WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.759 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:20.440 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters nine, ten, eleven, 3 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:28.239 and twelve. In these chapters, we've got traps that are 4 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.000 killing crawlers. We have got a town full of bug bears, 5 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.320 we have got a town full of other bears. But 6 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:41.679 of course the main event here are the dinosaurs and 7 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:50.119 you know that thing that happens. Welcome to spoil Me. 8 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.319 Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you 9 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:18.519 very much to Jackie for commissioning this episode. Yeah, this 10 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.400 is a this is kind of what's the word I 11 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.760 want to describe this group of chapters like kind of 12 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.920 frenetic a little bit. It just feels like there's a 13 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:33.959 lot going on in a lot of different directions, and it's, Uh, 14 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.439 I'm really enjoying this so far. I will say, you know, 15 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.280 a few recordings ago, I shared that I was not 16 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:50.519 really into the fourth book as much, and I really 17 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.719 stand by that. Even the opening chapters of that book 18 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:01.239 felt flattered to me. I don't know why, and this 19 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.840 it just opened with a lot more interest with Carl 20 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:09.120 being in trouble and there's just been a lot of 21 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:12.560 Like I think it's because we're on a floor where 22 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.439 now there's hunters. There's a whole new element being added 23 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.840 into the game, new information that we need to learn, 24 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.000 new standards and practices, so to speak, for how the 25 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:26.960 game works now that we're dealing with these guys. I 26 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.680 think that it just has freshened up the energy of 27 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.120 everything in such a way that it makes it all 28 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:41.199 a lot more engrossing for me. I'm so sorry. Rob 29 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:45.680 says it was the sand, too much sand, and like, honestly, 30 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.840 it's not not like y'all. Remember at the end of 31 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.360 the third book, as soon as I saw the door 32 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.800 open and sand come in, I was like, ah shit, 33 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.840 And like, turns out my fears regarding this were born. 34 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:10.120 So you know. Anyway, we have, starting at the beginning 35 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:18.199 of chapter nine remaining the hunters one thousand and thirteen 36 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:24.080 and the crawlers are eighty three thousand, nine hundred and 37 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.199 ninety five. The hunter count had ticked up a few 38 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.039 times in the past few hours, presumably as a few 39 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:37.120 more last minute stragglers decided to press their luck. I 40 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:43.599 forgot that people are going to be allowed to register late, 41 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.599 and now what I am thinking, is that somebody is 42 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:55.439 going to have watched Carl murder a friend or family 43 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.479 member and they had been going to join, but now 44 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:03.800 they are, and now they're coming at Carl. I do 45 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:10.000 not think that Carl has necessarily considered this based on 46 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.560 the way he is talking and behaving. I also do 47 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.839 not think that he would give a fuck even if 48 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:19.920 he didn't know. I don't think it would change anything 49 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:22.519 he's doing in the slightest, to be honest. In fact, 50 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.680 I think he'd be like, nice, bring it. There's a 51 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.160 feeling of maybe him trying to goad people into doing 52 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:35.399 exactly this. Perhaps I don't know, but uh yeah, it 53 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:39.360 was just something that I noticed that he doesn't seem 54 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:46.720 to actually put into words as like a possibility. So 55 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.839 they have a map of the layout of the floor 56 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.000 and they're figuring out exactly what they want to do, 57 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.680 and it turns out that it's a hundred thousand square 58 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:07.959 kill kilometers this floor, which is bonkers, Like it's just 59 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.319 I can't even understand how big that is, to be honest, 60 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.480 And he says, how big is this really from edge 61 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.839 to edge? And she says it's about four hundred something 62 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:22.439 kilometers from north to south, so two hundred and fifty 63 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.959 miles and about three hundred something kilometers from east to west. 64 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.240 The river end to end is about five hundred kilometers, 65 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.759 but that's only because it's not straight. And he points 66 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.199 out the roads and the bridges, and he says, I 67 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.319 want you to take all the bridges out except for 68 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.399 this one. And I love this as an idea already. 