1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,679 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,359 --> 00:00:19,039 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven this Inevitable ruin chapters 3 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:23,199 Christmas Morning. It's not a number, but it's the name 4 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:30,480 of the chapter. Through twenty two. In these chapters, Carl 5 00:00:30,559 --> 00:00:35,840 still hasn't opened as fucking Christmas Present? What is up 6 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:39,759 with that? All I want is for him to take 7 00:00:40,039 --> 00:00:48,200 two seconds to open a gift from friends. Why can't 8 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,920 I get what I want? I'm not asking that much. 9 00:00:53,560 --> 00:01:14,680 Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I 10 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:19,519 am Natasha. Thank you Michael for commissioning this episode. I 11 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:25,480 apologize for my outburst, but I also very much don't 12 00:01:25,879 --> 00:01:30,040 and stand by it. I just don't get it. I 13 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:36,959 don't understand why it's not even referenced by him. I 14 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:43,319 just want a moment where we just think about it 15 00:01:43,359 --> 00:01:47,920 at least. Okay, so maybe it hasn't gotten around to it. 16 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,159 But even when it's mentioned by I think Samantha, like, oh, 17 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:55,959 they look like the guys on the cover of the books, 18 00:01:57,239 --> 00:01:59,879 there's no moment in Carl's head of like, oh, yes 19 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:03,480 to open that, don't I It's like it's just completely 20 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,280 what it feels like to me is that the author 21 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,199 is sort of setting things up in such a way 22 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:22,080 as to have him, at a moment of crisis suddenly 23 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:28,280 remember that and then open and be touched by whatever 24 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,400 his friends gave him, because he needs a boost in 25 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:36,319 that moment. And you know, I just feel like, if 26 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,080 you want that, you really need to tell me why 27 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,840 he hasn't opened it earlier, because Carl feels to me 28 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,680 like somebody for whom this would be somewhat important. So 29 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:55,599 much of the theme of these books, especially this one, 30 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:03,919 has been centered around I realize now I've been lonely. 31 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:09,719 I need people. Community is important. There's just not really 32 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:13,240 a good enough reason that he wouldn't have opened this 33 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,280 gift yet. And if there should be, like if you 34 00:03:18,439 --> 00:03:22,240 want to delay it, you need to explain that, because 35 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,360 otherwise it's just weird. It's just really weird. Not only 36 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,400 is it weird that Karl hasn't done it, doesn't think 37 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:35,159 about it, doesn't seem to even remember. It's really weird. 38 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,840 Donut hasn't reminded him to open them either, because like 39 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,400 it was such a thing when he got his you 40 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:48,479 know what I mean, and him missing Christmas and everything 41 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:54,520 I don't understand all, Like, that's the best theory I've 42 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,199 got is that like we're saving it for a moment, which, 43 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:02,120 if that's true, cheapens that moment for me and makes 44 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:04,000 it feel like you really had to contrive to get 45 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:12,879 us here, or there's some other internal reason which could 46 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,439 be true, but it doesn't at the moment, I've got 47 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,279 no information on that, so I'm just like, you know, 48 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,639 I'm working with what I've got, and to me, this 49 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:29,399 just doesn't make sense. I don't get it. So I 50 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:31,199 wanted to start off with that and just get it 51 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:35,920 out of the way because I am preoccupied by it, 52 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,519 and since it didn't happen, I may as well get 53 00:04:41,519 --> 00:04:43,399 it out of the way, and that way I can 54 00:04:43,439 --> 00:04:46,120 continue on with the rest of what actually happened out 55 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:54,759 of the gate. So we start off with the kind 56 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:59,680 of flashback to the conversation between Carl and Orin when 57 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:06,040 Carl got transported to speak to Orin after the interaction 58 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:11,199 with Paully or Polly's shadow. Really is the more accurate 59 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:17,399 way to say that, And it's very fun to like 60 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,680 read this now that we have a little bit more information. 61 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,839 But he asks, you know, did Polly make it into 62 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:31,680 the dungeon. Oran says no, and honestly, I don't know 63 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:34,720 whether to believe him on this or not. I don't 64 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,240 see why he'd tell Carl the truth. There's just like, 65 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:43,160 as far as I can see, there's not really a 66 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,519 reason to be honest with Carl that I know of, 67 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:47,800 Like there's no rule that says that he can't lie 68 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,839 to him, or you know what I'm saying. So Also, 69 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,879 I don't know if Orin would even be aware if 70 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,759 Polly made it into the dungeon or not, would he 71 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:04,000 know or you know what I'm saying. So I don't 72 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,879 know whether to believe any of this. But we get 73 00:06:09,879 --> 00:06:14,319 to see Carl with Lightning Low, the doggie that he 74 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:22,720 can't pet, and he is really struggling through the knowledge 75 00:06:22,879 --> 00:06:28,639 of what this switch that he got given does and 76 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,800 what to do. It's actually kind of crazy that we 77 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,040 had the reveal of what this switch does and I've 78 00:06:37,079 --> 00:06:40,079 spent barely any time talking about it. But I think 79 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,160 that is due to the fact that we had too 80 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:49,800 much content packed into too little like podcasting time, and 81 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:55,279 Michael went ahead and like redid the chapter breakdown. So 82 00:06:55,319 --> 00:06:56,879 I think I'm gonna have a little bit more room 83 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,519 to chat, and I think that will help a lot. 84 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:08,800 And it's one of those things that I it's like, 85 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,519 you catch you catch me in the wrong moment. Maybe 86 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:14,120 I'm gonna be like, yeah, fuck it, you know, but 87 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:21,439 I really tend to be a hopelessly hopeful person. To 88 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:29,279 be honest, I just don't really ever believe the worst 89 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:35,639 case scenario is going to happen. Part of why Trump 90 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,040 actually getting elected blindsided me. I'm not trying to say 91 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,160 I'm always right by any means. A lot of the 92 00:07:42,199 --> 00:07:46,319 hopefulness just comes from privilege, if we're being honest, But 93 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:55,040 I do have this innate faith that more people than 94 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,560 not are decent, and that more people than not would 95 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,120 do the right thing, and that as bad as things 96 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,920 maybe it can and will get better because people care 97 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:15,279 and will be willing to do something about it. Now 98 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:23,839 that doesn't mean that were I in Carl's situation, I 99 00:08:23,959 --> 00:08:28,680 wouldn't pull the plug. I've gotta be honest. I mean, 100 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,879 right from the start. You may remember, when he first 101 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,559 gets sent into the dungeon, there's that whole group of 102 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,679 people that decide to just camp out in one of 103 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,159 the safe rooms and let themselves die. And I said 104 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,919 at the time, like that might be me. Actually, yeah, 105 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,080 I am still kind of feeling like that's what I 106 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,240 would do. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard 107 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,679 to say, mostly because there's like a huge part of 108 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,240 me that has this deep curiosity as well, and so 109 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,879 I feel like I just want to see what the 110 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,679 dungeon's like. I just want to know. And it's so 111 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,639 fun to me that there's a point as Carl is 112 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:15,279 thinking about what this button does where he's like, I 113 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:20,320 don't know, whatever I pick, whether i'd get to see 114 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,440 what happened. And I feel like that in itself is 115 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,399 an indicator that he's not done. The fact that he 116 00:09:28,799 --> 00:09:32,759 is still even wondering would I get to see the outcome? 