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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four, The Gate of the

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Feral Gods, chapters six through eight. In these chapters, it

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turns out that these shape shifters are up to something

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not even really not clear on the overall plan here,

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but I really was delighted with the reveal that they're infiltrating,

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because if you've got shape shifters, right, I mean, you've

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gotta you gotta do something like this. Welcome to spoil Me.

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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you

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very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is

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here in the chat today along with rub and Seraphim

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and his tea and Eduardo. So it's a big group

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and it's lovely. Oh they're talking about the wandering in guys,

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and Saraphim says, the first audiobook is forty eight hours long.

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That is bonkers. Yeah, that's huge. So I'm really feeling

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like kind of vindicated in a way that it's maybe

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not quite fair. But y'all remember how like baffled I

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was back when Carl was kind of he was calling

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Kotcha's shape shifting a billity. I think the words he

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used were quote not very useful, And at the time

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I was like, are you fucking high? What do you mean?

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That's a super useful skill. There is so much that

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you could do with that. And then now we are

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here in this place where that's the whole thing. You know,

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We've got shape shifters left and right, and Katcha's shaped

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shifting skill is proving to be kind of fucking clutch,

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to be honest, like this whole the way that they

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have her spying is she turns herself into pieces of

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the architecture of the building so that she can just

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watch them and their movements in order to shout out

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to our friends in the chat. I mean, I'm really

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feeling a I maintain that it's surprising how Carl didn't

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think through how much this thing could come in handy

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for them. Seraphim says, well, at the time, Katcha wasn't

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that good at it, No, but like the point was

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that he was mad at her for spending the coupon

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on a table that would make it easier for her

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to do and like for me, if the skill, like

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it's not that he was saying like, it just felt

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to me that the words that he said were a

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skill that wasn't that useful, and like, maybe she's not

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that good at it, but that is not the same

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thing as the skill not being useful, and if she's

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trying to upgrade her ability on it, like that's the

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definition of what you're supposed to be doing in this game.

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It's just that she was behind in her development and

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on her skills overall because of the way that the

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team functioned while she was with Hecla, and how nobody

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really advanced very far because they let Hecla do all

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of the work. So it just seemed very shortsighted to me.

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You know. There was just this feeling in him of like,

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I don't even know what you'd use that for, you know,

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And he began to get some great ideas that he

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expanded on where he was like giving her that metal backpack,

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you know, to enhance her mass and everything, so he

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like began to see it as useful. But it was

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just wild to me in the beginning how he really

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just didn't seem to understand all of the potential that

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was there with that. Because if I had been Carl

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and I got a person who could do this in

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my crew, I would fixate on them getting really good

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at that instead, because it seems like Carl Loki wanted

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her to sort of ignore that and just like be

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a tank and the way she can work as both

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is kind of the thing, right, Like, I don't know

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it just he he responded to it the exact opposite

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way that I would have responded to it, where I

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would have been really pressuring her to get good at

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it because instantly I like thinking it through. We've met

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a lot of different races, so I don't know what

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all is out there, but like shapeshifter would be a

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real tempting one for me if I were going to

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have to pick a race. It's just something that I

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think comes in handy so often, especially considering that the

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AI actually says that you are the thing you're in

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it that you are imitating. If you do it well enough,

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that is crazy advantageous. So yeah, it's just I'm glad

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that he has gotten to a point where he is

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seeing it, because it was just he was very dismissed

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of it. You know, Michael's in the chat saying he

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dismissed the ability, just as I'm saying he was dismissive

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of it. He was thinking more in terms of combat ability,

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not infiltration exactly. It was just a very like he

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just wasn't really using his imagination, which is weird to say,

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because Carl can be super imaginative about a lot of things,

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and in this respect, it just sort of felt like

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it was almost disrespectful, how completely he acted as if

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it weren't worth anything, you know. So yeah, I just

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I'm excited to see how useful this is. And I

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really wonder, like how much more it's going to play

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into things, because it seems like we're going to be

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leaning into it a lot for this particular mission or

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this floor overall, I guess. So we're dealing at the

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beginning of this chapter with that second sun that rises

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that makes the temperature go up twenty degrees, and apparently

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they don't put up that like awning when the temperature

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goes up. It's only for when there's a sandstorm. Honestly,

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I don't really think that's smart. I feel like we

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should just put it up, guys. What's the harm? I

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don't know. Outside of Town, the Thorny Devil mobs were

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replaced with something else. These were donut sized, fast moving

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things called dune scythes. There were a lot of them

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outside the town's walls. They're red dots swarming about. I

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had no real desire to go out and face them,

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but I knew fighting them would be inevitable. We're gonna

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need to install air conditioning on the royal chariot, I said,

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as I leaned back against the back of the Adobe building.

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I love the idea of them creating air conditioning and

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like selling it to the townsfolk, because considering the climate,

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I feel like that would be really useful and would

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be very valued and also potentially get people on your

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good side. So you know, I'm sorry. Michael lives in

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the chat and says I think Patcha also mentioned in

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the previous book that Carl is that Carl also tended

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to dismiss ideas he didn't come up with himself, especially

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if they endangered people other than himself. That's an interesting point.

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Maybe that is it something to think about. So we

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have Katcha, who I think he says that she's imitating

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like a drain pipe or something. The guy who just

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left his name, Henrik. He's a ra level thirty but

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he showed some sort of id in a town full

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of shape shifters, it makes sense to have extra security,

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I guess. Which it's funny considering that it hadn't occurred

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to me when she said this, and then later it

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turning out that there are shape shifters infiltrating already. This

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apparently is not doing like any good. And there's also

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a mention here as like each of them are gathering

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this information that Mordecai is at a bar and he

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is mentioning the sighting of one of those like toad creatures,

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like an army of them, And at the time I

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was sort of like, what what does that mean? Is

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this like something he really saw or but it wasn't

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mentioned to us? And then later on it turns out

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this is all part of this like narrative that we're

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setting into place so that when he uses his little

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beanie baby, we can pretend that that one frog that

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they all saw, this one toad is actually part of

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a whole group, but for some reason he's the only

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one that was visible at all. Let's see, we learned

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from the toe's barkeeper that the citizens did not rest

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during the two hour night. Instead, they mostly slept in

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the hot hours before the sandstorm started, and with less

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people out in the streets, now was the best time

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to infiltrate the building. And even so, Carl is thinking

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to himself, this is a terrible idea. But short of

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going in there and just killing all the camel NPCs,

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I couldn't see an alternative, not when we were under

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such a time crunch. Now, I think probably going in

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and killing all of them would be in the long

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run a bad idea because I don't know how many

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there are. But it's possible that once the alarm goes up,

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you get beset and there's too many for you to handle. However,

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considering that killing the NPCs is supposed to be like

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one of the best things that you can do for

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them according to the book, a part of me is like,

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maybe you should just do that. I understand not wanting to,

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but I don't know, man, it might just be the

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best and easiest, most efficient way. I don't know. So,

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long story short, that is not what they do. And

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let's see. Oh right, there's the two guys who are

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both sobered up now, and they are one of them

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is introverted and way easier to deal with when he's sober,

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and the other one is just kind of a dick

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no matter what. I was pretty sure the guy never

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had a job in his life. He wouldn't shut up

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about cartoons I'd never heard of. When he found out

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Katcha was from Iceland, he started calling her lazy town

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I had no idea why I've never heard of this either,

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you know, I'm sure it's the thing. Apparently Don't not

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like knows a lot about night Rider, which engages him,

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even though she says she hates the show it's listed

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as despite pretending to hate the show. So apparently Carl

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thinks that she's just doing that to annoy this dude

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because he sucks so bad, which frankly I do understand.

