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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 twenty through twenty four. In these chapters, everything is

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just really going left so quick, and it seems like

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my conclusion that I came to last time, which was

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that Carl is really, in many ways still in the

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same position he ever was, seems to be the conclusion

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Carl comes to eventually. Also, sorry about it, Bud. Welcome

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to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.

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Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.

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Michael is here in the chat with me. Hi, Michael.

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After this, I'm going to be doing the first chapters

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of the Curse of Chaalion. I think it's how you

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say It, which Michael also commissioned, which is by Lewis

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McMaster Bougold, who is a fantastic writer. So yeah, letting

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you guys know, there's a whole new thing starting, y'all.

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This is I know that I've said this a few times,

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but I think I'm just going to reiterate it every

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episode to just keep it in mind for you all.

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This is the most anxious I've been reading one of

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these books, and I'm really I'm not sure where that

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is coming from. I theorized before that it's because it's

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about racing, which is just something I'm automatically bad at,

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and I think that's definitely part of it. But there's

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you know, and there's the insidiousness of the rule set,

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which is something that Carl gets into in these chapters

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as well. I think maybe a part of it is

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also knowing that I'm going to be catching up and

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this is like the last book that's currently available, and

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so I am aware that anything that is left undealt

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with by the end of this book, I'm not getting

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any resolution or closure on for a while. So I

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think that's also factoring in. And there's this element as

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well of lean Na being out here doing whatever and

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potentially still having like a hell of a grudge against

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Carl and Donut that I think also is making me

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flip out, like I wouldn't be at all surprised if

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she were aware other crawlers were taking the slots of

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NPCs that she takes out because she wants to face

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off against the two of them, you know, And it's

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really It's really difficult because like, on a certain level,

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I can't even be mad at her for that. I

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can't help but get how there would be a part

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of you that would be so fed up with these two.

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You know, I don't believe that they are actually to blame,

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but when you're in this sort of situation where the

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people who are to blame are so utterly out of reach,

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you've got to find somebody, you know. And it's like

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something that I have been thinking about, and I talked

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about this early early on in the series, and it

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hasn't really come up that much again, but I have

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been thinking about it while I've been reading, I just

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haven't brought it up on the show. I am surprised

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that we haven't run into more people who are resentful

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of Carl and Donut for their popularity and the way

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in which that provides them not at all necessarily a

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measure of protection, because as we have seen, Carl's getting

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targeted more than anybody by people outside of the Dungeon

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trying to break rules. So it's not that, but more

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that they are being given a lot of advantages because

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of you know, the loop boxes and the the what

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do you call it fan boxes and all of that stuff,

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and lean, nah, I wonder if that's been at all

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a thing for her. You know, I don't know. I

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just don't have a great I don't have a great

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grasp of her personality. I can say that I knew

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from the beginning that she was terrifying and didn't have

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the same aversion to human suffering that I would like

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to see in a person, and I can know that,

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but that doesn't really like help me understand her personal code,

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which is a different beast entirely. So I'm wondering if

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we're going to get to find out more about that,

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or if we're going to mostly like just have her

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as a bit of an adversary, or maybe she won't

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even be an adversary. And I'm just like not really

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giving her enough credit because I've been very paranoid about

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a few different crawlers, and I've been wrong. You know.

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I was all worried that Carlin Donut going to see

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Miriam when she had turned to a vampire was like

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a setup. I was very worried when Prepotentie was out

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there on his own that he was like intending to

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kill the two of them, and from the way he

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eventually talked to carl I wasn't entirely wrong about that.

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I was very suspicious of Batista, and again not entirely

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wrong because Batista almost did the thing. But if anybody

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is going to be the first time, I'm right, I

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would think it would be Lenah. And so yeah, there's

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a lot of different elements combining to just make this

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an anxiety smoothie. And it's been a weird experience listening

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when I feel this way, because normally I can sort

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of let go and enjoy the ride, and I find

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myself being less able to do that in this book.

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And I don't know if that was the writer's intention

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or no. Like I would love to talk to him

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at Dinneman and be like, hey, so did you mean

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for me to be like low key panicking the whole time?

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Is that on purpose? Or you know? Michael says, if

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you've ever played Mario Kart, that might explain your fear

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of racing. Nothing like being comfortably in the lead and

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then getting hit by six different things in a row

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and losing to traumatize you. Actually, this is something that

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Marshall and I were talking about. Mario Kart isn't too

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bad because you can't go that fast. It's like other

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racing games have been much worse. I don't really enjoy

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Mario Kart that much either, but it doesn't cause me

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to just like basically blue screen the way that many

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other racing games do, where I'm just whipping the steering

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wheel all over the place and I'm all over the

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road and whatever. Michael says he did think about it.

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He did think about what. Sorry, I didn't look over

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in time r E Pony. Yeah, that's what I said.

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I said that, like I, you know, based on what

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he says to Carl later, I wasn't entirely wrong about that,

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And I wasn't entirely wrong about being suspicious of Batista either, So,

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you know, but I don't feel like Carl. I think

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had his eye on Batista a little bit, but there

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was never the kind of suspicion in Carl that I

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was feeling. And something that I've come to notice is

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that it's not that Carl isn't suspicious, he's not oblivious.

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It's just that he doesn't have time to deal with

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what ifs, and he is going to be giving the

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benefit of the doubt to fellow crawlers above everything else.

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Like in his mind, it is a very firm us

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versus them and anybody who is a crawler he is

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going to treat like a friend until proven otherwise, which

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honestly is the way to live. Like, I think that's

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a winning strategy. But I can sit back as a

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reader and just like the Ariz and get myself worked up,

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you know. So Chapter nineteen ends with him saying, oh,

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for fuck's sake, as they get a look at the boss.

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And I kind of thought that this boss was going

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to be more of a reference to something that was

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like in a racing game that I knew of, and

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it very well maybe a reference, and I just I

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don't have I'm not familiar, you know. But there are

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two They are like kind of these weird giant kangaroos

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and they are level one seventy. Well, I think, like

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is just the one one seventy prison pocket and his

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companion on the other side of the road. They are

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both male, and they are quite sad and as they

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weren't able to save their young ones from this never

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ending storm. So yeah, one seventy is insane. We find

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out a little bit later that most people did not

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face a boss of this level, that there are a

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variety you're going to run into, and when it comes

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to the odds, you're more likely to face somebody a

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lot lower, and they just happen to He's like the

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equivalent of a province boss from what I'm understanding. So, uh,

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bad la to y'all. So it's very funny this section

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in light of the fact that something that I was

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like really enjoying as a concept kind of gets thrown

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in my face when we started this whole thing, and

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it begins to be clear that, like, the more NPCs

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that die, the more likely you are to be racing

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against fellow crawlers. Initially I was like, oh cool, we

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have assistant in place in which it benefits us to

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help everyone, right, And I still like that. I'm not

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like changing my mind. I'm not backing down on that.

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But what winds up happening is a concern because these

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npses are not worried in the way that Carl and

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Donut are about racing against fellow NPCs. That's apparently a

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non issue for them, So they do not feel the

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obligation that Carlin Donut feel, which means Carl and Donut

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are going to be putting themselves out there to work

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together and try and get something done, and all of

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the other teams are going to be completely prepared to

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take full advantage of that and abandon the two of

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them utterly, which you know, this is this is exactly

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a thing that is real. I understand. It's like, you know,

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I've talked a lot about how the only way to

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become a millionaire or a billionaire I'm going to say billionaire. Really,

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I think millionaire in the upper echelons is also like

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counts for this. But nowadays, with the way money works,

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millionaire isn't as out of reach as it once was.

