WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.279 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:14.960 covering Carl's Doomsday Scenario, the second book in the Dungeon 3 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:23.399 Crawler Carl series, chapters twelve through fourteen. In these chapters, 4 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:30.199 Mango gets even bigger, there is some interesting theories on 5 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.679 what's going on with Donut, and there is a serial 6 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:57.920 killer on the loose. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to 7 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.039 the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much 8 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:07.519 to Michael for commissioning this episode. If I sound weird, 9 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.719 it's I'm so sorry you guys about this. I thought 10 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:20.280 I had enough time. I broke a tooth and it 11 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:26.079 happened in February. Actually no, I lie, it happened last year. 12 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.719 But they couldn't get me in for an appointment until June. 13 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.439 And I know I should just find a different dentist, 14 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:36.840 but it's one of those things. It's just such a hassle, 15 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:42.519 you know. So I got it done today. It was 16 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.519 the earliest they could get me in four pm. I 17 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.719 was like, shit, I'm recording. Then I moved the four 18 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.840 pm recording and I'm like, yeah, four. 19 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.560 O'clock appointment, five point thirty. I start. 20 00:01:55.640 --> 00:02:00.400 The next one should be fine, and it's mostly fine. 21 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:06.560 It's wearing off, it's wearing off, but it's still numb. 22 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.759 And like I can hear that, I'm not fully in 23 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.680 control of my faculties yet. I'm trying to make my 24 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.879 mouth do the things that I want it to do, 25 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.120 and mostly it's working, but it's uh, you're gonna hear it. 26 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.479 And I am so sorry about that. But thank you 27 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.280 for bearing with me. And hopefully in moving my mouth 28 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:40.719 it will cause it to dissipate more quickly. Ah, you guys, Okay, okay, okay. 29 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:45.919 So chapter twelve we start with Carl at the very 30 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.199 end of the last one was informed Doughnuts down to 31 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.319 twenty percent health you have to get there now, and 32 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.439 he is running through the city at and we get 33 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:03.280 a notification Donuts cockroach skill just activated. She went down 34 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.120 to zero, but it's kept her alive. She's now at 35 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.599 five percent, you guys, twenty percent. 36 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:11.639 I'm not worried. 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.080 She dies once already. Okay, yeah, no, I don't like 38 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:23.639 that at all. That cockroach ability is a really really 39 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.159 good one, both in terms of just being practically good 40 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.879 for the player using it, but also in terms of storytelling, 41 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.639 letting us know bish would have been dead, you know, 42 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:42.960 and just amping up the drama a little bit. So yeah, 43 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:44.879 effective and ouch. 44 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:47.360 And the fact is. 45 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:49.879 He's heading there and like, we don't know what's going on, 46 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.719 And this sort of bugged me that Mordecai is like 47 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.639 telling him what's going on with donut to hurry, YadA YadA, 48 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.919 but he he isn't actually giving Karl any information on 49 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:08.919 what to expect when he gets there, or anything that 50 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.240 maybe he should have activated as he runs through the door, 51 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:15.000 you know, that kind of thing. I just really felt 52 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.480 like he could have been more. 53 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.519 Informative and prepared him better. Now. 54 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.639 I don't know if that's something to do with the rules, 55 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.199 but like, based on what everybody's been saying, it doesn't 56 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:35.160 sound like that's an issue. So because like again, he's 57 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.240 only supposed to be hands off when it comes to 58 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.079 combat stuff, right, like what he can't fight mobs, But 59 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.759 otherwise I feel like it seems it would be allowed 60 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.879 for him to be like, so, these are the creatures, 61 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:55.800 this is what they've been doing, this is what you're 62 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.720 going to be, what weapons might. 63 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.040 Work best against them? I don't know, guys, is that 64 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:03.759 not allowed? 65 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:09.199 Like I would be asking these questions also were I Carl. 66 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.439 And I don't know. 67 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.600 Maybe it's just from the drama of the book. Maybe 68 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.360 it's supposed to be just like, well, I don't want 69 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:19.920 to tell you what he's going to be running into. 70 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:21.519 I want you to be on the edge of your 71 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.519 seat waiting to find out what it is, and then 72 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.360 he runs in. You get to find out because of drama, 73 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:28.639 you know. And that's fine. 74 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:30.240 But I'm just. 75 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.040 Of the opinion that it makes sense in terms of 76 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:39.720 the character Carl, that he would be asking the questions 77 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.319 and that you should come up with something in universe 78 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:47.560 that explains why you can't allow that, and that way, 79 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:52.079 I feel like our guy is, you know, being rational 80 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:57.800 and careful but also thwarted, and he would have done 81 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.360 the thing if only he had been allowed to do 82 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:00.720 the thing. 