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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book eight, A Parade of Horribles,

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chapters fifty five through sixty. In these chapters, Michael is

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here in the chat saying, if you didn't listen to

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chapter fifty seven on audiobook, then you missed out. And

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let me tell you kids, he's right. If you didn't,

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you missed out. I did. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome

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to the show everyone, and I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is

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here in the chat with me today. Appreciate you, sir

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as usual. Yeah, y'all. The way that I was reveling

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in the production of you Know Which scene cannot be overstated.

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It's pretty impressive, actually, considering that they've begun releasing full

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cast like productions of the books, that they even go

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this hard with the audiobook itself, Because one would think

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that they would sort of be like, well, we can

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do this at like minimum and then save all of

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the folly work and sound and what not for the

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actual production. And I wouldn't even be mad about that,

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would I would completely understand. But they decided to go

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for it. And I gotta say I have mentioned this

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to more than one person because I just really did

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find it to be. So it was not just how

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fun it was, it was also the fact that it

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was so unexpected. And I had a suspicion that the

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karaoke scene was going to be fun, but like a

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very specific fun, you know what I'm saying. But I

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did not think they were going to do something almost

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entirely new. I'm trying to remember if they ever have

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used music in other parts, because they have used sound

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effects like we get the Big Shot Chicken actual sound

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effect from the horn. So a part of me was

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just not even remotely guessing that we would have actual music,

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and another part of me was like, but it would

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be cool, though, And I think my main hang up

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was simply, how are we going to be getting the

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rights for anything? Which I am still like. They had

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to have paid to include this, I'm assuming, and I

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I don't know. Maybe they didn't have to because it's

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the karaoke version. I don't know, but anyway, I'm getting

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ahead of myself, as I am prone to do. Let's

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begin with chapter fifty five, The Fucking Casino has changed

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it up because I didn't I didn't think about the

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fact that the nothing having been compromised as it has been,

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might result in there being different things on the roulette.

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And so evidently all of those spots are gone, and

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it's been replaced with things like you get your ass

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curb stomped and something called the dirty tea bag, which, uh,

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I have to admit a some probably pretty fucking horrible

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the dirty tea bag, guys. I mean, ah, I don't

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even want to think about it, Okay, And this is

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when Carl says, Okay, make your way back to the

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base and keep an eye on Dong and splash them. Says, wait,

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you didn't ask for him. He said, you asked for

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him to go back to the bar. I think he's

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on his way to you. Now, look, I don't you

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ever have a moment we're about to say something and

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then you're like, oh, man, am I really telling on myself?

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And then you kind of go, well, if I am,

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I really need to know that I'm telling on myself,

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so I may as well actually go through with it

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and just say it. But there is a point later

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on in this section where Carl is thinking about how

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he has been more of a dick about the mission

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they have been on than he wanted to be, and

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that he just was seeing it too much as yeah,

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it's our mission, and and whether or not like Dong

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is actually involved, like if you know, regardless of how

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personally it affects him, we need to make sure that

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we have everybody handling it who doesn't have a vested

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interest to ensure that it goes as smoothly as possible.

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And he is just really trying to keep Dong out

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of the equation, but feels later that he has been

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like unfair somehow or just as he puts it, a dick. Now,

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I don't you, guys, I'm talking about telling on myself.

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He really feels that he has been too difficult and

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like it. It's obvious that in his head this is

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a realization that rings totally true. There's no guessing like,

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oh my god, have I been. It's just a sudden

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moment of clarity that like, oh, I've been a dick

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and that's it, and I have to be honest that

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I I can see in a way how that might

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be seen. But another part of me is like you

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have been ensuring that this actually gets done, and so

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I have a really hard time blaming him, especially in

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light of the fact that later when he has to

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convince Porky to come out, there is one final thing

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that Porky says about how he wants to fight Dong

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and beat the shit out of him that I think,

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had Dong been more involved, might have completely ruined getting

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Porky out here to participate. I'm feeling like it really

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could have actually scuppered everything. And I don't know. I

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just think Carl's he's such an interesting character because I

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am very tempted to say that Carl is too hard

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on himself, but I don't really know that's true actually,

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there are times when he might be hard on himself,

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but I think for the most part, he is pretty

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even handed in the way he sees himself. So I

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don't I don't know, you guys, like, what all is

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your thoughts on this? It just seems I feel like

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I am supposed to agree with his conclusion, and I

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can't quite get myself to really do that. I don't know.

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Michael says maybe the band are fans of the series

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that would be awesome, or maybe it was fair use

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in some way since it don't only parts of the

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song could be heard. Well, that's the thing, is like

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it's it's only parts of the song in a way,

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but it's genuinely really the whole song. We like hear

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all of the verses that he has to sing this.

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on the whole time, so like you could kind of

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say it, but not really, you know. Anyway, I just

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really am curious about all of y'all's perspective on this,

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and we'll get to this whole thing later. But like

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I said, Dong feels like he actually his presence could

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have been a hindrance, and I just think that I

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don't know, I don't know. Maybe the fact that his

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presence could have been a hindrance is like immaterial and

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it's very much Yeah, well maybe it could. But also

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we're trying to like see the NPC's as actual people

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here and not as just like pieces on a board

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to be moved around, and you're still treating them like that,

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and that's the problem. And being as efficient and practical

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as possible to the degree that they are cut totally

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out of the plot line that involves them is like

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kind of fucked up. I think is kind of the

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conclusion that he's coming to. I don't know, Michael says,

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ideally speaking, it would have been better for him to

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have trusted Kirky Porky and done with their literal lives

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around the line, and hard to judge when emotions are

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that intertwined the world sadly is an ideal it's not,

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but I really think Carl would probably just respond with

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it's not, but we can still try our best, you know,

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And I do think that's true. But I don't know.

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Maybe this is one of those cases where I think

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he might be being too hard on himself, even though

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I don't think that's necessarily something that comes up all

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the time. M I don't know, Okay, this, Uh, it's

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very clear there's some writing on the wall as this

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whole scene begins that this isn't going to go smoothly.

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Dwight the Unicorn shows up and he has a d

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buff over his head that says shit faced, and he

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comes up and just shoves Prepotente, who is about to

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kind of like mix it up until he sees that

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everybody around him is really not wanting things to pop off,

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which I have to point out is some real growth

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for Prepotente because Bro doesn't usually give a fuck, like,

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he doesn't stop and check he is. He does the

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thing he thinks his best and really tends to assume

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that what he thinks is best is just objectively the

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correct choice because he's the most intelligent, and I feel

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like he's sort of finally beginning to show signs of

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realization that this kind of intelligence is different than the

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kind of intelligence that he has. So I just want

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to really give him a little bit of a kudos,

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because that is growth, and I'm noticing. I like to

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show people that I can see when it's like there

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attempts to be better people or regulate their behavior actually

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paying off. Then we get a message from Mordecai and

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I am so sorry, kids, but I don't know if

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I'm supposed to know what's happening here. I'm going to

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I'm gonna say something that might upset some folks. I

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am beginning to think we may have a few too

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many plot plates spinning. I am taking my time reading this,

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and it like I'm not trying to say I'm perfect

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at it. Or anything. But there are so many times

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where I'm really not certain what I'm supposed to know

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or not know in a moment of dialogue or internal

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monologue from Carl, that I really begin to doubt myself

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in a way that doesn't happen often with other series,

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or when it does, it's like a very specific circumstance.

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I just feel that I am what's the word I want?

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I feel like I don't have a certain level of

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confidence in this book that I have had in the past.

