WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.759 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:18.160 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven This Inevitable Ruin chapters 3 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:27.000 sixty three through sixty seven. In these chapters, Oh my goodness, 4 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.199 how come the gods can fuck everything up so bad? 5 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:37.320 It's just it really shouldn't be allowed. Everybody, Let's find 6 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.039 a way to like make this against the rules. 7 00:00:41.240 --> 00:01:02.880 Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show. 8 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:07.079 Everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael 9 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:14.040 for commissioning this episode. Oh my goodness, Michael, why would 10 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.079 you do this to me? This is such a weird, Like, 11 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:24.000 this is a really hectic section. There's so much that 12 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:28.239 was going to happen that we didn't know yet, and 13 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:33.920 then what we didn't know was going to happen doesn't happen, 14 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.400 and a different thing happens, which fucks up the plan 15 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.040 that we didn't know about to begin with and now 16 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.560 makes a different thing. And then Carl is like talking 17 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.599 to Donna and she's like, don't worry, I'll take care 18 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.239 of it. And he's like, oh, no, I know what 19 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:54.640 she's going to do, but I, as a reader, don't 20 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.560 know what she's going to do. So I'm like, Okay, 21 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.079 you didn't tell me about the plan in the first place, 22 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.719 and then the plan didn't go to plan, so now 23 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:07.879 we're doing a plan like f But then you're just like, oh, 24 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.719 I know what she's doing, but you're not gonna tell 25 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.879 me that either, please, And eventually, like I said, we 26 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.080 do get told. But it just there's a lot to 27 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:22.560 keep in mind, and it is a very hectic feeling, 28 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:26.639 which I am not really complaining about in terms of 29 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:32.759 like writing. It's I'm complaining as a person who gets anxious. 30 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:34.240 Does that make sense? 31 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.599 But like, when you're writing a scene like this and 32 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:44.000 everything feels frenetic and chaotic, I feel like you've nailed it, 33 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.520 because that's what you're trying to make me feel, is 34 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.560 like the complete panic and anxiety of having to adapt 35 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:56.039 on the fly to a completely new situation with parameters 36 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.319 that you weren't aware of, that you didn't think you 37 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.560 were going to have to factor in. And also a 38 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.919 lot of this centers around Carl having to like really 39 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:11.000 cope with his own tendency towards being a control freak, 40 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:18.240 which they actually comment on the like in the story, 41 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.719 which is fun. More than one person is just like, hey, bro, 42 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.240 how about you just like mind your own fucking business 43 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.080 and let us do our thing the way that you 44 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:31.280 set it up for us to do our thing so 45 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:33.120 that you weren't going to have to think about it 46 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:39.400 or micro manage us. And I am personally delighted by this. 47 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.719 I don't remember, like way back, I said something about 48 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.479 Carl showing signs that he was a control freak, and 49 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.879 somebody was like, well, I'm not really sure that's true, 50 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.919 and I feel like, now it's the author just in 51 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.840 canon being like no, no, no, yeah he is, And 52 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:01.759 I really understand, I really really understand. It's so it's 53 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.120 so tempting to feel like you need to handle it all, 54 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:12.400 especially when people make some questionable decisions. And the thing 55 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:16.480 is Carl also makes some questionable decisions, but he doesn't 56 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.800 see it. Of course it always works out, so there's 57 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:26.439 no sense from him of self awareness regarding the way 58 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.600 it looks to everyone else from the outside, you know, 59 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.079 like I drop a bomb at my feet and then 60 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.480 let the Naga princess beat me into a paste and 61 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.439 just allow her to essentially kill me repeatedly, except I 62 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.639 don't die, and it worked out, So what's the problem. 