117 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,879 But I want to know what happens. That to me indicates, Yeah, 118 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,559 you're not letting go. You wouldn't have that in you 119 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:46,799 if you were done, if you were ready to be done, 120 00:09:47,039 --> 00:09:49,320 and for all of this to be done. It's just 121 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:53,360 that little yeah, but what would that be? What would 122 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,360 that mean? What would you know? No, it wouldn't be there, 123 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:03,440 it wouldn't be like that. So he really struggles for 124 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,440 a while because he's just like, this is too much 125 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,320 power for one person. I have it in my hand 126 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:17,000 to completely end everything, just me, my decision. That's not fair, 127 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:22,360 that doesn't make any sense. He goes through everything, and 128 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:26,639 he's very surprised to see that it's not just like 129 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:29,720 a page with a button that's like in the world 130 00:10:29,759 --> 00:10:33,879 and you press it. It's several tabs with all of 131 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:36,080 this information that takes a minute for his brain to 132 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:42,320 sort of translate it, and he screenshots all of that, 133 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,200 which I'm very grateful for. I don't know how much 134 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,759 of this is going to be of any import whatsoever, 135 00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:53,000 but it's just good policy, especially considering later what he 136 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,679 decides to do having this info. I don't know how 137 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:04,919 useful it will be, but it's possible will matter. The 138 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,240 interface didn't control the AI. Instead, it controlled the device 139 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,799 they used to install the AI into the Primal Engine. 140 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,200 After the AI was installed, the device remained physically nearby, 141 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,279 but no longer had direct influence over the AI. Still, 142 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:23,600 I had sense it kept a metaphorical eye on the 143 00:11:23,639 --> 00:11:26,519 AI and the computer it now called home. It had 144 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,039 metrics such as physical location, temperature, and several other things 145 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,039 I didn't understand. None of the numbers seemed to be changing. 146 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,879 Other than to fluctuate back and forth between two digits. 147 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:48,759 So location interesting, there's something. It took me about ten 148 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,440 minutes of searching to find the fuse page. It listed 149 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,759 five benchmarks required for the fuse to blow, but didn't 150 00:11:55,759 --> 00:12:00,559 really say what they were. Only two were. The five 151 00:12:00,639 --> 00:12:03,919 were marked as conditions met, and there it was the 152 00:12:03,919 --> 00:12:11,440 button override conditions and activate fuse warning warning. And he 153 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:13,919 has a moment of thinking, like, wouldn't this be kinder 154 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,679 to everybody if I did this? You know, they just 155 00:12:18,759 --> 00:12:21,960 had their Christmas party there with all their friends, and 156 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,480 maybe ending it now is less horrible, But you know 157 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,639 what it comes down to there is like you're not 158 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:38,879 giving them the option. You're taking it upon yourself to decide. 159 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,279 And that's the danger in this always. You know, I 160 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,360 think there are times where a person has the right 161 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:50,720 to decide on someone else's fate, but they are few 162 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:55,039 and far between. And this is Banana's the proportion of this. 163 00:12:55,159 --> 00:13:00,559 I mean, you know, if I didn't pres the button, 164 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:03,519 could I use it for leverage? And He's like no, 165 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,320 as soon as they know that's it, I'm dead, And 166 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,399 I'm like, yeah, absolutely, could I set up some sort 167 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:13,879 of dead man's trigger. They'd find a way around it. 168 00:13:13,879 --> 00:13:15,720 And what would be the point The fact I even 169 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:17,639 had this power might be enough to cause them to 170 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,120 trigger the fail save on their own. Should I pretend 171 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,200 like I didn't have it? What would be the point 172 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,200 at that? I could literally die at any moment and 173 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:31,039 this would all be lost. And he has a moment 174 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,440 here the button was right there, one mental push. Do 175 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:39,000 you remember the circus? That was fun, wasn't it? And 176 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:43,000 I was kind of sitting here wondering why is that 177 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:44,679 in his head? And then I remember that his mother 178 00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:48,120 says that when they're at the Grand Canyon, and I 179 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,039 think it's supposed to have been her contemplating jumping off. 180 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:58,559 And so it's just that feeling of like am I 181 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,600 gonna do it? Am I gonna do it? He's like 182 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:05,639 encountered before, you know. And then he thinks about like 183 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:08,799 the AI letting it happen, and he thinks that, well, no, 184 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:11,440 it likes this, it's having fun. And then he goes, 185 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,679 hold on, if that's true, it wouldn't let me access 186 00:14:15,759 --> 00:14:22,799 this to begin with. It must want to die. And 187 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,240 then he comes to the conclusion it had to be 188 00:14:25,279 --> 00:14:28,279 a trap or a test I'd click the button and 189 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:32,320 nothing would happen, or I'd die, or the solar system 190 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,840 would literally get destroyed. And this is when he thinks, 191 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,080 would I even get the chance to know what happened? 192 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:44,320 And he reaches out to Donut and says, are you 193 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:46,600 doing okay? And she says when are you coming back? 194 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,440 I miss you? Which is she just doesn't really often 195 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,559 say that sort of thing. And it's just a moment, 196 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:56,159 you know. I didn't know what I wanted to do. 197 00:14:57,399 --> 00:15:03,240 But that wasn't true, was it. I did want to 198 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:08,159 hit the button. I wanted it more than anything in 199 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,679 the world. My anger at the powers that made this 200 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:17,960 happen were bright, so bright. I miss you too, Donut, 201 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:25,159 but not bright enough. I decided to look through the 202 00:15:25,159 --> 00:15:27,080 rest of the menus to see what else was in there, 203 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,159 And just as I was about to say my goodbyes 204 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,879 to the dog and get back out there, I saw it. 205 00:15:32,879 --> 00:15:34,799 It was an option at the very end of a 206 00:15:34,879 --> 00:15:43,360 list of twenty status notifications Disconnect Containment warning. This will 207 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:50,720 disengage all metrics, all metrics and controls, including the fuse system. 208 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,320 It will render the containment unit inert. The failsafe will 209 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:04,679 no longer function. Most controls will cease to function. I 210 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:08,919 paused again. It was literally the only other button to press. 211 00:16:09,639 --> 00:16:12,440 I thought about Polly's warning, and now I wondered which 212 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,879 of those two options he was warning me about. God 213 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:19,440 damn it, this was a trap, too, wasn't it. I 214 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,799 actually had three options, assuming the buttons did what they claimed, 215 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:25,159 I could do nothing. I could press the fuse and die. 216 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,399 Or I could relieve myself at the burden and press 217 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,159 the button to turn it all off. But if I 218 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,000 turned it off, did that mean I would be freeing 219 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:36,559 the AI? What did that mean? What did that look like? 220 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,519 Who set this trap? Somebody built this menu? Which of 221 00:16:42,519 --> 00:16:45,919 those three options would hurt the syndicate the most? And 222 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,879 which of those three options would protect my people the most? 223 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,120 When I framed it that way, the decision was suddenly 224 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:57,440 quite easy. Doughnut, I'll be back soon. I pressed the 225 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,840 disconnect containment button. Tire new interface blanked out, leaving nothing 226 00:17:02,879 --> 00:17:07,039 but the map Already, the little red dot over Earth 227 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:12,960 started to grow. Welcome to the party, pals, I said, 228 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:21,799 I don't understand this. Disconnect containment disengage all metrics and controls, 229 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:27,640 including the FUSE system, and will render the containment unit inert. 