 2: Think of like like the Watching Dead. For those who

962
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were around for the original Walking Dead airing, they had

963
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:20,800
a show that would air directly after that, hosted by

964
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:25,960
now canceled Chris Hardwick. And it was wild to me

965
01:01:26,079 --> 01:01:29,760
how popular it was considering how nothing it was. But

966
01:01:30,079 --> 01:01:32,639
it's just that it had the cast on for interviews,

967
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,119
and it was always so funny because they'd basically just

968
01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:39,039
like repeat summaries of what it just happened in the

969
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:44,199
previous episode. It was the most pointless shit. So I

970
01:01:44,239 --> 01:01:46,800
think it's going to be different because it's like sounding

971
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:52,039
much more like a Joan Rivers, like red carpet commentary

972
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:56,039
sort of thing, where maybe there's some snarkiness happening or

973
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:04,559
good Morning America type, you know. But I really do

974
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look forward to them getting on one of those at

975
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,079
some point because I'm so curious how Karl is going

976
01:02:11,119 --> 01:02:18,599
to respond versus Donut. Also, Donut calls like, is like,

977
01:02:18,639 --> 01:02:20,159
we need to get on there, and he says it's

978
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not how it works, and I'm not your agent, and

979
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she says, no, no you're not. Miss Beatrice is my agent,

980
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,679
and once we reunite with her, she'll make sure I

981
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get on that show. But she's halfway around the world.

982
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:34,960
I figure we'll have to wait until the fifth or

983
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,239
sixth floor before the dungeon shrinks enough for us to

984
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,360
find her. I really hope we don't have to wait

985
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:44,519
much longer than that. I exchanged a look with Mordecai Sure,

986
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I said, finally, now let's get back out there.

987
01:02:49,639 --> 01:02:52,679
Speaker 1: And clearly they look at each other because.

988
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,679
Speaker 2: They are both definitely assuming that Beatrice is likely dead.

989
01:02:56,199 --> 01:03:00,880
If she's not, that she will be, so this perfect

990
01:03:01,039 --> 01:03:07,159
trust that Donut has that Beatrice is still alive. I'm

991
01:03:07,159 --> 01:03:10,639
not sure how much Donut really understands what happened. Like

992
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,119
she was there, but I don't know how much she

993
01:03:14,199 --> 01:03:18,239
really absorbed, and it doesn't seem like they've really had

994
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,280
time to talk about that very much. He clearly doesn't

995
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:25,159
want to, like warn her that Beatrice is likely dead,

996
01:03:26,079 --> 01:03:28,320
And there's almost a part of me that's like, maybe

997
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,920
her and Beatrice have some sort of like connection and

998
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,639
she can tell that she's still alive. Maybe Beatrice is

999
01:03:34,719 --> 01:03:37,880
still alive and there's something in her that knows that.

1000
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And it's sort of a funny thing because like, I

1001
01:03:43,079 --> 01:03:46,360
like the idea of eventually meeting Beatrice after having only

1002
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:50,119
heard shit about her, because I'm super curious. You know,

1003
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it might be the sort of thing where she is

1004
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:55,559
just as shitty as she sounds secondhand when you only

1005
01:03:55,599 --> 01:03:57,760
hear about the bad things she did. It might be

1006
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,119
something where you're like, nah, she's cool as fuck. I

1007
01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:03,119
kind of get why you liked her. Actually it might

1008
01:04:03,159 --> 01:04:05,239
be the sort of thing where you like find out

1009
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,159
what was going on in their relationship and you're like, dude, no,

1010
01:04:08,239 --> 01:04:11,039
wonder she cheated on you? What an asshole? Like?

1011
01:04:12,079 --> 01:04:12,679
Speaker 1: Who knows?

1012
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 2: But I feel like her still being alive is kind

1013
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of more interesting, so I'm down. But also if she

1014
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is not still alive, that's also fine. I'm you know,

1015
01:04:23,679 --> 01:04:26,280
I'm not married to and I'm just saying, sometimes just

1016
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:29,639
doing the more interesting thing, even though might be more

1017
01:04:29,679 --> 01:04:31,840
complicated or difficult, maybe.

1018
01:04:31,559 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: You should still do it. So Okay.

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Speaker 2: That is the end of chapter twelve, and I am

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really really enjoying this so far. Once again, encourage everybody

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to check out the audiobook if you haven't already. Thank

1022
01:04:46,599 --> 01:04:49,159
you so much to Michael for commissioning this one. Really

1023
01:04:49,159 --> 01:04:52,360
really appreciate it. And thank you Rob for keeping me

1024
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,800
company in the chat. It's always nice to feel like

1025
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there's somebody here with me, you know. I've done a

1026
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few almost all of my recordings at least one person,

1027
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but sometimes there's nobody, and it's really remarkable how different

1028
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my energy is when there's nobody there.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, does.

1030
01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 2: This even matter that I'm talking? Who's going to listen?

1031
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,679
To this, you know, even though I know people will

1032
01:05:14,679 --> 01:05:18,280
listen to the recording later. So I appreciate you being here.

1033
01:05:21,039 --> 01:05:24,800
Oh sorry, he says, don't read this. Oh he's giving

1034
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,920
me advice on Vietnamese food. Ha ha, my pleasure. I look

1035
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forward to hearing more. Yes, five thirty Central time, Remember sir,

1036
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just put that in your old planners. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

1037
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All right, everybody, thank you again for joining me, and

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until next time, to the Loo, motherfuckers. That was an

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