63 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.519 Guys you know, And I'm like, bro, how can you 64 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:55.360 not see what that appears to be to everybody else? 65 00:04:55.959 --> 00:05:06.319 And it's very funny, honestly, I really I it is. 66 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.519 Being inside your own head makes you understand the reasoning 67 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.040 behind the choices that you make, and so it doesn't 68 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:20.040 feel like your judgment is questionable because to you, there's 69 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.319 a very distinct like chain of thoughts that lead to 70 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.360 you doing what you did. But considering the way that 71 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.240 folks have sort of been looking at Carl, I can 72 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:39.720 understand there being really concerned about him on a variety 73 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:48.000 of levels. Sarah him says, I get the getting Oh, 74 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.519 I think it was meant to be. I get the feeling. 75 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.040 I get the feeling he wasn't that that much of 76 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.959 a control freak at first, but very quickly became one 77 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:00.360 in the dungeon. I can't speak to that. It's a weird, like, 78 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:07.639 really don't know about the way that he was with 79 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.399 this girl who was like bullying him and cheating on 80 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:15.399 him and hiding things from him does not feel like 81 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:21.879 control freak behavior. But it was also a very passive 82 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.120 situation overall. And I don't know if this is the 83 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.519 sort of thing that occurs when he is in a 84 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.360 life or death situation. If it's like the stress of it, 85 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:36.199 you know, I really don't know, Jeff says. Just today, 86 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:37.720 I had to shut down a project I was doing 87 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:39.519 with the co host because they couldn't seem to maintain 88 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.399 interest from the other co hosts. It took every ounce 89 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.600 of brain power to not micromanage this person, and so 90 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.399 I really didn't want it to fail and have my 91 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:51.800 control freakiness be vindicated. Yeah, it's a really tough thing 92 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.199 sometimes where it's like I don't want to be right 93 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.199 about this. Do you understand, Like I am a control 94 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.959 freak because people have let me down and I would 95 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:08.040 love to not be let down, But unfortunately that's what 96 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.800 happens eighty percent of the time, ninety percent of the time, 97 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:17.720 and so I kinda must. I've gotta, and like if 98 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:24.959 I don't, then what And you know, it's a product also, though, 99 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.480 of anxiety. When you are an anxious person, you think 100 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.480 through every potential thing that could go wrong in a 101 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.040 way that folks who don't have that kind of anxiety 102 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:35.879 don't do. And you see this as a sort of 103 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:40.519 superpower to be able to predict the future. It's mental illness, sweetie, 104 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:45.839 it's not great. It feels great when you are able 105 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.079 to reach in your bag and pull out the exact 106 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.000 thing that you put in there for this moment that 107 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:56.240 everything went wrong, which has happened to me many times. 108 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:01.040 You feel like I'm saving the day, Like at what cost? 109 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.160 At what cost of you? Like just stressing and panicking 110 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:10.720 beforehand and worrying while and not enjoying yourself. I don't know, 111 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.879 Nahoua says could be a stress response to the overall 112 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.240 lack of control in the dungeon. Michael says, maybe be 113 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.920 was the sacrifice the world needed, keeping Carl's control freak 114 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:29.519 from affecting everyone around him. That's funny, and yeah, this 115 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.240 is also this is another thing, is like Carl being 116 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:38.600 in this relationship with b who was an abusive partner 117 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.120 in a different way obviously than his father was, but 118 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:50.279 like it still is kind of repeating a pattern for him. 119 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:56.440 I really wonder how much like it seems like I 120 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:01.000 can't talk about this too long. I really like there's 121 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.639 no sense that Carl had an inkling this stuff was 122 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:05.759 going on and was turning a blind eye. It really 123 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.279 seems like he had no clue whatsoever. And that's the 124 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:14.159 thing that I find kind of wild is that he 125 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:19.960 really didn't clock anything was up at any moment, which 126 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.360 is more than anything kind of giving disinterest in his 127 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:27.919 own life, Like he was like twune out. You know. 128 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.519 There's something really sad in a sense about that, and 129 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.519 like it does feel like the opposite of being a 130 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.320 control freak in terms of I don't care what happens, 131 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:53.879 who fucking cares whatever, which is just what's worse, all right, So, God, 132 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.759 I'm trying to think, guys, exactly how I want to 133 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:03.200 like handle covering this, because the way that, like, you know, 134 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:05.600 my instinct is to just go beat by beat. But 135 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.120 everything happened so close together and so quickly, and things 136 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.759 are revealed and then like the whole scene changes in 137 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:19.120 like such rapid succession that what then happens as I'm 138 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.639 trying to relay all of this is that I just 139 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.919 begin to read from the book for twenty minutes straight, 140 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:31.679 and I can't do that. So we have this bleached drake. 