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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl book What is This? Seven Yes,

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seven chapters eight, nine, ten, and eleven. In these chapters,

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we have a kind of wedding, a pre wedding, a

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first wedding, and also Carl gets very emotional when he

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finds out everything that's been going on behind the scenes,

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and he still doesn't even know everything yet. Welcome to

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

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Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.

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Michael's here in the chat with me as well as

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Sarah and Jeff. Hi, Jeff and Rob. Delighted to have

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all you guys today. So this section is a real

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combination of highs and lows, and there was a point

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that we will get to. I was reading this for once.

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I was not listening to the audiobook. I was reading

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on my kindle and I got I was sitting next

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to my husband. I got to the spot and I

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stopped and looked at the ceiling to like not cry,

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you know that, Like I'm keeping my tears in my

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eyes right now, I'm not gonna let them fall. And

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they fell anyway, and he like looks at me and

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is like, are you okay? And I'm just like really

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sad part and then everybody arrives and it was like,

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how dare you make me feel so sad and then

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feel so hopeful like it's just a rollercoaster, and I,

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as somebody who doesn't enjoy feeling resents it and I

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hate you, Matt Denneman, so go fuck yourself. So chapter eight,

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Dona is explaining about how the she's like planning on

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singing at the wedding. She's talking about Mango being a

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ring bearer. It turns out the whole way that this

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is going to work is really different than the traditional

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type of like Western American wedding that she's expecting. And

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Carl tells her at this point to like put on

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her glasses so that she can see if there's any

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change lanes around, because she wants to make He wants

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to make sure that they don't get tricked, because they're

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going into all of this assuming that the NPCs are

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on their side, and I think he pretty much does

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trust that they are, but he's not an idiot. It's

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always good to just what is it they say? Trust?

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But verify. Oh my god, Sarah em says this at

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the same time. Perfect. So they go out into the

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center of this funnel so that he can see a

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lot more of the rings and the architecture and everything,

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and he is surprised at the fact that things look

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more clean and more lived in than he was expecting.

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It not as high. Was flooded and a lot of

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it has been drained out since then. But as we

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find out, there came a point where Juice Box was like, no, no, no,

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leave the rest of this flooded. This is actually helpful

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to us us and Jeff says, I hate that trust

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woul Verify was a Republican slogan I parroted by Ronald Reagan.

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Everything sucks always if you go back far enough. That's

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just like the rule of life. My interface is beeping

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with others getting recruited. The numbers were slowly, slowly rising.

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We had just under three days to get them all,

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which for the number of people they're talking about is

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that's a lot that they have to I don't know

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if we're gonna make it, and that's really worrying. I

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don't you've got to make so many people. Sergeants to

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be able to get them to recruit. And I'm not

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sure what kind of other power that comes with, you know,

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like how dangerous is it to do that? I really

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don't know, but I want The over city had a

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wooden floor that had seemed downright rickety. In some places,

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the hunting grounds were jungle and had a solid physical ground. Hell,

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there was a deep river running through as supposedly, if

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one spent too much time digging up there, one would

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break through and fall into this area. It was all fake,

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but still it was important to know how it all worked.

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And he talks about like the dwarf Arif is saying,

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you know, not all of the rings completely circle the city,

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and that there are some that are homes, there's some

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that's a college. There's an area that's like an outer

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ring that's sort of a shanty town that's big enough

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to ring everything. And let's see, we had water up

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to fifteen for a bit, and now it's only up

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to level three, just enough to cover the highest tower

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of the castle. Anybody who wants to take that castle's

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got to learn how to swim. And he like Carl's

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looking and says about just jumping down the center, which

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I always appreciate because, like you know, I don't think

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anybody has ever gone into a big, old fashioned building

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that's got like one of those staircases that circles and

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that hasn't looked down and been like, what a great

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shortcut to just jump down the center. And of course

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that would definitely be on my mind here. And this

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is when a Reef says there was another season where

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they did do that, and Carl says, oh, another season

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and realizes that like, not only is a Reef referring

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to himself as an NPC, but he is referring to

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the game the way that people who are not NPCs

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usually do, and explains, I think I'm new, so I

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don't have memories of the others, like not everybody does.

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Some NPCs I think are different from each other. But

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there are definitely NPCs who remember dozens of seasons, like

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my uncle, and that was really interesting. There are so

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many varieties of everything, you know, and there are I

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think that's part of what I have found a little bit.

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It's not, I say overwhelming, but not in a way

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that's like a negative exactly. It's more that like it

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contributes to this feeling like a larger world and feels

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like there's a lot of potential for things that I

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can't predict to happen later. But the the idea that

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there are so many different types of NPCs. We've got

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different crawlers who are still indentured. We've got crawlers who

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are indentured with different types of deals also, and the

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indentureships have different rules depending, Like there's so many like expectations,

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rules and laws that we have to work within, and

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different types of awareness and scope that we have to

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function within. And that's the way it works. You know,

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that is how the world is. But when you are

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like encountering it in something like this that you instinctively

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want to keep track of everything, it's definitely there's been

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a few times where I've had to tell myself, Okay,

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I can't get distracted by this because I don't know

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what I need to know. When I know it, I

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just have to trust that, Like the only reason to

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really track anything is to try and predict what's going

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to happen, and to a degree, I don't want to

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do that. There are sometimes where I like to try

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and figure things out, but it's like nice to just

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also let stuff happen, so it's fine, So let's see.

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I thought of Harret, the cookbook author of the sixteenth edition,

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who'd made Waking NPCs up his life's work. I thought

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of his final heart wrenching entry in the cookbook, and

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I wondered if he'd managed to survive, And if he had,

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was he watching this right now? Probably not. If he

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was alive, he'd likely still be working in the dungeons somewhere.

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He'd wanted to be a game guide. I didn't know

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if he'd made it, and I can't remember guys I

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have heard. I feel like we heard from Harrot out

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in an epilogue at some point, but I genuinely can't recall.

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So anyway, there's because there's a bunch of people later

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that we see as well. And keeping track of everybody's

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names is another thing that I'm gonna have to work on,

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because there are so many folks that are getting added

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into the mix now that we have seen their names

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in entries from the cookbook. But I have never felt

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any real inclination to keep track of who's who really,

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you know, So now it's going to matter a little

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bit more. And I am like, oh boy, because I'm

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never good with that, but we're gonna try. Let's see.

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He's uh. Juice Box says, they're different kinds of us.

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Some shop keepers are different. Some of the patrons are

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also different. The hands of Outworlders are everywhere when you

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know what to look for, and at this point a

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reflake when it's mentioned that Outworlders are no longer immortal.