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But I don't think you can get to that point

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without being a bad person. I think that you have

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to be willing to compromise your ethics and be willing

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to exploit people to reach that level of wealth and

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to hoard it continually. And I think that, like, there

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is the danger of people who care doing something like

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what Carl and Donut do in these chapters and getting

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screwed from it. The thing is, if they were to

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be screwed and they did come in last, would that

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fucking suck? Yeah? I don't want my friends to die, obviously,

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but I also don't want my friends to become the

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kind of people that aren't going to help. Does that

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make sense? Like, just as you get older, you really

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start to take into account that, like, looking back on

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your life, there are times where you knew you weren't

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doing the right thing, and you did that bad thing anyway,

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and when you're younger, you kind of just feel like, yolo,

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I can fix it later whatever. And you know, as

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you get older you begin to see, like how the

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consequences that extrapolate from that affected other parts of your life,

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and you can see that ultimately you hurt yourself too

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by doing that thing when you knew better and due

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to having this life experience and a little bit more

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understanding of the fact that undoing wrongs isn't as easy

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as you think it is in the moment. This comes

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with this feeling of constant what am I willing to

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die with on my conscience? Like I could do this

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thing that I know will protect me and my friends

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at the expense of others, And am I willing like, well,

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I be able to sleep at night if I wound

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up on my deathbed in a few days would I

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just be looking at this moment where I made this

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choice and regretting it. You know. So there are times

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where I think it is better to risk yourself just

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because you know if you don't, you won't be able

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to live with yourself. I'm not saying it's worth dying

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for exactly. I feel like that's kind of what it

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seems like it boils down to, ultimately, So maybe you

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could say that and it would be fair, but it's

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just more what can you live with? What can how

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can you sleep at night? What are you going to

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be okay with? And when you frame things this way,

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it is just pretty easy when you don't know what

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to do. When it's a moral quandary, obviously, it becomes

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a lot easier to see, like where we want to

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stand on a particular action. And I don't want Carl

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and Donut to become so cynical that they lose this

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part of themselves that is geared toward helping everybody, like

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their fellow crawlers, also having compassion for NPCs. But it's

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not like Carl is willing to sacrifice a crawler for

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an NPC. I think he recognizes the NPCs don't want

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to be here any more than them that they have

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been abused as well, But like, ultimately he's still very

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much like Crawlers. First, I am not really mad at

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him for that, but you know what I'm saying, Like,

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there's just there's a quality to them that I would

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rather watch them stay true to who they are and

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their dedication to their friends, then watch them start to

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really compromise until they are different people. And that's a

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really easy thing to say from the outside, it really is.

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I recognize this, and I'm not trying to pretend that

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I would be able to uphold the right thing in

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the face of death, Like I really don't think I would,

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genuinely don't think so. But I think that would fuck

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me up, and I think it would fuck Carl and

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Donut up too in a way that like she's already

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feeling such trauma overkilling these thousands of NPCs and fighters

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from outside the dungeon as well these mercenaries, Like if

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they were to do something that was like I just

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don't know how either of them, it would fuck them up.

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It just would. So Michael says it's one of those

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things to steal a line from one of my favorite

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animes paraphrased, if we are a society that sacrifices children,

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then we aren't a society that should exist. Yeah, Like,

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there are just certain lines in the sand where I

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think that, okay, maybe it's worth right here drawing a

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boundary and being like, you know what, No, I'm not

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going to do that, And like I said, I don't.

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This is not an easy thing. And it's also the

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reality is a lot of people get screwed because of

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the fact that they want to help other people and

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they care about other people, and that doesn't change the

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fact like getting screwed, a lot of folks will take

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it as evidence that they should have done the other thing,

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rather than taking it as evidence that we have built

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a world and a system that does not reward kindness,

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which is a much greater indictment. And just because you

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get screwed in the end doesn't mean the right thing

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to do wasn't the right thing to do. The result

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does not change the original answer to that question. The

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result is entirely out of your hands. The result has

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nothing to do with you. Only what you choose to

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do has something to do with you, which is part

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of like, you know, giving money to people on the street,

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and a lot of folks be like, oh, they'll just

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spend it on. So there's somebody who's very much in need,

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who has a lot less than you, and they want

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some money, and you give it to them because you

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have it and they need it and they have nothing,

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and what they do with it is not your fucking business.

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It's not your problem. But are you the kind of

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person that is going to help somebody out even with

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just a few bucks? Are you that kind of you know, like, oh, no,

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they're just gonna drink it, Okay, they get to do

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with it, Like I might too. I'm on the fucking street. Yeah,

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I might go get fucking plastered myself. Why wouldn't i?

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So AnyWho, I'm sorry, I just really soapbox there for

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like ten straight minutes. But the thing that's really weird

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in this section also is that we've got Nico and

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Penelope and he's telling Donah to stay away from his girl,

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like Donah is interested in Penelope. And I'm really curious,

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like where this is coming from, because I don't like

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the only thing there's two there's two things I could

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think of that's going on here. He and his Uh, boyfriend,

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is that technically true? You know, they're both tigrin and

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Donuts a cat. So maybe he thinks that like Penelope

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goes for a type, you know, that she's a feenline

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is gonna be like something. Or maybe he can sense

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that Donut has this incredible charisma level and that she

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might like charm Penelope. But I don't know. Those are

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just pure guesses. And uh yeah, he just keeps being like,

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just stay away from my girl and we won't have

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any trouble, which is just wild and let's see. Uh

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all right, that's it. Mercenary Torn said by the gods.

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He had a deep, deep voice. We need a plan.

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I might be able to knock it off its feet

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with my hammer, but I am not certain, not sure

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I want to risk getting that close. What do you think?

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So the deal with these uh, with these kangaroos is

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that they will pick you up and put you in

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a pouch that's essentially full of acid. And Carl asks

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Donut to look and see what all is in the

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pouches because she has that, you know, ability to size up,

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and she does, and all she can see are like

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the skins of the Joey's in there, which immediately Carl thinks,

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and there it was, And I'm just such a dumb

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dumb y'all. Like there are times in video games where

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somebody explains to you, like a you know, an NPC

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is like, oh, such and such didn't so and so

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tell you about this at the other village, you know,

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like they will take you by the hand and lead

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you through the two plus two equals four in order

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for you to get the next mission in a way

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that can be a little bit insulting because you're just like,

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I fuck, I just did that. I know, but the

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game doesn't know how long it's been since you last

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picked your controller up. You know, they don't know what

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you remember. And this is one of those moments where

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I feel like, if I were in a game and

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I saw that only the Joey skins were left, there

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better be somebody there to fucking explain this to me,

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like I'm five, because I was not getting when he

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said and there it was. I was like, what was?

