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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 four Gate of the Pharaoh

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Gods chapters twenty five, twenty four, twenty five, and twenty six.

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In these chapters, we are getting a whole new and

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exciting format for our boss battles. Isn't that fun? Isn't

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that fun? Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone.

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I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for

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commissioning this episode. Oh man, y'all it is There is

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a lot to get through this episode, and we are

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going for it. So let's begin right where I had

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left off. After I did my little life read about

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what it was that was being forced out of Carl's inventory,

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it turns out that it is the head of the

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sex doll. And you know, I was wondering, like, why

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is it that this gets forced out? And as soon

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as I finished the recording and like went off screen,

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I was suddenly like, oh, I bet it's alive. I

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bet that he can't keep something that's alive like that

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in his inventory. That's probably it, And indeed it is.

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It's a lot moreover with the god that they thought

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was in that ghost. So it turns out whatever is

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going on with the ghost isn't what they had thought

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it was. And that's interesting, isn't it. So let's jump

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back into this Leka loved doll head. This item is

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possessed with the withering spirit of Samaith. Sameth or Samantha

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as her friends used to call her, is a minor

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deity who was banished it than nothing by her father

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after he found out she was kicking around with some

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ancient king guy. She's usually accompanied by her trusty sidekick,

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a sand Ooh's familiar who also happens to be the

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cursed child of her union with the king. You know,

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typical god stuff. And then there's a mention of like

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real weird shit that you're gonna be in four with

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gods and later floors including a woman whose menstrual blood

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is sentient, And I would just like to say for

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the record, no, Samith is an intelligent is as intelligent

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as she is quick tempered. Unfortunately for her, her first

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escape attempt from the Nothing resulted in a split, and

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half of her essence was forced to take refuge in

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the closest unoccupied NIAD vessel she could find, which happened

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to be a sex doll based on the fictional Lika,

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who oddly enough, was actually based loosely on an inaccurate

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history of Samaith. She's had to live in the doll

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for many years, unable to move until the rest of

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her spirit could be reunited. And then it says, the

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story gets kind of weird from there, which if that's

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what he is saying as the AI, you know, must

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be fucking bananas. So it turns out says like, now

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that she's been split, it's really hard for her to

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be killed, Like he's not even sure if it will work,

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but you don't want to bring the halves together. You

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don't want her to like be fully powered. And I

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really later on, I appreciated very much that Carl is

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thinking about how lucky they got, that it's you know,

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not like that it isn't fully powered, and then wonders

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is it actually lucky because the other half of her

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was sort of teetering in such a delicate way that

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he can't help but feel there's got to be something

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in this like destruction of her body that is of

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the plan that, as he puts it, is written in

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to get us somewhere they want us to go. And

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eventually Samith is like, there is a Naiad on the

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hunting grounds who I think could help me. Can you

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bring me to her? And that's when Carl's like, ah,

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I see here it is. That's the thing. So this

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this head though at this point he doesn't even know

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that it can talk, and I was sort of wondering

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as well, like, you know, I know that it can

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because it talked to what's his name, whose name I've

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already forgotten, made him believe that she was really Leika.

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But I was sort of like, you know, that dude

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had a certain type of magic and maybe a certain

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kind of maybe it would be like they couldn't understand

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her or you know, like that there would be some obstacle.

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And it turns out like the real only obstacle is

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the positioning of the jaw of the doll and that

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he can like open and close her mouth enough so

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that she is either totally incoherent or can actually speak

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somewhat normally, like she can make the lips move a

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little bit. So let's see, we don't want to get

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involved in her story, Mordecai said, we avoid God's like

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we avoid dealing with factions outside the dungeon. We have

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enough of this bullshit to deal with already. I know

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what happened, Kachia said, snapping her finger. It said that

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when she escaped the first time, she ended up in

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the body of the love Doll. Right. It said it

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was the closest thing she could find to her real form.

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That means she was the one who taught God's at Gassie.

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That's it into coming here in the first place. She'd

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been lying to him the whole time about who she

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really was. She wanted him to open the enough. She

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told him it was to find that god of lust.

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But it was a trick. The moment that nothing opened up,

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her second half flowed out along with the sand ooze.

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But something went wrong. Gatsi screwed something up during the process,

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and the love Doll, the vessel holding her first half,

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got turned to glass. She had to use the ooze

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to keep him here until something came along and decrystallized everything.

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Everyone thought she went into the body a quetzal coatless,

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but they had it wrong because they didn't know she'd

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been split in two, and they didn't know Gatzi had

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her other half on him the whole time. So at

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this point they start talking about how this is like Chucky,

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and Katschia says that it actually reminds her of the

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Hohore Cruxes and Harry Potter, and Carl is like, it

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doesn't really matter because she was in the nothing for

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long enough that it made her insane, which we have

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heard enough that we have to trust is true. And

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then Donut, I've watched you abuse yourself more than once,

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and I know it wasn't good for my mental health.

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I can't imagine what it would have done to me

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if I'd been forced to actually participate. She turned to

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Katcha and lowered her voice. He wiped his hand on

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me once. You know afterward that is absolutely not true.

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I exclaimed, I believe you, Carl, I mean, Donut gets

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you confused with so many other dudes, you can't believe

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a word, she says, honestly about his behavior. And there's

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also earlier on you know, I had just been saying

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how I felt it was starting to get a little

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bit too aggressive, how often Doughnut was making jabs about

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be cheating on him with other guys, and she says, here,

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Miss Beatrice had a drawer full of sex toys, but

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she never sailed off to the other side of the

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world because her vibrator told her to. She cocked her head. Actually,

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you know what, that is kind of what she did. Now,

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isn't it only her sex toy? Was that, brad Fellow,

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Why isn't this eligible, eligible to be in my inventory anymore?

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I asked, trying hard to ignore donuts jab. Guys, that

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is literally the first time we have ever heard him be,

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we have ever heard him sneeze. It was a real

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landmark moment. Sorry, guys, I've been dealing with allergies today.

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The first episode I recorded, it was really bothering me,

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and then it seemed to calm down and get into

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me a little bit again. But it's the first time

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we have actually, like consciously heard him say I've got

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to not let this bother me, or at least like

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not openly let it bothering me and let it show

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that it's bothering me. And I've got to admit, guys that,

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like I feel it, maybe the author is doing this

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all on purpose, and that it is now leading up

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to a little bit of a confrontation between him and

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Donut because it just seems like, you know, it just

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seems it just seems like I'm very curious because, like

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I said, Donut is somebody who apparently really values loyalty,

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but she's treating the fact that be cheated on him

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constantly as this joke. And I want her to like

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hear you know, I don't know he's been so careful

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about her feelings in not wanting her to see that,

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or not realizing that she was aware that they were

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thinking about getting rid of her. You know, he didn't

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realize that she had been listening enough to know already

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and purposely had never let on because he didn't want

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to hurt her feelings. And then she's like throwing it

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in his face like this, and it's like, you know,

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up to a point, it was funny, and then it

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starts to be like ouch a little bit more and

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a little bit more, and now finally trying to ignore it.

