Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters thirty seven through forty one.
Speaker 1: In these chapters, somebody pisses on the wall and all
Speaker 1: fucking hell breaks loose. You know, just follow instructions. How
Speaker 1: hard is it? Don't answer that. Welcome to spoil Me,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Yeah, Michael
Speaker 1: says in the chat, fucking Jack. It's unclear to me,
Speaker 1: they say later on, he knew, we told him, We
Speaker 1: explained it to him, and that's all will and good.
Speaker 1: I don't know how like with it Jack really was,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's hard for me to tell,
Speaker 1: because sometimes elderly folks will pretend to be a little
Speaker 1: bit less understanding than they really are, just so that
Speaker 1: they can kind of do what they want, which I
Speaker 1: honestly totally respect. But yeah, it's definitely like, how much
Speaker 1: did he understand what you were asking of him? It's unclear.
Speaker 1: I don't really know if this is something that can
Speaker 1: be even quantified. But the like the mention earlier of well,
Speaker 1: I have some dependens, I think is like basically what
Speaker 1: she's saying, I had a feeling that wasn't gonna do
Speaker 1: the job. Look, there comes a point in all our
Speaker 1: lives if we live long enough where stuff just stops
Speaker 1: quite working right dodgy plumbing, and you gotta be either like,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out how you're gonna cope. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be in denial and do a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: that's sort of like extra effort to get around acknowledging
Speaker 1: this change. Are you going to take medications and whatnot?
Speaker 1: Or are you going to just slap on a pair
Speaker 1: of depends and be like, this is just the life
Speaker 1: that I have now and try and roll with it.
Speaker 1: I am not saying that one is better than the other.
Speaker 1: For the record, I can really understand fighting against it,
Speaker 1: because there is an element of humiliation in there, of shame.
Speaker 1: You know. It sucks to feel like, how come I'm
Speaker 1: older now? I have to pee every fucking half hour,
Speaker 1: like even closer together than that, And sometimes if you
Speaker 1: have to go bad enough, you straight up can't hold
Speaker 1: it anymore. I can't imagine I am forty years old
Speaker 1: and I'm already facing that weird thing where your body's
Speaker 1: bluetooth hooks with the bluetooth in your bathroom when you
Speaker 1: reach your front door from the car, and so you
Speaker 1: aren't even in the front door, but already your body's like,
Speaker 1: we're in the bathroom and it's trying to start going
Speaker 1: and you're not even in the front door yet. I'm
Speaker 1: only forty years old and I already have that, So like,
Speaker 1: add on another thirty years. It can't be good. It
Speaker 1: cannot get better, It only gets worse. I want to
Speaker 1: have some sympathy for him, but it's difficult. It is
Speaker 1: really hard, you know. I just really am so angry
Speaker 1: because the level of hell that he brings down on everybody,
Speaker 1: and like it's not even like he has to suffer
Speaker 1: through it. Instead, I think it's Ylanda right that kills him,
Speaker 1: and so he has made her commit murder in this
Speaker 1: brutal way to try and save everybody else, and then
Speaker 1: that didn't even work. That's not even it didn't even
Speaker 1: do anything. She shot him, and the elemental has already
Speaker 1: been summoned, so it's too late. So it's just he
Speaker 1: has just inflicted a level of suffering on everybody. That Ah,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to forgive. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Let's begin at the beginning, though. We start on chapter
Speaker 1: thirty seven with all of these grubs pouring into the
Speaker 1: safe room, and understandably, Carl is a little puzzled why
Speaker 1: they're not just like immediately teleporting away, and I also
Speaker 1: was sort of expecting this, and Mordecai has to explain
Speaker 1: they don't teleport away until they attack you, and these
Speaker 1: grubs basically there's no method of attack. They can't do it,
Speaker 1: so nothing happens because they're not like they're just like floppy,
Speaker 1: little stuffed animals. At one point, Carl says that I'm
Speaker 1: able to pick up a grub and put it in
Speaker 1: my lap and nothing happens, because it just doesn't, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think the fact that if you left the
Speaker 1: door open long enough, and because these grubs don't attack,
Speaker 1: that this safe room in quotes could fill with enough
Speaker 1: grubs that it could potentially crush you. Is I feel
Speaker 1: like that now is no longer a safe room. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's just me, maybe that's just where I'm coming from
Speaker 1: on this, but I just think that there should probably
Speaker 1: be some sort of fine print that they can pull
Speaker 1: up a lawsuit for this, and oh my god, Michael
Speaker 1: in the chat says, Yolanda is how everyone thinks they
Speaker 1: will be when it's time to be heroic. COVID showed
Speaker 1: us that most people would be jack. Though, Michael, you
Speaker 1: just fucking a whole sermon, a whole sermon. It's so true.
Speaker 1: I hate it, and it's true. That just impressed me
Speaker 1: so bad. Thanks a lot, Michael. So Carl realizes that
Speaker 1: they are like following on their trail. They're coming to
Speaker 1: the safe room for them, and he pulls up his
Speaker 1: map and sees that there are thousands and they are
Speaker 1: all heading in their direction. What the hell is this,
Speaker 1: I asked Mordecai. I've never seen anything like this. Not
Speaker 1: on the second floor. They're being spawned. Yeah, no shit,
Speaker 1: I said. Every floor has a waste disposal system. He continued,
Speaker 1: so far you've seen rats and the grubs. The more
Speaker 1: dead bodies they eat, the stronger they get. It'll be
Speaker 1: something different the next floor down. They're supposed to home
Speaker 1: in on corpses if none but are none, if none
Speaker 1: are nearby, they'll hunt crawlers. That's what they're doing. These
Speaker 1: guys don't attack, but they'll still swarm at you, But
Speaker 1: why are there so many of them? It looks like
Speaker 1: the system spawning anywhere between one to fifteen of them
Speaker 1: when a corpse is created. It usually doesn't do that
Speaker 1: unless there aren't any janitor mobs nearby. You killed a
Speaker 1: lot of mobs in that last battle, so here they are.
Speaker 1: We didn't kill that many. Plus we've been destroying the corpses.
Speaker 1: They probably had a couple hundred grubs in that cage
Speaker 1: in the boss room. Yeah, there were seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty of them, all fried. Plus you killed another eighty
Speaker 1: five Chloricons between Grinding Away and the Boss battle. Destroying
Speaker 1: corpses only keeps them from leveling up. It doesn't stop
Speaker 1: them from being generated. You, my friends have been set up.
Speaker 1: You've fallen into a trap that is so deeply unfair,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense Allegedly they're trying to kill them
Speaker 1: as fast as possible. Personally, I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: maybe that's not as true as we have been thinking,
Speaker 1: or maybe maybe it would be better to say say,
Speaker 1: I believe that's what's happening because of what Mordecai said.
