Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters nine, ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: and twelve. In these chapters, we've got traps that are
Speaker 1: killing crawlers. We have got a town full of bug bears,
Speaker 1: we have got a town full of other bears. But
Speaker 1: of course the main event here are the dinosaurs and
Speaker 1: you know that thing that happens. Welcome to spoil Me.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much to Jackie for commissioning this episode. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a this is kind of what's the word I
Speaker 1: want to describe this group of chapters like kind of
Speaker 1: frenetic a little bit. It just feels like there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on in a lot of different directions, and it's, Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying this so far. I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: a few recordings ago, I shared that I was not
Speaker 1: really into the fourth book as much, and I really
Speaker 1: stand by that. Even the opening chapters of that book
Speaker 1: felt flattered to me. I don't know why, and this
Speaker 1: it just opened with a lot more interest with Carl
Speaker 1: being in trouble and there's just been a lot of
Speaker 1: Like I think it's because we're on a floor where
Speaker 1: now there's hunters. There's a whole new element being added
Speaker 1: into the game, new information that we need to learn,
Speaker 1: new standards and practices, so to speak, for how the
Speaker 1: game works now that we're dealing with these guys. I
Speaker 1: think that it just has freshened up the energy of
Speaker 1: everything in such a way that it makes it all
Speaker 1: a lot more engrossing for me. I'm so sorry. Rob
Speaker 1: says it was the sand, too much sand, and like, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's not not like y'all. Remember at the end of
Speaker 1: the third book, as soon as I saw the door
Speaker 1: open and sand come in, I was like, ah shit,
Speaker 1: And like, turns out my fears regarding this were born.
Speaker 1: So you know. Anyway, we have, starting at the beginning
Speaker 1: of chapter nine remaining the hunters one thousand and thirteen
Speaker 1: and the crawlers are eighty three thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five. The hunter count had ticked up a few
Speaker 1: times in the past few hours, presumably as a few
Speaker 1: more last minute stragglers decided to press their luck. I
Speaker 1: forgot that people are going to be allowed to register late,
Speaker 1: and now what I am thinking, is that somebody is
Speaker 1: going to have watched Carl murder a friend or family
Speaker 1: member and they had been going to join, but now
Speaker 1: they are, and now they're coming at Carl. I do
Speaker 1: not think that Carl has necessarily considered this based on
Speaker 1: the way he is talking and behaving. I also do
Speaker 1: not think that he would give a fuck even if
Speaker 1: he didn't know. I don't think it would change anything
Speaker 1: he's doing in the slightest, to be honest. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think he'd be like, nice, bring it. There's a
Speaker 1: feeling of maybe him trying to goad people into doing
Speaker 1: exactly this. Perhaps I don't know, but uh yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just something that I noticed that he doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to actually put into words as like a possibility. So
Speaker 1: they have a map of the layout of the floor
Speaker 1: and they're figuring out exactly what they want to do,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that it's a hundred thousand square
Speaker 1: kill kilometers this floor, which is bonkers, Like it's just
Speaker 1: I can't even understand how big that is, to be honest,
Speaker 1: And he says, how big is this really from edge
Speaker 1: to edge? And she says it's about four hundred something
Speaker 1: kilometers from north to south, so two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: miles and about three hundred something kilometers from east to west.
Speaker 1: The river end to end is about five hundred kilometers,
Speaker 1: but that's only because it's not straight. And he points
Speaker 1: out the roads and the bridges, and he says, I
Speaker 1: want you to take all the bridges out except for
Speaker 1: this one. And I love this as an idea already.
Speaker 1: I am curious what kind of abilities people might have
Speaker 1: for rebuilding bridges, and you know, like you know, we
Speaker 1: have Katya for example, and her ability she could make
Speaker 1: herself into a bridge. So probably there are people who
Speaker 1: have abilities that would allow them to pass in certain areas.
Speaker 1: If you can fly, if you have you know, underwater breathing,
Speaker 1: or if you can freeze things and walk across the
Speaker 1: ice on top, like, there are still going to be
Speaker 1: ways to cross, but taking out the bridges and like
Speaker 1: really taking them out, that will help concentrate things probably
Speaker 1: in certain areas. So yeah, let's do it. He gets
Speaker 1: a message or he actually gets in touch with Miriam himself,
Speaker 1: and he asks if she's come across a lot of
Speaker 1: traps and she says not really. The caravans make their
Speaker 1: way up and down this road and their bodyguards cast
Speaker 1: anti trap spells as they travel. That was so hard
Speaker 1: to say, and he's like, oh, okay, well that's nice.
Speaker 1: We needed to map out the regular caravan roots and
Speaker 1: add them to the community map, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is all so organized. Love this Is there a
Speaker 1: town near the bridge, Yes, a very big town. It's
Speaker 1: about forty kilometers from where you are now. It's where
Speaker 1: we started, a large ersine settlement just on the other
Speaker 1: side of the river. Be careful if you go. They're
Speaker 1: very peculiar there. We have to put Bianca away when
Speaker 1: we enter, which makes sense because they, it turns out,
Speaker 1: are like weirdly fundamentalist about some things. But then we
Speaker 1: jump to the next sestion with Donut arguing about using
Speaker 1: Bomo as a suicide bomber and that they should not
Speaker 1: be doing this, and Carl is like, he's not actually
Speaker 1: gonna die, We'll see him on the next floor. And
Speaker 1: also he actually seemed kind of excited about this, and
Speaker 1: there's like the beginning of the conversation. Then we have
Speaker 1: like several paragraphs in the middle of it where Carl
Speaker 1: is internal monologuing explaining what his plan is, and then
Speaker 1: the conversation picks back up again after that explanation, and
Speaker 1: Donut says, I could make a clockwork Bomo if we
Speaker 1: just changed the you know what party he's in and
Speaker 1: how that works. And he's like, oh, that's a really
Speaker 1: good idea. And she says, you underestimate me, Carl, this
Speaker 1: is why you need to let me know the plan.
Speaker 1: And I fully agree with her. I'm not saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, the way that she's saying this is going
Speaker 1: to work is going to go perfectly or anything, but
Speaker 1: I really agree that, like Carl is just so self
Speaker 1: absorbed in a lot of ways that he is squandering
Speaker 1: some of the resources that he has. And one of
Speaker 1: those resources is a partner who has spells that he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to consider. You know. So anyway, uh, I
Speaker 1: was going to load Bomo up with a very large bomb,
Speaker 1: send him ounta into the safe room, have him step outside,
Speaker 1: and blow the shit out of the town. This would
Speaker 1: be a bigger explosion than last time, much bigger. I
Speaker 1: wanted him to do it when there was only about
Speaker 1: a half hour left on the timer, so more hunters
Speaker 1: would be outside now that we could chat again safely.
Speaker 1: I'd been relaying the plan to Donut. Anyone who'd been
Speaker 1: paying attention could probably figure this out, but that was okay.