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And even in the past, there have been a few

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times where I was like, am I supposed to know

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what this is? So I'm losing even that And I

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think it just might be that we have a few

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too many things going on, a few too many variables

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to keep track of as audience members. And if I

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am the only person who has this issue, it's a

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me problem. I don't know how many other folks have

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felt this way, but I it's a really this is

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one of those things that it's a lot of times

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I can be like, who, what was your experience when

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you were reading Listener? You know, and I will be

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able to take their experience as an example. But what

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I do is so different than what most people do

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in terms of the way that I consume media, and

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that means the average person is sort of tearing through

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books that they are reading for fun, and they don't

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have to get exactly what they know or don't know,

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like definitively lined up for them, because they are letting

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things wash over them in a way that's really okay. Well,

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that's obviously something I don't know if I am supposed

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to know or not, and so but it doesn't matter

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because I'm going to keep listening and I will find

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out soon enough. And so this is something that I

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ran into with The Witcher, where in those books, a

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lot of this the world building is really poorly done,

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and I was extremely invested in the scenes with garyl

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and monsters and training and that, but when it came

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to the political aspects of this universe, the author was

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super confusing in the way he set it up, and

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it made it really frustrating because I felt like I

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was supposed to care about the machinations of things and

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I wasn't able to really even keep try track of it.

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And when I was talking to the person who commissioned it, Melanie,

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she was like, yeah, it is very confusing, but because

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I was reading so quickly, it didn't matter, because I

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was able to just you know, push forward and find

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the answers to my questions. And that tends to be

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like the stopping and discussing things is something that a

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lot of folks enjoy about series that they like because

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it's often very rewarding. Taking your time and chewing over

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everything makes it so that you see details that you

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didn't notice before, or there's like nuanced to scenes that

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you hadn't caught the first time around, or whatever. But

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there are times where slowing down can hinder the experience

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in certain ways. Sometimes it's just a matter of plotting

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and timing. But I feel like here, there's there in

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this book specifically, there is all a lot that's happening

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that is sort of like either the author, assuming that

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we're going to put things together, is actually being hidden

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from us as readers, or involves things that are like

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abilities or rules or whatever that occurred that were stated

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to us like a few books ago, and the author

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is like, well, you don't need to put two and

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two together. I will just tell you what's happening. But

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this information would be enough for you to put too

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and two together if you were really really paying attention.

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I also don't have a great memory anymore, and there

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is so much to track. So all this to say,

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I am beginning to feel a little overwhelmed. I'm beginning

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to feel like we are going to have to pare

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things down by the end of this book, and it

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doesn't seem like we're heading in that direction. It feels like,

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if anything, we're adding more on. As all of these

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different like bits of intrigue and revelation are happening and

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making the world bigger and bigger and bigger. I'm beginning

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to worry about like the sustainability of that and whether

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or not I'm going to be able to even follow it. Now,

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I will point out I'm only about like, I'm a

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little over halfway through the book, so it just may

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be that this is what's happening as things ramp up,

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because I'm halfway through the book. But I can only

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express as this is, you know, what I'm being paid

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to do, how I'm feeling as I'm reading, and the

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response that I'm having, and I actually listen to this section,

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I listened to it twice. I think I listened to

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parts of it three times, and I still had moments

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of like, and you know what I'm saying. So anyway,

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Michael says, the plan and what Mordecai was testing isn't

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quite clear yet. We only know that it involves Harrot

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buying every cleaner bot he can get his hands on. Apparently.

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I'm pretty sure that feeling overwhelmed was Matt's aim here.

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She has always been going down, but with only two

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books left after this one, sit is really really going down.

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And that's the thing. I think that's Michael. I think

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that you're probably mostly correct in that this is what

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Matt's aim was. But I also think that there is

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a way to establish how much is happening without and

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get across the feeling of overwhelm without necessarily the audience

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actively actually personally feeling overwhelmed. Does that make sense. It's

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a fine, and it is a difficult like needle to thread,

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so I'm not mad about it, but I do grow concerned.

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Since I'm being paid to cover the books, I grow

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concerned about whether or not I'm doing a decent job,

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whether or not people listening are getting frustrated with the

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fact that I'm not putting certain things together and connecting

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dots because I don't want to let folks down, and

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I don't want to give the impression that I'm not

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paying attention. Like I said, I read this section twice.

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I am very much paying attention. I'm trying to pay

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extra attention. But I just want I want to be

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doing a good job. And it's not always easy to

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tell if that's what I'm doing or not. It's a

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there's a lot, so I want to I'm a people pleaser.

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I want to do a good job. It's just that

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that simple. It's fine, But thank you, Michael. I do

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appreciate knowing that. So. And the cleaner bot thing is

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so funny because, like I actually I had mentioned when

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he got the when he took the cleaner bot from

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the medical room, the like what do they call it,

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like the operating theater, that I wondered about it storing

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a bunch of blood in it or something that it

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could be like kind of a container. And then we

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get like very specifically the description of how this cleaner

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bot is able to uh like essentially disintegrate things is

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what it looks like on the outside. So I am

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sort of beginning to wonder, is it possible for a

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person to be scooped up by the cleaner bots? Is

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is that the way that we're like achieving this that

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there's a storage that all the cleaner bot containment goes

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into where it's sucking up things, and it just gets

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put into the centralized sort of dumpster system, and if

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you're a person that got put in there, you can

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be retrieved from there. And that's how we can transport

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people between floors without it being like difficult, you know. Ooh, oh,

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there was a there's a deleted comment Michael carl avoided

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doing an erin and acknowledged his cleaning bot. Michael's referring here,

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I believe to the wandering in a book series which

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I am currently in the middle of just for my enjoyment.

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But I'm talking about in the discord on a sub thread,

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and there is a character that is a cleaner for

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Aaron that I felt from the start she was not

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appreciating or treating correctly. And this was very much born

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out and it remains for me one of the more

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irritating aspects of her as a character. Anyway, that definitely

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wanting to know what that deleted message is, Michael. But

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we'll just move on, shall we. So I just wanted

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to share with you guys about this because you know,

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I've I've talked a lot about this book, in particular

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making me feel anxious in a way that the others didn't,

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And a lot of that is due to the stakes

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being high and the way that the races work and everything,

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but I've also started to see that it's just fucking

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sheer anxiety over me personally being able to do my

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job well and keep track of the plot. So Mordecai says,

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the test actually worked, but Samantha also can't die, and

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she's not the most reliable test subject. So we tested

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it again on some slug alows. It works, but there's

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a few wrinkles. We have some solutions I'm working on

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right now, which the fact, like if it were we're

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putting people somehow, like storing them in the cleaner bots,

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testing it on Samantha as a first move would make

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some sense. And then Rosetta chimes in here with none

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of this means this next part will work. You can't

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even test the shop interface part because of that standing

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purchase order with the cleaner bots. It requires us to

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trust that the warm Age isn't lying, and Carl says, oh,

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I'm sure he was lying, but not about the cabaret.

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The fact that purchase order is even there suggests part

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of it is true. And don't forget Eris also said,

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this will work if we can talk Lean into doing this.

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I'll make sure she knows the full story and is prepared.

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This isn't something we can force on her because she's

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too strong and she's too smart to be tricked, and

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I wouldn't want to do it anyway. I wouldn't want

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a trick her anyway. This will keep her alive, keep

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sayg alive, and keep her from killing more crawlers. It'll

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also let us test Harrett's theory. I think she'll go

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for it now. The mention of we can't test the

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shop interface part is like part of me wondering, can

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you take a bot that's full and like put it

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up for sale? Or is like is there a central

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you know if we're going with this theory? I don't know.

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I there's a point later where a bunch of the

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strippers are gone, and I am sort of wondering like,

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did we do something with them? Was I would be

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surprised if that was done without warning and Carl wasn't

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notified that we were going to be doing this. It

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also seems like they were kind of needed to stick

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around for the remainder of this whole plot point, but

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perhaps not so I don't feel like that's likely, but

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I don't. I don't have a better explanation. And talking

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about how Aras said this would work that once got

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me because I don't remember. Is he talking to Eras

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separately from what we've seen of the interactions between him

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and Ras so far. Is there a different conversation that

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I didn't get to be privy to, or am I

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just utterly forgetting a question that he asked about what

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will work and what won't work? Because this is not

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ringing any bells at all, and let's see. Uh. Mordecai says,

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we don't know if the system will allow her to

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do this, and if it does, it's possible she could

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still die when your floor collapses. So don't know again,

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is it perhaps a liminal space sort of thing. Maybe

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it's like putting her in like a little pocket dimension.

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So he goes and tells everybody that it's a go

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with the theory. Like things have seemed to have worked

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out with the tests they're doing. I could feel it.