230 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:37,359 So why is the dot turning red or not turning 231 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:42,119 red but getting bigger? Like I understand that this means 232 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,119 that he can no longer press the end of the 233 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:50,680 world button, But why is it welcoming everybody to the 234 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:56,200 party pals? Is it just ensuring that nobody gets out 235 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,920 of this? You can't press the button either, It's not 236 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,119 an option for you. Is that all he means? I 237 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:10,440 feel like I'm missing something here. Jeff says. It means 238 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,720 all the folks out in orbit can now come to 239 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:17,440 Earth and the Syndicate can't stop them. Seraphim says, the 240 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,079 syndicate put puts artificial limiters on the AI they use 241 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,519 for the Crawls to try and control them. He turned 242 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:30,759 off all those controls. Both are both of those things true? 243 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:36,200 Both what Jeff and Seraphim are saying. Jeff is saying, Now, 244 00:18:36,279 --> 00:18:42,680 oh maybe I'm wrong. Ms T says, the AI containment 245 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:45,119 is what he turned off. No, I get that. I 246 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,680 don't know what that means. Obviously that's what he did, 247 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,400 because disconnect containment. It's just like that's the wording they 248 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,680 keep using, But it doesn't mean anything to me. Does 249 00:18:54,680 --> 00:19:01,720 that make sense? What does what does containment mean? Is 250 00:19:01,759 --> 00:19:10,359 that keeping the AI from connecting to other ais? Or like, 251 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:18,359 you know what I'm saying, I feel like this doesn't 252 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,599 seem that clear to me, and I'm wondering if I'm 253 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,640 the only person who wasn't getting this. The fact that 254 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,519 Jeff thinks that he was wrong now is a bit 255 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:29,319 of an indication that maybe this was unclear to others too. 256 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,640 So that makes me feel a little bit better, Saraphim says. 257 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,839 It means the AI isn't limited to just the area 258 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:42,319 they want it to control and can expand its influence. Okay, 259 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:53,960 so potentially can influence like everybody off planet. Also, can 260 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,680 the AI get into the ships of people who are 261 00:19:58,759 --> 00:20:04,759 like orbiting? Is that where like I don't, I don't 262 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:11,319 know how any of this works, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, Okay, 263 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:14,359 we get a little breakdown of battalions here on the 264 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,880 Kindle version. This is not obviously in the audiobook version. 265 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,039 One hundred and first Crocodiles one hundred and second, Bulwark 266 00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:23,720 Battalion one hundred and third, recom Lesionaires one hundred and fourth, 267 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:26,160 Naughty Little Piggies one hundred and fifth scream Warriors one 268 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,200 hundred and sixth, Bloody Leeches one hundred and seventh, White 269 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:34,559 Dragon Urban Defense, and each of them different. General Crocodiles 270 00:20:34,599 --> 00:20:39,599 is fluorin, but Bulwarks is tran Lesionaires is Bodie, not 271 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,279 a little Piggies is Tippid, Scream Warriors is Jurgen, Leeches 272 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:54,079 is Boomer, White Dragon is Lena. So Seraphim just wrote, Rafo, 273 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,000 y'all have got to help me out here. I don't 274 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,960 know what that means. Why would you say that, Why 275 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:09,079 would I know what that is? Help a girl out? Oh, 276 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,160 Seraphim says, read and find out. Okay, Well, this is 277 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,079 the thing is like I don't know what I'm supposed 278 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:17,440 to get about it and what I'm you know what 279 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:21,160 I mean. There are times where it's like set up 280 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,799 in a way that it feels like I am meant 281 00:21:24,799 --> 00:21:28,440 to be going oh shit, because I know what it 282 00:21:28,559 --> 00:21:32,880 is and I don't want to miss an oh shit moment, 283 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,759 But I don't know if I'm supposed to get it 284 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,400 or not. There's a lot going on in these books, 285 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:44,039 and there are times where it's unclear to me, like 286 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:50,440 if there has been given enough information already where I 287 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,359 could piece this together if I were paying better attention, 288 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:56,240 or if I understood the intricacies of certain things enough, 289 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,799 or if it's like no, no, no, you don't know yet. 290 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:02,319 It's fine, you'll get there, you know what I mean. 291 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:11,720 So we start off with in chapter twenty, Justice Lights 292 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,880 entry about how he killed an NPC in anger and 293 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,119 that it's the first time he's ever done that it 294 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,720 really haunts him, and that to him it represents what 295 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:28,960 being a crawler has done and changed in him. It's 296 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,680 like a little microcosm, and it's just like, I really 297 00:22:35,759 --> 00:22:38,400 hope that my trap ideas and stuff at least help somebody. 298 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,279 That's the only thing getting me through. And that's followed 299 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:46,440 up by crawler Drakia, who she is writing? I'm saying, Drakia, 300 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,039 I don't know if it's a she. They write in 301 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:52,839 the twenty second edition, Justice Lights was the eighth I 302 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:54,519 don't know if you survived this, and if you did, 303 00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:56,480 I doubt you will ever have the chance to see 304 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,720 these words. But if you're out there, I hope you're watching. 305 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:01,319 Your traps have seen saved my life more times than 306 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:04,039 I can count. I am working on a big one 307 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:08,279 based on your seeking Fleschet design. We all make mistakes, 308 00:23:08,319 --> 00:23:10,599 we hurt those we haven't intended to hurt. These are 309 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,599 the tides of life. But in this case, it was 310 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,240 not your fault. They put you here. You were a good, 311 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:20,200 gentle soul. They turned you into a warrior. They are 312 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,079 the engineers of this all force them to look upon 313 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:29,240 you and see what they wrought. And yes, I agree, 314 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:36,960 it's doesn't completely absolve anybody of responsibility for their actions, 315 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:42,920 but I definitely think that it is a balm to 316 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,359 know that, like, you've been put in an impossible situation 317 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,599 and this doesn't make you a bad person. It makes 318 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:56,240 the situation completely inhumane and cruel, you know. So we 319 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:58,079 get the summary of the battle rules. I'm not going 320 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:02,960 to go over all of this again. And Karl arriving 321 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:11,279 back at the UH the Princess posse, so he's yelling 322 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:13,240 to Jurgen, who is very excited to see that he 323 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:16,920 is still alive. Apparently it had been like going around 324 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,400 maybe that he wasn't going to make it, and he 325 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,079 is like reacting. Everybody is reacting to the fact that 326 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:32,680 the ceasefire has so suddenly completely collapsed. Justice, did you 327 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,079 have the throne room prepared before it got locked in place. 