WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.919 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:17.719 covering Dungeon Crawler carl a Parade of Horribles Book eight, 3 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:25.559 chapters thirty six through forty one. In these chapters, everything 4 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:32.079 is just feeling like it's spinning wildly out of control. 5 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.560 I don't know. There's something about this book, guys that 6 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:46.039 has got me so flipped out and feeling just Welcome 7 00:00:46.960 --> 00:01:08.840 to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. 8 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:13.079 Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. 9 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.200 Michael's here in the chat says made it by the 10 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:19.879 skin of my teeth. Cordelia too, I was all alone 11 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:25.120 up until a mere moment Ago appreciate you'll be in here. 12 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:37.719 So I just really you guys this. I think part 13 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.079 of where this is coming from. I've talked about this 14 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.159 extensively every episode, and I've just been sort of interrogating it. 15 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.519 And part of what I realized as well is knowing 16 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.920 that the series is like starting to come to a close. 17 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.599 I remember that he said that he's planning on about 18 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:01.599 ten books, and you know, we have always got examples 19 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.719 of writers who claimed a series was going to be 20 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:09.800 so many and then ten years later, they're still writing, 21 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.560 and so they intended a thing, and that's all well 22 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.879 and good, and that's just not what wound up happening. 23 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.120 But I'm going to go ahead and operate on the 24 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:28.639 assumption that Matt Dinneman is right or has a plan. 25 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:39.000 And I think that I just cannot fathom any possible 26 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:44.080 way that this story gets wrapped up in two books, 27 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:51.319 considering how fucking bonkers things are right now. And you know, 28 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:57.719 I think part of this is We've got a world 29 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.800 that is so big that I would like closure on 30 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.960 probably a lot more things that I'm actually going to 31 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.919 get it on. So I think part of it is simply, 32 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.479 of course, it feels like this to me because I 33 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.240 want details on things that it is impossible for me 34 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.520 to really unless he decided to do a series of 35 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.639 short stories or something, which is not out of the question. 36 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:32.159 But I and you know, the series is so fast 37 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.759 moving that even though I feel like there's no way 38 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:37.439 that you're going to be able to do this, I 39 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.960 can't help but also think how much he packs into 40 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:45.840 each of his books, like and each of his chapters, 41 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.000 really to the point where covering it I have started 42 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.000 to slow down quite significantly, because it's just there's a lot, 43 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:01.039 you know, so I should have more faith, I think, 44 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:08.000 but it just is a really huge number of problems 45 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:16.720 and snarls and loose threads and questions, and it feels 46 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.040 like in this book we're just getting more questions. We're 47 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:28.720 having almost nothing so far be answered. And I recognize that, 48 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.120 like that's in these chapters specifically, a thing that happens 49 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.959 is a bunch of questions get answered, but like these 50 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.399 are not the questions that I had really partially they are, 51 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.959 but like there are questions that get introduced within this book. 52 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:51.600 So I'm just how can it possibly be done? And 53 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:57.319 how can it be done in a satisfying way. Michael's 54 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.680 in the chat says, FYI, he is doing some additional 55 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.759 short stories. The print version of his books include an 56 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.360 extra chapter. They're worth reading, but I recommend you wait 57 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.439 until you finish this book before you hit up Barnes 58 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.079 and Noble to check them out. They include an extra 59 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:17.959 chapter of like story that is in that book. In particular, 60 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:24.399 the extra chapters are called the Pineapple Cabaret. Oh, because 61 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.399 like that was part of what I was referencing here, 62 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.519 is that we get answers about the Pineapple Cabaret, but 63 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.480 I haven't even heard of it until this book. I 64 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:37.399 guess not strictly true. The Pineapple Cabaret is referenced it 65 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:42.800 by the AI in that scene with Victory or Formidable, 66 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.800 but it was, you know, just a very passing thing 67 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.600 and I didn't register it as something that I needed 68 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:56.519 to think about at all. So, yeah, it's getting the 69 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.839 answers on that is interesting, but it doesn't address a 70 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.240 lot of what has been an ongoing series of questions 71 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:12.439 for me. So chapter thirty six, Karl has just had 72 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:17.319 this encounter with the goddess and she disappears. Everybody froze, 73 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:25.000 and it turns out for him time passed during that freeze. 