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It's just to me, we're winding up for something. I think.

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So anyway the uh the doll can talk, her mouth

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has to be open just the right way. Going to

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kill your mother, I'm going to find where she lives

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and set her on fire and then kill her and

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then get a Nick romansa to bring her back from

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the dead and then kill her over and over again

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and make you watch while it. She trailed off once

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she realized I'd moved her mouth just just the right

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position where she made coherent words like I tuned into

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the proper radio station and she can feel that her

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uh ooh's sand ooh's child is still alive and wants

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them to work on getting her other half of her

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body back, and Carl is like, yeah, that's not happening.

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You are You were broken into a billion pieces and

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then swallowed probably by a shark or something. So no.

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And I love this bit where she Donna mentions Tish

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to her and Samith says, Tish, Tish almost ruined everything.

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Take me to her. I'm I'm going to kill her mother,

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I asked. Samantha started bawling, all right, I said, standing

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up and dropping the head back on the floor. This

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isn't gonna work. And he just drops it on the

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floor and later like they just keep doing that is

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very funny to me. It's made out of like silicone,

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vinyl whatever, so like, yeah, it makes sense that it's

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not going to take damage doing this, and you know,

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but it's just so disrespectful in a way that's genuinely

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very funny. When it's a god, that is hilarious. So

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Mordecai tells him, I think we should keep her. We

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can keep her in the safe room, and if she

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doesn't leave, she won't summon a god, and she might

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have some really valuable knowledge that we can use. We

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can actually hire and PCs as you know, and I'm

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almost positive it's going to work for her, and conscious is.

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I think it's a terrible idea, but if keeping her

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in the room keeps us safe, then we can give

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it a go for a little while. The game obviously

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wants us to keep her. Carl. Yeah, that's what I'm

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worried about. I picked up the head, pushed the mouth

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all the way closed, and I strode to the training room.

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I rolled her inside and closed the door. I rolled

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her inside. You guys, it was just it was too much.

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It was too much. What I'm saying is, you take

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two sometimes three showers a day. That's water. I don't

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understand how that's any different than going into the ocean.

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And it turns out that they're working on this next

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bit of the plan and Dona is going to stay

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on the surface, not go into the water, and she

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feels a little bit guilty about not participating, as we

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see later on. But you know, she's only she can

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only do what she can do, you know she I'm

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not mad at her. There are some things that the

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kind of fear that you have around them is just

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not in your control. It's you know, it's just not

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And I am like that very much when it comes

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to in tense heights. Even when I'm like watching a movie,

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if the height is too much, I will feel like

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I'm going to be sick in the movie theater and

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I can't look at the screen. I compulsively look away

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because I cannot handle it. It's just I don't get

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a say, it's just you know. So anyway, this whole

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bit here, I do not hold against her one little bit,

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and I appreciate that Carl doesn't either. You know what

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I said to Donut, when was the last time you

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checked your social media board? You know you can do

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that now? You know you can do that now again.

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Since Zev has gotten her job back, I was confused

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about this, guys, because I thought that the whole thing

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was that they don't need a social media manager because

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they have the social media board. So I don't understand

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how Zev getting her job back means that they I

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don't understand how this worked. So this is when Carl

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is talking with Katya about the ninth floor and the map,

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and it's they they it's him and Katya, and they

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summon over Mordecai to have him look it over and

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tell him tell them like how accurate it is. And

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I'm really trying to like figure out exactly what it

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is that Carl could be planning here, and I can't

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figure it out, but he is talking to for it.

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First of all, Mordecai tries to be like, y'all, do

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not worry about this yet. It is you have to

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make sure you live through this fucking floor. You have

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to make sure you live through this fucking day. Actually,

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don't work about anything other than what is right in

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front of you. It's not worth it, And he is,

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and he being Carl, is very much like just humor me,

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and you know, I know that it's not just humoring him.

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There is obviously a plan, and Katchya knows also that

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there is a plan, but she doesn't try to get

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him to explain the plan. She just sort of accepts, Oh,

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you're on your bullshit right now, aren't you, and decides like,

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I don't even really want to know what's the point.

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It's going to be something insane, and I know that

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there will be no talking you out of it, so fine,

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I'll just let you do your little planning. But Mordecai

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isn't nearly as suspicious as I wanted him to be.

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I wanted him to be like, no, but really, why

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are you asking? So we're getting the description of Lorocco

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and that the city is an inverted cone that goes

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down into the ground, which I really enjoy because so

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much of the time these sorts of things are built

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with the peak in the center, you know, which makes

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sense like in terms of a fortification when you are

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a regular human. But since these are dwarves and their

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native land is to be just in the ground, in

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the earth, this makes more sense. So let's see. The

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whole area is mostly rolling hills and pre dug trenches.

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There's a forest that surrounds the whole thing. The deeper

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you get into the forest, the more difficult the monsters are,

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but they're usually hunted to extinction by the time you

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get there. Back when the third floor opened up, each

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of the nine factions arrived at their designated area. Each

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spot is randomly picked, with one exception. The previous winter

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is allowed to choose where they start, and we eventually

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find out that there's a that's like God its fortifications

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already like it comes with a building, and so that's

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usually where they pick. Once the sixth floor opens, they

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have access to the market and they can start buying

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armor and magical supplies from the crawlers. They can only

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bring one large chest of supplies, so it's not enough

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to outfit their army. Everything has to be purchased or looted.

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They aren't allowed to fight each other until the crawlers arrive,

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but before that happens, they make the officers fight and

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grind in the forests, leveling themselves up. Plus they all

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bring several cheap potions, and he mentions that he is

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willing to bet everybody is going to be much lower

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level than they normally are because of the way everything

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has been sped up, and the armies they all start

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with fifteen thousand troops and there's a pool of mercenaries

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and specialists. They can hire. The addition, mercenaries are all

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collected via games and gambling and trade ups until when

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the ninth floor opens. The mercenary market is near the castle.

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But they can't really die, Katcha asked. The tourists know

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not on that floor. It's like a game for them.

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The system holds some of their health and reserve and

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teleports them away before they can die. They feel real pain. Though.

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The troops are mostly NPCs, but the richer of the

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factions can pay for their own people to fill the ranks.

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They are equally protected. The real people can respawn too,

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up until the time you guys arrive. The NPC troops

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don't respawd Dead is dead for those port bastards. I

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felt my heart quicken. How many of the fifteen thousand

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are outside people? Usually, he shrugged, A rich faction will

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bring maybe two hundred. It's not very many because it's expensive.

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A poor faction, like the Blood Sultant, it will only

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bring about twenty. It's a little like the dance floor

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for the Desperado Club. For every person they bring in,

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one of the NPCs is removed, so there's no major

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tactical advantage to bring too many people. In unless they're

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well trained already, and these guys usually aren't. And I'm

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just trying, like why does his heart quicken? Is he

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planning to try and take the tourists hostage somehow? Like

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that's all I can think. But if the hostages can't

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actually die, then what can you possibly what kind of

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leverage can that really even give you? I mean, I

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don't know. So with the sixth floor, how does that

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work in conjunction with the ninth The hunting grounds are

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a different sort of thing. The factions can and sometimes

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do send people to the sixth floor to collect gear,

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but it's dangerous because they are not protected. It's the

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only place in the game where they can really die.

