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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 seven, chapters seventy seven through

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eighty one. In these chapters, we unexpectedly are able to

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take out another warlord who just had been doing something

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real weird. And then there's another reveal that I feel guys,

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I really feel like I'm missing something here. I read

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this twice. I don't get it. Welcome to spoil Me,

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. And

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Michael is here in the chat. Thank you very much, Michael.

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All Right, we're just gonna start at the beginning because

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there is really quite a lot to get through here.

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I do want to address the AI calling what Doughnut

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had just done a slap chop. I it's of course

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it's a slap chop that it didn't even occur to me.

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But if you know what those are, you can agree like, essentially, yeah,

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that's precisely it. And I honestly, I am surprised at

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myself that I didn't draw that conclusion on my own,

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because it's so completely a one to one. So we

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have poor Hyppocrates who is lamenting that his dick has

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been smushed. I don't know if there is a way

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of restoring it. I'm going to guess probably not. If

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there is, it's probably a whole thing. But he does

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say you will pay for this champion of neck a bit,

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so that's fun. So now he knows, he knows it's Dona,

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and he is holding her personally responsible, and so now

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she has an enemy that she has to worry about,

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which really really sucks. There is this moment here where

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there is blood dripping all over the place, and it

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also begins to quote snow. It's actually ash falling from

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the eruption, but there is so much blood in the

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air that it's mixing together and it looks like it's

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just a blood rain coming down. And Carl is looking

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around and just thinking to himself, this is hell, This

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is hell. And I just couldn't help but think it's

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surprising that exact phrasing hadn't come up already, because there's

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so many times where you could have felt this, you

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know what I'm saying. A notification came regarding a new

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demon eviction, but it was abruptly cut off by a

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strange notification that I didn't get a chance to read. Okay, Dona,

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for her part, is trying really really hard to be okay.

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She is obviously shaken, she's obviously actually not okay at all,

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but she is determined not to slow everything down because

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she is very, very aware We've still got fucking shit

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to do, man, And so there's a point where Carl

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is telling her it's okay to cry, and she is

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just like, no, no, it's not. We're not done, and

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she is right about that. Now we get some really

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interesting level ups for her, for her and as it

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turns out, for Lena also. We'll talk about Lina momentarily,

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But first, Doughnut is back at the top of the pile,

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so she is now the leader of the party again,

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and Mordecai is looking through what she has available and

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says that the spells that she has our deity level

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and so she probably takes the the prize for most

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powerful crawler ever in the Dungeon, which is wild. You know,

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I suppose killing thousands of enemies in one fell swoop

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is going to do that for you. And she says

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she's like going through the different benefits. Long story short,

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she picks the muscle Mommy benefit, which also benefits her pet,

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and so we see later on that Mango has kind

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of gotten swoll. And also her charisma is topping two hundred,

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and that gives her wholesale discount, which means everything is

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at cost at the store. And Carl himself, as he's

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looking at her, is just like, what in the fuck

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He himself is at level eighty one, and he's like, yeah, respectable,

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that's kind of what I She is at one thirty five.

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My god, And this is the one thing that I

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think kind of saves her. Carl is, like, I feel like,

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because he is less easily swayed by Like I don't

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want to even say material things, even though I feel

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like it's the best way to say this, but he

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really just doesn't get distracted by this stuff. And you know,

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Dona is all about the perks and the Bennies and

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the accessories and whatever. So the fact that she did

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this awful thing is mitigated a little bit in the

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moment by the fact that she has all of these

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rewards that she can focus on instead. Which this is

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not at all to say, Oh, she's not upset because

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she got something out of it. It just means that

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she has somewhere to focus rather than thinking about how

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hideous that was, and that eventually thinking about how hideous

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it was will catch up with her, but at the moment,

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it's kind of a perfect distraction for her brain, and

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it's sort of a blessing in a way for that,

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you know. So anyway, she says, I was worried that

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they'd give all the credit to Lena, but uh, yeah,

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now Mango is boosted by twenty five percent of my

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own strength. And she also recommends to Carl that they

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keep Mango and rend boxed up a little bit because

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there is so much like flesh all over the place

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and it's unclear what would be safe for them to

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lunch on and would what would not. Then we start

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getting the notifications that Lena has maxed out her base stats,

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all of them, every single one. And apparently the AI

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doesn't know what to do because this has never happened before,

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nobody has ever managed it. Uh, we don't have a

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plan to deal with this. She can still raise her

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stats beyond that with equipment and bonuses and spells, but

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I'm going to have to come up with something. Carl

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felt a deep, deep chill, but it did not wash

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over him, so you know, whin some lose him. There

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comes a point later where everybody is trying to find

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Lena and she is mia and she ends up like

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they tell her or no, they're looking like. Carl gets

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in touch with her about who has escaped, but eventually

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we find out that she only responded to Shwing. Is

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that his name? He says that she would only say

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that she is quote hunting, but that was the only

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thing that she would say. And everybody is assuming that

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it's the dudes that she had marked, which like one

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of them does wind up dying purely by accident, weirdly,

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so she doesn't have to worry about that one, and

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her health takes a hit if those guys aren't dead

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after marking them, So, like, I get why it would

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be that she's going after them. Okay, however, y'all, I'm

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really worried. I am really really worried. I don't think

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anybody seems prepared for the eventuality that she's coming after

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Carl and Dona, and I am beginning to think that's

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what's happening. It may be that she is simply prevented

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from coming at them until she kills one of the

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guys that she had marked, and that's like the one

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thing that's buying them a little bit of time. I

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feel certain she is about to be a real problem.

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I really don't want it to be true. I do not,

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but it feels like surprising to me that nobody at

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all is worried about it. After saying too Donut to

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her face, it's your fault that he's dead. After saying

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to Carl, I'm gonna do this thing to stop anybody

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else getting like killed because of your chaos, she clearly

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blames them and is now at the highest possible level

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you can get if she's planning on fucking handling you,

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there really isn't a better time. And what I keep thinking,

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and I know, like, look, this is just me being

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like a paranoid. Okay, but y'all know that I said

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that I was feeling Batista was going to become a problem,

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and I gotta be honest. I'm like, is it possible

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that he and Lena could like work something out? I

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just don't. I don't want it. I don't want that

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to be true, but I they are both really seeing

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Carl and dona as threats. You know, in Batista's case,

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he really thought Carl would take the flower and kill

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Kochefort and give it to Donah, which is just such

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a wild misunderstanding of who his who Karl is. But

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if he's still worried about that, it's possible that he

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would be like open to Lena, or if not, if

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they were not conspiring them, possibly if she were to

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attack them, he would simply not help them. You know,

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I just I don't know, man, I'm real worried about this.

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I just feel like there's not enough attention being paid

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to how upset she is, and everybody is putting it

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down to like, oh, she's just focused on tracking down

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that one last target, and I feel like it's a

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really good excuse. But I don't know if that's all

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that's happening. Sorry, Saraphim says, not a health hit. She

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can't heal it all. Oh right, Okay, she can't heal

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it all. Sarahim says, person exists, Natasha, they're going to

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backstab us. That is so deeply unfair, sarahm. These two

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people are the only ones that I ever really feel

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that about. That's probably not true. If you go back

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through the listening, and you could probably find a lot

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of times where I thought somebody was going to backstab us.