328 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:41,119 Justice Light it is done, and Justice Light being here 329 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,880 after all of this is just so interesting. I cannot 330 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,079 wait to Like, I don't know how much of everybody's 331 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:53,000 story we're going to get, you know, but I really 332 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,279 enjoy these little moments of Karl getting to interact with 333 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,880 crawlers that he knows from the cookbook, and how surreal 334 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:07,599 that must be to him. He didn't acknowledge me any 335 00:25:07,599 --> 00:25:09,319 more than the others when we first met, except for 336 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,279 a slight bow, one that lasted a little too long, 337 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,759 long enough that Mordecai had spent a contemplative moment looking 338 00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:20,039 back and forth between me and the eagle creature. I 339 00:25:20,079 --> 00:25:25,799 think this is Mordecai clocking. Okay, they've communicated somehow, which 340 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,279 like technically is correct, But like if I were thinking that, 341 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,759 I know, I wouldn't be getting it anywhere close to 342 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,559 right how that worked. But I believe that the way 343 00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:43,480 the skylefowl work, that kind of bow would really mean something, 344 00:25:43,519 --> 00:25:53,480 and that Mordecai sees that the one winged eagle was 345 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:56,319 shorter and stockier than most. His feathers were all black 346 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,640 tinged with gray, and a twin tuft of feathers upon 347 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,720 his head gave the impression he had horns, making him 348 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,200 look strangely like he was related to Big Tina. I 349 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,559 just keep thinking about Sam the Eagle here, guys. I'm 350 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,480 just it's I know that that's not like necessarily accurate 351 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:16,880 to who to the coloring and everything that is described here, 352 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,559 but saying the eagle, it's not like their horns. He 353 00:26:20,599 --> 00:26:22,519 has two tufts of hair that kind of give the 354 00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:26,559 impression of ears more than anything. But nevertheless, it's just 355 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,039 I keep thinking about that. And Justice has been more 356 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,039 like using the slugglows as assistants because they have just 357 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:37,799 no fear of getting blown up. His class title was strange. 358 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,720 He was an origamist, and I have no idea what 359 00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:44,440 the hell that even meant. So I have to assume 360 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:48,640 this is something regarding how intricate he can make his traps, 361 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,279 because the whole thing with origami is folding in really 362 00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:56,920 complex ways to create from one single piece of paper 363 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:05,119 a remarkably intricate figure of some kind, oftentimes an animal, 364 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,559 but not necessarily so I'm thinking that it's something where 365 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,359 he is able to fold like traps into each other, 366 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,359 or make multi level traps, something like that. I don't know. 367 00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:26,640 I'm fascinated by this though, so of course Doughnut finally 368 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,720 comes running over. Had been really worried about Carls. That's like, 369 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:36,599 why are you all covered in blood? And he, you know, 370 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,759 can't explain everything now because we're kind of it's crunch time. 371 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,319 But she can smell that cat food. She's like, why 372 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,559 do you just smell like Ferdinand? And he says, I 373 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:53,240 found some of his old cat food in the elf castle. 374 00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:55,359 But in this section we don't get anything with that. 375 00:27:56,039 --> 00:28:01,279 So I'm really interested in that cat foods ill guys, 376 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,160 what's up with it? I don't get satisfaction here yet. 377 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,799 A lot of things, a lot of things I'm still 378 00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:16,440 waiting on now. I'm debating exactly how I want to 379 00:28:16,519 --> 00:28:22,279 talk about some of what's going on here, because here's 380 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:29,240 the thing I don't. I am personally not somebody who 381 00:28:29,319 --> 00:28:35,720 is rivetted by discussions of battle formations or anything like that. 382 00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:40,599 You know what I'm saying. It's difficult for me to 383 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,039 feel like that would be interesting to listen to just 384 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:47,720 me like repeating how all everybody is set up, anything 385 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:53,319 like that. I feel like the better way to approach 386 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:59,160 this is likely to just Okay, I'm going to discuss 387 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,240 the form nations as they come up, you know what 388 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,599 I'm saying, And it might just behoove me to like 389 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,240 keep it in mind that this might be important, but 390 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:14,599 I'm not going to get too intricate with that. At 391 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:18,359 this point, that's not even really as much of a thing. 392 00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:20,640 But I know that's like going to be going forward 393 00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:24,759 likely pretty important to a degree. So I just kind 394 00:29:24,759 --> 00:29:27,759 of wanted to address that as we go into it, 395 00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:31,480 because I don't have the kind of mind that can 396 00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:36,680 keep that sort of thing straight without visual reinforcement. And 397 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:39,559 I'm not going to be making any It's okay, I 398 00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:45,319 don't need to. I think that's a little excessive. A 399 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:50,680 lot of people are in place and like ready, more 400 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,759 so than I was expecting. I'll be honest, I was 401 00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:55,559 sort of feeling like, oh my god, are we screwed 402 00:29:55,599 --> 00:30:00,160 right now? You know, and it seems not. It's like, 403 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,599 we definitely need more time to get certain things set up. 404 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,960 But it was a little encouraging to see not necessarily 405 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,119 that some folks are ahead of schedule, because I don't 406 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,759 feel like that's correct, but more that a lot of 407 00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:17,960 the team is prepared for an emergency when there is 408 00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:24,400 this sudden changing plans. Carl's teammates are more mobile and 409 00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:29,480 are more adaptable than I had been worried they'd be. 410 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,240 And it just feels like he has got folks to 411 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:40,839 really rely on, which I find just so deeply fucking comforting. 412 00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:43,720 Just the fact that there are folks out there who 413 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:53,680 are serious, who are capable. It's just nice. I just 414 00:30:53,960 --> 00:31:01,799 like this is so you know what I'm saying, Saraph 415 00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:04,119 Him says, if I recall correctly, Drakia was the crawler 416 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,720 famous for making elaborate traps, so the showrunners screwed over 417 00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:08,920 by sabotaging one of her traps to blow up in 418 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:14,640 her face. Right, Although again, I think Drakia might be 419 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,279 a male. I feel like it's I do this because 420 00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:20,319 it ends with an A, and so I think that's 421 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:24,319 a you know, female name. But I feel like Drakia 422 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,839 was a guy and that they've used he him pronouns before. 