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Let's see, the second floor of the town Hall was

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ringed by exterior balconies. Kachia said. The one facing the

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alley was attached to an office that appeared to be empty.

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So they're sneaking, and unfortunately like these dudes. It's so

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funny because later on one of them says something like

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is it always like this? And Carl says, like what?

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like he has not engaged in any real combat of

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any kind. So having the stress of a plan that

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they are enacting instead of it just being fly by

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the seat of your pants and try to stay alive

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until the end of the floor, but you actually have

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a plan that you're following through. The stress is like

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almost too much for him. He's like ready to throw up,

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fly by the seat of your pants and just stay

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alive until the floor closes is probably the way that

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I would be playing, just because I mean, I'm dropped

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into this like hell escape situation. I'm not in great

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physical shape. I'm not somebody with like particular skill sets

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in combat or anything like that, So I think I

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would probably be like just panic flailing a lot of

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the time, you know what I'm saying. But there does

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come a point where it's like, yeah, okay, but you're

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on like the what is this the fifth floor? Now?

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What floor are they on? I've totally lost count, but

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I mean it's time. It's time for you to fucking

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get a grip, you know. So let's see. There were

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multiple offices on this level, and only one appeared to

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be occupied. Three roaming guards moved through the hallways, though

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they hit the downstairwell and disappeared from my map. Let's

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wait until the roaming guards return and go upstairs and

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then we'll move. Leuis be ready. I rifled through the desk,

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looting everything that wasn't bolted down. And this is when

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Kotcha gets in touch and she's like, you guys should

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go now because they're taking a smoke break, and Carl

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hesitates because this isn't the plan. But then she's like,

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oh wait, there's a shift change. They're all going to

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be milling around for like an hour before they get settled.

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So unless you want to wait for an hour, you

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need to go now. I love this. We can't disguise

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our steps, so walk with calm purpose, not fast, not slow.

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I don't know what that means, Farris said, just follow me.

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And it's funny because honestly, I mean, of course I

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understand what Carl means, but it is a difficult thing

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to describe. You know, it is like you know what

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when you see it, but trying to imitate it when

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that's not what's happening is a tricky It's a tricky

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energy to capture. There are two guards on the other

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side of this door, so we have to do it quick.

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Donut will cast her whole spell. You'll cast your cloud spell.

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You have to wait until after their dots turn red.

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I'll take care of that. Don't step in front of

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the hole in the door. We don't want them seeing you.

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Once they're down, I'll try to open the door. So

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they do this and it all works great. But when

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Carl puts his arm through the door, there is no

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bolt to turn or handle or anything. It's just a

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key hole. And at first he's like, I guess I

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just have to blow it up, and Donut says, don't

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be so dramatic, Carl. And it's so funny because just

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as he was saying in this audio book, I guess

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I'm gonna have to blow it up, I immediately thought,

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can't you just put a hole in the part where

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there's a lock? And instantly she does that, and like, guys,

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my brain was going, can't you just put a hole

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in the part where there's a lock. And then I

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followed the thought up with I guess if they could

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do that, they would have been doing it the whole time.

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And so when we get this moment of her doing it,

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and then Carl asks, well, what the fuck why didn't

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we just do this? The whole time I was cracking

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up because it was like he was reading my mind

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as he wrote this scene. But we find out later

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that there's a good reason we don't do it this way.

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Not that we knew that, not that like Donut was aware,

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but trying to put the door back together, like it doesn't.

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It doesn't come back right in place. It's off by

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a little bit, which means that you can't even close

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the door because the whole you know, which, in some

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circumstances not being able to use that door again might

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not be a problem, but for them, they needed to

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be able to close it behind them. So let's see

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Katya from outside as this whole thing is popping off

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and it's attracting a bunch of attention. Is like, hey,

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there's like fifteen camels coming in now, so be ready

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for that. The moment it happened, I realized why we

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should never use the whole spell. I'd either pushed the

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door closed to you tightly or not tightly enough, but

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when the missing part reappeared, the bolts weren't perfectly lined

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up with how they'd been before. The door cracked loudly

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and then swung back open. Two hunks of metal, pieces

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of the actual bolts, I realized, fell to the floor.

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The whole side of the door looked as if I'd

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hit it with a small charge. Well that was unexpected, Carl,

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What did you do? I love that? So he uses

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a smoke bomb again. I returned my gaze to the room,

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focusing on the two passed out drummedarians. Only they weren't

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dromedarians anymore. What the shit these were changelings. They both

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reverted to their faceless humanoid form. The one I'd seen

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just a moment ago playing cards was passed out on

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a floor, cards spread all around him, only now he

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was much smaller. His head pulsed with an odd sapphire luminescence,

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almost like a jellyfish. This sounds rad I really want

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to see see this on screen somehow. And he has

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a fifty times fifty second timer over his head, which

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is a lot shorter than they were planning on These

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guys being knocked out CHANGELINGK Principal level forty nine. This

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mob is exhausted, and then we get this really weird

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AI description about old women who collect things and grow

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more and more obsessed with the things they haven't collected

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than the things they have, and how that is the

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curse and driving force of the changeling principle. And honestly, guys,

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I don't get it. I'll be real with you. I'm

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not even gonna stop and analyze this right now. It's weird,

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but suffice to say, Carl gets in touch with Mordecai,

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and Mordecai is like, oh my fucking god, the place

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is filled with shape shift. I should have seen this coming,

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And honestly I feel the same way now. I'm wondering

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if all the camels are shape shifters. No wonder everybody

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hates you, guys. They're rare. It's an old story I

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haven't seen used in a long long time. They're a

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sect of change link culture. Sometimes they give them new

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special powers cultish kind of like those city elves from

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the third floor, but less apocalyptic and more power or hungry.

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They are obsessed with getting a full library. Changelings can

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only change into something they physically touched, so they seek

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out rare creatures. Okay, I'm realizing that this I've read

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this part twice and I don't know how I miss

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this part. But so they're just looking for things that

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they can, like become interesting. I wonder if that was

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part of like doughnuts appeal. But Mordecai tells Carl, get

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the brain, the glowing part. If you kill one, take

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the head, I can make a cool potion from it.

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And I really want to know what kind of potion

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you can make, because if it is like a shape

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shifting potion, that would be very fun. I would be

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interested to see Carl change into somebody else, especially because

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he has become so recognizable. That might be useful sometimes,

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you know. So yeah, this suh. I strongly suspected whatever

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was going on right now was a mirror of what

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happened over in the bactory in town. The crawlers had

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fucked up the city Hall quest, just like we were

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in the middle of doing. The original plan was to

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get in and out without being noticed or hurting any NPCs,

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and if we had to do something with the collateral,

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we had a plan to shift the blame. But with

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this changeling fuckery, we couldn't afford to be diplomatic. So

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they have to kill them. He takes the heads and

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I love when he tells Lewis to kill one. Lewis

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is like, he's gonna wake up as soon as I

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hit him, and Carl is like, oh my god, are

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you fucking serious? Which the idea that like, oh, he's

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gonna wake up if you kill him enough, then he won't.