74 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.319 Nobody else noticed it. They get notification that there's a 75 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:33.519 goddess here, but it's pretty much immediately gone. There's nothing, 76 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.240 you know, like, there's no evidence that this really happened, 77 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.040 and it's just a weird I was really not sure 78 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.240 whether he was going to tell them the truth about 79 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:49.120 what all happened, and like to be fair, he does. 80 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.480 He tells them, but he does like edit or just 81 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.199 generally sort of there are some things that he use 82 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.759 out because they are distressing which I think is fine. 83 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.800 You know, there are going to be times where a 84 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.360 thing is edited in such a way that I'm like, 85 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.680 you are simply courting disaster, and that is going to 86 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.480 come back and bite you, and you idiot. But this 87 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.199 was a time where I'm like, I don't think the 88 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.720 edits he makes are affecting anything. I think it's fine, 89 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.759 And I really appreciated the fact that he is pretty 90 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:29.680 much as forthright as possible here it is. You know, 91 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.120 this is not a stage in which I want you 92 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:37.160 keeping further secrets to a degree that's unavoidable. Don't mention 93 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.399 the fucking anarchistic cookbook, obviously, but you know what I'm saying. Everybody, 94 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.639 I think has earned being told the truth about what's 95 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:51.360 going on. And I love the fact that like he's 96 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:54.480 flipping out while everybody else is sort of what happened, 97 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.720 and Imani is the one that registers that his fucking 98 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:03.240 heart rate is really elevated and something is obviously wrong. 99 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.680 Let's see, oh right, And then a tiny fairy appears. 100 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.160 This turns out to be a creature from one of 101 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.839 her cards that's been made a permanent like companion because 102 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.800 of the weird effects of one of the effects of 103 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:25.720 the god becoming a permanent thing that Karl causes to happen. 104 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.399 So there's a moment where Imani is like, this is 105 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.200 because of Carl, and I was immediately like what how 106 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.840 so and then it's explained and it is very literally 107 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:43.759 because and I was like, oh God, damn, Okay, I 108 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:47.399 realized the eye on my chest was still open and 109 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.200 I had to make a conscious effort to close it. 110 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.679 And that part really creeps me out. Guys, I have 111 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:01.799 found it all too easy to put her out of 112 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.879 my head, and I've you know, obviously pun intended, lol, 113 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.200 but you get what I'm saying, Like, I have really 114 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.440 made myself not think about her, and it has worked 115 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:19.919 a little too well. And the reminder that she's here 116 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:24.639 and is like not exactly entirely under his control really 117 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:32.279 fucking irks me. Don't like it. So this guy jacobus 118 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:40.200 reverse tooth fairy, so apparently he like is he doesn't 119 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:45.639 buy loose teeth from children. He does the opposite, which 120 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.080 we don't get real specific here, but my assumption is 121 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:54.519 because like if we're doing the exact opposite, he sells 122 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:01.159 firm teeth in two children, you know, like if we're 123 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:06.120 doing the Elaine benis reacting to Bizarro Superman in Seinfeld 124 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:09.799 kind of situation. But my assumption is that it will 125 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.879 cause this guy will cause teeth to appear in your 126 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:20.440 mouth that weren't there, I assume, but I may be off. 127 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.080 We don't get a lot of detail here, possibly because 128 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:25.399 we're going to have the horror of this revealed at 129 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:35.559 some point, possibly obviously, and let's see, Oh, Ellie fucking hell, 130 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.919 Carl hanging out with you is as dangerous as hanging 131 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.759 out with Samantha. Also, I don't trust that mercenary you hired. 