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Now that's interesting, and like I said before, they do die.

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Most of these guys are rich assholes to treat the

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whole thing like a weekend excursion playing paintball. A lot

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of bets are made regarding the outcomes of the faction wars,

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but most of the ones who are here are so

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rich they don't care. If there's an upset, A lot

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of credits can change hands, plus there's a cash prize

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to the winner. It's more about the bragging rights than

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the cash though, so I mean here I can understand,

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but like the earlier I don't understand his preoccupation with

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the later floor. The people who do decide to hunt

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on the sixth floor, they can bring gear back. Yes,

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that's pretty much the point for some of them. Someone

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on the ninth right now can go down to the sixth.

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But more often the hunters of people who aren't a

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part of any faction, they come to win gear, things

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like that ring you still need to do, then they

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sell it to the factions. Okay, I said, thinking hard.

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One last question, when can someone decide to participate in

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all this? Say I'm a random guy floating around in

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a spaceship and I decide tomorrow I want to get

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in on the action, can I Yeah, if you have

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the credits and can get here in time, hunters can

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sign up until the opening of the sixth floor. It's

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not too late for the ninth floor guys, or any

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of the tourists and partygoers on the eighteenth for that mattered,

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and wander down to the sixth if they dare, But

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most of the hunters are already there. It would be

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dumb to wait until the last minute. Why is that?

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Because all hunters start out as level thirty. They can

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start arriving when you hit the third There are appropriate

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mob areas for them to train, so they can be

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pretty strong by the time you arrive, especially since the

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lethality doesn't get turned on until you get there. The

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hunters tend to be around fifty. But and like I said,

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he thinks it's going to be a lot less intense.

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So this like who can join in? I'm trying to

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think of anybody that could possibly like pop in that

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Carl would have connection to. Like why why is he

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even asking this question? I can't figure it out. I

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don't know what you know. I'm trying to pick up

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little little clues. And I'm positive that if you've read

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this already and you are listening to this conversation now,

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it's sort of like, oh, I see why he you know,

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like it makes sense, But without any context, I genuinely

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have no Normally, I can sort of begin to formulate

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a little bit of a concept, but like, I can't

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imagine the only thing that I could think is that

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maybe Carl can make an offer, like have somebody out

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there who is a regular person and make it appealing

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to them to jump into the game and be sort

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of on his side somehow, And I don't know if

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he'd be allowed to do anything like that, or like

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what the restrictions would be. You know, it just feels

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like what he's talking about is appealing to an outside party,

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and I don't know who it could be. So the

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only thing I can think of is a stranger and

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how you know, he's got enough star power so to speak,

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that that's not out of the question, But I just

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don't know what then, you know, So anyway, okay twenty

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five he keeps opening the pocket watch to see if

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Henrik will respond, and he doesn't. Later on we find

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his body. Port bro Chris and Maggie my remained in

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their tomb. I still didn't know what we were going

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to do about them. Mordecai was having little luck finding

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the supplies he needed to kill the parasite, and there

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had been a moment earlier on where Mordecai is like,

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I think I still need one ingredient, and I was

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sort of wondering if it was that yam like maybe

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that's why it came from a pacifist group, is like,

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here's a non lethal way to help your friend this

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yam is an essential ingredient in getting the worm out.

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That's all. That's all I can come up with. But anyway,

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we could toss the paralyzed creature through the portal if

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we had to. When the time came, I did not

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want to do that. Chris clearly didn't want us to

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do that, since we probably wouldn't teleport to the same place.

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It would just unleash Maggie on the sixth floor and

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all this bullshit would start over again. And Moni was

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insistent we do everything to save him. It felt like

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the wrong move, but what could we do? And I

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really get it in terms of it feeling like the

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wrong move. And honestly, if I were watching the show,

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I'd probably be like, guys, just kill him, Oh my god,

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you know. But as somebody reading the book who actually

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has gotten to know Chris as a person, of course,

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I'm very much like, you've got to figure it out,

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help him. I do respect the fact that Chris wanted

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them to just kill him, but enough time has passed

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that it feels like we're just on this different path

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now and there's no use worrying about that. So they

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begin talking about their other plan with two strangers, Brittany

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Roscorina a level twenty seven Pit Fighter, Level twenty eight

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get Go called a C which I thought was weird

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because I knew that was a type of fish, not lizard,

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called a gut rearranger class, and there were two. These

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were the two other survivors of the water quadrant. It

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turned out Vadim was a cosmetic surgeon in the real world,

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and Brittany had been at his office for a consultation

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when it all went down, and they were the last

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two survivors of their original party. And later on we

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get some tea about the fact that this dude apparently

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impregnated a ton of women, which is a phenomenon with

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some doctors that you can look up. And Carl's sort

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of like that feels like a very weasly, slimy move

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to make, And maybe I don't like the fact that

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this guy is on my team, but there's not a

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lot to do about it at this point. And this

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tron turned to vadem Do you want a red shirt?

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I feel as if I should put going on. What

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does that mean, Betty masked? Ah, yeah, yep, makes sense. Uh.

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The Nightmare two remained in the large garage of the house,

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Donut was in a foul mood. Apparently the AI had

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showed her a message from the intergalactic Internet that had

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pissed her off, and they have evidently said that Donut

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and Mango have no redeeming qualities and they hate watching her.

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This is like a huge reason why I just don't

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even read like reviews of the podcast anymore. On like

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Apple podcasts, you can go and look at your reviews,

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and honestly, most of them are nice, they really are.

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I am lucky that the majority. But every now and

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then there's one that like, either it's so off base,

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it's so wrong that it makes you angry because you're

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just like, what are you even talking about? Or it's

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right in a way that's very hurtful. Also it's just

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like there's really no good way. It's I've reached a

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point in what I do for the podcast that I'm

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just I am not accepting much feedback for my overall approach.

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I will definitely take feedback of like you forgot to

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post a thing, or you edited the sound wrong, or

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what you know, like things like that, but the way

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that I do the show, I'm just I do it

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this way, and it's probably not going to change. Now

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I've been doing it over a decade. It's done, you

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know what I mean. So I don't see the point

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in reading reviews the way that I used to where

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I used to be Like, let me see if I

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could take on any suggestions for updating our method and approach.

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And I understand the temptation, DON'TU, I do, but I

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it will eat away at you. I wouldn't recommend it.

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So let's see. I'm trying to find the next uh.

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The chum bombs were not more than triple plied garbage

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bags filled with various dead bodies along with the fused

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one eighth strength hoblobbers, each with a piece of hobgoblin

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puss attached to them. They were all timed to the

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same detonator, so when Doughnut hit the button, they'd all

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blow at the same time, sending a mighty plume of

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gore out into the ocean. We were dropping them near

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the edge of the current, near the edge of the

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current from the draining acropolis. The bags would probably start

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leaking before we got into position, but that was okay.