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A wave of relief swept over everyone. It was like

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a dark curtain had been pulled away from everything. Tran

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clasped his hands together and bowed deeply. This was a ridiculous,

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probably not going to work plan, but that was okay.

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It was something, and that's what we'd been missing ever

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since the previous floor. Several crawlers had been complaining the

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cleaner bought upgrade was no longer available in the Personal

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Space Shop due to overwhelming demand. We'd figure it was

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because of faction wars and the warlords buying them up.

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That was part of it. As it stood. The cleaner

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bot that architects Uston the Viceroy had in a surgical theater,

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the white one Eyed Looted, was an old model. It

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was literally the last available one in the store. That

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was because Harrot had a standing order to purchase every

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cleaner bot that showed up. Minerva was apparently on the

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seventeenth floor in charge of NPCs who were building and

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occupying the backstage Death Maze. This was where the AI

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had plucked Growler Gary from when he'd used his body

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as an avatar. It was also why Gary's level had

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been so elevated. They were training, getting stronger and stronger

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in preparation for the impossible eventuality that crawlers would make

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it that far. This whole seventeenth floor was just something

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built into the dungeon, invisible to the showrunners, who were

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just happy to have a box ticked. It had been

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going like this for hundreds and hundred of seasons, completely ignored. Harrot, however,

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was not backstage. He was trapped on the other side

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of the portal. He was in the Pineapple Cabaret itself,

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the secret to Mension they'd built to hide the npcas

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and keep them safe. He had limited powers to control

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that world, but he did have a shop interface. Honestly,

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I didn't know how all this worked when the AI

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could literally create stuff with the virtual snap of his fingers,

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but we'd seen these sorts of artificial shortages before, like

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with the food after the flooding of Larroccos. The cabaret

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was currently overrun. A Kuma had been a little fuzzy

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on who the bad guys were. He mentioned something called

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the Ogre Imperium, which was the long forgotten plot line

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that got binned because the Ogres were made too intelligent

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and they had immediately figured out they were trapped in

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a dungeon and there was a shadow mimic infestation which

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was just as bad, but something more too. The warm

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Mages wanted our help to clear the place out. We

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had two options, the casino plan and the cleaner box plan.

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It sounded like the casino plan was a bust, so

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we were going with the cleaner bought option. This plan

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was complicated, but Rosetta and Mordecai had been on it

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since we first heard the idea, and they were now

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semi confident it was feasible, but only if a Kuma

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was telling the truth about Herod. Lena was dying of

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poison her left to fester. D buff would not go away,

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and in fact it would get worse because one's health

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automatically topped up when they moved to the next floor.

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That would stop if she managed to get to the

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Pineapple Cabaret. However, warm Ages also claimed there was a

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possible exit from the cabaret to the Earth's surface that

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would in theory cure left to fester. Maybe there was

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so much to chance and on faith. If Akuma hadn't

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dropped the name herot, if Eris hadn't said it might work,

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I wouldn't have believed any of it. If we did

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this now with Lena, like now, now before the race

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even started, we'd have a good idea if it would work,

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before we tried it with several crawlers at once, which

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we'd have to do after this fifth heat. We just

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needed to talk Lena into going along with it. Michael says,

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I think it is based on Ris telling him the

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Pineapple Club was a real alternative for crawlers. So Carl

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knows she said the warm age wasn't lying about the

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cabaret being away crawlers could skip floors. But of course

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Eras doesn't necessarily have to tell him the truth. She

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just tends to do so because it's more fun for her.

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I see what you mean, just a way that he

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says like Aris. If Aris hadn't said it might work,

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I wouldn't have believed any of it. Doesn't just feel

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like is the cabaret real? She said it might work,

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which feels like she was responding to a specific question

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about a mechanic that he is about to exploit that

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just feels like it means something really, really s specific.

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I don't know. Maybe I'm just you know, possible, so

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we shall see, but I just don't. I feel like

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there are probably people listening who are irritated at the

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fact that I'm not seeing it and that they saw it.

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So apologies, it's all of you. So this is when Carl.

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First of all, we have a moment with fucking Linus

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who is petting Donut and sucking on his fingers and

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it is really distressing. And he also calls her a

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fuzzy little pussy, which I just excessive, no extreme, no.

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The way that he is like truly doing the most

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to be the pervert everybody thinks he is. This is

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quite a fucking performance. I am impressed, actually, Like I

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would not doubt for a moment. There is no suspicion

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in my mind at all if I don't know the

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other thing. So that's alarming to know, to realize, like

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how thoroughly fucking tricked I'd be, you know, sorry, Michael,

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just as this guy is committed. He also didn't think

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much of his brother apparently. Yeah, this is the thing.

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It's like you could say he didn't think much of

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his brother. It's also possible he's just leaning into like

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a pervert character, and it doesn't like he doesn't actually

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know how his brother was behaving, but it's believable enough

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who knows. But either way, he is very much willing

475
00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:45,039
to humiliate himself to get the job done. And I

476
00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:47,160
can't help but respect that because I don't know if

477
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:55,359
I could do it. So anyway, this is when Donut

478
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,720
is explaining about the fact that you know, first of all,

479
00:31:58,759 --> 00:32:00,519
she's deciding whether she wants to go on stage with

480
00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:03,160
or without the sunglasses, that Carl is going to be

481
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,160
taking all these potions. Apparently she is taking them as

482
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:12,519
like she doesn't make say anything about let's see, I

483
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:14,279
know I'll be able to hit the right key. But

484
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:18,359
Mordecai made a few special potions compounded together for us

485
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,920
to make sure Carl and I are in proper sink.

486
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:24,039
So what it sounds like is that nobody had the

487
00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:26,880
heart to tell Donut that she is wildly off key

488
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,839
all the time, and they made her drink the potion

489
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,200
and said, if you both drink it, then it'll make

490
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,079
you two be in sync with each other, and they

491
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:40,200
did not mention that it was actually like a performance

492
00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:44,240
enhancing drug that she desperately needed, and that was how

493
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,880
they appealed to her ego and got her to actually

494
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,640
drink it, because, like I was concerned about the idea

495
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,519
of trying to get her to drink it when she

496
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,319
has never once in a million years admitted that she

497
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,200
is off key and can't sing. Has never happened, so

498
00:32:59,279 --> 00:33:01,359
I just didn't know how they would manage to convince her.

499
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,640
And I think that's you know, Carl, for his part,

500
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,839
is actually getting a little bit of stage right here,

501
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,039
which is great. There comes a point later where he

502
00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:12,599
sees his reflection in her glasses and his cheeks are

503
00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:15,359
really pink and he is like, is that the potion

504
00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:17,160
or is that me? And I'm like, no, I think

505
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,000
that's you, dude. I think you're just you've got a

506
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,359
little stage fright. It's an interesting thing how different we

507
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,079
all are with the things that frighten us, because I

508
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,039
just I understand stage fright. I actually like do get it,

509
00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:35,880
but it's just not I don't have that really the

510
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,960
same way. And then there's things like you know, mountain

511
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,759
biking in like Cliffy areas and I can't understand how

512
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:49,880
a person could do that to themselves. And then there

513
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,640
are folks who were just like, why don't you want

514
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,680
to do this? I don't understand why you're so boring,

515
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:56,000
and we just simply do not understand each other. And

516
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:59,400
I'm like, well, I have a profound fear of falling

517
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,160
to a horrible death, that's why. And they're just like,

518
00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:08,920
I can't relate to see you later, so anyway, sorry.