141 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.600 That's the thing that Samantha spotted in the sky at 142 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.919 the end of the last chapter, and she's talking to 143 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.960 Louie and she's like, oh, yeah, they have gravity magic, 144 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.639 so you're probably going to get your whole like airship 145 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.240 tossed to the ground and you are gonna want to 146 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:54.519 abandon ship. Here Donut is trying to shoot it down, 147 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:02.840 doesn't work, and then Baroness Victory chimes in and says, 148 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:06.639 like the meeting your boyfriend is holding up the adjudication. 149 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:08.639 We're waiting for Drick to get him out of the 150 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:13.639 rafters literally, which is interesting because then a little bit later, 151 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:18.440 Baroness Victory says something about how they are purposely drawing 152 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.759 out the adjudication to piss off the AI so that 153 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.240 it ends it itself and does not you know, like 154 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:30.799 so from from here of just like ugh, why is 155 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.480 he like making this take so long too? Then later 156 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.360 we're going to make this take as long as we can. 157 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.399 I'm super curious about what the fuck is happening over there. 158 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.000 We don't find out by the end of this section. 159 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.480 So let's see carl Is yelling to Louis here, I 160 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.559 don't want you near that dragon. Swing toward Boomer's position 161 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.080 and back him up. And this is when Colonel Boomer 162 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:02.000 chimes in, Warlord, we need those bombs dropped. We don't 163 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:06.080 have no disassemble missiles to kill their electronics. If you 164 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.440 call General Louis off his run, that puts the rest 165 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.960 of us in danger. I know he's your friend, but 166 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.120 we can't do this without air support. He's a good pilot, 167 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.799 he knows what he's doing, and with all due respect, 168 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.720 you handed operational command over to Rosetta. If you put 169 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:22.679 me in charge of the real assault, you need to 170 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.159 focus on your own operation, not mine. I'll try to 171 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.600 get close enough to mark the Dragon for a missile barrage. 172 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.039 But you can't call off his run just because it's dangerous. 173 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:36.240 And I really appreciated that Carl doesn't argue. He instantly 174 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.559 knows that Boomer is right and revers his course and 175 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.919 then is like, Louis, from now on, just ignore me 176 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.039 and do what Boomer tells you to do, which, again, 177 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.120 it doesn't last forever because later he's like still yelling 178 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.720 at Louis what to do, even though he is trying 179 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.320 to restrain himself. Louis is in mortal danger. So I'm 180 00:12:53.320 --> 00:13:01.919 gonna give Karl a pass on this. Nevertheless, so let's see, 181 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:06.519 Florence says, with stalwart dead and demon eviction waning, the 182 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.519 one hundred first is at mission accomplished. Two squads are 183 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.320 going to assist with lava abatement, and but the bulk 184 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.440 is falling back to shantytown. We need to talk to 185 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.919 the NPC general about all these offworlders they just inherited. 186 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:20.399 I don't think they know what to do with them, 187 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.960 and I'm afraid Juice Box is going to order them 188 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:28.120 all killed. And Rosetta just says, Okay, good work so far, 189 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:30.679 and I'm curious about the off worlders as well, and 190 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:36.080 what's going to happen with them. It's you know, after 191 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.519 Lena clearing out the dungeon, I'm sort of like, oh boy, 192 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:44.519 is she just gonna go through these guys? So let's 193 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:51.480 see uh oh yeah. So we have this this moment 194 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.720 where Carl is summoning a like help and instead he 195 00:13:54.840 --> 00:14:02.120 gets like a group that comes unexpectedly. Dong wasn't supposed 196 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.840 to come, and then bigs the slug a let and 197 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.399 let's see who else, because there's like she leaped off 198 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.279 the back of Gonk and splotched into the woods. Seriously, 199 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:18.159 what the hell? And Dong said Holger didn't want to 200 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.919 leave Clinton, Tina and the other kids. They're all scared 201 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.440 because of fighting at the castle, and Holger promised to 202 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.279 protect them. Miss Nadine too, who Holger is a little 203 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.240 sweet on. I think now that she's not a caterpillar anymore. 