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I mean, just you know, what do you expect to

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do here, bro, because he's waking up either way. Just

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it couldn't be an easier ask to kill him while

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he's passed out. That's so embarrassing that he won't even like,

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you know, and he finally does, but it's just like

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the fight he puts up is so troubling to me.

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I feel like this is a problem. And let's see

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donut kill him the moment he wakes up, a full

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power missile to the head. Just make sure they get

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a few hits in, and Doughnut says, he's boss level strong.

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What if it doesn't work. Fearris took his mace and

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smashed it as hard as he could, directly into the CHANGELNK.

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Just as the timer ran out, Lewis smashed him with

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the bat. Both of them pummeled it in the head

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a few times. The spell enhanced the damage for several seconds,

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but they barely caused the creature's health to fall at all.

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That sucks. That sucks. Oh my god. So she uses

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a magic missile boom done and just this, even though

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they did no damage, causes Lewis to go up two levels.

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You guys, Like, honestly, it's almost like when you're in

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the beginning of a game and you get all of

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this crazy experience, like at the start that has you

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leveling up every five minutes, and eventually, because it's sort

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of proportional, that slows down, so you're not getting the

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dopamine hit of leveling up every five minutes anymore. But like,

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it feels like these guys they had to fight to

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not level up, considering how easy this was. Just now,

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you know, I mean, Jesus Christ, this is where Carl

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goes down that hole underneath the building, and let's see,

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he picks up a map the Necropolis of Answer. You've

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discovered the catacomb plans. The information has been added to

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your map and the map of everyone in your party.

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Shit said as the scroll dissipated into dust. And I

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had a moment here of not understanding why he thinks

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like this sucks, you know, because he thinks after this

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like fuck me, and I was. I think it's actually

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a reaction to how intricate the map is, because it

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says that made the Iron Tangle look like child's play.

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But later on we find out like this map was

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for somebody else's mission, and the fact that it disintegrated

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like that means that he has to like draw it

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out for them or Kotcha does. Either way, it's just

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like a huge cramp in the balls. Let's see, Kotya.

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Something odd just happened. Two of the level thirty camels

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wanted into the town hall, but another camel stopped them.

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It was one of the waster guards. They fought, and

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the guard camel killed them both. He dragged their bodies inside.

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Did they stay camels when they died? Yeah, why, I'll

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explain later. Honestly, you could just say it now. I

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don't think it takes that long. It's fine. A lot

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of the camels are changelings. It turns out, Boom Done,

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what I thought was the end of the chamber was

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actually the boundary line to the subterranean zone. But I

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also noticed something else. The white dot of an NPC,

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and it turns out that there is this dwarf not

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dwarf gnome who is being held prisoner down here, and

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his name is Win and he is a flesh mechanic,

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which is a really fun name. I really like that description.

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And Win is the great and favored uncle of Commandant

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Caine of the Dreadnought Wasteland. He is a flesh mechanic,

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a healer gifted with the ability to bring the long

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dead back to life, if only temporarily. He is being

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held as hostage by the Dromedarians as a guarantee of peace,

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which he's not being treated well at all, so this

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really sucks. He says something like, who are you going

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to pretend to be today? My mother? Perhaps, which the

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idea of transforming into somebody's like loved one. This is

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something that I find really frustrating in a lot of

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storylines that have shape shifter characters is that the whole

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thing will sort of like revolve around we are trying

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to convince a person to do something by tugging at

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their heartstrings and making them think they're talking to a lot,

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you know, And it's one thing if they don't realize

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that there is a shape shifter around. You know. It's

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one thing when they are being legitimately tricked into believing

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they're looking at a ghost something like that, you know.

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But I always find it really frustrating when a person

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transforms in front of the individual that they are trying

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to trick, because then it's sort of like, oh, I

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can't say no to my mom, and it's like, that's

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but you just saw that. You know, that's not you know,

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and I know it's supposed to be like well, but

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psychologically it can get in your head. Now. If anything,

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I'd be so much more pissed because they're like shitting

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on my memory of somebody by transforming into that person.

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It would make me less inclined to cooperate because that

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would be such a disgusting thing to do. So I

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just find this like really annoying as a plot device,

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and it comes up a surprising amount in different properties, guys.

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And it's something that is used especially in a lot

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of the anime that I have seen. And in one piece,

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it's like, you know, mister two transforms into a hot

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chick or Nammy specifically, and Sanji is like utterly disarmed,

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and I just don't have any tolerance for it. If

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you just saw them as themselves when they transform, it

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shouldn't have any effect on you. It just doesn't make

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any fucking sense to me. So you know, it's just oh,

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Sarah m is mentioning Vin from mis Born. Yeah, doesn't

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buy it for a second. But then there's another whole

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thing with that where that she does buy that I

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found frustrating. So I don't know. Michael says, the only

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time I buy is when they're doing it to show

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that they were actually said person the whole time. Yeah,

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that's different, you know. But it's like this, He's like,

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who are you going to transform into today my mother?

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And I'm like, was he supposed to believe that you

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had captured his mother and brought her down here? Or

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were you just turning into his mother trying to convince him?

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I guess it would depend like maybe you could transform

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into his mom and then have another of these things

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like bring you down here in shackles and make like

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you had captured his mom and that you were going

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to torture her if he didn't cooperate, Perhaps I suppose,

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but uh, you know, it just I wasn't buying it.

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So this dude, he says, the last dose hasn't worn off.

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If you feed me where it might kill me this time.

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I can only hope. And then when Carl gets a

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good look at him, he was elderly, he was not

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wearing the red hat, and he looked sickly and pale.

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He had scabs on his face, and he looked half

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starved to death. And I just felt so bad for

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this little guy. How long has he been down here?

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You know? If I can get him out of those change,

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we can take him talk ourselves onto the flying platform platform.

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As if he was reading my mind. The system gave

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me an update, new quest, free Win from his bondage.

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And this goes bad almost instantly. These other crawlers come in,

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and as they are coming in, Winn gets a look

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at Carl and he assumes this is Henrik transformed into

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another being, that he chose a human, and that it's

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so it's this weird thing where what Wind does here

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is not actually him trying to sabotage anybody. Really, he

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genuinely believes what he is saying, although he knows he

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doesn't have that map, but he does believe that, like

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this is a bad man actually, and so I just

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I felt frustrated because it was like, what could you

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possibly say to convince him that you are Henrik? Like,

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if a shape shifter is labeled as a shape shifter

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in the system, if they're labeled as the thing they

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are impersonating, there's really no fucking way, and that is insidious.

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Maybe there's like a drug that you can take that

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unshifts them, that you can drink and if it doesn't

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do anything to you, be like see, but you know

472
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,640
that's a whole other thing. So anyway, these guys come

473
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,119
in and there's a student of Banana costume who's yelling, you, bastard,

474
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,759
you destroyed the map, which isn't technically true. He has

475
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:40,960
the map and everyone in his party has the map,

476
00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:43,400
so it's not destroyed and you need to calm the

477
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:49,200
fuck down. And now we're fucked. There were two maps

478
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,640
and we lost both of them. So this is when

479
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,720
Wynn says, it's not really a human, he's a change thing.