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All I really wanted was a distraction for the first

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layer of underwater security, the concierge, sharks, and yeah, good idea.

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I approve of all of this, and I didn't actually care.

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Oh right, he started talking about where people were from,

474
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:49,480
and he's just like, as long as they're from Earth,

475
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,200
it's fine. But yeah, that this guy might be kind

476
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,680
of a weasel. Brittany is not pregnant, Kancia said. If

477
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,599
she was when she went in, she'd probably be showing

478
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,519
by now. Women can't get pregnant in the dungeon. Our

479
00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:04,359
periods stop and we get a notification informing us we

480
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,240
are no longer able to conceive until after we fulfill

481
00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:12,559
our crawl. Wait, really, I asked. I never received anything

482
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,319
like that. I realized how stupid that sounded the moment

483
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,440
I said it out loud. Yeah, it's not about you,

484
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:27,440
just as usual. I did, however, remember an oddity from

485
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,680
the cookbook. Rickard, the guy who'd written the most recent

486
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:34,799
version of the book, didn't add too much content, but

487
00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:36,960
he did mention that he'd entered the dungeon with his

488
00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:39,720
pregnant wife, but the moment he went through the gate,

489
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,559
she disappeared and he never saw her again. I thought

490
00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:45,960
it was just one of those things. I knew dudes

491
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,319
still had the ability to knock creatures up. The whole

492
00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:50,440
reason Brandon had died was because another guy in their

493
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,799
party had banged a succubus and she'd given birth. Has

494
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:58,279
anybody seen any pregnant women in the dungeon, I asked,

495
00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:02,400
Hatcha shrugged. I don't think it's sex a Firebrandy and

496
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,839
Unice the Dwarf, those were both NPCs. I wonder if

497
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:11,480
they do something special with pregnant crawlers. Probably something awful,

498
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,640
Katia said, But I can't imagine someone who was pregnant

499
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:20,000
would come here voluntarily. I thought that was a weird line.

500
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,359
If you are about to be killed on the surface

501
00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:28,440
in a horrible way, or you can go and possibly

502
00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:34,119
find a way through, many pregnant people would do that

503
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:38,039
out of those two options. Like, I just thought that

504
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:42,000
that was a very weird take, because there's no way

505
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,319
they know what they're getting into. That's the whole thing,

506
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:52,839
you know, They're just they're given minimal information. So yeah,

507
00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:57,440
especially in like you know, Carl's his situation. It was

508
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,680
freezing cold outside and now the place is collapsed and

509
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,240
there's no buildings to retreat into anymore, Like of course

510
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:09,800
they would. It's just that had no logic for me.

511
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:19,199
So they go into the water. It's Donut that's handling

512
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,880
the depth charges and obviously, like I said, is wrestling

513
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,159
with a little bit of guilt that she's letting him

514
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:33,559
and Kotcha go by themselves, and Kotya is being the sub,

515
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,840
which is such a fun idea. And you know, the

516
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,440
fact that she can manipulate where metal pops up and

517
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,280
whatnot means that she can change the weight and make

518
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,559
things move in certain directions and keep herself from tipping

519
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:52,400
over or flipping upside down. And it's just a really

520
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,800
cool idea. And also we find out that like the

521
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,159
pressure of the water doesn't fununction the same in the

522
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,400
dungeon as it does in real life, so there's no

523
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:09,280
there's no threat of them if they leave the sub

524
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:14,079
getting like crushed by the water. That's not how that works.

525
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,679
I nervously watched the little needle that kept me apprized

526
00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:21,000
of our viewer count, and it was starting to spike.

527
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,280
That was always a bad sign. And yeah, this got

528
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:32,199
me very concerned. I see it, Katya said, after only

529
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,480
a minute. I'm pulling my masks in small amounts now

530
00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:38,119
and flapping my wings. Oh wow, it's bigger than I thought.

531
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:42,920
The whole top part is ripped away, and she says,

532
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,880
the whole sub is the pump. And there are a

533
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:51,079
bunch of jellyfish, and Vaden asks what color, and when

534
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:54,320
she says blue, he says, okay, good. Watch out for

535
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,519
the white ones, the pain amphlifiers. They're smaller. The big

536
00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:00,800
blue ones will wrap around you if you get close,

537
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,039
but they'll leave you alone if you avoid them. But

538
00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:07,760
you must watch because they drift. Which the drift is

539
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,559
something that I know with my adhds that I would

540
00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:13,239
lose track of. I would get very used to it

541
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,719
being in a place and I would know intellectually that

542
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,119
it won't stay there, but I would absolutely get too comfortable.

543
00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:22,000
I know I will. This is how I am with time.

544
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,960
You know. I check my watch, it's one thirty. I

545
00:36:26,039 --> 00:36:28,639
have an hour before I have to start recording. And

546
00:36:28,679 --> 00:36:32,679
then forty minutes pass and I'm like, yeah, what, I

547
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,480
have an hour before I start recording. I just don't

548
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:41,880
feel it. This would be a problem for me, so

549
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:48,360
they Katscha continued to change. She was transforming herself so

550
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,480
she'd cover the hull, camouflaging herself. She was going to

551
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:53,760
stay out here and keep an eye out for the large,

552
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,440
dangerous monsters while the three of us entered the sub

553
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,880
which is a very smart idea, and we get a

554
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,360
description from the AI about the jellyfish. They're a little

555
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,079
like that guy used to know in high school who

556
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:10,599
was always wearing overalls or a jersey, six foot five

557
00:37:10,679 --> 00:37:13,039
and pushing three hundred pounds when he was a freshman,

558
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,440
always had a crew cut. Dad's a trucker, never talks,

559
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,920
never does his homework. He's always just kind of there.

560
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,519
He doesn't mean any harm. Plus he always has a

561
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:27,840
super hot girlfriend for some reason. This description, if I like, God,

562
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,599
strike me dead, if I knew the exact person in

563
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:36,679
my school that fit this precise description, I mean, honestly, guys,

564
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:40,639
he was. He went by the name Pudge. It wasn't

565
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:43,800
even like people bullying him with that name. He introduced

566
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,519
himself to say hey, I'm Pudch and he was like

567
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,840
at the very least six foot two, and he was

568
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,400
a really nice guy. He really was. But uh yeah,

569
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:07,079
just yep. Anyway, they enter the Akula and we have

570
00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:10,960
the dem the submarine was in terrible condition when we

571
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:14,719
first got here. Only three of us survived. Did you

572
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,000
get the gear of those who didn't make it? I asked, no, Usually,

573
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:20,960
there wasn't anything left. There was a gun that just

574
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:24,159
blew them up. Nobody could get past it except Chris.

575
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,880
He had some ability that made him invisible to the thing.

576
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,000
He went past into the boss chamber alone. When he

577
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:31,760
killed the robot thing with the head in the jar,

578
00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:38,559
the gun blew up on its own. And when Carl

579
00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:41,119
asks him, did you know that he was two people?