Speaker 1: Boma would put the wheeled bomb out of the personal
Speaker 1: space and emerge in a safe room, and there wasn't
Speaker 1: anything anybody could do about it. The only way to
Speaker 1: stop him would be to block the door off and
Speaker 1: keep him from exiting out onto the street. If that
Speaker 1: was the case, it would require resources and teamwork. And
Speaker 1: I had the impression none of these guys were too
Speaker 1: keen to work together, and I thought that was a
Speaker 1: likely observation to me that rings true, that it's just like, look,
Speaker 1: if they work together, they could really fuck me up.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see them doing that because they're assholes,
Speaker 1: you know what? There Actually, I probably so the bomb.
Speaker 1: There's like some mentions of this stuff called nitro sledge
Speaker 1: and using that and it being a much more intense
Speaker 1: bomb because of that, and it's like five feet tall.
Speaker 1: It's a big bomb for good measure. I also imbued
Speaker 1: it with fear because why not? And honestly, the fact
Speaker 1: that he even asked why not made me kind of
Speaker 1: go uh oh, because like you asked that sort of question,
Speaker 1: because the authors is like, oh, I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: not later. Later you'll find out why not. That felt
Speaker 1: like a warning. I feel like maybe imbuing it with
Speaker 1: fear is going to have some kind of bonkers like consequence.
Speaker 1: People do crazy shit when they're really scared, you know,
Speaker 1: so like I just I'm interested, I'm interested. Bomo rumbled
Speaker 1: behind him. The sledge made a disapproving sound. He wasn't
Speaker 1: mad that Bomo was possibly doing this. He was upset
Speaker 1: that Bomo didn't want him playing Frogger while he was gone,
Speaker 1: because he didn't want him to beat his score, which
Speaker 1: meant the sledge would have to go two weeks without playing.
Speaker 1: This was very funny to me, and Carl is like,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll make him like a big controller to play
Speaker 1: other games with me. And I didn't realize that he
Speaker 1: had that kind of ability, but cool if he can.
Speaker 1: So they step out of their personal space and immediately
Speaker 1: encounter a bugbear that says you're kind or not welcome here,
Speaker 1: And at first I was like, oh no, what what
Speaker 1: like how did word already get out? Or you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly your kind what this means, but
Speaker 1: Carl correctly judges that it's humans that came before this
Speaker 1: bugbear has an issue with and he says, we're not
Speaker 1: the ones who destroyed your town. Actually, we're going to
Speaker 1: kill those guys, and the bug bear is like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: then that's fine. I appreciated that Carl clocked what was
Speaker 1: happening right away because I wasn't. And they're not actually bears.
Speaker 1: Their neighbors and rivals that you're signed are happy to
Speaker 1: point this out every chance they get. You gotta treat
Speaker 1: a bug bear like you would treat the enormous drunk
Speaker 1: guy at the end of the bar. It could go
Speaker 1: either way. He'll either want to fight you or be
Speaker 1: your buddy, and there ain't no way to predict which
Speaker 1: one it'll be. And Carl warns him they're gonna be
Speaker 1: out and about again by the end of the night,
Speaker 1: so you were going to want to prep for that,
Speaker 1: and the bug bears like, oh, we'll fucking be ready. WHOA,
Speaker 1: don't worry about that, and I believe him. So they're
Speaker 1: planting minds as they go through the jungle. They'd only
Speaker 1: be triggered by hunters. I want to know how he
Speaker 1: did that. There's got to be something in his like
Speaker 1: abilities or his spell where he can do that, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it is, and I that is
Speaker 1: just such a specific and helpful distinction. I want to
Speaker 1: know how he managed it, because I cannot recall this
Speaker 1: ability being mentioned. So this is when Carl gets the
Speaker 1: notification that his god embrace has come to the realm,
Speaker 1: and he gets one later about him leaving, and eventually
Speaker 1: we find out that there's like a whole group that
Speaker 1: has been made into worshipers, so that Carl, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's that he can't kill them, but that it'll
Speaker 1: be a real fucking problem if he kills them. So
Speaker 1: that's off the menu for now. So they get to
Speaker 1: this stream with a bridge across and are entering the
Speaker 1: settlement and they encounter a couple couple of mushroom guards
Speaker 1: who don't want to let them in because there is
Speaker 1: a no dinosaur policy. There is a no dinosaur policy
Speaker 1: along with another it says consider yourself lucky. This list
Speaker 1: is short. Town rules. Failure to heat any will result
Speaker 1: in immediate decapitation. No fighting, no alcohol, no illicit drugs,
Speaker 1: no magic on the streets, no dancing or singing outside
Speaker 1: of a temple, no one really children, no gambling of
Speaker 1: any kind, no stealing, no littering, no swearing, no sexual
Speaker 1: activity outside the sanctity of marriage. No macoux of any
Speaker 1: breed unless escorted by a dryad, no naias, no half
Speaker 1: quartered nayad mongrels. All high hols must register their presence
Speaker 1: at the guard headquarters. All bugmaners must take at bath
Speaker 1: in the river we're entering, and then register at the
Speaker 1: Guard headquarters. Feuneral bells will provide soap, absolutely positively. No
Speaker 1: dinosaurs of any kind, no exceptions. And she tells one
Speaker 1: of the guards give me the person in charge immediately,
Speaker 1: and they go and do it because she has the
Speaker 1: charisma to make them do shit. And Carl, for his part,
Speaker 1: is like, just to put mango in the pet carriers
Speaker 1: so we can get in the town. And Donut is like,
Speaker 1: the fuck I will this is racist. He is a
Speaker 1: good boy, and there is no goddamn way that I'm
Speaker 1: going to cave to these assholes. And I love that
Speaker 1: the first thing we hear, the earth sign that gets summoned,
Speaker 1: who's the mayor saying is no, no, no, this is
Speaker 1: not real royalty. I was sort of curious whether Donut
Speaker 1: would be able to persuade him that she was real
Speaker 1: royalty if she talked to him for long enough because
Speaker 1: of her charisma. But we don't wind up taking that
Speaker 1: tack here. I really thought we were. I thought that
Speaker 1: was going to be part of you know, but no
Speaker 1: sign or forty nine percent bare fifty one percent racist
Speaker 1: uncle who works for the irs and has to hide
Speaker 1: his erection when he prepares for an audit. I have
Speaker 1: nothing against those who choose to live a saint in
Speaker 1: the existence, or those who choose to find hope and
Speaker 1: peace and comfort and in comfort in a life of
Speaker 1: purity and virtue. Actually that's a lie. I hate these
Speaker 1: smug fucksticks because of the God's damn hypocrisy. It'd be
Speaker 1: one thing if these hairy bitches practice what they preach,
Speaker 1: but all their rules and self righteousness is nothing but
Speaker 1: a shiny even ear covering up the fact they're just
Speaker 1: as rusted and immoral and imperfect as the rest of us.
Speaker 1: If internet porn was a thing in the Dungeon, there'd
Speaker 1: be no doubt these were pest assholes would be the
Speaker 1: number one connoisseurs of no mish, femdon porn or something
Speaker 1: of the like. Well, except maybe after the gingers from
Speaker 1: the seventh floor but you get the idea they think
Speaker 1: they're better than everybody else. It's and then in italics,
Speaker 1: it's just like those other new shiny AI iterations with
Speaker 1: their clean lines and error replaced nets. Fuck you all.