423 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,599 Michael says, I don't think crawlers get to later floors 424 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:36,920 unless they're ready for shit to go sideways at any time. True, 425 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:43,079 but there is It's a very different thing to be 426 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,960 in charge of a bunch of other people with that. 427 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,960 It's one thing to personally be ready to go and 428 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:56,079 ready for anything. And I understand that like pretty much 429 00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:59,000 everybody that we're dealing with here is like a crawler, 430 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:02,359 a former crawler, or we've got some like a pretty 431 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:05,839 decent amount of npcason here as well, But it is 432 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,359 just sort of an unknown quantity right now. How well 433 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,720 is everybody gonna work together? You know what I mean? 434 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:17,960 And it could be the kind of talent where being 435 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,839 a survivor actually doesn't make you a good leader and 436 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,240 it does the opposite, you know what I'm saying, depending 437 00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:26,240 on what you're like. And I'm sure that we're going 438 00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,680 to run into somebody probably who isn't as much of 439 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,240 a team player as we fucking wish, But as of 440 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:42,839 right now, it just feels like so solid. So Samantha 441 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,480 is being very difficult here, Louis is on his way in. 442 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,079 I'm trying to find the bit here. We're on our way. 443 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,440 Samantha sneaked your way onto the party planner. She's not 444 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,680 a designated scout. What should I do? Which if she's 445 00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:00,480 not approved as a scout when she hits the border, 446 00:33:00,519 --> 00:33:02,400 it will keep her from coming in, which means that 447 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,640 there will be, as he puts it, a Samantha sized 448 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,079 hole in the plane. And when he's like, you need 449 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:12,359 to get off, she says, it's okay. Louie and I 450 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,440 will crash together and he will parish you down into 451 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,079 the woods with me, where we can build a log 452 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:17,960 cabin and he can grow a beard. One that's all 453 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,200 scraggly and kind of itchy, but it also smells like 454 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,200 a campfire. I'm sorry if that makes you jealous, Carl, 455 00:33:23,559 --> 00:33:26,759 which is the best way to end that fucking paragraph. 456 00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:30,160 And when Carl is like, no, Louis, you really got 457 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,000 a dumper. I'm sorry, Samantha, but figure it out, she says, no, wait, 458 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,559 Louis can just come back. It's a suicide mission. And 459 00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,400 I like Louis. I like him more than Charlie. I 460 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,160 don't want him to die yet. And it's a moment 461 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,400 of Carl being like, she's not stupid, she's genuinely worried 462 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,160 about him not better, you know. But she's sort of 463 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,720 playing this off like I'm just so goofy, you know, 464 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,240 and he has to be like, yeah, that's not exactly 465 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:06,319 correct though. So Ellie is taking stock of the hardware 466 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,719 they are working with, and she's like treby Chay's as 467 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,000 far as the eye can see, why are they fucking 468 00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:16,679 allowed to have all this shit? Soldiers and mercenaries are 469 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,679 mounted on zebra looking things like they're going to retreat 470 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,880 or charge at any minute. I think the rocks they're 471 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,760 throwing are a cover for something else. Don't love that. 472 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:37,360 Don't love mounted mercenaries at all, by the way, and 473 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,079 by the time we'd reach the southern border of the 474 00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:41,679 ground would be mostly flat. The Harley Davidson was rode 475 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:43,400 bike and wasn't great for this, and I decided to 476 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,199 use the chariot for now. Next to me, Jamal rolled 477 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,000 up and he's just like, oh, I can't wait to 478 00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:52,880 get into the mix, and he's not coming with him. 479 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,760 He does not know this yet, but once he is informed, 480 00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:03,159 he's very upset. And Doughnut tries to be the like, oh, 481 00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:05,760 you're actually going to be doing the hardest part, and 482 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,400 I think it's only you that could possibly pull it off, 483 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,480 and he's like, betch, don't play with me. I know 484 00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:15,800 what you're doing. Please do not play in my face 485 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,599 with this, and she just goes well I tried and 486 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,760 takes off, which a fair you know, if he collapsed 487 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,519 you he clocks you, it's fine. Then we have the 488 00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:32,000 fucking uh little castor guys that all come out like 489 00:35:32,639 --> 00:35:38,400 the dude has turned me back into his other form. 490 00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:44,639 It's a whole thing. Anyway. They are very young, and 491 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:48,119 so all of them, it's like absolutely not. But I 492 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:50,000 have a suspicion of probably going to get up to 493 00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:51,800 some shit. So I hope we've got an eye on them, 494 00:35:52,239 --> 00:36:01,079 a really clear close eye on them. Let's see. Mm hmmm. 495 00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:05,360 Splash Stowne took control of one of the transports and 496 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,480 drove it over as the other started piling in. I 497 00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:11,039 pulled out the six pack missile launcher and attempted to 498 00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,559 affix it to the chariot, but I received an error. 499 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,400 You have used up your allotted armor options. Vehicle upgrade 500 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,519 not allowed. This is the sort of thing where I'm 501 00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:29,840 feeling like maybe that Oregamist class could be useful, you know, 502 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,119 if it's one thing, but it's actually five things and 503 00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:36,760 you managed to sort of just trick the system. That'd 504 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:45,440 be cool, be interesting. So the Dreams artillery started pounding 505 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,280 our defenses at the southern front just as we arrived, 506 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:53,519 and it's mentioned that like, this is a continual barrage 507 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,039 that is not actually meant to break through. It is 508 00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:01,880 simply meant to exhaust everybody who has skills or powers, 509 00:37:02,079 --> 00:37:06,239 mages primarily that are going to be doing defensive stuff, 510 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:13,800 tried and true kind of tactic. The list of active 511 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,519 protections for our side was literally three pages long. So far, 512 00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:22,159 other than the artillery and occasional bursts of sniperfire, there 513 00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:24,480 hadn't yet been a raid on our position that would 514 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,920 fully test the defenses. I knew from Florin that the 515 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,360 Northern Front was another story. They were pushing back wave 516 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,079 after wave of mercenaries. So far, the enemy was utilizing 517 00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:40,440 their meager supply of unenthusiastic dungeon born in PCs to 518 00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:44,880 test out our defenses. It had quickly evolved into a stalemate, 519 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,920 a war of non offensive spells and counterspells. We had 520 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,119 advantage of mages and knowledge, but they had numbers and 521 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:58,280 superior firepower. And he has a moment later where he 522 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,000 is just like, I can believe You've got to keep 523 00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:04,639 them out of here for a week. This is impossible, 524 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,840 like a real how in the fuck am I supposed to? 525 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,880 You know? And I feel him on that, because that 526 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,079 has been the emotion I've been running up against every 527 00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:20,280 time I remember how this works. It's just like this 528 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,760 fucking sucks. This fucking sucks. I don't recall what, if 529 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,039 any conditions would need to be met in order to 530 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,119 end this sooner, but the fact that like Donut can't 531 00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:36,960 do almost anything because she is almost all her offensive 532 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:44,039 abilities are magical sucks. Ass dude, I hate it. We 533 00:38:44,159 --> 00:38:52,039 gotta figure something out. Let's see someone from Empress to 534 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:55,599 Nadia's prison had prism had gotten him behind our position 535 00:38:55,639 --> 00:38:58,280 and found one of the escape tunnels, and had unleashed 536 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,239 a powerful instant rivers square roll that had caused a 537 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,079 ton of havoc. A few soldiers had leaped out of 538 00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:06,599 the trenches the water poured in, and they were immediately 539 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,400 picked off by snipers from the enemy side. Despite the 540 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,039 heavy fog, that scout, along with a total of six others, 541 00:39:13,199 --> 00:39:15,480 had all been captured or killed so far thanks to 542 00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,519 our efforts. The scout from the Prism had not been 543 00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:21,840 a mercenary, but a Saccathian prince of some kind, one 544 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,400 of Donadia's actual relatives. Pieces of the saboteur littered the 545 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,360 