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He pulls his sword and he says, I will take

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my revenge against Architect Houston, the leader of the madness,

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a viceroy Outworlder. He caught my brother as he attempted

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to sabotage their fortifications. They say my brother was tortured

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before Juice Box infiltrated and ended his suffering. And Dona

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is that the guy Juice Box decapitated during the pre

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production meeting, which I appreciate that being mentioned, but good

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love it that was one of his surgeons. The Dwarf said.

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Nobody has managed to get into Houston's operating theater. That's

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what they call his lair next to the throne room.

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I really you, guys, if you aren't aware of this,

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It's something that I've mentioned on so many of my

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podcasts that I will lose track of where it's been

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mentioned and where not. But I personally have a really

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hard time with anything involving like medical torture, body horror,

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that kind of specific type of horror movie, and the

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fact that like that's one of his surgeons and his

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lair is called the operating theater. I think this is

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gonna be somebody I'm gonna really really hate dealing with,

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and I hope y'all are prepared for me to just

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be squigket the fuck out when the time comes, because

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I just don't like it. It's hard, it's a It

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comes up a lot in various things that I cover,

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and there are times where I can sort of just

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breathe and get through it, and then there are times

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where I just completely lose my shit and I can't

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take it. It really depends, and I'm not sure. I

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think it depends partially on like my mood at the time,

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which is not helpful. But I just have a really

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it's too close to like the reality that we still

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live with the way that we use medicine and the

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way that many things have been discovered utilizing people with

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no agency to experiment on, and it's just it really, really,

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really really gets to me in a way that few

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other things do. I can watch a slasher movie all day,

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I don't that just does not you know, monster movie. Fine,

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but when it comes to not us torture, but the

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torture that is being done with the veneer of But

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it's for the good of humanity oftentimes, you know, that's

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the shit that I cannot or it's for your own good.

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We're torturing you to make you better because there's something

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wrong with you. Like, oh, hate it, hate it, hate it,

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hate it. Rom says, would be helpful for us to

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give you a content warning when you're going to have

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a chapter with Houston in it. I don't think so.

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Probably I appreciate the thought, but I don't think it will.

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It's just one of those that I have to deal with,

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you know. Sorry, Michael says, what about the Halloween episode

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in Community where Troy and abb had got combined into

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one super being. That's uh, they're just wearing flight suits

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that are sewed together. So it really does not That

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one doesn't get me at all. But uh, it's a

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good episode though, we're only more awesome. So then the

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nagas come up and we find out that like a

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sort of a weird thing about the Nagas that first

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of all, they function a lot more as like phantoms.

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You know, they they're high on stealth, they do poison,

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they do assassination, and like infiltrating them is a lot

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harder than anybody else, even Juice Box, who's like pro

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at this, does not try to get in there anymore.

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And also Carl is like he has some information that

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he has gathered that basically amounts to the fact that

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the Naga seem to be sort of trying to just

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keep the memory of their original like roots alive for

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the sake of it. Seems to be almost like a

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tourism gambit. I'm trying to find the bit here where

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Uh yeah, they were basically LARPing the olden days, dragging.

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I thought it was mostly for fun, but after reading

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between the lines, I was starting to realize their continued

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participation was a pr stunt, a way to keep people

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interested in Naga history, which would drive tourism. And this

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is an interesting idea. Like everything in the end in

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the Dungeon is about making money, but the like using

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it in this way to make money feels like something

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that's definitely likely in our world as well. You know,

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I wonder this sometimes about even things like Epcot Center,

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where you've got little country areas that you can visit,

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and are there people from those countries who are actively

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invested in making those areas like appealing as possible to

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drive folks to visiting. Like how does that? I have

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to imagine, right, But anyway, the current leader was a

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real life crown princess. I didn't know what her name

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really was. In the old days, her identity would be

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kept a secret. And there's a whole thing about like

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how many children she's supposed to have. And I'm not

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getting into all of this because it's just horrible, But basically,

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there was only one time that one of these princesses

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had had all of the female offspring to like kill

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all off all of the males, and she is the

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one who was deemed the sepsis horror. So good for her,

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I don't know, I really that seems that seems pretty

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solid to me. Despite the Naga team getting their just

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kicked every single time, she'd never been killed, not once.

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They'd have their throne room taken, usually at the great

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expense of actual poor NPCs and mercenaries, but the Sultana

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and her guard would be gone, only to reappear at

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the end, safe and laughing. The problem was, these Nagos

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weren't NPCs who believed in the story built around them.

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They knew who I was, and they would know how

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important it would be to me to get them out

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of the game. And now that the protections were off,

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I had no idea if they would keep the whole

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Sultana charade up. And I'm going to assume that if

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you want to keep the tourism thing going, you're going

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to try to keep the sultana thing up. You're going

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to try and prove something by maintaining that and trying

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to handle Carl. Want to have your cake and eat

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it too. I Am going to be interested to see

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how that shakes out. I really wonder about where it

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is that they always manage to escape to and come back,

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because it almost feels like there's a secret area that

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they only know about. And if we can find that,

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maybe we will have part of our solution already. You know.

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So Carl gets approached by somebody who gives him a

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big kiss, and it's like you saved me and my

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Heidi and for that, you get a kiss. The ground

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remained wet and slimy, and the excess of dead sharks

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littered the map. The floor contained the massive Piccadilly theater,

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surrounded by bars, including a few true safe rooms, And

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I feel like these theaters might come in handy. We

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have to deal with a lot of people. You know,

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we're gonna have like huge groups that we need to

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plan with. And obviously this will mean that you have

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to come up with like versions of plans, because there's

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gonna be something that's very public, and then there's gonna

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be like the real plan that you keep to yourself.

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But we're dealing with tens of thousands of troops, and

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while we do have that group chat, I have to

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assume that many people, it's probably gonna be tricky. And

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there's also an energy to actually physically gathering people in

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one space and talking to them that you don't get

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in a group chat. That will hype people up, you know,

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So I could see us using this in the near future.

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Let's see the Desperado. It turns out also, we find

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out later it's open, but it's not allowing any people

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in any crawlers inside it all at first, Carl thinks

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that it's because of the whole demon thing, but we

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find out that that is not actually the case, that

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it's all crawlers. So this is when we see juice Box,

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who at first hunger hammy level thirty nole. And you know,

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as much as I know that Juice Box is a

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shape shifter, I am still not prepared whenever somebody turns

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out to be Juice Box. So you know, she jumps

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on Louis and starts kissing him and I'm like what

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what And then it's like, oh, yeah, it's juice Box

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changed to her human form, and I'm like, done, Natasha,

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fucking stay stay with us, okay, girl, Like yeah, I'm

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not great about this. So there's also the reminder that

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the level that we see when she's in her human form,

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when she's in her nole form, later when she's in

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her blank form, like there's no saying what level she

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actually is. Everything that we see in her descriptors are

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part of the charade, you know. So this is kind

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of a weird scene. So first off, Juice Boxes, like, Carl,

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you didn't do what I wanted. We wanted everyone to

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be protected, and I was kind of surprised that she

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came at him with this energy because I was just like,

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you had to know that wasn't going to happen, right,

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And to her credit, when he's like, this was the

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best we could do, she immediately lets it go and

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just says it'll have to do. But I was like,

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you know, still kind of going. The fact that he

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managed to get what he got is a miracle. I

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feel like you should be acting a lot more impressed

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slash grateful that he pulled off what he has pulled off.

