WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.679 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.