Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
covering Dungeon Crawler Carl book seven, this inevitable ruin chapters
forty seven through fifty one, but also kind of covering
forty six from the last time, which may result in
me not finishing all of those chapters this time. You
know the draw right now in this section, the Naga
are smarter than I want them to be. I was
so worried about this. But on the plus side, Prepotente right,
Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I
am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning
this episode. So chapter forty six won't really it's a
chapter which has, to a degree we've covered a lot
of what's going on in it. It's about the whole
deal with the Sepsis whore and how she disappears. And
you know the fact that we had a plan set
up to handle things in this way and before obviously
they knew that Prepotente was going to be in the mix,
and here was what we were going to do, and
everything surrounding this plan was predicated on the assumption that
the Naga had a bunch of soldiers that they had
essentially an army that we needed to distract, and then
it turns out no, they don't, which is uh.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: You know, Carl takes it as cool. There's no army,
and so this is going to be a lot easier
than I thought. And all I could think was, I'm
not trying to pretend that I knew for sure what
was going to happen, because I didn't. But I couldn't
help but feel like the fact that she herself alone
manages to escape every time and then come back and
nobody knows where she's been indicates to me she's the
thing you've got to worry about, and the army is
just like, the army's the distraction, you know what I mean.
So anyway, I just really was as he's going through
all of this and they're talking about what the possibilities are.
This is when Donut finds out that the blood bars
don't drain if you're in the Desperado Club or if
you're in Club Vanquisher, which really does seem like a
major loophole that I am surprised that AI hasn't decided
to close yet. I know the whole I love a
good loophole. But that just feels like the thing with
the AI is that it wants to be entertained, and
that feels like it's detracting from the entertainment, you know,
But that's just me. So she you know, obviously this
is why fernand is sticking to staying at the bar,
and she just is like, I don't know what I
ever saw on him and Donut. This is the evolution
that every woman has to go through of dating when
we are young and then looking back and being like,
what was I thinking. So it ends with Carl being like, Okay,
if even if she's in the club, how does she
get there with nobody noticing? Like teleportation is not on
the table right now? And also where in the club
is she because they're big places with lots of secret
rooms and YadA YadA. And so then we go on
to chapter forty seven. I really enjoyed this little moment
because Louis is saying, I see the slug alows. They
have a cart and they're doing donuts in the grass
and I was like, they're doing what And then I
realized they're doing donuts. Oh yeah, And then a second
later donuts, says Louis, will you not call it donuts?
So then we get the bit of everybody working together
and what exactly they're all going to do. Ellie Amani
and a few of the strippers were always playing on
going into the castle, but we'd planned on sending the
slugs in first. They were expendable and actually seemed to
like the idea of dying in battle, and we'd given
Amani trap killing tools, but that was always under the
assumption the vast majority of traps would have already been
triggered by the slugs. Imani's new spell was intended for cleanup,
not primary defense. They would be heading into extreme danger.
So what we find out is that the skill that's
been transferred using this tattoo is actually to Immani and
it's Carl's tripper skill. There's another thing that's been transferred
as well, which we like, we'll get there later, but
uh yeah, it's a very fun, weird ability this tattoo thing.
I kind of want to go back and reread the
AI summary of it, because, like, I know that the
summary did not adequately explain what it does, but I
would like to see what it does say and if
there is a ceiling to like how many times it
can be used or like does he make the ink
or does it come with ink? And that's what has
to be used explicitly. I don't really remember a lot
of the way that works. So we have a little
bit of a back and forth here that is not
out loud between Kachya and Batista, and it turns out
Bautista really wants Kotchya to eat that flour and just
move on to the what is it eleventh floor? And
what it turns out she says to Carl once they're
like talking privately, she says he thinks it's too risky
and that if if it doesn't go well, you'll turn
on me to get the flower to give to donut.
Do you know what happens then, guys, A chill hit me.
