WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.640 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:16.600 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book eight, A Parade of Horribles, 3 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:23.879 chapters sixty one through sixty five. In these chapters, so 4 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.480 I was pretty close actually about my guests regarding what's happening, 5 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:32.439 which is funny considering how I was like, I don't 6 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.640 think we're supposed to know any of this, are we? 7 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.560 I don't know anything. This is a very compelling but 8 00:00:40.880 --> 00:01:05.400 terrifying experiment. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. 9 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:08.599 I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for 10 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.359 commissioning this episode. Michael's here in the chat with me. 11 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.879 Appreciate you being here, sir. So, yeah, this section is 12 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:24.640 just a really I am. I didn't I talked, you know, 13 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.280 about Lena and the fact that she's clearly a sociopath 14 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.560 at least, but I didn't really talk about like the 15 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.480 role that might play in her agreeing to do this 16 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:41.120 experiment at all, setting aside the fact that Samantha agreed 17 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.799 to do it, because I think we can all agree 18 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.239 that Samantha is a sociopath at the very least as well. 19 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.040 But I'm wondering because like, I have no doubt that 20 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.400 they that they made it as clear to her as 21 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:59.000 they possibly could what the potential risks were for this, 22 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:05.359 And as Carl had said in that previous conversation, they 23 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:07.879 she's not somebody that they could trick, and he wouldn't 24 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:13.319 even want to do it that way anyway, So a 25 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:15.599 lot of people wouldn't be willing to take this risk. 26 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:21.599 And I can't help but wonder if it's just sort 27 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.240 of what's the word I want here? Like a nihilist, 28 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.680 I don't care whether I live or die, so sure 29 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.800 I'll take one for the team and see if I 30 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.560 can get us out of here. Like I don't know 31 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.840 if somebody who is so capable of cruelty can really 32 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.400 be called selfless for doing something like this, Like it's 33 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:45.960 it's you know what I mean? But I do find 34 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.479 it kind of compelling. And I completely understand why she 35 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.639 doesn't want to speak to anybody else. I'm not mad 36 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:56.319 at her for that either, but the fact that she 37 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.759 doesn't talk to anyone does make it so that I 38 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:03.159 have just infer a lot of things, and it is 39 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:09.039 I want to get in her head so bad. I 40 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.360 am assuming that we are never going to get her 41 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.840 POV in these books. I may be wrong about that. 42 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.719 We haven't, as far as I can remember, gotten the 43 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.159 POV of any crawler other than Katchia, which was a 44 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:30.080 pretty brief one. Otherwise, I think that's you know, it's 45 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.879 just been Caral and the ex crawlers who were like 46 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.360 on the outside or who are we're getting their memories 47 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:44.800 from previous crawls and things like that. But let's see, 48 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.719 I'm gonna start with sixty one. They Nah sat in 49 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.599 the middle of the common room, hovering a foot off 50 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:56.159 the floor. She glowed and her good eye remained closed. 51 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:01.000 The other mechanical eye twitched clockwork gears spin. A large 52 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.280 group of us had formed around her. Standing next to 53 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.639 her were Mordecai, Mistress Tiatha, and Rosetta. The white cleaner 54 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:15.759 bot also hovered nearby. And this is them all gearing 55 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:21.680 up and prepping to do a really potentially deadly experiment 56 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.600 that they have come up with a kind of ingenious 57 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:31.680 system for. There's a mention here about she casts some 58 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.399 gooey dread thing on your cactus when Rosetta asked her 59 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.519 to which we find out exactly how this all works later. 60 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.600 I think that him sacrificing his cactus is totally acceptable. 