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But I do think that there are two people who

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have a problem with them one of them. The thing

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with Len it's different because, like she her tragedy has

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already happened, her brother is gone. There's no one doing that.

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But you can tell yourself you're potentially saving other people

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by getting rid of him, because, as she said, she

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thinks that he's like a hazard to the other players.

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With Batista, he would see it as getting rid of

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somebody who is going to possibly backstep Katya. And but

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he says he's just not really been like in the

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mix the way that he was for a minute. And

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that's the part that's got me kind of like eyeballing him.

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Is granted, we have had a lot less time to

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hang out with everybody in this book, things have been

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quite frantic, but it just seems to me that that

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indicates like he's purposely pulling away and just not trying

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to be around them as much anymore. But yeah, I

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am really really hoping I'm wrong, because I don't want

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to see that. I don't like seeing people turn against

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each other. I get. This is not to say that

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like plot wise, if it were to happen, I'd be

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mad about it. It's just like my little heart doesn't

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want to see it, you know. So let's see. This

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is when Carl says there were two notifications we hadn't received.

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I looked over, surprised both Victory and Fopsy were gone.

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I hadn't seen them leave. And this is when he

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realizes that the Tag and Fang were marked but were

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not killed, and so they managed to get out of here,

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so somehow. So this is when Brittany chimes in, and

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you know, I'm very paranoid about the Brittany and the

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possessed by an axe thing. Eventually we get a like

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look into this, and nobody can sense anything coming off

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of Brittany. There has been a mention a few times

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of how Brittany has inexplicably gotten closer with all of

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the NPCs and has weirdly become some sort of liaison

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for Juice Box, for like, between the NPCs and the Crawlers.

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end up being something and that we would just like

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find out what that was later. But I thought it

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was going to be something regarding, like, you know, her

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getting emotionally attached to somebody, or there being like a

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particular aspect of being an NPC that she identified with

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because of something in her life before all this happened.

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to Britney like something happened to Brittany, and that has

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changed her in some way, potentially internally and is either

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becoming friends with the NPCs due to the fact that

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like she is being influenced by something possessing her, or

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potentially it could be that she's not even Brittany anymore.

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Could it be that she's a shape shifter, like if

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she weren't Brittany, if she were a shape shifter, I'm

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assuming that the game would know that so we would

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get there. I don't know that we can impersonate Crawlers, right,

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because that would be like mentioned that she was dead

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unless the AI feels like being an asshole, I guess.

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But you know, there was the the inspection that I

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think both Immani and juice Box did, and it was

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weird because what juice Box says is that she can't

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feel anything at all when she touches Carl, but that

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Britney feels like a regular human, So I like, is

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the I can't feel anything at all because of she Maria?

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Is that why that's happening? Because that's a weird thing

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to say. Anyway, what's going on with Britney Long story

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short does not get revealed within these chapters, but she says,

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Lena just tore through the castle. She's glowing and she's

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not talking to anyone. The remaining warm Age is opened

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a portal and disappeared. We don't know where they went, uh,

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And he asks her how many got away, and she

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says several, including both warlords. There are several unaffiliated outworlders here.

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Where did they come from? And he's like, I do

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not know the NPC. You still have someone in the

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dream Castle and they'll have the throne room captured in

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about four hours. We got to go to the Reaver Castle,

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rescue Louis and we'll take their throne room. You'll be okay.

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As soon as that's done, we'll finish the plan. We

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just got to watch out for the remaining warm Ages.

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I don't know where they went. And she does not

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reply to this, so then we get one of the

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most heartwarming like moments in maybe the series honestly in

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a way, and it is all of the Crawlers pretending

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to Donut that they do not remember being smashed together

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in the ball y'all. This is so incredibly incredibly sweet.

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I really cannot say how like, because Carl at one

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point is as everybody is assuring Donut that not only

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did it not hurt, but her doing that took them

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out of a situation that was hurting, so she is

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a hero who rescued them all. And Carl is like

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listening to them say nobody remembers it, like, you know,

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and he's thinking, I don't really know about that. The

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way he phrases it is like everyone is claiming they

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had no memory for it of it, And I was

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like claiming, well, if everybody is saying it, and I

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really when he phrased it that way, I was like, well,

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maybe they just don't. Maybe that's what happened. And as

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soon as I thought, well, maybe they really don't, my

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immediate next thought was, since when has the AI ever

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spent anybody suffering? Like, There's never been a moment where

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somebody has been made unconscious so that they don't go

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through the horror of whatever it like. It was just

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an instant me going, oh, come on, sweetie, you're not

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that stupid, but I won't lie. I still was sort

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of hoping maybe it was true. And it's not until

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later that he asks Florin and Floren just is like, listen,

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as far as she is concerned, we don't remember anything

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of it, but please don't let her do that to

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us again. Oh my god, y'all, I am, I am.

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So this is just like that moment of evidence that

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like the humanity is still there in everyone that y'all

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care enough about her mental well being to message privately

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and organize so that you all have the same story

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that you can tell her and make sure that she

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never ever feels a moment of guilt about it. I mean,

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that is just it's so kind, you know, and it's

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so careful and thoughtful, and it's exactly what she needs. Frankly,

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there are so many times in books and in real

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life fiction and nonfiction where people lie and I'm just like,

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why are you doing this? You have to know that

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the truth is going to come out eventually. And then

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there's like occasionally times where I'm like Wow. I don't

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know if I would have been prepared to lie, but

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now that I'm watching a character do it, I realize

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this is actually the right call. Normally, I'm very much

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on the side of tell the truth because it's going

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to come out, and this is a time where I'm like,

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maybe it won't, though maybe it won't. If it comes out,

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it'll have to be a third party who's being an asshole,

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like an adjudicator or the AI itself, And I'm really

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even then, even if it did come out, Donut would

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know that her friends cared about her enough to lie

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and coordinate the lie so that she wouldn't have to

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feel bad, which still is worth a lot even if

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she found out, you know. So I just I don't

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think there's really a downside here. And I just thought

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this was so sweet. I loved it so much. So

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we then go into the next seventy eight. We stood

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before the absolutely wrecked castle of Samaru, who built it

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as a capstone against further intrusion towards the gods, and

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we have a Kuma suddenly messaging Karl and he wants

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Carl to kill Agatha, and he is like, if you

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do that, we're square right now, we're enemies, but we

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won't be if you take care of her, because she

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wants all of us dead. And he doesn't explain any

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of it. He's just like, trust me, bro, which isn't

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really a great argument, and I could understand if Karl

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just does not believe him. But it was interesting to

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me because it seems like the AI has grown somewhat

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protective of Agatha from the way it was talking about

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her before, and Akuma wanting her dead indicates to me

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that maybe these warlords are not warm ages, are not

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as linked with the AI's desires and agenda as I

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had thought. I am wondering if maybe or maybe they are,

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and the AI has realized that like Agatha was full

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of shit or something, you know. I don't know, but

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this is an interesting development also throughout this exchange, because

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it's a Kuma who has DMed Donut and Carl and uh,

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what's this face? Tag? Donah is like getting very obsessed

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with the fact that she wants to change her name

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back to Warlord Donut because she keeps showing up as

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the Champion of Neck a bit and I just found

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that this particular part of it very funny. That she's

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just trying to get somebody to tell her how to

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change it back. And finally Tag is just like, dude, okay,

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it's in the fucking you know this menu, go here,

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which is extremely relatable. So barreness Victory is just like, uh,

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they all took of we don't know where Akuma is

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and they have just like withdrawn, so they're not under

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our authority. And there's also a mention of from Warlord

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to Kuma, we were just here to test the potions

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we gathered and to find the Scavenger's daughter, and she

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is with us now. And so Carl of course is like, Mordecai,

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the fuck us up with the Scavenger's daughter, because I

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thought that was just like a thing for my little

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old patch, which I was surprised to hear he thought

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that because everything in this fucking dungeon has a story,

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like somebody is very obsessed with lore, and Mordecai essentially

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tells Carl it's a long story and it's not going

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to matter what that story is unless you win this shit.