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But you know, she hasn't got time for being grateful,

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and I have to respect that to a point. And

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there's also this like, you know, Louie is here and

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he has not really reacted to Juice Box at all.

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Like the fact the mention of them getting married in

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the last section, I already was like pointing out the

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fact that it seemed pretty He wasn't excited is the

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that feels like the mildest way to say it. He

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just seemed to freeze up, and that freeze continues here

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in a way. That's like got donut in his chat going, Louis,

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you have got to start talking to her. She thinks,

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like from your reaction that you don't even like her

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anymore and she's super excited to see you, and I

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was like appreciating donut. Donut is very much functioning according

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to the like, of course you love her, so now

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you have to show her that you love her now. I,

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of course am not of the opinion that he loves her. However,

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I you know, Carl a couple times is just like,

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you know, you don't have to do this, And I

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just really wanted to be like Carl, Look, I understand

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that you're trying to you're trying to give him agency

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here and keep him from being pressured in a particular way.

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And I really love about you that you care in

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this way, but this is a fake wedding in a

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fake world to an NPC, he has to do this.

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I am so sorry. It's just not a negotiable thing.

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It's we've killed people, We've killed actual other human beings.

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This is fucking nothing. It's fine, And I appreciate that

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Louis gets with the program and immediately it's just like no, no, no,

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I do have to do this, because like if we

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were gonna have to browbeat him into it, I was

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going to be really irritated when he had taken on

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killing Sisternez at the end of the last book, so

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that Carl and Donut don't have to shoulder that, and

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then he's going to bulk at like this wedding. You know,

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I just I can understand in theory, but in practice

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I just did not have any patience for it. So

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I'm glad in the end that this kind of winds

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up being a non issue. But he really has to

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like work to get his enthusiasm up to a point

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that makes juice Box less self conscious, because it really

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like what Donut is saying about how juice Box is

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feeling self conscious and awkward is definitely true. The way

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that she like kind of she jumps in his lap,

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she's kissing him, and then she sort of like backs

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away and slips out of his lap and takes a

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seat by herself, and it's just like the body language

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is very much her going, oh maybe this isn't you

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know what I mean? So the shantytown is an issue.

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There is a mayor there who stabbed somebody named Theora

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in the back. The opponent cheated. We can't touch this guy,

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I sighed, So Ferdinand Bingo Cowboy. Are any of the

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outworlders coming into the regular city into the roccos. They

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are starting to there's not much here for them, but

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still they come mostly to Scout and the whole thing

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with Ferdinand. Later. This guy he really sucks, and like

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not in a fun way, you know what I'm saying.

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He sucks in a real way. He may be a

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cat and some of the ways in which he sucks

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may be funny even but it's not. It's not fun,

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you get what I mean. Like, I just ah, I

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hate him a lot. I hate him a lot, But

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we'll get there in a second. So it turns out

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that he has like all of the controls, so he

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can't be killed because they need him. He was given

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power over the controlling system, including the city defense. The

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ELF says it was a workaround to allow us to

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participate because the cat isn't really an NPC but of

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the same stock as you. If he dies, we lose control,

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so he must be kept safe. And also he keeps

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telling everybody that he's Donut's fiance, and Donut is disgusted

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by this. I will say, I'm quite proud of how

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Donut has just completely dropped any affection for him of

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any kind. You know. There comes a point later where

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she's just like, I don't know what I used to

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see in him, and I was like, good for you, girl,

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This is growth. Everybody has a friend who was into

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somebody that they We were all puzzled, what the fuck

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is the draw? I don't get it. You know, it's

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gotta be something chemical, like what the fuck? And it

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probably was chemical? It probably was. But let's see, Drick

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is the guy. He's a Valtae infected elf, and he's

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the one that we're going to have to deal with.

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And later on when we see him, Ferdan's like on

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Drake's head and Drix's just walking around with him on

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his head, really not looking happy about the arrangement. But

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it is what it is. So let's see. She thinks

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it's important we need them on our side. If this helps,

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I'll do it. If they turn against us or screw

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this will help. We need each other. Plus you love her, right, yeah,

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sure of course. Okay, then, but don't tell us, tell her,

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and don't be outcarl about it. Be romantic. Louis was

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shaking and sweating. His five player killer skulls looked so ridiculous,

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so out of place over his head that I felt

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angry every time I saw them. And then he says,

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can you just turn into something else for like a second,

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because she'd been kissing him as this old male knoll,

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which he is not into. She turned into a mix

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between Taylor Swift and iggyp Then a cheerleader suit formed

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on her body. Who's this supposed to be? Is this somebody?

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I genuinely couldn't There are some of these, like when

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the description is made, I'm like, Okay, I'm getting the

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pop culture reference here, but this one I couldn't. Like

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is this from Heroes? We were just talking about, you know,

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but I don't know if that's her or not. And

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at this point they are talking about like the Diggers

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and they are Dwarmin automatons. So we jump to chapter

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ten and we're approaching the Desperado Club, and this is

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when we find out that they are not allowed inside.

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And finally he gets the name of the new owner

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named Hamed, and Carl has to like try not to

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react and let anybody know. This is not secret, like

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the cookbook is secret, but it is secret in that

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he has access to things that you know our secret

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within the game, and Hammon was the real name of

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the night Worm, the leader of the Guild of Suffering,

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husband to the late Astroid and father did the strippers

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Damascus Steele and Anaconda, both of whom were still supposedly

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somewhere in the club hunting him, hunting their own father.

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All of that had to wait. And I do appreciate

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every time Carl says something like, we have so much

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to do because there are a lot a fucking plate

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spinning right now, and I like, just getting all of

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the people registered to your company, that's such a huge

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task in itself, that all this other shit whenever he

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listed out him just like, oh boy, I don't know

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if we're going to be able to do this, dude,

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So fucking Ferdinand. He wore a gold chain around his

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neck with a small jeweled charm and what appeared to

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be a circle of white, thin paper tissues wrapped around

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his head. One end sagged pitifully about to fall off.