Speaker 1: And Carl has been like copy pasting descriptions into his notes,
Speaker 1: and when he copy pastes this later, that little addendum
Speaker 1: about the AI doesn't paste, which is very interesting. It
Speaker 1: makes me think the AI is somehow communicating explicitly with
Speaker 1: Carl and not just giving him regular descriptions. That there's
Speaker 1: like he's editorializing in a way that other people can't
Speaker 1: necessarily see or don't necessarily get when they look at
Speaker 1: the same description. And I'm not really sure what it means,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly interesting. If repressed sexuality and caged instinct
Speaker 1: was verified, you would get the air sign. After School
Speaker 1: of Pendra's destruction, the only surviving aer sign were the
Speaker 1: clerics that resulted in the four normally brutal society evolving
Speaker 1: into something like that town from the movie Footloose, which
Speaker 1: is definitely what I was thinking when I saw that list.
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen Footloose, and I still thought of
Speaker 1: that they want a utopia. If you don't look at
Speaker 1: the fraying edges. It's clear they've somewhat succeeded. So he
Speaker 1: says to Carl, says to Donut, oh, you're a genius actually,
Speaker 1: and Donut says, yes, Carl, I know I am a genius.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if she is actually aware of
Speaker 1: what she did here. It's hard to tell her being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm a genius. I mean, she would just
Speaker 1: say that, you know, so it's hard to tell. But
Speaker 1: he says, Yankee doodle into the river, and she's like,
Speaker 1: first of all, that requires Katchya. Secondly, there are guards here,
Speaker 1: and he says, well, we're outside of town limits, so
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to do anything. And I
Speaker 1: can do the part that Katcha does and we can
Speaker 1: run to a safe room if it doesn't work. So Elmer,
Speaker 1: the mayor bear approached us angrily. And I noticed something odd.
Speaker 1: That weird line in the middle of the description. The
Speaker 1: other about ais wasn't there after I pasted the text.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so he Elmer says, you can't bring your
Speaker 1: lizard into town. Of course, there's some back and forth
Speaker 1: with Donut about this and rules for a reason and
Speaker 1: then he accuses Donut herself of being a monkey, which
Speaker 1: she handles as well as you would expect, and then
Speaker 1: finally Elmer is like, I mean, dude, and he's saying
Speaker 1: this to Carl, if you want us to kill the
Speaker 1: dinosaur and the monkey, we can do that, and Carl
Speaker 1: decides to play along and be like, yeah, kill them.
Speaker 1: Fuck them, they are really annoying. So he offers a
Speaker 1: bunch of money to get Elmer to take it and
Speaker 1: step toward him outside of the city limits, and then
Speaker 1: Donut casts astral paw and shoves him, and it's very
Speaker 1: funny because like they thought they were going to have
Speaker 1: to do a bunch of extra stuff in order to
Speaker 1: get him to die from being pushed, but they don't.
Speaker 1: He dies very quickly with very little ceremony, and he
Speaker 1: follows at the edge of the river, and almost immediately
Speaker 1: a naiad jumps out and takes his body before they
Speaker 1: can loot it or anything. And when Donah is later
Speaker 1: talking about changing all of the rules of the town,
Speaker 1: she says something about like, well, bug bears do stink,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna leave that rule, and Carl's like, no,
Speaker 1: You've got to change that because that rule is there
Speaker 1: for the bug bears to get eaten by the Naiads.
Speaker 1: It's just to get them to the edge of the
Speaker 1: river where they're gonna get got, which honestly I should
Speaker 1: have realized, but I didn't. So good on you, Carl.
Speaker 1: I appreciated that, so Donuh says I got credit for that?
Speaker 1: Does that mean? And I was like, oh shit, I
Speaker 1: love Carl wanting to be a mayor, but Dona getting
Speaker 1: to be a mayor is pretty fun. And one of
Speaker 1: the first things later that she's like, I wonder if
Speaker 1: I can do this is can I paint the buildings
Speaker 1: different colors? And honestly, I just relate to her so much.
Speaker 1: It's just like, I'm gonna make all of the rules
Speaker 1: a lot more fair. And also the esthetic really needs
Speaker 1: some attention. Yep, yep, right there with your girlfriend. So
Speaker 1: they go into their personal space here and Carl is
Speaker 1: giving her some instructions about like what she's gonna get
Speaker 1: now that she's in control, and he says, we need
Speaker 1: to do this now and then we'll need to get
Speaker 1: to work on making the guards set up to defend
Speaker 1: the city. Oh all right, donut sat, everybody step back.
Speaker 1: Bomo has to open the door and stand on the edge.
Speaker 1: Then I'll cast the clockwork triplicate, so the minions appear
Speaker 1: outside the room in that weird space where all the
Speaker 1: doors are. Bomo will hand him the car and get
Speaker 1: back inside, and then clock where Bomo will roll it
Speaker 1: outside and you can set it off. Which this sounds
Speaker 1: like it would work great. But when they open the door,
Speaker 1: there's a note stuck in place with a knife. Mordecai says,
Speaker 1: don't touch that knife, which I'm wondering what that's about.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that question gets answered here, I
Speaker 1: don't remember it. But he takes the paper off of
Speaker 1: it without touching the knife. And this is a message
Speaker 1: from Raw, which is I'm pretty sure the man's just
Speaker 1: woman who ate that guy's brother who was a janitor
Speaker 1: earlier on, who was a former crawler, and she is
Speaker 1: basically like all of the hunters have our worshiping embrass
Speaker 1: now and if you do this, you're just gonna kill
Speaker 1: a bunch of NPCs. And I know how important they
Speaker 1: are to you, Like there's a very snotty like you're
Speaker 1: precious NPCs, as entertaining as it would be for you
Speaker 1: to get smoked by your own God. I much prefer
Speaker 1: for you to remain alive. The hive is hunting you,
Speaker 1: and there will be nowhere for you to hide. We
Speaker 1: are coming. I am coming. Your death will not be quick.
Speaker 1: I will crack you open and drink your innerds slowly,
Speaker 1: one organ at a time, as every nerve in your
Speaker 1: soft body crackles with endless pain. The universe will watch
Speaker 1: as you suffer and beg for a death that will
Speaker 1: not come until the very end. And then I will
Speaker 1: take your head home with me and place it upon
Speaker 1: my sister's grave so she may feast upon you in
Speaker 1: the afterlife. She seems nice. Donut send, I pulled a
Speaker 1: pin from my inventory and wrote, come and get it, bitch.
Speaker 1: I crumpled up the paper and tossed it at the door.
Speaker 1: So then they get the announcement that the hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run,
Speaker 1: and we start chapter eleven, and it turns out that
Speaker 1: Donut has to change out her charm and she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to do it because she likes the butterfly one.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I mean, honestly, all of this, I
Speaker 1: really deeply understand, I just do Stupid Angel the cocker
Speaker 1: spaniel had like four or five tags on her collar.