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So I'll tell you if you get through this focus.

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So let's see. Uh oh right, I forgot about Flora

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laughing about Lucy and being like, ah yeah, classic Luciamar

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with setting two traps. There's something about the way that

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Flora sees her as like a misbehaving child that is

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so delightful. After the way that he was set on

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killing her, He's just done such an about face. I

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think that what I like about Flora in this respect

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is just how utterly dependent on the facts he has

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his opinion of somebody is, which I really respect because

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you would think that would be a thing, and it isn't.

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With a lot of people, they develop an impression of

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somebody and regardless of the evidence they begin to gather

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to the contrary, they never really change their opinion of

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that person because they just feel how they feel, and

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they don't really know how to like work with new

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information and adjust. And it's really tough because like that

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at all. So Florin is obviously somebody who's super reasonable,

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and I don't know, I feel like we're maybe coming

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up on losing him, and I'm really sad about it.

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He's just become unexpectedly one of my faves. I think

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part of it is also the like fucking Australian accent

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that the narrator chooses for him and everything. But so

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let's see if Lucia's fate is tied to that kinder

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facility where they're keeping all the kids and the pregnant women,

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he'll die protecting the girl. He came in with his

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pregnant wife, Heidi, and she disappeared. She's up there somewhere

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with the rest of the kids. There's a lot of

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men and women here who have kids who might be

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up there. It's the most important thing one can do,

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don't you think, protecting the kids. He looked at me,

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eyes intense I smiled sadly. I hope she's not a

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psycho now that the dogs are dead. He nodded, Oo, man,

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and we then go to uh, let's see justice flight.

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He is really upset because he needs the gate and

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nobody is fucking listening to him. And I found this

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very funny because at one point he's like, don't you

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guys fucking understand? And I think it's Tippid who's like, no, no,

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we don't, because you won't fucking tell us anything. And

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I did think that was kind of funny, just being like, bruh,

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of course we don't understand. You don't want us to, evidently,

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but whatever it is that's happened, it like, Carl decides,

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and I love this so much. He decides, I don't

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get to control everything. Some things aren't my business. And

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if this man who has been through all the same

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shit more, even if he has a plan that he

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thinks he can pull off, even if it isn't for

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the good of everyone in the way a plan I

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would ideally come up with might be, even if it

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is just about getting personal revenge. Doesn't he have a

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fucking right to do that after everything he's been put through.

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So he asks Carl where the gate is, and Carl

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has a moment of like should I tell him, and

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finally is like, okay, here it is, and gives him

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full information. And it is wild because Justice Light is like,

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all right, I'll have it shortly, and indeed does have

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it shortly. It's within this same section that he reports back,

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got it, and I'm just like, shit, she's an ambassador

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from the in game version of the Apothecary. Thank you, Carl,

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I will have it shortly. So I just really like

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that Carl being willing to respect the journey other people

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are having and going through and to relinquish control here

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and there even though he has the urge to like

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manage absolutely everything, which I definitely understand that impulse. I

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am like this as well. But anyway, so there's also

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the mention of Big Tina and the Ballerina Dinosaur had

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single handedly taken out a fire lance tower and protected

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dozens of crawlers from getting burned alive. Her magical ever

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repairing feather boa was black and scorched, and it turns

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out that she's like too big for the safe rooms now,

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so she's just gonna have to be out here. But

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you know, so I had all my reservations about her

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being a child, and it just seems like whatever moral

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debate is irrelevant at this point because it's simply it

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is what it is, and she's going to do what

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she do. So let's see. Oh right, this is when

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Prepotente shows up and says, I found Lena's in the

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woods seeking those who got away. She appears to have

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new hunting skills along with the ability to fly. Well,

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don't love that. Now. My hope is because he says

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at the end of this conversation that he's going to

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go and join her. I'm sort of hopeful that maybe

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he if he does, like begin to put you and

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two together that she's coming after Carl and Donut might

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stand in her way. But I also like I want him, like,

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if there's anybody, if there's anybody who's going to be

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able to slow her down, it would be him. He

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is so high level, he is so intelligent and knows

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how to play this, you know, But I also feel

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like it would result in his death, and I really

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would hate that. So we get a quest update about

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the memorial crystal. Retrieve it from Crawler Oswaldo's hands. Oh,

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and now is in possession of Crawler Prepotente. Retrieve it

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before he cracks the secrets and gives them to the epicure.

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This with like Prepotente getting the crystal, I thought was

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going to be something that like we would hear about

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when it happened, But evidently not. Karl doesn't know at

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all what went down. Let's see, Donna appeared and she

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oh right, this is when they begin with the uh

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rescue Louis thing. So this whole thing is so odd.

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I'm trying to figure out exactly where I should start.

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We drove mostly in silence, knowing that all of the

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remaining mercenaries of the Reavers were dead. Was oddly disconcerting,

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and the planes didn't just feel abandoned, they felt haunted.

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We had about two hours left before the team at

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the remains of the dream Castle would capture the Throne room. There.

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Tran and the one hundred Second were there now surrounding

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the place to make certain nothing happened. The moment their

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timer ended, Epitome Tag would in theory drop dead. Florin,

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boomer Body, Brittany, and Rosetta had all stayed behind helping

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the others clear out the damage caused by the lava.

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Ferdinand had also stayed behind. He was currently directing the

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repair of the nest tower. Dona had several new spells

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that came with her Oak Fell class. This is another

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thing that I'm kind of wondering about, guys, because I

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think that come from that anklet, and if I recall correctly,

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like I know it's from her casting that the atrocity

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spell three times, right, But there was the anklet as well,

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So I feel like that influenced exactly how this went.

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And I believe that anklet came off of one of

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Batista's relatives and it wasn't like they killed the person.

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It's simply that they found a body and looted the body,

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but they never told Batista that they looted it, and

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they never wanted him to like know that they had

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stuff of his families. Now, it is certainly possible that

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he understands the way that people get looted, but there's

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also the possibility that he doesn't believe them because he

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seems to think the worst of them. So I'm concerned

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that maybe the Oakfell thing is going to be part

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of what makes him feel more certain about coming up

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against them. I don't know. I don't know, guys, but

471
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,719
it's just something that occurred to me because the fact

472
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,320
that they didn't tell him at the time, there was

473
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,960
like a little seed of worry that was planted for me,

474
00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:26,199
and it feels like that's kind of coming back now.