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It was like he'd attempted to recreate the turbine using

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literal toilet paper. And apparently he has the same interest

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in hats that Donut has. Whether this is organically occurring

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or it's because he knows Donut loves hats that he's

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trying to love hats. I don't know. But the way

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that Carl bribes him into turning over the town later

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is by offering him a bowler hat, which has an

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ability that Donut later is like, we better get that

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shit back because I want to drain it on my

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little cushion for my Tiara. And also I don't even

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have a bowler hat yet, so you know, and I

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am wondering if that's going to actually turn out to

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be more of an issue than we would think it

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would be, because he seems to be a pain in

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the ass in ways that you wouldn't expect, and it

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also in the ways that you would definitely expect. It's,

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you know, so let's see, I'm trying to find this bit.

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The Princess Posse has made a trade request with Team Retribution,

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and I love Carl just reaches over, puts the hat

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on Ferdinand's head and it automatically resizes, and immediately Brittany

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pulls out a mirror so that he can look at

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himself and be like, oh shit, and he says, I'm

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a very handsome boy. More than once which I need

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this energy little bit more in my own life. I

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need to start saying something like this in the mirror.

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I gotta come up with the right tone, because just

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like I'm a very beautiful girl, it doesn't quite you know.

472
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,400
Maybe just I'm a very pretty girl, you know. I'm

473
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,640
thinking about the way that somebody would speak to a cat,

474
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:20,759
to a pet, and aren't you a pretty girl? You're

475
00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,759
a very pretty girl. That's the vibe. So probably I'll

476
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,799
go with that, but I feel like it could just

477
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,720
help perk me up a little bit, you know. I

478
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:37,279
don't know. I see it. The ELF's mouth turned upward

479
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:41,359
in an unreadable expression. It was like a mixture of annoyance, exasperation,

480
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:46,839
and panic. This elf, I don't think was prepared for

481
00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:55,599
how it was gonna be. So the level on By

482
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,359
the way, Juice Box, when she's in her blank form,

483
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
says one twenty, which I kind of feel like might

484
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,359
actually be accurate after all, But I don't know. It

485
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,840
seems that being in her blank form is the true form,

486
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,840
So I feel like maybe that's actually right. But we

487
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,679
don't know, and he doesn't ask, But I think otherwise,

488
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,760
what would be the significance of going to her blank

489
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,880
form for the wedding because she's going to be her

490
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,679
true self for this, because of the symbolism of it,

491
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,039
you know, And that makes sense to me. And it

492
00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:29,639
turns out that the way that these weddings work is

493
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:33,719
that you get married and then you sign divorce papers

494
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,119
and you have thirty days to file the papers, and

495
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,320
if you don't, then you're really married. You've decided to

496
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:47,400
stay married, and you have the bigger, more purposeful wedding

497
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,679
that's like the kind of celebration we're used to weddings being.

498
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,199
So it's basically a sort of a thirty day trial

499
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:58,559
period where you can return, no questions asked. And I

500
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,960
love this idea. I think this is fucking great because

501
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,599
evidently they're mostly arranged marriages, so we have to make

502
00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,599
sure that people can like get along decently, and I

503
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:12,440
really enjoy that. I think that's a fun setup. And

504
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,239
just having the papers and like either of you can

505
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:20,000
file them if you feel the need. Yeah, I like it.

506
00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:24,519
And so that means that this little ceremony is really simple,

507
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,800
really short and just you know, doesn't require every all

508
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,480
the planning and performances and whatnot. The doughnut had been

509
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:36,119
talking about and the fact that like there's a second

510
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:42,360
wedding a full month later. It just feels so far

511
00:35:42,559 --> 00:35:47,159
off to Carl that he's sort of like, yeah, we'll

512
00:35:47,199 --> 00:35:49,159
see about that. I mean, I don't even need to

513
00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:51,599
think about anything that far ahead at this point, which

514
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:54,840
I agree with. I do love Louis just saying I

515
00:35:54,880 --> 00:36:03,639
wish my mom was here. He's a good boy, let's see.

516
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,400
I hope Samantha won't be too mad. She missed the

517
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,239
first ceremony, and I was really like wondering about her

518
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,320
throughout all of this. There's no mention, and I don't

519
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,960
know what to expect about her finding out about this,

520
00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:23,320
because it's like she has had a crush on Mouie,

521
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,639
but she's talked at times like they are actually together,

522
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,719
and then other times she's talked about him like she's

523
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,280
like going to hook up with. Like Samantha is so

524
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,679
deluded that I can't keep track of what she believes

525
00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:40,719
at any given time, and it seems like whatever she

526
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,960
believes changes depending on what allows her to be the

527
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,320
most unhinged at a given moment. So I'm just not

528
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:53,719
really sure at all what to expect. So then we

529
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,039
get a message from Florin. Mate, I am about to

530
00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:00,639
blow your fucking mind. You need to get your ass

531
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:02,599
to the headquarters. We've secured the safe rom so you

532
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:04,519
can use the doggy door. There's a large group of

533
00:37:04,519 --> 00:37:08,159
people here who would really like to meet you. And

534
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,920
we had seen at the end of the last book

535
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:18,000
all of these people arriving, but I still wasn't thinking

536
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:21,480
that it was going to be them yet. I think

537
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:24,280
that what I was expecting was like there would be

538
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,559
a fucking hold up and those folks wouldn't be able

539
00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:29,360
to arrive until we were like mid battle, like Gandalf

540
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,119
coming on the third day, you know what I mean,

541
00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:35,960
Like that sort of thing, which, as much as that

542
00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:41,960
sounds fun and dramatic, isn't super helpful. Like you, it's

543
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,039
helpful at the moment of crisis when you've already lost

544
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:47,039
so many people that you think you're gonna like really

545
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:52,840
actually lose, And that isn't helpful in the scheme of things,

546
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,280
So I'm glad that's not it. I also want to

547
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,599
mention that, like at the time when I was recording

548
00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,079
that ending, I mentioned them sneak and like, how is

549
00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:04,880
this going to work? Because I was misunderstanding how all

550
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:10,119
of this was functioning, and I forget who it was.

551
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,760
Somebody in the discord had to explain to me, No,

552
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,000
this is legal. They are just having to fly under

553
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:22,639
the radar as they are wanted as terrorists now, so

554
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,760
that's why they're hiding. But the way that they are

555
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,199
joining the Princess Posse is valid and above board. And

556
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,960
the whole thing is basically like, we just have to

557
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,960
make sure to get in there before they can catch

558
00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:39,400
us under this other warrant they have for us and

559
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,119
stop us from participating, because once we're in they can't

560
00:38:42,159 --> 00:38:45,840
do anything about it. So I was kind of getting

561
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,239
mixed up on how all this worked, and yeah, so

562
00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:57,119
that was definitely helpful. So let's see, I'm trying to

563
00:38:57,119 --> 00:39:01,519
find This is the part where we go to Tippid,

564
00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:10,639
who we meet later in the present. Tippid the man said,

565
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,679
it's Damien. I'm not your attorney. You're in a zero

566
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,039
zone and you have some lingering injuries that need to

567
00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:18,800
be repaired. It's brain lesions or something. I don't know.