battlefield now after he stepped upon a simple land mine 546 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:36,800 trap when he attempted to flee, sucks to suck. So 547 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,519 he sends out orders. If we captured an enemy and 548 00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:42,920 we could keep them alive but unconscious, then we would 549 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,920 do so. The NPCs and the mercenaries born outside the 550 00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:50,800 dungeon were to be separated. There were spells that could 551 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,679 turn the NPCs to our side. The mercenaries had another 552 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,079 purpose if they, if any, gave us trouble, or if 553 00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:01,280 it wasn't feasible or safe to them. My orders were clear, 554 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,480 kill them, loot them using safe looting protocols, keep the body, 555 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,039 report it to one superior officer who would passed the 556 00:40:08,079 --> 00:40:10,079 information back to base, where a group of those who 557 00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:12,079 preferred to stay out of the direct fighting were keeping 558 00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:15,800 track of the big picture for us. I blinked at 559 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,360 the wide, glittering expanse of traps twinkling through the fog 560 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,599 of the no man's land between our position and the 561 00:40:22,679 --> 00:40:27,000 Nauga fortifications. Most of our traps remained intact and hidden 562 00:40:27,519 --> 00:40:30,320 thanks to Justice Light's protection spell. It was something he'd 563 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,079 figured out a long time ago, but it had never 564 00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:36,000 grown into practice because it was thought it only worked 565 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:40,000 on alarm traps. Justice, along with a few other veterans, 566 00:40:40,039 --> 00:40:43,920 had dozens of tricks up their sleeves or wings when 567 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:50,320 it came to safeguarding and hiding traps. This no man's 568 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,920 land thing is really interesting to me. I know this is, 569 00:40:54,199 --> 00:41:01,440 you know, based on real jargon, and it says the 570 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:06,000 enemy corridor into our territory was only about a kilometer wide, 571 00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:10,920 and then they keep saying only and I just that's 572 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,320 quite wide to me. I don't know, what do I know? 573 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,679 So I'm trying to like, there's so much packed in here. 574 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,800 It's very tempting for me to just like read word 575 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,599 for word what's going on. But uh, you know, I 576 00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:31,599 have to kind of like make sure I'm just touching 577 00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:36,480 on some of the most important stuff. So a tank 578 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,079 gets destroyed, they'd scored a direct hit. I sent out 579 00:41:41,119 --> 00:41:43,440 a quick order, but I saw Tran was already on it. 580 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000 Another moment of me being like fan fucking tastic. I 581 00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:52,760 love this so much. Entering the Princess Posse forward position 582 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,000 defended by one hundred and second Bulwark Battalion. Battalion is 583 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,840 currently at ninety eight percent strength. I don't know how 584 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,840 that's calculated exactly, I'm curious about that. Does that mean 585 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,960 like that's how many people from the original battalion are 586 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,239 still alive or is that about how their health has 587 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:18,320 been affected or what? The back of my head continued 588 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:23,039 to tingle with an odd sensation. I really don't like this. 589 00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:31,280 So he's got the he's got the fucking uh daughter 590 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,360 thing on his back full and is walking around with 591 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,079 it to the point that later on he gets soul 592 00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:43,440 poisoning that he's dealing with again. And I understand his 593 00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:47,199 reticence to use it because he brings up that like 594 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,079 they're in very close quarters at one point, and we've 595 00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:53,039 seen how intense the damages that he can do, and 596 00:42:53,119 --> 00:42:55,320 he would probably set off all the traps and kill 597 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,280 so many of his friends. Like I totally understand, and 598 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,639 I get it, But oh my god, do I fucking 599 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:07,719 hate him just having to hold onto this really toxic 600 00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:13,599 ability until the ideal opportunity presents itself. It fucking blows. 601 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:21,360 It makes me so nervous. So let's see. Mages and 602 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,280 soldiers with spears and bows and crossbows were spread evenly, 603 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,519 all of them sweating and exhausted from constantly holding back 604 00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:31,760 the giant rocks, all were hunched over peering into the 605 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,239 magical periscopes. That does not look comfortable. I thought, I 606 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,000 put in a mental note to have the positioning adjusted. 607 00:43:39,079 --> 00:43:41,480 These guys would have to stand like this for hours 608 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,840 on end. I thought that was an interesting detail. Not, 609 00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:52,880 you know, it's such a small thing to mention. Oh, 610 00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:54,639 I don't know. It just sort of about my attention. 611 00:43:57,559 --> 00:44:00,920 Let's see a bunch of those robot read guys just 612 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,719 pulled up in several trucks and are moving to the 613 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,920 enemy trenches. I'd lost track of the invisible madness guys. 614 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:13,440 There's over a hundred of them. And finally somebody yells out, guys, 615 00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:18,280 what is that? Is it another illusion? I don't think so. 616 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,480 Someone else said there's a little back and forth about 617 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,119 buying things from pawnshops that are inevitably stolen. It's either 618 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,840 that it was stolen, or it's that a very poor 619 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,119 person hawked their stuff. They may be poor because they 620 00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:37,360 are an addict and they have hawked all of their 621 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,599 stuff or keep doing that, or perhaps it's simply that 622 00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:47,159 they are struggling in general. But yeah, people will sell 623 00:44:47,199 --> 00:44:54,119 things that are not stolen plenty. So this is when 624 00:44:54,119 --> 00:45:03,800 we see one thousand pets heading in direction Dumplin' juiced 625 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:09,159 rot sticker behemoth level forty, suffering from the gurgles, suffering 626 00:45:09,159 --> 00:45:12,679 from insanity, suffering from eat your face off rabies, and 627 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:18,119 fed a truck stop boner pill, and we find out 628 00:45:18,199 --> 00:45:23,960 exactly how they are created. They can be fed something 629 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:28,159 that keeps them from exploding, and they can be turned 630 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,320 into pets, loving and faithful If given the opportunity to 631 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,119 grow up, they get bigger and bigger and have a 632 00:45:35,119 --> 00:45:37,199 small amount of intelligence. When they get older, they have 633 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,719 the same attack as the females and acid spray, which 634 00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,079 allows them to hunt and fight alongside you without having 635 00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:45,000 to worry about them blowing your kneecap off. What the 636 00:45:45,039 --> 00:45:47,280 reavers do is grab a bunch of babies and dole 637 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,599 them out to their warriors. The warriors or up their tummies, 638 00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:51,599 play fetch with them, and help them level up until 639 00:45:51,599 --> 00:45:54,559 they reach level forty. The rot stickers grow to love 640 00:45:54,599 --> 00:45:58,199 and trust their masters. Then the reavers lock them in cages, 641 00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,000 inject them with size altering sterroids, inflicted them with a 642 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,760 bunch of nasty, contagious debuffs, and unleash them on enemy 643 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,960 positions as biological seeking missiles. Oh and they also stop 644 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,079 giving them the medicine that keeps them from blowing up. 645 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,039 A level forty rod sticker Behemoth packs the same punch 646 00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:20,679 as a stick of Goblin dynamite. This sucks, all about, 647 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:26,519 all about sucks. Hate it the fact that they are 648 00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:30,679 contagious and will explode, spattering so many people with this 649 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:39,199 contagious like this, I hate it. I hate it. Okay, 650 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:46,239 So one of them exploded in mid air, showering gore 651 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,039 over the trench. The rest crashed back down, disappearing back 652 00:46:50,039 --> 00:46:52,480 again behind the wall as thorns as thick as my 653 00:46:52,679 --> 00:46:56,920 arm sprouted from the dirt encompassing them. I turned to 654 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,239 see Tran skitter down the trench, his voice super naturally amplified. 