475
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:31,480
I had forgotten about it, and because I'm already worried

476
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,079
about him that otherwise, I don't think that I would

477
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,800
even really mention this, you know, But it's that I

478
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:46,280
already have the concerns that I have, so okay, I'm

479
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,519
trying to find a little It's likely a side effect

480
00:35:51,519 --> 00:35:55,079
of some posturing that's currently happening on the twelfth floor.

481
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,119
The fact that she was also named Champion means it

482
00:35:57,159 --> 00:35:59,360
was something that was set in motion by Neck a

483
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,440
bit and Rosetta says the champion system isn't something that's

484
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,760
normally used at all. They use it in Battle Royale

485
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,719
and Land War, but not Dungeon Crawler World Body was

486
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,280
a champion of some god or another during his season.

487
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:17,840
Being a god's champion comes with additional benefits and some issues,

488
00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:20,199
which it turns out that she can be forced to

489
00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:23,559
do a thing or suffer a smite, which is crazy

490
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:30,199
and Carl is really upset about it. The spells Don't

491
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,960
received with her new class were equally bewildering, and they're

492
00:36:34,079 --> 00:36:40,320
very druid, like Rai's Forests caused trees and plants over

493
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,679
a one kilometer area per level of spell to sprout.

494
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:48,920
She had that one turn. She had one that turned

495
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,639
water into salt water. She received a spell called gather

496
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,800
ye Vermin. It would draw all mammals within ten kilometers

497
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,119
under a certain size to her locale, which she thinks

498
00:37:02,199 --> 00:37:04,960
is the Ai just trying to find a bunch of squishy,

499
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,519
furry things for Carl to step on. Eventually, which certainly

500
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:14,239
may be possible. There comes a moment with the Pied

501
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,280
Piper skill where she's talking about starting a band. The

502
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,400
most intriguing spell was called Map the All Tree, which

503
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:25,599
was said to only work on the deeper floors. All

504
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:27,480
the other spells took at least one hundred man of

505
00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,400
points to cast, this one only cost a single point,

506
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,639
and the description simply said, provides a map of the

507
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:36,559
All Tree and all the nodes. This spell only works

508
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:41,360
on the twelfth and deeper floors. And I am just

509
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,119
really wondering about the fact that we saw Lee June

510
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:49,880
for a split second and the All Tree. I'm wondering

511
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:55,039
if the All Tree is basically like them coming as

512
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:59,840
close as people who don't understand what they're dealing with

513
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:05,760
might come to, like actually creating a central nervous system

514
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:14,000
for the AI. It's like the Tree is the afterlife

515
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,440
or baseline, I don't even know what to call it,

516
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:20,440
you know, like one of those from where we come

517
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:26,400
then we return. And unclear why Carl would see Lee

518
00:38:26,519 --> 00:38:30,519
June and not other people who died. But I don't

519
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:33,960
know if other people necessarily wanted to speak to Carl

520
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,199
as they were dying or not. Or if something has

521
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,519
changed as we've gotten to these deeper floors where it

522
00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:44,199
has opened up a possibility that wasn't open before. But

523
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,719
it is something that's like kind of in the background

524
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,280
on in my mind. It's not really super important to

525
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,400
me right now, so I'm not focused on it, but

526
00:38:56,639 --> 00:39:01,000
I do think it's compelling, and I'm also wondering, is

527
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,880
it possible for Lee June to talk his sister down.

528
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,440
It doesn't seem like it's the sort of thing where

529
00:39:06,519 --> 00:39:09,199
he's just like around and can come back out and appear.

530
00:39:09,679 --> 00:39:11,880
I get the impression it was sort of like I

531
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,159
was able to stop and say something on my way

532
00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:20,039
into the central system, you know, and have returned to

533
00:39:20,079 --> 00:39:24,800
it now, because as we know, there's that element that

534
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,960
they each have that's linked to the main computer, so

535
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:35,840
to speak. So perhaps something like that, I don't know.

536
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:42,719
I don't know. So of all the war lords, Warlord

537
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,760
Fang was the one we knew the least about. I

538
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,000
knew he was ninety nine percent cybernetic, and that he

539
00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:51,679
could change shape kind of like a terminator style changeling,

540
00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:54,639
and that he and Tag were both probably the two

541
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,079
richest of all the war lords who'd come to fight

542
00:39:57,159 --> 00:40:01,719
faction wars. I also that if he did die, it

543
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,360
wouldn't be a huge deal for the Reavers. They had

544
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,199
a physical chunk of his brain locked up somewhere called

545
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,719
the initial, and every year they peeled microscopic parts off

546
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,920
it to build new citizens. If Fang died, they'd just

547
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:16,320
scrape another piece off the brain thing, drop it in

548
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,320
a vat to grow for a year or two, slap

549
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,800
a bunch of cybernetic parts on it, and call it good,

550
00:40:21,559 --> 00:40:27,000
which is really really weird. So then we get to

551
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,719
this conversation about Louis and he talks about he had

552
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:34,599
said that CoP's wife was right just as he was

553
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,000
falling into enemy territory, and we didn't know what he meant.

554
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:45,039
And Kacia says something happened when he was a kid.

555
00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:49,159
A police officer was shot and died protecting him when

556
00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:51,840
he was young, and at the funeral for the cop,

557
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,159
her husband said something very cruel to Louis which had

558
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,400
stuck with him. Oh it was a female off certain

559
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,199
the husband said something to Louie. I was putting it

560
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,320
as it was a male officer, and the wife said

561
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:13,400
something to Louie. My bad. So this like I'm dying

562
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,079
to know what she said, but it's probably, you know,

563
00:41:17,679 --> 00:41:22,639
just like you were not worth saving, and the fact

564
00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:25,199
that she is dead and you're alive just proves that

565
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,360
there's no justice in the world, you know, I am.

566
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,920
I really appreciated Donut piping up here and being like,

567
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:40,599
don't tell said stories about his past. Don't you know

568
00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:44,599
how this works, which is exactly correct, because I started

569
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:46,719
to get a little twitchy at the fact that Katya

570
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,920
was telling the story. I was like, this is classic

571
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,199
Walking Dead behavior. Now it's not really because we've gotten

572
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,760
to know Louis and so it's not really the same thing.

573
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,039
But The Walking Dead was so guilty of this, where

574
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,639
you would know nothing about somebody, and then as soon

575
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,000
as they decided to tell you anything, you knew that

576
00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:11,159
shit was about to not matter because they were gonna

577
00:42:11,199 --> 00:42:17,960
be dead. So let's see. The front of the castle

578
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:21,159
was completely broken away and on the side, adding to

579
00:42:21,199 --> 00:42:24,800
the plastic toy play set illusion, giving us a cross

580
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,119
section view of the front. The interior was a strange sight,

581
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,880
the very front part, which was a large featureless room,

582
00:42:33,199 --> 00:42:37,519
which in turn led off to dozens of honeycomb shaped hallways.

583
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,639
None of the pathways were big enough for me to

584
00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:42,840
walk upright in, and they were stacked up to the ceiling,

585
00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:46,519
which was about three or four stories high. Each honeycomb

586
00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:49,360
was big enough for me to maybe walk in hunched over,

587
00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:55,519
and Juice Box said, this is how it's been and

588
00:42:55,559 --> 00:42:58,360
that the hallways move, but there are a few that

589
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,559
are static. We have infiltrated this castle a few times,

590
00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:05,239
but we lost the asset who was most familiar. The

591
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,800
system is confusing, but it knows where you're headed and

592
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,400
it creates a single passageway there for you, which is

593
00:43:11,519 --> 00:43:21,920
fucking banas man. That is super creepy. So let's see.