568
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,360
You need to get straight to a Viceroy system to

569
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,639
get it repaired. I've already arranged for transport. It's going

570
00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:26,559
to cost a good chunk of your pension. But I

571
00:39:26,559 --> 00:39:30,519
don't see what choice you have. Tippid blinked, and he

572
00:39:30,599 --> 00:39:34,679
realized his hands weren't really bloody. The man in front

573
00:39:34,679 --> 00:39:38,719
of him wasn't his attorney. That had already happened. That

574
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:44,199
was Solar's ago. I'm never getting out of here, Tippett said.

575
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,840
He looked at his hands again. Why were they so clean?

576
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,280
The man, a hair covered human, smiled at him. He

577
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,920
smiled the way a merchant would smile, a merchant who

578
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,480
was forced to deal with a customer. He despised. No, oh,

579
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:03,800
that's not true. You did it. You fulfilled your contract,

580
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:09,679
game Guide, Poisonous Guild, occasional city Guard, perfect marks. You

581
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,880
didn't negotiate post release healthcare unfortunately, and some of the

582
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,280
physical injuries to your body persist. So when you're outside

583
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,719
the dungeon environment, this will happen. But you're free. You're

584
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:29,840
going home. Home. Where is that? There's an organization and

585
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,400
not for conquests that helps destitute former crawlers and employees

586
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,039
get their footing after transition. It's pretty new, but the

587
00:40:37,079 --> 00:40:39,679
syndicate has donated some money to the cause. Once they

588
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,559
start getting press. I've taken the liberty of letting them

589
00:40:42,599 --> 00:40:44,760
know you're coming. They're sending someone to accompany you to

590
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,400
the viceroy system. He's a former crawler himself. What about

591
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,559
the key? They let you keep it. You negotiated an

592
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:55,559
extra season just so you could have it. It's yours,

593
00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,239
and we don't know what the thing is with the key.

594
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:06,679
The Viceroys, they called themselves, their chief surgeon, had a

595
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,840
spell that cooked your brain. It made your teeth fall out,

596
00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:12,360
It made the liquid in your eyeballs turn to acid

597
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,159
and then explode over your own face. That was what

598
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,480
had happened to rosaline. He could still hear Horatio's cries.

599
00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,360
The other man hadn't understood what was happening, why Tippod

600
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,360
was leaving him behind. He remembered the feeling of the

601
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,320
jewel burning out as he stuck the key into the

602
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,519
door of the notification. Horatio had a wife an older child.

603
00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:36,000
They both survived and had already taken a deal at

604
00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:39,000
the end of the tenth Horatio had held on in

605
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:41,800
hopes of getting a better deal, of making a life

606
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,880
for them. When they finally got out, Tippid had nobody yet.

607
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:53,119
He'd chosen himself and he yanks the key off and

608
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,320
throws a tom and says I don't want it anymore,

609
00:41:56,039 --> 00:42:01,360
and then we get class Poisoner Race Crest BIRTHRCE Crest

610
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:05,679
top level ninety six Dungeon Exit took deal at the

611
00:42:05,679 --> 00:42:09,360
beginning of the twelfth floor, worked as a game guide

612
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,559
and guildhall instructor in the Poisoner Guild before exiting. The

613
00:42:12,639 --> 00:42:16,360
Dungeon was forced to spend the entirety of his pension

614
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,159
plus take out an additional loan to repair the extensive

615
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,000
damage to his brain. Eventually retired to a Crest system

616
00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:30,320
to work for a waste management company. And this is

617
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:40,599
the part, guys, it's too real, you know it just

618
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:54,039
it's I will never understand people who are not for

619
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,760
universal healthcare. It just will never ever make any fucking

620
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:06,280
sense to me. It's not just a weird selfishness about

621
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,039
not wanting to spend money on people in general. It's

622
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:13,079
also you shooting yourself in the foot because you don't

623
00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:14,920
want to admit that there's going to be a day

624
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,159
when you need care because you think you're invincible, or

625
00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:22,079
that I took such great care of myself that I'm

626
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:28,519
going to be okay, Like it's just weird and this

627
00:43:28,679 --> 00:43:31,840
sort of thing where he has sustained damage in the dungeon,

628
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:38,360
but he is made to pay for the damage. I mean,

629
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,039
how many people out there are saddled with hospital bills

630
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:48,400
after being beaten up by ice agents? What about the

631
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:53,320
people who have had tear gas sprayed point blank into

632
00:43:53,400 --> 00:44:00,960
their eyes? You know, like we don't unless you are

633
00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:07,079
able to get the resources to file a lawsuit, unless

634
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,800
you're able to get eyes on a go fund me,

635
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:18,800
good fucking luck, you know. And it's it's just really gross.

636
00:44:19,039 --> 00:44:23,119
And so yeah, this got me and I just sat

637
00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:26,840
there for a second like gathering myself because I was

638
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:39,519
just straight up crying. Ah, I hate it. So chapter eleven,

639
00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:46,239
we have Samantha here. It doesn't seem like anybody's told

640
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,880
her that Louis has gotten married. Still haven't dealt with that.

641
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,159
Tran had gotten an upgraded wheelchair, but I hadn't had

642
00:44:54,159 --> 00:44:56,320
a chance to see what Katchya built for him. And

643
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,159
I was like, goddamn it, because I really want to know.

644
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,679
I do hope Juice Box and Louis get time for

645
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,639
a honeymoon. It's sad they got married and then had

646
00:45:06,679 --> 00:45:08,880
to separate, right away. I must say I am surprised

647
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,840
she just let us take control of the other city

648
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,639
away from Ferdinand. If the bad guys can freely enter

649
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,800
that shanty town once the truce is broken, it's just

650
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,400
going to be a liability. It has a separate defense system.