Speaker 1: But I also feel like when you step back and
Speaker 1: look at the overall way that they make money with
Speaker 1: this game. Trying to kill Carl and Donut quickly is
Speaker 1: actually pretty counterintuitive to what they should be doing. If
Speaker 1: you want to make money off of people throwing in
Speaker 1: to sponsor certain players, then you need to keep the
Speaker 1: most fascinating players around. And I would argue that Donut
Speaker 1: and Carl have a lot of viewership, and if you're
Speaker 1: trying to take some people out early, try and take
Speaker 1: out the people with the lowest number of sponsorships and
Speaker 1: viewers and leave the people who are the biggest draw
Speaker 1: so that you can keep as many sponsors active as
Speaker 1: you can. Now. Granted, I am going off their numbers
Speaker 1: and thinking to myself that this means they are very popular,
Speaker 1: and it's possible. I don't know the numbers of how
Speaker 1: many people out there are watching. I don't know whether
Speaker 1: or not it's possible for other players out there to
Speaker 1: have like ten times the number of viewers they do,
Speaker 1: because at one point, Donut says that she has like
Speaker 1: a trillion views. So, like, these are numbers that I
Speaker 1: don't understand frankly and can't rent my head around. If
Speaker 1: it's true that they are really not doing as well
Speaker 1: as other players, I guess it would make sense that
Speaker 1: we're trying to get rid of them, But I just
Speaker 1: kind of thought they were doing better than it seems
Speaker 1: like they must be. If we're already getting rid of them,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I don't know. So see,
Speaker 1: he says, do you know what the limit is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've already hit it. It's five thousand. Is it like this?
Speaker 1: Everywhere across the whole dungeon looks like it. It's to
Speaker 1: keep people from camping out in one area for too long.
Speaker 1: As long as you keep moving, it shouldn't be an issue.
Speaker 1: So he checks in with Brandon and he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: don't know, we got to get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: And when they first leave, they initially start trying to
Speaker 1: kill the grubs in big groups, and then they start
Speaker 1: to realize that these things can't really attack us, So
Speaker 1: there's no point in wasting all of our like, because
Speaker 1: he's using explosives and stuff, he's using dynamite, he's using
Speaker 1: his uh what are they called the jug a bomb?
Speaker 1: Jugga boom, jugga boom. Right, So it's possible that if
Speaker 1: we just leave them alone, we can wade through them
Speaker 1: no problem, except unfortunately it soon becomes clear that just
Speaker 1: trying to wade through them is in itself an issue.
Speaker 1: You can't exactly do that without smashing them under your feet,
Speaker 1: so they wind up killing them without even intending to,
Speaker 1: which results. Even like after they destroy the the corpses,
Speaker 1: these things are still like munching away at like the
Speaker 1: tiny little bits of scrap that are left, so it
Speaker 1: winds up not helping or mattering at all. Carl, people
Speaker 1: are getting bored with this by followers. Haven't gone up
Speaker 1: in five minutes. For Fock's sake, do not. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm sure something awful is gonna happen any second. Why
Speaker 1: did you have to say that. I saw the wall
Speaker 1: of blue dots coming down the hall. It looked as
Speaker 1: if it was all of them, so we went jogging
Speaker 1: toward them. I stopped and laughed the moment I saw
Speaker 1: the parade. They'd built a parade float, That's what it
Speaker 1: looked like. They'd taken the wheels from multiple wheelchairs that
Speaker 1: no longer had owners, and it fixed them to long
Speaker 1: pieces of wood. I had no idea where the wooden
Speaker 1: platforms had come from, but I knew Amani and Chris
Speaker 1: both were as obsessive about looting everything as I was
Speaker 1: using some of the Goblin tools they'd cobbled together the contraption.
Speaker 1: Looking more closely, it was more like a train set
Speaker 1: or a set of roller coaster cars. There were a
Speaker 1: total of thirty nine people being pulled, most of them
Speaker 1: sitting up on their own wheelchairs, which sat locked in
Speaker 1: place two by two. Those who normally used walkers sat
Speaker 1: cross legged on boards, watching wide eyed as they were
Speaker 1: pulled along. The giant centipede was ten cars long, and
Speaker 1: each section held four people. The individual cars were attached
Speaker 1: to one another by a set of glowing metal chains.
Speaker 1: The same chain attached Chris and Imani to the rest
Speaker 1: of the train. It seemed as if it was one
Speaker 1: chain running from Chris through all the cars and back
Speaker 1: up to Amani. About three hundred feet long, and apparently
Speaker 1: the chain is Immani's. It's a scroll called Yog's Special Chain.
Speaker 1: She got it from some gold box. She could pick
Speaker 1: any length up to something crazy like a thousand feet.
Speaker 1: It's light as a feather, but the chain only lasts
Speaker 1: thirty hours. The whole thing was her idea, though Brandon
Speaker 1: designed it. He even added ramps so they can get
Speaker 1: on and off easily. And this is when there's the
Speaker 1: mention of the mind horrors. We went to clear them out.
Speaker 1: Yolanda would shoot them from down the hallway, deflating them
Speaker 1: before they could hurt us. The boss room was this
Speaker 1: abandoned warehouse thing. The boss was a giant blimp. We
Speaker 1: took it out pretty easily thanks to Yolanda. That's also
Speaker 1: where we got all this wood. Did it come out
Speaker 1: of its room? I gave him a quick recap of
Speaker 1: what had happened with Kra Karen Christ Dude, our battle
Speaker 1: was much easier. It never left its lair. They were
Speaker 1: lucky to be alive, but I was glad they'd spent
Speaker 1: the time training themselves. So that again feels like evidence
Speaker 1: that Carl and Donut are being targeted in a particular way.
Speaker 1: And I'm really curious because like, by the end of
Speaker 1: this the person that they were put in touch with
Speaker 1: to be their pr agent has been taken off their case.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say it. They have
Speaker 1: been put on a time out as like the Vibe,
Speaker 1: which we don't know why, and I'm wondering if that
Speaker 1: is related to them being targeted the way that they are.
Speaker 1: I really don't know what to think about this. So
Speaker 1: this is when el mcgibb comes up to him and
Speaker 1: she calls him by name, and he's like, hey, he
Speaker 1: remembered me. And she's looking at the like kind of
Speaker 1: roller coaster style thing that they're being pulled on, and
Speaker 1: she says, this reminds me of the Tunnel of Love.
Speaker 1: Back in my time, my Berry and I used to
Speaker 1: always go to the carnival. We eat the cotton candy
Speaker 1: and throw darts at the balloons. We'd go in the
Speaker 1: Tunnel of Love. Back then it was a boat. I'd
Speaker 1: let him touch my boobs, but only on the outside
Speaker 1: of my sweater. I loved my Berry, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: the prettiest man to look at. If you were in
Speaker 1: the Tunnel of Love with me, I'd have, like you
Speaker 1: do more than touch them on the outside of my clothes. Uh.
Speaker 1: I said, thank you. I couldn't think of a better response.
Speaker 1: The old woman cackled behind her. Yolanda barked with laughter.
Speaker 1: You guys, oh god, that's funny. So he has a
Speaker 1: moment here of just looking at this woman and realizing
Speaker 1: how old she is, everything that she has been through
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it becomes clear to him
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have brought them through this far that actually
Speaker 1: saving them like this isn't a kindness at all. It's
Speaker 1: just drawing out the inevitable. And it's so hard to
Speaker 1: say whether or not I agree with this, because, on
Speaker 1: the one hand, a big part of me understands where
Speaker 1: he's coming from from a purely practical perspective, and also
Speaker 1: like the way that these people are having to live,
Speaker 1: it's difficult for me to like feel like they're getting
Speaker 1: anything out of this, just having to be dragged from
Speaker 1: one place to another, getting attacked over and over again.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not trying to say that they themselves have
Speaker 1: nothing to offer. I am saying, like, what is it
Speaker 1: that the world has to offer them at this point
Speaker 1: when they aren't really even quite conscious of what's going on,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So there's also, though an
Speaker 1: argument to be made for whether or not you think
Speaker 1: it's kind to them isn't really what's at issue here,
Speaker 1: That like, you don't get to make that choice for them.