83 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.759 But these damn rules, you know what I mean. 84 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:09.600 I just personally, I think this is what Carl would 85 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.079 have done if we weren't doing it for the drama. 86 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.120 I think he would have been like, what's happening, what's 87 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:14.560 going on. 88 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:15.279 It's not like. 89 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.639 Conversing in this way takes time for him. He can 90 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:25.040 do it in his head, so it's not like he 91 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.879 has to stop and type it out or focus on 92 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.839 it and it slows him down or anything. It's basically 93 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.079 a mental thing at this point, so it just wouldn't. 94 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.800 Slow him in any way anyway. 95 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:44.120 So he is coming in and there are a bunch 96 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.040 of x's on the map as he's seeing and as 97 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.600 he runs in, Oh, I'm sorry, guys, I bet a hah. 98 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:54.680 It is so weird not being able to feel it. 99 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.160 He runs in and Mango is there, and Mango is 100 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.600 double the size that he had been had been, but 101 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.800 his health is really really low, and he is defending 102 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:18.399 Donut because he is a fucking g and Donut herself 103 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.800 has a bunch of like spikes stuck in her as 104 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:28.639 well as Mango. He let's see, he stood on the 105 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.519 ground before the pile of garbage I directed around Donut 106 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:37.040 screeching in fury, and we find out these are street 107 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:46.600 urchins and they are these like spiked guys that shoot spikes, which. 108 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:48.519 You guys. 109 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.560 I am reading Sunrise on the Reaping with Rashaan for 110 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.600 the show that I do with a co host, and 111 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:05.680 we just encountered in that book a vicious giant porcupine 112 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:12.920 creature and it's just really funny to me, how often 113 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.879 this happens when I'm covering stuff. One property will do 114 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.040 a thing, and like literally in the same day of coverage, 115 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.399 I will be talking about another property that's done something 116 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.759 really really similar. And I'm not even really trying to 117 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.320 compare these too much, but it's just like shooting spikes 118 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.919 and that being the method, and it being this animal 119 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.559 and this sort of like gaming scenario. You know, it 120 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.960 all just feels so very very similar. And I don't 121 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.840 know why this is a thing. But when I'm saying 122 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:49.919 this is not like a criticism of like, oh, these 123 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.320 writers I'm talking about are so when original. That's not 124 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.360 what I'm saying at all. I'm just like reflecting on 125 00:08:55.559 --> 00:09:01.440 the coincidental nature of covering stuff sometimes and how it 126 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.159 won't be uncanny. You know, there'll be two properties where 127 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.919 we're dealing with twins turning up in a thing, you know, 128 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.320 like these tropes that will crop up or things like this. 129 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.480 This isn't even a trope. This is a very specific thing. 130 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:17.879 It's just weird. 131 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.159 So these things used to be. 132 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:31.039 A pet and then after the cataclysm they are turned 133 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.120 larger and deadlier and a whole lot spikier. After they 134 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.240 cleaned the corpses of their former owners. They moved into 135 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.200 the ruins and resumed their duties as the janitor mobs 136 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.000 of the over city, the ruins version of a rumba. 137 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:49.279 These things only have one purpose to remove dead bodies 138 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:53.679 and any other refuse left behind by inconsiderate crawlers. They 139 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.799 won't bother you if you don't bother them, but you 140 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.960 best not get in their way. They can be very, 141 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.480 very tenacious when it comes to taking out the trash. 142 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.799 And this is when Carl realizes I put a bunch 143 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:13.559 of stuff up to protect Donut. I piled garbage to 144 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:17.440 create a barrier around her to protect her. And that 145 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.960 is what drew these fucking things here, and that is 146 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.159 what is like the fact that Mango is defending her, 147 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:30.440 it has triggered this attack. Like if Mongo had just 148 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:35.039 stepped aside and allowed these things to come in and 149 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.960 clean up, maybe this whole thing wouldn't have turned into. 150 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:39.559 A battle at all. 151 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:44.120 Maco, of course, is not to blame, because I think 152 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:46.799 if these things began to approach and it were Carl 153 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.639 that was defending Donut, I think Carl would have had 154 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:55.519 the precise and exact same reaction that mongo has. I 155 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:59.759 don't think that this is like unless you are warned, 156 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:03.039 ah out of time, what you need to be looking for. 157 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:05.519 I would see these coming and I would assume that 158 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:08.559 they're a mob and that they're you know, business is 159 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:13.559 to fuck with me. So I really like that this 160 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:21.559 detail that they're not just attacking because they're hostile, malicious creatures. 