519
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,079
There's this like I'm just thinking now because there's this

520
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,039
video circulating and it's a woman who I think she

521
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,679
uses a GoPro or something to film herself when she's

522
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:20,920
mountain biking. But she is on a cliff edge and

523
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,199
she falls and it's like just enough of an angle

524
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,239
on this cliff that she doesn't completely fall to her death,

525
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,480
but the GoPro like spins a few times in such

526
00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:36,159
a manner that you can see how sheer. The fall

527
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,880
is below her, and it's very startling because the camera

528
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,079
had been on her and so it would be very

529
00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:45,800
easy to not really have a grasp of how steep

530
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,559
the area is that she's biking in, and when the

531
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:52,000
camera spins around, you see the fall and You're just like,

532
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,880
oh my god, because she has fallen off of her

533
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,400
bike and is sliding precipitously down like this shale and

534
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:05,760
scree hill toward the actual cliff edge. And it is

535
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,039
one of the most harrowing videos I've ever seen in

536
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:12,039
my life because it's so startling. You don't know how

537
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:14,280
close a call it is at the start until the

538
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,559
camera flips around. And every time that I think about

539
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,960
there being people who do this sort of shit for fun,

540
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,360
it just really is to me an indicator that, like,

541
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,519
I don't know, you need more hardship in your life,

542
00:35:28,639 --> 00:35:34,079
maybe to be seeking this out to create the cortisol

543
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:37,840
that I just experienced living day to day, Like I'll

544
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,039
give you some of mine if you're really that in need.

545
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,400
Just you don't need to do all this I don't

546
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:53,079
know anyway. So we have Carl taking his potions and

547
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:58,480
getting up there, and then the song begins and it

548
00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:03,159
plays underneath I love Imani being like Ellie is gonna

549
00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:05,119
be so pish she missed this, and later Ellie is like,

550
00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:12,559
I am so pissed I miss that. And let's see,

551
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,159
I saw don Quixote in the entrance looking at me.

552
00:36:15,199 --> 00:36:18,679
He gave me a sheepish smile. He started walking toward us,

553
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,480
his giant sock over his shoulder like Santa's bag. Bucket

554
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,960
Boy rushed in and grabbed him by the shoulder, and

555
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:31,039
again Carl is like annoyed himself. Later but you were

556
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:33,519
about to go on stage, So what was this? I

557
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:40,719
don't know, you know anyway, So here we go. He

558
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:50,440
begins to sing, and I can't. I really really want

559
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,480
an interview with the audiobook narrator, I really really do.

560
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,280
I want to ask him, did you rehearse this or

561
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,880
are you just able to go for it? Did you

562
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,239
play this up? Or is this about how you'd do

563
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:15,079
it if you were in a karaoke bar? And like

564
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,119
and not only there's a very funny moment when Carl

565
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,519
starts talking because he's drunk the potion gelded choir boy,

566
00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:28,159
and he's talking like he's not like he's on helium,

567
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,760
Like it's you know. He's like, yeah, we're gonna do it, oh,

568
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,519
and like sort of stops and realizes his voice has

569
00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:37,480
changed when it comes out of his mouth. And later

570
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:39,559
on there's a point where he's talking and his voice

571
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,320
still sounds like that, but then slowly changes back to

572
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,039
his own voice, and I was just like, this fucking

573
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:52,519
narrator is too good. He has too much power. So

574
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:56,360
a fight breaks out. Dwight kills the DJ. Now what

575
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,239
this is set up is he's killed the DJ, so

576
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,519
we only have one chance to get this song right.

577
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,920
I couldn't help but kind of be like, wait, we

578
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,239
can't just get another DJ. We can't have somebody else

579
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,760
set it up. I assume they know and that no,

580
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,000
they can't. But it definitely did not occur to me

581
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:20,960
that it was like, Okay, we're doing this. We're because

582
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:24,639
earlier Doughnut said I even signed us up for a

583
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:27,679
second round, so in case this one doesn't work, we

584
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:33,400
get another try. And so the author was just like, well,

585
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,719
we have to make the stakes higher than that. And

586
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,079
this fight breaking out, there's things being thrown at both

587
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,960
of them so that they could very easily lose their

588
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,480
place in the song, and they have to get a

589
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,840
fucking hundred percent or else the door doesn't open for them.

590
00:38:49,199 --> 00:38:55,400
Oh my god. The way the way we have this

591
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,880
like as just sentences in here. I was expecting it

592
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,199
to sort of be bits of centered text like song lyrics,

593
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:05,079
but it's really being put out there just as like

594
00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:12,599
regular dialogue and take on me. Doughnut echoed, singing her part,

595
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,559
her auto tuned voice high and thankfully in key. The

596
00:39:16,599 --> 00:39:20,280
sound pierced through the chaos like a knife. She shot

597
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,480
a low powered magic missile and it blew the axe

598
00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:25,239
out of the hand of a draconian who was about

599
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,639
to sink it into the back of Dong's head. I

600
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:33,920
love karaoke, singing and shooting magic missiles at the same time,

601
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:43,440
I be gone inner day tune. There was a chime

602
00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:47,119
from the performance gauge floating by my head, and digital

603
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,760
sparkle showered off it. Half the crowd stopped fighting at that.

604
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,639
I caught eyes with Florin, who'd stopped dead in midpunch.

605
00:39:56,159 --> 00:40:01,079
He looked at me and mouthed, wow. Really cackled at

606
00:40:01,079 --> 00:40:04,400
that part. I really really laughed, Flora, just being like,

607
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:10,840
oh shit, yeah, yeah, I can understand why we were

608
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,840
needing to take some potions for that note hit. Considering

609
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:20,599
the range of Carl's voice most of the time, he

610
00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:24,360
weren't going to be hitting that note. Not even there's

611
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,880
no real reason why he has to sing that part either.

612
00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:30,800
He could very easily be the one that's just going

613
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:37,280
take on me after Donah sings it. But I think

614
00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:41,480
they are so certain that Donah is going to be

615
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,719
better than Carl at convincing Porky that they give her

616
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:52,000
the easier part purposely as a gimme, so that she

617
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,000
will If either of them messes up, it will almost

618
00:40:57,039 --> 00:41:01,960
definitely be Carl and that's of a disaster because she's

619
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:04,840
going to be able to accomplish this mission no problem.

620
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,519
So that's my assumption, is like he's just got the

621
00:41:07,559 --> 00:41:11,679
bigger part because there's more room for error and Donut

622
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,760
getting in there is what they really want, which, as

623
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:19,320
it turns out, is not what happens. We hit the

624
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,519
middle part of the song, which was mostly music. This

625
00:41:23,599 --> 00:41:26,000
is such a funny thing this, and then later on

626
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,599
they reached the end of the song and he says

627
00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:31,519
like something like that. In real life, the song fades out,

628
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,400
but the karaoke version just goes on and on and y'all,

629
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,400
this is one of those things that I think a

630
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,000
lot of people like don't when they choose a song

631
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:45,760
for karaoke. They think of a song that has a

632
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,679
chorus that they know really really well and they feel

633
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,639
confident in. But the problem is a lot of times

634
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:57,400
you know the chorus really really well because you have

635
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,920
to sing it so many times for this song, and

636
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,639
that is because it is really, really fucking repetitive. So

637
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:16,800
the repetitiveness is what you like, makes you remember, but

638
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:21,559
once you're performing, it is like agonizing because you just

639
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:27,079
have to repeat yourself. And depending on who you are

640
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,760
as a performer and how you handle it, that might

641
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,519
be like exactly what you want. You may love the

642
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:35,519
repetition of it because it gives you a chance to

643
00:42:35,599 --> 00:42:39,159
really fucking show boat, you know, and I totally see that.

644
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,760
But sometimes you picked a song that you felt was

645
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,000
going to be easy, that you could just jump in

646
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:48,679
there and do it and get out, and then suddenly

647
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:52,000
you're stuck and you find yourself in this awkward position

648
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:54,239
of really wanting to leave the stage, but the music

649
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,360
is still going and you're technically not done and you

650
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,559
should really just at least finish, and it is hard

651
00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:04,280
to watch, it's hard to experience. So in these middle

652
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,639
moments where there's a bunch of fucking music and you

653
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,159
just have to hang out, when you're on stage and

654
00:43:11,199 --> 00:43:14,519
you're not singing and you're kind of not doing anything. Oh,

655
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:17,119
my god, it's so awkward again, unless you are a

656
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,599
real performer who is going to showboat during the musical parts,

657
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,519
which I have gone to karaoke with friends who are

658
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:27,199
amazing at that. I always intend to do that, and

659
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,119
then I get up there and forget, and I just

660
00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:33,639
feel very awkward. But the people who manage it really

661
00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:35,519
go for it, and I admire it a great deal.