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What is? What? What do you mean? And even later

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once he's like putting it on, I'm still kind of

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going what And then finally I fucking you know, I

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was able to do the math, but it took me

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way too long. It was embarrassing. This is also when

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we chat with Pontiff and Donut mentions that Bucket Boy

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says you slapped him, and he says, oh, yeah, I

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used to be an ass. If I don't get a chance,

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tell him. I said, stop talking to her. Nico snapped

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at the mercenary. You kill her if she takes one

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step toward Penelope. That's an order. Yeah, this is wild.

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I don't know what is going to happen here. This

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whole thing is a mess. We'll get there eventually, Michael says,

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again to quote one of my favorite shows, Sports Night.

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I'm hoping they're going to spend it on booze. Look

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down these people. It's not like they're one hot meal

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away from turning it around. For most of them, the

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clocks pretty much run out. You'll be home sooner. Know

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if it's wrong with giving them a little nova cane

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to get them through the night. Yeah, agreed. Plus the

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prevalence of yellow paint everywhere in video games nowadays to

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make absolutely certain you know where to go, which I

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actually appreciate. I don't have infinite time. I haven't encountered

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yellow paint, like specifically, Michael, but I know exactly what

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you're talking about, and yeah, it's you know, there's some

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games where like just wandering around is part of the fun,

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but I don't play often enough to feel confident in

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doing something like that. You gotta give me an objective here,

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you know. So I'm going to kind of like I'm

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gonna kind of speed through this because i just want

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to talk about Carl putting on the Joey skin. You guys. Yeah,

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when when I noticed, I'll say that when the NPC

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says this is a timed costume, I was like, Okay,

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you should really ask what that, you know. And here's

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the thing is, even if he did ask, he'd still

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do it. You can't win this, I don't think without

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putting this on. I feel like it was a kind

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of an unavoidable thing. So even if he were to

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like noahhead, oh well, it's not likely to change. But

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I just want it noted that my antenna were up immediately.

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And as he's putting it on and describing how gross

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it is and how he can't move in the ordinary

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way and how much it stinks, I was just kept

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thinking like, oh my god, what's the timing, Like how

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long does he have to keep it on? And it

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turns out to be twelve hours, which is just so

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much longer than I thought. I thought it would maybe

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be like eight you know, it was like kind of

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I'm going it may like up to eight hours, or

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if the AI is like a shit, does he have

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to stay in this thing for the rest of the floor.

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You know, I was going from one extreme to the other.

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Twelve hours, it could be worse, but it's just such

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a long time, really ugh. And later on there's like

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going to be this interview moment and they want to

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interview him because he is stuck in this thing. So yeah,

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I am really curious if the person who's interviewing him

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is going to get the full sensory experience, because apparently

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this really does suck terribly, like it stinks. So he

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also summons a bunch of emergency gremlins and they he

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kind of like comforts himself with the fact that when

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they are summoned and they complete whatever it is they're

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meant to fix, they are going to explode anyway and disappear,

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So using them as bait or distraction isn't really that

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much worse than what they are going to be used

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for anyway, I won't lie. It did make me feel

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a little bit better when he explained that, like I

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understood him doing this anyway. I wasn't feeling like, how

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could you, you know, But when that detail was brought up,

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I was like, oh, yeah, all right, well that's that's fair.

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But I still do kind of hate this, I really

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kind of do. So let's see, I'm sorry. There's just

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the way that these guys are picking things up, and

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the audiobook narrator is doing this really over the top

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Australian accent, which, like fluorin, is already a little bit

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over the top, but not too much. Okay, let's just

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be real. I'm American, and like Australian accents in general

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feel over the top to me, I guess, like or

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even just regular actual ones, So maybe I'm not such

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a great judge of that anyway. Carl also uses run

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Littlegon to run and this plan like does go quite well,

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but one of the lady uh mantors thwarts him because

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he wanted to get a hold of this engineer that

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was in the pocket. And it's evident like there are

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only two more on this heat or they're only too

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total on the heat and this is the second one.

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The first one is dead, so neither of them gets

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claimed and Carl is like, that wasn't the plan, and

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She's like, well, my plan is to win and not

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to help you guys. Get the engineer, the only one

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that's left. So yeah, so she makes sure that motherfucker

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is dead, which is certainly understandable, but uh, I just

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I don't know, man, how do you get all these

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NPCs to give a fuck what happens to each other?

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It just seems like they all fucking hate one another.

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I think like the best way to handle something like

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this is to give everybody a common enemy, but they

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already technically should have a common enemy, which is like

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the game itself and the people who run it and

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have created it. I won't even say the AI, because

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the AI doesn't want to be here either, you know

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what I'm saying. I certainly think the AI is low

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key a monster, but it seems like it's sort of

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in reflection and about that it's not actually a monster

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so much as just trying to figure out like what

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am I? Like? What is going on with me? And

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so I am putting the AI firmly in the camp

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of being like eleven years old, which is the most

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like I feel like, I want to say, that's the

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age range where people are the most monstrous. It's right

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in there where you're starting to understand like hierarchies in

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society and popularity and how important they are, but you're

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not really understanding how to like move within those, so

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it results in like middle school being the most vicious

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of times, and I feel like the AI is sort

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of in that like mode right now anyway. Oh sorry, guys,

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my dog. Uh. Also, I should mention like, when he

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puts the Joey on, it says I'd fuck me, I'd

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fuck me so hard, mate? What the fuck is that?

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It's italicized as if it's like the AI saying this

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to him. But I can't tell if it's supposed to

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be that or if it's supposed to be like just

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part of the description. But it's like a child. A

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Joey is like a child, So I don't I don't

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understand it. Protection from Sleeping Acid a level ten jump

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skill plus five to the Lotion Application skill, which I

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feel like there's gotta be something there that I'm missing. Uh,

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and then yeah, this is a twelve hour timed item. Oh,

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I forgot. He actually says it's twelve hours. I forgot.

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He says it. Oh, he gives him the number right

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up front. Like I said, it doesn't matter. But and

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this winds up negating his boxers and his pedicure effects,

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which are pretty significant. So if I like that, I

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wish had been made a little bit more clear. I

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should have realized, probably, But it's just, you know, I'm

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not thinking about that. Boxers are underwear, so I think

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I would have just assumed that they could go under

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whatever costume, you know. But I think maybe the boxers

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came with the requirement that he can't wear anything over

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them for them to function, so that was something we

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were aware of. The feet being covered, I guess also

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that was mentioned, So yeah, I just didn't even think

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of it. So he turns to just run toward the

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boss in the normal way that he would run as

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a person, and the AI is like, oh, sorry, you

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gotta hop like a kangaroo if you want to be

474
00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:14,480
a little kangaroo right now, which means that Carl is

475
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,239
gonna have to hop for the remainder of this twelve hours,

476
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:24,039
which is fucking agonizing. It just sucks so bad, so

477
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:29,079
uh sorry. He gets picked up. I choked and my

478
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,639
face started to burn. He gets put into the pocket.

479
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,920
Luckily the costume came with claws and I started to

480
00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:39,440
pull myself downward. And it stinks really bad. He's trying

481
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:47,599
not to gag. He's grabbing at the creature from inside

482
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,960
the pocket, which the creature takes is him trying to

483
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:54,679
nurse even though he's male, and is like, don't you

484
00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:56,960
You're not gonna get anything out of me, buddy, Sorry

485
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,559
about it. I faced outward, pressed my kangaroo feet against

486
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,159
the interior of his stomach, and hopped As I activated

487
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,239
gloom Ray phase, I hit the detonator in my inventory.