132 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.080 You can't trust fire fairies. So this turns out to 133 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.639 be like a weird thing like Doughnut gets with certain 134 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.679 you know, breeds of cat. But this bitch, you know, 135 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:59.159 I had been really worried about her maybe reacting poorly 136 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.759 to Carl's lack of commitment regarding embras. And it goes 137 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.080 in a really different direction because they decide to allow 138 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.679 the mercenaries to join them when they go see a Kuma, 139 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:17.919 which I really just don't have like a strong opinion 140 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.559 on whether or not that was a good idea or not. 141 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.639 I feel like I wouldn't have expected it to have 142 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.360 the effect that it has. But I also don't really 143 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.559 know why they needed to be there, other than we're 144 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:36.720 simply bringing everybody I don't know. So they go to 145 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.759 chicken and waffles and upgrades as planned, and there is 146 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.799 an imp in the front. Her name was Darla Dene. 147 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.200 I'll get a big table together, but it's going to 148 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.639 take a minute. I'll get you some menus. How many 149 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.360 kitty menus do we need? She looked at Dona and 150 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:57.240 popped her gum, And everybody is asking for various menus. 151 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.919 Of course, Prepotende is going to Nita Soda. Samantha is 152 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.919 here and that is new. She wasn't here just a 153 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:10.200 second ago. I want you to know that Finley attempted 154 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.960 to seduce me, and I was enticed, but I resisted 155 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.720 his lurid advances. Still, if you kill him in a 156 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.639 jealous rage, I would think it was really hot. Which 157 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.879 I love you so much, Samantha. I just love her, 158 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.279 I really do. Ooh, Gene's hear that, thunder God damn, 159 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.799 better bring the dogs inside. Husband, hopefully he heard that. 160 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:39.360 Don't worry. The badger said, I already got her figured out, 161 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:48.279 and I'm like, do you do you, because I just 162 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.519 think nobody does. And I think that's a wild claim 163 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:59.679 to make. That's all I'm saying. That feels optimistic. But whatever, 164 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:04.759 we'll leave that alone. So this is when he says, 165 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.559 we're not looking for a table. We want to see 166 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.919 the top shelf upgrades. Just push the music machine, don't 167 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:11.919 push too hard. We just open and we don't need 168 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:19.559 it scratched. And there's a mention here about the fact 169 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.639 that the milkshakes are listed as giving a five percent 170 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:29.080 buff to reaction time, which I'm really I'm wondering whether 171 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.480 or not this is true, Like is it as simple 172 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:34.960 as they will label it for you? In some places, 173 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.879 it almost feels like a trick, you know, I don't 174 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:44.919 know anyway. There is a drink later as well, where 175 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.679 I think it's tep It is like telling Carl, hey, 176 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.039 I vetted this one, and I was like, but can 177 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.600 we be sure they're always the same? Like I just 178 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:03.320 got really, really paranoid about all of this. Corpse of 179 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.960 hickster level twenty five upgrade imp, a dead imp with 180 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.480 his eyes burned out. The little thing smoldered like he'd 181 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.600 just been killed. And he's got a note for Karl 182 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.120 in his pocket. You were supposed to come alone. You 183 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.399 more on. This isn't a tea party. A Kuma really 184 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.759 is throwing his weight around here in a way that 185 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.559 is going to be quickly revealed to be a mistake. 186 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:38.879 So they go in and he is just He says, 187 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.320 by the shitting gods, how are you still alive? You're 188 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:48.879 a fucking idiot. Carl Dona casts mute, and Ellie shoots 189 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:55.759 an ice bolt and shatters one of his testicles. I 190 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.639 didn't even think about the fact that she was going 191 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.759 to be holding quite a grudge at the fact that 192 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.960 he stole the gay of the Farh Gods from her. 193 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.679 I should have, but I didn't, And she really is 194 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.120 holding on to this fucking grudge like I am not 195 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:18.600 mad at it, for the record, but damn so they 196 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:23.440 have to. They put him in an anti magic shield, which, 197 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:28.080 because he is like basically made of magic empowered by magic, 198 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:32.120 causes his health to his health bar appears and begins 199 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:35.159 to slowly lower over the duration of this conversation, to 200 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.440 the point where if they were to leave it up 201 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.639 long enough, he could just die from the shield itself, 202 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.759 which is a real bummer for him. That's a pretty 203 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.320 intense weakness. Actually, I was kind of thinking that these 204 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.720 were meges, like how can we possibly cope with these guys? 205 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:59.919 But that's a like, yeah, anyway, one time, I'm on, 206 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.320 said Ingrid Schmidt, who was the resident in the room 207 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.240 next to hers, tried to cheat at Bingo and Ellie 208 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.399 found out. She wheeled up to Ingrid and whispered something, 209 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.879 and Ingrid started crying and refused to come out of 210 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.759 her room for a week. The woman never played Bingo again. 