Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl book What is This? Seven Yes,
Speaker 1: seven chapters eight, nine, ten, and eleven. In these chapters,
Speaker 1: we have a kind of wedding, a pre wedding, a
Speaker 1: first wedding, and also Carl gets very emotional when he
Speaker 1: finds out everything that's been going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and he still doesn't even know everything yet. Welcome to
Speaker 1: spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.
Speaker 1: Michael's here in the chat with me as well as
Speaker 1: Sarah and Jeff. Hi, Jeff and Rob. Delighted to have
Speaker 1: all you guys today. So this section is a real
Speaker 1: combination of highs and lows, and there was a point
Speaker 1: that we will get to. I was reading this for once.
Speaker 1: I was not listening to the audiobook. I was reading
Speaker 1: on my kindle and I got I was sitting next
Speaker 1: to my husband. I got to the spot and I
Speaker 1: stopped and looked at the ceiling to like not cry,
Speaker 1: you know that, Like I'm keeping my tears in my
Speaker 1: eyes right now, I'm not gonna let them fall. And
Speaker 1: they fell anyway, and he like looks at me and
Speaker 1: is like, are you okay? And I'm just like really
Speaker 1: sad part and then everybody arrives and it was like,
Speaker 1: how dare you make me feel so sad and then
Speaker 1: feel so hopeful like it's just a rollercoaster, and I,
Speaker 1: as somebody who doesn't enjoy feeling resents it and I
Speaker 1: hate you, Matt Denneman, so go fuck yourself. So chapter eight,
Speaker 1: Dona is explaining about how the she's like planning on
Speaker 1: singing at the wedding. She's talking about Mango being a
Speaker 1: ring bearer. It turns out the whole way that this
Speaker 1: is going to work is really different than the traditional
Speaker 1: type of like Western American wedding that she's expecting. And
Speaker 1: Carl tells her at this point to like put on
Speaker 1: her glasses so that she can see if there's any
Speaker 1: change lanes around, because she wants to make He wants
Speaker 1: to make sure that they don't get tricked, because they're
Speaker 1: going into all of this assuming that the NPCs are
Speaker 1: on their side, and I think he pretty much does
Speaker 1: trust that they are, but he's not an idiot. It's
Speaker 1: always good to just what is it they say? Trust?
Speaker 1: But verify. Oh my god, Sarah em says this at
Speaker 1: the same time. Perfect. So they go out into the
Speaker 1: center of this funnel so that he can see a
Speaker 1: lot more of the rings and the architecture and everything,
Speaker 1: and he is surprised at the fact that things look
Speaker 1: more clean and more lived in than he was expecting.
Speaker 1: It not as high. Was flooded and a lot of
Speaker 1: it has been drained out since then. But as we
Speaker 1: find out, there came a point where Juice Box was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: leave the rest of this flooded. This is actually helpful
Speaker 1: to us us and Jeff says, I hate that trust
Speaker 1: woul Verify was a Republican slogan I parroted by Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1: Everything sucks always if you go back far enough. That's
Speaker 1: just like the rule of life. My interface is beeping
Speaker 1: with others getting recruited. The numbers were slowly, slowly rising.
Speaker 1: We had just under three days to get them all,
Speaker 1: which for the number of people they're talking about is
Speaker 1: that's a lot that they have to I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're gonna make it, and that's really worrying. I
Speaker 1: don't you've got to make so many people. Sergeants to
Speaker 1: be able to get them to recruit. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what kind of other power that comes with, you know,
Speaker 1: like how dangerous is it to do that? I really
Speaker 1: don't know, but I want The over city had a
Speaker 1: wooden floor that had seemed downright rickety. In some places,
Speaker 1: the hunting grounds were jungle and had a solid physical ground. Hell,
Speaker 1: there was a deep river running through as supposedly, if
Speaker 1: one spent too much time digging up there, one would
Speaker 1: break through and fall into this area. It was all fake,
Speaker 1: but still it was important to know how it all worked.
Speaker 1: And he talks about like the dwarf Arif is saying,
Speaker 1: you know, not all of the rings completely circle the city,
Speaker 1: and that there are some that are homes, there's some
Speaker 1: that's a college. There's an area that's like an outer
Speaker 1: ring that's sort of a shanty town that's big enough
Speaker 1: to ring everything. And let's see, we had water up
Speaker 1: to fifteen for a bit, and now it's only up
Speaker 1: to level three, just enough to cover the highest tower
Speaker 1: of the castle. Anybody who wants to take that castle's
Speaker 1: got to learn how to swim. And he like Carl's
Speaker 1: looking and says about just jumping down the center, which
Speaker 1: I always appreciate because, like you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody has ever gone into a big, old fashioned building
Speaker 1: that's got like one of those staircases that circles and
Speaker 1: that hasn't looked down and been like, what a great
Speaker 1: shortcut to just jump down the center. And of course
Speaker 1: that would definitely be on my mind here. And this
Speaker 1: is when a Reef says there was another season where
Speaker 1: they did do that, and Carl says, oh, another season
Speaker 1: and realizes that like, not only is a Reef referring
Speaker 1: to himself as an NPC, but he is referring to
Speaker 1: the game the way that people who are not NPCs
Speaker 1: usually do, and explains, I think I'm new, so I
Speaker 1: don't have memories of the others, like not everybody does.
Speaker 1: Some NPCs I think are different from each other. But
Speaker 1: there are definitely NPCs who remember dozens of seasons, like
Speaker 1: my uncle, and that was really interesting. There are so
Speaker 1: many varieties of everything, you know, and there are I
Speaker 1: think that's part of what I have found a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's not, I say overwhelming, but not in a way
Speaker 1: that's like a negative exactly. It's more that like it
Speaker 1: contributes to this feeling like a larger world and feels
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of potential for things that I
Speaker 1: can't predict to happen later. But the the idea that
Speaker 1: there are so many different types of NPCs. We've got
Speaker 1: different crawlers who are still indentured. We've got crawlers who
Speaker 1: are indentured with different types of deals also, and the
Speaker 1: indentureships have different rules depending, Like there's so many like expectations,
Speaker 1: rules and laws that we have to work within, and
Speaker 1: different types of awareness and scope that we have to
Speaker 1: function within. And that's the way it works. You know,
Speaker 1: that is how the world is. But when you are
Speaker 1: like encountering it in something like this that you instinctively
Speaker 1: want to keep track of everything, it's definitely there's been
Speaker 1: a few times where I've had to tell myself, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't get distracted by this because I don't know
Speaker 1: what I need to know. When I know it, I
Speaker 1: just have to trust that, Like the only reason to
Speaker 1: really track anything is to try and predict what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, and to a degree, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. There are sometimes where I like to try
Speaker 1: and figure things out, but it's like nice to just
Speaker 1: also let stuff happen, so it's fine, So let's see.