61 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.439 So Mordecai holds up the pet carrier. As we all know, 62 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.000 they can't hold crawlers, but as some of us also know, 63 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:55.079 they can still suck crawlers in if the crawler allows it, 64 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:02.399 which is like, what's the difference? They can they can't 65 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.360 hold them, but they can suck them in, and I 66 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.720 guess it would only be like a temporary thing and 67 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.279 they would be expelled pretty quickly afterwards. What happens is 68 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:18.079 ten seconds later the carrier breaks. But what we are 69 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.319 planning to do is before the ten seconds and it breaks, 70 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:26.639 we are going to have the cleaner bot suck up 71 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:33.079 the pet carrier. Sakira is the name of this or 72 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.759 like the carrier that is the one. I think that 73 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.959 is like the cleaner bot they bought for their space, 74 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:50.519 and I think the older one. You guys, I there's 75 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.560 a lot of times where doughnut reference is something that 76 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:00.079 I have watched or read or whatever, and I I 77 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.319 don't get it, And when one of you reminds me, 78 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.240 I'm like, oh yeah, but let me tell you something. 79 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:11.079 The other cleaner bought being called ezra fits because Ezrafit 80 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.000 sucks Carl. Let it be known that ezra Fits sucks 81 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:21.439 so bad that I can literally not remember a single 82 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:28.439 other character's name from Pretty Little Liars except for Ezra Fits, 83 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:35.759 because he fucking sucks so much. That's like I remember 84 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.839 him crystal clear purely because of what a piece of 85 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.519 shit he is. And it is such a weird thing 86 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.199 that I hate, which I do think eventually the show 87 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:51.120 dealt with, but I kind of wonder if it had 88 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.079 intended to, or if there was an eventual outcry. But 89 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.879 they have him be the romance to a character who 90 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.319 is his student. He's a fucking high school teacher. And 91 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.000 the difficulty with this sort of thing that I have 92 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.319 noticed repeatedly as I get older is just we make 93 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:13.240 high schoolers. They're played by twenty somethings in all of 94 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:17.160 our you know, so the matchup doesn't even look that 95 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.319 out of place on screen because they are in reality 96 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:27.079 a pretty close age. But if you actually cast somebody 97 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:31.439 who looked sixteen and this guy, it would be really upsetting. 98 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.199 And we just can't have higher actors that are that young, 99 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:41.360 and I think it leads to us not looking upon 100 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:48.160 this sort of thing in fiction, as with as angry 101 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.839 and I as I think we should. I think we're 102 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:52.720 getting a little bit better about it at seeing it 103 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:57.040 clearly now. But he was not only a teacher in 104 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.079 love with a student, but he was also like a 105 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.800 stalker and also was like just monstrous. He was just 106 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.920 a piece of shit. So anyway, I just really really 107 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.959 loved the fact that they chose that name and that 108 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.959 I don't remember a soul else except for him, because 109 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.600 he is such a piece of shit. Oh my god, 110 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.879 I hate him. Every time that we had like a 111 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:23.079 story beat with him, I don't think I ever finished 112 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.439 the show. I think I got up to like season five, 113 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.040 maybe because it went on longer than I expect, But 114 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:32.399 anytime he showed up on screen, I just went because 115 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.799 I just didn't want to hear his voice or see 116 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:39.960 his face or do any of this. Sorry, Michael is 117 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.559 in the chat. He does suck ass. I hated that 118 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.000 character and storylines so much, and they made that the 119 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:51.360 main romance in all caps. Indeed, hy Seraphim Jeff says 120 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.440 it's so annoying because teens aren't as good at acting 121 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.679 and should be in school anyway, but it really blurs 122 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:58.519 the line ethically and grossly, and Michael says. The excuse 123 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.120 in season one was that he met Maria and the 124 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.279 bar and didn't know she was a high schooler. But 125 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.480 in a later season they showed he knew exactly who 126 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.840 she was, so she he knew she was fifteen. Yep, 127 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.320 there's a whole thing that it turns out he was 128 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.919 up to on the DL that we did not know about. 129 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:19.039 And so it for somebody that we that I I'll 130 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.480 speak purely for myself, had grown to truly hate. That 131 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:28.360 was an additional thing that like, I just felt so validated. 132 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.440 I think I fish pump fist pumped when I found 133 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.159 that out, because I was like, you see, you see, 134 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.879 I was so glad that they gave me something really 135 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:43.799 definitive to point to. And ultimately this resulted in their breakup. 