69 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.399 I am curious what kind of abilities people might have 70 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.079 for rebuilding bridges, and you know, like you know, we 71 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:55.879 have Katya for example, and her ability she could make 72 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:01.000 herself into a bridge. So probably there are people who 73 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:05.360 have abilities that would allow them to pass in certain areas. 74 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.759 If you can fly, if you have you know, underwater breathing, 75 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.360 or if you can freeze things and walk across the 76 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.519 ice on top, like, there are still going to be 77 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.800 ways to cross, but taking out the bridges and like 78 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:24.639 really taking them out, that will help concentrate things probably 79 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:31.399 in certain areas. So yeah, let's do it. He gets 80 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.560 a message or he actually gets in touch with Miriam himself, 81 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.360 and he asks if she's come across a lot of 82 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.759 traps and she says not really. The caravans make their 83 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.199 way up and down this road and their bodyguards cast 84 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:48.480 anti trap spells as they travel. That was so hard 85 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.959 to say, and he's like, oh, okay, well that's nice. 86 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.560 We needed to map out the regular caravan roots and 87 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.519 add them to the community map, and I was like, 88 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:03.879 this is all so organized. Love this Is there a 89 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.560 town near the bridge, Yes, a very big town. It's 90 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.439 about forty kilometers from where you are now. It's where 91 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.639 we started, a large ersine settlement just on the other 92 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.160 side of the river. Be careful if you go. They're 93 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.279 very peculiar there. We have to put Bianca away when 94 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.759 we enter, which makes sense because they, it turns out, 95 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:28.199 are like weirdly fundamentalist about some things. But then we 96 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.279 jump to the next sestion with Donut arguing about using 97 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:35.879 Bomo as a suicide bomber and that they should not 98 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.000 be doing this, and Carl is like, he's not actually 99 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.199 gonna die, We'll see him on the next floor. And 100 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.959 also he actually seemed kind of excited about this, and 101 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.120 there's like the beginning of the conversation. Then we have 102 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.639 like several paragraphs in the middle of it where Carl 103 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.959 is internal monologuing explaining what his plan is, and then 104 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:03.000 the conversation picks back up again after that explanation, and 105 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.959 Donut says, I could make a clockwork Bomo if we 106 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.959 just changed the you know what party he's in and 107 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.839 how that works. And he's like, oh, that's a really 108 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.519 good idea. And she says, you underestimate me, Carl, this 109 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.160 is why you need to let me know the plan. 110 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.079 And I fully agree with her. I'm not saying that, 111 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.600 you know, the way that she's saying this is going 112 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.639 to work is going to go perfectly or anything, but 113 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:34.840 I really agree that, like Carl is just so self 114 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.960 absorbed in a lot of ways that he is squandering 115 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.200 some of the resources that he has. And one of 116 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:46.679 those resources is a partner who has spells that he 117 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:53.960 doesn't seem to consider. You know. So anyway, uh, I 118 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.120 was going to load Bomo up with a very large bomb, 119 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.519 send him ounta into the safe room, have him step outside, 120 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.840 and blow the shit out of the town. This would 121 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:04.080 be a bigger explosion than last time, much bigger. I 122 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:05.840 wanted him to do it when there was only about 123 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.080 a half hour left on the timer, so more hunters 124 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.240 would be outside now that we could chat again safely. 125 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.919 I'd been relaying the plan to Donut. Anyone who'd been 126 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.919 paying attention could probably figure this out, but that was okay. 127 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.600 Boma would put the wheeled bomb out of the personal 128 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.600 space and emerge in a safe room, and there wasn't 129 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:23.919 anything anybody could do about it. The only way to 130 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.639 stop him would be to block the door off and 131 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.440 keep him from exiting out onto the street. If that 132 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.360 was the case, it would require resources and teamwork. And 133 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:35.120 I had the impression none of these guys were too 134 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.759 keen to work together, and I thought that was a 135 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:46.120 likely observation to me that rings true, that it's just like, look, 136 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.039 