161 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.080 They would have been. 162 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.200 Perfectly fine doing their business and getting the fuck out 163 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:26.759 of their face. 164 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.559 But we did what we did, and so they do 165 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:31.200 what they do. 166 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:38.360 And I love that just the fact that, like Mango 167 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:42.799 is here fucking ten toes down standing on business. How 168 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:48.919 many toes the velociraptor have six toes down? It's just 169 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:53.240 what a good boy, What a good boy? I wonder 170 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.200 all the time, you guys, if I were to be attacked, 171 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.840 what Pippin would do in that scenario, because, like, let 172 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:05.519 me tell you, I genuinely don't know he can. I 173 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.960 have seen him fight before and it was really it's scary, 174 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:15.320 but it was another dog and it was over nothing. 175 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:18.759 It was just territorial. It was not him like actually 176 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:23.399 being helpful in any sense. So I think about that 177 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.759 a lot, just like what would he I think he 178 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.600 would want to protect me, but I don't know if 179 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:36.440 he would catch Like, for example, as a woman, you know, 180 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:38.919 you get this image in your head of like, oh, 181 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.440 what if I'm taking a walk at dusk and a 182 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.080 strange man comes to me, And I don't know if 183 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.559 Pippin would be able to tell hey, stranger danger. 184 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.559 You need to worry about this guy, you know. 185 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.679 Anyway, I love Mango so much. What a precious angel, 186 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:04.360 and I really want, like, I want Mango to get 187 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.840 accessories as this continues, that he has to wear that 188 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:12.240 make him like weirdly cute and just you know the 189 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:16.879 version for velociraptors of like little doggie jackets. 190 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:17.399 And things like that. 191 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.639 Some dogs don't like when you dress them up. Pippin's 192 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.879 pretty good with it. Arwin's actually been handling it somewhat well. 193 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:27.720 We've had to put a onesie on her because she 194 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:33.000 had been spade. We know that they put a collar 195 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:34.759 on him and he tried to rip it off, but 196 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:36.960 Doughnut calmed him down. 197 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.919 And now he's dealing with it, so maybe he could 198 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:45.600 deal with like, look, I love this idea. 199 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:49.080 What if you had like a little backpack, like you know, 200 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.759 veloci raptors don't have super long arms, so I feel 201 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.919 like getting it on and off and wouldn't be too hard. 202 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.679 Or you could even have like little clips or something, 203 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.120 and then he could carry stuff. 204 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:00.919 That'd be good. 205 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.480 Or you know, we could also the obvious thing is 206 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.759 a little saddle that Donut could ride on. I mean, 207 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:16.279 if Donut was a riding mango. I don't know if 208 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.919 it gets much better than that. There's no reason you 209 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.360 can't do both. You could have a saddle with saddle bags. 210 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.200 How about that, and then we've got the best of both. 211 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:29.679 Yeah. No's that's why wishless. 212 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:38.360 Okay, So this is carl like getting centered and figuring 213 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:41.559 out what to do. I cleaned up the needles at 214 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.399 my feet by picking them up and tossing them into 215 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.559 my inventory. After that, the small round monsters lost interest 216 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:53.559 and wandered back into the street, and he distracts the 217 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.559 other ones by tossing stuff out scraps that they go 218 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.720 chase in order to eat them up and clean up 219 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:07.360 the area. Donnut remained to sleep in the chair, but 220 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.639 her health had been restored. Mongo lay on the ground whimpering, 221 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.759 and Carlos trives a couple of things to heal him. 222 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.440 And it doesn't work, and Mordecai is able to give 223 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:22.279 him a recipe for a healing potion, a very detailed 224 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:30.159 recipe that gets added to his crafting menu. Oh I'm sorry, guys, 225 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.279 I keep accidentally like biting the inside him. 226 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:32.919 I'm dreading. 227 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.080 Once this really wears off feeling all the spots that 228 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:42.200 I bit. He gets a couple of achievements, and then 229 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.080 another one once he pours it down. 230 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.919 The gullet of mango. 231 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.720 And I've got to say the fact that Mongo like 232 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:55.440 drinks it as readily as he does good on him. 233 00:15:55.960 --> 00:16:01.399 He really is trying to be cooperative. I uh to 234 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:07.399 bring up my dog again. Poor Oarwin has been through 235 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.039 a lot since we found her. She was poisoned when 236 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.519 we found her. We had to put her through a 237 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.200 whole thing. Then it turned out she had kind of 238 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.720 advanced giardia and we had to give her not only pills, 239 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.200 but this like paste that you squeeze down their throat 240 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.399 with a syringe, and it's like it's a thick paste. 