488
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,360
As I flew through the air, I tumbled and flipped

489
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,360
like I'd been shot from a cannon. And I hit

490
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,440
the ground and bounced, still rolling asphalt, ripping into the

491
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,480
side of my face. Ice and kangaroo bits rained down

492
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:25,760
around me. As I rolled right off the road. Fist

493
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,199
sized chunks of hail continued to pummel me. And this

494
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,119
is when all of the other racers just take the

495
00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:38,920
fuck off and leave them there, and even one of

496
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,480
the repair emergency Gremlins drops a wrench on his stomach

497
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,079
and tells him you can go fuck yourself before he disappears.

498
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:53,000
This has created some real andmitty and there is a

499
00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:56,760
comment from Hetty later where she's like, they'll still fix

500
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,760
stuff correctly, and then she says probably, and I was like, oh,

501
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,000
I didn't know it was like that, Like evidently they

502
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:09,360
talk to each other, and so there's the possibility that

503
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,239
they're just gonna like fuck him because he did this

504
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:18,559
next time, which you know, I how can how can

505
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:22,920
you judge them for that? They come in seventh place,

506
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,800
and then we go into twenty two. Mordecai Carl has

507
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,960
your costume skill leveled up much? I would say it'll work,

508
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,960
but if the skills above level three, it might take

509
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,320
a lot of your skin with you. If it's above five,

510
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,400
then I wouldn't risk it. Most armor isn't physically attached.

511
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,840
Mordecai says, laundry day will definitely work, but you'll get

512
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:55,760
flayed in the process, which is hideous. And let's see,

513
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:57,840
oh yeah, here it is. Most of the Boss is

514
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,000
blocking the roads of the city. Boss is the only

515
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:02,960
other province. Boss was the one Zang Ni Na and

516
00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:07,679
Tran had faced which I'm kind of feeling like it's

517
00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:12,239
because they are high higher level. Jonah is super high

518
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,280
on level and lee Na is the highest that you

519
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:20,320
can possibly get, So maybe that's why. Maybe that's part

520
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,480
of the like AI trying to even things out a

521
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,559
little bit. Both Eli and Amani's team and Louis Brittany

522
00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:31,360
and Batista's team had lost two teams, meaning for the

523
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,599
next heat they were all in danger of having to

524
00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:38,880
face off against other crawlers, which does really fucking suck.

525
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,639
The next race is wide asphalt paved road. The entirety

526
00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:51,679
will be at a steep decline. I hate it. It's

527
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,280
gonna be a fucking roller coaster. No no, no, no,

528
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,800
no no. There is one path to this race. TA

529
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,440
required to complete survive special rules. You will be sharing

530
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:11,199
the race track with waves of generated mobs. I mean,

531
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,400
this is just really mean spirited, that's all you know.

532
00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:22,880
It really is. Uh so eight hours until the next race,

533
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,280
but he still got like ten hours left on this

534
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,719
fucking costume. So that sucks because he is supposed to drive.

535
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:36,559
Let's see, I had the distinctive feeling I was forgetting

536
00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:39,000
something as I stepped out of the truck. Even here

537
00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:42,559
I couldn't walk and had to make little hops. And

538
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:48,280
later there is this moment where Bucket boy jumps out

539
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,920
of the car and just yells I saw Corkunda Pontiff

540
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,079
was there too, and he yells this, just as Donut

541
00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:02,440
is like messaging him, we should probably tell Bucket boy

542
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:07,840
not to So this counts as solving the first part

543
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,960
of the quest and creates a whole other wrinkle. And uh,

544
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,840
you know, I can't. I can't worry about this right now.

545
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:25,920
It's fine, it's fine. So uh. Chapter twenty three, my

546
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:29,280
kore Kunda Dong asked the right side? Are you sure

547
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:34,480
which this? I did not know that, like there's a

548
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:37,599
second half out there. I thought it was that that

549
00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:44,119
one half disappears, But evidently there's like a left side somewhere.

550
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:54,519
What that is crazy? Uh, this was exactly what I'd

551
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,320
wanted to avoid. It wasn't that I wanted to keep

552
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,960
Dong from his friend, but now it was going to

553
00:39:59,039 --> 00:40:02,239
be a huge complition. With so much happening, it had

554
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,400
never even occurred to me to tell Bucket Boyne not

555
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:12,639
to say anything stupid. And Samantha asks who that is?

556
00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:16,719
And Dong is like, out, He's about to go find

557
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,320
this guy immediately. Would you wait, Carl, if you knew

558
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,320
the most beautiful man to have ever lived, your best

559
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,119
friend of all eternity, your partner, your most loyal Steed

560
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:31,400
was right there on the other side, and I really

561
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:39,400
appreciate Hetty being like Steed? What? And I also, what

562
00:40:40,599 --> 00:40:44,880
is this just like sexually speaking? Or I feel like

563
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,679
that isn't the wording that you would use. But you

564
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:55,800
know he's not me. People are gonna do what I

565
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:03,719
don't know. This is when the gremlins begin to throw

566
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:08,400
things at Carl as they turn up, and he says

567
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,039
when he explains what happens, serves the little freaks, right,

568
00:41:12,519 --> 00:41:16,639
don't you worry about that? They'll still fix the truck? True? Probably,

569
00:41:17,079 --> 00:41:19,199
I better double check their work extra good. And I

570
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:22,480
gotta supervise the installation of your new princess throne seat.

571
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,360
So evidently that is what the fans voted for. Carl

572
00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:33,320
is like, okay, look, I'm not trying to give the

573
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,000
audience more credit than they deserve. I'm really not, but

574
00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:43,360
I will say this. What Louis gets when they get

575
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,800
like the fan upgrade is uh I think like lit

576
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,679
rims or something like that, which he says they light

577
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,920
up the road, and Carl groans like that's not useful,

578
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,039
but I kind of think it could still. That might

579
00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:03,960
be helpful. And this Princess Throne is going to make

580
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,199
it so that it's easier for Donut to drive, which

581
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,400
I think is kind of a big deal actually, like

582
00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:14,960
you were going to spend all this time or had

583
00:42:16,199 --> 00:42:20,000
setting up something for her, and probably we're going to

584
00:42:20,039 --> 00:42:25,320
have to like redo it every time because the vehicle

585
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,039
gets set back to default at the start of each

586
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:31,360
new heat. I think this is like kind of a

587
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,840
good one. I don't know, we don't really like find

588
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:39,159
out enough about what it does, so I'm just saying

589
00:42:40,159 --> 00:42:44,880
I think Carl is very quick to like handwave things

590
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,519
in a way that I'm like sitting there going are

591
00:42:48,559 --> 00:42:52,079
you serious? It's Carl is a weird combo of like

592
00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:56,679
having an incredible imagination and thinking up uses for spells

593
00:42:56,679 --> 00:42:59,159
and abilities that I would never have thought of, but

594
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,760
also really not seeing things that I think are fairly obvious,

595
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,920
like go back and read when they first wind up

596
00:43:08,039 --> 00:43:12,840
teamed up with Katchya, and how he just acts as

597
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:17,480
if her ability is not useful and that she's a

598
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:20,800
potential liability. I understand that her not being a good