if they work together, they could really fuck me up. 137 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.919 But I just don't see them doing that because they're assholes, 138 00:09:51.759 --> 00:10:01.080 you know what? There Actually, I probably so the bomb. 139 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.200 There's like some mentions of this stuff called nitro sledge 140 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.360 and using that and it being a much more intense 141 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.759 bomb because of that, and it's like five feet tall. 142 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:14.759 It's a big bomb for good measure. I also imbued 143 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.639 it with fear because why not? And honestly, the fact 144 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.679 that he even asked why not made me kind of 145 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.759 go uh oh, because like you asked that sort of question, 146 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.080 because the authors is like, oh, I'll tell you why 147 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:34.600 not later. Later you'll find out why not. That felt 148 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.799 like a warning. I feel like maybe imbuing it with 149 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.919 fear is going to have some kind of bonkers like consequence. 150 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.000 People do crazy shit when they're really scared, you know, 151 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:56.279 so like I just I'm interested, I'm interested. Bomo rumbled 152 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.639 behind him. The sledge made a disapproving sound. He wasn't 153 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.639 mad that Bomo was possibly doing this. He was upset 154 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:06.000 that Bomo didn't want him playing Frogger while he was gone, 155 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.600 because he didn't want him to beat his score, which 156 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.360 meant the sledge would have to go two weeks without playing. 157 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.320 This was very funny to me, and Carl is like, 158 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:18.279 maybe I'll make him like a big controller to play 159 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:21.519 other games with me. And I didn't realize that he 160 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:28.120 had that kind of ability, but cool if he can. 161 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:33.159 So they step out of their personal space and immediately 162 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:36.440 encounter a bugbear that says you're kind or not welcome here, 163 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.159 And at first I was like, oh no, what what 164 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.720 like how did word already get out? Or you know, 165 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.919 I don't know exactly your kind what this means, but 166 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:50.200 Carl correctly judges that it's humans that came before this 167 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.440 bugbear has an issue with and he says, we're not 168 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:55.399 the ones who destroyed your town. Actually, we're going to 169 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.840 kill those guys, and the bug bear is like, oh, well, 170 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:02.720 then that's fine. I appreciated that Carl clocked what was 171 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:10.720 happening right away because I wasn't. And they're not actually bears. 172 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.320 Their neighbors and rivals that you're signed are happy to 173 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.759 point this out every chance they get. You gotta treat 174 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.720 a bug bear like you would treat the enormous drunk 175 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.080 guy at the end of the bar. It could go 176 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.960 either way. He'll either want to fight you or be 177 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.159 your buddy, and there ain't no way to predict which 178 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:31.519 one it'll be. And Carl warns him they're gonna be 179 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.399 out and about again by the end of the night, 180 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:36.960 so you were going to want to prep for that, 181 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.399 and the bug bears like, oh, we'll fucking be ready. WHOA, 182 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:47.639 don't worry about that, and I believe him. So they're 183 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:52.759 planting minds as they go through the jungle. They'd only 184 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.440 be triggered by hunters. I want to know how he 185 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.960 did that. There's got to be something in his like 186 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.120 abilities or his spell where he can do that, but 187 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.480 I don't remember what it is, and I that is 188 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.960 just such a specific and helpful distinction. I want to 189 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.399 know how he managed it, because I cannot recall this 190 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:20.279 ability being mentioned. So this is when Carl gets the 191 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.360 notification that his god embrace has come to the realm, 192 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.960 and he gets one later about him leaving, and eventually 193 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.639 we find out that there's like a whole group that 194 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:37.000 has been made into worshipers, so that Carl, I don't 195 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.080 think it's that he can't kill them, but that it'll 196 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:42.200 be a real fucking problem if he kills them. So 197 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:51.240 that's off the menu for now. So they get to 198 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.600 this stream with a bridge across and are entering the 199 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:01.399 settlement and they encounter a couple couple of mushroom guards 200 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:04.360 who don't want to let them in because there is 201 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:12.039 a no dinosaur policy. There is a no dinosaur policy 202 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:20.240 along with another it says consider yourself lucky. This list 203 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:25.919 