Speaker 1: I thought of Harret, the cookbook author of the sixteenth edition,
Speaker 1: who'd made Waking NPCs up his life's work. I thought
Speaker 1: of his final heart wrenching entry in the cookbook, and
Speaker 1: I wondered if he'd managed to survive, And if he had,
Speaker 1: was he watching this right now? Probably not. If he
Speaker 1: was alive, he'd likely still be working in the dungeons somewhere.
Speaker 1: He'd wanted to be a game guide. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if he'd made it, and I can't remember guys I
Speaker 1: have heard. I feel like we heard from Harrot out
Speaker 1: in an epilogue at some point, but I genuinely can't recall.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's because there's a bunch of people later
Speaker 1: that we see as well. And keeping track of everybody's
Speaker 1: names is another thing that I'm gonna have to work on,
Speaker 1: because there are so many folks that are getting added
Speaker 1: into the mix now that we have seen their names
Speaker 1: in entries from the cookbook. But I have never felt
Speaker 1: any real inclination to keep track of who's who really,
Speaker 1: you know, So now it's going to matter a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And I am like, oh boy, because I'm
Speaker 1: never good with that, but we're gonna try. Let's see.
Speaker 1: He's uh. Juice Box says, they're different kinds of us.
Speaker 1: Some shop keepers are different. Some of the patrons are
Speaker 1: also different. The hands of Outworlders are everywhere when you
Speaker 1: know what to look for, and at this point a
Speaker 1: reflake when it's mentioned that Outworlders are no longer immortal.
Speaker 1: He pulls his sword and he says, I will take
Speaker 1: my revenge against Architect Houston, the leader of the madness,
Speaker 1: a viceroy Outworlder. He caught my brother as he attempted
Speaker 1: to sabotage their fortifications. They say my brother was tortured
Speaker 1: before Juice Box infiltrated and ended his suffering. And Dona
Speaker 1: is that the guy Juice Box decapitated during the pre
Speaker 1: production meeting, which I appreciate that being mentioned, but good
Speaker 1: love it that was one of his surgeons. The Dwarf said.
Speaker 1: Nobody has managed to get into Houston's operating theater. That's
Speaker 1: what they call his lair next to the throne room.
Speaker 1: I really you, guys, if you aren't aware of this,
Speaker 1: It's something that I've mentioned on so many of my
Speaker 1: podcasts that I will lose track of where it's been
Speaker 1: mentioned and where not. But I personally have a really
Speaker 1: hard time with anything involving like medical torture, body horror,
Speaker 1: that kind of specific type of horror movie, and the
Speaker 1: fact that like that's one of his surgeons and his
Speaker 1: lair is called the operating theater. I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody I'm gonna really really hate dealing with,
Speaker 1: and I hope y'all are prepared for me to just
Speaker 1: be squigket the fuck out when the time comes, because
Speaker 1: I just don't like it. It's hard, it's a It
Speaker 1: comes up a lot in various things that I cover,
Speaker 1: and there are times where I can sort of just
Speaker 1: breathe and get through it, and then there are times
Speaker 1: where I just completely lose my shit and I can't
Speaker 1: take it. It really depends, and I'm not sure. I
Speaker 1: think it depends partially on like my mood at the time,
Speaker 1: which is not helpful. But I just have a really
Speaker 1: it's too close to like the reality that we still
Speaker 1: live with the way that we use medicine and the
Speaker 1: way that many things have been discovered utilizing people with
Speaker 1: no agency to experiment on, and it's just it really, really,
Speaker 1: really really gets to me in a way that few
Speaker 1: other things do. I can watch a slasher movie all day,
Speaker 1: I don't that just does not you know, monster movie. Fine,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to not us torture, but the
Speaker 1: torture that is being done with the veneer of But
Speaker 1: it's for the good of humanity oftentimes, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the shit that I cannot or it's for your own good.
Speaker 1: We're torturing you to make you better because there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with you. Like, oh, hate it, hate it, hate it,
Speaker 1: hate it. Rom says, would be helpful for us to
Speaker 1: give you a content warning when you're going to have
Speaker 1: a chapter with Houston in it. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Probably I appreciate the thought, but I don't think it will.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those that I have to deal with,
Speaker 1: you know. Sorry, Michael says, what about the Halloween episode
Speaker 1: in Community where Troy and abb had got combined into
Speaker 1: one super being. That's uh, they're just wearing flight suits
Speaker 1: that are sewed together. So it really does not That
Speaker 1: one doesn't get me at all. But uh, it's a
Speaker 1: good episode though, we're only more awesome. So then the
Speaker 1: nagas come up and we find out that like a
Speaker 1: sort of a weird thing about the Nagas that first
Speaker 1: of all, they function a lot more as like phantoms.
Speaker 1: You know, they they're high on stealth, they do poison,
Speaker 1: they do assassination, and like infiltrating them is a lot
Speaker 1: harder than anybody else, even Juice Box, who's like pro
Speaker 1: at this, does not try to get in there anymore.
Speaker 1: And also Carl is like he has some information that
Speaker 1: he has gathered that basically amounts to the fact that
Speaker 1: the Naga seem to be sort of trying to just
Speaker 1: keep the memory of their original like roots alive for
Speaker 1: the sake of it. Seems to be almost like a
Speaker 1: tourism gambit. I'm trying to find the bit here where
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, they were basically LARPing the olden days, dragging.
Speaker 1: I thought it was mostly for fun, but after reading
Speaker 1: between the lines, I was starting to realize their continued
Speaker 1: participation was a pr stunt, a way to keep people
Speaker 1: interested in Naga history, which would drive tourism. And this
Speaker 1: is an interesting idea. Like everything in the end in
Speaker 1: the Dungeon is about making money, but the like using
Speaker 1: it in this way to make money feels like something
Speaker 1: that's definitely likely in our world as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I wonder this sometimes about even things like Epcot Center,
Speaker 1: where you've got little country areas that you can visit,
Speaker 1: and are there people from those countries who are actively
Speaker 1: invested in making those areas like appealing as possible to
Speaker 1: drive folks to visiting. Like how does that? I have
Speaker 1: to imagine, right, But anyway, the current leader was a
Speaker 1: real life crown princess. I didn't know what her name
Speaker 1: really was. In the old days, her identity would be
Speaker 1: kept a secret. And there's a whole thing about like
Speaker 1: how many children she's supposed to have. And I'm not
Speaker 1: getting into all of this because it's just horrible, But basically,
Speaker 1: there was only one time that one of these princesses
Speaker 1: had had all of the female offspring to like kill
Speaker 1: all off all of the males, and she is the
Speaker 1: one who was deemed the sepsis horror. So good for her,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I really that seems that seems pretty
Speaker 1: solid to me. Despite the Naga team getting their just
Speaker 1: kicked every single time, she'd never been killed, not once.