594
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:28,360
This is when the drake appears. Calliope cybernetic bleached Drake

595
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:32,280
level one thirty. I love the fact that fucking Dona

596
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,079
is like, oh it's only one thirty. It really doesn't

597
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:39,440
seem fair to take down a pet that's so low level.

598
00:43:40,039 --> 00:43:47,559
Doughnut fucking never change. I love it so much. Kacia

599
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,440
messages Carl privately, just like, how is she doing? Because

600
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,920
on the outside she seems like she's really handling things

601
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:59,239
pretty well, And he says, I think I underestimated her

602
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,000
and that she actually is handling things pretty well. It's

603
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:04,840
not just a show. I think that she doesn't want

604
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:11,960
to worry you, Carl, but I hope if she is struggling,

605
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,280
that she actually lets him see that at some point,

606
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,440
and that this isn't something that she's just gonna try

607
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,760
and maintain this like farce for the rest you know

608
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:28,760
what I'm saying. So oh right, And this is when

609
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,039
we have the new adjutant, Tart, which there's a whole

610
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:36,000
thing about Tart's name and it's sounding like a stripper,

611
00:44:36,039 --> 00:44:39,920
but it turns out that he is a gentleman, as

612
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:48,320
it turns out. And let's see, uh, Victory and Drick

613
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,639
were both on his right, but the antlered alien turned

614
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:55,920
and whispered something over his left shoulder, and we can't

615
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,920
see anybody. There's clearly somebody there, but we don't know.

616
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:04,159
I'm I'm really curious about this. If that's like, is

617
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:07,000
it the AI? Is this related? There's another guy who's

618
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,920
always talking to somebody who isn't there. I don't know,

619
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:13,960
but Donut says, I can kind of see an outline

620
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,440
when I changed to power view. It's that weird alien

621
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,559
who looks like a basketball on Stilt's fopsy. That's right,

622
00:45:20,639 --> 00:45:29,719
that's right, So we detect quite easily where Louis is

623
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,480
and Juice Box is going to go in and retrieve him.

624
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:38,920
Uh and she has turned into a misraith I think

625
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:44,519
hunter wraith, that's right, and is quite freakish looking right now.

626
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,800
Terrified she turned herself into a hunter wraith. It's not

627
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,519
going to be a clean getaway. There's something that happens

628
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:55,400
when that particular wraith touches people, but that's more an

629
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,360
issue for Juice Box than Louie. Those are Floor ten

630
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,599
and eleven monsters, but it'll probably work. Does Louis have

631
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:07,480
any teleports in his inventory? He does, Juice Box has to. Also,

632
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,400
he couldn't use the teleports before because the teleport ban

633
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,360
had gotten re enacted by Eris just before he crashed,

634
00:46:14,679 --> 00:46:17,519
but all the officers had them in their inventory. He

635
00:46:17,599 --> 00:46:21,400
also had a ton of no disassembles and waffle makers,

636
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:28,159
so we have like them all kind of watching and waiting.

637
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:32,280
It's a weird moment as they're seeing like the hallways

638
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,159
reconfigure themselves and just how weird this whole thing is.

639
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,960
And as they're waiting, we get a message from Florin

640
00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:47,840
who tells them Kiwi is now in labor, there comes

641
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,480
a point where Kiwi is actually crowning. I have been

642
00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:54,400
really wondering what the hell Kiwi is going to give

643
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,519
birth to, because Kiwi is back in bear form, and

644
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,360
if it were, you know, going to be like a

645
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,960
reptile birth, I was assuming it would be eggs. But

646
00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:08,719
he says that she's crowning, which makes me think that

647
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,880
it is just like an actual, you know, like mammal

648
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:16,719
or mammalish kind of creature. Maybe that those kinds of

649
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,519
rules don't even apply at all within the dungeon. Who knows,

650
00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:24,119
but just explaining how my brain works. And uh, I

651
00:47:24,199 --> 00:47:27,920
really enjoy the fact that when Dona informs Mango that

652
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,599
he's going to be a daddy, he does not seem

653
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:37,079
excited or interested at all in any way. So we'll

654
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:45,239
see about how this all goes. But yeah, and let's

655
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,320
see trying to jump ahead here, ju justsbox finds him.

656
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,960
She says there's a complication, but not anything I can't

657
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,280
deal with, and when asked, she does not answer. We

658
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:04,159
have fucking Jemal, guys. I must talk about Jamal simply

659
00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:10,159
because the audiobook narrator goes so hard with Jamal's voice.

660
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,239
I can't just not talk about him, but also it

661
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:19,119
does not seem like he's relevant. But also he really

662
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:22,280
makes an impression, so I can't just like leave him

663
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,920
out of the narrative, you know what I'm saying. Jamal

664
00:48:25,119 --> 00:48:27,840
is very excited with his new legs, and it's tragic

665
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:33,280
because later on those legs get fucked and he is

666
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:39,920
so upset, and he makes it everyone's problem. There are

667
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,440
just people like this out there, you know. I really

668
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,679
really try not to be like this, but I reserve

669
00:48:48,039 --> 00:48:51,840
the right on my own podcast. But there are times

670
00:48:52,039 --> 00:48:55,119
where you run into folks who do not know how

671
00:48:55,159 --> 00:48:58,239
to simply be in a shitty mood. If they are

672
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,599
in a shitty mood, they must make everyone else also

673
00:49:01,679 --> 00:49:05,480
be in a shitty mood. And it's just, you know,

674
00:49:05,639 --> 00:49:11,679
like they they do not know how to cope, and

675
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,159
it's so tough being around people like that. My mother

676
00:49:14,199 --> 00:49:17,880
can be like that, real bad sometimes and just bring

677
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,960
down the vibe of an entire room like a fucking

678
00:49:21,119 --> 00:49:27,960
black hole. And Jamal is just I really appreciated how

679
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,039
patient with him Doughnut is. At one point when he

680
00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:33,719
does like a literal pirouet in mid air or something,

681
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,559
and she says like how graceful he is, but later

682
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:38,440
on when he's crying, she is just like, would you

683
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,719
shut the fuck up, dude, And I was like, Amen's sister.

684
00:49:44,679 --> 00:49:48,159
So then we get the message from Samantha about how

685
00:49:48,159 --> 00:49:52,880
there are robot dogs going crazy and asks as if

686
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,840
you know they're just going that's the way that dogs do.

687
00:49:56,039 --> 00:49:58,360
They'll just try and like bite you and stuff a

688
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,519
little bit. But then she drops the fact that there's

689
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:07,000
a part of them that explodes, and it turns out

690
00:50:07,119 --> 00:50:12,599
they are hunter seekers. They have to put their shields

691
00:50:12,679 --> 00:50:15,440
up and fucking flee because these things are a lot

692
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:19,000
closer than they realized since they are automatons, so there's

693
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,840
no dots on the map indicating how close they are.