480
00:31:56,759 --> 00:32:01,319
He's torturing me. If you kill me, you will have

481
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,119
access to the map. I have it, you can take

482
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,559
it from me. And Carl is trying to tell them

483
00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:12,119
not to do it, and Lothig pulls his spear out

484
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,759
and kills this thing without even a second thought. It's

485
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:23,200
extremely like bothersome to me that this guy believes what

486
00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:29,680
the gnome says instantaneously, Like sure, I am going to

487
00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:33,440
need you to engage another brain cell here. NPCs are

488
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:39,000
not necessarily fucking telling you the truth, like you know

489
00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:43,240
what I'm saying. Guys, I just wow immediately doing what

490
00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:49,279
he says. How how are you still alive? It's anyway.

491
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,720
I love that the spider guy is a freelance psychiatrist.

492
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,240
He's only level twenty three, like everybody here is low

493
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:04,400
level twenty five, and it is another thing that's really worrying.

494
00:33:05,759 --> 00:33:09,240
So Carl gets an achievement for failing the quest within

495
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:15,000
five minutes of getting it, and they just have to

496
00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:19,880
blast their way out of here. The walls shook, followed

497
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,519
by a secondary explosion that was even bigger. Part of

498
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:29,200
the ceiling caved in. Experienced notifications scrolled by. I down

499
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,519
to health potion and the pain in my head eased.

500
00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:34,200
I knew from experience it'd take a full minute for

501
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:37,480
my hearing to return. Both Fearius and Lewis were on

502
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:41,039
the ground. Lewis was screaming, his hands to his ears,

503
00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:46,160
burn marks across his forearms, and just the fact that like,

504
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:54,319
look I am by no means trying to say that

505
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,400
this guy is because if I lost my hand, if

506
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,519
my eardrums blew out, I would also react this way.

507
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:04,359
But it's the kind of thing that feels for me, like,

508
00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:11,119
if you haven't figured this out by now, if you

509
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,679
haven't like learned how to cope, I have a lot

510
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:22,480
less sympathy, you know. That's the thing. It's you're when

511
00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:26,159
you say that somebody's being a baby, usually what that

512
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:32,559
means is that you are acting like a delicate little child, right,

513
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,559
And that's literally what I feel like here is like

514
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:38,960
he's being a baby, like it's his first day playing

515
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,679
the game, Like he's a fucking nube, you know, And

516
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,440
how are these guys going to be fucking It's like,

517
00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:52,400
even if you level up, there comes a point where

518
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,880
it's not about your level anymore. It's about the fact

519
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,599
that you have any goddamn sense, And it seems like

520
00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:01,719
maybe not, I don't know, he has to like tell

521
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,440
him to take a health potion. Why does he have

522
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,440
to fucking tell you that anyway? So this is when

523
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,079
he pulls out the bean bag, the beanie baby and

524
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:20,000
pulls the tag and this poor little dude, I felt

525
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,599
so bad for him. He comes out and it's like,

526
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,880
what am I doing here? And you know, a reminder

527
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,760
about this being actual summoning, it makes sense that sometimes

528
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,679
they just fight you because you're the one there and

529
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,599
they're like, what the fuck is happening? So yeah, I

530
00:35:34,639 --> 00:35:40,840
would also probably lash out. But eventually Carl is like,

531
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,519
can you just like turn right and hop over the

532
00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:46,400
city wall? You summon me just to make me run

533
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:51,639
like a little bitch, Yes, hurry go. The frog only

534
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:55,000
had ten seconds left. He grumbled, but hopped out onto

535
00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:57,920
the street, landing in front of a pair of surprised camels.

536
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,800
He bounded to the right, sailing into the air, crashing loudly.

537
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:07,519
He hopped once more and out of sight. And the

538
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:12,400
fact that he only has ten seconds is that's the

539
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,800
part that I was sort of like, oh man, it

540
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,880
could be really easy for this whole thing to get blown,

541
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,519
which later on Kotsha talks about all of the ways

542
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:28,719
that this could be found out and explained, And honestly,

543
00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:34,639
it's the kind of thing where like she's right in

544
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:38,400
the sense that there are many pieces that one could

545
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:46,760
put together to logically explain, but also there's like that

546
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,159
sense for me of how many people fall for bullshit

547
00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:53,400
that can be easily proven to not be what it

548
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,519
looked like and cling to it despite the fact that

549
00:36:57,559 --> 00:37:02,840
it's easily disproven. What I'm saying like, I am not

550
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:09,159
sure just because you can pick it apart that anybody will,

551
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,639
or that enough people will that it will really turn

552
00:37:12,679 --> 00:37:18,079
into a problem for them, because it's remarkable how much

553
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:22,000
folks are willing to buy into certain theories despite the

554
00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:26,719
fact that nothing seems to be supporting the theory. There's

555
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:33,559
no evidence whatsoever, So I don't know. We'll see the

556
00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:39,400
frog jumps off disappears, and let's see don't puddle jumps

557
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,000
us all the way down the street, right where the

558
00:37:41,039 --> 00:37:44,599
street started to curve with the wall. WHOA, that was

559
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,880
way further than I expected. I wish you'd done that

560
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,159
last time. It lets me send us really far now,

561
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,159
Donnat said, also looking around. A female camel standing about

562
00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:56,639
ten feet away looked in our direction and startled at

563
00:37:56,639 --> 00:38:03,519
our sudden appearance. Oh my, what happened, Doughnut asked, sounding innocent.

564
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,800
The camel paused uncertainly. Her eyes focused on fear Us,

565
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,440
who was being held up by Lewis. I pulled out

566
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,639
an empty bottle of whiskey from my inventory and pretended

567
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:15,480
to drink in an attempt to look like we just

568
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:19,320
wandered over here from a nearby bar. She seemed to relax.

569
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,840
She blinked twice and said the town hall was attacked

570
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,880
by frog creatures. Nobody knows where they came from. I

571
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,159
saw one with my own eyes. He jumped to the

572
00:38:28,159 --> 00:38:30,400
top of the house right there and then leapt straight

573
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,119
out of town. Of course, Doughnut has to do a

574
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:37,960
like frog suck. Am I right? And this is when

575
00:38:38,039 --> 00:38:42,440
katcha let's see the frog con isn't gonna last. The

576
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,000
world is too small to pull that sort of scalem off.

577
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,119
They're going to go out there and find no other

578
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:50,239
frog creatures, or worse, they'll find that stuffed animal, and

579
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,719
then they're gonna realize the only ones who mentioned seeing

580
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,840
the frogs were all the new people. It's not rocket science,

581
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,519
and I mean this lady saw frog. If they don't

582
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:06,440
find the beanie baby, it might be fine. That's the

583
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,079
main thing. If enough people saw the actual frog that

584
00:39:10,159 --> 00:39:13,719
he summoned. I feel like that's sort of a rap.

585
00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:19,239
So I'm just gonna be hopeful. I'm just gonna, you know,

586
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,639
see where this goes, because I get what she's saying.