I'm so sorry, but I am going to keep doing this,
so please just be ready for that. It doesn't wash
over him though, so you know that's something. But followed
by the sentence, I hadn't even considered that. And that's
the thing, right, is like when you are a somewhat
decent person, some things just don't cross your mind at all.
It doesn't even you know what I mean? And you'll
almost feel stupid, But then there's a part of you
that's like, maybe it's a good thing that my brain
doesn't work like that. It's got me worried. Do I
need to worry about Batista? Like obviously we all know
if it comes down to Katia or Donut, it's going
to be Donut, and that's just it. But it hasn't
really felt like Bautista is like him and Katya have
felt inconsistent enough that I wasn't really seeing him as
somebody that we needed to worry about going up against
in that case, which really is actually foolish of me
and shortsighted. So now I'm looking at him a little
different and realizing like, oh wow, we might have to
like get through him if anything were to happen, which
I just don't want to see in the first place,
never mind having to go against Bautista. But yeah, this
whole thing is so it's understandable that he is worried
because it's just smart. It's just smart to worry about this,
and Carl can be ruthless in a way. But it
does surprise me every time when it feels like people
just fundamentally don't get him and this is one of
those times for me of like, yeah, he's ruthless when
nothing can be done for a crawler and they are
agreeing they want out or it's not a crawler. Otherwise,
I haven't seen any evidence that we need to worry
about him turning on anybody. It's just this situation that
they have been put in, breeding this paranoia, and it
makes me really sad to know that it's like it's succeeding,
because that's the point of this sort of device in
these games, is to pit people against each other. And
I really thought that we were managing to like avoid
letting that happened to us, that it wasn't working, And
now it's looking like maybe it is working, and it's
just on the DL because who's going to talk to
Carl about it, you know. So it just is in
terms of the evidence, Michael is saying, we're fortunate to
be basically riding in Carl's head from the outside, he
has to look a lot scarier. Sure, but again the evidence,
you know, Michael says, for example, I am fucking terrified
of Lena, but maybe she's not as fucking terrifying as
she looks. I disagree deeply. Michael will get there in
a second. Jeff says, last night I had a Newish
friend over for the first time, and I felt the
need to hide my riddle in thanks to capitalism. Good god,
there was you know what. I'm not even gonna get
into it, but it was a real So anyway, the
evidence with Karl just does not point to him ever
even considering doing something like this. Sure he can be scary, absolutely,
but there is a difference. There's a very distinct and
very describable, easy to understand difference in my mind, and
so the fact that Bautista seems unable to see that
has me thinking Batista just doesn't understand Carl in the
way that I think other people may a little bit more.
You can be scared of him, but also be like,
that's about him maybe snapping in a certain sense, but
not about him ever turning on his own because I
just never like, I don't know, there's just nothing that
points to that. All it is is the fact that like, oh,
he's kind of unstable. The one thing that happened was
with Lee June, and he wasn't incoded, like everybody knows
that he was taken over. Now the only reason that
maybe this thing with Batista is that, you know, the
she Maria eye in his chest. Maybe what if she
takes over. I don't know how well Carl has made
it understood to everybody that he's in control of she
Maria now, so that's another question, and how like do
they believe him? But it doesn't feel like that's what
it is. It feels like this is about Carl and
not she Maria. So anyway, Kachia says, if it comes
to this, I will give you the flower, like I
don't care. I'm going to make sure that you two
get to the next floor. And Carl's like, I don't
want that. And even if I did, which again I
do not, donut would never let you do that. And
She's like, I know, and that's why I haven't said
anything to her about it. So we have the uh
tripp or spell thing happen, and it actually hurts Carl
when this ability is used off of him, which is interesting.
It said the spell would slowly heal over the course
of four days. Meanwhile, and Moni's version would slowly lose
potency and she'd eventually lose the spell. The tattoo itself
made from the Tory Lane yam ink mixed with my
blood would be permanent, and it seems like it would
just be it's only this that they can use for ink.