662
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,800
Let's see, I'm trying to find a mantis like creature.

663
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,519
Sliced it dong, and he countered with his enormous sock.

664
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,599
The mantis went flying, but not before she tore a

665
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:51,079
hole in the weapon, which caused coins to fly everywhere,

666
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,320
one pinged right off my forehead. They were Nichols, I

667
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,440
saw all of them, even though he'd been putting actual

668
00:43:57,679 --> 00:44:01,480
gold pieces in there. Seeing there was money all over

669
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:04,239
the dance floor, those who hadn't been fighting pounced, jumping

670
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:09,480
into the skirmish, grabbing handfuls of the coins, and I

671
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:11,760
was a little surprised because I was just like, Nichols,

672
00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:14,239
is that valuable? Here? Are you actually going to be

673
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,840
able to even spend that? It feels like not why, Like, yeah,

674
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,239
it's money, but it's a very particular type of money

675
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,880
and is that going to have any value? I don't know, U.

676
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:33,719
This is when Doughnut gets hit with a paralyzed kappa.

677
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,400
He got hit with a spell and he like falls

678
00:44:36,559 --> 00:44:43,920
backwards into her. The twin screen sparked as they burst

679
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,159
a flame. Louis was in there spraying something out of

680
00:44:46,159 --> 00:44:49,639
his hand stopping the fire, and Brittany a drink in

681
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:52,119
one hand, was also putting out the fire as most

682
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:56,480
of the NPCs fled. Congratulations, Carl, you have been granted

683
00:44:56,519 --> 00:45:00,880
permanent access to the stage performance Guild Nich sing for

684
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,920
your supper. You're a proper musician. You're saying something and

685
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,679
you've been rewarded for it. The next thing you know,

686
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,719
you'll be earning a third of ascent per stream on

687
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,400
Spotify and bragging to your friends and family and fellow

688
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:16,880
kitchen staff that you're a professional and I am, he

689
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,519
says reward. From now on, hidden guilds with entrance requirements

690
00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:24,840
will appear on your map if you are in close proximity,

691
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,119
which is really interesting. They will appear on his map,

692
00:45:28,159 --> 00:45:29,960
but I don't know if that will come with like

693
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,719
details on exactly how you access them or not. Probably

694
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,400
if you can see them. You can find that out

695
00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:41,440
fairly easily, but uh, I don't know, maybe not, so

696
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,719
he has to go in there by himself. I really

697
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,079
felt bad because, like, we've got a lot of casualties

698
00:45:51,159 --> 00:45:55,280
in this fucking bar fight here. And the bartender collects

699
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,159
the DJ and just like crying as he runs away,

700
00:45:58,199 --> 00:46:01,960
and I just really felt for him, Like this sucks,

701
00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:09,000
you know. So let's see. The others all started grabbing

702
00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:11,559
nickels and were helping Dong put them back in the sock,

703
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,960
though dozens of NPCs had grabbed some and run. There

704
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,119
was a nasty tear in the fabric of the sock,

705
00:46:18,199 --> 00:46:21,719
but it was mending itself. The sock, however, didn't seem

706
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,320
to be going back to its giant size no matter

707
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,039
how many nickels people put back in. The coins were

708
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:33,960
absolutely everywhere. Later on, we find out that there is

709
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:41,199
a result from this that could potentially kill Dong, which

710
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:46,760
really is awful, and the most reliable way to counter

711
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,599
it is by getting all of the coins back, which,

712
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:53,960
as Doughnut points out, there were a billion MPCs in

713
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:58,159
here grabbing them, so it's just there's no way, you know.

714
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,719
Let's see, I the bar stank like smoke, and I

715
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,400
didn't know if we were going to get kicked out,

716
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,039
so we had to do this quickly. Prepotente was in

717
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:12,800
the middle of raiding the bar while Dong, the skeletons

718
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,880
from the Black Bleak Congregation, and a few of the

719
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,159
other regulars finished cleaning up the nickels. I eyed Dong warily,

720
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,679
I gotta read the room first, but I don't want

721
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,559
Dong screwing this up. If I say the word, you

722
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:31,159
gotta get him out of here. And you know, I

723
00:47:31,159 --> 00:47:33,800
think it's like moments like this that he's referring to.

724
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:39,639
A little bit later, trying to find this bit, I

725
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,199
spied Jurgen trying to come speak with me, but Florin

726
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:49,679
held him back, and finally he pushes past, and it's like,

727
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,800
I'm joining you in the guild, and Carl says it's important.

728
00:47:54,159 --> 00:47:55,960
We need this if we want to deal with the

729
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,039
problem with the kids. He talks about the Goddess and

730
00:47:59,159 --> 00:48:01,840
Carl is like, yeah, I know, but the only thing

731
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,519
that we can do for them is talk Lucia into

732
00:48:03,559 --> 00:48:08,360
taking a deal. And he says, I need to get out,

733
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,679
send me out via the Pineapple place. You can't. I'm sorry,

734
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,239
you worship donut, they said you can't go if you

735
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,199
worship a god. They said those of us who worship

736
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,880
gods can't go, or they say they don't want us

737
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:26,679
to go, And honestly, I was like, oh shit, because yeah,

738
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,480
that's exactly like A Kuma was just like, that'll bring

739
00:48:29,519 --> 00:48:31,159
the gods down on us and we don't need that.

740
00:48:31,639 --> 00:48:34,519
And there is not really a good reason to assume

741
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,280
A Kuma was sharing the entire truth when he said that,

742
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,360
it makes sense. I tend to believe him simply because

743
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,760
that logically does follow, But there could be all kinds

744
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,360
of weird, little like fine print about that that I

745
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,920
wouldn't think of. So when he asked that, I was

746
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,039
sort of oh shit, and like, is it possible that

747
00:48:59,199 --> 00:49:02,320
somebody who worshiped the god going there might actually just

748
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,119
hurt the warm ages somehow and they're trying to prevent that.

749
00:49:05,519 --> 00:49:11,760
I don't know. And this is when he asks him

750
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,760
about Donar and he's like it's he's like thor very

751
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:21,360
close but manlier, which I'm like, how has he given

752
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:26,239
you any lightning spells? A few? It doesn't matter. I'm like, dude,

753
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,039
it clearly like Carl doesn't ask these questions for no

754
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:32,920
reason in the moment, just because he's curious. That's donah,

755
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,679
who does that? If he's asking you, it doesn't matter,

756
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,920
just like you know. And this is when Jurgen says,

757
00:49:40,559 --> 00:49:43,800
I got to tell you something. It's Heidi. I used

758
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,599
to be able to talk to her, but I haven't

759
00:49:45,639 --> 00:49:49,320
heard her in a while. I think something's wrong. She's

760
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,800
in danger. She's all I have. She's pregnant. I have

761
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,360
to get to her. And it has been assumed that

762
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,519
he kind of cracked and the Heidi that he's been

763
00:49:58,519 --> 00:50:01,199
talking to isn't really there. But there was something about

764
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,000
the way that he behaved that made me not take

765
00:50:04,039 --> 00:50:06,039
that at face value when they said that about him,

766
00:50:06,039 --> 00:50:07,800
And I was like, I don't know, man, I think

767
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,639
he sees something. I think there's just been too many

768
00:50:10,639 --> 00:50:15,320
instances of folks having like a totally different perception of

769
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,760
things for various reasons, and we know that can happen,

770
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,840
and I just really felt like there is something going

771
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,199
on here. So Carl does not take this very seriously here,

772
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,480
But to me, I found that kind of arresting and

773
00:50:31,559 --> 00:50:33,960
I really stopped and was like distracted by it for

774
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,320
a minute, Like what could that possibly fucking mean, you know.

775
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:46,039
So this is when Carl goes in to see Porky. Now,

776
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,400
I'm not going to like go through all of this

777
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,960
because most of it is him having to fix a

778
00:50:54,079 --> 00:50:57,280
zipper that is caught on Porky's guts, which is the

779
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,480
worst thing I've ever heard of my entire life. I

780
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:04,960
hate it. I hate it. Porky greets him, but doesn't

781
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,239
I don't think that he introduces himself at all. And

782
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,159
when Carl calls him Porky, he's like, uh, nobody's called

783
00:51:12,199 --> 00:51:15,119
me that in a while, and kind of on zips

784
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:17,440
to like use one of his actual eyeballs to look

785
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,840
at him and be like, so, who are you? And

786
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:27,119
Carl tells him the entire truth, and I was so relieved.

