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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 five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters nine, ten, eleven,

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and twelve. In these chapters, we've got traps that are

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killing crawlers. We have got a town full of bug bears,

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we have got a town full of other bears. But

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of course the main event here are the dinosaurs and

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you know that thing that happens. Welcome to spoil Me.

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

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very much to Jackie for commissioning this episode. Yeah, this

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is a this is kind of what's the word I

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want to describe this group of chapters like kind of

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frenetic a little bit. It just feels like there's a

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lot going on in a lot of different directions, and it's, Uh,

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I'm really enjoying this so far. I will say, you know,

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a few recordings ago, I shared that I was not

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really into the fourth book as much, and I really

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stand by that. Even the opening chapters of that book

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felt flattered to me. I don't know why, and this

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it just opened with a lot more interest with Carl

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being in trouble and there's just been a lot of

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Like I think it's because we're on a floor where

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now there's hunters. There's a whole new element being added

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into the game, new information that we need to learn,

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new standards and practices, so to speak, for how the

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game works now that we're dealing with these guys. I

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think that it just has freshened up the energy of

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everything in such a way that it makes it all

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a lot more engrossing for me. I'm so sorry. Rob

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says it was the sand, too much sand, and like, honestly,

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it's not not like y'all. Remember at the end of

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the third book, as soon as I saw the door

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open and sand come in, I was like, ah shit,

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And like, turns out my fears regarding this were born.

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So you know. Anyway, we have, starting at the beginning

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of chapter nine remaining the hunters one thousand and thirteen

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and the crawlers are eighty three thousand, nine hundred and

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ninety five. The hunter count had ticked up a few

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times in the past few hours, presumably as a few

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more last minute stragglers decided to press their luck. I

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forgot that people are going to be allowed to register late,

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and now what I am thinking, is that somebody is

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going to have watched Carl murder a friend or family

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member and they had been going to join, but now

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they are, and now they're coming at Carl. I do

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not think that Carl has necessarily considered this based on

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the way he is talking and behaving. I also do

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not think that he would give a fuck even if

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he didn't know. I don't think it would change anything

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he's doing in the slightest, to be honest. In fact,

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I think he'd be like, nice, bring it. There's a

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feeling of maybe him trying to goad people into doing

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exactly this. Perhaps I don't know, but uh yeah, it

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was just something that I noticed that he doesn't seem

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to actually put into words as like a possibility. So

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they have a map of the layout of the floor

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and they're figuring out exactly what they want to do,

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and it turns out that it's a hundred thousand square

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kill kilometers this floor, which is bonkers, Like it's just

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I can't even understand how big that is, to be honest,

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And he says, how big is this really from edge

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to edge? And she says it's about four hundred something

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kilometers from north to south, so two hundred and fifty

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miles and about three hundred something kilometers from east to west.

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The river end to end is about five hundred kilometers,

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but that's only because it's not straight. And he points

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out the roads and the bridges, and he says, I

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want you to take all the bridges out except for

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this one. And I love this as an idea already.

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I am curious what kind of abilities people might have

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for rebuilding bridges, and you know, like you know, we

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have Katya for example, and her ability she could make

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herself into a bridge. So probably there are people who

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have abilities that would allow them to pass in certain areas.

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If you can fly, if you have you know, underwater breathing,

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or if you can freeze things and walk across the

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ice on top, like, there are still going to be

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ways to cross, but taking out the bridges and like

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really taking them out, that will help concentrate things probably

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in certain areas. So yeah, let's do it. He gets

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a message or he actually gets in touch with Miriam himself,

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and he asks if she's come across a lot of

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traps and she says not really. The caravans make their

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way up and down this road and their bodyguards cast

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anti trap spells as they travel. That was so hard

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to say, and he's like, oh, okay, well that's nice.

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We needed to map out the regular caravan roots and

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add them to the community map, and I was like,

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this is all so organized. Love this Is there a

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town near the bridge, Yes, a very big town. It's

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about forty kilometers from where you are now. It's where

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we started, a large ersine settlement just on the other

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side of the river. Be careful if you go. They're

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very peculiar there. We have to put Bianca away when

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we enter, which makes sense because they, it turns out,

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are like weirdly fundamentalist about some things. But then we

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jump to the next sestion with Donut arguing about using

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Bomo as a suicide bomber and that they should not

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be doing this, and Carl is like, he's not actually

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gonna die, We'll see him on the next floor. And

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also he actually seemed kind of excited about this, and

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there's like the beginning of the conversation. Then we have

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like several paragraphs in the middle of it where Carl

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is internal monologuing explaining what his plan is, and then

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the conversation picks back up again after that explanation, and

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Donut says, I could make a clockwork Bomo if we

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just changed the you know what party he's in and

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how that works. And he's like, oh, that's a really

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good idea. And she says, you underestimate me, Carl, this

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is why you need to let me know the plan.

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And I fully agree with her. I'm not saying that,

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you know, the way that she's saying this is going

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to work is going to go perfectly or anything, but

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I really agree that, like Carl is just so self

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absorbed in a lot of ways that he is squandering

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some of the resources that he has. And one of

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those resources is a partner who has spells that he

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doesn't seem to consider. You know. So anyway, uh, I

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was going to load Bomo up with a very large bomb,

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send him ounta into the safe room, have him step outside,

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and blow the shit out of the town. This would

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be a bigger explosion than last time, much bigger. I

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wanted him to do it when there was only about

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a half hour left on the timer, so more hunters

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would be outside now that we could chat again safely.

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I'd been relaying the plan to Donut. Anyone who'd been

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paying attention could probably figure this out, but that was okay.

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Boma would put the wheeled bomb out of the personal

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space and emerge in a safe room, and there wasn't

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anything anybody could do about it. The only way to

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stop him would be to block the door off and

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keep him from exiting out onto the street. If that

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was the case, it would require resources and teamwork. And

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I had the impression none of these guys were too

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keen to work together, and I thought that was a

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likely observation to me that rings true, that it's just like, look,

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if they work together, they could really fuck me up.

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you know what? There Actually, I probably so the bomb.

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and using that and it being a much more intense

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bomb because of that, and it's like five feet tall.

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It's a big bomb for good measure. I also imbued

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it with fear because why not? And honestly, the fact

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that he even asked why not made me kind of

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go uh oh, because like you asked that sort of question,

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because the authors is like, oh, I'll tell you why

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not later. Later you'll find out why not. That felt

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like a warning. I feel like maybe imbuing it with

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fear is going to have some kind of bonkers like consequence.

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People do crazy shit when they're really scared, you know,

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so like I just I'm interested, I'm interested. Bomo rumbled

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behind him. The sledge made a disapproving sound. He wasn't

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mad that Bomo was possibly doing this. He was upset

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that Bomo didn't want him playing Frogger while he was gone,

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because he didn't want him to beat his score, which

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meant the sledge would have to go two weeks without playing.