580
00:38:41,639 --> 00:38:45,119
Vadim was like, I didn't, but it didn't really surprise

581
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,239
me when I found out. He was just really argumentative

582
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:54,000
and insulted us and stuff. And we find out later

583
00:38:54,039 --> 00:39:01,039
that he also was like an experience hog. He said

584
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,280
there wasn't room for him to get to the land quadrant.

585
00:39:03,639 --> 00:39:05,599
That was a lie. There was plenty of room. We

586
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:08,639
couldn't fit a whole party, but each escape tunnel can

587
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:13,639
only be used once. What's wrong? This was open. We

588
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,800
left all the doors open so we could escape to

589
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,800
our sub You don't see anything on the other side. No,

590
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:22,079
but it's a small room, like one of those rooms

591
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:26,960
where you can drain the water away. Gotcha, guys, there's

592
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,000
something out here. It's big. It just swam by underneath

593
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:32,880
the sub. I didn't get a good look. But the

594
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,800
damn thing is bigger than the sub. It's gone now

595
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,880
and this is what they're realizing, like, oh, we're going

596
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,679
to have to face this thing. And I kept thinking

597
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:48,000
of the Meg and I don't think i've even seen

598
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:51,840
the Meg. Just for the record, guys, but if you

599
00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:55,519
recommend that I watch it for a good bad movie,

600
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:59,159
I would do it. Sometimes movies though aren't good bad,

601
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,639
sometimes there's just tedious and terrible. So I think that

602
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,079
I avoided it just because it seemed like it was

603
00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:08,480
going to turn out to be really tedious. There are

604
00:40:08,519 --> 00:40:13,239
some movies that, despite not being good, they don't realize

605
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,320
it and so they take themselves too seriously and there's

606
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,239
no fun and you've got to find a really good

607
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:25,920
like tone, you know. But I'll say, guys, last night

608
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,599
I watched Renfield for the first time, and if you

609
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:36,800
are looking for a very weirdly, very gory but also

610
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,280
funny action, it is quite a ride. I had a

611
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:48,000
very good time. So they all have their vomiting that

612
00:40:48,039 --> 00:40:52,119
they do when they are using those water breathing spells,

613
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:56,559
and I think it's yeah, Vadim says, you get used

614
00:40:56,599 --> 00:40:58,599
to it. It's really bad if you're under for more

615
00:40:58,599 --> 00:41:02,239
than an hour. It just doesn't seem fair that that's

616
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,519
how they work. You know, they're just capable of so

617
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:12,199
much in this dungeons that like that side effect seems

618
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,599
cruel to me. There's probably like just a better version

619
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,599
of the scroll where that doesn't happen, maybe, and that

620
00:41:18,639 --> 00:41:22,400
these are the freebies, and so there's that little hiccup

621
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,679
in there that ruins them for being like a decent experience.

622
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:36,599
So let's see lootable corpse, the bugbears delight, neighborhood boss

623
00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:41,000
killed by system deactivation. And this is the thing that

624
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:48,440
Chris in quotes killed. The moment I took the map,

625
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,920
the entirety of the akula populated on my screen. Multiple

626
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,119
red dots appeared, mostly in the lower decks. A red

627
00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:57,480
dot moved back and forth across the bridge on the

628
00:41:57,519 --> 00:42:01,039
other side of the door. There were also the multiple

629
00:42:01,039 --> 00:42:04,360
exs of corpses. I first focused on the ex's and

630
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:09,119
my heart quickened. What is it? It's a ghost, one

631
00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:12,639
that shouldn't be in here. It's before I could finish

632
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:18,840
an ear piercing screech filled the submarine. The entire hull.

633
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:20,840
Oh my god, that was so hard to say. The

634
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,440
entire hull shuddered. A glowing green head of a goddamn

635
00:42:26,559 --> 00:42:30,639
pterodactyl appeared leaning in through the bulkhead screamed, and my

636
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,280
vision flashed red. The dim fell to the ground, his

637
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:39,000
health suddenly in the red. An oral attack, and then

638
00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:42,119
it disappears again, and he's like, oh fuck, it's a

639
00:42:42,199 --> 00:42:47,000
quenzl coatless katcha. Something green and glowing just shot out

640
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,599
of the side of the submarine. Oh shit, oh shit,

641
00:42:49,679 --> 00:42:51,559
I can see it. The green thing just smacked it

642
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:56,039
and turned around. Uh, blow your ballast, get out of here,

643
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:04,239
get to the surface. And she, understandably unwilling to abandon

644
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,760
him him telling her to just like get the fuck

645
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,360
out of there. I respect it, but I just don't

646
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,960
see her obeying that order right away. There's going to

647
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:24,039
be an argument, right so anyway, twenty six there was

648
00:43:24,079 --> 00:43:29,239
a pure, deep dubstep growl punctuated by high pitch ear

649
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,159
piercing glitches that sounded like whale song. It gave the

650
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:38,679
sense of overwhelming frenetic panic. The whole vessel shuddered, and

651
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,599
suddenly the three of us fell to our backs. I

652
00:43:41,679 --> 00:43:46,239
scrambled to my feet and pushed forward. He'd actually been

653
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,960
on his way here to the Akula. I had no

654
00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:54,960
idea he's talking about Henrik here. We'd all just assumed

655
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,400
he'd gone to the Necropolis. I had no idea why

656
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,360
they'd come here, but whatever they were trying to do,

657
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,320
they'd failed. Six of the seven bodies were changeling principles.

658
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,599
I spun the wheel ripped to open the portal as

659
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:11,960
the submarine jolted again. The portal opened toward me, and

660
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,840
I pulled myself inside. I shouted over the panning music

661
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,639
for Tran and Vedem to follow. Kotcha, did you get out?

662
00:44:20,039 --> 00:44:23,159
The moment I sent the message, I realized no, she

663
00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:25,559
hadn't gotten free. I saw her dot on the map

664
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:28,360
moving through the innards of the Akula. She fled into

665
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,880
the submarine. God damn it, Kotcha, it was too late.

666
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,800
I wouldn't have gotten away. Okay, get your ass in here.

667
00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:39,840
Why is there boss music? But the other stuff hasn't happened.

668
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,599
I don't know. I yelled for Tran to stay back

669
00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:45,840
and to close the door to the airlocks so Klotcha

670
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,800
could get in here. The whole sub rolled onto its side.

671
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,159
I fell inside the bridge behind me. Both Vadim and

672
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,880
Tran yelled out in surprise as they also fell, plummeting

673
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,039
out of sight in the room behind me. So just

674
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:03,360
the whole sense of this with it moving around, is

675
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,960
just so claustrophobic. This is just terrifying. It's like being

676
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,679
inside a bottle kicked around at the bottom of a pool.

677
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,719
Like it just feels very nightmarish to me. I absolutely

678
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,800
hate it. And we get to the bridge of the

679
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,960
Akula and He's just like, oh my god, it's really nice.