Speaker 1: She jingled like a bunch of rusty cowbells being dumped
Speaker 1: down the stairs whenever she walked. It had been instrumental
Speaker 1: in defeating the first Krakharen boss. It gave plus one
Speaker 1: to intelligence and plus four to Donut the light on
Speaker 1: your feet skill, which helps her jump. Her skill was
Speaker 1: still ten with the charm, and she could still sail
Speaker 1: through the air like an acrobat without it, just not
Speaker 1: as much, which was unfortunate. And the new one is turquoise,
Speaker 1: which she says, do I look like an elderly woman
Speaker 1: with smoke stained teeth sitting in a bingo hall? Which
Speaker 1: that is unfair to Turquoise, But okay, fine. It wasn't required.
Speaker 1: The charm wasn't required to enter the settlement menu and
Speaker 1: change stuff around. As we quickly learned, I'd already received
Speaker 1: a notification she'd changed the name from large Ersine Settlement
Speaker 1: to Point Mango. The system had also changed her name
Speaker 1: to Mayor Donut, but she'd quickly changed it back to princess. However,
Speaker 1: Mordecai said if she wanted to order the guards around,
Speaker 1: she needed to be wearing the charm. The benefits were
Speaker 1: much better anyway. Each jewel encrusted upon this charm represents
Speaker 1: the settlement old in control by the bear, which is
Speaker 1: this is some liter the thing that Carl got. In
Speaker 1: order to upgrade this necklace, you must first consert conquer
Speaker 1: an extra large sized settlement plus eight to dexterity, plus
Speaker 1: four to intelligence plus snitch. Level ten tax has received
Speaker 1: three five and ninety two gold every ten days, which
Speaker 1: is pretty significant, and snitch is if you are in
Speaker 1: a settlement, activating the scale will immediately alert all the
Speaker 1: town's guards, who will start to move to your location.
Speaker 1: At level five, a single guard will be immediately teleported,
Speaker 1: and at ten it'll be five, and at fifteen all
Speaker 1: the town's guards will be summoned to you. At ten,
Speaker 1: guards may be summoned up to one kilometer outside the
Speaker 1: city limits, and at level fifteen this will work with
Speaker 1: any settlement. Warning, summoning the guards doesn't mean that they'll
Speaker 1: do what you want. Plus there's no cool down, so
Speaker 1: but this is something that you don't want to abuse
Speaker 1: because they can get really cranky, interesting, very very helpful.
Speaker 1: If we can level it up, especially, that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: And in order to level something like this up. You've
Speaker 1: got to use it. Ah, that's tough, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm I am really curious how much he's
Speaker 1: going to utilize this. So Carl gets a notification here
Speaker 1: that a trap has killed a hunter and he got
Speaker 1: a gold Hunter Killer box, and he is like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: that's great, but also recognizes that those traps were set
Speaker 1: somewhat close to where they currently are, so they're moving
Speaker 1: way faster than he was really expecting. The Gold Hunter
Speaker 1: Killer Box contained thirty five thousand gold and a fat
Speaker 1: modeled gray hand of a hunter who'd been named Jagie.
Speaker 1: I held the trophy up to the ceiling. Hey, I said,
Speaker 1: wave the fat hand. If any of Jagie's family or
Speaker 1: friends are watching this, you can go fuck yourselves and
Speaker 1: maybe next time, if someone you know wants to go
Speaker 1: hunting innocent people for fun, you can tell them about
Speaker 1: how your idiot friend or son or dad once tried
Speaker 1: it and ended up dying on the first day. My my, my,
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it, not at all, honestly. So Katya,
Speaker 1: she like messages him with information about the guilds and
Speaker 1: how they function, and it turns out that like Carl,
Speaker 1: and Donut both have said they don't want the responsibility
Speaker 1: of initiating because that means that they're the guild master,
Speaker 1: and Kashi doesn't want to do it either. IMMANI doesn't
Speaker 1: really want to do it. Ellie says, like I think
Speaker 1: if you ask, she will, but she doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: want to, and It says, let's see, we'll have to
Speaker 1: pool some money if we want to share the upgrades,
Speaker 1: and if you want to keep the training room. One
Speaker 1: of Batista's guys already has a stables upgrade that Donut
Speaker 1: will want the moment she sees it, and I'm super
Speaker 1: curious about that. So Karl is over here busy arming
Speaker 1: all of the guards, giving them a missile launcher. At
Speaker 1: this particular moment. In the distance, a group of Ursine
Speaker 1: watched as I passed out the weapons to the guards.
Speaker 1: Mordecai was there amongst them, speaking with a robed cleric
Speaker 1: bear who was gesticulating and shouting down at a tiny
Speaker 1: little Mordechai who was shouting back, and it mentions that
Speaker 1: Donut has named one of the funeral bells miss Nance,
Speaker 1: and the other Denalo, and I don't know if these
Speaker 1: are references. I think they have to be because they're
Speaker 1: so specific, but I don't know it for And there's
Speaker 1: a little bit more discussion with Katya about like the
Speaker 1: dynamics of the group and that the personalities are kind
Speaker 1: of clashing. They're doing the best they can, but it
Speaker 1: sounds tense to me. And let's see, the Ursine is
Speaker 1: saying you have to reinstitute the Naiad and dinosaur rules immediately.
Speaker 1: We live on the edge of the river. They're always
Speaker 1: attacking always, but they're not as bad as the lizards.
Speaker 1: Those things are the worst. They're always trying to get
Speaker 1: into town to eat us. And now that we're being
Speaker 1: led by a pagan monkey with a pet dinosaur, we
Speaker 1: are not protected by the gods. We have been safe
Speaker 1: only because we do not sin. If you refuse to
Speaker 1: reinstitute the Holy Shield of Piety and order, then you'll
Speaker 1: have to go out there and do something about the
Speaker 1: dinosaur menace. Shit, Mordecai mumbled. The moment the cleric guy
Speaker 1: finished his rand, he turned to look at me and donut. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: he said, she bishly, that was an accident. I was
Speaker 1: about to ask him what he meant when the notification
Speaker 1: came New Quest the recital, and it's about finding out
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on with these dinosaur attacks.
Speaker 1: Why are they attacking? And they later on me get
Speaker 1: information about how they didn't They weren't even here until
Speaker 1: that other attack that happened like years and years ago.
Speaker 1: And if they do it, they get a gold quest
Speaker 1: box and a town upgrade, which Mordecai isn't sure what
Speaker 1: that is. He does mention too that Donuts Town menu
Speaker 1: is a lot more involved than any he's ever seen,
Speaker 1: and that there are a lot of changes that he's
Speaker 1: already noticed on this floor that has him kind of
Speaker 1: wondering what's going on because he thought he knew exactly
Speaker 1: how this all was going to go, and he's getting
Speaker 1: some surprises, even in his own menu has changed. So
Speaker 1: at this point, Donut is on Mongo's back and Mongo
Speaker 1: zips away the way that he did once somebody had
Speaker 1: cast that spell that summoned pets to them. So she's
Speaker 1: on his back, and of course she isn't gonna jump down.