651
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,360
In the meantime, we both have something that's going to

652
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,119
give all those assholes a huge headache. It's a good

653
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,840
deal for both of us. And this is when she

654
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,519
gets the notification that her sponsorship has been canceled due

655
00:45:33,559 --> 00:45:35,800
to a conflict of interest. Our first clue that we're

656
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:40,360
about to meet them and it's going to be auctioned off,

657
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,960
so we'll see who gets it. I am very curious

658
00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:47,199
about that. We entered the meadow Larks safe room and

659
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:54,199
just like that everything changed. Sorry, I just saw a

660
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,079
bunch of chatter. But William just said, can they even

661
00:45:57,159 --> 00:46:05,880
be sued? They can be, but it takes like I'm

662
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:07,920
I am not going to get fully into it because

663
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,559
it will sidetrack me. What it takes to sue them

664
00:46:13,519 --> 00:46:19,199
is so extensive. Uh, It's it's an uphill battle that

665
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:20,599
a lot of people are not willing to take on

666
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:26,360
for understandable reasons. I stopped dead. As I entered the space,

667
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,320
I stared at the two crests standing there, a woman

668
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,559
and a man. Mango jumped all around them, peeping with

669
00:46:33,599 --> 00:46:37,320
excitement at meeting someone new. The man stood there grinning stupidly,

670
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,880
while the woman scowled at the dinosaur on the mini map.

671
00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:43,400
Their dots were purple, the same color as the dots

672
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,519
of the hunters on the sixth floor, but they had

673
00:46:45,559 --> 00:46:49,239
a pink outline indicating them as troopers for the Princess Posse.

674
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:54,280
Rosetta Doughnut exclaimed Carl, Look at Rosetta Thiagara, what are

675
00:46:54,360 --> 00:47:01,519
you doing here? The name over her head blazed, Rosetta

676
00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:05,679
thag Crest Barnburner, level sixty colonel in the Princess Posse.

677
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,440
This is a subordinate. The name and description surprised me

678
00:47:10,639 --> 00:47:13,199
so much that it took me a second to finally

679
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,400
examine the second stranger standing there. This was also a crest,

680
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:23,719
but he was noticeably older. I uh, I felt myself

681
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,480
stagger when I read his name, like I've been physically pushed.

682
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,480
Tippid Crest, Liquid Dervish, level sixty colonel in the Princess Posse.

683
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:41,119
This is a subordinate. How I repeated. My legs felt weak.

684
00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:46,599
I met eyes with the man. Are there more? I

685
00:47:46,679 --> 00:47:49,840
was asking two different things, and I saw he could

686
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,599
tell what I meant, what I really meant. A few more,

687
00:47:53,679 --> 00:47:58,480
He said, not a lot of us available, unfortunately. Florin grunted.

688
00:47:59,159 --> 00:48:03,400
If just a fifty thousand former crawlers count as a few,

689
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:12,280
then yeah, it's just a few. Holy shit. I swallowed

690
00:48:12,519 --> 00:48:15,639
and I held my hand out to Tippid. The man

691
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:19,800
stepped forward and he pulled me into a hug. And

692
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,079
I just love this moment so much, especially after the

693
00:48:23,159 --> 00:48:27,039
last thing with Tippid acquiring all this debt and you know,

694
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:31,280
there's the mention of the scar and everything. Getting to

695
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:36,039
see this moment is just so fucking satisfying. It was

696
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:40,239
like the exact antidote I needed after that last section

697
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:44,000
where I was just like I felt wrung out, you know,

698
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:50,320
And I really love Nobody knows why Carl knows who

699
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:55,199
these people are, and nobody understands why they're acting like

700
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:01,480
they are best buds forever. At one point, Floren dms

701
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:05,719
him like they're acting awfully familiar, do you know, And

702
00:49:06,079 --> 00:49:10,880
Carl just does a very bare like headshake thing, and

703
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:17,719
Floren drops it instantly, Donut, wouldn't you know what I mean?

704
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,519
Floren has experience in keeping your fucking mouth shut, obviously

705
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,800
due to the work he does, so yeah, he knows

706
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:31,400
when to just drop something. But uh, I have to

707
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,599
imagine it is sort of like, well, what the fuck

708
00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:36,480
is going on? You know what I mean? When you

709
00:49:36,559 --> 00:49:41,440
see this from people that to you are total strangers

710
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:49,960
and you would expect are to Carl also, and this

711
00:49:50,159 --> 00:49:54,440
uh true. And Michael in the chat says, to be

712
00:49:54,519 --> 00:49:56,800
fair to Donut, she clearly knows something's up to, but

713
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,599
she doesn't say anything. And yeah, I should say like

714
00:49:58,639 --> 00:50:02,000
when I say, Carl, uh, don't wouldn't drop it? I mean,

715
00:50:02,119 --> 00:50:05,920
like when she asks a question and you just try

716
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,440
and signal. I don't feel like she's good at picking

717
00:50:08,519 --> 00:50:13,079
up the hint. But she doesn't have to ask here

718
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:16,199
because she can see something is up and she's just

719
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,800
trying to like take cues from Carl in a way

720
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:29,400
that definitely indicates growth, you know. So yeah, it's just

721
00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:38,760
a really ugh. I really appreciate Florin in these chapters,

722
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,159
like this whole start of this book. He feels very

723
00:50:41,199 --> 00:50:43,760
reassuring to me, and it has me a little worried

724
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,960
because I'm like, now I'm worried about something happening to him,

725
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,559
because I feel like I'm putting all of my planning

726
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:54,719
eggs in the florin basket, and that's probably not super

727
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,880
smart to do, you know. Uh. Vanapin says, we know

728
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,840
about Tippic coming at the end of his chapter. It's

729
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,880
in the last line in the status. Oh yeah, it

730
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:10,199
didn't like it doesn't matter though, you know what I mean.

731
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,800
That isn't the same as seeing this moment, just knowing

732
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:19,239
that he's coming. It's like not, yeah, it doesn't irrelevant.

733
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:26,960
So this is when Rosetta walks up to him and

734
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,639
she tells, like the AI, this isn't an attack, it's

735
00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:32,880
a self correcting measure given in the spirit of camaraderie.

736
00:51:33,639 --> 00:51:40,719
And she just smacks him in the head and Tippod

737
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,920
grins and shakes his head in a way that to

738
00:51:43,079 --> 00:51:47,440
me feels like there there was nothing behind that slap

739
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,679
that's more than it looked like. It's almost just her

740
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,119
being like, you fucking idiot, and him laughing because he

741
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:58,320
knows what she's irritated by, and she like pretty quickly

742
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:04,760
asks about the remainder of the toraline route and the

743
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:10,000
tattooing ink and all of that. So I believe that

744
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:13,800
it's just about her having been waiting for him to

745
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,840
fucking put two and two together about what he was

746
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,039
supposed to do with these items, and that he hasn't yet,

747
00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:22,039
which I guess I would also deserve a smack in

748
00:52:22,079 --> 00:52:27,320
the head because I don't know either, like you know

749
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:31,760
what I'm saying, like I don't know. But she tells him,

750
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,840
give me the rest of the tore ling, give me

751
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,039
the ink, give me that credit chit that you got

752
00:52:38,079 --> 00:52:43,360
from that dead pig, and I need three million gold

753
00:52:43,519 --> 00:52:47,159
and access to your bomber's studio and your safe room.