211 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:14.519 I still don't know what Ellie said to her. I 212 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.320 asked the other day and she just laughed, which I 213 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.720 am dying to know what the fuck that was. But uh, bonkers. 214 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:28.480 So here's a Kuma yelling I will fucking kill you all, which, Akuma, 215 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.480 I hate to tell you this, but when you have 216 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.120 just had a testicle shattered, continuing threats is probably not 217 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.240 the vibe that you want to continue on with. It 218 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.279 just seems like it's a very short sighted method of 219 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:44.039 communication at this point with people that you should realize 220 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.840 by now did not come here to play. So do 221 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.120 you want them to play? Because they fucking can And 222 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.639 that would be obviously no problem to anybody, But there 223 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:59.480 it is, and Okuma says, we're trying to help you idiots, 224 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:04.119 We're on the s same side, which is hilarious considering 225 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.720 that it takes him forever to just answer the question 226 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.400 why did you tell me to kill two teams? And 227 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.160 the reason that it takes so long for him to 228 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:17.039 answer it is because it was going to force Carl 229 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.400 into an impossible position where he would have no choice 230 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.559 but to help the warm ages. So the answer sucks 231 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.240 and makes you look like shit, and you trying to 232 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.480 be like we're on the same team is actually kind 233 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:32.200 of bullshit, like you are in a very general sense, 234 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:40.480 but not really, not really. You crawlers weren't supposed to 235 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.160 surviving these numbers to this floor. The AI had to 236 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:47.000 compensate by drawing from deep reserves on the last floor, 237 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.079 where they made the floor even bigger. They plumbed some 238 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.279 of the mobs from the first and second floors, but 239 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.640 those are different and it didn't work right. So now 240 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.039 some of these NPC teams and all the NPCs for 241 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.240 the mercenary guilds are getting pulled from emergency backup because 242 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:01.960 your numbers are too great and when you broke the 243 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.440 seventh floor required them to quickly populate the map on 244 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.119 the eighth in a way that further depleted the reserves. 245 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.559 A former crawler taught me all about this. A skink. 246 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.799 They're trapped in the cabaret. When he says trapped, as 247 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.440 we find out, that's like by design. At first, it 248 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.240 makes it sound like they aren't being allowed to leave 249 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.920 from an external force, which like techn you know what 250 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.880 I'm saying. They put that in place. They know how 251 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:32.039 this works better than anybody, better even than the AI itself, 252 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:37.559 I think. And let's say I'm trying to find this 253 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:44.480 bit Npcason. Mobs especially aren't supposed to be used for 254 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.559 more than a few seasons. That skink he has this 255 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.839 process he calls the worn path, and it helps us 256 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.039 realize what we really are. Mobs are supposed to get 257 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.559 recycled once they've been used a few times to prevent 258 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.319 that from happening, but it's expensive and their records are spotty, 259 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.599 and as a result, these mobs and NPCs are used 260 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:06.680 over and over. They do audits occasionally, but so many 261 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.400 get missed. But Harrot, that's the skink. They figured this 262 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:14.200 out and found a way to exploit it, which harrot instantly. 263 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:17.240 I'm just like, oh shit, and Carl has pretty much 264 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.559 the same reaction. I do the fact that it's like, oh, 265 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:23.880 you're supposed to recycle these, but it costs a lot. 266 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:30.240 This is so very on brand in general, in any universe. 267 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:36.039 I swear to God, this shit is so fucking frustrating. 268 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:41.839 The dungeon is full of mobs who know their own nature. 