241 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.720 It's like cement texture. And when I tell you, this 242 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:31.120 dog wanted none of it. And we had to sneak 243 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:35.039 up on her when she was resting and just fucking 244 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.799 ninja attack and shove it down her throat. And there 245 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.480 was one time where she moved too quick and I 246 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.360 squirted half of it like on the wall behind her, 247 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:47.320 and I was so disgusted. Thankfully, the testing afterwards, it 248 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.039 turns out I was worried for a second, was like 249 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.279 she barely swallowed any is this gonna stay in her system? 250 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.039 And uh yeah, Jiardi is gone. But there's a lot 251 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:57.279 with pets. It's a lot. 252 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:58.200 It's just a lot. 253 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.279 So Mango is now level ten and is up to 254 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:08.759 Carl's waist and is covered in colorful feathers, which. 255 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:11.440 I am. 256 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.759 I feel like it was mentioned that they were that 257 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.480 he was pink at one point, but I can't remember. 258 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.759 I feel like he mentioned to Flamingo something like that. 259 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:29.640 I really want to see an illustration of him, and 260 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.799 I don't want to look because I know I'll get 261 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:35.039 spoiled if you guys, if there is an illustration of 262 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.799 him at around this stage, I would love to see it, 263 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.400 but I can see that, like there's several more books 264 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.400 already out and probably a lot of the anime. The illustrations, 265 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.000 if people are doing fan art, might be when he 266 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:48.039 is bigger. 267 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:49.880 If that's so, don't show me. 268 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.359 I'll you know, it might even include like spoilery stuff 269 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:55.880 in terms of the gear they've got on or whatever. 270 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:01.279 But I have to imagine le that this series has 271 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.160 spawned some pretty dope fan art, and that is something 272 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:08.039 that I think would be very fun to see. So 273 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.839 this is when he's hanging out and thinking about all 274 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:15.599 of the people that he used to know that are gone. 275 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:18.839 All I had left in this world was right here 276 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:26.720 this I thought, this is my family, and I just 277 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:34.000 love this moment. So Dona awakens at dawn. She doesn't 278 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.599 know what the fuck happened. Mango, of course, is delighted 279 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:41.160 to see her. She has risen to level fifteen at least, 280 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.319 so she's gone up. He's still far ahead of her, 281 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:48.519 but she's managed to level without even having been awake. 282 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:54.720 So I think that's fair. Come on, I said, we're 283 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:58.279 getting out of here. I am so confused, Donah said, 284 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.000 did I do something? I don't remember anything, but I 285 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:05.079 had the hoddest dream. Ferdinand came and visited me, and 286 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.640 I ran to him, but he turned into a porcupine 287 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.920 and I kept getting his quills in me. It was 288 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:14.200 quite unpleasant. Fucking Ferdinand, I really want this backstory very bad. 289 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.480 I told Donut the story of the previous evening. As 290 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.720 we quickly but cautiously set out for the Skyfowl settlement, 291 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.640 she was oddly quiet about the whole thing. She still 292 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.000 seemed out of sorts. 293 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:30.720 I am going to. 294 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.839 Make a guess here, because what he says a little 295 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:35.880 bit later. 296 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:38.599 Is that he. 297 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:44.519 Thinks maybe Donut is smarter than she is behaving. We'll 298 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.559 get to the full dialogue of it, but it's not dialogue, 299 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.920 it's internal monologue. But the fact that she's super quiet 300 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.640 about this, I think is due to the fact that 301 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.880 he said, we don't risk our lives for our pets. 302 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.720 And then what does he do. He goes and risks 303 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:09.359 his life for her, and that's like explicitly what he did. 304 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:14.039 You know she was being used against him, held hostage 305 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:20.079 so that he would complete this quest. And I think 306 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:22.000 when he said we don't risk our lives for our pets, 307 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.319 she was genuinely upset because she kind of wondered, does 308 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.799 he actually see me that way? 309 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.319 Is that it am I just a pet? 310 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:35.640 And then gets confirmation that no, I am not just that, 311 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.240 because here he is doing the. 312 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:41.599 Thing I kind of love this if I'm right. 313 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:46.400 If I'm right, I think I am. But I just 314 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:51.440 I really really like the idea that this served to 315 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:57.279 cement to her the reality of what she means to him, 316 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:01.559 because otherwise she was like feeling a bit of a 317 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:06.680 way about everything or just insecure, you know, which will happen. 