680
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,000
This was unexpected, and I found this very funny. It

681
00:45:29,119 --> 00:45:31,880
was a combination between Enterprise Bridge from Star Trek and

682
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,320
the interior of a Victorian era themed restaurant that was

683
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:39,039
so expensive. The prices weren't on the menu at least

684
00:45:39,199 --> 00:45:42,840
it had been once upon a time. And I won't

685
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,920
go through all of the description of this, but it

686
00:45:45,039 --> 00:45:46,920
just was, I don't know, it caught my attention. I

687
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,639
thought that that was fun. The most impressive site was

688
00:45:50,639 --> 00:45:53,039
the glass portal, giving me a wide view of the

689
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:56,840
underwater world. The window was broad, about twenty five feet

690
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,000
across and ten feet high, and framed with riveted brass.

691
00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:02,960
I could see a film of muck had grown over

692
00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:06,440
the class, but an area had been recently cleaned off,

693
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:11,199
either by Chris or Henrik's crew, and he can see

694
00:46:11,639 --> 00:46:14,239
see something moving on the other side. At first he

695
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,400
thinks he just sees darkness, and then he realizes something's

696
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,760
covering the portal and eventually figures out that it is

697
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:26,760
a single sucker that takes up half of the window.

698
00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:29,920
And if that is the size of just the sucker,

699
00:46:30,519 --> 00:46:37,159
how big is the rest of this fucking creature? So

700
00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:41,079
he loots Hendrick's corpse for the watch and the torn

701
00:46:41,119 --> 00:46:46,440
book page. The moment I had it, I took his

702
00:46:46,599 --> 00:46:48,559
entire body into my inventory. The moment I had at

703
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:53,159
the world froze system message please wait, thank you for

704
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:58,679
your patience. You may now resume normal activities. So, of course,

705
00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:01,360
when it freezes, Carl thinks this is the start of

706
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,920
the boss battle. But no admin notice. Three items in

707
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,519
your inventory have been placed under an administrative lock, while

708
00:47:09,559 --> 00:47:12,440
an appeal in the Syndicate court determines if these items

709
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,480
are The message appeared and disappeared in a flash, almost

710
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:20,920
too quickly to read or understand. It never finished fully displaying,

711
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,480
and then another message appeared and disappeared just as quickly,

712
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,000
you guys. I would just like to state for the

713
00:47:26,039 --> 00:47:28,840
record that once again I became very paranoid about the

714
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,719
cookbook once I I stepped back and I was like, oh,

715
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:38,280
three items. It's obviously the winding box and the two watches, duh.

716
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,039
But like, I am still just so aware of that

717
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:46,199
illegal cookbook that I am paranoid every time anything happens

718
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,280
to stuff in his inventory. It's just I assume it's

719
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,239
going to be that, you know, and obviously that doesn't

720
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,440
make any sense to be happening right now. He just

721
00:47:55,559 --> 00:47:58,800
took the second watch. Of course, that's going to be, like,

722
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,239
you know, duh. Anyway, I can be very dumb. Admin

723
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,119
notice court determination lack of standing for all plaintiffs. Administrative

724
00:48:09,159 --> 00:48:14,559
lock removed. We apologize for the inconvenience. I absolutely cannot

725
00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:16,519
wait to hear more about what the fuck this is.

726
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:21,719
I'm extremely curious, you guys. I just really every now

727
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,599
and then there will be a moment when I'm covering

728
00:48:24,639 --> 00:48:29,280
something that is so revealing of my personality that I

729
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,559
can't help but laugh at how perfect an encapsulation it is.

730
00:48:35,199 --> 00:48:40,320
And this moment we're about to be attacked by like

731
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:47,280
basically a kraken. You know, this is the part that

732
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:54,239
most people would find very exciting, but for me, I'm like,

733
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:57,559
lack of standing. What was the lock? Oh my god?

734
00:48:58,079 --> 00:49:01,679
Who were the plaintiffs? Like that's the part that I'm

735
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:06,159
super pumped about and excited about. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

736
00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:07,760
the fight. Okay, can we get the fight over with

737
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,639
because I want to know about this court case? Like

738
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,599
it's just very much who I am, and I'm fine

739
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:17,480
with it. It's just funny every now and then when

740
00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:20,920
I take a step back, like, ah, okay, it's the

741
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,920
logistics every time that fascinate me. I just love them

742
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:30,400
so much. I thought of the weird system message. Someone

743
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,519
had sued to keep the pieces of the Gate of

744
00:49:32,559 --> 00:49:35,559
the Parh Gods out of my hands. That wasn't a surprise.

745
00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:38,719
Neither was it a surprise that there were multiple plaintiffs

746
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,480
in the suit. But Henrik had something else in his inventory.

747
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,599
It was starting to become clear that this was a

748
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:47,079
common thing in this game, that the system would plant

749
00:49:47,159 --> 00:49:51,719
important information on corpses. I extracted the torn book page.

750
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:56,159
This piece of paper was mercilessly ripped from a perfectly

751
00:49:56,159 --> 00:50:03,599
innocent book and it's an extract from a cleric's journal,

752
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:09,519
and she formed into a rage elemental. Another curiosity is

753
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:14,079
the she who waiales or wailing shrieker. A rare ghost,

754
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,000
It is formed when a grieving widow dies of her

755
00:50:17,039 --> 00:50:20,119
despair in the dark, unhallowed ground, while the corpse of

756
00:50:20,119 --> 00:50:24,519
her affection rots nearby. These were often purposely created to

757
00:50:24,559 --> 00:50:28,280
guard tombs, oftentimes at the direction of the ailing pharaoh

758
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,280
or king himself, who would ply the woman with affection

759
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,960
in order to have ready stock upon his burial. Sometimes

760
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:36,639
he would do this with a harem of women if

761
00:50:36,639 --> 00:50:39,880
he was especially paranoid about keeping his treasures safe. The

762
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,280
women would not know this was to be their fate.

763
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:50,639
Eww I hate it. If a wailing shrieker forms, she

764
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,719
has the tendency to haunt her lover's grave, and she

765
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,400
will aggressively defend the area. She is defeated with a

766
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,800
high level exorcism spell, the destruction of the corpse of

767
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,519
her lover by varying high degree banishment spells, or via

768
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,239
electric shock. Beware her scream and her touch. She is

769
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,280
intelligent and jealous. She is fully non corporeal, and any

770
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:20,840
flesh giving spell can be used to neutralize her. So interesting.