Speaker 1: They'd have their throne room taken, usually at the great
Speaker 1: expense of actual poor NPCs and mercenaries, but the Sultana
Speaker 1: and her guard would be gone, only to reappear at
Speaker 1: the end, safe and laughing. The problem was, these Nagos
Speaker 1: weren't NPCs who believed in the story built around them.
Speaker 1: They knew who I was, and they would know how
Speaker 1: important it would be to me to get them out
Speaker 1: of the game. And now that the protections were off,
Speaker 1: I had no idea if they would keep the whole
Speaker 1: Sultana charade up. And I'm going to assume that if
Speaker 1: you want to keep the tourism thing going, you're going
Speaker 1: to try to keep the sultana thing up. You're going
Speaker 1: to try and prove something by maintaining that and trying
Speaker 1: to handle Carl. Want to have your cake and eat
Speaker 1: it too. I Am going to be interested to see
Speaker 1: how that shakes out. I really wonder about where it
Speaker 1: is that they always manage to escape to and come back,
Speaker 1: because it almost feels like there's a secret area that
Speaker 1: they only know about. And if we can find that,
Speaker 1: maybe we will have part of our solution already. You know.
Speaker 1: So Carl gets approached by somebody who gives him a
Speaker 1: big kiss, and it's like you saved me and my
Speaker 1: Heidi and for that, you get a kiss. The ground
Speaker 1: remained wet and slimy, and the excess of dead sharks
Speaker 1: littered the map. The floor contained the massive Piccadilly theater,
Speaker 1: surrounded by bars, including a few true safe rooms, And
Speaker 1: I feel like these theaters might come in handy. We
Speaker 1: have to deal with a lot of people. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have like huge groups that we need to
Speaker 1: plan with. And obviously this will mean that you have
Speaker 1: to come up with like versions of plans, because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that's very public, and then there's gonna
Speaker 1: be like the real plan that you keep to yourself.
Speaker 1: But we're dealing with tens of thousands of troops, and
Speaker 1: while we do have that group chat, I have to
Speaker 1: assume that many people, it's probably gonna be tricky. And
Speaker 1: there's also an energy to actually physically gathering people in
Speaker 1: one space and talking to them that you don't get
Speaker 1: in a group chat. That will hype people up, you know,
Speaker 1: So I could see us using this in the near future.
Speaker 1: Let's see the Desperado. It turns out also, we find
Speaker 1: out later it's open, but it's not allowing any people
Speaker 1: in any crawlers inside it all at first, Carl thinks
Speaker 1: that it's because of the whole demon thing, but we
Speaker 1: find out that that is not actually the case, that
Speaker 1: it's all crawlers. So this is when we see juice Box,
Speaker 1: who at first hunger hammy level thirty nole. And you know,
Speaker 1: as much as I know that Juice Box is a
Speaker 1: shape shifter, I am still not prepared whenever somebody turns
Speaker 1: out to be Juice Box. So you know, she jumps
Speaker 1: on Louis and starts kissing him and I'm like what
Speaker 1: what And then it's like, oh, yeah, it's juice Box
Speaker 1: changed to her human form, and I'm like, done, Natasha,
Speaker 1: fucking stay stay with us, okay, girl, Like yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not great about this. So there's also the reminder that
Speaker 1: the level that we see when she's in her human form,
Speaker 1: when she's in her nole form, later when she's in
Speaker 1: her blank form, like there's no saying what level she
Speaker 1: actually is. Everything that we see in her descriptors are
Speaker 1: part of the charade, you know. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of a weird scene. So first off, Juice Boxes, like, Carl,
Speaker 1: you didn't do what I wanted. We wanted everyone to
Speaker 1: be protected, and I was kind of surprised that she
Speaker 1: came at him with this energy because I was just like,
Speaker 1: you had to know that wasn't going to happen, right,
Speaker 1: And to her credit, when he's like, this was the
Speaker 1: best we could do, she immediately lets it go and
Speaker 1: just says it'll have to do. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, still kind of going. The fact that he
Speaker 1: managed to get what he got is a miracle. I
Speaker 1: feel like you should be acting a lot more impressed
Speaker 1: slash grateful that he pulled off what he has pulled off.
Speaker 1: But you know, she hasn't got time for being grateful,
Speaker 1: and I have to respect that to a point. And
Speaker 1: there's also this like, you know, Louie is here and
Speaker 1: he has not really reacted to Juice Box at all.
Speaker 1: Like the fact the mention of them getting married in
Speaker 1: the last section, I already was like pointing out the
Speaker 1: fact that it seemed pretty He wasn't excited is the
Speaker 1: that feels like the mildest way to say it. He
Speaker 1: just seemed to freeze up, and that freeze continues here
Speaker 1: in a way. That's like got donut in his chat going, Louis,
Speaker 1: you have got to start talking to her. She thinks,
Speaker 1: like from your reaction that you don't even like her
Speaker 1: anymore and she's super excited to see you, and I
Speaker 1: was like appreciating donut. Donut is very much functioning according
Speaker 1: to the like, of course you love her, so now
Speaker 1: you have to show her that you love her now. I,
Speaker 1: of course am not of the opinion that he loves her. However,
Speaker 1: I you know, Carl a couple times is just like,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to do this, And I
Speaker 1: just really wanted to be like Carl, Look, I understand
Speaker 1: that you're trying to you're trying to give him agency
Speaker 1: here and keep him from being pressured in a particular way.
Speaker 1: And I really love about you that you care in
Speaker 1: this way, but this is a fake wedding in a
Speaker 1: fake world to an NPC, he has to do this.
Speaker 1: I am so sorry. It's just not a negotiable thing.
Speaker 1: It's we've killed people, We've killed actual other human beings.
Speaker 1: This is fucking nothing. It's fine, And I appreciate that
Speaker 1: Louis gets with the program and immediately it's just like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I do have to do this, because like if we
Speaker 1: were gonna have to browbeat him into it, I was
Speaker 1: going to be really irritated when he had taken on
Speaker 1: killing Sisternez at the end of the last book, so
Speaker 1: that Carl and Donut don't have to shoulder that, and
Speaker 1: then he's going to bulk at like this wedding. You know,
Speaker 1: I just I can understand in theory, but in practice
Speaker 1: I just did not have any patience for it. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad in the end that this kind of winds
Speaker 1: up being a non issue. But he really has to
Speaker 1: like work to get his enthusiasm up to a point
Speaker 1: that makes juice Box less self conscious, because it really
Speaker 1: like what Donut is saying about how juice Box is
Speaker 1: feeling self conscious and awkward is definitely true. The way
Speaker 1: that she like kind of she jumps in his lap,
Speaker 1: she's kissing him, and then she sort of like backs
Speaker 1: away and slips out of his lap and takes a
Speaker 1: seat by herself, and it's just like the body language
Speaker 1: is very much her going, oh maybe this isn't you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So the shantytown is an issue.