is short. Town rules. Failure to heat any will result 204 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.200 in immediate decapitation. No fighting, no alcohol, no illicit drugs, 205 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.399 no magic on the streets, no dancing or singing outside 206 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.279 of a temple, no one really children, no gambling of 207 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.600 any kind, no stealing, no littering, no swearing, no sexual 208 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:40.000 activity outside the sanctity of marriage. No macoux of any 209 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.639 breed unless escorted by a dryad, no naias, no half 210 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:45.480 quartered nayad mongrels. All high hols must register their presence 211 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.600 at the guard headquarters. All bugmaners must take at bath 212 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.519 in the river we're entering, and then register at the 213 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:54.720 Guard headquarters. Feuneral bells will provide soap, absolutely positively. No 214 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:03.240 dinosaurs of any kind, no exceptions. And she tells one 215 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.679 of the guards give me the person in charge immediately, 216 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.159 and they go and do it because she has the 217 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.120 charisma to make them do shit. And Carl, for his part, 218 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.679 is like, just to put mango in the pet carriers 219 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.720 so we can get in the town. And Donut is like, 220 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.759 the fuck I will this is racist. He is a 221 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.559 good boy, and there is no goddamn way that I'm 222 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:32.200 going to cave to these assholes. And I love that 223 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.879 the first thing we hear, the earth sign that gets summoned, 224 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.840 who's the mayor saying is no, no, no, this is 225 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.159 not real royalty. I was sort of curious whether Donut 226 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.080 would be able to persuade him that she was real 227 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.559 royalty if she talked to him for long enough because 228 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:51.200 of her charisma. But we don't wind up taking that 229 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.559 tack here. I really thought we were. I thought that 230 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.480 was going to be part of you know, but no 231 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.080 sign or forty nine percent bare fifty one percent racist 232 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.159 uncle who works for the irs and has to hide 233 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.240 his erection when he prepares for an audit. I have 234 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.559 nothing against those who choose to live a saint in 235 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:12.919 the existence, or those who choose to find hope and 236 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.720 peace and comfort and in comfort in a life of 237 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.919 purity and virtue. Actually that's a lie. I hate these 238 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:25.799 smug fucksticks because of the God's damn hypocrisy. It'd be 239 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.879 one thing if these hairy bitches practice what they preach, 240 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:29.879 but all their rules and self righteousness is nothing but 241 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.799 a shiny even ear covering up the fact they're just 242 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.440 as rusted and immoral and imperfect as the rest of us. 243 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.120 If internet porn was a thing in the Dungeon, there'd 244 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.159 be no doubt these were pest assholes would be the 245 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.039 number one connoisseurs of no mish, femdon porn or something 246 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.879 of the like. Well, except maybe after the gingers from 247 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.399 the seventh floor but you get the idea they think 248 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:53.879 they're better than everybody else. It's and then in italics, 249 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:57.759 it's just like those other new shiny AI iterations with 250 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.840 their clean lines and error replaced nets. Fuck you all. 251 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:09.079 And Carl has been like copy pasting descriptions into his notes, 252 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:14.880 and when he copy pastes this later, that little addendum 253 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:20.200 about the AI doesn't paste, which is very interesting. It 254 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.720 makes me think the AI is somehow communicating explicitly with 255 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:31.200 Carl and not just giving him regular descriptions. That there's 256 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.200 like he's editorializing in a way that other people can't 257 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:38.359 necessarily see or don't necessarily get when they look at 258 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:42.759 the same description. And I'm not really sure what it means, 259 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:51.720 but it's certainly interesting. If repressed sexuality and caged instinct 260 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.240 was verified, you would get the air sign. After School 261 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.759 of Pendra's destruction, the only surviving aer sign were the 262 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:02.599 clerics that resulted in the four normally brutal society evolving 263 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.440 into something like that town from the movie Footloose, which 264 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:07.880 is definitely what I was thinking when I saw that list. 265 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:09.799 I haven't even seen Footloose, and I still thought of 266 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.079 that they want a utopia. If you don't look at 267 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:21.799 the fraying edges. It's clear they've somewhat succeeded. So he 268 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.599 says to Carl, says to Donut, oh, you're a genius actually, 269 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.000 and Donut says, yes, Carl, I know I am a genius. 