787
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,280
I was really worried that he was gonna try and like,

788
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,599
I don't know, play some weird game with him or

789
00:51:31,639 --> 00:51:34,199
like make up something to convince him, and I just

790
00:51:34,639 --> 00:51:36,960
don't have a lot of patience for that at this point.

791
00:51:37,559 --> 00:51:44,280
So yeah, he just tells him like, we you have

792
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,000
your other half out there and he is being dominated

793
00:51:48,079 --> 00:51:53,599
by these woman tars and is close to death and

794
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,039
you will never be able to see him again. Unless

795
00:51:57,079 --> 00:51:59,599
you guys unite with each other. And it turns out

796
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:06,400
if Quirky dies, Porky dies, which was not ever mentioned

797
00:52:06,639 --> 00:52:09,239
by anybody at any time, which is sort of surprising

798
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:15,280
because I feel like, you know. So finally he agrees

799
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,440
to go with Carl, and he says, you have to

800
00:52:18,519 --> 00:52:20,760
hire me as a temporary mercenary, or you can just

801
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,719
man handle me out of here. But I'll help, especially

802
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,960
if that means I'll get reunited with my other half.

803
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,920
It's been so long it would be nice to not

804
00:52:29,159 --> 00:52:33,559
have to lean against everything again. And I want you

805
00:52:33,599 --> 00:52:36,199
to help me find and kick the ever living tar

806
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,440
out of this stripper. I know his name is Don Quixote,

807
00:52:40,079 --> 00:52:43,360
which later on it is revealed that Dong is in

808
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,599
the mix. I thought it was gonna be a lot

809
00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:48,639
more of a thing in the moment than it turns

810
00:52:48,639 --> 00:52:51,280
out to be, And like a part of me was

811
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,559
sort of at the at first when he doesn't flip

812
00:52:54,599 --> 00:52:56,920
out and he's just like, oh yeah, you conveniently left

813
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,519
out that he's involved, I was sort of like, okay,

814
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:02,960
so are they acting like it's like they can deal

815
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,159
with each other, But then the moment they're left alone,

816
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,119
they're gonna get into like a fistfight or something, but

817
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,360
it seems like they're actually going to be able to

818
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:16,800
like coexist at least for a little while. So fifty

819
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:22,199
nine Ellie says, Nah's in. She's still being creepy as

820
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:26,159
fucking not actually talking, but she sort of nodded, and

821
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,599
Mani says, don is being a problem. He doesn't want

822
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:31,239
to leave. He's picked up all the nickels we could find,

823
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,119
but the sock is back to the size it was

824
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:35,199
when he first got it, and he's complaining that it

825
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,840
stopped talking to him and Donut like dms Carl and

826
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,920
says something about how he is upset at being left

827
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:49,039
out of everything. This is a very emotional time. This

828
00:53:49,119 --> 00:53:55,119
is when Carl tries to message splash Zone and is

829
00:53:55,159 --> 00:53:58,559
notified he's not on this floor, and then same to

830
00:53:58,599 --> 00:54:01,719
Gluteas and doctor Bones and it's just like, wait, what

831
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,639
the fuck, And everybody else tries messaging them and they

832
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,679
are everybody's hearing they're not on this floor anymore, and

833
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,800
Bucket Boy says they were going to see the new

834
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:17,199
boss guy jamed Anaconda and Damascus Steele's dad, which the

835
00:54:17,199 --> 00:54:20,519
fact that they are not described as dead and simply

836
00:54:20,559 --> 00:54:25,599
not on this floor. I really don't know exactly what.

837
00:54:25,639 --> 00:54:28,679
Could they have been removed against their will or did

838
00:54:28,679 --> 00:54:32,320
they get offered and they wanted to go? Is just

839
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,360
the meeting taking place technically off the floor, but they're

840
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:43,559
going to be back, I don't know. So let's see.

841
00:54:43,599 --> 00:54:45,400
Ten minutes later, a group of us stood outside the

842
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,800
garage door with a number two. We were currently in

843
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,840
a safe area, but the garage itself wasn't a safe zone,

844
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,239
so the rules were a little weird about what we

845
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,199
could and couldn't do to break in. My original plan

846
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,480
was to blow the whole thing off the tracks, but

847
00:54:59,599 --> 00:55:03,320
instead got to used on a tole spell to get inside.

848
00:55:03,519 --> 00:55:07,719
And their plan is to disable Genesis and Rapture and

849
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:13,519
grab Corky. And they they do not foresee that Genesis

850
00:55:13,519 --> 00:55:16,119
and Rapture are not idiots and are going to see

851
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:18,320
this coming. They are idiots, but they're just like a

852
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,039
very specific type, and it doesn't it doesn't help us

853
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:28,079
in this situation. Let's see, there's a oh, right, and

854
00:55:28,199 --> 00:55:30,880
Carl talks with Grigory the flesh mancer for a while,

855
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,920
who reveals that he has never actually done this before

856
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,119
because nobody who gets split up like this actually survives

857
00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:40,599
almost ever, and that he is really interested to see

858
00:55:40,639 --> 00:55:42,840
once he manages to connect them if he can, which

859
00:55:43,079 --> 00:55:47,679
seems somewhat confident what happens regarding their personalities, you know,

860
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,920
and he says, in the case of meld, which is similar,

861
00:55:54,159 --> 00:55:58,039
the party instituting the spell is the dominant personality When

862
00:55:58,039 --> 00:56:01,320
a creature consumes and joins with another, some versions are

863
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,199
permanent and some aren't. When it is permanent, but they

864
00:56:04,199 --> 00:56:06,039
don't want it to be anymore, that's when they look

865
00:56:06,079 --> 00:56:09,760
for someone like me. I specialize in fixing other people's mistakes.

866
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,000
It's not always successful, but I assure you I'm the

867
00:56:12,039 --> 00:56:17,760
best there is. He brings up Samantha, and this dude

868
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,679
is just like, yeah, I've heard about it, but he

869
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:24,039
doesn't seem interested at all. I would like to examine

870
00:56:24,039 --> 00:56:27,119
this so called withering spirit as what you describe is

871
00:56:27,199 --> 00:56:30,679
quite impossible. So I'm feeling like maybe he's dismissive because

872
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,920
he just doesn't believe that they actually are accurate in

873
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:39,079
the way they're describing what's going on with Samantha. So

874
00:56:40,559 --> 00:56:45,000
let's see, uh oh right, don'nut talking with Porky about

875
00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:49,599
performance stuff. You, guys. I love this so much. Doughnut

876
00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:51,760
is talking about how like, oh, yeah, I'm definitely able

877
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,599
to hit the notes, which no, you're not, but let's

878
00:56:53,599 --> 00:56:55,199
set that aside. She's like, I want to be a

879
00:56:55,199 --> 00:57:00,280
showstopper though, and Porky says, well, yeah, you want to

880
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,760
connect with the audience and whisk them into the clouds.

881
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:08,000
A truly transcendent experience requires one to know their fans intimately.

882
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,159
You want them to limp out of the theater after

883
00:57:10,199 --> 00:57:13,239
you're done with them, gasping for breath, as if you've

884
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,360
just made love to their very soul. You want everything

885
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,039
they experience after the fact to be stale and taste

886
00:57:19,079 --> 00:57:23,840
like ash, because they know they'll never experience joy like that. Again,

887
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:31,280
I love this so much because so he's just describing

888
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,920
like the absolute pinnacle and sort of talking about how like,

889
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,800
of course that's what we all want to accomplish, like

890
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,840
we can all do that. But also it's like it

891
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,079
there's a moment in The Golden Girls where Blanche's gonna

892
00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:46,559
go out on a date and she's feeling a little

893
00:57:46,559 --> 00:57:48,559
nervous and she's got this outfit on and she comes

894
00:57:48,599 --> 00:57:52,159
out and Rose and Dorothy are there, and she asks

895
00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:55,559
them what do you think? And Rose is the one

896
00:57:55,599 --> 00:57:58,480
answering initially, and she's just like, you look great. And

897
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:03,320
she's like, okay, I mean, do you think is it feminine? Yeah?