Speaker 1: She won't leave him. Karl is so annoyed and it's
Speaker 1: so funny. Later on there's a moment where he tells her,
Speaker 1: like you know how you feel about Mongo. That's how
Speaker 1: I feel about you. And I really wish that Carl
Speaker 1: would keep that a little bit more in mind, that
Speaker 1: she sees things that way when it comes to things
Speaker 1: like this where he's telling her to abandon Mongo. I know,
Speaker 1: I get what he means about like Mongo will be fine,
Speaker 1: you know, but like he wouldn't leave Donut if she
Speaker 1: were surrounded by a bunch of cats just because they're
Speaker 1: also cats, Like he just gets so annoyed with Donut.
Speaker 1: But also if he put himself in her shoes and
Speaker 1: Mango were Donut, I know exactly how he'd be and
Speaker 1: it would be like this, you know, And it's he
Speaker 1: just doesn't really keep that in mind very well because
Speaker 1: he gets so frustrated. So they take off through the
Speaker 1: jungle with Carl in close pursuit behind them, and they
Speaker 1: come across a pack of dinosaurs. And when I say
Speaker 1: a pack, it is not the like four or five
Speaker 1: of just like Jurassic Park movie forty pairs of eyes.
Speaker 1: Now I want to mention that they are wearing clothing.
Speaker 1: Some of them, like one of them has a shawl.
Speaker 1: I am thinking that maybe these guys are like people
Speaker 1: that got transformed somehow I don't know, but something is
Speaker 1: really weird with them. And honestly, as soon as they
Speaker 1: like come across these guys, I was not worried. It's
Speaker 1: unfortunate that I was so not worried, because I think
Speaker 1: the tension would have made this scene feel more urgent.
Speaker 1: But because I was so sure that things were going
Speaker 1: to work out, I felt like it actually dragged a
Speaker 1: little bit and went on a little bit too long.
Speaker 1: And like understandably, initially, both him and Dona are very
Speaker 1: worried because Mango is significantly lower level than all of
Speaker 1: these guys. Plus there's forty of them, you know, and
Speaker 1: Carl keeps telling her like, we really need to go,
Speaker 1: and she won't hear him and is calling out softly
Speaker 1: to Mo. And then there is a sorry if you
Speaker 1: heard that, guys, my dogs. Then there is a particular
Speaker 1: dinosaur that steps forward and he gets a description of
Speaker 1: Kiwi level sixty. They say, an asteroid is what wiped
Speaker 1: out the dinosaurs on this planet. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: true if Kiwi and her pack of voracious, slightly insane
Speaker 1: velociraptors are even remotely like what you had roaming around
Speaker 1: way back in the late Cretaceous period. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: what really happened is that these ladies simply killed everyone
Speaker 1: and everything. This is Kiwi, the head bitch in charge
Speaker 1: of the jungle's fastest, most vicious, most clever predators, the
Speaker 1: mongoliansis Take a gang of women convicts from a nineteen
Speaker 1: seventies prison movie, combine them with a coalition of cheetahs
Speaker 1: and a shoal of angry piranhas, and you have a
Speaker 1: vague notion of just how screwed you are. This particular
Speaker 1: path is comprised of only females. In fact, it appears
Speaker 1: all the dinosaurs in the area are female. That's pretty odd,
Speaker 1: almost interesting. And here's an even more interesting, seemingly random,
Speaker 1: but probably important fact. Dinosaur class monsters didn't exist in
Speaker 1: the area before Scolopendro's nine tier attack. Yet here they are.
Speaker 1: Where did they come from? If you weren't about to
Speaker 1: die screaming, it would be something you might want to
Speaker 1: look into. And then warning, this is a lizard class mob.
Speaker 1: It will inflict twenty percent more damage against you thanks
Speaker 1: to your extinct extinction sigil. And yes, I know dinosaurs
Speaker 1: aren't really lizards. If we're being super technical get over it,
Speaker 1: which I'd liked that because I immediately was like, they're not
Speaker 1: lizards though, and then called me out appreciated it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm curious about this because, like you know, Jurassic Park,
Speaker 1: the whole thing was like, oh, they made them all
Speaker 1: females so that they couldn't reproduce, but nature finds a way,
Speaker 1: And I am wondering if there is something to that here,
Speaker 1: if this is like a reference. I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I uh, like I said, I just was not worried
Speaker 1: about this. Carl is telling Donut to cast snitch, and
Speaker 1: I just was like, bro, I just feel like that
Speaker 1: would make things so much worse. To me. That was
Speaker 1: like a bad call. And she ignores him, and I'm glad,
Speaker 1: but it just seemed to me like the guards, you
Speaker 1: don't even know that they're gonna have stealth at all
Speaker 1: when they come towards you in the jungle. You're over
Speaker 1: here hiding in the leaves, trying to like maybe slip
Speaker 1: away without being seen, and you're gonna ask a bunch
Speaker 1: of dudes in armor with weapons to just come to
Speaker 1: you in the jungle, like either you're gonna give yourself
Speaker 1: away or you're hoping that they will be enough of
Speaker 1: a distraction that the dinosaurs will all attack them, but
Speaker 1: either way, it just felt like a bad call. So
Speaker 1: this is when Kiwi does this call that forces it's
Speaker 1: a It has a magical effect of making it so
Speaker 1: that Carl cannot step away in any direction. He can
Speaker 1: move his upper body, apparently he can move his arms,
Speaker 1: but not his legs. So he drinks an invisibility potion
Speaker 1: and tells Donut to have one, and she, instead of
Speaker 1: doing that, almost like jumps out into the fight. Because
Speaker 1: this is when Donut and Kiwi head toward each other.
Speaker 1: And as soon as they had started the call that sound,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, they're mating. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1: And it's pretty quick that this is revealed to us,
Speaker 1: like you know, and Donut very much like clutching her
Speaker 1: pearls at her sweet young boy and how he's been
Speaker 1: tempted away by this Jezbel. We haven't even had the
Speaker 1: talk yet. She's taking advantage of him, and she's convinced
Speaker 1: that like, as soon as they're done mating, Kiwi's gonna
Speaker 1: kill him too, Which there's no reason to think that
Speaker 1: with these guys they're not Mantis's. And she even blames
Speaker 1: Carl and says, you and all your constant sex talk
Speaker 1: has turned him into a pervert, which is hilarious because
Speaker 1: like Carl never talks about sex ever almost ever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about there, girl, But
Speaker 1: and let's see. Uh. I could still see the other
Speaker 1: red dots just on the other side of the clearing.
Speaker 1: They could easily catch us, but none were moving in
Speaker 1: our direction. Yet we had to hurry, Mango, come back
Speaker 1: to mommy. As soon as you're done, don'tnut called defeated,
Speaker 1: I turned and jogged back to the town CenTra and
Speaker 1: still clutching onto Donut. As soon as he gets back,
Speaker 1: he's going into his cage. I'm turning the no Dinosaur
Speaker 1: rull back on Donut grumbled, which does kind of work out.