Speaker 1: There is a mayor there who stabbed somebody named Theora
Speaker 1: in the back. The opponent cheated. We can't touch this guy,
Speaker 1: I sighed, So Ferdinand Bingo Cowboy. Are any of the
Speaker 1: outworlders coming into the regular city into the roccos. They
Speaker 1: are starting to there's not much here for them, but
Speaker 1: still they come mostly to Scout and the whole thing
Speaker 1: with Ferdinand. Later. This guy he really sucks, and like
Speaker 1: not in a fun way, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He sucks in a real way. He may be a
Speaker 1: cat and some of the ways in which he sucks
Speaker 1: may be funny even but it's not. It's not fun,
Speaker 1: you get what I mean. Like, I just ah, I
Speaker 1: hate him a lot. I hate him a lot, But
Speaker 1: we'll get there in a second. So it turns out
Speaker 1: that he has like all of the controls, so he
Speaker 1: can't be killed because they need him. He was given
Speaker 1: power over the controlling system, including the city defense. The
Speaker 1: ELF says it was a workaround to allow us to
Speaker 1: participate because the cat isn't really an NPC but of
Speaker 1: the same stock as you. If he dies, we lose control,
Speaker 1: so he must be kept safe. And also he keeps
Speaker 1: telling everybody that he's Donut's fiance, and Donut is disgusted
Speaker 1: by this. I will say, I'm quite proud of how
Speaker 1: Donut has just completely dropped any affection for him of
Speaker 1: any kind. You know. There comes a point later where
Speaker 1: she's just like, I don't know what I used to
Speaker 1: see in him, and I was like, good for you, girl,
Speaker 1: This is growth. Everybody has a friend who was into
Speaker 1: somebody that they We were all puzzled, what the fuck
Speaker 1: is the draw? I don't get it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: gotta be something chemical, like what the fuck? And it
Speaker 1: probably was chemical? It probably was. But let's see, Drick
Speaker 1: is the guy. He's a Valtae infected elf, and he's
Speaker 1: the one that we're going to have to deal with.
Speaker 1: And later on when we see him, Ferdan's like on
Speaker 1: Drake's head and Drix's just walking around with him on
Speaker 1: his head, really not looking happy about the arrangement. But
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So let's see. She thinks
Speaker 1: it's important we need them on our side. If this helps,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. If they turn against us or screw
Speaker 1: this will help. We need each other. Plus you love her, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure of course. Okay, then, but don't tell us, tell her,
Speaker 1: and don't be outcarl about it. Be romantic. Louis was
Speaker 1: shaking and sweating. His five player killer skulls looked so ridiculous,
Speaker 1: so out of place over his head that I felt
Speaker 1: angry every time I saw them. And then he says,
Speaker 1: can you just turn into something else for like a second,
Speaker 1: because she'd been kissing him as this old male knoll,
Speaker 1: which he is not into. She turned into a mix
Speaker 1: between Taylor Swift and iggyp Then a cheerleader suit formed
Speaker 1: on her body. Who's this supposed to be? Is this somebody?
Speaker 1: I genuinely couldn't There are some of these, like when
Speaker 1: the description is made, I'm like, Okay, I'm getting the
Speaker 1: pop culture reference here, but this one I couldn't. Like
Speaker 1: is this from Heroes? We were just talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's her or not. And
Speaker 1: at this point they are talking about like the Diggers
Speaker 1: and they are Dwarmin automatons. So we jump to chapter
Speaker 1: ten and we're approaching the Desperado Club, and this is
Speaker 1: when we find out that they are not allowed inside.
Speaker 1: And finally he gets the name of the new owner
Speaker 1: named Hamed, and Carl has to like try not to
Speaker 1: react and let anybody know. This is not secret, like
Speaker 1: the cookbook is secret, but it is secret in that
Speaker 1: he has access to things that you know our secret
Speaker 1: within the game, and Hammon was the real name of
Speaker 1: the night Worm, the leader of the Guild of Suffering,
Speaker 1: husband to the late Astroid and father did the strippers
Speaker 1: Damascus Steele and Anaconda, both of whom were still supposedly
Speaker 1: somewhere in the club hunting him, hunting their own father.
Speaker 1: All of that had to wait. And I do appreciate
Speaker 1: every time Carl says something like, we have so much
Speaker 1: to do because there are a lot a fucking plate
Speaker 1: spinning right now, and I like, just getting all of
Speaker 1: the people registered to your company, that's such a huge
Speaker 1: task in itself, that all this other shit whenever he
Speaker 1: listed out him just like, oh boy, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're going to be able to do this, dude,
Speaker 1: So fucking Ferdinand. He wore a gold chain around his
Speaker 1: neck with a small jeweled charm and what appeared to
Speaker 1: be a circle of white, thin paper tissues wrapped around
Speaker 1: his head. One end sagged pitifully about to fall off.
Speaker 1: It was like he'd attempted to recreate the turbine using
Speaker 1: literal toilet paper. And apparently he has the same interest
Speaker 1: in hats that Donut has. Whether this is organically occurring
Speaker 1: or it's because he knows Donut loves hats that he's
Speaker 1: trying to love hats. I don't know. But the way
Speaker 1: that Carl bribes him into turning over the town later
Speaker 1: is by offering him a bowler hat, which has an
Speaker 1: ability that Donut later is like, we better get that
Speaker 1: shit back because I want to drain it on my
Speaker 1: little cushion for my Tiara. And also I don't even
Speaker 1: have a bowler hat yet, so you know, and I
Speaker 1: am wondering if that's going to actually turn out to
Speaker 1: be more of an issue than we would think it
Speaker 1: would be, because he seems to be a pain in
Speaker 1: the ass in ways that you wouldn't expect, and it
Speaker 1: also in the ways that you would definitely expect. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, so let's see, I'm trying to find this bit.
Speaker 1: The Princess Posse has made a trade request with Team Retribution,
Speaker 1: and I love Carl just reaches over, puts the hat
Speaker 1: on Ferdinand's head and it automatically resizes, and immediately Brittany
Speaker 1: pulls out a mirror so that he can look at
Speaker 1: himself and be like, oh shit, and he says, I'm
Speaker 1: a very handsome boy. More than once which I need
Speaker 1: this energy little bit more in my own life. I
Speaker 1: need to start saying something like this in the mirror.
Speaker 1: I gotta come up with the right tone, because just
Speaker 1: like I'm a very beautiful girl, it doesn't quite you know.