Speaker 1: But if you don't and they don't know what's happening,
Speaker 1: then who does Because then being given the agency to
Speaker 1: make their own choice when they don't have a full
Speaker 1: grasp of the situation. Doesn't really feel like total agency
Speaker 1: to me in the first place. It's just it's a
Speaker 1: difficult question, you know. And this is always going to
Speaker 1: come up when it comes to people who are in
Speaker 1: questionable control of their own faculties. And I don't think
Speaker 1: there's ever like an easy answer or an answer that
Speaker 1: applies to everybody. It's possible that there might be people
Speaker 1: in this group that it would make more sense to
Speaker 1: save than others, like he feels at this point, they
Speaker 1: should have made them stay. And this is when Jack
Speaker 1: yells out bring that pussy over here about donut, And
Speaker 1: just as they are all turning to look at him,
Speaker 1: this is when Carl is talking to Brandon, and Brandon says, hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for helping us to your own detriment. You're a
Speaker 1: good man, Carl says. If we get to the point
Speaker 1: where we don't help each other anymore, that's when we
Speaker 1: stopped being human. I felt something catch in my throat
Speaker 1: and I coughed, zev admin, Carl, that was great. Can
Speaker 1: you say that for me again, but this time, don't cough.
Speaker 1: I stopped dead. My neck tingled with goosebumps. I knew
Speaker 1: we were being watched and followed, but having someone actually
Speaker 1: comment in my mind was one of the most unnerving
Speaker 1: sensations I'd ever felt. Now, I was a little bit
Speaker 1: confused by this because I was assuming from the way
Speaker 1: this was written that it was he was like getting
Speaker 1: this comment in the same way that he had been
Speaker 1: talking on the chat to Donut, which granted, when you
Speaker 1: were dealing with a different being that's not in your
Speaker 1: party and they're able to comment in your mind, that's
Speaker 1: still unnerving. But he's been talking to Brandon as well,
Speaker 1: so I feel like this has got to be a
Speaker 1: completely different method of talking. Like it almost sounds like
Speaker 1: it came through as audio, but that's not the way
Speaker 1: that it's written. It's written like it's text. So I'm
Speaker 1: not totally sure if I'm getting this right. But and like,
Speaker 1: either way, don't get me wrong, he has the right
Speaker 1: to feel how he feels about this, and I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at him either way. I'm just saying, if he
Speaker 1: were going to react this strongly, I would have thought
Speaker 1: that it would have come up earlier, or that what
Speaker 1: he described as being fucked up about it would seem
Speaker 1: really different than the way it's been already with Donut
Speaker 1: and Brandon, So he says, no, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say it again. Have you been watching this whole time?
Speaker 1: Zev admin, you and my other clients to save the
Speaker 1: elderly storyline is playing great with most viewers. That said
Speaker 1: about twenty percent things you're wasting time and being stupid
Speaker 1: dead weight I think was the term some of them
Speaker 1: have used, but most of them understand what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Donut is right, However, it's a little dry. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can oh shit, Oh fuck Carl, Donut, run run to
Speaker 1: the safirm now, no Jack, Jack, no, Yolanda called. I
Speaker 1: turned to see Jack Cincinnati Bengal's hat sitting cock eyed
Speaker 1: on his head. He'd stood to his full height using
Speaker 1: the wheelchair with Missus mcgibbons and Donut as a brace.
Speaker 1: His pants were down to his ankles, dick out, pissing
Speaker 1: directly on the wall. And I was just like fough,
Speaker 1: I just really lost my shit here, Oh, Rob, says
Speaker 1: Elle mcgibb equals Elle mcgibbons. Just in case this didn't
Speaker 1: come across. It didn't in my first read. The Dungeon
Speaker 1: assigns names to crawlers based on their entry tome, which
Speaker 1: is why he's Carl and not Carl last name, but
Speaker 1: also why Brandon is Brandon on and his brother is
Speaker 1: Chris Andrews, which is a fun little touch. Oh, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying, Rob Okay, So thirty eight we
Speaker 1: are dealing with this fucking thing that appears. They're only
Speaker 1: one hundred feet from the safe room, so there's possible
Speaker 1: time for them to get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: Ylanda blows Jack's brains out. This is this is so sad.
Speaker 1: It's I say, blows brains out like it was a gun.
Speaker 1: It's an arrow. It's shooting either way whatever. I realized,
Speaker 1: I was running, running toward the back of the train.
Speaker 1: Behind me, Brandon shouted the safe room was only a
Speaker 1: hundred feet away. Chris and Imani were already picking up speed.
Speaker 1: The second man on the last car went flying off
Speaker 1: the train as it lurched forward. He hit the ground
Speaker 1: with a loud, painful crunch, his walker flying over his
Speaker 1: head just as the monster appeared, and Carl yells for
Speaker 1: Donut to run and sprints towards the thing. I could never.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. I'm not a hero, and that's just
Speaker 1: that purple and black smoke kept hissing and spitting from
Speaker 1: the wet stain on the wall. The monster coalesced, coming
Speaker 1: into existence ten feet behind Yolanda and Randall, just above
Speaker 1: the prone form of the now dead Jack. Yolanda hit
Speaker 1: the monster with two arrows, and the shafts just shattered
Speaker 1: against the smoke. It didn't even form a health bar,
Speaker 1: indicating she'd done no damage way soever. The thing was
Speaker 1: fifteen feet tall and just as wide, made of fulminating,
Speaker 1: sizzling black and purple smoke. It had six legs, each
Speaker 1: gleaming with obsidian claws the size of rakes. The claws
Speaker 1: seemed to be the only corporeal parts of its body.
Speaker 1: The legs were all the same, but the two forward
Speaker 1: claws were longer, fingerlike with extra joints. A flickering, horned
Speaker 1: skull sat amongst the smoky mass. Its eyes made of
Speaker 1: glowing red fire that poured smoke. It was the skull
Speaker 1: of some sort of animal, maybe a colossal badger, but
Speaker 1: with curved goat like horns. It roared and the ground shook.
Speaker 1: Rage Elemental level ninety three, and we get some info
Speaker 1: basically telling them so so sorry for your losses that
Speaker 1: are about to happen, and for your loss of your
Speaker 1: life that's about to happen. But what can you do?
Speaker 1: Winsa loose some donut activates her confusing fog, and it
Speaker 1: spins toward them, and it takes out Yolanda and Randall,
Speaker 1: And there's this very heartbreaking moment where Carl thinks about
Speaker 1: how he wishes he had had a mother that was
Speaker 1: like Yolanda. There was a warmth about her, something I'd
Speaker 1: never felt as a kid. Just being in her presence
Speaker 1: imparted a feeling of longing in me, something difficult to describe,
Speaker 1: like I wished I could relive my childhood, but this
Speaker 1: time I'd of her as my mother and she would
Speaker 1: have never ever left me. Oh man, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like I've met too many people that I've been like,
Speaker 1: it would have been great to have these parents instead
Speaker 1: of my parents. Like, you know, my parents had their issues,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, I've been pretty satisfied with
Speaker 1: them in general. And I just really wonder about this feeling.
Speaker 1: And if anybody listening, if you've had this where you've
Speaker 1: met somebody and been like, how do you get this
Speaker 1: lucky to be this person's child, you know, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a feeling that people have, and
Speaker 1: it's just really depressing. Imagine being a parent who lets
Speaker 1: their kid down so completely. I really wonder what happened
Speaker 1: to Carl's mom, because clearly she left him due to
Speaker 1: his father's behavior, but the fact that she didn't bring
Speaker 1: Karl with her is really awful. Like I don't you know,
Speaker 1: there could potentially be some inxsenuating circumstances that would make
Speaker 1: it understandable, but they'd have to be pretty extreme for
Speaker 1: me to really understand it. It's this is the sort
Speaker 1: of thing that I always run up against you guys.
Speaker 1: It's like when there's a child involved in a situation
Speaker 1: and you leave that child and only protect yourself. I
Speaker 1: just genuinely don't know how you live with yourself. And
Speaker 1: like I said, there are gonna be situations where this.
Speaker 1: Once it's explained to me the extenuating circumstances, I might
Speaker 1: be like, well, okay, I get it, but I have
Speaker 1: a I don't even want to say a friend. There
Speaker 1: is somebody that I know and they they are living
Speaker 1: still with their very abusive husband, and the reasons for
Speaker 1: not leaving are in a lot of ways to me
Speaker 1: purely excuses. This is a sort of situation that can happen.
Speaker 1: Some people have got options and they simply do not
Speaker 1: take them. Not everybody winds up in a situation where
Speaker 1: leaving is an impossibility. They have those options, and they
Speaker 1: choose not to take them and to keep staying with
Speaker 1: this abusive person. But they have three children with this guy,
Speaker 1: and instead of protecting their kids, they themselves hide out
Speaker 1: in their bedroom and leave their children out to deal
Speaker 1: with their husband. And they have like said things to
Speaker 1: me like, well, you know, I've told them when he
Speaker 1: yells at them and insults them in stuff, to just
Speaker 1: let it roll off their back. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: cannot understand how you can say to your own children
Speaker 1: that what their parent tells them they shouldn't take seriously
Speaker 1: because it's that horrible. But also expect these kids to
Speaker 1: like it's just such a They are protecting themselves and
Speaker 1: retreating into their own little world of their separate bedroom
Speaker 1: from their husband, and they are leaving their kids out
Speaker 1: there with him to fend for themselves. And at that point,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I genuinely don't understand how you
Speaker 1: are consumed with guilt every day at leaving your children
Speaker 1: to suffer a fate that you don't even want to suffer,
Speaker 1: just to protect yourself. Like, it's just I don't get it.
Speaker 1: And I remember I was having the conversation with them
Speaker 1: because it was very clear that the abuse that was
Speaker 1: happening was still like pretty much. They kept trying to
Speaker 1: act as if their husband had started to like go
Speaker 1: to counseling and he wasn't acting out anymore. But then
Speaker 1: they mentioned him like yanking at their son's arm and
Speaker 1: leaving bruises on him, and I was like, so he's
Speaker 1: definitely still doing it, then he's just managing to not
Speaker 1: do it often enough to worry you. But if you're
Speaker 1: not in front of your kids and with your children
Speaker 1: when it happens, how do you even know? Do you
Speaker 1: think they're going to come to you and tattle on him?
Speaker 1: If you have already left them alone to deal with him,
Speaker 1: Why would they think they should tell you anything because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna help, You haven't done anything to protect them.
Speaker 1: And you know me, guys, I have a tendency to
Speaker 1: get pretty harsh when I decide that I'm not going
Speaker 1: to mince words, and she started crying in response to me.
Speaker 1: But I had very little sympathy at the time, and
Speaker 1: I still kind of don't like it just feels to
Speaker 1: me you have your one job if you decide to
Speaker 1: be a parent, if you decide to have children, protecting
Speaker 1: them is the one main job you have. And if
Speaker 1: you keep bringing kids into the world. And when I
Speaker 1: was speaking to them, they were pregnant with yet another kid,
Speaker 1: a fourth was coming along the way. I do not
Speaker 1: understand how you can not take that responsibility really, really seriously.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, I mean, I feel that kind
Speaker 1: of protection about my fucking dog, never mind an actual
Speaker 1: human child. So Carl's mom, you sound fucked up. I'd
Speaker 1: like to know more about your situation. I'd like to
Speaker 1: have a bit more context, but from where I'm sitting
Speaker 1: right now, not impressed. Girly Rob says, I've got pretty
Speaker 1: decent parents, so I haven't wished that that I had
Speaker 1: different ones, But I had met some brilliant people who
Speaker 1: nevertheless kind of wind up being a second pair of
Speaker 1: parents or an adopted grandparent when you're in a friendship,
Speaker 1: not for the friend but from the harm reduction for
Speaker 1: their kids. Yeah, it was like if things had been
Speaker 1: set up slightly different and this person was my friend,
Speaker 1: probably I would have tried to like do something like that,
Speaker 1: but it was really my husband's friend, and even then
Speaker 1: not really his friend. It was somebody that he was
Speaker 1: acquainted with that it became pretty clear they were using
Speaker 1: him for like emotional support, and he has since pulled
Speaker 1: away because he offered them help in a variety of
Speaker 1: ways and they simply kept complaining to him and never
Speaker 1: actually took advantage of any of the options that he
Speaker 1: was offering them from help for help from his end,
Speaker 1: and he started to realize, like, they don't actually want
Speaker 1: out of this situation. They just want somebody to come
Speaker 1: and cry to. And they weren't offering anything like a
Speaker 1: shoulder to cry on to Owen. They were just using
Speaker 1: him to unload and then ignoring him for like days
Speaker 1: at a time, and then popping back up when it
Speaker 1: was time to continue to complain. So they are no
Speaker 1: longer really a part of my life, although I did
Speaker 1: see on Facebook recently that they gave birth finally, and
Speaker 1: I just feel so bad for this kid because it's
Speaker 1: the situation that they are being brought into is super unfair,
Speaker 1: and they just they have a mom who is really
Speaker 1: pretty self absorbed, you know, just one of those people
Speaker 1: that either can't or won't let themselves fully appreciate what
Speaker 1: they're inflicting on people around them. So anyway, when the apocalypse,
Speaker 1: when the apocalypse came for Yolanda, she didn't once waiver
Speaker 1: in her dedication to her patients. She was quick to laugh,
Speaker 1: quick to smile, and even though Yolanda Martinez was just
Speaker 1: as terrified as the rest of us, she stood her
Speaker 1: ground against a force she couldn't possibly hold back. She
Speaker 1: lived her entire life as a hero. She died as
Speaker 1: one too. One moment they were there, the next they
Speaker 1: were gone. Through the still developing cloud of confusing fog,
Speaker 1: the monstrous claws ripped forward, cutting through the nurse and
Speaker 1: elderly man as if they weren't even there. Yolanda's body
Speaker 1: disintegrated in a red cloud of ribbon like flesh, like
Speaker 1: she was a knitted sweater that had been uny all
Speaker 1: at once. The monster didn't even break stride. It came
Speaker 1: for us despite the fog, and swung a mighty claw
Speaker 1: and eventually it does this thing where it flips gravity
Speaker 1: upside down, and they wind up slamming into the ceiling,
Speaker 1: which is just incredibly unfair. Oh my god. In front
Speaker 1: of me, the very last train car flew upward, and
Speaker 1: the remaining resident, missus mcgibbons, cried out as she also
Speaker 1: slammed up into the top of the hallway, wheelchair, crashing
Speaker 1: upon her like she'd been dumped face first down into
Speaker 1: a hole. She dies, right, does she? He carries her
Speaker 1: and gives her a potion. Does she make it? I
Speaker 1: can't remember. I think she must. The potion has to
Speaker 1: save her, right, I'm just realizing that things get so
Speaker 1: chaotic here that I lost track of what happened to her,
Speaker 1: and Carl just barely manages to get in there before
Speaker 1: the door closes. And uh, this elemental I had thought
Speaker 1: once they're out that it would leave them alone, but
Speaker 1: it stays outside the door and just keeps on pounding
Speaker 1: on it so that it just kind of becomes background noise.
Speaker 1: That this thing is right there, making this situation into
Speaker 1: one where they have to leave and face it, which
Speaker 1: they would all instantly die. So what are they supposed
Speaker 1: to fucking do? And this we student what appeared to
Speaker 1: be a dusty no way they passed the health inspection
Speaker 1: Chicken restaurant, Big shot Chicken. The sign read, I'd never
Speaker 1: heard of it, Bob cut protectors stood behind the counter,
Speaker 1: looking distastefully at the large cur How about you keep
Speaker 1: your judgmental expressions to yourself, buddy, how about that? I
Speaker 1: will say I was very relieved at the very least
Speaker 1: that they wound up in a room where obviously there
Speaker 1: is like full service food and everything, because considering the
Speaker 1: number of safe rooms that they've wound up in where
Speaker 1: it turned out that it was like a fucking piece
Speaker 1: of toast, like we see later. If they had wound
Speaker 1: up stuck in there for like several hours, that would
Speaker 1: have been even worse. So if you're gonna be stuck
Speaker 1: in a room with a rage elemental on the outside
Speaker 1: threatening to get in at any moment, at the very least,
Speaker 1: let's have a little bit fucking fried chicken, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And everybody is just like fucking crying injured.
Speaker 1: They've been sort of thrown into the room. Understandably, Donut
Speaker 1: had saved several wheelchairs, but there was no way we
Speaker 1: had enough. Now, Fucking Jack he knew. We explained it
Speaker 1: to him. Zev's message echoed in my head. This was
Speaker 1: a mistake helping these people. All we are doing is
Speaker 1: hindering our own training and delaying there in inevitable deaths.
Speaker 1: It would have been kinder to have left them on
Speaker 1: the first floor rather than subject them to this terror.
Speaker 1: This point is when I believe that he's right. The
Speaker 1: problem is this rage elemental isn't the norm right now?
Speaker 1: You know, like what happened is because Jack decided to
Speaker 1: do something and they're penalizing you. But you couldn't have
Speaker 1: known this would happen. So I don't fully agree. I
Speaker 1: get why you're feeling that way now, and I guess
Speaker 1: when the people who have created the game are this
Speaker 1: fucking capricious in how they decide they're going to handle things,
Speaker 1: maybe at like a big picture, you're right, but I
Speaker 1: can't help but feel like this is a really specific
Speaker 1: situation and I'm not sure I feel that way. This
Speaker 1: is all right, missus. Mcgibbons says, thank you, you saved me.
Speaker 1: Jack was always an ass. Poor Yolanda, she was such
Speaker 1: a good kid, and Brandle dumb as a pigeon that one.
Speaker 1: But he deserved better than that. At least it was quick,
Speaker 1: so I'm glad because you know, her slamming into the
Speaker 1: ceiling when you're that old, like even if you have
Speaker 1: a healing potion. I'm not really sure exactly where this
Speaker 1: game draws the line sometimes, so glad to see that
Speaker 1: she is okay. So the recap episode started with a
Speaker 1: close up shot of Jack's purple veined and uncircumcised dick
Speaker 1: huge on the screen. The headline screamed, trapped meadow Lark
Speaker 1: and the Royal Court of Princess Donut in peril. Wow,
Speaker 1: Donut said, yours isn't nearly that big or oily looking,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have that hat thing. If looks could
Speaker 1: kill the glare IMMANI shot at the cat would have
Speaker 1: ripped her into I get it, in Moni, But Donut
Speaker 1: doesn't know what's happening, you know what I mean? Oh God,
Speaker 1: I uh, I really feel like this decision to zero
Speaker 1: in on his cock. It makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: considering that this group of people doesn't see like lewdness
Speaker 1: in body parts the way that we do. But it
Speaker 1: is very funny considering how they don't want anybody pissing
Speaker 1: or shitting in the hallways that they would like zoom
Speaker 1: in on it when it's happening, because allegedly you don't
Speaker 1: want it because people don't like to see it. But
Speaker 1: of course, now that it's done in such a way
Speaker 1: that there's like a massive splashy fight afterwards, now seeing
Speaker 1: it is no big deal, it's fine. Oh okay, it's
Speaker 1: just the grossness of this, just on the level that
Speaker 1: we feel it's just so much more intense than that
Speaker 1: because of the fact that it's being used as entertainment
Speaker 1: when all of this resulted in a bunch of people
Speaker 1: dying horrible death. And so today it's March eighteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Sunrise on the Reaping came out today. It
Speaker 1: is the next Hunger Games book. It focuses on Hamich
Speaker 1: Abernathy's story, prequel to the original trilogy. I started listening
Speaker 1: to the audio book, and I will say I'm not
Speaker 1: super into it as of yet, but there are a
Speaker 1: couple parts that I've really enjoyed. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: do a mild spoiler's here, but there is a part
Speaker 1: where something happens during the Reaping that causes a bit
Speaker 1: of kerfuffle, and we don't get the footage we normally
Speaker 1: would when names are read and afterward somebody has to
Speaker 1: come up to the families and be like, hey, can
Speaker 1: you can you act right now? As if they've just
Speaker 1: had their name red and gasp for us and they
Speaker 1: make this family. They won't let them say goodbye to
Speaker 1: their loved one, their child that's been reaped until they
Speaker 1: get a satisfactory take of their horror and shock at
Speaker 1: the reaping name being chosen, and they make them go
Speaker 1: through it like several times. And it's just the grossest,
Speaker 1: most hideous thing. And that kind of felt like it
Speaker 1: was in the same territory. So I eased back into
Speaker 1: the chair and took a bite of fried chicken. A
Speaker 1: part of me registered the food was downright delicious, but
Speaker 1: I could barely taste it. That's a real shame, guys,
Speaker 1: fried chicken. Just let me just let me take a moment.
Speaker 1: Fried chicken. I don't know what wonderful person in the
Speaker 1: fog of history figured out how to heat up fat
Speaker 1: and fry things. I would they should have many statues.
Speaker 1: They should their name should be known, and whomever it
Speaker 1: was that came up with fried chicken, I mean, especially
Speaker 1: once we start to get into the territory of recipes
Speaker 1: akin to Popeyes fried chicken, which is the superior fast
Speaker 1: food fried chicken, and nobody will ever change my mind
Speaker 1: ever in the history of the world. Money isn't enough.
Speaker 1: Fried chicken is one of the best things out there.
Speaker 1: And I can't have it more than like once a
Speaker 1: month because it's just so bad for you. Like it's
Speaker 1: difficult to quantify how bad it is for you on
Speaker 1: how many different levels. But oh my god, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he is somewhere where he has amazing fried
Speaker 1: chicken and he isn't even tasting it. Give it to me, Carl,
Speaker 1: hand it over. Let the reader appreciate what you seem
Speaker 1: uneyable to appreciate. Right now, I'll do right by you, okay. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he has come up with a plan to deal with
Speaker 1: this rage elemental, but they do have to ditch everybody
Speaker 1: in order to pull this off. Zev disappeared off the
Speaker 1: chat after the skirmish in the hallway. Oh that's why
Speaker 1: Zev's been given a time out, huh for yelling for
Speaker 1: them to run. If they hadn't had gotten that heads up,
Speaker 1: probably they would have died. I bet that's what it is.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think of that until this second oh god, Zef.
Speaker 1: She did her best. She did her fucking best. She
Speaker 1: probably saved their lives. She might have saved a couple
Speaker 1: lives here, you know, like dah, sorry, Zev. A wave
Speaker 1: of grubs descended upon us. I didn't know what was
Speaker 1: gonna happen once they reached the hall with a rage elemental.
Speaker 1: I was hoping, perhaps they distract the creature, cause it
Speaker 1: to wander off. I suspected we wouldn't get that lucky,
Speaker 1: but I had hope. And he gets an achievement for
Speaker 1: surviving reverse gravity and achievement for surviving a mob more
Speaker 1: than seventy five levels above your own. A platinum lucky
Speaker 1: bastard box is what he gets. It was a lottery
Speaker 1: scratch off ticket. The tickets themselves were different. Doughnuts was
Speaker 1: red and green and had a small graphic of a
Speaker 1: troll like creature throwing gold coins in the air. It
Speaker 1: was called Dungeon Gold Rush Rush. She had six spots
Speaker 1: to scratch off. She immediately moved to scratch it, but
Speaker 1: received an error message telling her she couldn't use the
Speaker 1: ticket in a safe room. I made her hand it
Speaker 1: over so I could read the description. And it turns
Speaker 1: out that you get different effects when you scratch it off,
Speaker 1: and you can scratch it off more than once, so
Speaker 1: it's not like scratch off a certain number and like
Speaker 1: if they're all diamonds, you win so much money. It's
Speaker 1: like you can only choose one spot to scratch and
Speaker 1: get a different effect, and then there's a cool down
Speaker 1: for an hour, and then you can scratch another one
Speaker 1: and you can go through every single one of them.
Speaker 1: It revealed twenty different symbols. Most of the results were good,
Speaker 1: like MOB drops five thousand coins, or damage against MOB
Speaker 1: is doubled, but a few offered MOB splits in two
Speaker 1: or MOB is invulnerable for thirty seconds. Yeah, don't use this,
Speaker 1: I said, not until we talk about it some The
Speaker 1: last thing we need is you scratching off a symbol
Speaker 1: that'll quadruple the next MOB strength. Or I can scratch
Speaker 1: off a symbol and I'll get five thousand coins. Karl,
Speaker 1: why must you all miss be so pessimistic? And honestly,
Speaker 1: a lot of the time I do kind of have
Speaker 1: donut energy a little bit more. But considering that we
Speaker 1: now have gotten to know how the AI isn't randomized
Speaker 1: and that they will do things to screw you not anymore.
Speaker 1: I can't have that attitude anymore. They're doing what is
Speaker 1: necessary for things to be the funniest or most entertaining
Speaker 1: they can. Why would they help you? It's just not
Speaker 1: likely to me, you know. And he has five scratch
Speaker 1: spots fireball or custard. Scratch off a spot in the
Speaker 1: midst of battle, and this zany ticket casts a spell
Speaker 1: at the closest red tagged mob. Each spot has a
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty chance. Will it cast a level fifteen fireball?
Speaker 1: Will it cast a glob of delicious healing strawberry custard?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Either way? The results will be a hoot
Speaker 1: thirty minute cool down between scratches, Donut demands custard, so
Speaker 1: they're working on that. And then we get the show
Speaker 1: and we check in with the African Warriors, who don't
Speaker 1: have like Ammo anymore, so they're just using their AK
Speaker 1: forty seven's as clubs. Lucia Mahr has four player killer
Speaker 1: skulls by her name, but they don't show exactly how
Speaker 1: she got them, and he realizes that her ro Wilers
Speaker 1: still count as pets, while Donut doesn't. I am interested
Speaker 1: in whether she's going to eventually get something that leads
Speaker 1: to them transforming from pets to crawlers themselves, and if
Speaker 1: that will change anything. I kept thinking about like this
Speaker 1: girl with her dogs as well, and how awful it
Speaker 1: would be to be down here with Pippin like worried
Speaker 1: about his welfare, you know. And there are certain games
Speaker 1: where you can get a pet, like Fallout, where you
Speaker 1: get a dog, and from what I understand, in the
Speaker 1: first version of the game, it was possible for your
Speaker 1: dog to die, but everybody hated that feature so much
Speaker 1: that they changed it so that the dog couldn't die.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much the energy, you know. I just
Speaker 1: I don't think I would be able to keep myself
Speaker 1: from trying to save Pippin and keep him from harm
Speaker 1: to the point that he wouldn't really be a weapon.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I'd be able to help
Speaker 1: that all the time. Because Pippin he has been a
Speaker 1: very good boy for the most part, and he is
Speaker 1: we have learned how to handle his anxiety, but he
Speaker 1: can get vicious and it's really scary. He would fight
Speaker 1: with his brother Sam before we found Sam a home,
Speaker 1: and then we started bringing him to the dog park
Speaker 1: and he was great until he turned about one and
Speaker 1: a half, and then he started to get really unpleasant
Speaker 1: at times, not always, it was infrequent enough that it
Speaker 1: was difficult for us to really like anticipate it. But
Speaker 1: finally he got into such a bad fight and wouldn't
Speaker 1: let go of this other dog. Luckily, the dog wound
Speaker 1: up fine. There wasn't even any blood, he didn't break
Speaker 1: the skin. I don't know how they were going as
Speaker 1: hard as they were, and neither of them drew blood
Speaker 1: on the other. But I never brought him to the
Speaker 1: dog park again. This was months ago. Now. Now when
Speaker 1: we go to the park, what I'm talking about is
Speaker 1: we're going hiking around like a couple of like artificial
Speaker 1: ponds that we have in our town. But I think
Speaker 1: about this and like how he'd react, And I feel
Speaker 1: like he could be pretty terrifying if he really, like
Speaker 1: decided to, But I don't know how much he'd be
Speaker 1: able to tell who to attack and who not, Like,
Speaker 1: there are dogs that are trained to be your weapon,
Speaker 1: and he's not that, you know, so I just think
Speaker 1: that would be Like, it sounds like it's clearly an
Speaker 1: advantage for her, and these dogs sound ideal for this situation,
Speaker 1: but I don't think Peppen will work out too well.
Speaker 1: I'd be so worried about him. I would probably wind
Speaker 1: up dead trying to save him, and he'd wind up
Speaker 1: dead anyway. So they also show Carl's jug a boom
Speaker 1: that gets shown up with like the rest and everything,
Speaker 1: which Carl really seemed to take it for granted that
Speaker 1: nobody was going to use this and that he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to make any money off it. But I think
Speaker 1: this is going to wind up being something for him
Speaker 1: that he has underestimated. And the show ends and Chris
Speaker 1: just says he really did have a weird looking dick,
Speaker 1: and IMMANI just starts crying and laughing and hanging on
Speaker 1: to him. So then they get a heads up, Hello crawlers,
Speaker 1: short message today. If you've watched the recap, you can
Speaker 1: see our penalties regarding the bathrooms have been a rousing success.
Speaker 1: They will remain in place for the remainder of this floor,
Speaker 1: but after this floor they will be removed. The satan
Speaker 1: little Hedgehogs mob have been removed and replaced to a
Speaker 1: deeper floor. Apologies to all those effected. We've had a
Speaker 1: few complaints about the proliferation of the grub mobs. This
Speaker 1: is not a bug and is by design. Finally, due
Speaker 1: to the abundance of crawlers camping in safe rooms, we've
Speaker 1: been forced to make a difficult decision. From now on,
Speaker 1: all safe rooms and safe areas will close one hour
Speaker 1: prior to floor collapse. Any crawler who is in a
Speaker 1: designated safe area will be teleported just outside that area
Speaker 1: at one hour prior, which sucks, but we also had
Speaker 1: wanted to put everybody in stasis on their way to
Speaker 1: the next floor. So I kind of felt like this
Speaker 1: wasn't actually that big a deal. As long as you
Speaker 1: find a staircase, you're able to handle it, you know, granted,
Speaker 1: as long as you find a staircase. So they take
Speaker 1: a moment because they hear everything like has quieted down,
Speaker 1: and he sees that the Elemental has gone down the
Speaker 1: hallway and is following the grubs. It was over in
Speaker 1: less than a minute. The thousands of red dots were
Speaker 1: just gone. The description stated the Elemental dissipated after it
Speaker 1: claimed six hundred and sixty six souls. I was hoping
Speaker 1: the grubs counted toward that number. They didn't. The elemental
Speaker 1: return thrashing and smashing trying to get back in. So
Speaker 1: this is when we shift over to him building this
Speaker 1: contraption Mother of all bombs, and it's very funny because
Speaker 1: they put so much time into this until eventually Immani
Speaker 1: is like, why don't we just open the door, because
Speaker 1: again these things attack and they will be teleported out.
Speaker 1: So they decide to give it a try. It's thrown back,
Speaker 1: but it's so fast that even though it goes aways,
Speaker 1: it's able to come back to them really really quickly,
Speaker 1: and Imani is like, let's just keep testing it and
Speaker 1: see if it does this, like, maybe it will go
Speaker 1: further and further away. Way. This time it came from
Speaker 1: another hallway down, but it appeared to have still been
Speaker 1: teleported out into the main hallway. Each time the elemental
Speaker 1: took anywhere from seventy five to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seconds to return. It was clear the monster was unintelligent,
Speaker 1: nothing more than the single minded embodiment of rage. We
Speaker 1: eventually closed the door, not wanting to create any more
Speaker 1: grub corpses. So it was a very good idea, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too fast and too like, there's no way to
Speaker 1: outsmart something that doesn't use its intelligence. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? He mentioned something about Chris says like
Speaker 1: he wants to call it bomb chicken because this name
Speaker 1: isn't really right, And later on don'na it's like, I
Speaker 1: think I like that better too, And she says at
Speaker 1: this point about how she hit one trillion. So I'm
Speaker 1: running out of time here and I am just going
Speaker 1: to kind of like skim over the way that this
Speaker 1: whole thing works. But suffice to say, the way that
Speaker 1: they handle this rage elemental, it's a combination of using
Speaker 1: a bunch of bombs that are loaded onto this thing
Speaker 1: in such a way that they will be able to
Speaker 1: in sequence explode on this thing and start to get
Speaker 1: its health down. But also they are going to lure
Speaker 1: it toward one of these stairways and they put down
Speaker 1: a bunch of oil so that it slides and cannot
Speaker 1: stop itself from going down the stairs, which results in
Speaker 1: its being killed. And they don't get credit for it
Speaker 1: because they didn't kill They just utilized the hallway against them,
Speaker 1: which is very interesting because we know because of talking
Speaker 1: to that troll woman, the Shamanka, that this is what happens.
Speaker 1: You try and go down the hall or down the
Speaker 1: stairs and you die. I am curious whether or not
Speaker 1: we're gonna run into this thing again and we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out that isn't what happens. That you don't die,
Speaker 1: that's just the story that's happened. She says that she
Speaker 1: has seen it herself, but maybe she thought she saw
Speaker 1: that and that's not what was really happening. I also
Speaker 1: kind of wonder if they're going to do something where
Speaker 1: now that doesn't happen because they managed to utilize it
Speaker 1: to kill a creature, and maybe the game runners are
Speaker 1: not going to look kindly on that, and they're going
Speaker 1: to feel like, we have to find a different way
Speaker 1: to utilize these stairways so that creatures don't go down
Speaker 1: the stairs to the next level, but also isn't as
Speaker 1: easy to access by the crawlers themselves to use as
Speaker 1: a weapon. I don't know. So let's see. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get to the spot here where they reached this point,
Speaker 1: because there it's like this this middle chapter here is
Speaker 1: really completely about all of the action of getting this
Speaker 1: thing set up, and I just, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that I adequately described it. I don't feel like I
Speaker 1: need to get any more into the details of it here,
Speaker 1: so I'm just going to move on to chapter forty one. Oh,
Speaker 1: Michael says, I didn't think the bombs were meant to
Speaker 1: really hurt it at all. It was just meant to
Speaker 1: knock it back, to delay it from being able to
Speaker 1: catch up to them. Fair that's true, because like, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how low they get a health bar. If
Speaker 1: it goes down the stairs, it's gone anyway. So you're right,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't really even matter. So he says, with the
Speaker 1: unfortunate destruction of the Chopper, our travel options were now limited.
Speaker 1: I had enough crap in my massive inventory to probably
Speaker 1: build another one, but I didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: doing with the boiler part. Hopefully we could find another
Speaker 1: set of goblins to help us, or better, yeah, find
Speaker 1: something more reliable. About forty minutes after we killed the Elemental,
Speaker 1: the tattered remains of Metal Lark entered the chamber. There
Speaker 1: were thirty six left, piled into three separate shopping cart
Speaker 1: like contraptions. Chris and Amani pushed the two larger people buckets,
Speaker 1: as Brandon called them, and Brandon Mencher mentions all those
Speaker 1: chrysalis out there just you know something fun to look
Speaker 1: forward to. I said my goodbyes to Chris and Amani.
Speaker 1: I found Dona on the lap of Missus mcgibbons, purring away, Barry,
Speaker 1: where are we? We're in the dungeon, Missus mcgibbons. It's me, Carl.
Speaker 1: You're going down to the next floor the dungeon like
Speaker 1: a sex thing. I don't know if I'm ever going
Speaker 1: to see you again, I said, kneeling down. She sat
Speaker 1: in the people bucket, looking about, eyes wide. I wanted
Speaker 1: to say goodbye. She reached up and touched my cheek.
Speaker 1: We should have had children, Berry. I wish I hadn't
Speaker 1: talked you into working so hard. I grasped her hand.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's going to be okay. I remembered my
Speaker 1: mom saying the same thing to me the day she'd left.
Speaker 1: It had been a lie then, and it was a
Speaker 1: lie now. I think I've had too much to drink
Speaker 1: or I'm having another one of those acid flashbacks. This
Speaker 1: cat keeps talking to me. I smiled. Goodbye, Missus mcgibbons.
Speaker 1: I love her. I know that she's going to have
Speaker 1: to die at some point, and I'm not looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. What a bummer, so they have to take off,
Speaker 1: and they run into coalbalds which apparently look a lot
Speaker 1: like chihuahua's and they are riding danger dingoes and I
Speaker 1: love Donut just being like dogs riding on dogs. This
Speaker 1: is a literal nightmare I have had, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: which is very funny to me. The monster snarl and
Speaker 1: bark was deeper, more terrifying than that of its rider.
Speaker 1: The dingo on top of me shuddered, then fell over dead,
Speaker 1: stinking blood and gore washed over me. As I pushed
Speaker 1: it off, Donut landed deftly next to me and started
Speaker 1: licking her paw. That was pretty slick. You're getting a
Speaker 1: lot better at that. I think I have a bonus
Speaker 1: to damage against the canine creatures. That reminds me. I
Speaker 1: said something weird earlier, and I forgot to tell you
Speaker 1: about it. It was a new tab that said racial benefits,
Speaker 1: but it was only there for a second and disappeared.
Speaker 1: That is weird, I said instinctively. I pulled up my
Speaker 1: own menu and I didn't have anything like that. It
Speaker 1: would be really fucked up if this turned out to
Speaker 1: be a thing that was like racist in a very
Speaker 1: like human earth kind of way. I have no idea
Speaker 1: if that's anything that this author is interested in even touching,
Speaker 1: so I kind of hope not. But also for entertainment,
Speaker 1: I could see them being like, eh, whatever, nothing's off limits. No,
Speaker 1: we're just ofvended. So anyway, this is when they get
Speaker 1: the Mano toast. Mano toast. This is toast. It refills
Speaker 1: your manna. That's it, nothing more. Fuck you. Well that
Speaker 1: was unnecessary, I muttered. I gave my peace to Donut,
Speaker 1: who tucked them both away into her inventory. So this
Speaker 1: is the spot where there is like a shower and
Speaker 1: a drinking fountain in a couple of beds. We don't
Speaker 1: have one of those protectors here making us a nice
Speaker 1: fried chicken, unfortunately. And this is when they get the
Speaker 1: contact from Mukta. Your outreach associate has been put in
Speaker 1: a time out. She will return to you tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: she I'm saying, Mukta is she? But I actually don't
Speaker 1: know that. But Mukta is telling them there is a
Speaker 1: new show that they are going on called Dungeon Crawl
Speaker 1: Tactics or no, that was what they had been gonna
Speaker 1: go on. They are going to be going on this
Speaker 1: other thing. Which Mucta doesn't tell them the name of
Speaker 1: They find it out later from the robot that they
Speaker 1: are being managed by, which we'll get there. The front
Speaker 1: of my jacket was still covered in dingo gore. I
Speaker 1: moved to the bathroom to clean myself off as best
Speaker 1: I could, And they don't get the option to refuse
Speaker 1: to do this. They have to go on. So apparently
Speaker 1: either Zev was lying or Zev was willing to like
Speaker 1: work with them in a way that Mukta is clearly not.
Speaker 1: And we get new achievement, grease monkey, he gets a
Speaker 1: silver mechanics box and new achievement. You call that a trap.
Speaker 1: A mob has been injured because of something you purposely
Speaker 1: left lying around the dungeon. From scattered legos to spiked pits,
Speaker 1: to buckets of flesh devouring skinner ants to dimensional rifts
Speaker 1: that instantly boil all the blood in one's body. The
Speaker 1: art of trap making has a celebrated and storied history
Speaker 1: in the annals of dungeon crawler world. So if you're
Speaker 1: going to do it, you better do it right. Whatever
Speaker 1: it was that gave you this achievement, it was probably
Speaker 1: something stupid. This will help you make the next trap
Speaker 1: more exciting. Remember, if you don't make it titillating, we
Speaker 1: will reward. You've received a gold Sappers box. And he's
Speaker 1: wondering what caused this achieve and he's thinking that it
Speaker 1: must be like dropping the chain, or maybe it's the
Speaker 1: oil slick. I feel like the oil slick can't count
Speaker 1: if they didn't get the achievement from like killing the creature,
Speaker 1: because they didn't actually kill it. The oil slick didn't
Speaker 1: damage it, It just carried it towards the stairs, So
Speaker 1: I don't feel like that could be it. My first thought, honestly,
Speaker 1: was that it was like the bomb that he had
Speaker 1: left on that rat for Frank and Maggie defined but
Speaker 1: they're not a mob. It says specifically a trap you
Speaker 1: left killed a mob, so I don't know. He gets
Speaker 1: a Gorgon marital aid, which looks like a spatula. It's
Speaker 1: just infusing joints or creating varying degrees of plasticity in
Speaker 1: otherwise rigid materials without affecting material strength, and then proximity
Speaker 1: trigger using a Sappers table. The highly valuable proximity trigger
Speaker 1: may be attached to any non static trap allows for
Speaker 1: the establishment of activation conditions including countdowns, mob type triggers,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I don't even understand that. I don't even know, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I'll be honest with
Speaker 1: you guys. So I'm just gonna sort of like not
Speaker 1: worry about it until it comes up and I'm sure
Speaker 1: it will be explained a little bit more thoroughly then.
Speaker 1: So this is when they get transferred and they aren't
Speaker 1: even in like a decent green room. They're not being
Speaker 1: given like little treats. The place is shitty. The vibe
Speaker 1: is that this is a very low rent sort of place.
Speaker 1: MES fifty five appears. You're in a rental trailer owned
Speaker 1: and operated by Senegal Production Systems Unlimited. This trailer is
Speaker 1: used by multiple tunnel productions related to the craw. These
Speaker 1: facilities have been leased by the program death Watch Extreme
Speaker 1: Dungeon Mayhem. Sit in the provided chairs and keep your
Speaker 1: limbs to your side while the table generates. The hollow
Speaker 1: will commence in sixty seconds. What's the host name? Don'tut
Speaker 1: ask the maestro. Her previous previously emotionless voice hinted an
Speaker 1: air of distaste. Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem. That's the
Speaker 1: stupidest name I've ever heard. Yeah, wait until you see
Speaker 1: the show, Max fifty five said before rising up into
Speaker 1: the ceiling. And that's the end of the chapter. I
Speaker 1: am really really curious. It feels like they are going
Speaker 1: they are getting penalized, so I have to assume this
Speaker 1: is not gonna be good. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: not gonna be the fun little chit chat that we
Speaker 1: had at the last one. Is it's gonna be It's
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. So I'm over time as usual. I've
Speaker 1: got to wrap up. But thank you guys again so
Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me. I appreciate you all.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Michael for commissioning this one, and until
Speaker 1: next time to the loom motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled
Speaker 1: Network podcast.