136 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.039 I don't know if later on they got back together, 137 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.480 but I fucking hope not. So. Anyway, Saraphi and what 138 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.879 are we going off on? Ezra fits in the book, 139 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.000 which is what they named one of the cleaner bots 140 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.799 is a reference to a pretty little liar's character who 141 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:04.559 preyed on students. So anyway, that whole thing, we will 142 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.679 get there eventually, But I will say Sakira is fantastic, 143 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.039 and I love when Donut says that she thinks that 144 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.080 Samantha cheated on the coin flip and Samantha just is like, yeah, 145 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:23.159 I did what. She does not care at all. There 146 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.720 is one line here that actually had me laughing out 147 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:32.519 loud and startling my husband, which is Louis telling Samantha, 148 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.159 please stop sticking your tongue in my gills. It freaks 149 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.840 me out. Freaking you out is my love language. Louis, 150 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:42.679 I really fucking cackled on that. I'm not going to lie. 151 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.320 I don't love myself for it. He's telling you to 152 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.159 knock it off. You're making him uncomfortable and you're just 153 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:53.320 keeping doing it. But also that's a very funny line. 154 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.799 So the idea is Lee now will be in the 155 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:01.720 cleaner Bot. Hara, once the cleaner Bot is put up 156 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.320 for sale, will be able to buy it, and then 157 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.360 he will be she will be released. He will like 158 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:14.759 somehow let her out. I don't know exactly how or if. 159 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.399 Maybe they have to let her out once they get there, 160 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.679 but she's left the game at the very least, so 161 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.879 she'll be like disqualified and she won't have to die, 162 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:30.240 which is nice. So Prepotente says, are you absolutely positively 163 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.480 positive the contents of the bot storage will still be 164 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.279 there when the stranger purchases it? And Rosetta says, no, 165 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:39.039 but we think we have, like you know, they've they've 166 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.120 thought this through. It's risky and we aren't sure if 167 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:47.159 the floor collapses if she will survive it, but from 168 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.679 what we have looked into, it seems very likely. Of course, 169 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:56.679 this is all experimentation. And this is when Mistress Tiatha 170 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:02.679 says it will work. It let's see it'll work. It 171 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:07.720 has happened before. I cannot you guys, can we please 172 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.360 all talk about the fact that nobody asks her when 173 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:16.200 or what or how? That genuinely, why isn't anybody asking 174 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:25.799 her any further questions? Please? Like anyway? So Prepotende says, 175 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.600 how will we know if it's successful? And this is 176 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:34.240 the cool idea. The cactus has a spell that she's 177 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:38.840 placed on it, a dread trap. We're in a safe room, 178 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:40.919 but the trap will activate if you touch it, so 179 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.600 leave it alone. You won't get poisoned, but it will 180 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:49.919 ruin it. And oh my god, I forgot that. Samantha says, 181 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.440 she put the cactus out because it didn't match the 182 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.559 new rug. I am dying because it seems like Carl 183 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.919 hasn't gone in his room for a while, so I'm 184 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.200 really curious what the fuck she's done in there and 185 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.120 how he's going to react to it. I feel like 186 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:11.759 Samantha is such a fucking maniac that whatever it looks 187 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:14.720 like in there is going to be like the night. 188 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.240 You know. What I'm imagining, guys, is like weirdly cutesy 189 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:23.799 girly in a way, but like mix it with sid 190 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:29.440 from toy stories abominations. Does that make sense? I don't 191 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:32.039 know exactly how to put this into words, but like 192 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:37.480 creepy cutesy is my idea. Here, we'll see or maybe 193 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:43.080 we won't see it. I don't know, so let's see. Uh. 194 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.879 The condition of the plant will tell us Lena's status. 