Speaker 1: Maybe just I'm a very pretty girl, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about the way that somebody would speak to a cat,
Speaker 1: to a pet, and aren't you a pretty girl? You're
Speaker 1: a very pretty girl. That's the vibe. So probably I'll
Speaker 1: go with that, but I feel like it could just
Speaker 1: help perk me up a little bit, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I see it. The ELF's mouth turned upward
Speaker 1: in an unreadable expression. It was like a mixture of annoyance, exasperation,
Speaker 1: and panic. This elf, I don't think was prepared for
Speaker 1: how it was gonna be. So the level on By
Speaker 1: the way, Juice Box, when she's in her blank form,
Speaker 1: says one twenty, which I kind of feel like might
Speaker 1: actually be accurate after all, But I don't know. It
Speaker 1: seems that being in her blank form is the true form,
Speaker 1: So I feel like maybe that's actually right. But we
Speaker 1: don't know, and he doesn't ask, But I think otherwise,
Speaker 1: what would be the significance of going to her blank
Speaker 1: form for the wedding because she's going to be her
Speaker 1: true self for this, because of the symbolism of it,
Speaker 1: you know, And that makes sense to me. And it
Speaker 1: turns out that the way that these weddings work is
Speaker 1: that you get married and then you sign divorce papers
Speaker 1: and you have thirty days to file the papers, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, then you're really married. You've decided to
Speaker 1: stay married, and you have the bigger, more purposeful wedding
Speaker 1: that's like the kind of celebration we're used to weddings being.
Speaker 1: So it's basically a sort of a thirty day trial
Speaker 1: period where you can return, no questions asked. And I
Speaker 1: love this idea. I think this is fucking great because
Speaker 1: evidently they're mostly arranged marriages, so we have to make
Speaker 1: sure that people can like get along decently, and I
Speaker 1: really enjoy that. I think that's a fun setup. And
Speaker 1: just having the papers and like either of you can
Speaker 1: file them if you feel the need. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: And so that means that this little ceremony is really simple,
Speaker 1: really short and just you know, doesn't require every all
Speaker 1: the planning and performances and whatnot. The doughnut had been
Speaker 1: talking about and the fact that like there's a second
Speaker 1: wedding a full month later. It just feels so far
Speaker 1: off to Carl that he's sort of like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: see about that. I mean, I don't even need to
Speaker 1: think about anything that far ahead at this point, which
Speaker 1: I agree with. I do love Louis just saying I
Speaker 1: wish my mom was here. He's a good boy, let's see.
Speaker 1: I hope Samantha won't be too mad. She missed the
Speaker 1: first ceremony, and I was really like wondering about her
Speaker 1: throughout all of this. There's no mention, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what to expect about her finding out about this,
Speaker 1: because it's like she has had a crush on Mouie,
Speaker 1: but she's talked at times like they are actually together,
Speaker 1: and then other times she's talked about him like she's
Speaker 1: like going to hook up with. Like Samantha is so
Speaker 1: deluded that I can't keep track of what she believes
Speaker 1: at any given time, and it seems like whatever she
Speaker 1: believes changes depending on what allows her to be the
Speaker 1: most unhinged at a given moment. So I'm just not
Speaker 1: really sure at all what to expect. So then we
Speaker 1: get a message from Florin. Mate, I am about to
Speaker 1: blow your fucking mind. You need to get your ass
Speaker 1: to the headquarters. We've secured the safe rom so you
Speaker 1: can use the doggy door. There's a large group of
Speaker 1: people here who would really like to meet you. And
Speaker 1: we had seen at the end of the last book
Speaker 1: all of these people arriving, but I still wasn't thinking
Speaker 1: that it was going to be them yet. I think
Speaker 1: that what I was expecting was like there would be
Speaker 1: a fucking hold up and those folks wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to arrive until we were like mid battle, like Gandalf
Speaker 1: coming on the third day, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that sort of thing, which, as much as that
Speaker 1: sounds fun and dramatic, isn't super helpful. Like you, it's
Speaker 1: helpful at the moment of crisis when you've already lost
Speaker 1: so many people that you think you're gonna like really
Speaker 1: actually lose, And that isn't helpful in the scheme of things,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that's not it. I also want to
Speaker 1: mention that, like at the time when I was recording
Speaker 1: that ending, I mentioned them sneak and like, how is
Speaker 1: this going to work? Because I was misunderstanding how all
Speaker 1: of this was functioning, and I forget who it was.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the discord had to explain to me, No,
Speaker 1: this is legal. They are just having to fly under
Speaker 1: the radar as they are wanted as terrorists now, so
Speaker 1: that's why they're hiding. But the way that they are
Speaker 1: joining the Princess Posse is valid and above board. And
Speaker 1: the whole thing is basically like, we just have to
Speaker 1: make sure to get in there before they can catch
Speaker 1: us under this other warrant they have for us and
Speaker 1: stop us from participating, because once we're in they can't
Speaker 1: do anything about it. So I was kind of getting
Speaker 1: mixed up on how all this worked, and yeah, so
Speaker 1: that was definitely helpful. So let's see, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find This is the part where we go to Tippid,
Speaker 1: who we meet later in the present. Tippid the man said,
Speaker 1: it's Damien. I'm not your attorney. You're in a zero
Speaker 1: zone and you have some lingering injuries that need to
Speaker 1: be repaired. It's brain lesions or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You need to get straight to a Viceroy system to
Speaker 1: get it repaired. I've already arranged for transport. It's going
Speaker 1: to cost a good chunk of your pension. But I
Speaker 1: don't see what choice you have. Tippid blinked, and he
Speaker 1: realized his hands weren't really bloody. The man in front
Speaker 1: of him wasn't his attorney. That had already happened. That
Speaker 1: was Solar's ago. I'm never getting out of here, Tippett said.
Speaker 1: He looked at his hands again. Why were they so clean?
Speaker 1: The man, a hair covered human, smiled at him. He
Speaker 1: smiled the way a merchant would smile, a merchant who
Speaker 1: was forced to deal with a customer. He despised. No, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not true. You did it. You fulfilled your contract,
Speaker 1: game Guide, Poisonous Guild, occasional city Guard, perfect marks. You
Speaker 1: didn't negotiate post release healthcare unfortunately, and some of the
Speaker 1: physical injuries to your body persist. So when you're outside
Speaker 1: the dungeon environment, this will happen. But you're free. You're
Speaker 1: going home. Home. Where is that? There's an organization and
Speaker 1: not for conquests that helps destitute former crawlers and employees
Speaker 1: get their footing after transition. It's pretty new, but the
Speaker 1: syndicate has donated some money to the cause. Once they
Speaker 1: start getting press. I've taken the liberty of letting them
Speaker 1: know you're coming. They're sending someone to accompany you to
Speaker 1: the viceroy system. He's a former crawler himself. What about
Speaker 1: the key? They let you keep it. You negotiated an
Speaker 1: extra season just so you could have it. It's yours,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what the thing is with the key.