587
00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:30,079
I just feel it might not be as tidy as

588
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:32,519
she thinks, because she tends to be logical and not

589
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:40,519
everybody is like that. Let's see, there's this line that's

590
00:39:40,519 --> 00:39:43,800
been underlined by people on kindle. Apparently you keep destroying

591
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,440
governmental buildings, Karl don't said, people are going to start

592
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:54,239
thinking you have a problem with authority. So let's see,

593
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,960
several dramed aarians went to work manually affixing the storm

594
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,159
shield over the city. That material looks like it's it

595
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,519
used to be part of a balloon. It's definitely magical.

596
00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:08,840
So Carl It talks to Bordecai via chat here and

597
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,400
is asking whether or not there is a way to

598
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:18,440
tell which of these drummedarians are actually and which of

599
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,639
them are shape shifters, and Mordecai zeros in on donuts

600
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:29,239
sunglasses and says they have a really like different heat

601
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,400
signature in the brain area that a changeling brain is

602
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,480
a lot hotter. So maybe if you are able to

603
00:40:38,599 --> 00:40:41,440
look at their heat signatures, you'll be able to tell,

604
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,960
Donut says. I will try, but I wouldn't get my

605
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,360
hopes up. Their head scarves will make it extra hard

606
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,920
to see. And this isn't this as a test, it's

607
00:40:53,960 --> 00:41:01,679
not like ideal, but it's got potential here. This floor

608
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,480
was going to require a spending a lot of time

609
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:08,360
in the crafting room, which meant less time for regular experience. Now,

610
00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:11,920
talking of crafting, I just want to say that, like,

611
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,159
I have my suspicions about the material that's being used

612
00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:21,039
for this awning, maybe potentially being the material that gets

613
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,159
used for whatever they craft to get where they need

614
00:41:25,199 --> 00:41:29,159
to go, Like maybe you can cut out a big

615
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,400
section of the awning somehow and turn that into like

616
00:41:33,679 --> 00:41:39,960
hanglider wings or Honestly, I don't even know. That's like

617
00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:43,360
as much of an idea as I've got, but it's

618
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,920
something still something, So I don't know. I just think

619
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:54,000
that this awning is like it's such an unusual way

620
00:41:54,199 --> 00:42:00,800
to defend the city from this these sandstorms that it

621
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,559
seems like it has to be something planted for our

622
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:07,920
guys to use, you know what I mean. It just

623
00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:14,079
there is something so specific about it and the way

624
00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:16,599
that it's being mentioned, and the fact that the fabric

625
00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:19,639
is magical. Maybe it being magical means that they can't

626
00:42:19,679 --> 00:42:22,559
cut it for all I know, and that would suck.

627
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:28,639
But uh, it's worth looking into. That's all. That's all

628
00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:33,519
I'm saying. I'm sorry, there's a bunch of chat. Let's see.

629
00:42:34,559 --> 00:42:37,599
Saraphim says in the Gnomes case, they were also drugging him,

630
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:40,599
so that will mess with your ability to think rationally. Yeah,

631
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:45,559
that's true, Michael says, how Looc and Faras are acting

632
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,559
just shows us, just shows up overpowered cloud of exhaust is,

633
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,440
just shows us how overpowered the cloud of exhaust is.

634
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,960
It's basically very likely the very first time they're facing

635
00:42:59,039 --> 00:43:03,920
any real danger or violence. Yeah, And it's like it's

636
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,920
sort of funny because it seems like such an advantage,

637
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,880
but if you're able to completely lean on it, then

638
00:43:11,079 --> 00:43:14,639
you wind up getting stunted. And you know, that is

639
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,440
also how life can be at times, if you just

640
00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:21,599
become really used to doing something a certain way, having

641
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:23,800
a kind of get out of jail free card, because

642
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,639
like you have money or connections or whatever, you really

643
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:33,199
feel like you're doing something. But it means that later

644
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,840
you just don't have any way of thinking your way

645
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,280
out of a situation when those things are no longer useful,

646
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,280
or if they don't work on whoever it is you're

647
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:53,320
talking to or whatever, let's see. Uh, I'm trying to

648
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:58,440
find the next spot. Sorry, we need to get through

649
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,800
the rubble. There's something important in the basement of the

650
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,199
town hall, and it may still be with us, she said,

651
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,440
though her voice held little hope. What if it's not.

652
00:44:08,199 --> 00:44:09,760
I didn't think she was going to answer, but then

653
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,079
she said, Then we moved to the shelters. Every day

654
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,079
after sunrise, we give the Gnomes proof of collateral. If

655
00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:17,960
that doesn't happen tomorrow, what happened to the Bactorians will

656
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,800
happen to us. And Carl asks what sort of proof?

657
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,719
And I am sort of thinking that perhaps we can

658
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:35,400
have Kotcha imitate this Gnome man. You know, I don't

659
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:40,119
know exactly, like if his body is still there or

660
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:46,320
it seems like they're gonna find out pretty shortly that

661
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,920
he isn't alive, So I don't know, but potentially maybe

662
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,760
we could have covered this whole thing by sticking her

663
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,000
in there. That could work if the timing were right.

664
00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:01,480
But it just seems like maybe it's not. Carl could

665
00:45:02,079 --> 00:45:07,960
approach the Dramedarians and say like, hey, she can be

666
00:45:08,159 --> 00:45:10,960
that if you need her to, or one of the

667
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,280
other shape shifters could offer potentially, It's sort of unclear

668
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,840
to me, Like because there's a mention later about this

669
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,400
being that they are trying to get it can't be

670
00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:29,599
killed except when it is corporeal, and so the idea

671
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,880
is that they are trying to get this gnome to

672
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,440
use his knowledge to make her corporeal so that she's

673
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:43,599
easier to kill. Now, I don't know if him, like

674
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,480
if it's if Katcha is just looks like him but

675
00:45:47,519 --> 00:45:51,760
doesn't actually have the information. He wasn't giving it up anyway,

676
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,480
so I suppose that wouldn't matter. I don't know, just

677
00:45:55,039 --> 00:46:00,800
a thought. This is when I checked him with Undelin Duet.

678
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,639
They'd managed to breach a hole in the first of

679
00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:04,960
the four walls, which was made of sand. The second

680
00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:07,239
was made of seashell, and they felt they could break

681
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,679
through that also. Instead of going over, she had them

682
00:46:10,679 --> 00:46:14,039
building siege ladders just in case. Worst of all was

683
00:46:14,079 --> 00:46:17,039
this massive bird that kept harassing them. It was a

684
00:46:17,159 --> 00:46:21,360
giant version of the chainsaw buzzards she'd described earlier. If

685
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,599
only this one was a burrow boss. It was constantly

686
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:28,119
circling the structure of the necropolis. If it saw any crawlers,

687
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:30,920
it would swoop down to attack. It had wrecked two

688
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:34,559
siege towers they'd started building, causing them to abandon the idea.

689
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,239
It was too strong for them to fight, so they

690
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,119
had to hide every time it appeared. The thing was

691
00:46:40,159 --> 00:46:43,159
so fast they couldn't even get a good description off it.

692
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:46,960
I do have some good news. I saw a pair

693
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,119
of crawlers on the water. They were too far away

694
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:53,480
to talk, but they were in some twoud twenty thousand

695
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:57,519
leagues under the sea looking submarine. The two crawlers emerged

696
00:46:57,559 --> 00:47:00,199
and fought a jellyfish thing and then disappeared. I know

697
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:04,519
somebody is working on it under there. So this is

698
00:47:04,519 --> 00:47:09,039
when Carl gets the info about his sponsor, a new

699
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:14,280
one called the Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network Intergalactic NFC.