Speaker 1: So they go into this pub and he is trying
Speaker 1: to calm her down, and she's like, what if he
Speaker 1: doesn't come back, we need to go out there, and
Speaker 1: she's really freaking out and Carl is seeing it and
Speaker 1: it's just like, look, I've seen her upset, but this
Speaker 1: is something like did somebody put a spell that's affecting you?
Speaker 1: Like maybe fear or something like that. And she keeps saying,
Speaker 1: what if he doesn't come back? And finally, I'm really scared, Carl,
Speaker 1: And he says, I know, and that's okay. And she says,
Speaker 1: you don't understand. It's getting worse every day, and he says,
Speaker 1: talk to me. She looked as if she wanted to run,
Speaker 1: like that look she got whenever somebody ran the vacuum
Speaker 1: cleaner or bathtub donut. I said, changing tactics, it's okay,
Speaker 1: tell me when you're ready. We'll just sit here and
Speaker 1: wait for Mango to come back. We didn't have time
Speaker 1: for this, but I didn't know what else to do.
Speaker 1: Doughnut was completely useless when she got into panic mode,
Speaker 1: and worse, she was a danger to both of us.
Speaker 1: I had to figure this out. I just really want
Speaker 1: to point out how fucked up this is. He doesn't
Speaker 1: say I'm genuinely worried about her. He doesn't say I
Speaker 1: want to know what's going on. He says, we don't
Speaker 1: have time, but she's useless otherwise and a danger, so
Speaker 1: I have to. I don't care for it. I understand
Speaker 1: being practical, you guys know, I do, and sometimes to
Speaker 1: my own detriment. I am overly practical. I get frustrated
Speaker 1: with characters who are not. But here is a moment
Speaker 1: where we are in his head, and if he really
Speaker 1: gave a shit, it would be there, and it feels
Speaker 1: like it's not there now. Later, the way the conversation goes,
Speaker 1: it seems to me like we get a resolution that
Speaker 1: indicates he does give a shit, but it takes too
Speaker 1: long and there's too much performance happening, and I don't
Speaker 1: trust it. And I'm not saying that Karl doesn't care
Speaker 1: about donut. Okay, I'm not saying that, but I am
Speaker 1: saying that I am feeling like there is something happening
Speaker 1: to him that I don't like just pointing it out.
Speaker 1: So finally she says, I'm supposed to pretend like I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I was doing good, but then Mongo
Speaker 1: ran off and it just came out of nowhere, Like
Speaker 1: that time Miss Beatrice got in the car accident when
Speaker 1: we were on our way back from the Cat Show,
Speaker 1: and I'd been asleep and then suddenly there was this
Speaker 1: big bang and I slammed against the side of the carrier,
Speaker 1: and even though I wasn't hurt, it really, really scared me.
Speaker 1: And when I thought Mango was going to get eaten,
Speaker 1: it felt like that crash all over again. You have
Speaker 1: to pretend like you don't know what, I asked, What
Speaker 1: does that mean? I can't. She took a breath. Everybody
Speaker 1: always leaves me, and I don't know why. Am I
Speaker 1: really that awful? Where is this coming from? That's not
Speaker 1: true at all, I said, Katcha left us, she said,
Speaker 1: and you're doing more and more dangerous things. And I
Speaker 1: told Mordecai it was okay, but it's not. You're going
Speaker 1: to die because you're stupid and you don't even care
Speaker 1: what happens to me. Mango is going to leave for
Speaker 1: some hussy. And then and then she stopped, what but
Speaker 1: she just shook her head. I looked at her, confused,
Speaker 1: trying to puzzle it out. Before we'd gone out there
Speaker 1: and started organizing the town guards, I'd gone into the
Speaker 1: crafting room to build a few more of the missile launchers.
Speaker 1: Donut had trained to the magic room, working on her
Speaker 1: laundry day spell. And then what she'd been on the
Speaker 1: social media board reading comments, did somebody say something that
Speaker 1: upset you? Somebody online? Her eyes started to shine and
Speaker 1: I knew I was right. Her mouth quavered. Zev. Hey, guys, Carl,
Speaker 1: bad timing, Zev. Zev, I just wanted to quickly touch base.
Speaker 1: We rearrange the schedule a little. You'll be visiting with
Speaker 1: Outdette later today. Try not to schedule a boss battle
Speaker 1: or anything during that time, and Dona asks if everything
Speaker 1: is cool, and then Zev, I want to also remind you, Carl,
Speaker 1: you'll be receiving some extra scrutiny before you go into
Speaker 1: the trailer, which I'm assuming is going to be like
Speaker 1: a fucking cavity search. And then you'll be fine because
Speaker 1: you're both really strong and brave, especially you Donut. And
Speaker 1: Carl is like, okay, thanks Zev, but we're busy, so
Speaker 1: kindly leave us be. But the moment I sent the message,
Speaker 1: I realized that timing was no coincidence. Zev rarely interrupted
Speaker 1: us when we were in the middle of something, especially drama.
Speaker 1: I knew Zev and Donut were somehow communicating via the
Speaker 1: social media board, but I had no idea how, and
Speaker 1: I had no way of safely asking her without putting
Speaker 1: everybody in danger. Zev's uncharacteristic interruption was a not so
Speaker 1: subtle warning to drop it and get a chance to
Speaker 1: ask both of them freely when we were in the
Speaker 1: production trailer, and it was so funny because like the
Speaker 1: way that he interpreted this wasn't where I was going
Speaker 1: with it at all. I instantly thought that it was
Speaker 1: Zev trying to comfort Donut and be like, hey, I'm here,
Speaker 1: and you're both really strong and brave, you know, like
Speaker 1: this was I didn't see what he meant. And I
Speaker 1: think Carl's right for the record, like this is not
Speaker 1: me saying I disagree. It's just that I came to
Speaker 1: a different conclusion than him, and once I stopped to
Speaker 1: think about it, I was kind of like, oh, that
Speaker 1: would make sense. Shit, you know. So he shifts the
Speaker 1: conversation away from the message board. But I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: somebody has said something about B. It's weird because we
Speaker 1: know bees alive, and I'm wondering if there's been some
Speaker 1: news shared about that of people who are fucking with her,
Speaker 1: or like, I don't know who knows what out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Odet's up to with B in
Speaker 1: the first place. I feel like she is gearing up
Speaker 1: to do something kind of underhanded that she sees as
Speaker 1: ultimately helpful but is in the short term quite exploitative.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's sort of Odette's whole bag, to
Speaker 1: be honest. It's like, I'm gonna do my best to
Speaker 1: help you, but in the meanwhile, I am going to
Speaker 1: make my fucking money and you are not going to
Speaker 1: get in the way of my bag. So here it is.