898
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:08,320
But what about sexy? Yes? And she keeps started asking

899
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,320
leading questions and finally Dorothy puts her hand on Rose's

900
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,559
shoulder and pulls her back and says I'll handle this

901
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:19,840
and steps forward and says, Blanche, no woman has ever

902
00:58:20,039 --> 00:58:24,199
looked better than you look right now, and no woman

903
00:58:24,599 --> 00:58:29,159
ever will. And Blanche says, thank you, Dorothy. Honestly, Rose,

904
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:31,280
it's like pulling teeth just to get a little compliment

905
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:37,960
out of you. And honestly, I relate to that so much,

906
00:58:38,199 --> 00:58:42,320
like I don't just want a compliment. I want it

907
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,079
to be a definitive ranking and to be at the top,

908
00:58:46,119 --> 00:58:47,880
and if not at the very top, at least in

909
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:53,559
like the top five percentile. I want a very specific

910
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:56,639
type of validation. And if I don't get that, you

911
00:58:56,679 --> 00:59:03,519
may as well just fucking save your breath anyway. Okay,

912
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,559
this is when Tippid chimes in and is like, hey, guys,

913
00:59:06,599 --> 00:59:08,360
I think you might need to beat things up because

914
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:12,000
Dong is sick. His health is dipping and he has

915
00:59:12,039 --> 00:59:20,159
a d muff that says negative ROI. Bucket Boy, he says,

916
00:59:20,559 --> 00:59:23,119
lost the sock, which we find out a moment later.

917
00:59:24,719 --> 00:59:29,119
It was a weapon that is sentient, so as like

918
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:33,119
almost a creature. It was about to attack Bucket Boy,

919
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:35,880
but because it was in a safe zone, it got

920
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:40,039
teleported away, probably with like the naughty naughty being yelled

921
00:59:40,079 --> 00:59:44,599
at it, so it's being treated like a mob. And

922
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,280
so because I was like, he lost it? How did

923
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,079
he lose it? And then when Mordecai chimes in, I

924
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:54,639
was just like, oh fuck, and the fact that it's missing,

925
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,559
you know, we need the thing, probably to solve this problem.

926
00:59:59,719 --> 01:00:03,079
So so it's not Bucket Boy's fault, it's the fucking sock.

927
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,400
And it may be that the sock did this on purpose,

928
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,719
tried to attack because it knew that it was going

929
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,719
to get transported away, and it doesn't want to be

930
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:19,440
here anymore. So Imani says, if it's a curse, we'll

931
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,480
need to bring him to a temple to cure him.

932
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:26,199
We come back to the present, our whole plan, and

933
01:00:26,239 --> 01:00:29,440
this is when don Quixote chimes in, I forgot about this,

934
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:31,679
so you know, what this is also what Carl's referencing.

935
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,519
This is unbearable. Carl, you are doing this without giving

936
01:00:34,519 --> 01:00:36,559
me a chance to even say goodbye. He is the

937
01:00:36,639 --> 01:00:38,440
love of my life and what you're doing is going

938
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,880
to change him forever. I am dying. He is being

939
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,039
taken from me. I'm right here on the other side

940
01:00:44,039 --> 01:00:49,039
of the door, and I can't even see him. I paused, God,

941
01:00:49,159 --> 01:00:53,400
damn it. I suddenly felt like a huge asshole. I

942
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,320
spent half a second considering it. But no, this was

943
01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:01,880
too important. We couldn't risk something going wrong. I'm sorry, Dong.

944
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,000
I wish I could go it could go another way,

945
01:01:04,039 --> 01:01:06,159
but if Porky sees you, he's going to go ape

946
01:01:06,159 --> 01:01:09,159
shit and none of this will work. As soon as

947
01:01:09,239 --> 01:01:11,559
we're done with this, I promise we'll get you to

948
01:01:11,639 --> 01:01:18,480
a temple to get that curse removed. And it's I

949
01:01:18,559 --> 01:01:21,440
understand what Carl's saying, but he's not really addressing anything

950
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:26,599
that Dong is concerned about, you know. And this is

951
01:01:26,639 --> 01:01:29,519
when the garage door begins to open. They had been

952
01:01:29,559 --> 01:01:34,360
gonna cast hole and break in, but because the garage

953
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,880
is opening and they are heading out towards the next heat,

954
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,599
they can't be attacked. They are safe right now, and

955
01:01:40,639 --> 01:01:45,159
they have Quirky with them and are just like, yeah,

956
01:01:45,239 --> 01:01:47,440
you fuckers, you really thought you were gonna get the

957
01:01:47,519 --> 01:01:52,480
drop on us. Get out of here, and they take off.

958
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,239
Bucket Boy, he's getting worse and he's really upset. I

959
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,320
don't know how much time he has or what to do.

960
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,440
Mordecai says, Okay, guys, we're busy prepping for the Lena exit,

961
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,599
but we just took a look at Dong. I think

962
01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:09,800
we know what this is. It's called negative ROI for

963
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,320
some reason, but mister Tiatha believes it's really a curse

964
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,119
that's called separation anxiety. If that's the case, a temple

965
01:02:16,199 --> 01:02:18,239
isn't going to help him. It's not good. We'll need

966
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,199
the sock back and we'll need every single coining loss otherwise,

967
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,880
and you know, we don't have the sock, we don't

968
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:29,679
have the coins. It will get transported where another NPC

969
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,360
or crawler will pick it up. That's what sapient weapons do.

970
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,760
They use their owners until they can't anymore, and then

971
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,599
they move on to someone else. I'm sorry, guys, even

972
01:02:38,639 --> 01:02:42,400
I didn't see it coming. That was a particularly insidious one.

973
01:02:42,639 --> 01:02:47,840
Its danger was masked by its stupid origin story. And

974
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,840
I just really hope that we're not doing a death

975
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,519
of one of these characters, because you know, I know

976
01:02:54,559 --> 01:02:57,079
that we're not trying to fall into the barrier gaze trope,

977
01:02:57,119 --> 01:02:59,440
but we might be falling into the barrier gaze trope,

978
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:05,079
so let's just do that. And this is when Carl

979
01:03:05,159 --> 01:03:09,480
sits down and just starts thinking through if Don was dead,

980
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,079
the quest would fail. And I'm the one who gave

981
01:03:11,119 --> 01:03:15,840
him that fucking sock, and he is just thinking about

982
01:03:16,079 --> 01:03:20,039
how Lee not has lost her humanity, but in a

983
01:03:20,079 --> 01:03:26,159
way he himself has as well. Dong is an NPC,

984
01:03:26,519 --> 01:03:29,559
but we've also become friends, and I was just not

985
01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:33,840
considering him with any of this at all. And again,

986
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,159
it's just really hard for me to like fault Carl

987
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:41,079
because everybody's life is really relying on this. But also

988
01:03:41,119 --> 01:03:44,639
these NPC's lives are in danger now for other reasons,

989
01:03:44,639 --> 01:03:50,679
so it's I don't know, I don't know. Carl says, Porky,

990
01:03:50,719 --> 01:03:52,840
you're gonna have to put your big boy pants on. Yes,

991
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:55,320
Dong is here, Yes I understand you do. You too

992
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,679
don't like each other, but you're gonna get over it.

993
01:03:57,719 --> 01:04:00,360
This is to save your life, Gregory. You're going to

994
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,360
spend the next half hour learning how to drive, just

995
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:06,880
in case we need you. And then come on, everybody,

996
01:04:07,199 --> 01:04:14,199
let's say goodbye to Lena and we go into the

997
01:04:14,239 --> 01:04:18,679
safe room. Dong is sitting on the couch sobbing with

998
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:22,880
Bigs on his head and glaring at me. Biggs completely

999
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,280
covered the old man's head and it took me a

1000
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,480
moment from my mind to figure out what I was

1001
01:04:27,519 --> 01:04:30,960
looking at, which I'm sure that is a really weird sight.