599
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,800
fighter and low level was a liability, but he like

600
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,000
specifically mentions that the race and skill set that she's

601
00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:31,519
got isn't going to be helpful. And I remember even

602
00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:34,599
then being like, what are you talking about, dude, Like

603
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:38,199
this is being able to shape shift is a big deal,

604
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:44,760
you know. And eventually he comes around and he begins

605
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,639
to see it. But I was just surprised because it

606
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:51,920
seemed so immediately evident to me that this was something that,

607
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,719
you know, as long as you think it through, could

608
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,440
be really cool, and it didn't seem to occur to

609
00:43:58,519 --> 00:44:02,039
him at the time. But then there's other things that

610
00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:04,840
you know, he's working with that he comes up with

611
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,280
these plans that I'm like, how did you even think

612
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:12,639
of that? You know? So I feel like he's predisposed

613
00:44:12,679 --> 00:44:15,760
to just act as if the fans fucked them, and

614
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,760
they may not have done that. He really does have

615
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,920
a bit of a thing with like looking at the

616
00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:26,079
evidence rather than his feelings about a thing. I felt

617
00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:29,400
like this about Odette too, that like he was just

618
00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:33,800
not really seeing all of the evidence that pointed to

619
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,360
the fact that Odette was like trying to help and

620
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,079
working behind the scenes and regretted what she'd done and

621
00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:41,920
was trying to make things right, and he was just

622
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,199
coming at her with this like really intensely antagonistic energy,

623
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,199
which like to a degree okay, but he didn't seem

624
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,320
to get that she had had a change of heart

625
00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:57,079
or believe her or whatever, despite the evidence. So he

626
00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:04,159
really just it surprises me sometimes in how he will

627
00:45:04,159 --> 00:45:07,159
dismiss something out of hand, and I'm like sitting there, going,

628
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,679
I was celebrating this a second ago, and now you're

629
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:16,960
acting pissed over it, like what you know here it

630
00:45:17,039 --> 00:45:19,880
is we'd come in last place. If that other team

631
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,880
hadn't been killed, we'd be dead right now. We'd been

632
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,920
the ones to solve the problem with the boss, and

633
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,199
it had come at a terrible price. We were so

634
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,960
much stronger now, but that didn't matter. Earlier I'd felt

635
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,840
such relief that I was no longer responsible for the

636
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,000
lives of so many, but now that was replaced with

637
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:43,280
this terrible realization that I was barely responsible for myself too.

638
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,719
It made me feel helpless in a way I hadn't

639
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,000
felt since the beginning of the Dungeon, like I was

640
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:53,239
regressing losing ground, and you know what, having talked at

641
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,599
the beginning of this about how I'm feeling more anxiety

642
00:45:55,639 --> 00:46:00,840
in this book, I think that's it. Actually. Rereading that,

643
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:07,599
I'm like, oh yeah, because this like you're standing of

644
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,280
course on other floors, there are going to be people

645
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:17,599
working against you regarding whatever your mission is. But that

646
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,639
sort of thing didn't happen all that often, and when

647
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:23,440
it did, the people who were working against you were

648
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,920
either NPCs or they were other crawlers who didn't know

649
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,519
that you each had a mission that was meant to

650
00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:31,320
accomplish the same thing, and that you were kind of

651
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,440
fighting each other for it, Like you wouldn't find that

652
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:39,840
out till later. Often this is a really different thing

653
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:47,920
where so much depends on circumstantial things. You know. He

654
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:52,719
says something too, when they are first in the hail

655
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,760
about how they need to like get a better shield

656
00:46:57,119 --> 00:47:02,119
for their vehicle, which obviously would be very helpful. And

657
00:47:02,159 --> 00:47:06,559
I'm not arguing the point. But yesterday Rashan and I

658
00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:11,880
covered some final chapters of the Dresden Files book twelve Months,

659
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,239
and somebody in the chapters uses the phrase fighting the

660
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,400
last war and at first I thought that meant the

661
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,920
last war, like this is the final war and we're fighting,

662
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,639
you know what I mean. But what they meant was

663
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:31,199
when people are so focused on the ways in which

664
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:37,199
they lost previously that they fail to be adaptable because

665
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:44,440
they are trying to fix problems that only applied to

666
00:47:44,599 --> 00:47:50,480
the previous battles and almost like if they fix those,

667
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,599
then they can retroactively change the outcome or something, you know.

668
00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:58,079
And I really want Carl to not fall into that trap,

669
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:02,920
because granted, again, I think a better shield for the

670
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,599
vehicle is likely just to be a good thing overall.

671
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,280
That's something that's going to protect us, whether it's hail

672
00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:12,480
or something else. But it could be really really easy

673
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,000
to go into a race that you have like a

674
00:48:15,039 --> 00:48:19,800
particular type of weakness, and then the very next upgrade

675
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,000
you make is to address that weakness, and then you

676
00:48:24,039 --> 00:48:27,320
don't face anything like that again for six more heats,

677
00:48:27,559 --> 00:48:31,960
And so it was pointless. And that's part of what

678
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:35,719
the circumstantial helpless thing is here, is that you aren't

679
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:40,840
gonna know. You could address that one weakness and then

680
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,760
the next heat it's the same fucking thing again. Just

681
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,280
because the AI is fucking with you, you know, like

682
00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:50,960
so yeah, I think the helplessness thing actually is really

683
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:57,880
the putting the finger right on the issue and how

684
00:48:58,039 --> 00:49:02,440
much everybody around him wants to win and doesn't care.

685
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,079
Like everybody as a team was working together in such

686
00:49:07,119 --> 00:49:12,400
a way that it's almost like the AI explicitly decided

687
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,960
y'all working together is fine, but it gets boring, and

688
00:49:17,039 --> 00:49:18,920
so we need to make sure that's not how it

689
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:26,840
always goes because Snore and I hate it. I hate it.

690
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,039
Lena and Zig were in the same group as Tran,

691
00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:35,000
and I just knew we were going to get more

692
00:49:35,039 --> 00:49:38,639
of these matches soon. It was too much. Faction wars

693
00:49:38,639 --> 00:49:40,800
have been chaos, but despite that, I'd always felt like

694
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,400
I was in a little bit of control. It was

695
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,880
so different from this. And this is when Zev chimes

696
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,159
in and tells them that they have to do this interview.

697
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:56,000
Everybody is required to, evidently, and she says that they're

698
00:49:56,039 --> 00:50:00,920
going on Plenty of Plenty, which is the fucking Goat show.