700
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:20,719
And they are NFC stands for not for Conquest, which

701
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,239
means they're not sponsored by a system and are free

702
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:29,079
from taxes like a nonprofit, and Carl says, a charity

703
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:32,840
like some religion and Mordecai says there's no such thing

704
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:39,280
as a nonprofit religion, which I guess is true. It

705
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,480
sounds like one of the many groups out there that

706
00:47:41,599 --> 00:47:45,079
don't support the krawl. They probably bought into your sponsorship

707
00:47:45,119 --> 00:47:48,400
so they can show commercials. I hope that's not the case.

708
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,519
If it is, you won't be getting any more boxes

709
00:47:51,559 --> 00:47:54,599
from them. And they wind up sending Carl this thing

710
00:47:54,639 --> 00:47:57,679
that looks like a yam that doesn't really seem like

711
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:03,000
it is worth very much. And I am so curious

712
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:04,840
about what the fuck this is going to turn out

713
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,880
to be, because I don't get sending him anything if

714
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,079
it's so expensive to do it, if what you send

715
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,760
is something like that, you know, I am really really

716
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,599
curious if there turns out to be something useful about

717
00:48:18,599 --> 00:48:26,320
it that we didn't see right away. And let's see,

718
00:48:26,599 --> 00:48:32,559
Donut gets the Vera lux Real Pet Companions, which are

719
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:37,039
the little Beanie baby guys, right, and then Katchya gets

720
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:42,280
I got the Squim Conglomerate and they have sponsored like

721
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,480
five hundred people, and Donut checks and finds out that

722
00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:50,239
Princestinnadia just sponsored five other crawlers, and my new sponsor

723
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,559
sponsors a bunch of other people. But after she gets

724
00:48:54,599 --> 00:49:00,719
sad about this, it very quickly transforms because they get

725
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,000
a message from Loyda that Donut brought in the highest

726
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,559
sponsorship bid in the history of the series, beating both

727
00:49:09,639 --> 00:49:14,639
Carl and Prepotente, which is amazing. And I love this

728
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:18,320
for her. I am so proud of you, girly, absolutely

729
00:49:18,599 --> 00:49:24,960
queen behavior. I you deserve more crowns. Incredible and I

730
00:49:25,039 --> 00:49:31,920
love that. She says, that's pretty much what I expected. Uh,

731
00:49:32,079 --> 00:49:39,800
so great, so great, And Carl says Lucia isn't commanding

732
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,280
the most sponsorship money, which, like, considering how she's behaving,

733
00:49:44,519 --> 00:49:47,599
isn't surprising to me. She's just too much of a

734
00:49:47,639 --> 00:49:54,400
friggin' like wild card, you know. And then Luita mentions

735
00:49:54,519 --> 00:49:57,400
a product sample don it's going to be getting that

736
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,320
they want her to like take out and interact with,

737
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,960
basically like a product placement where you just look at

738
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,760
it and you're like, wow, did you see that the

739
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:12,599
new model of Toyota's SUV comes with automatic rear parking?

740
00:50:12,639 --> 00:50:15,519
I had no idea like that kind of weird, you know,

741
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,079
And Carl says, we're going on an infomercial, Are you kidding? Me,

742
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:26,159
Lloyd says, I am not zev Carl, do not speak

743
00:50:26,199 --> 00:50:28,679
back to me like that. It will not be tolerated.

744
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,679
The fact that she reacts like this to are you

745
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:44,880
kidding me? That's troubling. That's nothing coming from Carl. He

746
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,800
didn't even swear, you know, and she like it will

747
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:55,079
not be tolerated. What does that even mean? They're commanding

748
00:50:55,159 --> 00:51:02,440
the highest bids. What are you gonna do to them?

749
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,400
What are you even? What are you even gonna do?

750
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,440
They're making you do so much money. I feel like

751
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,840
he's got cards in his hand here, but I don't know.

752
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:15,480
And he decides not to push the issue right now.

753
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,800
I think that was the right call. But honestly, her

754
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,239
tolerance is really low. If that was enough for her

755
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:28,199
to get snappy like this, Katcha, I have you booked

756
00:51:28,199 --> 00:51:30,679
on a separate program around the same time. You will

757
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,679
be doing it solo. This will be a one on

758
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:39,239
one interview on a show called Dungeons Sidekicks. Oh that

759
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:53,280
is so insulting. Can you imagine? I just it's just anyway.

760
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:59,599
They go into the Desperado Club. Later on, we have

761
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,519
co wearing a boa, so her and Donut went into

762
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:07,760
Penis parade, and Donut says something about how eight more

763
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,079
visits and I get a free dance from anaconda, which

764
00:52:11,079 --> 00:52:15,599
I really wonder, like how much is that doing for her? Anyway,

765
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,599
When they're human and you're a cat, it can't really

766
00:52:19,679 --> 00:52:22,679
be that exciting, right, Like I get a lap dance

767
00:52:22,679 --> 00:52:28,360
from a cat. Nothing not happening, no interest, So I

768
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:33,800
don't know. Let's see. We decided to add a third

769
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,559
regular bodyguard to the team with Katcha's acquisition of the

770
00:52:36,599 --> 00:52:39,079
Desperado Pass. The new guy was also a Cretan, a

771
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:46,360
rock creature. His name was very Sullen, which is hilarious.

772
00:52:46,679 --> 00:52:50,519
And this is when the crawlers that Carl had run

773
00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:54,280
into before come in. He had told them to meet

774
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,800
him here so that he could kick their ass, and honestly,

775
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,639
a little part of me kind of still wanted him

776
00:52:58,679 --> 00:53:00,679
to do that, but I knew that that was absolutely

777
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,159
pointless and not productive, and yeah, yeah, but I still

778
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:07,519
kind of like a little bit. And I'm not going

779
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:09,800
to go through everybody's names and what all they can do,

780
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:14,480
because we will get there. But spider guy freelance psychiatrists.

781
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:21,280
There's a human that's a spy and they talk about

782
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,239
their quadrant, and Morris says, the whole place is a maze,

783
00:53:24,599 --> 00:53:27,039
a big fuck you, you're going to die maze. We

784
00:53:27,159 --> 00:53:29,639
start at the top and the crypt of answer is

785
00:53:29,679 --> 00:53:32,639
at the bottom. That's where the staircase is. We start

786
00:53:32,639 --> 00:53:34,960
in the village, which is really a cavern filled with

787
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:39,079
these things called nude glabors. They're undead mule rack creatures,

788
00:53:39,119 --> 00:53:41,760
but they're naked with almost human anatomy and they're hard

789
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,800
to look at. That's where we are now. There are

790
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,840
dozens of paths away from town. Some of them are

791
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,639
tunnels so tight I have to be pushed to get through.

792
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:53,360
We got a quest to find one of the two maps,

793
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,239
but we failed thanks to you. I only took one

794
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,519
of the maps. You failed because you were set up

795
00:53:59,559 --> 00:54:04,679
to fail. Maybe I swear to God the fact that

796
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,760
this guy, I mean, you listen to an NPC, you

797
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,400
fucking moron. It's your own fault. You and Carl were

798
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,519
not in competition with each other, whatever you may think,

799
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,000
you know, like it's just asinine. This guy is not

800
00:54:20,159 --> 00:54:27,800
using his head at all. And let's see, Oh my god,

801
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,039
this is when he says filled it with Nana's We

802
00:54:30,079 --> 00:54:32,760
have a guy who shoots banana tree seeds from his hands.

803
00:54:33,159 --> 00:54:35,840
He's a druid and he causes the seeds to sprout

804
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,679
really fast. They work great, but the range is really low.

805
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,760
And it was a pig and they killed it, and

806
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,400
the map was in the same room but out of reach.

807
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,480
It was in the air quadrant. We were building a

808
00:54:49,519 --> 00:54:52,079
tool to take it. You can throw something through the

809
00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:55,320
quadrant barrier, but you can't hold something like a giant

810
00:54:55,360 --> 00:55:01,360
stick or grabber. You can't cast spells either. Before we

811
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,880
could figure it out, a two humped camel thing came

812
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,519
in and saw the dead pig and freaked out. He

813
00:55:06,639 --> 00:55:09,280
upset the table with the map. It fell to the ground,

814
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,519
blowing closer to us. Then he ran away. We spent

815
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:14,519
hours trying to figure out how to get it, but

816
00:55:14,599 --> 00:55:17,719
before we could, the damn room just blew up and

817
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,320
it said the map was destroyed, so we moved to

818
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:25,079
the second map. I keep trying to think about ways

819
00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:27,719
that you could make this happen, and I honestly don't know.

820
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:32,159
There has to be something that could have worked for them.

821
00:55:32,559 --> 00:55:35,159
I'm wondering if like the clockwork triple kit could work,

822
00:55:35,199 --> 00:55:38,960
But I don't know, because you know, like he said,

823
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,239
it's not something you can't use anything that you hold

824
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:48,639
on to uh or ah, I don't know. Maybe if

825
00:55:48,639 --> 00:55:51,400
you have like a wind, the spell or something perhaps,

826
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:57,760
So let's see. Do you know who quits some Cole

827
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:04,199
Colotless is Yeah, I guess answer was the Emperor. He

828
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,719
died and when he did, they built this tomb for him.

829
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,639
They threw his entire court and his wife in here,

830
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,840
even though they weren't dead. Then they sealed it all up.

831
00:56:13,639 --> 00:56:17,480
Kitsel co Lottis is his wife, kowatlas is. I don't know.

832
00:56:17,559 --> 00:56:20,559
I'm just gonna call her Ketza. And she's somewhere in here. Still,

833
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,280
she's some undead thing. Now she's non corporeal. She can

834
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,400
travel through walls within the tomb, and I think she's

835
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,079
really pissed off. Every once in a while we can

836
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:32,079
hear her screaming. She sounds like a bird. After we

837
00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:34,239
failed the quest to get the map, we all got

838
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,360
a quest to find and kill her. Nobody knows how

839
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,159
to kill a damn ghost. Weird, I said, you need

840
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:48,639
magic to kill ghosts. Sorry, oh, Sarah. And they aren't

841
00:56:48,679 --> 00:56:50,320
trying to kill it, just touch it so that you

842
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,000
can learn to copy it. Oh, no, I meant these

843
00:56:54,159 --> 00:56:57,239
guys you're talking about the Yeah, I was talking about

844
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,119
the crawlers, Mike. They brought up that brought up a

845
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:03,599
memory of me watching Bones and her just spontaneously talking

846
00:57:03,639 --> 00:57:07,360
about how amazing the car she was driving was. Bones

847
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,719
is one of the worst for like that product placement stuff,

848
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,840
and it's so unnatural. It's something that comes up a

849
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,840
lot in Crazy Not Crazy Ex Girlfriend Jane the Virgin,

850
00:57:17,679 --> 00:57:21,639
But it's done a lot better in that, and you

851
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,320
still are aware it's happening, but it doesn't feel half

852
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:29,159
as awkward as it ever did in Bones. Michael says,

853
00:57:29,199 --> 00:57:30,679
that is a lie. I know for a fact you'd

854
00:57:30,679 --> 00:57:34,400
be cooing and cuddling with that lapcat about the Yeah,

855
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,320
I don't think I could cuddle with a lab cat

856
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:41,480
that's trying to give me a dance. I think it

857
00:57:41,519 --> 00:57:43,320
would just creeped me out too much. I just don't.

858
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,960
I don't know, man. Michael says, it was absolutely set

859
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,840
up for everyone to fail. Both of their goals were

860
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,000
on the other side of the barriers they could not cross,

861
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,119
and the map vanished the moment Carl touched it. Yeah,

862
00:57:56,119 --> 00:58:01,159
I guess. So it just feels like you know what,

863
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,039
I'm falling into that trap of like there has to

864
00:58:04,079 --> 00:58:05,960
be some way to do it, you know, But like

865
00:58:06,639 --> 00:58:08,920
the whole point of this is that it's not fair really,

866
00:58:09,039 --> 00:58:13,840
so who knows? We learned that from the crossroit creatures

867
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,320
on the third floor. Initially there were extensive instructions on

868
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,440
how to kill ghosts in the cookbook, including bomb types

869
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:24,400
that would do the trick. They're trying to get a

870
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,360
spell that will give her flesh. They want to be

871
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,440
able to physically touch her so they can gain some

872
00:58:30,519 --> 00:58:33,800
of her special powers. She'd probably be easier to kill

873
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,000
if she had physical form. Morris said, probably. I agreed.

874
00:58:37,079 --> 00:58:38,719
Too bad. You guys killed the guy you knew had

875
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,599
to cast a spell. So here's where we stand. We

876
00:58:41,639 --> 00:58:44,320
have the gnomes floating over the entire world, and they

877
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,159
bomb the shit out of everybody. On top of the temple,

878
00:58:47,199 --> 00:58:49,920
we have a few groups, the Camels and the Changelings.

879
00:58:50,239 --> 00:58:52,719
The Changelings are pretending to be refugees, but they have

880
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,159
some plan of their own that involves resurrecting the Guardian

881
00:58:55,239 --> 00:58:58,039
on the subterranean level. On the ground, we have somebody

882
00:58:58,079 --> 00:58:59,840
called the Mad Dune Mage, and we don't know much

883
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,400
of him, and then there's one more castle in the water.

884
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,119
From what little we know, it sounds like it's underwater,

885
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,519
and Bobby says yeah, And we keep getting water breathing

886
00:59:09,559 --> 00:59:14,280
scrolls and scrolls of disarm trap and he has a stutter,

887
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,880
which later on there's like a strong chance that he

888
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,000
is dealing with some severe PTSD, which would make sense.

889
00:59:22,039 --> 00:59:24,000
I'm surprise we haven't run into more of that, to

890
00:59:24,039 --> 00:59:29,599
be honest, I said my goodbyes and hit the Silk road.