Speaker 1: The Viceroys, they called themselves, their chief surgeon, had a
Speaker 1: spell that cooked your brain. It made your teeth fall out,
Speaker 1: It made the liquid in your eyeballs turn to acid
Speaker 1: and then explode over your own face. That was what
Speaker 1: had happened to rosaline. He could still hear Horatio's cries.
Speaker 1: The other man hadn't understood what was happening, why Tippod
Speaker 1: was leaving him behind. He remembered the feeling of the
Speaker 1: jewel burning out as he stuck the key into the
Speaker 1: door of the notification. Horatio had a wife an older child.
Speaker 1: They both survived and had already taken a deal at
Speaker 1: the end of the tenth Horatio had held on in
Speaker 1: hopes of getting a better deal, of making a life
Speaker 1: for them. When they finally got out, Tippid had nobody yet.
Speaker 1: He'd chosen himself and he yanks the key off and
Speaker 1: throws a tom and says I don't want it anymore,
Speaker 1: and then we get class Poisoner Race Crest BIRTHRCE Crest
Speaker 1: top level ninety six Dungeon Exit took deal at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the twelfth floor, worked as a game guide
Speaker 1: and guildhall instructor in the Poisoner Guild before exiting. The
Speaker 1: Dungeon was forced to spend the entirety of his pension
Speaker 1: plus take out an additional loan to repair the extensive
Speaker 1: damage to his brain. Eventually retired to a Crest system
Speaker 1: to work for a waste management company. And this is
Speaker 1: the part, guys, it's too real, you know it just
Speaker 1: it's I will never understand people who are not for
Speaker 1: universal healthcare. It just will never ever make any fucking
Speaker 1: sense to me. It's not just a weird selfishness about
Speaker 1: not wanting to spend money on people in general. It's
Speaker 1: also you shooting yourself in the foot because you don't
Speaker 1: want to admit that there's going to be a day
Speaker 1: when you need care because you think you're invincible, or
Speaker 1: that I took such great care of myself that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be okay, Like it's just weird and this
Speaker 1: sort of thing where he has sustained damage in the dungeon,
Speaker 1: but he is made to pay for the damage. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many people out there are saddled with hospital bills
Speaker 1: after being beaten up by ice agents? What about the
Speaker 1: people who have had tear gas sprayed point blank into
Speaker 1: their eyes? You know, like we don't unless you are
Speaker 1: able to get the resources to file a lawsuit, unless
Speaker 1: you're able to get eyes on a go fund me,
Speaker 1: good fucking luck, you know. And it's it's just really gross.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, this got me and I just sat
Speaker 1: there for a second like gathering myself because I was
Speaker 1: just straight up crying. Ah, I hate it. So chapter eleven,
Speaker 1: we have Samantha here. It doesn't seem like anybody's told
Speaker 1: her that Louis has gotten married. Still haven't dealt with that.
Speaker 1: Tran had gotten an upgraded wheelchair, but I hadn't had
Speaker 1: a chance to see what Katchya built for him. And
Speaker 1: I was like, goddamn it, because I really want to know.
Speaker 1: I do hope Juice Box and Louis get time for
Speaker 1: a honeymoon. It's sad they got married and then had
Speaker 1: to separate, right away. I must say I am surprised
Speaker 1: she just let us take control of the other city
Speaker 1: away from Ferdinand. If the bad guys can freely enter
Speaker 1: that shanty town once the truce is broken, it's just
Speaker 1: going to be a liability. It has a separate defense system.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we both have something that's going to
Speaker 1: give all those assholes a huge headache. It's a good
Speaker 1: deal for both of us. And this is when she
Speaker 1: gets the notification that her sponsorship has been canceled due
Speaker 1: to a conflict of interest. Our first clue that we're
Speaker 1: about to meet them and it's going to be auctioned off,
Speaker 1: so we'll see who gets it. I am very curious
Speaker 1: about that. We entered the meadow Larks safe room and
Speaker 1: just like that everything changed. Sorry, I just saw a
Speaker 1: bunch of chatter. But William just said, can they even
Speaker 1: be sued? They can be, but it takes like I'm
Speaker 1: I am not going to get fully into it because
Speaker 1: it will sidetrack me. What it takes to sue them
Speaker 1: is so extensive. Uh, It's it's an uphill battle that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are not willing to take on
Speaker 1: for understandable reasons. I stopped dead. As I entered the space,
Speaker 1: I stared at the two crests standing there, a woman
Speaker 1: and a man. Mango jumped all around them, peeping with
Speaker 1: excitement at meeting someone new. The man stood there grinning stupidly,
Speaker 1: while the woman scowled at the dinosaur on the mini map.
Speaker 1: Their dots were purple, the same color as the dots
Speaker 1: of the hunters on the sixth floor, but they had
Speaker 1: a pink outline indicating them as troopers for the Princess Posse.
Speaker 1: Rosetta Doughnut exclaimed Carl, Look at Rosetta Thiagara, what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? The name over her head blazed, Rosetta
Speaker 1: thag Crest Barnburner, level sixty colonel in the Princess Posse.
Speaker 1: This is a subordinate. The name and description surprised me
Speaker 1: so much that it took me a second to finally
Speaker 1: examine the second stranger standing there. This was also a crest,
Speaker 1: but he was noticeably older. I uh, I felt myself
Speaker 1: stagger when I read his name, like I've been physically pushed.
Speaker 1: Tippid Crest, Liquid Dervish, level sixty colonel in the Princess Posse.
Speaker 1: This is a subordinate. How I repeated. My legs felt weak.
Speaker 1: I met eyes with the man. Are there more? I
Speaker 1: was asking two different things, and I saw he could
Speaker 1: tell what I meant, what I really meant. A few more,
Speaker 1: He said, not a lot of us available, unfortunately. Florin grunted.