694
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,599
The shark moved across the honeycomb and fired in a

695
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:29,840
different hole than another. The site reminded me of a

696
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,199
wasp invading a bee colony, and explosion echoed in the

697
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,719
distant part of the castle. Jamal fired again, then again,

698
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,679
but now too many were coming, and the sentry dogs

699
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,800
started to emerge from different holes along the giant wall.

700
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,679
I examined one before he was nailed in the head

701
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,840
with a doughnut fired magic missile, which causes it to

702
00:50:50,039 --> 00:50:54,400
literally evaporate because her spell has gotten that fucking strong,

703
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,000
and Jamal says, some are different, but there are big

704
00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:04,719
ones coming. At the same moment, one of the larger

705
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,679
dogs emerged from the top center hole and jumped into

706
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:10,840
the room. This one was the size of a goddamn lion,

707
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,480
and the back half of the dog had a massive

708
00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:17,800
glowing bomb notification over it. Before I could fully examine him,

709
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,679
the dog turned it to a ball of ice and

710
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:24,400
started skidding over the floor, completely frozen from an Elley spell.

711
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,280
I picked up the block of ice, lifting it in

712
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,679
my arms. It burned, but to my relief, it allowed

713
00:51:31,679 --> 00:51:33,880
me to pull it all into my inventory before the

714
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,960
dog could explode. And he yells to everybody to fall back.

715
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:44,760
At one point, just says, fucking run um. Carl says,

716
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,719
juice box Louis has no disassembles in his inventory, drop

717
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,039
them and leave. They'll kill the robots. Tell me when

718
00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:54,239
you're free, and she says, give me five seconds, and

719
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:58,119
then it all happens, and there's this massive fucking explosion.

720
00:52:00,519 --> 00:52:03,320
Rend had stopped next to me and had rolled onto

721
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,199
his side, so his eyes met mine. A huge smile

722
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:11,239
on his face with his tongue lolling. He giggled. When

723
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:14,039
he saw me looking at him, he made a noise

724
00:52:14,159 --> 00:52:18,960
that sounded like fun. Yo, is Rend learning how to talk?

725
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:25,440
Is that what's happening? I am here for it. Mango

726
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,039
can very decidedly communicate despite not being able to talk.

727
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,519
But if Rend is able to actually talk, that's fun.

728
00:52:38,679 --> 00:52:43,480
So the whole thing fucking explodes. I rolled and I

729
00:52:43,599 --> 00:52:46,920
rolled and I spun, feeling my skin burned, my bones break,

730
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,199
and all I could think was, these bombs are much

731
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,800
smaller than I thought. Thank God, that was probably one

732
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,039
of the mini nukes. I love that he has a

733
00:52:55,039 --> 00:52:59,199
moment of like, wow, that's a weird thing to be thinking.

734
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,719
This isn't normal. I can't believe that I'm reacting like this. Yeah,

735
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:09,280
every now and then, when shit gets normalized, you have

736
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,719
those moments of clarity where you step back and you're

737
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,519
just like, oh shit. I've been kind of having that

738
00:53:14,679 --> 00:53:17,159
with this administration. To be honest, in the year twenty

739
00:53:17,159 --> 00:53:21,079
twenty six, they're like horrific news that comes out and

740
00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:25,440
I'm just like, yeah, I bet, you know, like, because

741
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,360
I can't what am I supposed to do? You know

742
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:37,000
what I'm saying. So fucking Calliape. She'd created a type

743
00:53:37,039 --> 00:53:41,800
of shield I hadn't seen before. This is Imani Gonk,

744
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,159
who stayed back with the now wrecked transport, was on

745
00:53:44,199 --> 00:53:48,000
her side, but her health was okay. Biggs was atop

746
00:53:48,039 --> 00:53:52,280
the fallen Gonk. Doughnut was clucking over. Mongo Ren was fine.

747
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,119
Batista's fur was black and scorched, but he was already

748
00:53:55,119 --> 00:53:57,920
getting to his feet. Tippetts sat on the ground holding

749
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,920
his head. Everyone seemed okay, everyone but Jamal, who was

750
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,119
flopping on the ground, his legs having been absolutely wrecked

751
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:11,039
by the initial No disassemble in coming, Holger shouted. I

752
00:54:11,079 --> 00:54:14,039
looked up in time to see Calliope, the bleached drake,

753
00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:18,440
spiral out of the sky, screaming. She landed to our left,

754
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:23,719
and she exploded, showering us with blood. Warlord Fang of

755
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,119
the Reavers has fallen. Credit for the kill has been

756
00:54:27,119 --> 00:54:30,280
given to Well, it's a complicated one. We'll give it

757
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,800
to Warlord Carl for detonating the bomb that was dropped

758
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,519
by a Wraith possessed crawler. Louis Santiago too, who was

759
00:54:36,599 --> 00:54:41,360
under control of Warlord Juice Box of team retribution. That

760
00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:46,960
is complicated. My God. By this point, I guess it

761
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,320
doesn't matter. But we're giving fifty one percent experience to Karl,

762
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,159
one percent to Louis, and forty percent to Juice Box.

763
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,480
The rest is going to the now deceased Fang for

764
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,400
hiding in the worst possible place, which was inside the dragon.

765
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:06,639
The reavers have been defeated, all assets have been awarded

766
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:13,679
to the Princess Polse. Yeah, so that's done. Surprise, surprise,

767
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,880
And this is when Juice Box shows up and says

768
00:55:19,679 --> 00:55:22,400
he was hiding inside the Dragon the same way Epitome

769
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:27,360
Tag is hiding inside of my husband. I was afraid

770
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,760
my possessing him would kill him, but it worked. They

771
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,239
were doing surgery. He was cut open. His heart has

772
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,039
been replaced, his lungs have been replaced. It looked like

773
00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:40,360
they were getting ready to replace his brain, but we

774
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,000
got to him in time. I had to heal him,

775
00:55:43,119 --> 00:55:46,639
but when I did, it didn't regrow his heart or lungs.

776
00:55:48,119 --> 00:55:50,239
He was hooked up to a machine that was keeping

777
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,159
him alive. When I touched him, I sensed the presence.

778
00:55:53,519 --> 00:55:56,400
It's there in the new lungs and heart. I can

779
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,480
feel the form I can take, and it's wrong. I

780
00:55:59,519 --> 00:56:03,079
don't stand the new heart and new lungs are mechanical,

781
00:56:03,119 --> 00:56:06,320
but they both have a little biological material as well.

782
00:56:07,119 --> 00:56:10,679
Those pieces. It's not Louis, it's the pieces of tag.

783
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,800
It's elf. But if I didn't already have this kind

784
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,679
of my library, I'm not sure if I'd be able

785
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:25,400
to store the image or not. It's confusing, So that's weird.