754
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,000
And then she turns to Donut and says, you don't wander.

755
00:52:51,039 --> 00:52:52,800
We have to purchase some things from the Bobka and

756
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,320
I need your charm to get the best price. And

757
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,880
Donut's getting her dander up, and Rosetta seems to like

758
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,840
clock it just in time and be like, if that's

759
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,960
okay with you, war lord, you have the highest charm

760
00:53:05,039 --> 00:53:08,800
out of all of us. And this is when Donut

761
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:13,760
looks at Carl looks at them and realizes like Carl

762
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:18,239
has got his eyes full of tears and is like, Okay,

763
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:23,360
something's clearly up. Fine, I'll play nice and I suppose

764
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,239
that'll be acceptable. I do like this version of you.

765
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,039
You're much more confident than you were on television. You

766
00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:32,199
were giving me Charlotte vibes. But now you're a straight Samantha,

767
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:36,719
not sext a'll hit Samantha, sex addict Samantha. But you know, bald,

768
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:45,000
what does that even mean? See? It's great. So we

769
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,719
get carl hearing the story of how everybody has wound

770
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,400
up here, and doctor Porthos, who being the one who

771
00:53:54,480 --> 00:54:00,840
created the organization, and I just really love all of

772
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:05,320
this to show that it's a small start that manages

773
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,280
to get to a place like this. You know, one

774
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,199
person deciding that he's going to establish an organization do

775
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:18,360
something to help, and yes he helped. It did not

776
00:54:18,599 --> 00:54:23,039
mean that Tippett doesn't have to take out a fucking

777
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:26,119
loan to pay for his health care. He isn't able

778
00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:29,239
to magically solve everybody's problems, but he's doing something and

779
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,519
it has added up over time to where we are now.

780
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:41,679
And I just really love the hopefulness and the like

781
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:46,360
sort of implication of have patience. You know what, I mean,

782
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,599
I don't know. I just like this a lot. Michael says,

783
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:54,440
I actually never watched Sex in the City. Samitha always

784
00:54:54,519 --> 00:54:57,079
kind of clueless in that show. No, I think she's

785
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,920
referring to her being like what does that even mean?

786
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:06,000
Just like an impatient, straightforward you know, whereas Charlotte would

787
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,599
be like, yeah, deaf, sure, uh huh. Samantha would just

788
00:55:10,679 --> 00:55:12,760
be like, what the fuck are you talking about. It's

789
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,880
not really the clueless part, but I get why you

790
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:21,440
would think that. Michael. So we had to scatter when

791
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,800
they accused us of being terrorists. I don't know where

792
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,159
he is. Are they gonna swoop in and arrest everyone?

793
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,400
I hope they try. Now we're in the game, there's

794
00:55:29,519 --> 00:55:31,639
nothing they can do. They'll wait till we get out

795
00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:35,280
to try to arrest us, which Rosetta, of course, is

796
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,639
not anticipating. They're making it out of the dungeon, so

797
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:42,880
it's not really something that they are worried about. I

798
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,079
don't know what to think, Like, part of me is like,

799
00:55:46,119 --> 00:55:48,239
maybe you will get out and then what and I

800
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:53,559
don't maybe who knows. I don't know. I don't know

801
00:55:53,639 --> 00:55:58,760
how much of this book series will take place. Purely

802
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:03,480
in the dungeon either, Like, it feels like there's got

803
00:56:03,519 --> 00:56:06,199
to be some things that break past it. But how

804
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:14,000
does that happen? We'll see eventually. I guess all released

805
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,920
crawlers were now automatically citizens of the Syndicate and given

806
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,280
access to Inner System Primary Zone, which came with free

807
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,119
healthcare and guaranteed housing. When Tippet was released, he wasn't

808
00:56:22,119 --> 00:56:29,159
afforded any of that. Mistress Mistress Tiatha says that citizenship

809
00:56:29,199 --> 00:56:32,159
perk is only for new crawlers and they'll still bleed

810
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,480
dry on taxes. Us old guard are going to get

811
00:56:35,519 --> 00:56:38,880
extra fucked when we were released. They tell us we'll

812
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,920
be full citizens, but I don't believe it. The rich

813
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,760
folks sure like getting their faces up on the screen

814
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,960
and they're donating to some charity, but the moment a

815
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,920
scruffy former crawler shows up in their home system looking

816
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,079
to settle down, they'll fight like hell to prevent it,

817
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,519
mark my words. And she is not wrong on any

818
00:56:58,679 --> 00:57:02,400
count whatsoever. This is one of those moments of like

819
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,079
two things can be true. You can work towards things

820
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:09,079
being better and it can get actually better, but there

821
00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:12,920
can actually still be a bunch of bullshit keeping it

822
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,320
from being as better as it could be, you know,

823
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:22,440
just fucking the way it works. And then there's the

824
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:26,159
open into like Pacifist Network did not have nearly as

825
00:57:26,239 --> 00:57:28,760
much support. I could tell there was so much more

826
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,480
Tippett wanted to say, and I hoped I would get

827
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,360
the chance to learn it all. The whole incident with Pauli,

828
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,599
the residual and the body of a homeless man had

829
00:57:36,639 --> 00:57:39,000
been just one of several actions that had caused authorities

830
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,280
to finally start to crack down on the nonprofit. And

831
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,840
even when I managed to get the protections turned off,

832
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:53,480
they still came. I was again overwhelmed with emotion. And

833
00:57:56,159 --> 00:57:58,519
this is when we find out that everybody that came

834
00:57:58,559 --> 00:58:02,480
in for our team is sixty and got to choose

835
00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:07,719
a non permanent race and class, which is not what

836
00:58:08,239 --> 00:58:12,679
the mercenaries coming in are getting. But the mercenaries were

837
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,480
they are going to be I think somewhere in the

838
00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:20,840
neighborhood of like one hundred and twenty thousand, something enough

839
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:25,679
to make us a little less elated with our fifty thousand.

840
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:30,440
If the fifty thousand is incredible, sure, but you know

841
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,519
the one thing is that the mercenaries are allowed to

842
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:37,280
bring in their weapons. And at first this seems like

843
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:42,599
what no fair, but Tippid points out like, actually what

844
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,719
they wound up negotiating isn't as good a deal as ours.

845
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:52,559
My fucking spells are a lot more effective than their rifles,

846
00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:58,360
and I will take these over that anytime. So that's nice.