269 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:46.599 Everything is broken, it's all accelerating. Even if the AI 270 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.599 hadn't already gone primal. The awakened NPCs are like a 271 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:54.400 disease to the integrity of the crawl. Nothing inside will 272 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.200 be allowed to survive past the season, no matter what happens. 273 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.519 Even if the outworlders somehow gained back control, are well 274 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.920 past the point of no return. That means everyone and 275 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.079 everything in the dungeon, all that work of generations will 276 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:10.079 be bind. But these two former crawlers, Hara and Minerva, 277 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.279 their exploit is a way for us, the NPCs, to survive. 278 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:18.559 But you crawlers can use it too. A dungeon is modular. 279 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:25.200 There are thousands of pieces that come together. There's what 280 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:30.039 they call framework, which includes all the mobs locations at 281 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.920 some of the indentured workers. Excuse me, it's the third 282 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.720 to last thing that gets installed, and it's the one 283 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.440 physical part that's reused every season to make the dungeon. 284 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.640 It's like a crawler's inventory, but a huge one, and 285 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.480 it is a physical object. It is moved from planet 286 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:49.640 to planet. The showrunners feed their plans into the framework 287 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:53.960 with software, and the MACROAI is installed, and I suddenly 288 00:20:53.960 --> 00:21:01.039 wake up thinking I'm a palace guard, pet groomer. And 289 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.440 many seasons ago, two indentured former crawlers approached the current 290 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:09.640 season's showrunner and asked for permission to be in charge 291 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:13.480 of building the seventeenth floor. Nobody ever makes it to 292 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.200 the seventeenth floor, but the showrunners are required to have 293 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.599 plans in place. It would be a way to help 294 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.440 automatically dispose of awakened NPCs, and it would fulfill the 295 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.119 requirement to have a floor ready to go. The showrunner agreed, 296 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.400 and they were given access to create the floor. The 297 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.279 seventeenth floor is a small floor where crawlers must face 298 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:39.880 greatly enhanced mobs from earlier floors, a hand built maize 299 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.400 filled with traps that culminate in a floor boss that's 300 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:47.359 all but impossible to kill. The showrunner who approved this 301 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.200 project was murdered soon after it was approved, and the 302 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.440 two former Crawlers who were put in charge were forgotten. 303 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:01.920 My my mind, they're still there exist. Outside any supervision 304 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.599 running construction. Showrunners always just reuse the plans from previous 305 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:09.519 seasons for everything above the thirteenth floor. Nobody looks at it. 306 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.319 The showrunner who originally approved never transferred their paperwork. They 307 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:17.519 aren't accumulating hours against their indentureship. They are all but invisible, 308 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.319 and they were trapped by design. They didn't want to 309 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:27.200 be seen. They weren't just building the seventeenth floor attached 310 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:31.799 is the only entrance to a pocket dimension they built. 311 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.599 They were building an oasis for mobs and NPCs to 312 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:40.200 escape to. The two Crawlers sacrifice the possibility of ever 313 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:43.279 getting out to make a place where NPCs and mobs 314 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:47.519 could permanently escape the horrors of the dungeon that is 315 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:52.680 the Pineapple Cabaret. And Carl is like, okay, so they're 316 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:54.319 doing all of this and making all this effort to 317 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:58.240 stay invisible, and you just fucking told everybody about it, 318 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:01.079 and he's like, well, yeah, yeah, that nothing is broken. 319 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:04.880 So now everybody already knows if they want the crawl 320 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.200 to keep running, They're gonna need to start from scratch, 321 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:09.680 and all the NPCs that currently exist are going to 322 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:12.519 have to be destroyed. They don't have a choice in 323 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.720 that the AI can feed itself. I don't think it's 324 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.200 going anywhere. We might be able to create an exit. 325 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:23.240 We might, but there's a problem, a lot of problems. Really. 326 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.799 The Cabaret is similar to the Nothing. It's not a floor, 327 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.640 it's a separate dimension, and the rules do allow crawlers 328 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:31.640 to travel to it, but as of right now, they 329 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:33.480 don't have a way in or out except via the 330 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:36.839 seventeenth floor. But if we can build another door, any 331 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:39.559 crawler who is within when the floor collapses will be 332 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:44.480 deemed lost, but they won't be killed. Wait, if someone 333 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.519 gets pulled into the Nothing, they don't die when the 334 00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:50.839 floor collapses. No crawler could survive the Nothing. That's irrelevant. 