771
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,360
The electrocution as an option was very appealing. Before I

772
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,440
remember that we are in water on a metal ship,

773
00:51:28,639 --> 00:51:31,719
and probably that's the worst possible idea of all time,

774
00:51:33,599 --> 00:51:37,760
the destruction of the corpse of her lover. Curious about that,

775
00:51:38,199 --> 00:51:40,440
where is the corpse? Maybe that's something that we can

776
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:45,559
do supernatural style, a flesh giving spell. I can't remember

777
00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:48,360
if we've got anything like that in any of our inventories,

778
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,320
but it does seem like the kind of thing that

779
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:58,480
an ex plastic surgeon might have. I don't think that

780
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,480
that's necessarily like that. It makes sense that somebody who

781
00:52:01,599 --> 00:52:03,360
used to have that job would now have this spell,

782
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:08,159
but it just made me think of it. So their

783
00:52:08,199 --> 00:52:10,880
original plan was to use whin the Gnome. I didn't

784
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,360
know why they'd come here. Whatever they'd been planning, it

785
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,199
was b or C. And it hadn't worked. They'd pissed

786
00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:19,320
off the ghost and she'd killed them all, and now

787
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,599
we'd been dragged to the bottom of the ocean because

788
00:52:21,599 --> 00:52:27,639
of it. So he gets in contact with Gwen and

789
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,800
gives her some instructions, and we don't get to hear

790
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,559
what those are. I'm curious about that. I am assuming

791
00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:38,079
because it's the storm and that's like a source of electricity,

792
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,840
that that's what he's instructing her about. But again, it

793
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,880
just feels like the worst possible option to me. I

794
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:51,679
don't know. So he has everybody loot the corpses. Katcha

795
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:53,840
and the other two didn't respond to my show. All

796
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,639
three of them stood still, and this is when he

797
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,960
turns and sees a shark coming at them, the size

798
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,880
of a mountain. I saw the tentacles flowing behind it.

799
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,440
A shark topuss. Dona is going to be pissed she

800
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:15,559
missed this one. The monstrosity rocketed toward us. It turned

801
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:17,199
to the side like it was about to eat a

802
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:23,760
goddamn taco, and then finally did the world freeze. Admin

803
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,079
notice this special event Boss Battle is being streamed to

804
00:53:27,119 --> 00:53:31,719
all Special Event subscribers. Congratulations, you have been opted into

805
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,480
the beta testing program. We are testing a new format

806
00:53:34,519 --> 00:53:36,559
with this battle. You may be asked to complete a

807
00:53:36,599 --> 00:53:38,840
survey on the completion of the fight. Should you survive.

808
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:46,559
Thank you, And then we get special event with two hosts,

809
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,039
Kevin and I can't remember the name of the other guy,

810
00:53:53,920 --> 00:54:00,679
magnificent Troy right right, right, right right? Were the assholes

811
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,840
really going a live comment as we fought? What the fuck?

812
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,280
I muttered through gritted teeth, What the fuck? Look what

813
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,199
we have tonight? We have Carl and Katchia, both top

814
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,159
ten crawlers, along with two guys who've really been underperforming

815
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:20,559
until recently, hey Tran said, also through clenched teeth, and

816
00:54:20,639 --> 00:54:23,199
all four of them have to face such a powerful boss.

817
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,639
Combine that with the drama regarding this particular bubble and

818
00:54:26,639 --> 00:54:28,599
the type of battle we're about to face, and it's

819
00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:32,920
truly a match for the ages. Let's find out exactly

820
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,639
who that boss is. It's the one, It's the only

821
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:40,079
taken straight from the depths of the water Moon Hayes seventeen.

822
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:45,519
It's the Queen Bitch herself. An image appeared super small.

823
00:54:45,679 --> 00:54:47,960
It started spinning toward us, looking like it was coming

824
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,679
straight from the real shark to Puss's mouth. It was

825
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,320
a full three D rendition of the creature. This reminded

826
00:54:54,360 --> 00:55:00,280
me very forcibly of the Arcade Jaws game really like

827
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,920
old fashioned one that came out a little after the

828
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:10,639
movie was released. So Carl once again is messaging, Gwen,

829
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,559
depth charges. Now turn the little dial on the sides

830
00:55:14,559 --> 00:55:16,840
all the way to the left, set them to maximum depth.

831
00:55:17,079 --> 00:55:19,760
Lewis and Fearis. Once you drop the charges, get out

832
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,880
of there, land the house and get all your asses

833
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,599
to a safe room, Gwen. Once you're done at the

834
00:55:24,639 --> 00:55:27,480
sand castle, get to a safe room. Bobby or Morris,

835
00:55:27,519 --> 00:55:29,480
if you can hear me, get all the tomb raiders

836
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:34,480
to a safe room asap. You too, Langley, Gwen, why

837
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,360
donut what about you? Won't the death charges hit you too?

838
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,599
I really hope not. I love that he calls them

839
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:48,599
depth charges, but she just calls them death charges. There

840
00:55:48,679 --> 00:55:54,239
is a point earlier, I'm trying to think what was happening.

841
00:55:54,719 --> 00:56:02,280
Somebody says we'll be able to control the pumps or

842
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,199
the we'll be able to control the pumps in there,

843
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,159
And I was listening to the audiobook and I heard

844
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:11,239
the guy say like something about pump controls, and I

845
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,800
was just like what, And I realized, like I've just

846
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,480
had my whole mind too much on Halloween decorations lately.

847
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,000
Oh that's what it was. He says, like, will we

848
00:56:20,079 --> 00:56:23,440
be able to reach the pumpkin controls from there? And

849
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:31,760
pump controls. It sounded like, so it's luska octo shark,

850
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:36,159
browed mother queen. Shock to post is much cooler sounding

851
00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:38,599
than octo shark. This is a real creature, not something

852
00:56:38,599 --> 00:56:42,280
I made up, So don't blame me. It's not I repeat,

853
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,239
it is not named in such a way because of

854
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,599
naj just the woman, the so called octomom and her

855
00:56:46,679 --> 00:56:49,039
eight babies who took the tabloids by storm all those

856
00:56:49,119 --> 00:56:51,800
years ago. So weird to think about things like this, guys,

857
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,440
because like, there are going to be many people who

858
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:59,000
have no fucking idea what this is referencing. But when

859
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,320
he says take the table by storm, that is not

860
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,679
an exaggeration. This bitch was all anybody talked about for

861
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,880
a minute. That was the weird thing about the pre

862
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:12,119
Internet era was that it was still so much of

863
00:57:12,199 --> 00:57:16,199
like a monoculture. In terms of our television and news.

864
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,199
There were just you know, like three sources, and everybody

865
00:57:20,239 --> 00:57:24,320
went to those same sources, so when something was being

866
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:31,000
talked about, it was everywhere. And now it's all split

867
00:57:31,079 --> 00:57:34,159
up into all of these different platforms and these different

868
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,000
factions of people, and it can be very easy to

869
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,199
not hear about one thing, and to hear so much

870
00:57:41,239 --> 00:57:43,760
about another thing that when you run into somebody who's

871
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,159
part of a different section of the Internet, the fact

872
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:49,079
that they don't know about your thing is mind blowing

873
00:57:49,159 --> 00:57:55,559
to you, because it's fucking your whole feed, you know. Anyway,

874
00:57:57,199 --> 00:57:59,679
she has a bunch of babies in her mouth and

875
00:57:59,719 --> 00:58:03,119
needs to keep them fed, and these guys are going

876
00:58:03,159 --> 00:58:08,800
to be food for the babies. The world unfroze. I

877
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,880
stumbled forward as the giant creature swallowed us. The subtumbled,

878
00:58:13,159 --> 00:58:16,960
the mini map flashed, The world froze once again, and

879
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,960
the world the word uh oh splashed on the screen

880
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:26,199
before turning into bubbles and disappearing. A cartoon like diagram

881
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,559
of the shark's mouth appeared on the screen, replacing the

882
00:58:29,599 --> 00:58:34,719
two commentators. Luska is a mouth breweder, Magnificent Troy said.