195 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.480 If it's glowing in the ready status like now, she's 196 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.799 alive and in the dungeon. If the plant activates on 197 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.799 its own, that means Lena has physically left the game. 198 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.440 If the spell fails suddenly and doesn't activate and the 199 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.399 cactus dissipates into dust, that means that she is dead 200 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:05.480 and died inside the dungeon, and Prepotente says, what if 201 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.120 she ends up trapped and is never released, That is 202 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.200 another possibility that will be indicated. The globe will slowly 203 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.200 fail over the course of several days, and finally, if 204 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.159 she believes it's safe for the others to proceed to 205 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:19.679 the Pineapple cabaret, she will be able to remotely make 206 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.960 a single flower bloom. There will be a single flower, 207 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.039 and the trap will still be glowing. If she's still alive. 208 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.960 But she believes this is not a safe method, she 209 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:36.639 will make three flowers bloom. And I don't like, I 210 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.159 believe that they have examined this all enough to know 211 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.559 and gone through all of the what ifs to know 212 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.879 how exactly she's going to manage this. But it is 213 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.279 kind of remarkable that she could have this kind of 214 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.320 control over a plant that's in a completely different floor. 215 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.879 And you know what I mean, like just a really 216 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:01.679 really clever little system, especially like because we know you 217 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.799 can't message with somebody who's on a different floor, so 218 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:06.679 the fact that you can still activate your spells when 219 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:10.720 you're on a different floor is surprising. I've got to say, 220 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.919 let's see, excel pet carriers are expensive and there's limited 221 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.960 room in the other cleaner bot, especially after we had 222 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.039 it clean up all the leftovers from Carl's Naga inheritance. 223 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.159 We can maybe send fifty more people with just one bot. 224 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.000 We do have some leads on other bots, but not many. 225 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.840 We can't have this Harot sell the cleaner bot back 226 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.919 to us either. All Dungeon upgrades such as the bots 227 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.639 have a timer. He won't be able to relist the 228 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:46.559 bot for thirty days, which that is a real bummer. 229 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.759 I had hoped that we could maybe just send them 230 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.559 back and forth. And I mean this sort of like 231 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.240 thirty days is probably a really good means of keeping 232 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:59.120 people from laundering like money somehow, you know. I'm sure 233 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.200 there's a reason, but I was very disappointed by this 234 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:07.039 and fifty people, Like how do we determine who goes 235 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.200 and who doesn't? Obviously we have the whole thing with 236 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.399 worshiping a god, but that does seem to be like 237 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:17.919 potentially not the issue that we thought it was. I 238 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.279 love Prepotente, very clever. This still seems like a surefire 239 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.639 suicide method to me. Good luckily, Na and he just leaves, 240 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:30.519 And honestly, I feel like Lenah probably respects the shit 241 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.840 out of that, because like She is extremely direct as well. Also, 242 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.000 as he's leaving, he stops and says, this place is 243 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:43.440 actually really nice. Maybe maybe I can get to be 244 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:48.279 part of your guild and attach my space. And Emani 245 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.600 is like, I invited you and you turned me down. 246 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:55.360 So and he says, well, before I knew about the 247 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:58.679 pet stables and the bob Ka, I have a karaoke 248 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.120 kit in my space that I can to the main room. 249 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:08.400 I don't know if that was as tactical a statement 250 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.519 as it seems to be. I think he really was 251 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.720 just connecting with Donut regarding something that they both enjoy. 252 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.359 But it really felt like he was just manipulating the 253 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:25.039 shit out of this moment. So anyway, he takes off. 254 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.880 We have a moment with Linus where he's whispering something 255 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:37.079 to Batista, and Donut says he keeps trying to get 256 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.799 Daniel to make tea. Apparently Batista tea is a trending 257 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.039 thing right now. Daniel doesn't even have an outreach manager, 258 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.079 so he's sure to get ripped off. The folks on 259 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.359 my social media board are all jealous of him. Of Liners, 260 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.400 I mean, not Daniel Ellist. Snow Cones Fan Club did 261 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:56.640 a raid on my server the other day, and they 262 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.200 and the posse were all fighting, but now they're friends 263 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:04.319 and working together. I am extremely curious what the snow 264 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.240 Cones are going to make of the fact that, like 265 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:09.079 the eventual reveal that he's not who he says, if 266 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.640 indeed it is revealed to everybody who he really is, Like, 267 