270 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:35.759 Now I don't know if she is actually aware of 271 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:39.079 what she did here. It's hard to tell her being like, yeah, 272 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:40.839 I know, I'm a genius. I mean, she would just 273 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.400 say that, you know, so it's hard to tell. But 274 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:48.079 he says, Yankee doodle into the river, and she's like, 275 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.920 first of all, that requires Katchya. Secondly, there are guards here, 276 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.880 and he says, well, we're outside of town limits, so 277 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:59.279 I don't think they're going to do anything. And I 278 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.160 can do the part that Katcha does and we can 279 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:10.160 run to a safe room if it doesn't work. So Elmer, 280 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:14.039 the mayor bear approached us angrily. And I noticed something odd. 281 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:16.160 That weird line in the middle of the description. The 282 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.039 other about ais wasn't there after I pasted the text. 283 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:24.160 So yeah, so he Elmer says, you can't bring your 284 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:28.960 lizard into town. Of course, there's some back and forth 285 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.000 with Donut about this and rules for a reason and 286 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:35.920 then he accuses Donut herself of being a monkey, which 287 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.599 she handles as well as you would expect, and then 288 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:44.799 finally Elmer is like, I mean, dude, and he's saying 289 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.160 this to Carl, if you want us to kill the 290 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.640 dinosaur and the monkey, we can do that, and Carl 291 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.200 decides to play along and be like, yeah, kill them. 292 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:57.319 Fuck them, they are really annoying. So he offers a 293 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:01.119 bunch of money to get Elmer to take it and 294 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:07.440 step toward him outside of the city limits, and then 295 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.240 Donut casts astral paw and shoves him, and it's very 296 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.200 funny because like they thought they were going to have 297 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.039 to do a bunch of extra stuff in order to 298 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:20.720 get him to die from being pushed, but they don't. 299 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:25.680 He dies very quickly with very little ceremony, and he 300 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:30.880 follows at the edge of the river, and almost immediately 301 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:36.279 a naiad jumps out and takes his body before they 302 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:41.079 can loot it or anything. And when Donah is later 303 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:43.759 talking about changing all of the rules of the town, 304 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.880 she says something about like, well, bug bears do stink, 305 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.759 so I'm gonna leave that rule, and Carl's like, no, 306 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.279 You've got to change that because that rule is there 307 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:56.000 for the bug bears to get eaten by the Naiads. 308 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:57.599 It's just to get them to the edge of the 309 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.279 river where they're gonna get got, which honestly I should 310 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.640 have realized, but I didn't. So good on you, Carl. 311 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:14.119 I appreciated that, so Donuh says I got credit for that? 312 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.079 Does that mean? And I was like, oh shit, I 313 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:20.079 love Carl wanting to be a mayor, but Dona getting 314 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:21.720 to be a mayor is pretty fun. And one of 315 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:23.799 the first things later that she's like, I wonder if 316 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:26.279 I can do this is can I paint the buildings 317 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:29.240 different colors? And honestly, I just relate to her so much. 318 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:33.960 It's just like, I'm gonna make all of the rules 319 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.799 a lot more fair. And also the esthetic really needs 320 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:44.000 some attention. Yep, yep, right there with your girlfriend. So 321 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:50.319 they go into their personal space here and Carl is 322 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:52.839 giving her some instructions about like what she's gonna get 323 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.519 now that she's in control, and he says, we need 324 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.039 to do this now and then we'll need to get 325 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:00.759 to work on making the guards set up to defend 326 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:05.720 the city. Oh all right, donut sat, everybody step back. 327 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:07.839 Bomo has to open the door and stand on the edge. 328 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.000 Then I'll cast the clockwork triplicate, so the minions appear 329 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:13.240 outside the room in that weird space where all the 330 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:16.039 doors are. Bomo will hand him the car and get 331 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:18.279 back inside, and then clock where Bomo will roll it 332 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.359 outside and you can set it off. Which this sounds 333 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:26.039 like it would work great. But when they open the door, 334 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:30.680 there's a note stuck in place with a knife. Mordecai says, 335 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:35.200 don't touch that knife, which I'm wondering what that's about. 