786
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,239
And Imani says, I'm going to cast something to wake

787
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,000
him up, and Juice Box is like, yeah, not yet,

788
00:56:32,199 --> 00:56:34,400
Let's keep him asleep because we need to like figure

789
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,440
out what the fuck is happening here first, which I

790
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,519
think is fair. This is when Samantha, who had been

791
00:56:40,599 --> 00:56:43,960
shot out of the place after the explosion, finally lands

792
00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:47,360
and she had wanted them to keep one of the

793
00:56:47,519 --> 00:56:50,440
dogs alive for her to have as a pet. Sorry

794
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:56,360
about it, Samantha, but evidently that shit that's dead, so

795
00:56:57,599 --> 00:57:03,400
are bad. So then we go into the final chapter

796
00:57:04,519 --> 00:57:09,679
and let's see, I'm sorry, there's the whole thing with

797
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,360
Jamal like crying about not having his legs. Mordecai says,

798
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,840
we think we figured out what happened during the war

799
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:21,000
crime spell Fang escaped because he's basically just a tiny

800
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,559
amount of biological material, So he basically turned into a

801
00:57:24,559 --> 00:57:31,559
fly and escaped. Donuts thinks that maybe laundry day could

802
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:34,960
have worked on him, and she is going to try

803
00:57:35,199 --> 00:57:38,719
on the next robot that she encounters, which is very interesting.

804
00:57:42,079 --> 00:57:48,039
Tag is like more of a mystery. It sounds like

805
00:57:48,079 --> 00:57:50,559
they were replacing his vital organs in the moment they

806
00:57:50,599 --> 00:57:53,679
replaced the brain, TAG would have been able to actually

807
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,679
take control. Donut says, but the elf guy wasn't a

808
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,320
robot like Warlord Fang was. Juice Box says, some of

809
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,320
the goo for his new heart and lungs is actually him.

810
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:13,280
How did he survive? And Donut says, why didn't they

811
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:18,119
stop working when Carl's No Disassemble went off? Carl says,

812
00:58:18,159 --> 00:58:22,000
the transport broke from the nuke, not the No Dissemble.

813
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:29,159
Louis is pretty shielded. Uh, pretty shielded, as he says,

814
00:58:30,039 --> 00:58:32,280
which Donut like, because I was like, what does he

815
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:36,400
mean by that? Donut says, you mean he was saved

816
00:58:36,559 --> 00:58:42,239
because he is chunky. Uh, I didn't know that that

817
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:49,039
was helpful, noted. I guess I'd be fine. This is

818
00:58:49,159 --> 00:58:52,199
just like Miss Beatrice's father with his pacemaker. Remember when

819
00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:55,360
he got mad when you microwaved a sauceage sandwich near him.

820
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,639
Her mother said it was a murder attempt. Guys, I'll

821
00:58:58,679 --> 00:59:00,800
be honest, I didn't know that this was the thing

822
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,760
that if you have a pacemaker you can't be near

823
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:11,280
certain devices that it would interfere. That is so odd.

824
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:16,960
So Epitome Tag, who is still in the chat, is

825
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,400
telling them like, I control his organs and if you

826
00:59:20,599 --> 00:59:23,159
try to remove me, I will just completely kill him.

827
00:59:23,639 --> 00:59:26,440
We can make a deal. My mother's on the eighteenth floor,

828
00:59:27,639 --> 00:59:32,039
and U Donut is just like, if we lose, then

829
00:59:32,119 --> 00:59:34,559
we're all dead. So how the fuck are we supposed

830
00:59:34,599 --> 00:59:41,199
to make a deal. Let's see, Carl, before the dungeons started,

831
00:59:41,239 --> 00:59:44,679
did you ever actually touch tag juice box? No, we

832
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,519
just blew him up a lot. He was always in

833
00:59:46,519 --> 00:59:49,400
that flagroom so we could never get to him. And

834
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:53,960
this is when Carl says, oh, holy shit, Epitome Tag

835
00:59:54,039 --> 01:00:00,599
of the Dream is a And then the AI freezes everything.

836
01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:04,280
But it turns out it's not everything, because when Carl

837
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,440
comes out of the freeze, it's only him that was frozen,

838
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,599
and it looks like he's given information that the other

839
01:00:10,679 --> 01:00:18,719
players are not given. It's a really weird moment. Emergency

840
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:26,039
ejection sequence has been overridden. Man, even I wasn't expecting that. Okay,

841
01:00:26,079 --> 01:00:30,320
hang on a second, I'm a little pissed here. Prime

842
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:35,159
Minister Glory himself just attempted to assassinate you using a

843
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:40,360
little known but apparently still active control panel that allows

844
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,920
the syndicate to override certain show runner controlled aspects of

845
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,760
the game. It didn't work. And not only did it

846
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:54,199
not work, but now I'm irritated. Obviously, this isn't the

847
01:00:54,199 --> 01:00:55,760
first time this has happened to you, Carl. In fact,

848
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,480
there's probably a few of these attempts on your life

849
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:58,880
that you don't even know about. But this is the

850
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,199
first time someone has attempt did it by trying to

851
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:12,400
trick me? I is this related to epitome Tag, because

852
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,840
I don't understand how this was trying to go around?

853
01:01:16,119 --> 01:01:25,119
Is so suffice to say, uh it, Like Carl tells everybody,

854
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:33,480
Epitome Tag is a cyborg. He's the same thing as Fang. Now,

855
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,280
I don't understand why this was secret. I don't understand

856
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:42,239
why this is like a the equivalent of an assassination

857
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,000
attempt was it supposed to be that, like, we're going

858
01:01:46,079 --> 01:01:48,400
to take over Louis's body and then use him to

859
01:01:48,519 --> 01:01:57,960
kill Carl. Was that the assumption here he would have

860
01:01:58,039 --> 01:02:00,760
to have at least some biological form, but he'd transferred

861
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,039
most of his brain to the reavernet that would work.

862
01:02:03,719 --> 01:02:06,760
But that's a wild theory. He's one of the most

863
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,320
famous CEOs in the galaxy and that's a big secret

864
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:17,960
to keep. Uh. Worms can't inhabit biomechanical organs, only biological brains.

865
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:25,599
So I don't know how exactly is it is it

866
01:02:25,639 --> 01:02:28,639
supposed to be that they were tricking the AI by

867
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:34,480
did the AI not know that Tag was a cyborg either?

868
01:02:34,639 --> 01:02:37,840
How would that have been hidden from Tag or from

869
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:48,719
the AI? Sorry, I'm just sorry. Michael just in the

870
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,519
chat said, I'm starting to question how useful Samantha is

871
01:02:51,559 --> 01:02:54,800
as a scout. And then we aren't fat, We're better

872
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,679
adapted to survive tough circumstances. I mean that is literally true.

873
01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:04,719
So yes, Saraphim says, Carl was about to say something

874
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,440
the Prime Minister really didn't want out that two of

875
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,960
the biggest factions in the galaxy were working together like this.