Speaker 1: If just a fifty thousand former crawlers count as a few,
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's just a few. Holy shit. I swallowed
Speaker 1: and I held my hand out to Tippid. The man
Speaker 1: stepped forward and he pulled me into a hug. And
Speaker 1: I just love this moment so much, especially after the
Speaker 1: last thing with Tippid acquiring all this debt and you know,
Speaker 1: there's the mention of the scar and everything. Getting to
Speaker 1: see this moment is just so fucking satisfying. It was
Speaker 1: like the exact antidote I needed after that last section
Speaker 1: where I was just like I felt wrung out, you know,
Speaker 1: And I really love Nobody knows why Carl knows who
Speaker 1: these people are, and nobody understands why they're acting like
Speaker 1: they are best buds forever. At one point, Floren dms
Speaker 1: him like they're acting awfully familiar, do you know, And
Speaker 1: Carl just does a very bare like headshake thing, and
Speaker 1: Floren drops it instantly, Donut, wouldn't you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Floren has experience in keeping your fucking mouth shut, obviously
Speaker 1: due to the work he does, so yeah, he knows
Speaker 1: when to just drop something. But uh, I have to
Speaker 1: imagine it is sort of like, well, what the fuck
Speaker 1: is going on? You know what I mean? When you
Speaker 1: see this from people that to you are total strangers
Speaker 1: and you would expect are to Carl also, and this
Speaker 1: uh true. And Michael in the chat says, to be
Speaker 1: fair to Donut, she clearly knows something's up to, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't say anything. And yeah, I should say like
Speaker 1: when I say, Carl, uh, don't wouldn't drop it? I mean,
Speaker 1: like when she asks a question and you just try
Speaker 1: and signal. I don't feel like she's good at picking
Speaker 1: up the hint. But she doesn't have to ask here
Speaker 1: because she can see something is up and she's just
Speaker 1: trying to like take cues from Carl in a way
Speaker 1: that definitely indicates growth, you know. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: a really ugh. I really appreciate Florin in these chapters,
Speaker 1: like this whole start of this book. He feels very
Speaker 1: reassuring to me, and it has me a little worried
Speaker 1: because I'm like, now I'm worried about something happening to him,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm putting all of my planning
Speaker 1: eggs in the florin basket, and that's probably not super
Speaker 1: smart to do, you know. Uh. Vanapin says, we know
Speaker 1: about Tippic coming at the end of his chapter. It's
Speaker 1: in the last line in the status. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: didn't like it doesn't matter though, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That isn't the same as seeing this moment, just knowing
Speaker 1: that he's coming. It's like not, yeah, it doesn't irrelevant.
Speaker 1: So this is when Rosetta walks up to him and
Speaker 1: she tells, like the AI, this isn't an attack, it's
Speaker 1: a self correcting measure given in the spirit of camaraderie.
Speaker 1: And she just smacks him in the head and Tippod
Speaker 1: grins and shakes his head in a way that to
Speaker 1: me feels like there there was nothing behind that slap
Speaker 1: that's more than it looked like. It's almost just her
Speaker 1: being like, you fucking idiot, and him laughing because he
Speaker 1: knows what she's irritated by, and she like pretty quickly
Speaker 1: asks about the remainder of the toraline route and the
Speaker 1: tattooing ink and all of that. So I believe that
Speaker 1: it's just about her having been waiting for him to
Speaker 1: fucking put two and two together about what he was
Speaker 1: supposed to do with these items, and that he hasn't yet,
Speaker 1: which I guess I would also deserve a smack in
Speaker 1: the head because I don't know either, like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like I don't know. But she tells him,
Speaker 1: give me the rest of the tore ling, give me
Speaker 1: the ink, give me that credit chit that you got
Speaker 1: from that dead pig, and I need three million gold
Speaker 1: and access to your bomber's studio and your safe room.
Speaker 1: And then she turns to Donut and says, you don't wander.
Speaker 1: We have to purchase some things from the Bobka and
Speaker 1: I need your charm to get the best price. And
Speaker 1: Donut's getting her dander up, and Rosetta seems to like
Speaker 1: clock it just in time and be like, if that's
Speaker 1: okay with you, war lord, you have the highest charm
Speaker 1: out of all of us. And this is when Donut
Speaker 1: looks at Carl looks at them and realizes like Carl
Speaker 1: has got his eyes full of tears and is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: something's clearly up. Fine, I'll play nice and I suppose
Speaker 1: that'll be acceptable. I do like this version of you.
Speaker 1: You're much more confident than you were on television. You
Speaker 1: were giving me Charlotte vibes. But now you're a straight Samantha,
Speaker 1: not sext a'll hit Samantha, sex addict Samantha. But you know, bald,
Speaker 1: what does that even mean? See? It's great. So we
Speaker 1: get carl hearing the story of how everybody has wound
Speaker 1: up here, and doctor Porthos, who being the one who
Speaker 1: created the organization, and I just really love all of
Speaker 1: this to show that it's a small start that manages
Speaker 1: to get to a place like this. You know, one
Speaker 1: person deciding that he's going to establish an organization do
Speaker 1: something to help, and yes he helped. It did not
Speaker 1: mean that Tippett doesn't have to take out a fucking
Speaker 1: loan to pay for his health care. He isn't able
Speaker 1: to magically solve everybody's problems, but he's doing something and
Speaker 1: it has added up over time to where we are now.
Speaker 1: And I just really love the hopefulness and the like
Speaker 1: sort of implication of have patience. You know what, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just like this a lot. Michael says,
Speaker 1: I actually never watched Sex in the City. Samitha always
Speaker 1: kind of clueless in that show. No, I think she's
Speaker 1: referring to her being like what does that even mean?
Speaker 1: Just like an impatient, straightforward you know, whereas Charlotte would
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, deaf, sure, uh huh. Samantha would just
Speaker 1: be like, what the fuck are you talking about. It's
Speaker 1: not really the clueless part, but I get why you
Speaker 1: would think that. Michael. So we had to scatter when
Speaker 1: they accused us of being terrorists. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he is. Are they gonna swoop in and arrest everyone?
Speaker 1: I hope they try. Now we're in the game, there's
Speaker 1: nothing they can do. They'll wait till we get out
Speaker 1: to try to arrest us, which Rosetta, of course, is
Speaker 1: not anticipating. They're making it out of the dungeon, so
Speaker 1: it's not really something that they are worried about. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to think, Like, part of me is like,
Speaker 1: maybe you will get out and then what and I
Speaker 1: don't maybe who knows. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much of this book series will take place. Purely
Speaker 1: in the dungeon either, Like, it feels like there's got
Speaker 1: to be some things that break past it. But how
Speaker 1: does that happen? We'll see eventually. I guess all released
Speaker 1: crawlers were now automatically citizens of the Syndicate and given
Speaker 1: access to Inner System Primary Zone, which came with free
Speaker 1: healthcare and guaranteed housing. When Tippet was released, he wasn't
Speaker 1: afforded any of that. Mistress Mistress Tiatha says that citizenship
Speaker 1: perk is only for new crawlers and they'll still bleed
Speaker 1: dry on taxes. Us old guard are going to get
Speaker 1: extra fucked when we were released. They tell us we'll
Speaker 1: be full citizens, but I don't believe it. The rich
Speaker 1: folks sure like getting their faces up on the screen
Speaker 1: and they're donating to some charity, but the moment a
Speaker 1: scruffy former crawler shows up in their home system looking
Speaker 1: to settle down, they'll fight like hell to prevent it,
Speaker 1: mark my words. And she is not wrong on any
Speaker 1: count whatsoever. This is one of those moments of like
Speaker 1: two things can be true. You can work towards things
Speaker 1: being better and it can get actually better, but there
Speaker 1: can actually still be a bunch of bullshit keeping it
Speaker 1: from being as better as it could be, you know,
Speaker 1: just fucking the way it works. And then there's the
Speaker 1: open into like Pacifist Network did not have nearly as
Speaker 1: much support. I could tell there was so much more
Speaker 1: Tippett wanted to say, and I hoped I would get
Speaker 1: the chance to learn it all. The whole incident with Pauli,
Speaker 1: the residual and the body of a homeless man had
Speaker 1: been just one of several actions that had caused authorities
Speaker 1: to finally start to crack down on the nonprofit. And
Speaker 1: even when I managed to get the protections turned off,
Speaker 1: they still came. I was again overwhelmed with emotion. And
Speaker 1: this is when we find out that everybody that came
Speaker 1: in for our team is sixty and got to choose
Speaker 1: a non permanent race and class, which is not what
Speaker 1: the mercenaries coming in are getting. But the mercenaries were
Speaker 1: they are going to be I think somewhere in the
Speaker 1: neighborhood of like one hundred and twenty thousand, something enough
Speaker 1: to make us a little less elated with our fifty thousand.