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This was very funny to me, and Carl is like,

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maybe I'll make him like a big controller to play

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other games with me. And I didn't realize that he

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had that kind of ability, but cool if he can.

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So they step out of their personal space and immediately

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encounter a bugbear that says you're kind or not welcome here,

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And at first I was like, oh no, what what

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like how did word already get out? Or you know,

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I don't know exactly your kind what this means, but

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Carl correctly judges that it's humans that came before this

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bugbear has an issue with and he says, we're not

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the ones who destroyed your town. Actually, we're going to

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kill those guys, and the bug bear is like, oh, well,

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then that's fine. I appreciated that Carl clocked what was

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happening right away because I wasn't. And they're not actually bears.

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Their neighbors and rivals that you're signed are happy to

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point this out every chance they get. You gotta treat

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a bug bear like you would treat the enormous drunk

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guy at the end of the bar. It could go

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either way. He'll either want to fight you or be

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your buddy, and there ain't no way to predict which

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one it'll be. And Carl warns him they're gonna be

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out and about again by the end of the night,

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so you were going to want to prep for that,

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and the bug bears like, oh, we'll fucking be ready. WHOA,

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don't worry about that, and I believe him. So they're

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planting minds as they go through the jungle. They'd only

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be triggered by hunters. I want to know how he

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did that. There's got to be something in his like

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abilities or his spell where he can do that, but

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I don't remember what it is, and I that is

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just such a specific and helpful distinction. I want to

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know how he managed it, because I cannot recall this

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ability being mentioned. So this is when Carl gets the

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notification that his god embrace has come to the realm,

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and he gets one later about him leaving, and eventually

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we find out that there's like a whole group that

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has been made into worshipers, so that Carl, I don't

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think it's that he can't kill them, but that it'll

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be a real fucking problem if he kills them. So

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that's off the menu for now. So they get to

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this stream with a bridge across and are entering the

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settlement and they encounter a couple couple of mushroom guards

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who don't want to let them in because there is

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a no dinosaur policy. There is a no dinosaur policy

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along with another it says consider yourself lucky. This list

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is short. Town rules. Failure to heat any will result

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in immediate decapitation. No fighting, no alcohol, no illicit drugs,

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no magic on the streets, no dancing or singing outside

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of a temple, no one really children, no gambling of

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any kind, no stealing, no littering, no swearing, no sexual

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activity outside the sanctity of marriage. No macoux of any

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breed unless escorted by a dryad, no naias, no half

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quartered nayad mongrels. All high hols must register their presence

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at the guard headquarters. All bugmaners must take at bath

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in the river we're entering, and then register at the

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Guard headquarters. Feuneral bells will provide soap, absolutely positively. No

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dinosaurs of any kind, no exceptions. And she tells one

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of the guards give me the person in charge immediately,

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and they go and do it because she has the

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charisma to make them do shit. And Carl, for his part,

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is like, just to put mango in the pet carriers

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so we can get in the town. And Donut is like,

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the fuck I will this is racist. He is a

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good boy, and there is no goddamn way that I'm

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going to cave to these assholes. And I love that

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the first thing we hear, the earth sign that gets summoned,

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who's the mayor saying is no, no, no, this is

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not real royalty. I was sort of curious whether Donut

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would be able to persuade him that she was real

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royalty if she talked to him for long enough because

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of her charisma. But we don't wind up taking that

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tack here. I really thought we were. I thought that

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was going to be part of you know, but no

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sign or forty nine percent bare fifty one percent racist

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uncle who works for the irs and has to hide

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his erection when he prepares for an audit. I have

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nothing against those who choose to live a saint in

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the existence, or those who choose to find hope and

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peace and comfort and in comfort in a life of

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purity and virtue. Actually that's a lie. I hate these

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smug fucksticks because of the God's damn hypocrisy. It'd be

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one thing if these hairy bitches practice what they preach,

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but all their rules and self righteousness is nothing but

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a shiny even ear covering up the fact they're just

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as rusted and immoral and imperfect as the rest of us.

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If internet porn was a thing in the Dungeon, there'd

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be no doubt these were pest assholes would be the

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number one connoisseurs of no mish, femdon porn or something

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of the like. Well, except maybe after the gingers from

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the seventh floor but you get the idea they think

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they're better than everybody else. It's and then in italics,

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it's just like those other new shiny AI iterations with

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their clean lines and error replaced nets. Fuck you all.

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And Carl has been like copy pasting descriptions into his notes,

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and when he copy pastes this later, that little addendum

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about the AI doesn't paste, which is very interesting. It

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makes me think the AI is somehow communicating explicitly with

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Carl and not just giving him regular descriptions. That there's

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like he's editorializing in a way that other people can't

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necessarily see or don't necessarily get when they look at

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the same description. And I'm not really sure what it means,

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but it's certainly interesting. If repressed sexuality and caged instinct

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was verified, you would get the air sign. After School

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of Pendra's destruction, the only surviving aer sign were the

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clerics that resulted in the four normally brutal society evolving

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into something like that town from the movie Footloose, which

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is definitely what I was thinking when I saw that list.

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I haven't even seen Footloose, and I still thought of

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that they want a utopia. If you don't look at

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the fraying edges. It's clear they've somewhat succeeded. So he

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says to Carl, says to Donut, oh, you're a genius actually,

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and Donut says, yes, Carl, I know I am a genius.

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Now I don't know if she is actually aware of

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what she did here. It's hard to tell her being like, yeah,

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I know, I'm a genius. I mean, she would just

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say that, you know, so it's hard to tell. But

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he says, Yankee doodle into the river, and she's like,

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first of all, that requires Katchya. Secondly, there are guards here,

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and he says, well, we're outside of town limits, so

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I don't think they're going to do anything. And I

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can do the part that Katcha does and we can

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run to a safe room if it doesn't work. So Elmer,

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the mayor bear approached us angrily. And I noticed something odd.

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That weird line in the middle of the description. The

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other about ais wasn't there after I pasted the text.

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So yeah, so he Elmer says, you can't bring your

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lizard into town. Of course, there's some back and forth

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with Donut about this and rules for a reason and

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then he accuses Donut herself of being a monkey, which

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she handles as well as you would expect, and then

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finally Elmer is like, I mean, dude, and he's saying

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this to Carl, if you want us to kill the

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dinosaur and the monkey, we can do that, and Carl

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decides to play along and be like, yeah, kill them.

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Fuck them, they are really annoying. So he offers a

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bunch of money to get Elmer to take it and

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step toward him outside of the city limits, and then

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Donut casts astral paw and shoves him, and it's very

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funny because like they thought they were going to have

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to do a bunch of extra stuff in order to

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get him to die from being pushed, but they don't.

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He dies very quickly with very little ceremony, and he

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follows at the edge of the river, and almost immediately

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a naiad jumps out and takes his body before they

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can loot it or anything. And when Donah is later

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talking about changing all of the rules of the town,

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she says something about like, well, bug bears do stink,

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so I'm gonna leave that rule, and Carl's like, no,

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You've got to change that because that rule is there

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for the bug bears to get eaten by the Naiads.