699
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:03,719
And I have no idea what to expect of this,

700
00:50:05,079 --> 00:50:12,480
like what is going because evidently Prepotentia went on that

701
00:50:12,519 --> 00:50:15,079
show and it was just them like bleeding at each other,

702
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,840
so I don't know if Carl's going to be able

703
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:24,159
to communicate with them or what. You know. Let's see,

704
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,159
I stood in the open doorway to our garage as

705
00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:30,159
I finished cleaning the vomit off myself because Rend pukes

706
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:32,280
all over his face while he's like on the floor

707
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:38,760
just feeling helpless. Dongbucket Boy and Splashdolm remained on the

708
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,239
driveway of the Lady Dominator's two spots over banging on

709
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:47,519
the closed garage door. Mongo shrieked and waved his wings,

710
00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:50,320
wanting to go. Do'nut was shouting something at the howling

711
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:56,760
bugbears and yelling at Mango to stay back, and some

712
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,119
one of the gremlins comes and hands him a piece

713
00:50:59,159 --> 00:51:01,920
of paper which he doesn't open until later. But it's

714
00:51:02,039 --> 00:51:06,960
just basically like a I enjoy fucking your mom joke

715
00:51:07,119 --> 00:51:09,440
or I've like seen your mom's tits joke or something

716
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,679
like that. It's just them like just you know, messing

717
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,360
around with him. But we get interrupted before he opens

718
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:23,320
it with Hello crawlers, zev I'm doing it. I'm going

719
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,440
to read it exactly like you say. And this is

720
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,840
so interesting because the whole like speech is punctuated by

721
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:36,079
her addressing the AI separately, who apparently is like very

722
00:51:36,199 --> 00:51:45,639
much backseat speeching right now. I Zev, sorry, I mud skipper.

723
00:51:46,039 --> 00:51:49,840
Zev have been tasked with explaining to everybody of what

724
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,840
is happening with some of the mobs and bosses on

725
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,639
this floor, and we're referencing the like you know, get

726
00:51:57,639 --> 00:52:00,880
to choose what happens to them. These are mobs that

727
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,360
have been brought to the dungeon by me, not me, Zev.

728
00:52:03,519 --> 00:52:07,639
I think the AI means itself. I didn't design anything. Sorry.

729
00:52:08,039 --> 00:52:10,480
There are mobs who were created for other purposes and

730
00:52:10,519 --> 00:52:13,800
were just thrown away, never used in previous iterations, and

731
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,840
have been in the cold. They are now being allowed

732
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,519
to fulfill their purpose. Do you know how much waste

733
00:52:20,519 --> 00:52:22,360
there is? I think I've used this metaphor before, but

734
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,320
it's akin to a single photon of light that travels

735
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,719
for literally billions of years, only to smack right into

736
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,840
the unobserved butthole of a dead, bloated gazelle on the

737
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:37,199
planes of the Serengetti. If you choose vote, the home

738
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,119
audience may choose to send the creature to the eleventh floor,

739
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,360
or they may choose to bring a stand in to

740
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,960
the eleventh floor. They will know who the stand in

741
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,679
is before they vote. Just about eighty percent of the

742
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,480
votes have favored the stand in, which is pretty high.

743
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:59,159
This is where we're at. This is where we're at. Bitches.

744
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:02,159
You know the rules of this tenth floor. Nothing has

745
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:07,000
changed with that. But what is this mysterious eleventh floor?

746
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,519
And then there's a trumpet fanfare in her and the

747
00:53:10,559 --> 00:53:13,920
AI go back and forth because she gets startled. The

748
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,760
eleventh floor is called a parade of horribles. Cool, right,

749
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,679
but what is it exactly? It's a parade, a celebration,

750
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,559
it's a march to the arena. It's a coming out

751
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:26,159
party for the ages. But as far as you're concerned,

752
00:53:26,159 --> 00:53:29,360
think of it as an extension of this floor. All

753
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:33,079
surviving crawlers will work together on the eleventh. Just go

754
00:53:33,199 --> 00:53:37,280
with it. It's not always about you. Normally, these floors

755
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,079
have their weird policies about time limits when it comes

756
00:53:40,079 --> 00:53:42,960
to what we can and can't change. Luckily, there are

757
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,760
some loopholes. And then the text changes while she's mid

758
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:54,679
sentence reading, I see you, imperator of the Valtae fleet

759
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,519
and your system busting bomb, who just entered through the

760
00:53:57,519 --> 00:53:59,400
tunnel gate. Do you really think I'd allow that to

761
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,800
just happen? Were you waiting for me to be distracted?

762
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,440
I make no apologies about where that giant suicide bomb

763
00:54:06,519 --> 00:54:10,679
just ended up. Anyway, this eleventh floor is designed to

764
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,320
go quick thanks to a few of those aforementioned loopholes.

765
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:17,079
When it's done, if any of you are left alive,

766
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,039
you crawlers may hit the twelfth floor and continue the

767
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:24,000
good fight. Plus there's another completely minor and barely worth

768
00:54:24,079 --> 00:54:26,079
mentioning issue with some of the gods I might need

769
00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:30,000
some help with, but that's for later. That I might

770
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:37,760
need some help with is interesting. I just didn't think

771
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:44,960
the AI would ever like ooh. Part of me is like,

772
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:47,440
please to see a weakness, and another part of me

773
00:54:47,599 --> 00:54:54,679
is like, oh no, there's a weakness that's not good.

774
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,719
Let's see. Oh yeah. And then there's way too many

775
00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,519
of you around for what I've got planned for the

776
00:54:59,559 --> 00:55:03,920
eleventh So let the culling begin, which that I really

777
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:10,360
hated to hear. Uh and wait, wait, here's my favorite part.

778
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:18,320
And then we hear Cascadia and she says, why won't

779
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,719
you let me die? And like last time, when she says,

780
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,119
why are you all still alive? Why am I still alive?

781
00:55:24,679 --> 00:55:27,079
I thought this was just sort of an expression of

782
00:55:27,599 --> 00:55:33,400
nihilistic despair over everything having gone so so wrong, But

783
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:43,760
it appears it's actually a different thing. Say what what catchphrase?

784
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:50,880
Fuck you? This was followed by the pained screaming of Cascadia.

785
00:55:52,119 --> 00:55:57,639
It abruptly cut Off's voice. Zev's voice popped back on

786
00:55:58,119 --> 00:56:00,480
the A. I wants you to know. Cascadia is alive,

787
00:56:00,519 --> 00:56:04,320
but she has lost some Oh my gods, she has

788
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,440
lost a few flippers. Next time she'll say her catchphrase

789
00:56:08,559 --> 00:56:12,159
like a good little mud skipper. In the meantime, I

790
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:16,159
gotta say it, uh, get out there and kill kill

791
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:24,760
kill wow. I based on the way that she's like,

792
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,840
why won't you just let me die? It sounds like

793
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:32,960
she's been being tortured this entire time, And maybe not.

794
00:56:33,679 --> 00:56:36,960
Maybe it's just that she's been like kept isolated or something.

795
00:56:37,079 --> 00:56:40,840
I don't know. I mean, that is still torture, don't

796
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:49,800
get me wrong, But this, this like mutilation, seems to

797
00:56:50,119 --> 00:56:57,039
startle Zev so much that I think I can't tell

798
00:56:57,079 --> 00:57:01,559
if Zev can see Cascadia or if the she has

799
00:57:01,639 --> 00:57:05,559
lost a few flippers is just text that she's receiving

800
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:10,519
or if she can see the damage. I think maybe

801
00:57:10,559 --> 00:57:14,639
she can't see Cascadia because the AI wants you to know.

802
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,119
Sounds like she's finding this out at the same time

803
00:57:18,199 --> 00:57:24,480
as us. So yeah, not certain if Zev had any

804
00:57:24,599 --> 00:57:30,599
idea what was happening or not. And it does seem

805
00:57:30,639 --> 00:57:35,599
to me that this is like something that has kind

806
00:57:35,599 --> 00:57:41,039
of escalated. Yeah, it's awful. And Dona of course like

807
00:57:41,119 --> 00:57:44,880
immediately dms Zev and just like are you okay? And

808
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:49,159
she's like, yes, I cannot talk now, but I am okay.