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:16.000 I don't even know how that you know. I am 268 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.400 curious about him trying to get Batista to make tea, 269 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.440 like is this going to be part of his attempt 270 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.279 to take down whomever the target is? Is he going 271 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:30.519 to try and poison Carl or I don't know. So 272 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.160 this is when Zang comes forward and speaks to le Na. 273 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.799 I'm sorry it was your brother and not me. If 274 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:40.799 June is watching, I hope he isn't angry with me 275 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.359 for not watching over you like I promised. And this 276 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.480 is the first thing that gets any response from her. 277 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.839 I am no child to protect. I never have been, 278 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.279 and you have nothing to apologize for. You have been 279 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:57.160 a good friend to me. June loved you like a brother. 280 00:18:57.799 --> 00:18:59.880 I will do this. I will clear the way for 281 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:02.440 you and everyone else who is to come after this 282 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:04.960 next race, and then I will make certain the warm ages. 283 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.319 Do not turn on us. Do not die, sang, I 284 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.279 hope to see you again soon, she paused. Do not 285 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.519 ever lose your smile. I used to smile at you 286 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.480 so you would smile back at me, and I would 287 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.319 pretend in my mind that you and I were married, 288 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:22.680 and that your smiles filled me in a way that 289 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.799 I could only pray for. Thank you for always trying 290 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:47.000 to protect me, even when I didn't deserve it. I 291 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:58.039 just feel way about it, that's all. I never expected 292 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.119 for Lena to say something that got me tear eyed. 293 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.480 I really didn't unless it was gonna be TEARI eyed 294 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:11.240 with terror. What how did she just and the fact 295 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.359 that they were both thinking about marriage, but the way 296 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.359 that she says it in a way that I could 297 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.440 only pray for is very much giving. I knew something 298 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:26.519 was different with me and that being married wouldn't fill 299 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:32.960 me up. That love isn't something that means anything to 300 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:37.400 me in a very specific way. I wanted it to, 301 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.160 and if it had been, I would have wanted it 302 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:49.960 with you, but it wasn't. They were both fantasizing, for 303 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.920 very different reasons about the same thing. And I really 304 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:07.359 wonder if you are somebody who is like if if 305 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:14.319 you're saying and you are wanting to have a marriage 306 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:19.279 with her because of this like tidy package of Lee 307 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:23.480 June and being his best friend and her being his 308 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:27.720 sister and this being like there's the family thing. If 309 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:33.759 you know that she cares about you, but that she 310 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.640 doesn't feel the same way exactly that you feel and 311 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:43.039 that she kind of maybe can't, is that a deal 312 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.000 breaker or would he still have wanted to try. I 313 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:50.400 think he maybe would have wanted to try anyway, I 314 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:55.079 wonder how it would have gone. Like also, could she 315 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:59.640 have pretended well enough for him to know or not know? 316 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:08.079 Or masking is like I imagine it as something that 317 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.480 I do with other people because I can be myself 318 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:14.400 with my husband, But in her case, she would have 319 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:17.200 had to mask all the time forever, and that sounds 320 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:21.319 so fucking tiring. I just I don't know. This just 321 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.640 was so devastating and the fact that she had clearly 322 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.000 like never told him any of this, and the way 323 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.119 that he felt about her, and that it took getting 324 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.279 to this point before she would share all of it. 325 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:39.400 I mean, it's just ugh. And like I said, her saying, 326 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:41.440 I do not wish to speak to anyone else. I 327 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:46.319 respect it fair. It's like, you know, how am I 328 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:51.759 gonna be mad at her deciding I'm going to do 329 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.799 what's best for the whole group. But I don't need 330 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:58.160 to be friends with you. I don't need to participate 331 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:02.599 in a social way. I'm doing something really risky. This 332 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:05.839 is a potential sacrifice, just so that you will know 333 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:07.920 whether a thing works or not to help other people, 334 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.880 and that speaks for itself. And otherwise you're not getting 335 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:21.799 anything from me. Valid, completely valid, you know. Anyway, The 336 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:28.799 cactus is fine, and it does not appear that she has, 337 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:34.160 you know, died once she is sucked up by the machine. 338 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.839 There is another piece of progress later where there's a change, 339 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.559 but I don't remember. We'll get there. The cleaner bot 340 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:46.640 sells almost instantly, and then we start with sixty two 341 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:53.119 mis Coning Race half work Class, Boring Old Mage final 342 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:57.039 level sixty three And this is such a sweet So 343 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:03.039 this guy is like I was never good looking, but 344 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:05.400 I did my best to stay in good shape and 345 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:12.279 dress well and read articles about being social online and 346 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:16.920 I just never managed to put into action the social 347 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:19.240 stuff because I would freeze up completely and then I 348 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.079 would stutter, and people would get really impatient. And I 349 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:25.119 don't know if you guys have ever spoken to somebody 350 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:29.400 with a stutter, but it is a really interesting exercise 351 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.599 in patience if you are somebody who tends to just 352 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.519 be like, oh my god, spit it out, you know 353 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:40.640 what I mean. And I can completely understand and imagine 354 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.400 how excruciating it probably was to be the person stuttering 355 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.240 and be like, I wish I wasn't doing this. Also, 356 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.359 but what am I supposed? I can't just not or 357 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:58.480 else I would just not And the fact that he 358 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:03.480 was only given options that made him even uglier, and 359 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.640 he's like, I'm pretty sure that was on purpose. I 360 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:10.440 think this fucking dungeon a I knew, and the thing 361 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:15.640 I picked that was like the least offensive looking I regret. 362 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:18.319 And I really wonder because he says like people shied 363 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:21.880 away from him, But I'm wondering when he says he 364 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.240 regrets it, was there a better option, or do you 365 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:26.640 wish you had just stayed as a human? I think 366 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:31.480 because he had sustained some injuries that scarred him, and 367 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:34.519 so part of choosing to transform was that it would 368 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:37.000 get rid of the scars. But it sounds like the 369 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:40.920 creature was scarier to people than scars would ever have been, 370 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:46.640 you know, And he says, you probably don't remember, but 371 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.720 just before the battle, you and Carl strolled by, and 372 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:51.839 you stopped, looked up at me and said you liked 373 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:54.680 my fangs. You saw my player killer skulls and asked 374 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.119 if I was a bad person. I told you what happened, 375 00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:59.920 and I stuttered, but you waited for me to tell you. 376 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:02.519 And afterwards you told me about your friend Immani, and 377 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:09.480 you said that we all have scars. You guys, why 378 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.559 is this book being very very emotional for me? And like, 379 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.559 I remember this moment. I definitely remember this moment and 380 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:21.640 her saying I like your fangs. I remember this, And 381 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.279 I love that this author had these little moments and 382 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:29.839 really made sure to like bring it back around and 383 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.720 be like, yeah, this was a cute moment for Donut 384 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:36.880 the character as you were reading it, but think about 385 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:38.960 what it might have meant to the person you know, 386 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:46.359 And I just uugh, Yeah, it was the first time 387 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.839 in my entire life anyone had ever looked at me 388 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.839 and said something nice, just to be nice, just to 389 00:26:53.960 --> 00:27:01.640 make me a stranger feel better. Ugh. Ugh, you guys, 390 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.039 And I often, like you know, I talk a lot 391 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:08.839 about how, after having aged and gained weight and gun 392 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.640 facial twitch and stuff, that I do not feel like 393 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.240 I'm nearly as attractive as I was years ago, and 394 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:19.400 I stand by that. But I can, at the very 395 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:25.960 least say that I don't feel outright ugly. I just 396 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.359 feel like I know what it was like to really 397 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.480 be something and I'm not anymore. I had my time, 398 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.440 and now I'm just a little bit more ordinary, and 399 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:42.599 that's fine. But I have never felt actually ugly, and 400 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:45.640 I often think about what it would be like to 401 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.599