318 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:12.920 I feel like the word insecure often can be like 319 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:18.759 kind of weaponized as an insult against somebody, and it's like, 320 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:23.599 very literally it just means that you do not feel secure, 321 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:28.039 and that can mean a lot of things. And I 322 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:31.319 feel Carl has proved himself again and again as like 323 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:35.079 being there for her and prioritizing her, But it was 324 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:39.079 never a very literal do this to save her. It 325 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:43.000 was always like we're in this together, both fighting for. 326 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.759 Our lives as a pair. 327 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:51.559 And so I could see this being evidence in a 328 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:56.839 specific way that I actually wonder if the AI didn't 329 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.559 do this on purpose, Like is it possible that him 330 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:04.880 saying we don't risk our lives for our pets, if 331 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:08.720 there was like a response in the AI or even 332 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:13.000 in the audience, and they all were like, oh really, 333 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:16.960 do we not, Carl, and they decided that they would 334 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:20.559 try out that theory and see how he behaves and 335 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.839 be like, oh, what, what do you know? Maybe we 336 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:29.960 fucking do actually, but yeah, I think that's what's going 337 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:36.200 on in her head here. So they go past the 338 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:39.920 circus and he is like thinking about how mad he 339 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.039 is that he didn't loot all of the bodies because 340 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:44.799 he didn't kill the city boss. 341 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.079 And he eventually gets an achievement for running the fuck away. 342 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.839 But uh, you know, you had. 343 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.000 Your companion on the verge of death, bro, I think 344 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:59.960 you get a pass for not remembering to loot them. 345 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.240 You were in a hurry, It's fine. Something new did 346 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:07.279 emerge from the wreckage, a staircase to the fourth floor, 347 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:09.359 right in the middle of the park. It had been 348 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:12.559 hidden before. Usually these things appeared on my map, even 349 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.200 if we couldn't get to them, like the one guarded 350 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.400 by the ball of Swine. This one had not been 351 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.480 there before. I asked Mordecai about it, and he said 352 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.759 many of the stairwells from now on would only become 353 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.279 visible to us after we completed quests. This one had 354 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:31.039 probably been there the whole time, right underneath Grimaldy. 355 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:30.880 Which makes sense. 356 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:38.519 You know, somebody that level guarding in a staircase, so. 357 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:40.319 You know. 358 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.119 He mentions that Signet has probably gone already and is 359 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:45.400 down on the sixth floor. 360 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:49.400 Why didn't you just kill that boss? 361 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:51.119 And I ask, you still would have won a quest, 362 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:53.039 and think of all the experience we would have gotten. 363 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.000 It was a trap. If I'd killed it, we'd both 364 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:58.279 be dead. Well, if I had been there, we would 365 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:01.920 have done things differently. And then he says, be a messenger. 366 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:05.240 This is a good thing. I didn't want to say 367 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:08.319 out loud, but we have a new group looking out 368 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:13.119 for us in that production studio needs to keep us alive. 369 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.880 So because we help them out, we're good for ratings, 370 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:22.759 so they'll need us. And Donut says, until we get 371 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:24.799 to the sixth floor and they have written out some 372 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.400 story designed to get us killed or worse, realize more 373 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:33.759 people are talking about you than about Signet. We're guest stars. 374 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:38.240 It's dangerous to have guest stars more interesting than the 375 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:43.599 main character. That's why they killed Barb on Stranger Things, 376 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:47.519 which I do find that reference funny. Barb is one 377 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:51.119 of those things, guys where I can't help but feel 378 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.119 that it's bad faith. Whenever people try and argue about 379 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.039 how Barb should have stayed alive. 380 00:24:58.519 --> 00:24:59.279 I feel like it. 381 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.359 Was just like Barb was just sort of an awkward 382 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:08.160 looking character that seemed kind cared about her friend, and 383 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.920 everybody decided that they were going to like rally behind 384 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:18.319 her in a way that felt almost like low key making. 385 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:18.960 Fun of her in a way. 386 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.839 You know, it's like we're celebrating her, but like not really. 387 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:24.440 There was a similar thing, and I can't remember the 388 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.640 guy's name. I think I feel like his first name 389 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.359 was Ken, and I can't remember his last name, But 390 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.480 there was a dude who like got a bunch of 391 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:39.640 notoriety from a clip from a show that went viral, 392 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:42.759 and he was a really weird looking like he was 393 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:48.599 a fat, mustached guy with weird glasses, and everybody weirdly 394 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.880 grew obsessed with him for like three days, you know, 395 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:56.759 how these viral things happened, and it was all, again, 396 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.559 we're celebrating him, but it was like you're just kind 397 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.839 of laughing at him, and I wish that you'd just 398 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.160 be fucking. 399 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:04.920 Real about it, you know. 400 00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:07.559 I just felt like that with Barb, that it was 401 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:12.279