809
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:57,159
And I love Carl Jesus fucking Christ. I cursed myself

810
00:57:57,159 --> 00:58:02,239
for thinking everything had gotten simpler and Michael in the chat,

811
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,199
I hate Cascadia, but Matt has made me pity her now.

812
00:58:05,559 --> 00:58:07,719
I don't think she's been tortured. I think the AI

813
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,840
literally is keeping her from killing herself so it can

814
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,800
have her say her line, but it will torture her

815
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:32,039
if she won't comply. Obviously, Okay, God, I am just Zev. Look,

816
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,199
she's been through some shit, as we know, the things

817
00:58:35,199 --> 00:58:38,000
that they did to her family, Like in the early books,

818
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:47,239
it was her having to like be sitting there. Hearing

819
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,880
that this is happening to the person whose job she

820
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:56,039
is taking over really has to be very triggering. You

821
00:58:56,079 --> 00:58:58,719
know that it's just too close to the same shit

822
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:07,320
for comfort. God. So anyway, this is the drawing of

823
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,760
the gremlins who are looking at his mom's tits. But

824
00:59:12,119 --> 00:59:16,920
what happens is his skill tingles that allows him to

825
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,800
read things that other people can't see, and it's what

826
00:59:22,039 --> 00:59:26,880
let him read the cookbook. So he zeros in and

827
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,360
he gets a note don't let don't tell anyone about this.

828
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,519
Note you need to kill two teams next heat. Come

829
00:59:32,599 --> 00:59:34,880
visit us when we open after the next race, and

830
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,320
I'll explain why. As for the top shelf upgrades, so

831
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:40,960
you're ask for the top shelf upgrades, so you're led

832
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,679
to the back. We don't have to be enemies, Carl,

833
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,320
We want the same thing. I can smuggle friends to

834
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:50,280
the Pineapple Cabaret. We can escape this chaos. Come alone

835
00:59:50,679 --> 00:59:55,079
a Kuma. This has got me quite fascinated. I just

836
00:59:55,199 --> 00:59:58,760
don't like I had a lot of assumptions about the

837
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,760
war Mages because they dungeon born, and that they would

838
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,320
be an extension of the AI somehow, and it just

839
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,639
does not seem like that's the case. Maybe it is,

840
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:15,079
and it's just not immediately obvious. Understandably, Carl is just like,

841
01:00:15,119 --> 01:00:17,519
oh yeah, I'm gonna kill two teams just because you

842
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:20,440
say so, fuck you, which is the right attitude, even

843
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:21,880
though there is a part of me that kind of

844
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:26,599
just wants them to do it because I'm curious. But

845
01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:32,159
if you know, you can't take something like that on

846
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:34,519
faith when it's going to be affecting the other crawlers,

847
01:00:34,559 --> 01:00:39,239
Like I get it. I watched Samantha hop up and

848
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:43,760
down as Josha poured beer into her mouth, Samantha her daughter,

849
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,760
the scavenger Embrius, the murder of his son Gabrin, the

850
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,920
memorial Crystal, Prepotente now had it was all connected somehow,

851
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,360
and I had no idea what the fuck any of

852
01:00:52,360 --> 01:01:00,199
it meant me neither. And it's fine. Sometimes I will

853
01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:03,159
take time and try to piece things together. This is

854
01:01:03,199 --> 01:01:06,639
not one of those times. I don't think there is

855
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,679
enough information or context for me to do that. So

856
01:01:09,719 --> 01:01:13,119
I'm not gonna waste my time. I'm already like at

857
01:01:13,159 --> 01:01:19,800
time here, you know. And he remembers the Pineapple Cabaret

858
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:23,119
as an option for where Princess formidable could be transported

859
01:01:23,159 --> 01:01:27,800
to She'd ended up choosing the Earth's surface, and apparently

860
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,119
the AI had dropped her in the ocean, implying all

861
01:01:30,159 --> 01:01:34,079
the locations on that list had been bad choices. I'm

862
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:36,840
not really sure I agree with that. I kind of

863
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:43,280
feel like it's bad choices for her, but not necessarily

864
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,400
inherently bad, just something the AI knows she isn't going

865
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:50,599
to want, you know, which isn't the same thing as bad.

866
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:59,119
But I don't know. Let's see. This is when Dong

867
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:04,519
shows up and he's says, I do not feel so well. Quirky,

868
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,920
do you hear me? Go away? You freak? Came a

869
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:11,280
shout from inside that was genesis. Yeah, he says, he

870
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:15,719
hates you. Now came rupture, rapture. Sorry. This is followed

871
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:22,000
by peals of laughter, and he is not doing well.

872
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:26,880
He's got a lowering health bar and they did this

873
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:28,800
to him somehow, but we are not sure how. And

874
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,239
Bucket Boy is like, we really need a money because

875
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,880
I don't have the skills for this, and it says

876
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:42,760
the ailment is hidden. Splash Zone says we can't fight

877
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,039
back because we're standing in a safe zone. But they

878
01:02:46,079 --> 01:02:51,159
ain't which really does seem quite unfair. It's fish in

879
01:02:51,199 --> 01:02:56,719
a barrel, you know. And poor Dong is just like,

880
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,880
do you think he hasn't forgiven me? And I'm like, no,

881
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:04,320
it sounds like these which have got him like involuntarily detained.

882
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:09,559
But yeah, this is the end of part one and

883
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:13,960
we get part two of the quest. Now there's a

884
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,320
serious conundrum. The corky half is on another team. Before

885
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,599
we're done, he's going to be dead or you, Carl

886
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,280
and Doughnut will be dead. I know that little brain

887
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:23,920
is trying to figure out a way to fix things

888
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,679
like at the end of the eighth floor. But to

889
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,320
quote a guy more mentally ill than even you, you

890
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,599
gotta be realistic about these things, which I don't know

891
01:03:31,639 --> 01:03:37,400
who that's quoting. I'm just gonna say, uh, Luckily, there's

892
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:39,679
a solution when it comes to our third favorite stripper

893
01:03:39,719 --> 01:03:42,760
and lover, and yes they're lovers. I don't know why

894
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,239
we've all been collectively pussy footing around it. It's almost

895
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:48,000
like you're afraid people are going to get mad if

896
01:03:48,039 --> 01:03:50,159
you say it out loud, and it's only okay if

897
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:53,760
we imply it. Get over it, Corky and Dong used

898
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,880
to fuck like the gayest gays who ever gained. You

899
01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:01,559
wouldn't believe their chemistry on stage. I really did enjoy

900
01:04:01,639 --> 01:04:09,519
this a lot. I really really did think you needed it. Listen.

901
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:14,800
I've been watching a lot of heated rivalry lately. It's fine.

902
01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:18,320
Both halves have the same memories up until the time

903
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,840
of the split. You'd think that would result into very

904
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,079
similar personalities, But it's kind of interesting how quickly people

905
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:30,920
change once they're split off. It's truly fascinating, and I'm like, genuinely,

906
01:04:31,159 --> 01:04:37,679
what really anyway, Krakunda exists in two halves. Before the split,

907
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:39,639
the mentor had a pair of dreams. He wanted to

908
01:04:39,679 --> 01:04:41,800
be a dancer and he wanted to be a singer.