Speaker 1: If the fifty thousand is incredible, sure, but you know
Speaker 1: the one thing is that the mercenaries are allowed to
Speaker 1: bring in their weapons. And at first this seems like
Speaker 1: what no fair, but Tippid points out like, actually what
Speaker 1: they wound up negotiating isn't as good a deal as ours.
Speaker 1: My fucking spells are a lot more effective than their rifles,
Speaker 1: and I will take these over that anytime. So that's nice.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: just going to be using like regular fucking weaponry, and
Speaker 1: they're going to be up against people who can do
Speaker 1: It's gonna be almost like the like trained army versus
Speaker 1: guerrilla warfare kind of energy. You know. If we get
Speaker 1: to face the factions one at a time, i'd say
Speaker 1: no problem. But since they're working together, we got a
Speaker 1: bumpy entry ahead of us, that's for certain, especially for
Speaker 1: the first week. Still, we're lucky they didn't let them
Speaker 1: choose a race in class. They'd be much stronger. And
Speaker 1: it ends with Okay, let's get to the base and
Speaker 1: meet up with the team, and that is the end
Speaker 1: of chapter eleven. So and I should mention too that
Speaker 1: Michael has put a new chapter breakdown in the spoil
Speaker 1: Me Planning channel on Discord, So if anybody wants to
Speaker 1: see it. It's there, and so yeah, I'm following that
Speaker 1: new breakdown and Michael says much less rushed this episode exactly.
Speaker 1: It definitely is nice to have some room to spread
Speaker 1: out and talk about everything in depth, especially moments like
Speaker 1: this that are so emotional. You know. It's just Carl
Speaker 1: has been really on this precipice for a minute now,
Speaker 1: and having friends has been the one thing keeping him tethered,
Speaker 1: and he just has really started to understand the value
Speaker 1: of community and the virtue of like looking back and
Speaker 1: seeing that he was lonely in a way that he
Speaker 1: didn't even really understand when he was experiencing it, and
Speaker 1: so now there being a bunch of people who not
Speaker 1: only had his back, but who came before him and
Speaker 1: who have been out here making moves on their own
Speaker 1: the whole time. There's just something really really wonderful about
Speaker 1: knowing that you're not the only one who's outraged about
Speaker 1: something and doing something about it and making risky moves
Speaker 1: and who is willing to put it all on the line.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this is the exact kind of
Speaker 1: in flux that he needed to keep himself from really
Speaker 1: starting to like spin out in despair. And it's something
Speaker 1: that I also like. There have been a few times
Speaker 1: where I have started to feel like, are any of
Speaker 1: us going to like when push comes to shove, really
Speaker 1: like handle business when when it comes to town And
Speaker 1: I live in an area where I haven't encountered ICE
Speaker 1: at all and I haven't seen them being active, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's coming, and then I'll see, like people
Speaker 1: sharing on in Instagram and TikTok these protests in all
Speaker 1: these different states where ICE isn't yet, but they're trying
Speaker 1: to put in like a detainment facility where a warehouse
Speaker 1: had used to be, and everybody is just like, you know,
Speaker 1: getting very fierce in town hall meetings and they're protesting
Speaker 1: and blocking the construction vehicles from getting onto the property,
Speaker 1: and eventually it was dropped and they're not building the
Speaker 1: detention center there after all. And it's just so encouraging
Speaker 1: to see people fucking doing something, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: very easy to feel like Americans have gotten so comfy
Speaker 1: that we don't want to risk anything, and also to
Speaker 1: feel like they know that we can't risk things because
Speaker 1: they've got us under their thumb with how incredibly expensive
Speaker 1: it just is to live anymore and putting our livelihoods
Speaker 1: at risk and stuff. But there are folks out there
Speaker 1: who are in possess where they can do that, and
Speaker 1: it just really can be like nourishing, I guess is
Speaker 1: the word. I want to see it out there and
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, people are not everybody is a piece
Speaker 1: of shit, because you really can't get in the headspace
Speaker 1: of feeling that way, you know. So yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: real moment sometimes of needing these like little victories and
Speaker 1: little bits of we have to do it in these
Speaker 1: small burths, but it can be done, and small bursts
Speaker 1: are how it starts, you know, the way that who
Speaker 1: began this organization it was only able to do so much.
Speaker 1: And now look we've got fifty thousand crawlers coming to help.
Speaker 1: So that is it's a it's a big country and
Speaker 1: that makes it unwieldy and ungainly, and we can't handle
Speaker 1: things here the way that they do in France, you know,
Speaker 1: where their entire country is the size of Connecticut. So
Speaker 1: it's going to look different, but that doesn't mean nothing's happening.
Speaker 1: All right, I am going to wrap up. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys again so much for listening. I hope that you're
Speaker 1: enjoying the coverage. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 1: just saw. Williams says. What was crazy to me It
Speaker 1: is how many people in the Facebook groups want to
Speaker 1: pretend these stories aren't political anything to not realize they're
Speaker 1: the bad guys. And yeah, that's one of those things
Speaker 1: that it's just like you. If you don't see the
Speaker 1: politics in these books, that's you trying not to see.
Speaker 1: That's you being purposefully obtuse. You don't want to and
Speaker 1: that's a you problem. And I'm not even gonna argue
Speaker 1: with you about it because it's so patently obvious that
Speaker 1: anyone having to explain to you is wasting their time.
Speaker 1: If you can't see it, there's no point talking to you.
Speaker 1: So I won't bother. Matt Denoman's anti capitalist, says who
Speaker 1: says Matt Denneman for eight books. But you know whatever,
Speaker 1: All right, guys, until next time to delude motherfuckers. That
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