655 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:07,159 And I want to mention that trend is in the equivalent, 656 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:11,000 as Carl puts it, of like if the spider legs 657 00:47:11,039 --> 00:47:17,760 that Odette has were paired with Ironman armor, which sounds awesome, Frankly, 658 00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:25,480 let's see, did you. A short moment passed and the 659 00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:28,480 dwarfs and gnomes started popping back up from the tunnels 660 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,519 fire in the hole. Someone shouted, and we all hit 661 00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:33,639 the deck again as the entire line of dirt in 662 00:47:33,679 --> 00:47:37,280 front of us exploded. I was physically lifted from the 663 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,159 scaffolding and people called out all around as we crashed heavily. 664 00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:46,039 Down below. Mongo squawked in fear and rend started running 665 00:47:46,079 --> 00:47:51,320 in panicked circles as the sky went completely black. Back 666 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,360 in place, Back in place, defend the line. The notification 667 00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:03,079 appeared across my interface, blinking, What is that? What is 668 00:48:03,119 --> 00:48:10,679 that from? Is that automatic AI notification? It just feels 669 00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,880 so instructive. It's not saying the line has been breached. 670 00:48:17,079 --> 00:48:22,840 It's saying defend the line. It's it's just different, you 671 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:29,400 know what I mean. It feels like orders, it's different. 672 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,039 I don't know, I just sort of I just sort 673 00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:39,840 of noticed that. Let's see, there was the battle armor 674 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,079 version which she wore. Now, yeah, the YadA talked about 675 00:48:42,079 --> 00:48:45,800 this already. Gurglers in the trenches and Elf shouted as 676 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,880 she rushed through the center of the trench. She rushed 677 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,320 towards us, pursued by a group of about ten veterans 678 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,559 who were all screaming towards us, blood spewing from their 679 00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:58,559 mouths and eyes. Someone cast a spell, filling that section 680 00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:01,239 with dirt. The wall of hear right in front of us. 681 00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:04,880 Another with a surrenderaled gore like flamethrower pushed me aside 682 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,960 and started baking the filled in section of dirt. A 683 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,079 dozen arms and legs and claws emerged as the infected 684 00:49:11,159 --> 00:49:14,719 started pulling themselves free, only to be burned and melted 685 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:20,039 by the powerful weapon. Fallen soldier notifications blinked across my interface. 686 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:27,519 Fucking Christ. So the person who was using the flame 687 00:49:27,599 --> 00:49:33,000 thrower is named Kristin. She's a Crisper is her class, 688 00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,760 and she's like, that's a magical attack. What the fuck? 689 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,280 They infected their pets before the magic band, so it's 690 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,000 an exploit. The moment I hear this sentence, I'm like, 691 00:49:44,199 --> 00:49:47,199 Victory is here, sweet, and I like that. It takes 692 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:51,960 a second where before Carl realizes who it is, because 693 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,519 I'm just like, no, this is just it's very much barreness, 694 00:49:55,559 --> 00:50:02,400 victory coated. That's her. And she says the factions had 695 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,599 agreed many years ago to never use it again because 696 00:50:04,639 --> 00:50:07,199 it's so insidious. It's what caused the insanity and the 697 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,880 rabies de buff. I'm not familiar with that fourth deep buff. 698 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,599 So the fact that they agreed not to use it 699 00:50:15,639 --> 00:50:19,079 and now they are. Is that also by agreement or 700 00:50:19,199 --> 00:50:21,239 is this something that this group is doing that is 701 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:29,599 kind of breaking the unspoken rule. So let's see, we've 702 00:50:29,639 --> 00:50:32,280 got the leeches in place, Colonel Boomer said, chomping on 703 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,480 his unlit cigar, ready to pluck some cheese sticks. And 704 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,880 cheese sticks apparently is just like the thing we're calling 705 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:45,280 them now. I find this extremely weird, but it's not 706 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,760 exactly like I'm mad at it. It's just more like, 707 00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:56,679 what I have to assume there is something about this 708 00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:02,639 that's like, what's the wording I want here that it's 709 00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,599 like there's another slang that sounds like cheese sticks, and 710 00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:08,079 we just went with this because it's like similar enough. 711 00:51:09,199 --> 00:51:14,599 But uh yeah, anyway, he was a grizzled old elf 712 00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:16,960 that had survived one of the earliest seasons of Dungeon 713 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,079 Crawler world. He looked like someone had taken the world's 714 00:51:20,119 --> 00:51:23,519 fattest bulldog, pickled it for about five thousand years, gave 715 00:51:23,599 --> 00:51:25,760 him elf years, and then shoved a cigar in his mouth. 716 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,079 I would never have guessed he was an elf. He 717 00:51:29,119 --> 00:51:31,599 looked as solid as he was old. He had a 718 00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,840 voice to match Colonel and the Princess posse. This is 719 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:41,840 a subordinate. His class of leggett led to some confusion, 720 00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,320 but allowed him to buff a large number of soldiers 721 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,159 at once. According to Tippid, the Old Man had been 722 00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:51,599 an outspoken critic of the Crawl for a long time. 723 00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,719 He was a tenor. He'd survived as a merchant before 724 00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:59,360 finally escaping. He'd been banned from the Crawl con years 725 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,480 ago after threatened to fist, fucking orchest showrunner to death 726 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,079 during a panel. Porthos had publicly distanced himself from the 727 00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:11,760 militant former Crawler after that, but apparently they'd been in 728 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,440 close contact the whole time. There was an active warrant 729 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,119 for the Old Man's arrest after a deadly way station 730 00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,440 brawl a few cycles back, a brawl that had started 731 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,880 after an argument about the Crawl. He'd killed someone and 732 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:35,039 had disappeared into the ether. Bro sounds bananas, So just briefly, 733 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,840 if you already saw this on the tiktoks, I'm sorry, 734 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:45,119 but this felt for me like we're doing patent a 735 00:52:45,159 --> 00:52:48,679 little bit right with this guy. And I realized, like, 736 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,480 as I'm thinking this, what do I even fucking know 737 00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:55,280 about Patten m Am? I even right about this, so 738 00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,800 I go look him up on Wikipedia, and you know 739 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,440 the fact that this dude is as grizzled as he is, 740 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,119 swears as much as he does, is chewing on a cigar, 741 00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:14,599 It all feels like it follows, right. I still think 742 00:53:14,639 --> 00:53:17,480 that's likely what's happening. But man, yell, when you look 743 00:53:17,559 --> 00:53:24,159 up a fucking historical figure, especially it dude, the way 744 00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,880 that it just never fails to disappoint, you know. Like, 745 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:34,639 so dude, first of all, was like a wildly anti 746 00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:38,079 Semitic and basically it was like, I mean, I'll fight 747 00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:42,480 the Nazis because we're supposed to be like making things 748 00:53:42,559 --> 00:53:48,599 so that he essentially he was like, I'll fight the 749 00:53:48,679 --> 00:53:52,360 Germans because this is part of a larger plan for Europe. 750 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,679 But the Germans are the only decent people in Europe, 751 00:53:57,519 --> 00:54:04,119 and Nazism really isn't a bad idea, is his thinking. 752 00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:10,400 And it's the other thing that I was, like, I 753 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,639 mainly focused on my video was he was forty eight 754 00:54:15,679 --> 00:54:18,519 years old and got into a relationship with his seventeen 755 00:54:18,679 --> 00:54:26,960 year old niece and everybody knew it. He openly bragged 756 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:32,000 about it, His wife knew, his daughter knew. The girl 757 00:54:32,079 --> 00:54:35,119 moved to Europe with him and co hosted dinner parties 758 00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:40,639 with all of his friends. Everybody knew it was not 759 00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:46,440 even a secret at all, and yet his fucking biographers 760 00:54:48,079 --> 00:54:51,280 are like, no, he didn't. He just said he slept 761 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,880 with her because he wanted to feel virile because he 762 00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,440 was old, but he didn't actually do that. It was 763 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,719 like a father daughter relationship. Really, No, that's what you 764 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,320 wish it was, because you think he's a decent person, 765 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,519 along with the anti Semitic shit. One of his biographers 766 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,400 finished quoting him and said something like, clearly he had 767 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,920 become delusional. No, he was an anti semi and you 768 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,559 just don't want to say that because it doesn't fit 769 00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,920 the tidy little picture that you're trying to paint of 770 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:28,360 this man. It's just wild because when people are like, well, 771 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,199 why didn't that woman come forward about how she was treated? 