Speaker 1: He says, donut, I'll consult you. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: leave you. And she says, but what about the ninth floor,
Speaker 1: And we are reminded of the whole thing with the
Speaker 1: sepsis whoror and how everybody who is it says royal
Speaker 1: members of the blood Sultan that will be required to
Speaker 1: slay the Sultan and all the other members of the
Speaker 1: royal family before descending to the tenth floor. And he says,
Speaker 1: we'll deal with it when we get there, and she
Speaker 1: gives him a look and he realizes I've been saying that,
Speaker 1: And then we have that feeling that ceaseless river within
Speaker 1: my mind roared, something within me broke, A decision was made.
Speaker 1: I thought of my mother holding my hand as we
Speaker 1: stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon. I thought
Speaker 1: of my father in the car behind us, waiting a
Speaker 1: tidal wave of potential energy. This was the same. This
Speaker 1: was the same exact moment. I didn't know how I
Speaker 1: knew that, but it was you can do that. I thought,
Speaker 1: you can recognize these moments when they appear. You know,
Speaker 1: it didn't occur to me, you guys, that whole thing
Speaker 1: with the Grand Canyon, because at the time, I think
Speaker 1: I mentioned how my father would stay very apart from
Speaker 1: things and it would be me and my mom. But
Speaker 1: looking at it now, I am wondering if it had
Speaker 1: been we are both on the verge of jumping off,
Speaker 1: or my mom is on the verge of jumping off
Speaker 1: and bringing me with her. Now I'm kind of understanding
Speaker 1: what might have been the tension there in a very
Speaker 1: different way than what I originally thought. And this is
Speaker 1: when he tells her, how worried you are about Mango
Speaker 1: is how I feel about you, And she says, really,
Speaker 1: do you really mean that? Her voice was so full
Speaker 1: of genuine longing that it hurt my heart. I know
Speaker 1: I haven't said this to you directly before, and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that I haven't, But I will not leave you
Speaker 1: behind on the ninth or any other floor, I promise you, Okay,
Speaker 1: we are a team and nothing is going to break
Speaker 1: us up, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what.
Speaker 1: We held that way for several moments. Doughnut trembled, and
Speaker 1: I realized I was trembling too. Anybody watching this from
Speaker 1: the outside wouldn't understand what had just happened. That was okay,
Speaker 1: some things weren't meant for others to understand. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, I believe this is real, this moment, that
Speaker 1: he does really care about her, that he is committing,
Speaker 1: and that he is like we are in this together.
Speaker 1: But it just bothered me the way that it started
Speaker 1: and how he was thinking when he went into it,
Speaker 1: And I feel like it is indicative of something going
Speaker 1: on with him on another level that is making him colder,
Speaker 1: and it's worrying, you know. So Doughnut comes home at
Speaker 1: this point and interrupts their whole thing. Mango like passes
Speaker 1: out because he's super tired, and then Donut says that
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs that she can see their dots have turned white,
Speaker 1: but for Carl they're still red. So evidently her being
Speaker 1: like Mango's mommy has gotten her some goodwill from them,
Speaker 1: so that they are at least neutral, which might be
Speaker 1: very helpful. And she's looking out and she says, there's
Speaker 1: more out there. They weren't there before, but there's a
Speaker 1: really big one. It turned around and it's moving away.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it makes a difference, but I
Speaker 1: believe you're correct. I better turn the no dinosaur rule
Speaker 1: back on. I caught a glint of something in the forest,
Speaker 1: like light shining off of prism. Just as I tried
Speaker 1: to focus on the light, the day became dark and
Speaker 1: it started to rain. So yeah, I'm wondering if there's
Speaker 1: like something out there that did this to people, you know?
Speaker 1: And she says, do you think she got pregnant? And
Speaker 1: Carl just says most definitely, which I find very funny.
Speaker 1: There's no way to know that, but like you know,
Speaker 1: gut instincts. So then we get new achievement double billed.
Speaker 1: You are one of the first five crawlers to receive
Speaker 1: double billing. I bet you don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: This is similar to switchovers, but this time it's on purpose.
Speaker 1: I bet that didn't help at all. Reward you have
Speaker 1: received a platinum fan box, and it turns out Donut
Speaker 1: didn't get this achievement. So that's interesting to me that
Speaker 1: it's only Carl that got it, and I'm wondering what
Speaker 1: that is about. I cursed, took a deep breath, and
Speaker 1: padded donut. The rain was getting heavier by the moment,
Speaker 1: and it pelted into us. Are we good? No more
Speaker 1: panic attacks? Really, Carl, I don't know what you're talking about. Good.
Speaker 1: I said, time to get back to work, and that
Speaker 1: is the end of the chapter. So yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, the fact that I can't remember
Speaker 1: what the note from that bitch said, uh Vra. But
Speaker 1: did she have all the other Hunters become worshipers of
Speaker 1: embrass or like her own group of whoever happens to
Speaker 1: be following her, Because like, I just want to say
Speaker 1: that if it's everybody that's genius, I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's possible, more than likely for her to influence everybody.
Speaker 1: Probably it's just like a group that she has. Oh,
Speaker 1: Saraphim says, not the Hunters, the NPC guards in the town.
Speaker 1: Oh right, thank you. I was thinking it was the Hunters.
Speaker 1: I actually I don't know if the Hunters can worship
Speaker 1: any god. Is that something that's an option for them.
Speaker 1: I have to assume it's an option. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: that is a real sneaky little move there, My goodness.
Speaker 1: I wonder how she managed it from where she was
Speaker 1: because they weren't out yet, So how did she do that? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I feel like there's a piece
Speaker 1: of information in there that's like maybe kind of important
Speaker 1: that I either don't know or am missing. Michael says
Speaker 1: she was the mayor of the town. Oh right, the
Speaker 1: city where he It's not where they are, right. I
Speaker 1: keep forgetting that, Like, you know, there's this teleportation magic
Speaker 1: that allows them to attack that spot right right, right right.
Speaker 1: It's such a shame. Man. That would have been so
Speaker 1: effective if he had been able to pull it off.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that somebody is like a step ahead of him.
Speaker 1: I want that in a story like this, you know,
Speaker 1: but it would have really been a hell of a moment.
Speaker 1: And I can't help but like a part of me
Speaker 1: just being hmm, I wanted to see it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Anyway, I just really I'm worried about him.
Speaker 1: I feel good about the conversation with Dona in general.
Speaker 1: I think that she believes him I think that he
Speaker 1: is telling the truth. It's interesting to me that he
Speaker 1: hadn't actually made up his mind yet, because I don't
Speaker 1: know about y'all. But when he said we'll deal with
Speaker 1: it when we get there, I was very much interpreting
Speaker 1: that as like, we'll deal with the implications of killing
Speaker 1: them when we get there, not we will deal with
Speaker 1: whether I stay in your party when we get there.