204 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:36.360 He gave me half of the teleport trap. Biggs here 205 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.039 was talking to another slug and that one said justice 206 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.919 Light taught them. If a mount utilizes a teleport trap, 207 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:44.879 the entire mount and all its riders make it through. 208 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.720 I was annoyed. My operation hadn't even started yet and 209 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.919 it was already in trouble. I called Holger in because 210 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.000 he's small. We need to pick our way through a 211 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.759 literal minefield. You're gonna have to leave gonk here. Gonk 212 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.559 let out a derisive snort. Dong slapped the reins, and 213 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:12.159 Gonk danced sideways like a show horse. The saddled Lance 214 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:17.879 stayed straight upward. Warlord, I will have you know I 215 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.200 am an expert yakman. Gonk Here has an exceptionally light 216 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.240 touch and is a very fine amount, which is why 217 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:27.200 the Orc chief used her. We will not be a problem, 218 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.080 I dare say, we'll have a lighter touch on the 219 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:33.080 battlefield than you will. I doubted that, and I was 220 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:39.759 about to object, but I was interrupted good I tend 221 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.440 to believe Dong here. I don't know why. I don't 222 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.279 really have a lot of evidence, just like but there's 223 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.600 just something about the confidence with which he states this 224 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:53.360 and the reaction that Gonk has that leads me to 225 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.159 believe that, Yeah, he knows better than Karl about this, 226 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:02.159 especially considering Carl's fucking track with being a blunt instrument. 227 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.159 You know, I get that you're going to be trying 228 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.799 harder to have a light touch here, bro, but that 229 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:14.919 doesn't mean you're going to succeed at it. So let's see. 230 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:20.480 Uh he's Samantha is talking about the dragon again. He's 231 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.679 very mad because some of those missiles hit the castle. 232 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.480 I think he might have stopped some of them. It's 233 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:29.679 still standing. Carl says, I'm gonna make you an officer. 234 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:31.519 When I do that, it's going to give you a 235 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:33.720 spell called paint the Target. I need you to cast 236 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.200 the spell on the dragon. Then when it's done, tell 237 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.519 Boma w and Sledge you've done it. She starts to argue, 238 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.759 but then he like it is, like it's gonna help Louis, 239 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:47.120 And as he convinces her, Ellie chimes in, Christ, Carl, 240 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.080 can you stop trying to control everyone else's operation so 241 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.440 we can get on with our own suicide mission now. 242 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.000 And when he turns to her, both Imani and Kacia 243 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.200 are crossing their arms and looking at him like brah 244 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.399 and I love that. Splash Zone sees them doing this, 245 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.880 and then he crosses his arms too, just to fit in, 246 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:11.119 which I think is kind of adorable. So they begin 247 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.759 going through and he is like finding the traps and 248 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.960 pulling them into his inventory, some of them like he's 249 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.920 able to inspect and see what exactly they do. One 250 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.279 of them summons the uh spot the fire ants that 251 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:29.039 we had seen on the previous in the Iron Tangle, 252 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.680 which I had forgotten about those things, and then we 253 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.680 have phar oh, God, you're Rilo has entered the realm. 254 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:38.920 Uh. 255 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.640 Samantha says, this is a god, not a demon. 256 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:43.480 He doesn't like me. 257 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.519 He's mad because he thinks I helped get him tossed 258 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.279 in the nothing. It's not my fault. He's sexually attracted 259 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.599 to animals, no offense, Katya, which it took me a 260 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:54.200 second to be like, why did she say that? And 261 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.720 then I realized, like Katcha and Bautista, and he's a 262 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:01.319 tiger man, and I was just like, oh, my fucking god. 263 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:08.519 And we hear the yelling Samith, are you here, We 264 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:13.640 need to talk, don't run, and I couldn't help but 265 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.519 feel like this sounds like somebody who isn't looking to 266 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.039 hurt Samantha. It sounds like somebody who genuinely is like 267 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.519 trying to have a conversation here. And while I understand 268 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:28.079 Samantha acting like, look, I know what the fuck is 269 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.319 going on and I'm not gonna hang out, there was 270 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:31.519 a part of me that was like, I don't know, 271 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.680 Maybe you should chat for a second and see what happens. 272 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.960 This is when Carl gets a quest update from Embrus. 273 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.880 You've been tasked with obtaining the item memorial crystal. The 274 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:48.119 crystal has just shown itself. Abandon your current task and 275 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:53.759 obtain it. And Carl says out loud, Yeah, that's gonna 276 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:58.119 have to wait a minute. I'm really worried about this. 277 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:03.799 This isn't just obtain crystal. He was ordered to abandon 278 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.079 his current task and obtain it and he does not 279 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:15.960 do that, And I am extremely concerned that not only 280 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:20.119 does he not do that, but he says the words 281 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.119 out loud that's gonna have to wait a minute, which 282 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:29.039 I feel if he hadn't said he maybe could have 283 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:32.039 played it off like, yeah, that's what I did. 284 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:33.039 You can't tell. 285 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.880 But I immediately began doing things to get myself that crystal. 286 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.160 That's what I was doing. But like I feel like 287 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.960 the saying of it that really feels like you're just 288 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.319 putting the nail in the coffin. I do not know 289 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:54.480 how to the letter embrace is about these orders, so 290 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.240 I you know, by the end of this section, we 291 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.759 don't have him like come down and smite Carol or 292 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:03.799 any I just don't know what the rules are here 293 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.599 and what the expectations are, and what's like going to 294 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.160 make him pissed and what he's going to be patient about. 295 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.480 I really have no idea. It's just that it made 296 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:19.960 me worried. So Oswaldo is the guy who is currently 297 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:24.240 in pre possession of the memorial crystal, and when Carl 298 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.200 contacts him and tells him to put the fucking thing away, 299 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.240 the guy yells back something about how like don't you 300 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:35.200 think I'm fucking trying, and then both he and Carl 301 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:41.680 are hit with a injunction essentially from the AI because 302 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:46.000 they have not joined forces. They're not on the same team, 303 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.720 and so they should not be communicating with each other, 304 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:53.039 which later Oswaldo attempts to get in touch with Carl 305 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.920 through the Voodoo Book and that is blocked as well, 306 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.400 which I thought was interesting. The AI still telling Carl 307 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.200 there's something else with the Voodoo book. Dude. It does 308 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.440 surprise me that it seems Carl hasn't even made an 309 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.279 attempt to connect the dots that he was already told 310 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:16.759 about via the like regarding the Voodoo Book and the 311 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:21.599 the tattoo kit. I thought that there would be a 312 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:24.960 little bit like an a side of him, like trying 313 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:28.359 to figure this out, because the way that the AI 314 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.160 mentions that to him feels as if it's like kind 315 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:37.160 of an saying urgent isn't necessarily correct, but more that 316 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:39.400 like this is something that could come in handy a 317 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:43.519 lot sooner than later, and maybe want to figure this out. 318 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:51.519 But uh, he doesn't even like the the There was 319 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:55.640 a mention from I think was it Zev saying that 320 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.599 like she's never seen the AI hold anybody's hand that much, 321 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.079 and I'm sort of wondering maybe Mordecai is working on 322 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:05.799 it on his own. I don't know what kind of 323 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:07.720 like testing he can do, because I don't think he 324 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:10.160 has a voodoo book, as he's not a crawler, so 325 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.640 I don't you know, it's possible that this is something 326 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.160 that's sort of being looked at by other players who 327 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.799 are not Carl, who are trying to put two and 328 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:24.960 two together. But I just wanted to mention it because 329 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.119 I did sort of think that after that was said 330 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:29.559 so overtly by the AI, that we were going to 331 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:33.319 have developments on that happening pretty soon after, and that 332 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:41.160 didn't happen. So let's see, I'm trying to jump ahead 333 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:42.960 a little bit here, because this whole thing with the 334 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.839 guy in the crystal like draws way more attention. We 335 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:51.759 didn't intend for them to like it. Just this guy 336 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:57.119 fucked things up for us all. And let's see. I 337 00:22:57.160 --> 00:22:59.920 started to pull the remaining teleport automatons as I sent 338 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.880 how orders. These would bring eighteen more people and it 339 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.319 was the original team for my assault. I also sent 340 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:08.519 a message to Jurgen telling him the new plan. He 341 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:10.279 was the current leader of the one hundred and fifth 342 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:14.559 Screen Warriors and his half strength battalion would come help us. 343 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.519 Jurgen is the one that has this like invisible friend. 