847
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,000
You know, we've got a lot of people who are

848
00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:03,920
just going to be using like regular fucking weaponry, and

849
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,280
they're going to be up against people who can do

850
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:12,159
It's gonna be almost like the like trained army versus

851
00:59:12,199 --> 00:59:18,719
guerrilla warfare kind of energy. You know. If we get

852
00:59:18,719 --> 00:59:20,920
to face the factions one at a time, i'd say

853
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,320
no problem. But since they're working together, we got a

854
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,119
bumpy entry ahead of us, that's for certain, especially for

855
00:59:26,159 --> 00:59:28,880
the first week. Still, we're lucky they didn't let them

856
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,920
choose a race in class. They'd be much stronger. And

857
00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:36,679
it ends with Okay, let's get to the base and

858
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,920
meet up with the team, and that is the end

859
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,760
of chapter eleven. So and I should mention too that

860
00:59:44,719 --> 00:59:49,440
Michael has put a new chapter breakdown in the spoil

861
00:59:49,519 --> 00:59:52,599
Me Planning channel on Discord, So if anybody wants to

862
00:59:52,639 --> 00:59:59,000
see it. It's there, and so yeah, I'm following that

863
00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:03,960
new breakdown and Michael says much less rushed this episode exactly.

864
01:00:04,079 --> 01:00:06,119
It definitely is nice to have some room to spread

865
01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:08,480
out and talk about everything in depth, especially moments like

866
01:00:08,519 --> 01:00:11,760
this that are so emotional. You know. It's just Carl

867
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:18,960
has been really on this precipice for a minute now,

868
01:00:19,039 --> 01:00:24,840
and having friends has been the one thing keeping him tethered,

869
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:30,760
and he just has really started to understand the value

870
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:36,840
of community and the virtue of like looking back and

871
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,800
seeing that he was lonely in a way that he

872
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:44,360
didn't even really understand when he was experiencing it, and

873
01:00:44,679 --> 01:00:48,199
so now there being a bunch of people who not

874
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:53,920
only had his back, but who came before him and

875
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,119
who have been out here making moves on their own

876
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:04,079
the whole time. There's just something really really wonderful about

877
01:01:04,239 --> 01:01:07,239
knowing that you're not the only one who's outraged about

878
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:12,440
something and doing something about it and making risky moves

879
01:01:12,679 --> 01:01:16,280
and who is willing to put it all on the line.

880
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,599
And I feel like this is the exact kind of

881
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,679
in flux that he needed to keep himself from really

882
01:01:24,719 --> 01:01:33,000
starting to like spin out in despair. And it's something

883
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,639
that I also like. There have been a few times

884
01:01:36,679 --> 01:01:39,679
where I have started to feel like, are any of

885
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:44,280
us going to like when push comes to shove, really

886
01:01:44,519 --> 01:01:49,000
like handle business when when it comes to town And

887
01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:51,480
I live in an area where I haven't encountered ICE

888
01:01:51,599 --> 01:01:54,199
at all and I haven't seen them being active, but

889
01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:57,599
I'm sure it's coming, and then I'll see, like people

890
01:01:57,679 --> 01:02:04,719
sharing on in Instagram and TikTok these protests in all

891
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,639
these different states where ICE isn't yet, but they're trying

892
01:02:07,679 --> 01:02:12,119
to put in like a detainment facility where a warehouse

893
01:02:12,119 --> 01:02:16,480
had used to be, and everybody is just like, you know,

894
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:20,239
getting very fierce in town hall meetings and they're protesting

895
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:24,519
and blocking the construction vehicles from getting onto the property,

896
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,000
and eventually it was dropped and they're not building the

897
01:02:28,079 --> 01:02:31,480
detention center there after all. And it's just so encouraging

898
01:02:31,599 --> 01:02:36,360
to see people fucking doing something, you know, because it's

899
01:02:36,559 --> 01:02:41,800
very easy to feel like Americans have gotten so comfy

900
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:46,719
that we don't want to risk anything, and also to

901
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,559
feel like they know that we can't risk things because

902
01:02:49,559 --> 01:02:53,719
they've got us under their thumb with how incredibly expensive

903
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,519
it just is to live anymore and putting our livelihoods

904
01:02:57,519 --> 01:02:59,320
at risk and stuff. But there are folks out there

905
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,599
who are in possess where they can do that, and

906
01:03:03,079 --> 01:03:10,760
it just really can be like nourishing, I guess is

907
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,000
the word. I want to see it out there and

908
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:19,599
be like, Okay, people are not everybody is a piece

909
01:03:19,599 --> 01:03:21,599
of shit, because you really can't get in the headspace

910
01:03:21,599 --> 01:03:26,079
of feeling that way, you know. So yeah, it's a

911
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:32,440
real moment sometimes of needing these like little victories and

912
01:03:32,519 --> 01:03:37,760
little bits of we have to do it in these

913
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:43,159
small burths, but it can be done, and small bursts

914
01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:47,800
are how it starts, you know, the way that who

915
01:03:48,079 --> 01:03:52,000
began this organization it was only able to do so much.

916
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:55,920
And now look we've got fifty thousand crawlers coming to help.

917
01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:02,840
So that is it's a it's a big country and

918
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,119
that makes it unwieldy and ungainly, and we can't handle

919
01:04:06,159 --> 01:04:09,519
things here the way that they do in France, you know,

920
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:14,679
where their entire country is the size of Connecticut. So

921
01:04:16,039 --> 01:04:19,400
it's going to look different, but that doesn't mean nothing's happening.

922
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,719
All right, I am going to wrap up. Thank you

923
01:04:24,719 --> 01:04:27,840
guys again so much for listening. I hope that you're

924
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,960
enjoying the coverage. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I

925
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:33,519
just saw. Williams says. What was crazy to me It

926
01:04:33,559 --> 01:04:35,119
is how many people in the Facebook groups want to

927
01:04:35,119 --> 01:04:38,559
pretend these stories aren't political anything to not realize they're

928
01:04:38,599 --> 01:04:40,719
the bad guys. And yeah, that's one of those things

929
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,000
that it's just like you. If you don't see the

930
01:04:44,039 --> 01:04:47,559
politics in these books, that's you trying not to see.

931
01:04:47,599 --> 01:04:52,000
That's you being purposefully obtuse. You don't want to and

932
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,480
that's a you problem. And I'm not even gonna argue

933
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:59,360
with you about it because it's so patently obvious that

934
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:03,639
anyone having to explain to you is wasting their time.

935
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,400
If you can't see it, there's no point talking to you.

936
01:05:07,599 --> 01:05:14,840
So I won't bother. Matt Denoman's anti capitalist, says who

937
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,800
says Matt Denneman for eight books. But you know whatever,

938
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:54,920
All right, guys, until next time to delude motherfuckers. That

939
01:05:55,199 --> 01:05:58,320
was an Unspoiled Network podcast