335 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.880 The Nothing was broken on the last floor. But this 336 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:55.519 dimension is the same sort of thing. I was there 337 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:59.839 at the Pineapple Cabaret. We deliberately left returned to cold 338 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:02.759 storage when we realized what was happening and got brought 339 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:06.720 to Faction Wars. We needed to find the Scavenger's daughter. 340 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:10.599 It's how we keep the Denisen safe escape to the 341 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.279 planet's surface. She's crucial, as is her father. But for now, 342 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:17.400 we need a way to get ourselves back to the cabaret. 343 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.480 And when we go, we can take some crawlers with us, 344 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:24.720 but only if they meet the requirements. I glanced at Samantha, 345 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.559 who perked up at the mention of the word scavenger, 346 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:31.920 which I'm wondering if she is the daughter or if 347 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:38.160 I don't. I just genuinely don't know. Is her child 348 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:40.599 the daughter. She said that her child is dead and 349 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:44.359 that she felt it, but maybe she's wrong. We're She's 350 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.079 not super reliable. There are some things I just want 351 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:48.599 to believe her, and I kind of think she was 352 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:54.519 telling the truth about that, but I don't know. And 353 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.400 this is when Florin is like about to shoot a 354 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:01.359 Kuma is like, I told you wo'd kill you if 355 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:05.039 you lied, and you did, and he's like, out about what? 356 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:07.400 And he says, you let faction wars on your own. 357 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:09.680 You can step in and out of floors as you please. 358 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:12.119 That's how you got here. Sounds like you can get 359 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:17.240 back there just fine. You're right, but that wasn't a lie. 360 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:22.160 We need you and crawlers can't skip floors. You need 361 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:27.240 us Why it was fine until we left. We needed 362 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.960 to get We needed to leave to get to the 363 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:31.279 Scavenger's daughter, and the moment we left, they moved in. 364 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.279 Now we have to need to fight to get it back. 365 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:36.440 And lots of us were killed in Faction Wars. There's 366 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.920 only five of us left. It's not enough. The dimension 367 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:45.119 is infested forgotten monsters, shadow mimics who were almost impossible 368 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.440 to root out, remnants of things. We don't want to 369 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.799 wake things Agatha can and will wake the moment she 370 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:54.880 learns they exist. We left for just a few days 371 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:57.559 and our protection spells got canceled out and all hell 372 00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.640 broke loose, and now we can't get back without a 373 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.799 fighting force. Using you wasn't my first choice. Our original 374 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.559 plan was to build more mages during Faction Wars, but 375 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:09.319 you ruin that. And our second plan was to use 376 00:26:09.319 --> 00:26:12.039 an old Ally and the Nothing, and you ruin that too, 377 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.880 So you're the third choice. I'm really curious who the 378 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:21.559 Old Ally and the Nothing is. We have two possibilities 379 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:23.799 to get there now that the Gate of the pharaoh 380 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:27.799 Gods has gone and broken. The casinos are one way 381 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:30.720 if that doesn't work, something involving your shop interface. That 382 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:35.119 was Harrot's idea. The requirements are, you can't worship a god. 383 00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:40.440 You entering the area will instigate a smite. Not certain why, 384 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:46.039 and obviously this rules out a lot of people. So 385 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.240 what this sounds like to me is we have to 386 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:53.680 kill all the gods or else nobody is going to 387 00:26:53.920 --> 00:27:00.400 you know, Sorry, I just saw in the chin At 388 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.160 that shows how wildly powerful the gang is now to 389 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:08.119 easily smack a war Mage around, says Cordelia. Right, Michael 390 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:10.359 says from the last book, the war Mages grabbed her 391 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:13.640 daughter and bounced. Presumably Samantha interpreted her no longer being 392 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:16.279 able to feel her daughter on the floor as her 393 00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:22.599 daughter dying. Okay, I forgot that they had her right, right, right. 394 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.599 So he says something about we don't want the gods 395 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.440 to know. Carl's like, well Eris knows, and He's like, yeah, 396 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.000 she doesn't count because she always knows fucking everything. And 397 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.000 then here's the part where he admits that the killing 398 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:43.720 two teams was purely for self interest. Then we jumped 399 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:48.680 to thirty nine. Entering the Lollipop, we'd remuted a Kuma 400 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:51.759 and left him with about two percent health. I hadn't 401 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.519