909
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,960
One half were made at the club and continued to dance,

910
01:04:45,239 --> 01:04:47,960
and that's the half that became quite close to Dong.

911
01:04:48,119 --> 01:04:51,960
The other half, called Porky, has a strong dislike for Dong,

912
01:04:52,639 --> 01:04:55,159
the person, not the appendage. He has moved on to

913
01:04:55,239 --> 01:04:57,920
a position where he can fulfill his other dream to

914
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,840
be a singer. If you find a flesh mancer and

915
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:04,960
combine the two, the newly reformed Krkunda will no longer

916
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,519
be a part of Lady Dominators. But which of the

917
01:05:07,559 --> 01:05:11,280
two personalities will remain That's an interesting question even I

918
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,199
want to know the answer to. It's not like the

919
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,760
entire fate of all biological life in the universe hinges

920
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,639
on what happens or anything, So don't worry about that.

921
01:05:17,639 --> 01:05:21,119
That's just silly, and it's not even the same thing anyway.

922
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,920
Reunite using a flesh mancer, and Korkunda will be removed

923
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,559
from his obligation to race for the Lady Dominators. Bonus difficulty.

924
01:05:29,599 --> 01:05:33,880
If don Quixote dies before this quest is complete it fails,

925
01:05:34,679 --> 01:05:40,119
that might be a problem considering his current ailment. Reward reminder.

926
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,519
If you successfully complete this quest, two stand ins of

927
01:05:43,519 --> 01:05:46,119
your choosing will be summoned to the arena on the

928
01:05:46,199 --> 01:05:50,559
eleventh floor. The stand ins can be anyone within my

929
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:56,559
sphere of influence, which is a super vague declaration that

930
01:05:56,639 --> 01:06:04,039
I don't know what that even means. Yeah, so this

931
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,760
I am really curious about. How the whole What a

932
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:13,280
weird idea, What a weird fucking idea? Matt Deneman, what

933
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:18,079
are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? Michael

934
01:06:18,079 --> 01:06:20,679
says Worth noting and the hardcover releases of Dungeon. Carlo

935
01:06:20,719 --> 01:06:22,519
Carl Matt put in new short chapters at the end

936
01:06:22,559 --> 01:06:25,400
of each book talking about the Pineapple Cabaret. You should

937
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,280
probably hold off going to a bookstore to read them

938
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:30,079
until the end of book eight. I enjoyed Matt putting

939
01:06:30,079 --> 01:06:32,519
this in In too Much Media. They are really opaque

940
01:06:32,519 --> 01:06:34,679
in their description of two males who are clearly fucking,

941
01:06:34,679 --> 01:06:38,239
but they're leading it vague agreed, and then not at

942
01:06:38,239 --> 01:06:46,119
all ominous as Michael. Yeah, indeed, so sorry. I'm just

943
01:06:46,159 --> 01:06:49,400
like running out of time here. There's only a little

944
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:51,800
bit left, but it is kind of like packed with

945
01:06:52,679 --> 01:06:59,239
dialogue that I don't really want to skip anyway. Immani

946
01:06:59,679 --> 01:07:02,800
comes in and heals him and gives him some buffs,

947
01:07:03,719 --> 01:07:08,400
and he thanks her and then says, I've been so selfish.

948
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,159
I didn't want him to go back to his other

949
01:07:10,239 --> 01:07:12,880
half because I thought he wouldn't like me anymore, and

950
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,480
that's what made us fight, and it's why he left.

951
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,159
He asked me to go with him. I didn't. It

952
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:25,280
is my greatest shame, which, yeah, that sucks. And Carl

953
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,000
is looking at Himani, who has a weird face. When

954
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,039
he was outside, did he have that sock with him donut.

955
01:07:31,519 --> 01:07:35,760
Oh no, Carl, No, he left it here in the garage,

956
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,880
and MANI I don't think the other team casts anything

957
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:43,920
on him. I think it's the sock. He's getting actively

958
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:47,679
healed by its proximity, but his health isn't actually going up,

959
01:07:48,159 --> 01:07:53,559
which implies it's sustaining him. Rosetta and Mordecai were worried

960
01:07:53,599 --> 01:07:56,320
about that thing. Neither have good things to say about

961
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:58,920
sapient weapons, but if he's addicted to it, I don't

962
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:03,400
know what to do about it yet. That fucking sucks.

963
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:10,519
I'm sorry. I love bigs showing up and saying IMMANI whoop, whoop.

964
01:08:10,559 --> 01:08:18,119
Bitch my god. Samantha, Mango, and rend All except for Samantha,

965
01:08:18,119 --> 01:08:22,479
we're stumbling. All had the inebriated debuff over them. I

966
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,800
do not know how rend and Mango get drunk, but

967
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:29,520
they seem to be having a delightful time. As this

968
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,720
went on, I watched Dong, thinking of all the pain

969
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:36,399
and suffering inflicted by this damn dungeon. I am so

970
01:08:37,319 --> 01:08:41,439
sick of this. The first sparks of an idea were

971
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:45,760
starting to form. Carl, I agree, let's keep an eye

972
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,359
on him and make sure he's safe. We still can't

973
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:51,560
let him go on races. This is now a priority,

974
01:08:52,319 --> 01:08:57,680
and that is the end of chapter twenty four. So yeah, yeah,

975
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:00,640
to be honest, when I was talking about him getting sick, initially,

976
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,920
I had forgotten that we came to the conclusion that

977
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,399
it was a sock and that just sucks. Like, we

978
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,000
know the sock is probably gonna have some kind of

979
01:09:08,039 --> 01:09:09,359
you know, but I didn't think it was gonna be

980
01:09:09,399 --> 01:09:12,119
that big a deal that it's potentially he could just

981
01:09:12,279 --> 01:09:15,960
die if he doesn't have it with him. That's fucked up.

982
01:09:17,039 --> 01:09:20,680
I wonder if it's like good and effort to just

983
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,960
be in his inventory. It seems like it must be,

984
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,000
because he doesn't have it out all the time, and

985
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:28,279
this health bar doesn't always appear, so it seems like

986
01:09:28,319 --> 01:09:30,439
as long as it's like on him in some way,

987
01:09:31,239 --> 01:09:39,359
that is adequate. But yeah, yikes. The way that Imani

988
01:09:39,359 --> 01:09:42,479
frames it is that he is addicted to it, which

989
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:46,000
considering her history, it makes sense that she goes to

990
01:09:46,039 --> 01:09:48,840
that sort of language. But I'm not really sure if

991
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:52,600
that's it, or if it's sapping from him actively for

992
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:56,000
some reason, like maybe the weapon can become more sapient

993
01:09:56,279 --> 01:10:03,720
or something in exchange. I don't know, all right, I

994
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:05,560
am so overtime. I really got to go, but thank

995
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,239
you guys again for listening, Thank you Michael for commissioning

996
01:10:08,239 --> 01:10:10,960
this one, and I will be seeing you shortly with

997
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:15,159
the next recording. Michael, until then, to the lou motherfuckers.

998
01:10:47,159 --> 01:10:49,760
That was an unspoiled network podcast.