891
00:59:29,639 --> 00:59:32,559
I topped off my explosive supplies and bought a few

892
00:59:32,599 --> 00:59:35,960
newly available toys. From there, I exited the club and

893
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,159
headed back to the safe room and he gets his

894
00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:46,239
bronze benefactor box. Here. This thing is not a new item,

895
00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:53,519
it's an upgrade to his existing item. You do not,

896
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:58,400
let's see, but taking this pill will install the following

897
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:03,920
upgrade current elevation, air speed, and Carl thinks to himself

898
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:09,039
that's it. And I immediately my thought was like, bruh,

899
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,639
don't this is gonna be crucial? Like are you serious?

900
01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:16,280
And then immediately I felt disappointment, But then I remembered

901
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,280
how damn useful that last upgrade had been, and I

902
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,159
was like, thank you. Yes, that is the attitude. They

903
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,519
know something and they are helping like that is all

904
01:00:25,519 --> 01:00:30,360
there is to it. They fucking know something, and he

905
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,480
takes the pill thanks them for it. And the next

906
01:00:32,519 --> 01:00:35,599
one is the one where it's that toraline root vegetable,

907
01:00:37,639 --> 01:00:40,800
a rare tuber that only grows in dirt that has

908
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:44,559
been covered by lava. They are very rare. Nobody ever

909
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:46,800
goes digging them up. You know why, because they taste

910
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,519
like dog shit. That's that's why they're pretty much useless.

911
01:00:49,559 --> 01:00:51,760
In fact, Fuck you for wasting my time with this.

912
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:54,719
I'm kind of wondering if there's maybe some creature that

913
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,360
really likes these, that this could be used as a

914
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:07,639
bribe for or something. I don't know. And let's see.

915
01:01:07,719 --> 01:01:10,719
The elevation display was equally complicated. It turned it on

916
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,079
and it filled my screen with a page of information

917
01:01:13,159 --> 01:01:17,840
I did not understand. I tried toggling planetary sea level only,

918
01:01:18,199 --> 01:01:20,440
but that was a mistake. It had me at just

919
01:01:20,519 --> 01:01:25,480
over negative ninety two thousand meters. I realized that meant

920
01:01:25,519 --> 01:01:28,239
I was standing ninety two kilometers under the surface of

921
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:32,519
the planet. That was crazy was Earth's crust, even that

922
01:01:32,679 --> 01:01:36,039
thick wasn't it all magma and oil and gooey shit

923
01:01:36,119 --> 01:01:38,840
once you got deep enough. I'd never paid attention in

924
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,800
geology class. When he said that, I had a moment

925
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:43,679
of like geology, I don't even think I had. And

926
01:01:43,679 --> 01:01:45,880
then I remember that we had something called earth science,

927
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:51,400
which I think is meant to be. That the storm

928
01:01:51,519 --> 01:01:54,639
ended and the town survived. The camels did not retract

929
01:01:54,679 --> 01:01:58,880
the sales as usual, and they've set guards up and

930
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:04,960
they are interrogating peace people about these toad creatures. And

931
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:09,519
let's see, Katcha had given them a general map of

932
01:02:09,519 --> 01:02:12,360
the entire structure and a more deep detailed path to

933
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,199
another town. About halfway down to the crypt. They'd need

934
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,320
ladders and ropes to descend. Those subterranean guys are total

935
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,400
train wrecks. Kaya said. Their stress levels are off the charts.

936
01:02:23,719 --> 01:02:28,039
It's understandable, but they're very tense, too tense. I laughed,

937
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,360
that's what Mordecai said about you when we first met.

938
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,480
He called you a train wreck. Also, we're calling them

939
01:02:33,519 --> 01:02:37,480
the tomb raiders. She did not find any of that funny,

940
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:40,880
understand it being told, like, oh yeah, he had called

941
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,960
you a train wreck. Nobody wants to hear that it's

942
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:47,639
too soon. If you hear this like two floors away,

943
01:02:48,079 --> 01:02:50,639
then sure, but that was like what one floor ago.

944
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:58,039
It's too soon, Carl, it's too soon. Bobby is the

945
01:02:58,039 --> 01:03:00,760
only one who can detect traps, and he's already missed

946
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,159
a few. They make others go in tunnels ahead because

947
01:03:03,159 --> 01:03:05,840
he's too valuable, and they keep dying right in front

948
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,199
of him. They described a trap where needles popped up

949
01:03:09,199 --> 01:03:11,679
from the floor and injected the crawler with a potion

950
01:03:12,199 --> 01:03:17,000
that filled his sinuses with flesh eating beetles. I swear

951
01:03:17,079 --> 01:03:23,559
to God, what the fuck, guys? I genuinely like, no,

952
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:31,440
absolutely fucking not. Can you Yeah, it's like a combo

953
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:34,400
of everybody depending on you and then watching people die

954
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:37,480
over and over in horrible ways that it should have

955
01:03:37,639 --> 01:03:42,679
probably been you that died. I mean, no, wonder you know. Yikes.

956
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,559
They kept asking when we thought we might storm our castle.

957
01:03:48,639 --> 01:03:50,440
I have the impression they want to hold back and

958
01:03:50,519 --> 01:03:52,760
wait for us to have access so we can help.

959
01:03:53,559 --> 01:03:56,840
I shook my head. God, damn it, we need to

960
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,679
push them. We don't have time for that. I agree,

961
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,960
and I did. I lied and told them we don't

962
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,199
expect to complete the air quadrant until time is almost

963
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,519
up at least I hope it was a lie, and

964
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:11,079
that one, like the idea that people are just waiting around,

965
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:16,000
honestly makes sense. I didn't really think of it before,

966
01:04:16,719 --> 01:04:21,559
but considering something like the announcement specifically said some of

967
01:04:21,559 --> 01:04:23,480
these are going to be easier to beat than others.

968
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:26,719
If you start running into things this nuts, it would

969
01:04:26,719 --> 01:04:28,679
be very easy to be like, Okay, this one's clearly

970
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:33,679
one of the top difficulty ones, so let's just chill.

971
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,280
I would never do that because I couldn't say I

972
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:41,519
would just go crazy waiting, but I can see that

973
01:04:42,159 --> 01:04:50,159
as a as a coping mechanism, honestly. So they get

974
01:04:50,199 --> 01:04:53,960
some information from Juice Box about that giant bird named Ruckus,

975
01:04:54,000 --> 01:05:00,519
which is a steampunk cyborg. The waste or patrols avoid Ruckus,

976
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:02,960
but one of their responsibilities was to call the regular

977
01:05:03,079 --> 01:05:07,599
sized buzzards if they saw them. Apparently there used to

978
01:05:07,639 --> 01:05:10,480
be a third Camel City. They tried to shoot it

979
01:05:10,559 --> 01:05:13,719
down and it didn't go well for them. Katcha went pale,

980
01:05:14,159 --> 01:05:17,280
and you want to fight this thing, I shrugged, will

981
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,880
be like a mile away. I have a missile. I

982
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:23,519
need a test. Don't worry, It'll be fine. That's the

983
01:05:23,599 --> 01:05:31,719
end of chapter eight, so yeah, that is the uh,

984
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,199
don't worry, it'll be fine. Shut the fuck up, Carl.

985
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,079
All Right, guys, I gotta wrap. Thank you all for

986
01:05:38,119 --> 01:05:40,519
hanging out with me. Appreciate you, and I will see

987
01:05:40,559 --> 01:06:13,679
you soon with a new one. Until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers.

988
01:06:14,679 --> 01:06:17,320
That was an unspoiled Network podcast.