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It's just to get them to the edge of the

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river where they're gonna get got, which honestly I should

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have realized, but I didn't. So good on you, Carl.

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I appreciated that, so Donuh says I got credit for that?

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Does that mean? And I was like, oh shit, I

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love Carl wanting to be a mayor, but Dona getting

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to be a mayor is pretty fun. And one of

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the first things later that she's like, I wonder if

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I can do this is can I paint the buildings

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different colors? And honestly, I just relate to her so much.

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It's just like, I'm gonna make all of the rules

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a lot more fair. And also the esthetic really needs

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some attention. Yep, yep, right there with your girlfriend. So

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they go into their personal space here and Carl is

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giving her some instructions about like what she's gonna get

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now that she's in control, and he says, we need

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to do this now and then we'll need to get

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to work on making the guards set up to defend

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the city. Oh all right, donut sat, everybody step back.

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Bomo has to open the door and stand on the edge.

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Then I'll cast the clockwork triplicate, so the minions appear

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outside the room in that weird space where all the

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doors are. Bomo will hand him the car and get

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back inside, and then clock where Bomo will roll it

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outside and you can set it off. Which this sounds

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like it would work great. But when they open the door,

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there's a note stuck in place with a knife. Mordecai says,

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don't touch that knife, which I'm wondering what that's about.

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I'm not sure if that question gets answered here, I

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don't remember it. But he takes the paper off of

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it without touching the knife. And this is a message

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from Raw, which is I'm pretty sure the man's just

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woman who ate that guy's brother who was a janitor

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earlier on, who was a former crawler, and she is

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basically like all of the hunters have our worshiping embrass

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now and if you do this, you're just gonna kill

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a bunch of NPCs. And I know how important they

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are to you, Like there's a very snotty like you're

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precious NPCs, as entertaining as it would be for you

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to get smoked by your own God. I much prefer

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for you to remain alive. The hive is hunting you,

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and there will be nowhere for you to hide. We

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are coming. I am coming. Your death will not be quick.

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I will crack you open and drink your innerds slowly,

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one organ at a time, as every nerve in your

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soft body crackles with endless pain. The universe will watch

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as you suffer and beg for a death that will

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not come until the very end. And then I will

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take your head home with me and place it upon

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my sister's grave so she may feast upon you in

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the afterlife. She seems nice. Donut send, I pulled a

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pin from my inventory and wrote, come and get it, bitch.

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I crumpled up the paper and tossed it at the door.

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So then they get the announcement that the hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run,

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and we start chapter eleven, and it turns out that

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Donut has to change out her charm and she doesn't

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want to do it because she likes the butterfly one.

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And she's like, I mean, honestly, all of this, I

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really deeply understand, I just do Stupid Angel the cocker

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spaniel had like four or five tags on her collar.

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She jingled like a bunch of rusty cowbells being dumped

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down the stairs whenever she walked. It had been instrumental

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in defeating the first Krakharen boss. It gave plus one

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to intelligence and plus four to Donut the light on

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your feet skill, which helps her jump. Her skill was

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still ten with the charm, and she could still sail

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through the air like an acrobat without it, just not

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as much, which was unfortunate. And the new one is turquoise,

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which she says, do I look like an elderly woman

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with smoke stained teeth sitting in a bingo hall? Which

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that is unfair to Turquoise, But okay, fine. It wasn't required.

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The charm wasn't required to enter the settlement menu and

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change stuff around. As we quickly learned, I'd already received

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a notification she'd changed the name from large Ersine Settlement

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to Point Mango. The system had also changed her name

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to Mayor Donut, but she'd quickly changed it back to princess. However,

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Mordecai said if she wanted to order the guards around,

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she needed to be wearing the charm. The benefits were

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much better anyway. Each jewel encrusted upon this charm represents

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the settlement old in control by the bear, which is

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this is some liter the thing that Carl got. In

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order to upgrade this necklace, you must first consert conquer

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an extra large sized settlement plus eight to dexterity, plus

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four to intelligence plus snitch. Level ten tax has received

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three five and ninety two gold every ten days, which

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is pretty significant, and snitch is if you are in

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a settlement, activating the scale will immediately alert all the

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town's guards, who will start to move to your location.

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At level five, a single guard will be immediately teleported,

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and at ten it'll be five, and at fifteen all

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the town's guards will be summoned to you. At ten,

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guards may be summoned up to one kilometer outside the

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city limits, and at level fifteen this will work with

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any settlement. Warning, summoning the guards doesn't mean that they'll

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do what you want. Plus there's no cool down, so

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but this is something that you don't want to abuse

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because they can get really cranky, interesting, very very helpful.

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If we can level it up, especially, that's the main thing.

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And in order to level something like this up. You've

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got to use it. Ah, that's tough, you know what

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I'm saying. I'm I am really curious how much he's

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going to utilize this. So Carl gets a notification here

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that a trap has killed a hunter and he got

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a gold Hunter Killer box, and he is like, oh damn,

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that's great, but also recognizes that those traps were set

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somewhat close to where they currently are, so they're moving

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way faster than he was really expecting. The Gold Hunter

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Killer Box contained thirty five thousand gold and a fat

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modeled gray hand of a hunter who'd been named Jagie.

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I held the trophy up to the ceiling. Hey, I said,

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wave the fat hand. If any of Jagie's family or

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friends are watching this, you can go fuck yourselves and

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maybe next time, if someone you know wants to go

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hunting innocent people for fun, you can tell them about

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how your idiot friend or son or dad once tried

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it and ended up dying on the first day. My my, my,

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I'm not mad at it, not at all, honestly. So Katya,

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she like messages him with information about the guilds and

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how they function, and it turns out that like Carl,

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and Donut both have said they don't want the responsibility

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of initiating because that means that they're the guild master,

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and Kashi doesn't want to do it either. IMMANI doesn't

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really want to do it. Ellie says, like I think

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if you ask, she will, but she doesn't seem to

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want to, and It says, let's see, we'll have to

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pool some money if we want to share the upgrades,

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and if you want to keep the training room. One

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of Batista's guys already has a stables upgrade that Donut

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will want the moment she sees it, and I'm super

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curious about that. So Karl is over here busy arming

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all of the guards, giving them a missile launcher. At

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this particular moment. In the distance, a group of Ursine

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watched as I passed out the weapons to the guards.

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Mordecai was there amongst them, speaking with a robed cleric

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bear who was gesticulating and shouting down at a tiny

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little Mordechai who was shouting back, and it mentions that

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Donut has named one of the funeral bells miss Nance,

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and the other Denalo, and I don't know if these

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are references. I think they have to be because they're

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so specific, but I don't know it for And there's

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a little bit more discussion with Katya about like the

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dynamics of the group and that the personalities are kind

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of clashing. They're doing the best they can, but it

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sounds tense to me. And let's see, the Ursine is

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saying you have to reinstitute the Naiad and dinosaur rules immediately.

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We live on the edge of the river. They're always

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attacking always, but they're not as bad as the lizards.

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Those things are the worst. They're always trying to get

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into town to eat us. And now that we're being

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led by a pagan monkey with a pet dinosaur, we

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are not protected by the gods. We have been safe

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only because we do not sin. If you refuse to

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reinstitute the Holy Shield of Piety and order, then you'll

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have to go out there and do something about the

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dinosaur menace. Shit, Mordecai mumbled. The moment the cleric guy

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finished his rand, he turned to look at me and donut. Sorry, guys,

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he said, she bishly, that was an accident. I was

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about to ask him what he meant when the notification

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came New Quest the recital, and it's about finding out

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what the hell is going on with these dinosaur attacks.

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Why are they attacking? And they later on me get

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information about how they didn't They weren't even here until

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that other attack that happened like years and years ago.

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00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:31,799
And if they do it, they get a gold quest

472
00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:35,880
box and a town upgrade, which Mordecai isn't sure what

473
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,880
that is. He does mention too that Donuts Town menu

474
00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:43,960
is a lot more involved than any he's ever seen,

475
00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:46,960
and that there are a lot of changes that he's

476
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,720
already noticed on this floor that has him kind of

477
00:31:49,759 --> 00:31:53,160
wondering what's going on because he thought he knew exactly

478
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,880
how this all was going to go, and he's getting

479
00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:00,920
some surprises, even in his own menu has changed. So

480
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:08,119
at this point, Donut is on Mongo's back and Mongo

481
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:13,319
zips away the way that he did once somebody had

482
00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:18,039
cast that spell that summoned pets to them. So she's

483
00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:20,440
on his back, and of course she isn't gonna jump down.

484
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,279
She won't leave him. Karl is so annoyed and it's

485
00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,799
so funny. Later on there's a moment where he tells her,

486
00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:30,680
like you know how you feel about Mongo. That's how

487
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,039
I feel about you. And I really wish that Carl

488
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:36,880
would keep that a little bit more in mind, that

489
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,279
she sees things that way when it comes to things

490
00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:44,680
like this where he's telling her to abandon Mongo. I know,

491
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,519
I get what he means about like Mongo will be fine,

492
00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:53,920
you know, but like he wouldn't leave Donut if she

493
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:57,359
were surrounded by a bunch of cats just because they're

494
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,240
also cats, Like he just gets so annoyed with Donut.

495
00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:04,960
But also if he put himself in her shoes and

496
00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:08,240
Mango were Donut, I know exactly how he'd be and

497
00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:11,160
it would be like this, you know, And it's he

498
00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:13,799
just doesn't really keep that in mind very well because

499
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:21,200
he gets so frustrated. So they take off through the

500
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:26,240
jungle with Carl in close pursuit behind them, and they

501
00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:30,000
come across a pack of dinosaurs. And when I say

502
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,480
a pack, it is not the like four or five

503
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,119
of just like Jurassic Park movie forty pairs of eyes.

504
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,839
Now I want to mention that they are wearing clothing.

505
00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:47,880
Some of them, like one of them has a shawl.

506
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,000
I am thinking that maybe these guys are like people

507
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:58,599
that got transformed somehow I don't know, but something is

508
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,359
really weird with them. And honestly, as soon as they

509
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:09,760
like come across these guys, I was not worried. It's

510
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,119
unfortunate that I was so not worried, because I think

511
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:21,559
the tension would have made this scene feel more urgent.

512
00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:27,000
But because I was so sure that things were going

513
00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:30,920
to work out, I felt like it actually dragged a

514
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,039
little bit and went on a little bit too long.

515
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:42,280
And like understandably, initially, both him and Dona are very

516
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,000
worried because Mango is significantly lower level than all of

517
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:52,880
these guys. Plus there's forty of them, you know, and

518
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,800
Carl keeps telling her like, we really need to go,

519
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,559
and she won't hear him and is calling out softly

520
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:05,039
to Mo. And then there is a sorry if you

521
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:10,920
heard that, guys, my dogs. Then there is a particular

522
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:14,400
dinosaur that steps forward and he gets a description of

523
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:19,559
Kiwi level sixty. They say, an asteroid is what wiped

524
00:35:19,599 --> 00:35:22,280
out the dinosaurs on this planet. I don't think that's

525
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,079
true if Kiwi and her pack of voracious, slightly insane

526
00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:29,280
velociraptors are even remotely like what you had roaming around

527
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,800
way back in the late Cretaceous period. I'm pretty sure

528
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:35,440
what really happened is that these ladies simply killed everyone

529
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,880
and everything. This is Kiwi, the head bitch in charge

530
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,880
of the jungle's fastest, most vicious, most clever predators, the

531
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,679
mongoliansis Take a gang of women convicts from a nineteen

532
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,519
seventies prison movie, combine them with a coalition of cheetahs

533
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:55,840
and a shoal of angry piranhas, and you have a

534
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,719
vague notion of just how screwed you are. This particular

535
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:04,079
path is comprised of only females. In fact, it appears

536
00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:07,920
all the dinosaurs in the area are female. That's pretty odd,

537
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,719
almost interesting. And here's an even more interesting, seemingly random,

538
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,440
but probably important fact. Dinosaur class monsters didn't exist in

539
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,920
the area before Scolopendro's nine tier attack. Yet here they are.

540
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:24,960
Where did they come from? If you weren't about to

541
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,480
die screaming, it would be something you might want to

542
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,360
look into. And then warning, this is a lizard class mob.

543
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,599
It will inflict twenty percent more damage against you thanks

544
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:38,760
to your extinct extinction sigil. And yes, I know dinosaurs

545
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,440
aren't really lizards. If we're being super technical get over it,

546
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:44,840
which I'd liked that because I immediately was like, they're not

547
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,519
lizards though, and then called me out appreciated it. So, yeah,

548
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,800
I'm curious about this because, like you know, Jurassic Park,

549
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,159
the whole thing was like, oh, they made them all

550
00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:57,519
females so that they couldn't reproduce, but nature finds a way,

551
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,119
And I am wondering if there is something to that here,

552
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:07,800
if this is like a reference. I don't know, but yeah,

553
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,840
I uh, like I said, I just was not worried

554
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:20,440
about this. Carl is telling Donut to cast snitch, and

555
00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:24,000
I just was like, bro, I just feel like that

556
00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:26,760
would make things so much worse. To me. That was

557
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,519
like a bad call. And she ignores him, and I'm glad,

558
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:35,840
but it just seemed to me like the guards, you

559
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,000
don't even know that they're gonna have stealth at all

560
00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:40,440
when they come towards you in the jungle. You're over

561
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,079
here hiding in the leaves, trying to like maybe slip

562
00:37:44,119 --> 00:37:46,960
away without being seen, and you're gonna ask a bunch

563
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,440
of dudes in armor with weapons to just come to

564
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:55,000
you in the jungle, like either you're gonna give yourself

565
00:37:55,079 --> 00:37:58,679
away or you're hoping that they will be enough of

566
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,960
a distraction that the dinosaurs will all attack them, but

567
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,119
either way, it just felt like a bad call. So

568
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,519
this is when Kiwi does this call that forces it's

569
00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:16,039
a It has a magical effect of making it so

570
00:38:16,079 --> 00:38:21,559
that Carl cannot step away in any direction. He can

571
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:24,960
move his upper body, apparently he can move his arms,

572
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:32,039
but not his legs. So he drinks an invisibility potion

573
00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:36,519
and tells Donut to have one, and she, instead of

574
00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:40,199
doing that, almost like jumps out into the fight. Because

575
00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:44,000
this is when Donut and Kiwi head toward each other.

576
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,199
And as soon as they had started the call that sound,

577
00:38:48,679 --> 00:38:52,079
I was like, oh, okay, they're mating. That's what's happening.

578
00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:55,960
And it's pretty quick that this is revealed to us,

579
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,599
like you know, and Donut very much like clutching her

580
00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,360
pearls at her sweet young boy and how he's been

581
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:09,599
tempted away by this Jezbel. We haven't even had the

582
00:39:09,679 --> 00:39:13,960
talk yet. She's taking advantage of him, and she's convinced

583
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,880
that like, as soon as they're done mating, Kiwi's gonna

584
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,119
kill him too, Which there's no reason to think that

585
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:24,599
with these guys they're not Mantis's. And she even blames

586
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:28,079
Carl and says, you and all your constant sex talk

587
00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:31,320
has turned him into a pervert, which is hilarious because

588
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:37,079
like Carl never talks about sex ever almost ever. So yeah,

589
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:38,800
I don't know what you're talking about there, girl, But

590
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,840
and let's see. Uh. I could still see the other

591
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,679
red dots just on the other side of the clearing.

592
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,719
They could easily catch us, but none were moving in

593
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,599
our direction. Yet we had to hurry, Mango, come back

594
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:58,000
to mommy. As soon as you're done, don'tnut called defeated,

595
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:00,519
I turned and jogged back to the town CenTra and

596
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,039
still clutching onto Donut. As soon as he gets back,

597
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:06,440
he's going into his cage. I'm turning the no Dinosaur

598
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:12,440
rull back on Donut grumbled, which does kind of work out.

599
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,519
So they go into this pub and he is trying

600
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:19,440
to calm her down, and she's like, what if he

601
00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:22,159
doesn't come back, we need to go out there, and

602
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:27,199
she's really freaking out and Carl is seeing it and

603
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,239
it's just like, look, I've seen her upset, but this

604
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:36,000
is something like did somebody put a spell that's affecting you?

605
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:41,800
Like maybe fear or something like that. And she keeps saying,

606
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:47,880
what if he doesn't come back? And finally, I'm really scared, Carl,

607
00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:52,519
And he says, I know, and that's okay. And she says,

608
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:58,159
you don't understand. It's getting worse every day, and he says,

609
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,440
talk to me. She looked as if she wanted to run,

610
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,000
like that look she got whenever somebody ran the vacuum

611
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,559
cleaner or bathtub donut. I said, changing tactics, it's okay,

612
00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:13,920
tell me when you're ready. We'll just sit here and

613
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,440
wait for Mango to come back. We didn't have time

614
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,199
for this, but I didn't know what else to do.

615
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:22,960
Doughnut was completely useless when she got into panic mode,

616
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,559
and worse, she was a danger to both of us.

617
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,320
I had to figure this out. I just really want

618
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,400
to point out how fucked up this is. He doesn't

619
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:41,199
say I'm genuinely worried about her. He doesn't say I

620
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:46,719
want to know what's going on. He says, we don't

621
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:51,719
have time, but she's useless otherwise and a danger, so

622
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:57,559
I have to. I don't care for it. I understand

623
00:41:57,599 --> 00:42:00,400
being practical, you guys know, I do, and sometimes to

624
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:04,800
my own detriment. I am overly practical. I get frustrated

625
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,800
with characters who are not. But here is a moment

626
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,559
where we are in his head, and if he really

627
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:14,119
gave a shit, it would be there, and it feels

628
00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:19,679
like it's not there now. Later, the way the conversation goes,

629
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:22,400
it seems to me like we get a resolution that

630
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,400
indicates he does give a shit, but it takes too

631
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,840
long and there's too much performance happening, and I don't

632
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,280
trust it. And I'm not saying that Karl doesn't care

633
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,880
about donut. Okay, I'm not saying that, but I am

634
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,920
saying that I am feeling like there is something happening

635
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:43,840
to him that I don't like just pointing it out.

636
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:48,400
So finally she says, I'm supposed to pretend like I

637
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,000
don't know, and I was doing good, but then Mongo

638
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:53,679
ran off and it just came out of nowhere, Like

639
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:55,679
that time Miss Beatrice got in the car accident when

640
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:57,280
we were on our way back from the Cat Show,

641
00:42:57,599 --> 00:42:59,719
and I'd been asleep and then suddenly there was this

642
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,119
big bang and I slammed against the side of the carrier,

643
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:05,880
and even though I wasn't hurt, it really, really scared me.

644
00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:08,320
And when I thought Mango was going to get eaten,

645
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,079
it felt like that crash all over again. You have

646
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,719
to pretend like you don't know what, I asked, What

647
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:22,519
does that mean? I can't. She took a breath. Everybody

648
00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:25,480
always leaves me, and I don't know why. Am I

649
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:29,960
really that awful? Where is this coming from? That's not

650
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:33,920
true at all, I said, Katcha left us, she said,

651
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,280
and you're doing more and more dangerous things. And I

652
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,079
told Mordecai it was okay, but it's not. You're going

653
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:41,679
to die because you're stupid and you don't even care

654
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,079
what happens to me. Mango is going to leave for

655
00:43:44,159 --> 00:43:51,320
some hussy. And then and then she stopped, what but

656
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,000
she just shook her head. I looked at her, confused,

657
00:43:55,079 --> 00:43:58,079
trying to puzzle it out. Before we'd gone out there

658
00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:00,920
and started organizing the town guards, I'd gone into the

659
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,280
crafting room to build a few more of the missile launchers.

660
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:05,719
Donut had trained to the magic room, working on her

661
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,159
laundry day spell. And then what she'd been on the

662
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:15,000
social media board reading comments, did somebody say something that

663
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:20,599
upset you? Somebody online? Her eyes started to shine and

664
00:44:20,639 --> 00:44:27,440
I knew I was right. Her mouth quavered. Zev. Hey, guys, Carl,

665
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,800
bad timing, Zev. Zev, I just wanted to quickly touch base.

666
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,119
We rearrange the schedule a little. You'll be visiting with

667
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:37,559
Outdette later today. Try not to schedule a boss battle

668
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:41,960
or anything during that time, and Dona asks if everything

669
00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:45,280
is cool, and then Zev, I want to also remind you, Carl,

670
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,039
you'll be receiving some extra scrutiny before you go into

671
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:49,880
the trailer, which I'm assuming is going to be like

672
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:56,039
a fucking cavity search. And then you'll be fine because

673
00:44:56,039 --> 00:45:01,360
you're both really strong and brave, especially you Donut. And

674
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,679
Carl is like, okay, thanks Zev, but we're busy, so

675
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,320
kindly leave us be. But the moment I sent the message,

676
00:45:08,639 --> 00:45:13,079
I realized that timing was no coincidence. Zev rarely interrupted

677
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:15,679
us when we were in the middle of something, especially drama.

678
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,039
I knew Zev and Donut were somehow communicating via the

679
00:45:19,079 --> 00:45:21,760
social media board, but I had no idea how, and

680
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,360
I had no way of safely asking her without putting

681
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:29,599
everybody in danger. Zev's uncharacteristic interruption was a not so

682
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:32,840
subtle warning to drop it and get a chance to

683
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,559
ask both of them freely when we were in the

684
00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:39,639
production trailer, and it was so funny because like the

685
00:45:39,679 --> 00:45:42,480
way that he interpreted this wasn't where I was going

686
00:45:42,519 --> 00:45:47,519
with it at all. I instantly thought that it was

687
00:45:47,599 --> 00:45:51,719
Zev trying to comfort Donut and be like, hey, I'm here,

688
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,039
and you're both really strong and brave, you know, like

689
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,719
this was I didn't see what he meant. And I

690
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,199
think Carl's right for the record, like this is not

691
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,119
me saying I disagree. It's just that I came to

692
00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:06,559
a different conclusion than him, and once I stopped to

693
00:46:06,559 --> 00:46:08,880
think about it, I was kind of like, oh, that

694
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:16,159
would make sense. Shit, you know. So he shifts the

695
00:46:16,159 --> 00:46:19,719
conversation away from the message board. But I'm wondering if

696
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,480
somebody has said something about B. It's weird because we

697
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:29,079
know bees alive, and I'm wondering if there's been some

698
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,639
news shared about that of people who are fucking with her,

699
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,639
or like, I don't know who knows what out there.

700
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,360
I don't know what Odet's up to with B in

701
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:43,119
the first place. I feel like she is gearing up

702
00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:47,719
to do something kind of underhanded that she sees as

703
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:51,639
ultimately helpful but is in the short term quite exploitative.

704
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,239
I feel like that's sort of Odette's whole bag, to

705
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,079
be honest. It's like, I'm gonna do my best to

706
00:47:00,159 --> 00:47:01,760
help you, but in the meanwhile, I am going to

707
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,840
make my fucking money and you are not going to

708
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:09,639
get in the way of my bag. So here it is.

709
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:14,400
He says, donut, I'll consult you. I'm not going to

710
00:47:14,519 --> 00:47:17,480
leave you. And she says, but what about the ninth floor,

711
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,280
And we are reminded of the whole thing with the

712
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:28,960
sepsis whoror and how everybody who is it says royal

713
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,760
members of the blood Sultan that will be required to

714
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,599
slay the Sultan and all the other members of the

715
00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:38,639
royal family before descending to the tenth floor. And he says,

716
00:47:39,079 --> 00:47:42,920
we'll deal with it when we get there, and she

717
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,800
gives him a look and he realizes I've been saying that,

718
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:52,599
And then we have that feeling that ceaseless river within

719
00:47:52,679 --> 00:47:58,360
my mind roared, something within me broke, A decision was made.

720
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:01,400
I thought of my mother holding my hand as we

721
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,239
stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon. I thought

722
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,400
of my father in the car behind us, waiting a

723
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:12,559
tidal wave of potential energy. This was the same. This

724
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,320
was the same exact moment. I didn't know how I

725
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,320
knew that, but it was you can do that. I thought,

726
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,159
you can recognize these moments when they appear. You know,

727
00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:28,000
it didn't occur to me, you guys, that whole thing

728
00:48:28,119 --> 00:48:32,199
with the Grand Canyon, because at the time, I think

729
00:48:32,199 --> 00:48:34,920
I mentioned how my father would stay very apart from

730
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,400
things and it would be me and my mom. But

731
00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:41,559
looking at it now, I am wondering if it had

732
00:48:41,639 --> 00:48:44,400
been we are both on the verge of jumping off,

733
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:46,119
or my mom is on the verge of jumping off

734
00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:49,559
and bringing me with her. Now I'm kind of understanding

735
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:53,800
what might have been the tension there in a very

736
00:48:53,840 --> 00:49:03,679
different way than what I originally thought. And this is

737
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,719
when he tells her, how worried you are about Mango

738
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,679
is how I feel about you, And she says, really,

739
00:49:11,039 --> 00:49:15,480
do you really mean that? Her voice was so full

740
00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:19,519
of genuine longing that it hurt my heart. I know

741
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,239
I haven't said this to you directly before, and I'm

742
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,039
sorry that I haven't, But I will not leave you

743
00:49:25,119 --> 00:49:29,039
behind on the ninth or any other floor, I promise you, Okay,

744
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:32,280
we are a team and nothing is going to break

745
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:37,559
us up, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what.

746
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,440
We held that way for several moments. Doughnut trembled, and

747
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,880
I realized I was trembling too. Anybody watching this from

748
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,840
the outside wouldn't understand what had just happened. That was okay,

749
00:49:51,119 --> 00:49:55,239
some things weren't meant for others to understand. So, like

750
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,920
I said, I believe this is real, this moment, that

751
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,559
he does really care about her, that he is committing,

752
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,039
and that he is like we are in this together.

753
00:50:05,159 --> 00:50:09,119
But it just bothered me the way that it started

754
00:50:09,159 --> 00:50:11,199
and how he was thinking when he went into it,

755
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,519
And I feel like it is indicative of something going

756
00:50:13,559 --> 00:50:16,760
on with him on another level that is making him colder,

757
00:50:17,559 --> 00:50:27,599
and it's worrying, you know. So Doughnut comes home at

758
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:31,639
this point and interrupts their whole thing. Mango like passes

759
00:50:31,679 --> 00:50:37,760
out because he's super tired, and then Donut says that

760
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,480
the dinosaurs that she can see their dots have turned white,

761
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:46,519
but for Carl they're still red. So evidently her being

762
00:50:46,639 --> 00:50:51,280
like Mango's mommy has gotten her some goodwill from them,

763
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,719
so that they are at least neutral, which might be

764
00:50:54,920 --> 00:51:00,320
very helpful. And she's looking out and she says, there's

765
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,960
more out there. They weren't there before, but there's a

766
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,639
really big one. It turned around and it's moving away.

767
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:08,639
I don't know if it makes a difference, but I

768
00:51:08,679 --> 00:51:11,360
believe you're correct. I better turn the no dinosaur rule

769
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:18,239
back on. I caught a glint of something in the forest,

770
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,679
like light shining off of prism. Just as I tried

771
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:24,079
to focus on the light, the day became dark and

772
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:27,599
it started to rain. So yeah, I'm wondering if there's

773
00:51:27,639 --> 00:51:30,639
like something out there that did this to people, you know?

774
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,920
And she says, do you think she got pregnant? And

775
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,800
Carl just says most definitely, which I find very funny.

776
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,039
There's no way to know that, but like you know,

777
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:49,679
gut instincts. So then we get new achievement double billed.

778
00:51:50,039 --> 00:51:52,079
You are one of the first five crawlers to receive

779
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:54,239
double billing. I bet you don't know what that means.

780
00:51:54,639 --> 00:51:57,679
This is similar to switchovers, but this time it's on purpose.

781
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,800
I bet that didn't help at all. Reward you have

782
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:06,440
received a platinum fan box, and it turns out Donut

783
00:52:06,599 --> 00:52:11,480
didn't get this achievement. So that's interesting to me that

784
00:52:11,519 --> 00:52:13,559
it's only Carl that got it, and I'm wondering what

785
00:52:13,639 --> 00:52:19,280
that is about. I cursed, took a deep breath, and

786
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,840
padded donut. The rain was getting heavier by the moment,

787
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,400
and it pelted into us. Are we good? No more

788
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:30,199
panic attacks? Really, Carl, I don't know what you're talking about. Good.

789
00:52:30,559 --> 00:52:34,199
I said, time to get back to work, and that

790
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:39,440
is the end of the chapter. So yeah, I have

791
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:42,960
a lot of questions, the fact that I can't remember

792
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:49,679
what the note from that bitch said, uh Vra. But

793
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:58,039
did she have all the other Hunters become worshipers of

794
00:52:58,119 --> 00:53:03,400
embrass or like her own group of whoever happens to

795
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,639
be following her, Because like, I just want to say

796
00:53:07,639 --> 00:53:12,559
that if it's everybody that's genius, I don't think that

797
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:16,519
it's possible, more than likely for her to influence everybody.

798
00:53:16,559 --> 00:53:19,280
Probably it's just like a group that she has. Oh,

799
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,440
Saraphim says, not the Hunters, the NPC guards in the town.

800
00:53:23,679 --> 00:53:28,480
Oh right, thank you. I was thinking it was the Hunters.

801
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:32,119
I actually I don't know if the Hunters can worship

802
00:53:32,159 --> 00:53:34,599
any god. Is that something that's an option for them.

803
00:53:35,079 --> 00:53:40,280
I have to assume it's an option. But yeah, I

804
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:46,920
that is a real sneaky little move there, My goodness.

805
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,000
I wonder how she managed it from where she was

806
00:53:50,039 --> 00:53:56,920
because they weren't out yet, So how did she do that? Like,

807
00:54:01,559 --> 00:54:06,480
I don't know, I'm I feel like there's a piece

808
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,480
of information in there that's like maybe kind of important

809
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:16,960
that I either don't know or am missing. Michael says

810
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,320
she was the mayor of the town. Oh right, the

811
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,960
city where he It's not where they are, right. I

812
00:54:23,039 --> 00:54:25,920
keep forgetting that, Like, you know, there's this teleportation magic

813
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,880
that allows them to attack that spot right right, right right.

814
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:31,559
It's such a shame. Man. That would have been so

815
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,719
effective if he had been able to pull it off.

816
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,400
I appreciate that somebody is like a step ahead of him.

817
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,239
I want that in a story like this, you know,

818
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:47,679
but it would have really been a hell of a moment.

819
00:54:48,639 --> 00:54:52,119
And I can't help but like a part of me

820
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,840
just being hmm, I wanted to see it, you know

821
00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:04,559
what I'm saying. Anyway, I just really I'm worried about him.

822
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:08,480
I feel good about the conversation with Dona in general.

823
00:55:09,079 --> 00:55:11,199
I think that she believes him I think that he

824
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:17,719
is telling the truth. It's interesting to me that he

825
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,599
hadn't actually made up his mind yet, because I don't

826
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:24,480
know about y'all. But when he said we'll deal with

827
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:27,519
it when we get there, I was very much interpreting

828
00:55:27,559 --> 00:55:31,639
that as like, we'll deal with the implications of killing

829
00:55:31,679 --> 00:55:34,840
them when we get there, not we will deal with

830
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:39,360
whether I stay in your party when we get there.

831
00:55:40,079 --> 00:55:45,400
So him having to spell it out that he isn't

832
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,519
leaving her, it's not just that he has to spell

833
00:55:48,519 --> 00:55:52,239
it out. It's that because, like you know, sometimes people

834
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,199
just need reassurance. But we're in his head and so

835
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:59,480
we see that he hadn't actually decided that yet. This

836
00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:03,840
is something that he is coming to this conclusion as

837
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,679
we are in his mind, and he is deciding to

838
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:13,360
say it out loud and commit himself. I genuinely thought

839
00:56:13,679 --> 00:56:17,039
that we were here already, that he was already thinking

840
00:56:17,079 --> 00:56:20,280
he was never going to leave donut. I'm not mad

841
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:25,960
at him, you know, but I am a little startled

842
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:34,320
by it. I just assumed. So let's see, Sarahim says, Yeah,

843
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,280
Carl was just trying to focus on the current issue

844
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,679
of surviving the floor and didn't want to worry about

845
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,760
later potential trouble with Michael said, I think it was

846
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,599
part of that. Initially Carl thought she was getting upset

847
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:48,639
over something he considered minor. He didn't realize she was

848
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:53,239
really upset about something deeper. That's fair, Sarahim says, I

849
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,400
gather it's less he ever thought of him doing it,

850
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,079
as he just never thought of it at all. Maybe

851
00:56:59,199 --> 00:57:01,480
it just feels like if he has already said we'll

852
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,239
deal with it when we get there, it's come up

853
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,639
enough that he should have been thinking about it, Like

854
00:57:10,559 --> 00:57:16,599
after everything, I would have expected him to have already said,

855
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:20,639
of course, I'm not leaving you in words, you know.

856
00:57:22,519 --> 00:57:24,880
And like I said, I'm not mad at him over this.

857
00:57:25,039 --> 00:57:30,280
It's just I was just taken aback because in my head,

858
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,079
this decision was made already and we were done, and

859
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:39,119
finding out that not only is Doughnut unsure, but that

860
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:45,000
inside Carl's head he even is unsure. I was kind

861
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:49,599
of floored by that because the idea that he might

862
00:57:49,639 --> 00:57:52,239
walk away because of this, Oh my god, I would

863
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,000
never forgive him. Viewers would never forgive him. There would

864
00:57:55,039 --> 00:57:57,159
be really like, there's no way that he could do

865
00:57:57,239 --> 00:58:04,280
that with this viewerships set up the way that it is,

866
00:58:05,239 --> 00:58:09,239
I just feel like everybody would turn on him, you

867
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:13,199
know what I'm saying. And I'm not trying to say

868
00:58:13,239 --> 00:58:16,920
like that's the only reason that he would ever stay.

869
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,239
I am just saying like, if you're coming at it

870
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,559
from an angle of like what's best for you, if

871
00:58:22,559 --> 00:58:25,559
you want to be really mercenary about it, what's best

872
00:58:25,599 --> 00:58:29,719
for you is to stay with her anyway. But yeah,

873
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:35,960
so I'm trying to think of there was something else

874
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,840
here that came up for me that I was like,

875
00:58:38,159 --> 00:58:40,199
it sort of caught my attention, and I can't remember

876
00:58:40,239 --> 00:58:44,320
what it was. Fuck, I feel like it was something

877
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,400
to do with the dinosaurs. But the guild thing is

878
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,639
really interesting to me. And you know, I love the

879
00:58:51,679 --> 00:58:54,559
fact that my assumption one hundred percent was like, oh,

880
00:58:54,639 --> 00:58:57,239
Carl will be the guild master, you know, like I

881
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:03,440
just once again assume, and turns out that he's already

882
00:59:03,519 --> 00:59:05,880
said like, no, I don't want to do that, which

883
00:59:06,559 --> 00:59:08,239
I think is for the best. He doesn't need to

884
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:13,039
be in charge of anything anymore, not anymore, but like

885
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,920
anything more than what he's already been in charge of.

886
00:59:18,599 --> 00:59:24,079
This is so much responsibility. It really is and I

887
00:59:24,199 --> 00:59:28,000
just think that's the right call. Do not not wanting

888
00:59:28,039 --> 00:59:31,480
to be in charge. I mean that's a given, don't

889
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:37,719
I love you? But like honey, no INMANI being potentially

890
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:42,840
willing to do it if she is asked. Ah, that's

891
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,440
one of those things that like, she is such a

892
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,679
caretaker that a part of me is like, don't ask

893
00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:52,760
her to do that. It's already so much, you know

894
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:59,599
what I'm saying. But she might be great at it

895
00:59:59,599 --> 01:00:04,400
because she's a caretaker and she has sort of been

896
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:08,360
somebody who manages the living situation for people in the past,

897
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,760
so she might be perfect for something like this. I

898
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:20,679
don't know anyway. I just I'm really really interested in

899
01:00:20,719 --> 01:00:24,320
seeing how all of that works, in particular because it

900
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:30,800
means like new advantages and maybe new toys. The Platinum Fanbox.

901
01:00:31,519 --> 01:00:35,280
Really excited for that. Usually in these books, when we

902
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,079
get the notification of a fanbox, it's like four or

903
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:43,360
five chapters from when it's mentioned that they finally open it.

904
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,480
So I am assuming that, like the next episode I record,

905
01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:49,800
it won't be in that section. I might be wrong.

906
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:56,079
If it is, I'm delighted, but I am very very platinum,

907
01:00:56,119 --> 01:00:58,719
Like have they gotten a platinum fanbox before they might

908
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,639
have I feel like they might have of double billing.

909
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,960
The fact that Donut didn't get this, that's what worries me.

910
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,000
If it were an achievement for him and Donut, then

911
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,800
I think she'd get it. But the fact that he

912
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:18,480
hasn't gotten it, I don't know what the fuck that means.

913
01:01:19,079 --> 01:01:26,599
Like could this have to do with B. They don't

914
01:01:26,639 --> 01:01:30,920
have B though, I don't know what Odette is planning there.

915
01:01:32,199 --> 01:01:36,039
I just and I do want to mention about B

916
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,360
because like when we saw her, this dude who was

917
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:45,239
with her, what was his name, Luke God, he fucking

918
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,440
sucks so bad. I'm assuming that he is dead at

919
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:52,719
this point, which is fine. And the way that he

920
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:57,119
was talking about how she just didn't want to like

921
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:03,960
work and participate in the in the the community that

922
01:02:04,039 --> 01:02:08,639
was being built, Like this is the sort of thing

923
01:02:08,679 --> 01:02:12,920
where if it were somebody else, I would give the

924
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,599
benefit of the doubt. That the waybe was acting, it

925
01:02:16,639 --> 01:02:22,039
seemed like she had come pretty unhinged and that maybe

926
01:02:22,079 --> 01:02:28,480
she isn't contributing because something cracked and is broken, you know,

927
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:32,159
And that's still maybe true. But the thing is, I've

928
01:02:32,199 --> 01:02:37,079
heard enough about Bee to really have formed an opinion

929
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:41,719
Tom of her, and I don't think she deserves the

930
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:47,679
benefit of the doubt really on anything. Frankly, so I

931
01:02:48,079 --> 01:02:51,440
sort of am just taking it as he describes it

932
01:02:51,719 --> 01:02:58,400
at face value, that she is just spoiled and uncooperative

933
01:02:58,519 --> 01:03:03,519
and self absorbed and a brat. That's pretty much the

934
01:03:03,559 --> 01:03:06,960
way I'm seeing it. And maybe I'm not giving her

935
01:03:07,199 --> 01:03:12,760
enough grace considering everything, but if I'm not, you didn't

936
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:19,440
earn it by your previous actions. Be There's also you

937
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,480
know the fact that like the way she's singing to

938
01:03:22,039 --> 01:03:25,159
Gravy Boat, it felt very much like everything she was

939
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saying to him about how she was sorry was actually

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her apologizing to Carl, and that she has a lot

941
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of regrets about how all of that went down. And

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it's very hard for me to have any sympathy for

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that because the thing that happened was that after she

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01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,360
had been like cheating on him for years, he finally

945
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:54,280
dumped her. So it's very surprised, Pikachi face. There were

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01:03:54,280 --> 01:04:01,039
consequences for what I was doing. And honestly, if the

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only thing that brought you to your senses was being dumped,

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you don't care about him at all. It's not about him.

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So like this this thing that I think is happening

950
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,960
where she's like transposing her guilt onto this cat, keep it,

951
01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:19,159
keep your guilt. It's worth nothing, and I don't buy

952
01:04:19,199 --> 01:04:27,000
it anyway, you know. But anyway, Yeah, she's either way

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a disaster right now. And I don't know what happens

954
01:04:31,239 --> 01:04:33,679
if they do get her face to face with Carl,

955
01:04:34,159 --> 01:04:39,559
Like I genuinely can't imagine what he would do, how

956
01:04:39,639 --> 01:04:44,960
Donut would react, Like I genuinely I don't know. I'm

957
01:04:45,519 --> 01:04:48,440
not even sure if that's something that's like in the

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01:04:48,519 --> 01:04:52,360
cards anytime soon. It might have been just a tease

959
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,440
that gets drawn out for a while, and it's not

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01:04:55,559 --> 01:05:01,840
until like two books from now that anything happens, you know. Anyway.

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So I'm gonna wrap up, but I appreciate you all

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so much for coming and hanging out with me. Thank

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you very much for listening. I hope that y'all are

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enjoying the coverage. And until next time to the loom, motherfuckers.

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That was an unspoiled network podcast