876
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,000
The AI's issue was the PM trying to use an

877
01:03:15,039 --> 01:03:21,400
override no one knew about. Okay, so the Prime Minister

878
01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:24,880
is trying to do something outside of this thing with

879
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:30,159
Louie and Tag to try and take Carl out somehow,

880
01:03:30,639 --> 01:03:38,559
and that is a completely separate issue from Louie being

881
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:45,840
essentially possessed, even though it's like mechanical. Okay, I'm sorry, guys,

882
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:49,119
I just found this really confusing, and like I said,

883
01:03:49,679 --> 01:03:53,920
I read this part three times, I think, and every

884
01:03:54,039 --> 01:03:57,599
single time I found myself getting caught up in the

885
01:03:57,639 --> 01:04:01,320
same places and being like, I don't understand what this is,

886
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:06,079
and I don't understand epitome Tag being a cyborg needing

887
01:04:06,159 --> 01:04:09,079
to be a secret. Why would that be secret? And

888
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:13,960
why is this such a big deal. Apparently everybody thought

889
01:04:14,079 --> 01:04:21,039
that they were elves, But what's the U and Saraphim

890
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:23,719
is saying the two biggest factions working together. Does the

891
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,519
fact that he's a cyborg mean that they were definitely

892
01:04:26,559 --> 01:04:29,599
working together? I guess the fact that he was like

893
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:34,039
getting the operation that would imply that, like, yeah, they

894
01:04:34,039 --> 01:04:36,000
figure this out together. I was just thinking that he

895
01:04:36,079 --> 01:04:40,000
went there after everybody was killed and there was nobody

896
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,239
to stop him from going in there, but I guess

897
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:50,000
that hadn't happened yet. Michael says it was basically a

898
01:04:50,119 --> 01:04:52,840
kill button he could hit to kill any crawler he

899
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,119
wanted at any time outside of the rules slash dangers

900
01:04:56,119 --> 01:05:00,519
of the dungeon. How was that tricking the AI exactly?

901
01:05:02,119 --> 01:05:05,280
Because that's what the AI says about, like the fact

902
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:11,440
that it was tricked and I'm sorry, I'm just trying

903
01:05:11,519 --> 01:05:17,719
to go back. Uh just tended to assassinate you, blah

904
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:23,639
blah blah. It didn't work, and I'm irritated. Yeah, this

905
01:05:23,719 --> 01:05:26,159
is the first time someone has attempted to kill you

906
01:05:26,239 --> 01:05:32,239
by trying to trick me. So is it just that

907
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:39,960
it existed, that's the trickery. John says, we don't know.

908
01:05:40,079 --> 01:05:42,320
Seraphim says it had nothing to do with the dungeon.

909
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:52,960
It was about out of dungeon politics. Huh okay, ah,

910
01:05:53,039 --> 01:05:56,119
I don't know. I don't know, guys. This just this

911
01:05:56,239 --> 01:05:58,800
feels really confusing to me. I'm sorry. I feel like

912
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,159
maybe I'm just looking like an idiot, but I feel

913
01:06:02,159 --> 01:06:05,079
like this moment should have I feel like it was

914
01:06:05,159 --> 01:06:08,280
meant to hit really hard and it just didn't because

915
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:14,159
I was so confused and Frankly, y'all's explanations, while they

916
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:18,119
make some sense, are still it's still not really clarifying

917
01:06:18,159 --> 01:06:21,480
everything for me. So I don't know if this is

918
01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:24,119
just a me problem or what. There's things that sometimes

919
01:06:24,159 --> 01:06:28,039
I think when somebody is binging work better because they

920
01:06:28,039 --> 01:06:31,880
are not stopping to try and parse everything that a

921
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:35,760
sentence means, so you don't get caught up the way

922
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,719
that I do when I'm covering things this way. And

923
01:06:39,079 --> 01:06:42,320
I know that this happened with Fucking the Witcher. When

924
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,760
I was covering those books, there were so many things

925
01:06:45,199 --> 01:06:48,719
that I was just like, hold on what, and the

926
01:06:48,719 --> 01:06:52,119
person commissioning them at the time, Melanie was saying that

927
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,199
like she often lets parts of the books just kind

928
01:06:55,239 --> 01:06:57,320
of wash over her and she doesn't try to figure

929
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:00,639
them out. But that's like the point of what I do,

930
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:08,039
And so it didn't work very well. I just and

931
01:07:08,119 --> 01:07:11,559
it's possible that this is supposed to be super confusing,

932
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,559
that maybe we're supposed to not fully get all the

933
01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:21,400
implications of this, And if so, cool again, it would

934
01:07:21,639 --> 01:07:24,239
work better probably if I were just like going straight

935
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,079
through the book and not covering it the way that

936
01:07:26,159 --> 01:07:28,480
I am, So that might be just like kind of

937
01:07:28,519 --> 01:07:34,480
fucking up the overall effect of this, you know. Jeff

938
01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:37,960
says it confuses me too. John says, I think it

939
01:07:38,079 --> 01:07:41,719
just shows how out of control the AI is. Michael

940
01:07:41,719 --> 01:07:46,880
says vibe reading baby, John says failsafes don't work, back

941
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:49,760
doors are ineffective, and Jeff says, if they have a

942
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,119
kill switch for every person, surely that couldn't have been

943
01:07:52,159 --> 01:07:55,159
implanted until the crawl started. Maybe that's the trick AI

944
01:07:55,360 --> 01:08:01,480
is talking about. I don't I don't even know why

945
01:08:01,599 --> 01:08:04,079
it couldn't have been implanted until the Carl started. I

946
01:08:04,079 --> 01:08:09,880
don't know why that is true. Why couldn't it I

947
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:15,880
don't like, look this, This to me indicates that this

948
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,960
is no clearer to anyone really in like so that

949
01:08:20,279 --> 01:08:22,680
is comforting in a way that I don't feel like, Okay,

950
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,920
I'm a total idiot, you know. So anyway, when Carl

951
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:34,079
like comes out of this moment, everybody else is like,

952
01:08:34,199 --> 01:08:37,359
did you feel that? Stutter? But they didn't completely get

953
01:08:37,399 --> 01:08:42,960
all the announcements that the AI got, and Zev says

954
01:08:43,039 --> 01:08:46,319
Carl that ejection requests didn't come from US. Several warships

955
01:08:46,359 --> 01:08:49,279
in Orbit have just started firing on several other ships.

956
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:53,319
These aren't just potshots but full on missile barrages and

957
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,680
maser blasts. We just got to notice from the Syndicate

958
01:08:56,720 --> 01:09:01,399
Council telling us to initiate headquarters self destry, followed by

959
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,039
a message from the Valte telling us not to comply.

960
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:10,039
Obviously we're not complying. Say what you were going to say, quick,

961
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:14,239
get it out there. And he yells out that he's

962
01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:19,119
a cyborg. Uh, and Mordecai is in the chat being like, mmmm,

963
01:09:19,279 --> 01:09:26,399
that actually would kind of make sense. And this is

964
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:30,479
when Florence says that Kiwi's crowning. Justice comes in and says,

965
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:33,560
we got the gate. Donut says, this is insane. This

966
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,840
is just like the Treasure of Serena Madre episode of

967
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:40,239
Gossip Girl, and Mordecai says, in what way? And she

968
01:09:40,359 --> 01:09:45,000
says everything is happening at once. Mordecai really makes me

969
01:09:45,039 --> 01:09:48,359
want to go back and rewatch Gossip Girl and just

970
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:52,840
kind of wanna you know what I'm saying. All Right,

971
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,680
I'm way over time. I really have to wrap up,

972
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:59,800
but uh, I am just I'm hoping that like whatever

973
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:01,880
I read for the next chapter will help. So I

974
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:06,399
think it's going to you know, shake itself out eventually.

975
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:09,399
Apologies if you're listening to this and getting frustrated that

976
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:13,079
the host is very stupid, but you know, bear with

977
01:10:13,079 --> 01:10:17,840
me and maybe I'll be less stupid next time. Until

978
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:51,640
next time to lou motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast.