Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven This Inevitable Ruin chapters
Speaker 1: sixty three through sixty seven. In these chapters, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: how come the gods can fuck everything up so bad?
Speaker 1: It's just it really shouldn't be allowed. Everybody, Let's find
Speaker 1: a way to like make this against the rules.
Speaker 2: Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael
Speaker 1: for commissioning this episode. Oh my goodness, Michael, why would
Speaker 1: you do this to me? This is such a weird, Like,
Speaker 1: this is a really hectic section. There's so much that
Speaker 1: was going to happen that we didn't know yet, and
Speaker 1: then what we didn't know was going to happen doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: and a different thing happens, which fucks up the plan
Speaker 1: that we didn't know about to begin with and now
Speaker 1: makes a different thing. And then Carl is like talking
Speaker 1: to Donna and she's like, don't worry, I'll take care
Speaker 1: of it. And he's like, oh, no, I know what
Speaker 1: she's going to do, but I, as a reader, don't
Speaker 1: know what she's going to do. So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you didn't tell me about the plan in the first place,
Speaker 1: and then the plan didn't go to plan, so now
Speaker 1: we're doing a plan like f But then you're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know what she's doing, but you're not gonna tell
Speaker 1: me that either, please, And eventually, like I said, we
Speaker 1: do get told. But it just there's a lot to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, and it is a very hectic feeling,
Speaker 1: which I am not really complaining about in terms of
Speaker 1: like writing. It's I'm complaining as a person who gets anxious.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: But like, when you're writing a scene like this and
Speaker 1: everything feels frenetic and chaotic, I feel like you've nailed it,
Speaker 1: because that's what you're trying to make me feel, is
Speaker 1: like the complete panic and anxiety of having to adapt
Speaker 1: on the fly to a completely new situation with parameters
Speaker 1: that you weren't aware of, that you didn't think you
Speaker 1: were going to have to factor in. And also a
Speaker 1: lot of this centers around Carl having to like really
Speaker 1: cope with his own tendency towards being a control freak,
Speaker 1: which they actually comment on the like in the story,
Speaker 1: which is fun. More than one person is just like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: how about you just like mind your own fucking business
Speaker 1: and let us do our thing the way that you
Speaker 1: set it up for us to do our thing so
Speaker 1: that you weren't going to have to think about it
Speaker 1: or micro manage us. And I am personally delighted by this.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, like way back, I said something about
Speaker 1: Carl showing signs that he was a control freak, and
Speaker 1: somebody was like, well, I'm not really sure that's true,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, now it's the author just in
Speaker 1: canon being like no, no, no, yeah he is, And
Speaker 1: I really understand, I really really understand. It's so it's
Speaker 1: so tempting to feel like you need to handle it all,
Speaker 1: especially when people make some questionable decisions. And the thing
Speaker 1: is Carl also makes some questionable decisions, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: see it. Of course it always works out, so there's
Speaker 1: no sense from him of self awareness regarding the way
Speaker 1: it looks to everyone else from the outside, you know,
Speaker 1: like I drop a bomb at my feet and then
Speaker 1: let the Naga princess beat me into a paste and
Speaker 1: just allow her to essentially kill me repeatedly, except I
Speaker 1: don't die, and it worked out, So what's the problem.
Speaker 1: Guys you know, And I'm like, bro, how can you
Speaker 1: not see what that appears to be to everybody else?
Speaker 1: And it's very funny, honestly, I really I it is.
Speaker 1: Being inside your own head makes you understand the reasoning
Speaker 1: behind the choices that you make, and so it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like your judgment is questionable because to you, there's
Speaker 1: a very distinct like chain of thoughts that lead to
Speaker 1: you doing what you did. But considering the way that
Speaker 1: folks have sort of been looking at Carl, I can
Speaker 1: understand there being really concerned about him on a variety
Speaker 1: of levels. Sarah him says, I get the getting Oh,
Speaker 1: I think it was meant to be. I get the feeling.
Speaker 1: I get the feeling he wasn't that that much of
Speaker 1: a control freak at first, but very quickly became one
Speaker 1: in the dungeon. I can't speak to that. It's a weird, like,
Speaker 1: really don't know about the way that he was with
Speaker 1: this girl who was like bullying him and cheating on
Speaker 1: him and hiding things from him does not feel like
Speaker 1: control freak behavior. But it was also a very passive
Speaker 1: situation overall. And I don't know if this is the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that occurs when he is in a
Speaker 1: life or death situation. If it's like the stress of it,
Speaker 1: you know, I really don't know, Jeff says. Just today,
Speaker 1: I had to shut down a project I was doing
Speaker 1: with the co host because they couldn't seem to maintain
Speaker 1: interest from the other co hosts. It took every ounce
Speaker 1: of brain power to not micromanage this person, and so
Speaker 1: I really didn't want it to fail and have my
Speaker 1: control freakiness be vindicated. Yeah, it's a really tough thing
Speaker 1: sometimes where it's like I don't want to be right
Speaker 1: about this. Do you understand, Like I am a control
Speaker 1: freak because people have let me down and I would
Speaker 1: love to not be let down, But unfortunately that's what
Speaker 1: happens eighty percent of the time, ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and so I kinda must. I've gotta, and like if
Speaker 1: I don't, then what And you know, it's a product also, though,
Speaker 1: of anxiety. When you are an anxious person, you think
Speaker 1: through every potential thing that could go wrong in a
Speaker 1: way that folks who don't have that kind of anxiety
Speaker 1: don't do. And you see this as a sort of
Speaker 1: superpower to be able to predict the future. It's mental illness, sweetie,
Speaker 1: it's not great. It feels great when you are able
Speaker 1: to reach in your bag and pull out the exact
Speaker 1: thing that you put in there for this moment that
Speaker 1: everything went wrong, which has happened to me many times.
Speaker 1: You feel like I'm saving the day, Like at what cost?
Speaker 1: At what cost of you? Like just stressing and panicking
Speaker 1: beforehand and worrying while and not enjoying yourself. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Nahoua says could be a stress response to the overall
Speaker 1: lack of control in the dungeon. Michael says, maybe be
Speaker 1: was the sacrifice the world needed, keeping Carl's control freak
Speaker 1: from affecting everyone around him. That's funny, and yeah, this
Speaker 1: is also this is another thing, is like Carl being
Speaker 1: in this relationship with b who was an abusive partner
Speaker 1: in a different way obviously than his father was, but
Speaker 1: like it still is kind of repeating a pattern for him.
Speaker 1: I really wonder how much like it seems like I
Speaker 1: can't talk about this too long. I really like there's
Speaker 1: no sense that Carl had an inkling this stuff was
Speaker 1: going on and was turning a blind eye. It really
Speaker 1: seems like he had no clue whatsoever. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing that I find kind of wild is that he
Speaker 1: really didn't clock anything was up at any moment, which
Speaker 1: is more than anything kind of giving disinterest in his
Speaker 1: own life, Like he was like twune out. You know.
Speaker 1: There's something really sad in a sense about that, and
Speaker 1: like it does feel like the opposite of being a
Speaker 1: control freak in terms of I don't care what happens,
Speaker 1: who fucking cares whatever, which is just what's worse, all right, So, God,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, guys, exactly how I want to
Speaker 1: like handle covering this, because the way that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: my instinct is to just go beat by beat. But
Speaker 1: everything happened so close together and so quickly, and things
Speaker 1: are revealed and then like the whole scene changes in
Speaker 1: like such rapid succession that what then happens as I'm
Speaker 1: trying to relay all of this is that I just
Speaker 1: begin to read from the book for twenty minutes straight,
Speaker 1: and I can't do that. So we have this bleached drake.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that Samantha spotted in the sky at
Speaker 1: the end of the last chapter, and she's talking to
Speaker 1: Louie and she's like, oh, yeah, they have gravity magic,
Speaker 1: so you're probably going to get your whole like airship
Speaker 1: tossed to the ground and you are gonna want to
Speaker 1: abandon ship. Here Donut is trying to shoot it down,
Speaker 1: doesn't work, and then Baroness Victory chimes in and says,
Speaker 1: like the meeting your boyfriend is holding up the adjudication.
Speaker 1: We're waiting for Drick to get him out of the
Speaker 1: rafters literally, which is interesting because then a little bit later,
Speaker 1: Baroness Victory says something about how they are purposely drawing
Speaker 1: out the adjudication to piss off the AI so that
Speaker 1: it ends it itself and does not you know, like
Speaker 1: so from from here of just like ugh, why is
Speaker 1: he like making this take so long too? Then later
Speaker 1: we're going to make this take as long as we can.
Speaker 1: I'm super curious about what the fuck is happening over there.
Speaker 1: We don't find out by the end of this section.
Speaker 1: So let's see carl Is yelling to Louis here, I
Speaker 1: don't want you near that dragon. Swing toward Boomer's position
Speaker 1: and back him up. And this is when Colonel Boomer
Speaker 1: chimes in, Warlord, we need those bombs dropped. We don't
Speaker 1: have no disassemble missiles to kill their electronics. If you
Speaker 1: call General Louis off his run, that puts the rest
Speaker 1: of us in danger. I know he's your friend, but
Speaker 1: we can't do this without air support. He's a good pilot,
Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing, and with all due respect,
Speaker 1: you handed operational command over to Rosetta. If you put
Speaker 1: me in charge of the real assault, you need to
Speaker 1: focus on your own operation, not mine. I'll try to
Speaker 1: get close enough to mark the Dragon for a missile barrage.
Speaker 1: But you can't call off his run just because it's dangerous.
Speaker 1: And I really appreciated that Carl doesn't argue. He instantly
Speaker 1: knows that Boomer is right and revers his course and
Speaker 1: then is like, Louis, from now on, just ignore me
Speaker 1: and do what Boomer tells you to do, which, again,
Speaker 1: it doesn't last forever because later he's like still yelling
Speaker 1: at Louis what to do, even though he is trying
Speaker 1: to restrain himself. Louis is in mortal danger. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Karl a pass on this. Nevertheless, so let's see,
Speaker 1: Florence says, with stalwart dead and demon eviction waning, the
Speaker 1: one hundred first is at mission accomplished. Two squads are
Speaker 1: going to assist with lava abatement, and but the bulk
Speaker 1: is falling back to shantytown. We need to talk to
Speaker 1: the NPC general about all these offworlders they just inherited.
Speaker 1: I don't think they know what to do with them,
Speaker 1: and I'm afraid Juice Box is going to order them
Speaker 1: all killed. And Rosetta just says, Okay, good work so far,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious about the off worlders as well, and
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with them. It's you know, after
Speaker 1: Lena clearing out the dungeon, I'm sort of like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: is she just gonna go through these guys? So let's
Speaker 1: see uh oh yeah. So we have this this moment
Speaker 1: where Carl is summoning a like help and instead he
Speaker 1: gets like a group that comes unexpectedly. Dong wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to come, and then bigs the slug a let and
Speaker 1: let's see who else, because there's like she leaped off
Speaker 1: the back of Gonk and splotched into the woods. Seriously,
Speaker 1: what the hell? And Dong said Holger didn't want to
Speaker 1: leave Clinton, Tina and the other kids. They're all scared
Speaker 1: because of fighting at the castle, and Holger promised to
Speaker 1: protect them. Miss Nadine too, who Holger is a little
Speaker 1: sweet on. I think now that she's not a caterpillar anymore.
Speaker 1: He gave me half of the teleport trap. Biggs here
Speaker 1: was talking to another slug and that one said justice
Speaker 1: Light taught them. If a mount utilizes a teleport trap,
Speaker 1: the entire mount and all its riders make it through.
Speaker 1: I was annoyed. My operation hadn't even started yet and
Speaker 1: it was already in trouble. I called Holger in because
Speaker 1: he's small. We need to pick our way through a
Speaker 1: literal minefield. You're gonna have to leave gonk here. Gonk
Speaker 1: let out a derisive snort. Dong slapped the reins, and
Speaker 1: Gonk danced sideways like a show horse. The saddled Lance
Speaker 1: stayed straight upward. Warlord, I will have you know I
Speaker 1: am an expert yakman. Gonk Here has an exceptionally light
Speaker 1: touch and is a very fine amount, which is why
Speaker 1: the Orc chief used her. We will not be a problem,
Speaker 1: I dare say, we'll have a lighter touch on the
Speaker 1: battlefield than you will. I doubted that, and I was
Speaker 1: about to object, but I was interrupted good I tend
Speaker 1: to believe Dong here. I don't know why. I don't
Speaker 1: really have a lot of evidence, just like but there's
Speaker 1: just something about the confidence with which he states this
Speaker 1: and the reaction that Gonk has that leads me to
Speaker 1: believe that, Yeah, he knows better than Karl about this,
Speaker 1: especially considering Carl's fucking track with being a blunt instrument.
Speaker 1: You know, I get that you're going to be trying
Speaker 1: harder to have a light touch here, bro, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're going to succeed at it. So let's see.
Speaker 1: Uh he's Samantha is talking about the dragon again. He's
Speaker 1: very mad because some of those missiles hit the castle.
Speaker 1: I think he might have stopped some of them. It's
Speaker 1: still standing. Carl says, I'm gonna make you an officer.
Speaker 1: When I do that, it's going to give you a
Speaker 1: spell called paint the Target. I need you to cast
Speaker 1: the spell on the dragon. Then when it's done, tell
Speaker 1: Boma w and Sledge you've done it. She starts to argue,
Speaker 1: but then he like it is, like it's gonna help Louis,
Speaker 1: And as he convinces her, Ellie chimes in, Christ, Carl,
Speaker 1: can you stop trying to control everyone else's operation so
Speaker 1: we can get on with our own suicide mission now.
Speaker 1: And when he turns to her, both Imani and Kacia
Speaker 1: are crossing their arms and looking at him like brah
Speaker 1: and I love that. Splash Zone sees them doing this,
Speaker 1: and then he crosses his arms too, just to fit in,
Speaker 1: which I think is kind of adorable. So they begin
Speaker 1: going through and he is like finding the traps and
Speaker 1: pulling them into his inventory, some of them like he's
Speaker 1: able to inspect and see what exactly they do. One
Speaker 1: of them summons the uh spot the fire ants that
Speaker 1: we had seen on the previous in the Iron Tangle,
Speaker 1: which I had forgotten about those things, and then we
Speaker 1: have phar oh, God, you're Rilo has entered the realm.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Samantha says, this is a god, not a demon.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like me.
Speaker 1: He's mad because he thinks I helped get him tossed
Speaker 1: in the nothing. It's not my fault. He's sexually attracted
Speaker 1: to animals, no offense, Katya, which it took me a
Speaker 1: second to be like, why did she say that? And
Speaker 1: then I realized, like Katcha and Bautista, and he's a
Speaker 1: tiger man, and I was just like, oh, my fucking god.
Speaker 1: And we hear the yelling Samith, are you here, We
Speaker 1: need to talk, don't run, and I couldn't help but
Speaker 1: feel like this sounds like somebody who isn't looking to
Speaker 1: hurt Samantha. It sounds like somebody who genuinely is like
Speaker 1: trying to have a conversation here. And while I understand
Speaker 1: Samantha acting like, look, I know what the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on and I'm not gonna hang out, there was
Speaker 1: a part of me that was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Maybe you should chat for a second and see what happens.
Speaker 1: This is when Carl gets a quest update from Embrus.
Speaker 1: You've been tasked with obtaining the item memorial crystal. The
Speaker 1: crystal has just shown itself. Abandon your current task and
Speaker 1: obtain it. And Carl says out loud, Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait a minute. I'm really worried about this.
Speaker 1: This isn't just obtain crystal. He was ordered to abandon
Speaker 1: his current task and obtain it and he does not
Speaker 1: do that, And I am extremely concerned that not only
Speaker 1: does he not do that, but he says the words
Speaker 1: out loud that's gonna have to wait a minute, which
Speaker 1: I feel if he hadn't said he maybe could have
Speaker 1: played it off like, yeah, that's what I did.
Speaker 2: You can't tell.
Speaker 1: But I immediately began doing things to get myself that crystal.
Speaker 1: That's what I was doing. But like I feel like
Speaker 1: the saying of it that really feels like you're just
Speaker 1: putting the nail in the coffin. I do not know
Speaker 1: how to the letter embrace is about these orders, so
Speaker 1: I you know, by the end of this section, we
Speaker 1: don't have him like come down and smite Carol or
Speaker 1: any I just don't know what the rules are here
Speaker 1: and what the expectations are, and what's like going to
Speaker 1: make him pissed and what he's going to be patient about.
Speaker 1: I really have no idea. It's just that it made
Speaker 1: me worried. So Oswaldo is the guy who is currently
Speaker 1: in pre possession of the memorial crystal, and when Carl
Speaker 1: contacts him and tells him to put the fucking thing away,
Speaker 1: the guy yells back something about how like don't you
Speaker 1: think I'm fucking trying, and then both he and Carl
Speaker 1: are hit with a injunction essentially from the AI because
Speaker 1: they have not joined forces. They're not on the same team,
Speaker 1: and so they should not be communicating with each other,
Speaker 1: which later Oswaldo attempts to get in touch with Carl
Speaker 1: through the Voodoo Book and that is blocked as well,
Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting. The AI still telling Carl
Speaker 1: there's something else with the Voodoo book. Dude. It does
Speaker 1: surprise me that it seems Carl hasn't even made an
Speaker 1: attempt to connect the dots that he was already told
Speaker 1: about via the like regarding the Voodoo Book and the
Speaker 1: the tattoo kit. I thought that there would be a
Speaker 1: little bit like an a side of him, like trying
Speaker 1: to figure this out, because the way that the AI
Speaker 1: mentions that to him feels as if it's like kind
Speaker 1: of an saying urgent isn't necessarily correct, but more that
Speaker 1: like this is something that could come in handy a
Speaker 1: lot sooner than later, and maybe want to figure this out.
Speaker 1: But uh, he doesn't even like the the There was
Speaker 1: a mention from I think was it Zev saying that
Speaker 1: like she's never seen the AI hold anybody's hand that much,
Speaker 1: and I'm sort of wondering maybe Mordecai is working on
Speaker 1: it on his own. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: like testing he can do, because I don't think he
Speaker 1: has a voodoo book, as he's not a crawler, so
Speaker 1: I don't you know, it's possible that this is something
Speaker 1: that's sort of being looked at by other players who
Speaker 1: are not Carl, who are trying to put two and
Speaker 1: two together. But I just wanted to mention it because
Speaker 1: I did sort of think that after that was said
Speaker 1: so overtly by the AI, that we were going to
Speaker 1: have developments on that happening pretty soon after, and that
Speaker 1: didn't happen. So let's see, I'm trying to jump ahead
Speaker 1: a little bit here, because this whole thing with the
Speaker 1: guy in the crystal like draws way more attention. We
Speaker 1: didn't intend for them to like it. Just this guy
Speaker 1: fucked things up for us all. And let's see. I
Speaker 1: started to pull the remaining teleport automatons as I sent
Speaker 1: how orders. These would bring eighteen more people and it
Speaker 1: was the original team for my assault. I also sent
Speaker 1: a message to Jurgen telling him the new plan. He
Speaker 1: was the current leader of the one hundred and fifth
Speaker 1: Screen Warriors and his half strength battalion would come help us.
Speaker 1: Jurgen is the one that has this like invisible friend.
Speaker 1: And I'm concerned about Yurgen maybe being a spy or something,
Speaker 1: now you know him and Heidi, this Heidi creature that
Speaker 1: we don't see. Is this a figment of his imagination?
Speaker 1: Is this somebody within invisibility spell? Is this an indication
Speaker 1: that there is something like, you know, kind of hinky
Speaker 1: going on. I don't know. So let's see when do
Speaker 1: the missiles due to arrive? La asked, And how much
Speaker 1: time do we have? Both questions were answered just moments
Speaker 1: later as fire suddenly rained down from the heavens in
Speaker 1: front of us. Hundreds of missiles all at once fell
Speaker 1: upon the distant castle. A round, semi circle sphere appeared, stuttered,
Speaker 1: and then flashed out the shield. The missiles continued to
Speaker 1: pound into the stronghold, which was actually a low rectangle
Speaker 1: with no battlements. The whole thing looked so unassuming and small,
Speaker 1: now lit up by hundreds of fires. The missiles would
Speaker 1: continue to slow walk into the structure, keeping the shield down.
Speaker 1: The fires around the castle back lit a large, fast
Speaker 1: moving force riding in our direction upon hundreds of dune
Speaker 1: buggy like carts pushing over the dark fields march notifications
Speaker 1: appeared as Elie started calling in cheese cutters, which were
Speaker 1: the anti personnel shrapnel filled missiles. These were pretty much
Speaker 1: all the missiles we now had left. After Bomo and
Speaker 1: Sledge's constant pounding of the Madness and Reaver castles. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be nearly enough. This was going to be a fight.
Speaker 1: A strange calm settled over us all as we were
Speaker 1: watched the massive force descend upon us.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not.
Speaker 1: How this was supposed to go, I said, And I
Speaker 1: just was very much picturing something out of Fury Road
Speaker 1: right there. Just immediately, you know, the loud swum of
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifth screen warriors teleporting into place
Speaker 1: filled the woods behind us. This was followed by a
Speaker 1: few screens as soldiers teleported into trees. Despite the spell
Speaker 1: of supposed protection against that exact thing, I think that
Speaker 1: should be something that we protest against via Baroness victory.
Speaker 1: If that's supposed to like keep that, then what the
Speaker 1: fuck that feels like? I don't know. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: despite a small number of soldiers suddenly finding themselves embedded
Speaker 1: in trees, all of them survived the journey. I knew
Speaker 1: it had to be a relief. They'd been forced to
Speaker 1: stand in place for hours and hours as the mages
Speaker 1: cast the grueling mass teleportation spell. Yikes, that really sounds
Speaker 1: fucking miserable, dude, Like I anytime that I hear about
Speaker 1: that sort of Oh you have to stay in place
Speaker 1: and not move immediately, I think about But what about
Speaker 1: when you have to pee, which, for all I know,
Speaker 1: NPCs don't have to pay. I don't know how that works,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But not everybody here was
Speaker 1: an NPC, not all of them. So Batista, irritated that
Speaker 1: he hadn't been summoned as part of the first group,
Speaker 1: arrived and started talking with Katya Bautista, No offense, bro,
Speaker 1: But you just seem irritated a lot, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need you to have a bit of an attitude adjustment.
Speaker 1: Did you want to stand in place for hours? Like?
Speaker 1: It seems like you got here really quick after they did,
Speaker 1: but you didn't have to stand still forever? So what
Speaker 1: are you fucking whining about? Enough already we also have
Speaker 1: fucking Jamal in the background. Guys, with his new upgrades,
Speaker 1: he's got crab legs again, and he has a flame
Speaker 1: thrower that he's he's a little fast and loose with
Speaker 1: He assures Karl that he will get better control of it.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, the flame thrower reminded me of Wrend, and
Speaker 1: I pulled him out as well. Why did the flamethrower
Speaker 1: remind him of Wrend?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Did Ren's previous owner have a flamethrower? Was that it?
Speaker 1: I can't remember what she what her main weapon was,
Speaker 1: but I did, like, you know, I listened to this
Speaker 1: section a couple times, and both times he said that.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait what?
Speaker 1: And he has a toothcap like the mongol one, but
Speaker 1: it's for mounts, the enchanted tooth cap of high yo silver.
Speaker 1: We installed it over his single round tooth, making it glee.
Speaker 1: It allowed me to summon Rend. It wasn't a teleport,
Speaker 1: but it had about a five kilometer range. The cool
Speaker 1: down was only three minutes. When I summoned him, he'd
Speaker 1: get inexorably pulled toward me at great speed. If there
Speaker 1: was a wall in the way, he'd possibly smash through
Speaker 1: the wall. The skill was somewhat dangerous, which was why
Speaker 1: Doughnut refuse to put it on Mango, but for Rent
Speaker 1: it would work well, especially when combined with his new
Speaker 1: wrecking ball special ability. I am real curious about that.
Speaker 1: I want to see it. Also, just the name of
Speaker 1: the upgrade, Hio silver and not high Hoe silver, had
Speaker 1: caused a great debate amongst some of the crawlers, especially
Speaker 1: Louie and Ellie, and I thought they were actually going
Speaker 1: to come to blows over it. Louis insisted it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be high Ho, while Ellie told him to
Speaker 1: shove it. I love that, guys. He insisted such and such,
Speaker 1: while Ellie said, and then it's just fuck you shut up.
Speaker 1: They'd been needling each other over it ever since, and
Speaker 1: all I could think, guys, all I could think, she.
Speaker 2: Came down in a bubble dog, grow up, grow up.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I appreciate Carl being like, look, I believe Ellie because
Speaker 1: she was actually around when this thing was popular. But
Speaker 1: if you had asked me, I would have said hi ho.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, same on both counts. If Ellie says,
Speaker 1: I believe her, but I would have definitely said hi Ho,
Speaker 1: no question. And the thoughts of this senseless debate filled
Speaker 1: my mind. I sat on the ground and leaned my
Speaker 1: back against a tree. I'm listening to this going you
Speaker 1: want now? There was another show called The Rifleman. I
Speaker 1: knew my dad had liked, but even that was old
Speaker 1: for him. I wondered if that's why he liked those
Speaker 1: Western novels. I had really liked them until I had
Speaker 1: found horror and sci fi, and then I found classics,
Speaker 1: and then I realized that I just liked books and
Speaker 1: I would never run out of them, and everything was great,
Speaker 1: and then, you guys, the most tantalizing fucking I thought
Speaker 1: of the Christmas present that was still sitting there unopened.
Speaker 1: Neither in MONI nor I had opened our presence, yet
Speaker 1: mine was clearly a book, possibly two or three books,
Speaker 1: and I'd been hesitating to open them because I was
Speaker 1: afraid that slap. You've been slapped. Awake, you guys, You guys.
Speaker 1: All I have asked, like at the beginning, was just
Speaker 1: when is he going to open the fucking Christmas present?
Speaker 1: And I finally just dropped it because I'm like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with this, but obviously
Speaker 1: and the fact that we are addressing it here and
Speaker 1: then cutting it off is really really mean spirited, and
Speaker 1: I don't like it and that was rude and fuck you, Matt, Okay,
Speaker 1: just shut up. I don't like it. So sorry, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the chat and somebody Jeff says, did
Speaker 1: they change high change it to high ho for the
Speaker 1: Zeta Jones version? And Michael is like, wait, Catherine Seda
Speaker 1: Jones was in the Lone Ranger movie. I only remember
Speaker 1: the one that had Johnny deppak God, yeah Jesus, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I uh, I have no idea about any of this.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of it, so I cannot have
Speaker 1: like make any worthwhile additions to the conversation, Your mind
Speaker 1: balance is currently overwhelmed as you are getting at absolutely
Speaker 1: hammered with psionic debuffs. You've been infected with self harm.
Speaker 1: You've been infected with intrusive thoughts. What am I even
Speaker 1: doing here?
Speaker 2: This is too much.
Speaker 1: I should have known this plan would never have worked.
Speaker 1: Now everyone under my command is going to die. If
Speaker 1: I surrender, maybe they will let them live. I felt
Speaker 1: the torrent under me, not a river. It had never
Speaker 1: been a river. Voices, screams, nightmares, distilled to light souls
Speaker 1: and where was it flowing? Too? Down? Was the answer
Speaker 1: always down? Why are they always screaming. If the river
Speaker 1: made no sound, then why was it so loud. It's
Speaker 1: so loud, so goddamned loud. There was more shouting.
Speaker 2: He's stuck.
Speaker 1: Look at his feet? Is it the tree?
Speaker 2: He didn't teleport?
Speaker 1: How can he be stuck in the tree?
Speaker 2: And then we.
Speaker 1: Get Carl, steady yourself. You've done it before, and you
Speaker 1: can do it again. They think your mind is your
Speaker 1: biggest weakness, but it's the opposite. It is the rock
Speaker 1: upon which the rest of you is built.
Speaker 2: Whose voice was that?
Speaker 1: That wasn't she Maria, nor was it her husband. It
Speaker 1: was a familiar voice, mail friendly dwarf. I thought of
Speaker 1: ten year olds worming their way through my body. I
Speaker 1: can't do this. I'm going crazy. No, Carl, this is
Speaker 1: the second time I've told you that you're not crazy.
Speaker 1: You're a family. Now, after what you did, I will
Speaker 1: help you. Look look at your feet. You've been standing
Speaker 1: in this so called river the whole time. I looked down,
Speaker 1: and I was amazed at what I saw. Your mind
Speaker 1: balance is now level sixteen, new achievement. You now tread
Speaker 1: in the realm of God's And then, good, Carl, Good,
Speaker 1: She would be proud of you who, I asked, but
Speaker 1: I snapped awake. I am trying to think who this is.
Speaker 1: He says that he's heard this voice before, and I
Speaker 1: can't think. Oh, they're saying Grimaldy in the chat. I
Speaker 1: forgot about that so long ago. Did you guys have
Speaker 1: to be reminded or did you remember who it was
Speaker 1: right away? Because without you guys reminding me, I never
Speaker 1: would have gotten there. Michael says. The worms clued me in. Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense as a clue, but it still would
Speaker 1: not have been enough for me to get it. I
Speaker 1: know that. So anyway, this uh. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that they're like trying to hit him with these attacks,
Speaker 1: but all it's done is like level up the mind balance,
Speaker 1: and now he's like invulnerable to a lot of this shit.
Speaker 1: I stood, but I almost fell because my feet were
Speaker 1: stuck to the tree. I instinctively pulled and my feet
Speaker 1: came away easily, the smell of mulch coming up, but
Speaker 1: there was rot too. The tree upon which I'd been
Speaker 1: leaning was suddenly dead and withered all around. Soldiers shouted
Speaker 1: as the tree crumbled in on itself. There's a lot.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions. I'm not. I, you
Speaker 1: know what, I want to make sure that I managed
Speaker 1: to cover all this, so I'm not going to even
Speaker 1: like indulge in anything because none of it really is
Speaker 1: formed as real questions or theories or anything. But anyway,
Speaker 1: he realizes that he's going to be able to withstand
Speaker 1: the attacks that they are throwing at him. I shook
Speaker 1: my head and grinned. Let them keep trying. I could
Speaker 1: now see them, the ones casting mind magic. They had
Speaker 1: come with my skill, that had come with my skill
Speaker 1: hitting sixteen. There were dozens spread around the army before us.
Speaker 1: I started painting them one by one, sending out orders
Speaker 1: to focus on them. First. Carl hit the mages. I
Speaker 1: just painted reroute any incoming to these targets, Bomo, these
Speaker 1: are the last missiles. Carl. Okay, do it good work today,
Speaker 1: both of you keep donuts safe. I quickly flipped through
Speaker 1: the messages. Louis would soon begin his bomb run. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Boomer was pushing against the front door of the Reavers.
Speaker 1: Their army still hadn't appeared. Urila was chasing Samantha in circles.
Speaker 1: The Dreamcastle was utterly demolished, but the throne room was
Speaker 1: still somehow occupied. By MPCs epiti me Tag was in
Speaker 1: the woods, presumably hiding while the three gods continued to
Speaker 1: fight in his territory. Apparently, Mitas had wrapped his way
Speaker 1: around Eris and was using his influencer stuck in the
Speaker 1: body of the goddess of Chaos as a battering ram
Speaker 1: against Hypocrates. Mordecai sent out a warning note that Eiris's
Speaker 1: spells could affect everyone in the realm at once, but
Speaker 1: she hadn't yet cast anything. Not yet. Body says, we
Speaker 1: are withdrawing, but they are not pursuing. They appear to
Speaker 1: have abandoned their pursuit to face you instead, and Prepotente
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, I'm gonna shield you, but they are
Speaker 1: definitely heading straight for you. Personally, I asked most everyone
Speaker 1: to give their dead bodies from their graveyards to Body
Speaker 1: and the one hundred and third. This is something that
Speaker 1: I had mentioned earlier, not thinking it was going to
Speaker 1: be relevant this soon, but here it is. The plan
Speaker 1: was for them to drop a metric fuc ton of
Speaker 1: corpses on the battlefield and have Donut cast You're not
Speaker 1: done yet, which would rip the skin off, creating literally
Speaker 1: thousands of fleshers, which would sail across the battlefield at
Speaker 1: the Madness Forces, hopefully overwhelming them. But now the Madness
Speaker 1: Forces had abandoned that battlefield in order to face me.
Speaker 1: We wasted all those corpses for nothing, unless we wanted
Speaker 1: to go back out and pick them up. Still, I
Speaker 1: decided that was probably a good thing. The last thing
Speaker 1: we needed was more warm mages getting made. At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say here, after finding out the way that
Speaker 1: warmages are created, I can't tell if there were if
Speaker 1: it would be possible. For all of the saying if
Speaker 1: it would be possible feel silly because I know to
Speaker 1: a great degree that this is like the AI determined
Speaker 1: a lot of this, and we can pretend that that's
Speaker 1: not always the case. But like you know, we have
Speaker 1: the the accelerated pet leveling up on this floor, and
Speaker 1: so the warm mages, I would think it would take
Speaker 1: longer for them to form, but I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if that has been accelerated as well. And I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if she was given that spell explicitly so that they
Speaker 1: would try this sort of thing, so that the AI
Speaker 1: would have access to warm mages because it would create
Speaker 1: them and then it would have its own team, even
Speaker 1: though they're not technically a team. They're dungeon born and
Speaker 1: so the rules are different, and I wouldn't be at
Speaker 1: all surprised if the AI just wants more of them,
Speaker 1: because they are the one thing that sort of falls
Speaker 1: outside the rules of what the AI is like explicitly
Speaker 1: allowed to fully control and not. So I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: about that. It's just it feels like if that, if
Speaker 1: these things are a sort of loophole for the AI
Speaker 1: to get to like almost participate in this whole thing,
Speaker 1: I could definitely see trying to get this whole thing
Speaker 1: to happen this exact way. And maybe if they don't cast,
Speaker 1: you're not done yet. It'll be great. It will foil
Speaker 1: the AI from doing something that maybe was gonna be
Speaker 1: fucking crazy. You know, I see this now. I don't
Speaker 1: know that we're not gonna have to cast it by
Speaker 1: the end of the battle. As it is as of
Speaker 1: right now, it isn't happening, but so okay. Then we
Speaker 1: have Airis in the in the background who is casting
Speaker 1: spells without really knowing what she is doing, sort of
Speaker 1: at random because she's trying to get out of this
Speaker 1: place and out of this fight and yachty, YadA YadA. Now,
Speaker 1: long story short, bear witness causes everybody who doesn't have
Speaker 1: like a particular resistance against this sort of thing to
Speaker 1: freeze up and then get summoned all to the same
Speaker 1: area in a pile, and so those who aren't affected
Speaker 1: don't get moved. And the people who aren't affected are
Speaker 1: either the ones who were indoors, or folks who seem
Speaker 1: to be formerly tattoos, or the slug alows, or people
Speaker 1: who have like some kind of mind protection thing. Let's see,
Speaker 1: Lena says, most everyone in Chantytown is affected. Those of
Speaker 1: us inside structures are fine, Lee June is with me
Speaker 1: Zang was outside Florin, and the entirety of the one
Speaker 1: oh first are affected. It appears anyone who was once
Speaker 1: a tattoo, same with the slugglos, is unaffected. Sorry. Michael
Speaker 1: in the chat says, the constraint to warm mages getting created,
Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, was the flesher being able to
Speaker 1: absorb another flesher which has claimed another body to make
Speaker 1: itself stronger, and doing that over and over eleven plus times.
Speaker 1: So just the sheer number of fleshers being created, and
Speaker 1: the number of victims available would have created some number
Speaker 1: of warm mages, no need for acceleration via the pet
Speaker 1: leveling buff at all. Oh, I wasn't thinking like via
Speaker 1: the pet leveling buff. That's not what I meant. I
Speaker 1: was using that as an example of the fact that
Speaker 1: the AI can accelerate things if it wants. So is
Speaker 1: there a way for the AI to accelerate the way
Speaker 1: that warmages could get made as well, so that it
Speaker 1: wouldn't even need to be eleven you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: could it be even more quick than that? And could
Speaker 1: it be a greater number in the end, because we
Speaker 1: didn't need eleven times? Which I just hate that whole
Speaker 1: idea because these hormages seem like real dickheads. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's the one thing is that the AI is acknowledging
Speaker 1: that they're assholes. So I'm not sure if the AI
Speaker 1: can control them directly or not, like I you know,
Speaker 1: who knows. We'll see, We'll see if we find out
Speaker 1: the Goddess Heiress has cast bring forth the witnesses and
Speaker 1: no long range teleport spells will work for the next hour.
Speaker 1: The fact that that happens really pissed me off, Like
Speaker 1: that she can do something that makes it so that
Speaker 1: all teleport spells for everybody who's actually in this war
Speaker 1: will work. Piss it just this bitch. She didn't want
Speaker 1: to be here to begin with, but she was going
Speaker 1: to participate, So I'm not really sorry for her. I
Speaker 1: just don't feel like it's fair that her flailing gets
Speaker 1: to him string our people who are doing real shit.
Speaker 1: It makes me extremely irritated, let's see. So then we
Speaker 1: have chapter sixty six where Karl is asking Mordecai about
Speaker 1: the ritual thing. I'm not going to go into this
Speaker 1: entire but they are in a giant pile. I think
Speaker 1: the whole Reaver army is there too. Weren't they missing,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of interesting, like maybe they
Speaker 1: were engaged in something in them getting pulled away as
Speaker 1: a real like is really fucking them somehow, which would
Speaker 1: be nice. Carl is like, when they wake up, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a slaughter, and he says that, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, aren't they all actually awake though? And Rosetta
Speaker 1: immediately corrects them and is like, no, they are awake,
Speaker 1: they just can't move, so, uh, Carl, I think she
Speaker 1: messed up the spell. That phar Oh God is in
Speaker 1: vulnerable now too. She accidentally made him indestructible. Rosetta says,
Speaker 1: oh gods, if she realizes what she's done, she might
Speaker 1: just turn the in vulnerability off. If she does that,
Speaker 1: everyone in the pile will remain frozen, but will lose
Speaker 1: their safety. Most of them will get crushed to death
Speaker 1: or they'll suffocate, which is again, deeply fucking unfair. I
Speaker 1: hate this so much. Maybe eighty thousand people in that pile.
Speaker 1: And so he is trying to think of something and
Speaker 1: he starts to be like, Okay, I'm gonna do something,
Speaker 1: and Dona interrupts and says, Carl, let me deal with
Speaker 1: the pile. We need to get them away from there.
Speaker 1: He asks what her idea is, but she doesn't tell him. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Louis feather falling. Party planner is dead, ripped in half.
Speaker 1: Hit the dragon with the missiles and it just pissed
Speaker 1: it off. It cast a spell and I tried to
Speaker 1: dodge it, ripped party planner down the middle, dropped the
Speaker 1: bombs before they were armed. I'm sorry they didn't go off.
Speaker 1: I'm falling through the air right now, gonna land right
Speaker 1: on the Reaver's castle. I think my door gunners are dead. Glad,
Speaker 1: Bonnie and Scarn weren't here. He was right that CoP's husband.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The Pharaoh God is still there a mile
Speaker 1: west of the castle. I see him just sitting there.
Speaker 1: Dragon's still flying above. I'm gonna hit the castle by myself.
Speaker 1: Tell Katya when she wakes up. I'm sorry to be
Speaker 1: such a fuck up. I just sent a message to
Speaker 1: Juice Box too, but she's still in that meeting. And
Speaker 1: Carl is just like, when you hit the ground, just hide.
Speaker 1: I know you can't teleport, but you have spelled, you
Speaker 1: have cloud attack, you have smokeless grenades. And he says,
Speaker 1: I have a notification that tells me I'm being tracked
Speaker 1: by Reaver security. I'm fucked, Carl. I'm landing right in
Speaker 1: the middle of their castle. And this is when Carl says, Samantha,
Speaker 1: go save Louis. Samantha says something about how she wouldn't
Speaker 1: fuck this god again anyway, the one that's like into animals,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, I'm gonna go, and Carl has
Speaker 1: to let it go. And I hope that Samantha can
Speaker 1: do something. We shall see. I really hope that Louis
Speaker 1: doesn't die, because he's grown so much, and I would
Speaker 1: love to see that continue. So I came to a decision.
Speaker 1: I needed to focus and trust the others. I couldn't
Speaker 1: do anything about Louis. I couldn't do anything about the
Speaker 1: ones In's dreamcastle. But I could do something about the
Speaker 1: castle right in front of me right now. So then
Speaker 1: we get war Lord Princess Donut has committed an atrocity. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to make a mention here about the narration
Speaker 1: in the audiobook, like right here, it's committed an atra
Speaker 1: sert and it slowed down in this real weird like
Speaker 1: you know, it's a creepy moment. But something else that's
Speaker 1: happening that I keep meaning to mention because it started
Speaker 1: several sections back, but I keep forgetting because it's not
Speaker 1: indicated any we're in the text is whenever there is
Speaker 1: an AI announcement, the narrator is vacillating between the kind
Speaker 1: of nasal, sarcastic AI voice and the toneless, like a
Speaker 1: completely impersonal personality less AI voice that will sometimes happen
Speaker 1: when it's just like an indifferent reading of an announcement,
Speaker 1: for example, And I'm really curious exactly how the narrator
Speaker 1: has done, Like did Matt Dinneman talk to him and
Speaker 1: tell him, Hey, right around here is when I want
Speaker 1: you to start doing something with your voice to indicate
Speaker 1: that there's something going on. No, I didn't put it
Speaker 1: in the text, and it's a little true for audiobook
Speaker 1: listeners only. Or No, I didn't put it in the
Speaker 1: text because it doesn't ultimately matter, but it does sort
Speaker 1: of like it gets something across that was difficult for
Speaker 1: me to put into the writing. I don't really know
Speaker 1: why it'd be difficult to put into the writing though,
Speaker 1: because you could have Carl mention the fact that the
Speaker 1: voice goes back and forth between these two different energies
Speaker 1: and he doesn't. And you know, if there's something notable
Speaker 1: about the way the AI is behaving, usually Carl will
Speaker 1: point it out for us and you know, like really
Speaker 1: focus on that. So, yeah, I'm just curious about where
Speaker 1: exactly this is coming from, because like there's a At first,
Speaker 1: I was sort of going, is this the AI fighting
Speaker 1: against the version of itself that is playing by the
Speaker 1: rules only? But there are times where the snarky AI
Speaker 1: voice would be correct for the situation, and then that
Speaker 1: completely lacking in personality voice is still like kind of
Speaker 1: chiming in here and there. So my instinct was the
Speaker 1: AI is trying to like fully wake itself up, and
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. But it's almost like something is trying
Speaker 1: to dumb down the AI and the AI is fighting
Speaker 1: against it. It's almost like it's like the reverse. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I just wanted to mention it because
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting to even talk about it. And it's
Speaker 1: still happening in this section and it's really distinctive, like
Speaker 1: you cannot miss that it's happening when it's happening. So, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see.
Speaker 2: Donut says, it's a.
Speaker 1: Two part plan. First, I got to move the pile
Speaker 1: to where all the dead bodies are piled. It'll get
Speaker 1: let them away from the godfight too. A horrible realization
Speaker 1: dawned on me. I felt sick. I knew exactly what
Speaker 1: she just cast. She cast Rolling Battle Formation. It's an
Speaker 1: atrocity spell, and the tower makes it really powerful. I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was going to be that powerful because
Speaker 1: it rolls up the God also mostly mostly how long
Speaker 1: does it last? It says, until it sustains enough damage, which,
Speaker 1: considering that they are invulnerable, is like, it seems like
Speaker 1: it's going to be a long time. I like, it's
Speaker 1: not under her control at all. Now that she's cast it,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be out here until Like that's crazy,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I am also not sure exactly why
Speaker 1: she is trying to get to the field of corpses.
Speaker 1: If it's like, well, then I'll cast. You're not done yet,
Speaker 1: and they will all be on our side. So even
Speaker 1: if we all, even if everybody can move and begin
Speaker 1: fighting each other, we will outnumber the bad guys so much.
Speaker 1: But I just really kind of don't want her to cast.
Speaker 1: You're not done yet at all. So a part of
Speaker 1: me is like, uh, you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's see, somebody needs to keep the mute
Speaker 1: harpo god guy away from my ball. He's going to
Speaker 1: break it open too soon. And Carl is like, maybe
Speaker 1: that would be a good thing, and she says, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to win this war, Carl. We need them completely
Speaker 1: separated and away from the God. That's not gonna happen
Speaker 1: if Metus is stuck in there. Oh, like your plans
Speaker 1: always go off without a hitch. She's got a point.
Speaker 1: I was fighting the urge to continually distract Louis with suggestions.
Speaker 1: He had landed atop the flat Reaver Castle and was
Speaker 1: now running, casting a smoke cloud behind him. He hadn't
Speaker 1: yet engaged with any enemy, but he'd managed to secure
Speaker 1: a handful of unexploded no disassembles and waffle makers into
Speaker 1: his inventory. He had no way of setting them off
Speaker 1: without blowing himself up. They had to be unstable as fuck.
Speaker 1: Louis did not have in vulnerability, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you for reminding me of that, because I definitely
Speaker 1: was like taking it for granted that he had it
Speaker 1: because he wasn't in a building. But I guess being
Speaker 1: in the airship was like good enough. So let's see,
Speaker 1: Brittany have them use the digger under the dream Castle
Speaker 1: to try to distract Hypocrates. They have these giant, goddamn
Speaker 1: robots and they haven't done anything yet with them, and
Speaker 1: she says a reef controls them all. Juice Box is away,
Speaker 1: so I'll ask. And this is the first time he's
Speaker 1: realizing juice Box is still in that meeting and he
Speaker 1: gets in touch with Victory and she says, you want
Speaker 1: this trial to go on as long as possible. We're
Speaker 1: stalling on purpose. We will stall until the AI gets
Speaker 1: so pissed.
Speaker 2: It ends it.
Speaker 1: So then we have this whole like bit with Doughnut yelling, hey, Dickless,
Speaker 1: it's gone. You're not going to be able to put
Speaker 1: it back on. And honestly, do you really want it
Speaker 1: back after all those people touched it? It smells really
Speaker 1: really bad. Now, yeah, that's right, I'm talking to you,
Speaker 1: So stop trying to get it back. You should just
Speaker 1: accept your body how it is. I have a song
Speaker 1: for you. My friend Lil Wayne wrote it. It's about
Speaker 1: Wieners topping at number one on May thirty, two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. It's Lollipop, you guys. You guys like the
Speaker 1: whole thing that she says right there, also is the
Speaker 1: what do you call it? The effects in the audio
Speaker 1: book are giving her the sound of auto tune, so
Speaker 1: it sounds extra hilarious, you guys. This fucking song I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember, and I went and looked at the lyrics
Speaker 1: and I was just like, I don't know what I expected.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know it is what it is. I uh,
Speaker 1: probably if I heard it, I would like immediately recognize it,
Speaker 1: but I definitely didn't recognize. Like I couldn't call to
Speaker 1: mind the melody if you want to call it that
Speaker 1: with this song just from the title. So let's see
Speaker 1: the digger is coming. Oh good, I'll start a battle playlist.
Speaker 1: The ball will get to the corpses in like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: People message be your songs. I just love her so much.
Speaker 1: I love her so much that she is assembling a
Speaker 1: playlist for this. It's so stupid. Later on there's detachable penis,
Speaker 1: and she's just like, I feel like this is a
Speaker 1: bad choice. You're gonna give him the wrong idea about
Speaker 1: what he can do. And I was, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was anyway, the submarine like sonar sound echoed out,
Speaker 1: revealing that the castle had about twenty soldiers. Within of
Speaker 1: the twenty dots, only three were purple, indicating them as
Speaker 1: off worlders. That was it. Eighteen of them were in
Speaker 1: a room just around the corner that was the operating theater.
Speaker 1: And he opens because he gets the Book of Voodoo
Speaker 1: is updated with three entries. I opened Fine Crawler, clicked
Speaker 1: a few buttons, and a of three crawlers appeared. The
Speaker 1: moment that happened, four additional dots appeared on my map,
Speaker 1: three crawlers and the corpse of a crawler. Two of
Speaker 1: the crawlers were mixed in with the other eighteen soldiers.
Speaker 1: These both had the blue light glow, indicating they were
Speaker 1: in the Madness military, likely under a conscription spell. The
Speaker 1: third did not have that glow, and they were in
Speaker 1: the room with Architect Houston and the white NPC dot.
Speaker 1: The corpse was also in there, corpse of Crawler Zenip
Speaker 1: level fifty eight, which he remembers is the voice of
Speaker 1: reason when he was about to get in the fight
Speaker 1: at the Desperado Club with that fucking dude. It was
Speaker 1: the same two women who'd been at the club, but
Speaker 1: the man wasn't here. The two women were conscripted and
Speaker 1: mixed in with the guards. The third living member of
Speaker 1: the group was someone that was often on the top ten,
Speaker 1: and I did have her in my chat though we'd
Speaker 1: never spoken. She was a bad headed Porsuk and she
Speaker 1: had a swashbuckler class, same as both Tran and Batista.
Speaker 1: I was pretty sure that she too had a quest
Speaker 1: involving the memorial Crystal that was now stuck in the
Speaker 1: middle of the giant rolling ball of crawlers. She'd been
Speaker 1: part of the fight to grab the thing. The fact
Speaker 1: that everybody needs to get this thing is so fucking annoying.
Speaker 1: Then I realized the NPC that was in the room
Speaker 1: with her in Houston had a green glow indicating them
Speaker 1: as someone from Team Retribution. For a moment, I feared
Speaker 1: some sort of double cross. But just as I thought that,
Speaker 1: the NPC dot turned to the X of a corpse.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't let me examine it. I sent a quick
Speaker 1: note to Brittany, and then I opened a new chat
Speaker 1: and he tries to contact Burku, tries to do it
Speaker 1: through Book of Voodoo as well, and he is told
Speaker 1: to stop fucking trying to cheat, and Victory has to
Speaker 1: chime in and be like, I will come through and
Speaker 1: you know, call foul, so don't test me right now.
Speaker 1: The group rushed into the room and stopped when they
Speaker 1: saw me and Dong. I held out my hand, which
Speaker 1: still glowed yellow. None of them had in vulnerability. Well,
Speaker 1: this is going to be fun, I said, And that
Speaker 1: is the end of chapter sixty seven. Michael is in
Speaker 1: the chat says her inadvertently knocking out Eiris was a
Speaker 1: really good thing. If she's knocked out, she can't figure
Speaker 1: out that she can turn off the invulnerability. That's true. Uh,
Speaker 1: Donut might be the greatest shit talker in the history
Speaker 1: of Earth. I can't agree. She cheat. She tends to
Speaker 1: be like less imaginative. She goes for the obvious thing. Now,
Speaker 1: it's fine, there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but I
Speaker 1: simply cannot agree. Michael. But I'll give her a I'll
Speaker 1: give her props. Nevertheless, Jeff says, Lil Wayne has great flow,
Speaker 1: but the lyrics are about as nasty as they come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not even like the nastiness of the lyrics. It's
Speaker 1: it's more just like how completely on the nose they are.
Speaker 1: You know. It's the chorus is she she she looked
Speaker 1: me like a lollipop. She she, she looked me like
Speaker 1: a lollipop. She she, she looked me like a lollipop.
Speaker 1: She she looked me like a lollipop. And it's just
Speaker 1: very funny to me because it's just like, oh, that's yeah, okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I expected. Like, it's I just
Speaker 1: thought that there might be a little bit more nuance,
Speaker 1: but no, it's extremely what it is. That's fine. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't like even dislike songs like that. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, my lip's my back is like a fucking
Speaker 1: classic and you do not get any more literal than that.
Speaker 1: But it's also different because when it's oral sex on
Speaker 1: a woman, that's song sung about a whole lot less. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's some other song. I remember the first time I
Speaker 1: heard it. I was in college, and like one of
Speaker 1: the opening verses is a little young thing, go a
Speaker 1: ram a dick with your tongue ring deep, throw my
Speaker 1: nan and grabbed from the front and fuck from behind it.
Speaker 1: And it's just like the most grab her hair slapper
Speaker 1: as she's screaming like she die, and make her comb
Speaker 1: four times without even trying, and I beat that posy
Speaker 1: up the no deny and and it's the most like
Speaker 1: just describing fucking. It's not there's no imagination behind it,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the rhyming. I guess that's meant to
Speaker 1: be more impressive, but I still like, I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: a bit more just creativity in there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: fine anyway. I love rap, I really, really do, but
Speaker 1: I feel like there are times where we could really
Speaker 1: do better. It's okay, so Michael says, I mean you
Speaker 1: still remember the lyrics even now. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: liked that song. I did, but when I think back
Speaker 1: on it now, I'm just like, hmm, yeah, you could
Speaker 1: have done more. It's fine. I wasn't as discerning. All right,
Speaker 1: I gotta wrap up. I'm over time. I appreciate all
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Thank you very very much for listening,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to reading more. I really can't
Speaker 1: wait until next time to Loue motherfuckers. That was an
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