344 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.839 And I'm concerned about Yurgen maybe being a spy or something, 345 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.559 now you know him and Heidi, this Heidi creature that 346 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.599 we don't see. Is this a figment of his imagination? 347 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.839 Is this somebody within invisibility spell? Is this an indication 348 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.799 that there is something like, you know, kind of hinky 349 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:47.160 going on. I don't know. So let's see when do 350 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.359 the missiles due to arrive? La asked, And how much 351 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.799 time do we have? Both questions were answered just moments 352 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.359 later as fire suddenly rained down from the heavens in 353 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.519 front of us. Hundreds of missiles all at once fell 354 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:05.319 upon the distant castle. A round, semi circle sphere appeared, stuttered, 355 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:09.759 and then flashed out the shield. The missiles continued to 356 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:13.079 pound into the stronghold, which was actually a low rectangle 357 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:17.079 with no battlements. The whole thing looked so unassuming and small, 358 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.319 now lit up by hundreds of fires. The missiles would 359 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:24.119 continue to slow walk into the structure, keeping the shield down. 360 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:29.240 The fires around the castle back lit a large, fast 361 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:34.440 moving force riding in our direction upon hundreds of dune 362 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:39.240 buggy like carts pushing over the dark fields march notifications 363 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:42.200 appeared as Elie started calling in cheese cutters, which were 364 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:46.119 the anti personnel shrapnel filled missiles. These were pretty much 365 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:48.400 all the missiles we now had left. After Bomo and 366 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.279 Sledge's constant pounding of the Madness and Reaver castles. It 367 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.000 wouldn't be nearly enough. This was going to be a fight. 368 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.920 A strange calm settled over us all as we were 369 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.559 watched the massive force descend upon us. 370 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:05.039 Well, that's not. 371 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:08.599 How this was supposed to go, I said, And I 372 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:11.680 just was very much picturing something out of Fury Road 373 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:16.920 right there. Just immediately, you know, the loud swum of 374 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:19.440 the one hundred and fifth screen warriors teleporting into place 375 00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:22.680 filled the woods behind us. This was followed by a 376 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:27.519 few screens as soldiers teleported into trees. Despite the spell 377 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:33.000 of supposed protection against that exact thing, I think that 378 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.279 should be something that we protest against via Baroness victory. 379 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:40.839 If that's supposed to like keep that, then what the 380 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.640 fuck that feels like? I don't know. I'm just saying, 381 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:51.920 despite a small number of soldiers suddenly finding themselves embedded 382 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.200 in trees, all of them survived the journey. I knew 383 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:57.839 it had to be a relief. They'd been forced to 384 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.880 stand in place for hours and hours as the mages 385 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:07.599 cast the grueling mass teleportation spell. Yikes, that really sounds 386 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:13.119 fucking miserable, dude, Like I anytime that I hear about 387 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:15.759 that sort of Oh you have to stay in place 388 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:19.400 and not move immediately, I think about But what about 389 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:21.640 when you have to pee, which, for all I know, 390 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.920 NPCs don't have to pay. I don't know how that works, 391 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:27.000 you know what I'm saying. But not everybody here was 392 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:33.440 an NPC, not all of them. So Batista, irritated that 393 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.759 he hadn't been summoned as part of the first group, 394 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:42.519 arrived and started talking with Katya Bautista, No offense, bro, 395 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:44.759 But you just seem irritated a lot, and I'm gonna 396 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:46.640 need you to have a bit of an attitude adjustment. 397 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.200 Did you want to stand in place for hours? Like? 398 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.200 It seems like you got here really quick after they did, 399 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.240 but you didn't have to stand still forever? So what 400 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:06.079 are you fucking whining about? Enough already we also have 401 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:09.039