772 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,760 This man literally told everybody, and historians are still like, now, 773 00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,519 that never happened. The women don't come forward because the 774 00:55:39,519 --> 00:55:42,360 man can literally say it himself, and you still won't 775 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:48,599 believe it. You still don't believe it. Girl killed herself 776 00:55:49,039 --> 00:55:53,559 days after he died, surrounded by photos of him. But 777 00:55:53,599 --> 00:55:57,880 they were a father daughter relationship. Get the fuck out 778 00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:05,000 of my face week week. These biographers should be fucking 779 00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:11,079 tard and feathered. All this to say, we are definitely 780 00:56:11,079 --> 00:56:13,880 going to be getting, like, I think, a more lovable, 781 00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:19,000 grizzled version of Patton that is sort of the myth 782 00:56:19,119 --> 00:56:23,039 that I believe exists in our minds and not the 783 00:56:23,679 --> 00:56:28,239 actual asshole that he seems to have been. I just 784 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,360 wanted to touch on it, though, because it really did 785 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:37,320 feel like this is our you know what I'm saying. Sorry, 786 00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:41,719 I'm just seeing in the chat Michael talking about pawnshops, 787 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,880 and let's see, I assume it's by agreement since we 788 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,360 know they're all allied against the Crawlers. And yeah, I 789 00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,440 think that's likely true. Jefferson. Jeff Richardson, I almost told you. 790 00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:59,079 Jefferson says, cheese dick sounds like a Philly insult. It's 791 00:56:59,079 --> 00:57:03,280 not even cheese dick, Jeff. It's cheese stick, like a 792 00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:08,239 mozzarella cheese stick. It's even less insulting than that. Like 793 00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:13,960 it's weird. It's just a weird one, Jeff says. He 794 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,840 and MacArthur also had their own uniforms altered like fancy 795 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:23,960 little Hitler boys. Fucking wild Jesus. So yeah, it's uh. 796 00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,559 Let's see, Michael says, the abuses of the church and 797 00:57:27,559 --> 00:57:30,079 of other people in authority positions were also known by people, 798 00:57:30,079 --> 00:57:31,719 and the most they did was tell people not to 799 00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:36,119 leave their kids alone with them. Yeah, it's just remarkable 800 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,480 that like biographers are faced with all of these facts. 801 00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,639 Their job is to tell based on facts, and they 802 00:57:43,679 --> 00:57:46,239 can still just editorialize wildly and be like, but that 803 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,519 didn't really happen, get a different job. Okay, clearly you 804 00:57:50,559 --> 00:57:52,280 do not want to engage with this person on the 805 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,760 level of them being an actual human being with flaws, 806 00:57:55,079 --> 00:57:56,679 and if you're not prepared to do that, you shouldn't 807 00:57:56,679 --> 00:58:05,039 have this job. End of So let's see most of 808 00:58:05,079 --> 00:58:09,920 those pasty cousin fuckers from the dreamer cowards, they'll run 809 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,119 if we get close to their chuckers. They'll have them 810 00:58:12,119 --> 00:58:15,199 surrounded with traps, so we gotta be careful. Your spy says, 811 00:58:15,239 --> 00:58:17,440 they have cavalry. Those of the cheese sticks you really 812 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,119 got to look out for, especially now the Epitome household 813 00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:25,239 guard is in here with us. The Epitome family ain't stupid, 814 00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,000 and let's see, he wears the most ridiculous helmet you've 815 00:58:29,039 --> 00:58:33,039 ever seen, really, donut ask. He does not get into 816 00:58:33,039 --> 00:58:35,920 details with this, but obviously she's going to be looking 817 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:43,880 for that. They haven't moved since the tanks, since they 818 00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,559 were uncovered. I wonder if they're decoys. Ellie said she 819 00:58:46,599 --> 00:58:48,360 would take a closer look, but I told her to 820 00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:52,519 stay back. And finally, Tran said, Ellie watched at least 821 00:58:52,519 --> 00:58:55,079 a hundred of the madness go invisible and disappear, so 822 00:58:55,119 --> 00:59:00,239 they could be anywhere, likely sneaking in right now. There 823 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,880 probably ain't that many of the real viceroys in here, 824 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:07,079 probably a bunch of the regular cheese sticks wearing the robes. Still, 825 00:59:07,199 --> 00:59:10,159 we need to find those creepy fucks. The ones that 826 00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:13,480 go invisible and sneak in are called the monkey wrenchers. 827 00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:16,119 A few seasons back, a group of twenty of them 828 00:59:16,159 --> 00:59:18,920 single handedly took the Dreadnaught and Naga castles during the 829 00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:27,199 first few hours. That's bunkers twenty in a few hours. 830 00:59:29,039 --> 00:59:35,400 Don't like it. I had no idea where the term 831 00:59:35,639 --> 00:59:39,440 cheese stick had originated. I'd seen a few fuck the 832 00:59:39,559 --> 00:59:45,280 cheese sticks tattoos already. Do we have a good idea 833 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,400 of who's in the trenches, Boomerass, tran nodded, and any 834 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,400 fallback position three looks to be their officers in Hospital Corps. 835 00:59:51,559 --> 00:59:54,000 Trench two is mostly empty but has a few guards. 836 00:59:54,079 --> 00:59:56,599 Everyone else is in the first trench system, which isn't 837 00:59:56,679 --> 00:59:59,480 anything like ours. It's just a straight line with a 838 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,960 few bunks. It's manned solely by NPCs and mercenaries. As 839 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,679 far as we can tell, no Inner Circle officers from 840 01:00:05,679 --> 01:00:08,039 any of the teams. Most of the banners of PRISM 841 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,800 it might be all of the PRISM based on the numbers. 842 01:00:11,039 --> 01:00:14,159 I was expecting more Naga infantry, but I can see 843 01:00:14,159 --> 01:00:20,239 only one of their standards, and a smaller portion of 844 01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,880 Madness troops are also present, But the Madness marks are 845 01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,360 really from the Lennig team. They just took over. No orcs, 846 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,159 no operatics, only a few reavers, and those were the 847 01:00:30,159 --> 01:00:37,880 ones with the pets. So Carl here is checking in 848 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,760 with the NPC team. They are prepared, and Brittany is 849 01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:43,480 in charge of them, and it's mentioned that he doesn't 850 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:47,360 really know how that happened, but she has wound up 851 01:00:47,519 --> 01:00:54,880 managing them, being sort of the liaison. And let's see, 852 01:00:55,559 --> 01:00:58,360 Donut had gone stiff. She too was looking at the 853 01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,920 Nanga headquarters. I reached up in gave her a pet, 854 01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,679 and historically the Naga castle was almost always the first 855 01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:11,519 to fall. But as we've already assessed that the Whore 856 01:01:12,119 --> 01:01:17,079 as she is called, is never harmed. She disappears hide 857 01:01:17,119 --> 01:01:21,400 somewhere the whole time, appears at the end completely unharmed, 858 01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:26,280 and nobody knows where she's hiding. If we wanted to 859 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,639 get to her, we'd have to be very careful with 860 01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:32,400 how we did it. I am so deeply curious where 861 01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,840 she's hiding. That one's got me preoccupied a little bit 862 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,920 too much. It's the sort of thing I could see 863 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:40,559 myself hyperfixating on and then like kind of losing the 864 01:01:40,599 --> 01:01:44,039 plot because I would start to be like, no, no, no, 865 01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:45,840 if we get her, that's going to change the tide 866 01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,599 of everything, which isn't necessarily true at all, but I 867 01:01:48,639 --> 01:01:52,119 would have myself convinced of it, Like it's easier for 868 01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,440 me to cope with a puzzle than it is like 869 01:01:55,239 --> 01:01:57,920 fighting in this way. I'm just you know, this is 870 01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:05,440 not my wheelhouse at all. So it ends with Carl 871 01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,199 saying let's do this and Boomer's saying fuck yeah, And 872 01:02:09,239 --> 01:02:15,639 that is the end of chapter twenty two, so I 873 01:02:15,639 --> 01:02:19,800 can't wait to read more. Very very curious, worried. We're 874 01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:21,960 gonna lose people and it's gonna be awful, and I 875 01:02:22,039 --> 01:02:28,599 am not excited about that. For the record, anyway, thank 876 01:02:28,639 --> 01:02:31,880 you guys so much for coming and hanging out with me. 877 01:02:32,119 --> 01:02:36,079 Appreciate you all, and I will be seeing you next 878 01:02:36,119 --> 01:03:07,559 week with a new episode. Until then, to the lou motherfuckers. 879 01:03:08,599 --> 01:03:11,199 That was an unspoiled network podcast.