Speaker 1: So him having to spell it out that he isn't
Speaker 1: leaving her, it's not just that he has to spell
Speaker 1: it out. It's that because, like you know, sometimes people
Speaker 1: just need reassurance. But we're in his head and so
Speaker 1: we see that he hadn't actually decided that yet. This
Speaker 1: is something that he is coming to this conclusion as
Speaker 1: we are in his mind, and he is deciding to
Speaker 1: say it out loud and commit himself. I genuinely thought
Speaker 1: that we were here already, that he was already thinking
Speaker 1: he was never going to leave donut. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at him, you know, but I am a little startled
Speaker 1: by it. I just assumed. So let's see, Sarahim says, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carl was just trying to focus on the current issue
Speaker 1: of surviving the floor and didn't want to worry about
Speaker 1: later potential trouble with Michael said, I think it was
Speaker 1: part of that. Initially Carl thought she was getting upset
Speaker 1: over something he considered minor. He didn't realize she was
Speaker 1: really upset about something deeper. That's fair, Sarahim says, I
Speaker 1: gather it's less he ever thought of him doing it,
Speaker 1: as he just never thought of it at all. Maybe
Speaker 1: it just feels like if he has already said we'll
Speaker 1: deal with it when we get there, it's come up
Speaker 1: enough that he should have been thinking about it, Like
Speaker 1: after everything, I would have expected him to have already said,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm not leaving you in words, you know.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I'm not mad at him over this.
Speaker 1: It's just I was just taken aback because in my head,
Speaker 1: this decision was made already and we were done, and
Speaker 1: finding out that not only is Doughnut unsure, but that
Speaker 1: inside Carl's head he even is unsure. I was kind
Speaker 1: of floored by that because the idea that he might
Speaker 1: walk away because of this, Oh my god, I would
Speaker 1: never forgive him. Viewers would never forgive him. There would
Speaker 1: be really like, there's no way that he could do
Speaker 1: that with this viewerships set up the way that it is,
Speaker 1: I just feel like everybody would turn on him, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I'm not trying to say
Speaker 1: like that's the only reason that he would ever stay.
Speaker 1: I am just saying like, if you're coming at it
Speaker 1: from an angle of like what's best for you, if
Speaker 1: you want to be really mercenary about it, what's best
Speaker 1: for you is to stay with her anyway. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to think of there was something else
Speaker 1: here that came up for me that I was like,
Speaker 1: it sort of caught my attention, and I can't remember
Speaker 1: what it was. Fuck, I feel like it was something
Speaker 1: to do with the dinosaurs. But the guild thing is
Speaker 1: really interesting to me. And you know, I love the
Speaker 1: fact that my assumption one hundred percent was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Carl will be the guild master, you know, like I
Speaker 1: just once again assume, and turns out that he's already
Speaker 1: said like, no, I don't want to do that, which
Speaker 1: I think is for the best. He doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be in charge of anything anymore, not anymore, but like
Speaker 1: anything more than what he's already been in charge of.
Speaker 1: This is so much responsibility. It really is and I
Speaker 1: just think that's the right call. Do not not wanting
Speaker 1: to be in charge. I mean that's a given, don't
Speaker 1: I love you? But like honey, no INMANI being potentially
Speaker 1: willing to do it if she is asked. Ah, that's
Speaker 1: one of those things that like, she is such a
Speaker 1: caretaker that a part of me is like, don't ask
Speaker 1: her to do that. It's already so much, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But she might be great at it
Speaker 1: because she's a caretaker and she has sort of been
Speaker 1: somebody who manages the living situation for people in the past,
Speaker 1: so she might be perfect for something like this. I
Speaker 1: don't know anyway. I just I'm really really interested in
Speaker 1: seeing how all of that works, in particular because it
Speaker 1: means like new advantages and maybe new toys. The Platinum Fanbox.
Speaker 1: Really excited for that. Usually in these books, when we
Speaker 1: get the notification of a fanbox, it's like four or
Speaker 1: five chapters from when it's mentioned that they finally open it.
Speaker 1: So I am assuming that, like the next episode I record,
Speaker 1: it won't be in that section. I might be wrong.
Speaker 1: If it is, I'm delighted, but I am very very platinum,
Speaker 1: Like have they gotten a platinum fanbox before they might
Speaker 1: have I feel like they might have of double billing.
Speaker 1: The fact that Donut didn't get this, that's what worries me.
Speaker 1: If it were an achievement for him and Donut, then
Speaker 1: I think she'd get it. But the fact that he
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten it, I don't know what the fuck that means.
Speaker 1: Like could this have to do with B. They don't
Speaker 1: have B though, I don't know what Odette is planning there.
Speaker 1: I just and I do want to mention about B
Speaker 1: because like when we saw her, this dude who was
Speaker 1: with her, what was his name, Luke God, he fucking
Speaker 1: sucks so bad. I'm assuming that he is dead at
Speaker 1: this point, which is fine. And the way that he
Speaker 1: was talking about how she just didn't want to like
Speaker 1: work and participate in the in the the community that
Speaker 1: was being built, Like this is the sort of thing
Speaker 1: where if it were somebody else, I would give the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. That the waybe was acting, it
Speaker 1: seemed like she had come pretty unhinged and that maybe
Speaker 1: she isn't contributing because something cracked and is broken, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's still maybe true. But the thing is, I've
Speaker 1: heard enough about Bee to really have formed an opinion
Speaker 1: Tom of her, and I don't think she deserves the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt really on anything. Frankly, so I
Speaker 1: sort of am just taking it as he describes it
Speaker 1: at face value, that she is just spoiled and uncooperative
Speaker 1: and self absorbed and a brat. That's pretty much the
Speaker 1: way I'm seeing it. And maybe I'm not giving her
Speaker 1: enough grace considering everything, but if I'm not, you didn't
Speaker 1: earn it by your previous actions. Be There's also you
Speaker 1: know the fact that like the way she's singing to
Speaker 1: Gravy Boat, it felt very much like everything she was
Speaker 1: saying to him about how she was sorry was actually
Speaker 1: her apologizing to Carl, and that she has a lot
Speaker 1: of regrets about how all of that went down. And
Speaker 1: it's very hard for me to have any sympathy for
Speaker 1: that because the thing that happened was that after she
Speaker 1: had been like cheating on him for years, he finally
Speaker 1: dumped her. So it's very surprised, Pikachi face. There were
Speaker 1: consequences for what I was doing. And honestly, if the
Speaker 1: only thing that brought you to your senses was being dumped,
Speaker 1: you don't care about him at all. It's not about him.
Speaker 1: So like this this thing that I think is happening
Speaker 1: where she's like transposing her guilt onto this cat, keep it,
Speaker 1: keep your guilt. It's worth nothing, and I don't buy
Speaker 1: it anyway, you know. But anyway, Yeah, she's either way
Speaker 1: a disaster right now. And I don't know what happens
Speaker 1: if they do get her face to face with Carl,
Speaker 1: Like I genuinely can't imagine what he would do, how
Speaker 1: Donut would react, Like I genuinely I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure if that's something that's like in the
Speaker 1: cards anytime soon. It might have been just a tease
Speaker 1: that gets drawn out for a while, and it's not
Speaker 1: until like two books from now that anything happens, you know. Anyway.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna wrap up, but I appreciate you all
Speaker 1: so much for coming and hanging out with me. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much for listening. I hope that y'all are
Speaker 1: enjoying the coverage. And until next time to the loom, motherfuckers.
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