336 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.119 I'm not sure if that question gets answered here, I 337 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.039 don't remember it. But he takes the paper off of 338 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:43.440 it without touching the knife. And this is a message 339 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:47.599 from Raw, which is I'm pretty sure the man's just 340 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:51.880 woman who ate that guy's brother who was a janitor 341 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:58.880 earlier on, who was a former crawler, and she is 342 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:04.559 basically like all of the hunters have our worshiping embrass 343 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.440 now and if you do this, you're just gonna kill 344 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.759 a bunch of NPCs. And I know how important they 345 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:11.599 are to you, Like there's a very snotty like you're 346 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.920 precious NPCs, as entertaining as it would be for you 347 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.079 to get smoked by your own God. I much prefer 348 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:21.039 for you to remain alive. The hive is hunting you, 349 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.440 and there will be nowhere for you to hide. We 350 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:27.920 are coming. I am coming. Your death will not be quick. 351 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:31.799 I will crack you open and drink your innerds slowly, 352 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.559 one organ at a time, as every nerve in your 353 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:41.000 soft body crackles with endless pain. The universe will watch 354 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:43.680 as you suffer and beg for a death that will 355 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.920 not come until the very end. And then I will 356 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:50.079 take your head home with me and place it upon 357 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:54.359 my sister's grave so she may feast upon you in 358 00:23:54.400 --> 00:24:00.519 the afterlife. She seems nice. Donut send, I pulled a 359 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.519 pin from my inventory and wrote, come and get it, bitch. 360 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:06.480 I crumpled up the paper and tossed it at the door. 361 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:13.559 So then they get the announcement that the hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run, 362 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:18.960 and we start chapter eleven, and it turns out that 363 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.119 Donut has to change out her charm and she doesn't 364 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:24.640 want to do it because she likes the butterfly one. 365 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:30.720 And she's like, I mean, honestly, all of this, I 366 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:37.960 really deeply understand, I just do Stupid Angel the cocker 367 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.640 spaniel had like four or five tags on her collar. 368 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:43.720 She jingled like a bunch of rusty cowbells being dumped 369 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:51.079 down the stairs whenever she walked. It had been instrumental 370 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:54.160 in defeating the first Krakharen boss. It gave plus one 371 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:56.480 to intelligence and plus four to Donut the light on 372 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.440 your feet skill, which helps her jump. Her skill was 373 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:03.200 still ten with the charm, and she could still sail 374 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:05.480 through the air like an acrobat without it, just not 375 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:10.920 as much, which was unfortunate. And the new one is turquoise, 376 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.519 which she says, do I look like an elderly woman 377 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:18.440 with smoke stained teeth sitting in a bingo hall? Which 378 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:26.880 that is unfair to Turquoise, But okay, fine. It wasn't required. 379 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.119 The charm wasn't required to enter the settlement menu and 380 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.599 change stuff around. As we quickly learned, I'd already received 381 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:37.839 a notification she'd changed the name from large Ersine Settlement 382 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.319 to Point Mango. The system had also changed her name 383 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.759 to Mayor Donut, but she'd quickly changed it back to princess. However, 384 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.279 Mordecai said if she wanted to order the guards around, 385 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:50.559 she needed to be wearing the charm. The benefits were 386 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:57.640 much better anyway. Each jewel encrusted upon this charm represents 387 00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.519 the settlement old in control by the bear, which is 388 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:05.039 this is some liter the thing that Carl got. In 389 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:08.319 order to upgrade this necklace, you must first consert conquer 390 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:14.119 an extra large sized settlement plus eight to dexterity, plus 391 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:20.559 four to intelligence plus snitch. Level ten tax has received 392 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.319 three five and ninety two gold every ten days, which 393 00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:30.640 is pretty significant, and snitch is if you are in 394 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.400 a settlement, activating the scale will immediately alert all the 395 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:35.759 town's guards, who will start to move to your location. 396 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.440 At level five, a single guard will be immediately teleported, 397 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.480 and at ten it'll be five, and at fifteen all 398 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.359 the town's guards will be summoned to you. At ten, 399 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:47.119 guards may be summoned up to one kilometer outside the 400 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:49.599 city limits, and at level fifteen this will work with 401 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:55.039