1002
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:37,599
Imani has tried things and it hasn't worked. His health

1003
01:04:37,679 --> 01:04:43,199
dips again, and Biggs has been listening to what's going

1004
01:04:43,239 --> 01:04:46,920
on with Dong and comes over and is just like, hey,

1005
01:04:47,079 --> 01:04:50,280
what the fuck to Carl, which I actually quite appreciate

1006
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:55,760
a lot, and she says all of this makes him

1007
01:04:55,760 --> 01:05:00,679
a bitch, and Carl just says, you're right, I'm sorry,

1008
01:05:01,519 --> 01:05:08,880
and it's lovely. I've been a dick. I'm doing my best.

1009
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,199
A long long time ago, I said something like, we

1010
01:05:11,239 --> 01:05:13,360
need to help each other otherwise, what's the point when

1011
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:17,440
we stopped doing that, that's when we stop being real Gee's,

1012
01:05:17,719 --> 01:05:22,440
Biggs asked. I smiled. Real Gee's does that mean we're

1013
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,519
going to slaughter. Lean on, laugh as she drowns in

1014
01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:33,559
her own blood. Oh bigs. For the first part of

1015
01:05:33,599 --> 01:05:35,719
the floor, I began as I pulled a towel from

1016
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,239
my inventory. I was happy we were on rails, that

1017
01:05:38,239 --> 01:05:40,000
we didn't have a choice about what we were doing.

1018
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,280
It was so much easier than before. But I've realized

1019
01:05:44,559 --> 01:05:48,719
this floor was a deliberate trap. It's a drain decided

1020
01:05:48,719 --> 01:05:50,400
to catch those of us who'd been spat out of

1021
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,599
the bottom of faction wars and dared to go on

1022
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,760
That spins faster and faster the closer we get to

1023
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:59,400
the hole, and suddenly we're just gone. And it happened

1024
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,559
so fast we don't even realize it until it's too late.

1025
01:06:03,639 --> 01:06:05,360
I know we don't have much time, but I need

1026
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:07,760
to say this. I've been trying to keep you out

1027
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,800
of this quest because I'm scared it's not gonna work,

1028
01:06:11,039 --> 01:06:13,480
and I'm scared that you'll mess it up. Not because

1029
01:06:13,519 --> 01:06:17,239
I don't trust you, but because you're too close to it.

1030
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:19,679
The fact that you're in love with this guy is

1031
01:06:19,719 --> 01:06:22,760
a complication, not an asset. The smart thing to do

1032
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,559
is to keep you away while we get this done,

1033
01:06:26,559 --> 01:06:28,719
but that's not what we're gonna do. I'm going to

1034
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:32,519
have to attempt this Corkunda reunion during the race. I

1035
01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:35,760
can bring three mercenaries. It's gonna be the flesh Mancer Guy,

1036
01:06:36,039 --> 01:06:39,400
Porky and you. We're gonna do our best to save

1037
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:47,159
your friend. And Dong says I'm dying. Jefferson said I

1038
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:49,960
was a bad investment, which is really, honestly, kind of

1039
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,320
a devastating line. And now I'm weak and my health

1040
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,000
is seeping away. I will not be able to help,

1041
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,480
maybe not, but I'll make sure you get to say goodbye.

1042
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,880
I won't lie. We're gonna have to do some awful

1043
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,239
things to get through this. Sometimes we can't take a

1044
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,039
moment to spare the feelings of a friend because there

1045
01:07:08,039 --> 01:07:10,480
simply isn't time. But if it's worth anything, I want

1046
01:07:10,519 --> 01:07:13,280
you to know, I'm sorry I tried to keep you

1047
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:15,400
two apart. I'm sorry I've been a jerk about it.

1048
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,840
Survival has more than one meeting, and I'm trying so hard.

1049
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:23,239
But sometimes and this is when he turns and looks

1050
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,039
over at Lena and is thinking about like all the

1051
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:29,559
voices in his head trying to tell him other things

1052
01:07:29,599 --> 01:07:33,159
to do, and how he is falling into the same

1053
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,599
place as Lena, that it looks different for him, but

1054
01:07:35,639 --> 01:07:43,159
it's kind of the same anyway. And there's a really

1055
01:07:43,159 --> 01:07:45,440
sweet moment where Don talks about falling in love with

1056
01:07:45,519 --> 01:07:48,559
him because they were together during this fight, and how

1057
01:07:48,559 --> 01:07:51,639
he said, you don't it's not a sad ending as

1058
01:07:51,639 --> 01:07:53,800
long as you're with the person who makes you happy

1059
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,679
when you die, and at least we're here together, and

1060
01:07:56,719 --> 01:08:02,519
it is a really sweet moment. So let's see. Okay,

1061
01:08:02,599 --> 01:08:11,320
there's the last bit, because I'm overtime here. Dong looked up,

1062
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:15,320
acknowledging the other presence for the first time. Hello, Porky,

1063
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:19,680
said his voice quiet, sad. I remember that day when

1064
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:23,239
the club was under siege. I soon thereafter left. I

1065
01:08:23,239 --> 01:08:26,640
thought running a guild would be safer. Dong looked him

1066
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,720
up and down. Good, sir, that's my scarf. I know

1067
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:33,840
my other half let me have it when I went off,

1068
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:36,399
he said I'd want it. I told him I was

1069
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,119
going to throw it out because it was really yours,

1070
01:08:38,159 --> 01:08:43,159
and he said, no, you won't, and I didn't. Why

1071
01:08:43,159 --> 01:08:47,359
did you hate me, Dong finally asked, And then we

1072
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:49,760
have to walk away and don't get to hear this answer,

1073
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:56,760
and I was just like, wow, rude, my god. Sorry.

1074
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:59,560
There's a bit here with of course Samantha talking about

1075
01:09:00,119 --> 01:09:05,640
if Porky had sex with Dong, does that count as cheating,

1076
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:09,439
because it's another half of the same being. It's actually

1077
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:11,640
a kind of a fun question and thought exercise that

1078
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:15,520
I rather liked. And then we have a lovely moment

1079
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:20,039
with the fucking cleaner bot. You know, I said, you

1080
01:09:20,159 --> 01:09:23,119
take a lot of abuse. I'm sorry for that. If

1081
01:09:23,119 --> 01:09:24,640
this works out with your friend in there, we'll be

1082
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,600
needing you to do the same thing. You're a goddamn hero.

1083
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,000
And if I don't get a chance to say it

1084
01:09:29,039 --> 01:09:30,560
before we need you, I just want you to know

1085
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:35,119
that I appreciate it. The robot let out a long beep.

1086
01:09:37,159 --> 01:09:40,920
And this is why I don't give any quarter to

1087
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,279
Aaron Solstice in The Wandering Inn, because this is literally

1088
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:47,399
a bot, and Carl is nicer to it than she

1089
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:51,359
ever was to tour In. And that's just facts, So

1090
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:58,600
that's not on that anyway. Michael says Porky and Corky

1091
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,560
both loved Dong. I think Quirky left because Quirky got him.

1092
01:10:02,079 --> 01:10:05,560
That's interesting. That would make sense. I like to think

1093
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,319
Matt read the wandering and and was thinking, no way,

1094
01:10:07,359 --> 01:10:12,319
Carl's can screw this up, like Aaron. Yeah. Like, look, guys,

1095
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:16,039
I say thank you after I have asked Syria a

1096
01:10:16,079 --> 01:10:19,960
question that Siria has answered. So I'm just an automatic,

1097
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,520
like inanimate object or not. I treat it like it's

1098
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,000
real because that's just like instinctually what I do, and

1099
01:10:27,039 --> 01:10:30,640
I just I just appreciate it. I just appreciate it.

1100
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,319
That's all, all right. I have got to wrap way

1101
01:10:33,359 --> 01:10:35,680
over time. Thank you guys for listening. Appreciate you all

1102
01:10:35,760 --> 01:11:08,479
so much. Until next time to the Lue motherfuckers. That

1103
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:10,960
was an Unspoiled Network podcast