883
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,000
A circle appeared around the mouth like Troy had a

884
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:43,119
pen and was diagramming out a football play, and we

885
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:47,719
were floating in the goddamn creature's mouth. The graphics showed

886
00:58:47,719 --> 00:58:50,840
the happy faced babies zooming in on the sub, cartoon

887
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,800
zipping around at Tasmanian Devil style, and then zooming away,

888
00:58:54,920 --> 00:59:00,000
leaving a skeleton of a ship trailing smoke. The remains

889
00:59:00,239 --> 00:59:02,960
of the cartoon submarine bounced merrily in the shark into

890
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,559
the shark's stomach, where it was melted by stomach acid,

891
00:59:05,599 --> 00:59:07,960
and then it moved to another stomach, and then a third,

892
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,360
and then it finally depicted the massive creature pooping out

893
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,000
a cartoon skeleton of a human wearing heart covered boxers,

894
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:19,559
and then it showed cartoon donut with tears flying from

895
00:59:19,559 --> 00:59:23,400
her eyes. The display returned to the two announcers, who

896
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:28,559
were both falling over themselves laughing at the cartoon. A

897
00:59:28,639 --> 00:59:34,280
ten minute timer slammed onto the screen. Oh boy, guys,

898
00:59:35,239 --> 00:59:38,960
oh boy, I am assuming we're going to have an

899
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,199
electrical solution to this problem. But again, I just don't

900
00:59:42,239 --> 00:59:46,119
know how they protect themselves from that. He's got a

901
00:59:46,119 --> 00:59:49,679
lot of stuff in his inventory, you know, like but

902
00:59:50,239 --> 00:59:56,440
still still I don't know. We'll see ooh. Eduardo's in

903
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,239
the chat and says one of the reasons I enjoy

904
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,280
this podcast so much is the difference of things I

905
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,079
pay attention to than you. Often you pause over and

906
01:00:04,119 --> 01:00:06,920
talk about things that I completely gloss over. Makes me

907
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,800
appreciate some books in an entirely different way. Oh that's

908
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,519
the life, thank you, Eduardo. Yeah, I mean, and this

909
01:00:13,519 --> 01:00:16,159
will happen with me as well. In like the chat

910
01:00:16,239 --> 01:00:19,920
here or sometimes in the discord, people will bring up

911
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,719
a thing that I just like on the service, had

912
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,320
no interest in, and they'll be like, did you know?

913
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,000
And for a split second that did you know? Followed

914
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,159
by the thing I had no interest in? My brain

915
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:33,840
will be like no, I didn't know, and I don't

916
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,920
fucking care, And then an instant later, as I begin

917
01:00:37,039 --> 01:00:39,480
to read there did you know, I'm like, oh, that's

918
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:43,440
really interesting. What you know? There's like it happens all

919
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,840
the time. I don't know. I think that's ADHD probably,

920
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:53,320
but it happens, all right, guys, Well, thank you all

921
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,559
so much for coming and hanging out with me. I

922
01:00:55,599 --> 01:00:58,559
am just so curious. I really am. Like I said,

923
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,960
the fight all well and good interested in all, but like,

924
01:01:02,199 --> 01:01:06,039
mostly I am very curious about these objects and what

925
01:01:06,079 --> 01:01:08,360
it is that the AI is doing giving Carl access

926
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,400
to something that clearly like the people who do really

927
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,840
run things don't want him to have access to. I

928
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:20,159
am assuming it's them, and why don't they? What do

929
01:01:20,199 --> 01:01:22,199
they think he's going to be able to do? And

930
01:01:22,239 --> 01:01:24,519
I'm assuming that this is all like part of his

931
01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:28,960
whole reason for questioning Mordecai the way that he did.

932
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:34,840
But I cannot figure out because you know, Mordecai seems

933
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:37,920
so certain you can try and open a portal to

934
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,760
the ninth floor, but you're not going to be allowed

935
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:47,159
to go through. And I believe that Mordecai knows what

936
01:01:47,199 --> 01:01:49,800
he's talking about. I am not going to sit here

937
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,840
and say, like, maybe there's something about this he doesn't know.

938
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,559
But I think that Carl is planning to try something different.

939
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:06,199
And you know what, guys, is he going to send

940
01:02:06,199 --> 01:02:13,440
a bunch of NPCs through? That might make sense if

941
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,480
he's trying to rescue beings. The whole thing has been like,

942
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,599
we just wanted to survive because we thought we could

943
01:02:22,639 --> 01:02:26,280
get to the next floor and finally be safe. What

944
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,079
if he could just send a bunch of beings to

945
01:02:29,159 --> 01:02:32,360
that floor ahead of him and they would be like

946
01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:38,920
loyal to him because he saved them, and potentially when

947
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:41,360
he gets there, he could have a lot of allies.

948
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:47,000
Maybe that's it, if they are able to go through it.

949
01:02:48,719 --> 01:02:50,719
He would have to be really careful about when he

950
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,679
triggered the portal too, like they'd have to all be

951
01:02:53,719 --> 01:02:59,000
able to go through before you know, and like if

952
01:02:59,039 --> 01:03:03,519
he doesn't fall, they're going to be on the side

953
01:03:03,519 --> 01:03:06,280
that the evil God comes out of the nothing. So

954
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,320
they'd have to make sure and time this so that

955
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:12,679
they have access to a stairwell right as it's closing

956
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,840
and that the God can't reach them and they managed

957
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,920
to get out of there. Ah, that might be it.

958
01:03:21,679 --> 01:03:25,000
I would be very down for that, But I'm not

959
01:03:25,039 --> 01:03:27,000
really sure, Like I feel like there's got to be

960
01:03:27,039 --> 01:03:31,280
a hole in my theory here somehow, because like I'm

961
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:35,320
just I just I'm trying to piece together, Like even

962
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,239
if that were the case, why would he be asking

963
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:44,920
Wardecai about what he's asking about? Like, if I'm just

964
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,280
some guy on a spaceship, can I get in on

965
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:51,280
the action right now? Like I don't feel like an

966
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,719
NPC that wouldn't be something that would function like that

967
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,760
for them, So why would he have asked that question?

968
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,239
Or is there somebody that's like in a lower floor?

969
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:09,880
Oh my god? Could he send them to the lady

970
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:17,000
from the daughter storyline? Maybe that still doesn't really link

971
01:04:17,079 --> 01:04:18,880
up with his other question though, I don't know. I

972
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:22,599
don't know. I guess i'll see I've got to go,

973
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,239
but thank you guys again, Appreciate you all, Thank you

974
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:30,199
Michael for commissioning this one and looking forward to Thursday.

975
01:04:30,800 --> 01:05:04,159
Until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled

976
01:05:04,239 --> 01:05:05,400
Network podcast.