If Amani ever wanted to use that spell again after
it faded, I could drink the yam potion, select the
spell and it would get re energized. We were just
limited by the fact that we had barely any of
the vegetable left, so that being sent to him way
back when and now realizing how important it is is agonizing.
I really wish that he could have been sent a
sack of them or something. Spells and skills taken against
the owner's will were much more powerful and resulted in
the owner losing them permanently, which of course we know.
But that is something that he could potentially use on
some of his enemies, and that is a really scary
thing and is also super useful, having to hold somebody
down and give them a tattoo against their will. I
guess there's spells that you can like paralyze somebody with,
but you'd have to get around any protection they have
because just piercing their skin. A lot of folks, you know,
that's not even possible with certain spells who That would
be tricky. So finally we get Prepotente arriving and I, you, guys, Karl,
Prepotente said, I held up at hand. Look, we can't
talk at all unless you're in the army. I know
you don't want I know, Carl, I am not an
imbecile recruit me. I paused, Are you sure? Do it
now before I change my mind? If this is the
only way I may selfish this utter fuck up on
your end, then make it so. And Carl had a
conscription potion on him that he even admits to himself
it probably wouldn't have worked, which, considering bro is ninety nine. Yeah,
I think maybe it wouldn't have worked. But I love this.
The moment I stowed the potion a strange What were
you thinking? Clarity hit me. No, not like that, never
like that. The river always there seemed to grow a
little bit around the edges. It's easy to think that
when it's no longer necessary.
Speaker 2: Ooh, that is a brutal line, you guys. Oh, oh
my god. I cannot emphasize enough how much I like
stopped for a second and just had to sit with that.
Speaker 1: It just that there's just no denying the truth of
that statement. How easy it is to say that you
would never do a thing, you know. And then it
makes me think of how there's a lot of folks
out there that are saying that, you know, oh, I'd
rather die than be enslaved. I'd kill myself rather than
being and it's like, in practice that's not proven to
be true. Most people want to stay alive, and they
are willing to go through suffering if it means that
they'll survive. And I really get it. It just is
I can't imagine trying to actually conscript Pony like what
that does to their relationship with him, because that is
just he is so powerful and he is so dangerous,
and doing that it would have just been I understand
the impulse, but it just seems like such a stupid
move to me, you know eh. Anyway, look, Prepotente, I
really appreciate you coming to help us, and when we
have time, I hope you'll tell me what you did
to kill their army. We're on the same side here
and we really need to talk more. You don't need
to do this all by the goat rushed forward and
pulled me into a tight hug. He started to uncontrollably sob,
You're my best friend, cap. I've been so lonely when
you didn't show up at the behalf of the Blast four,
I thought he didn't finish a sentence. He was letting
out these huge wet snot filled saws us and I
lost my shit, you guys, I lost it. I was
listening to this yesterday. We're working on some stuff in
our kitchen that's requiring a lot of assembly and you know,
power drills and whatnot, so I've needed things in my
ears and I was in the middle of doing something
and I had to put my thing down because I
was laughing too hard. It was so unexpected. It's like,
thinking back to the way he's been, it shouldn't be
that unexpected, Like, actually, this has proven to be who
he is more than once. But I just keep forgetting.
And then the fact that he hits the last time,
no more warm hugs for me, and that's like the
first thing he does is wonderful, it's great. I love
it absolutely, no fucking notes whatsoever. And then he says,
let's put our differences aside. I'm ready for the emptiness
to be filled. I have several enhanced pet biscuits. But
after what happened last time, I've been so afraid and
now I'm afraid it's too late. Bianca is fine company,
but she doesn't speak. You are absolutely right. We need
to keep communicating. I need to come to terms with
you being an idiot and be grateful for what I have.
You can't help how stupid you are. Oh, oh my god,
you can't help how stupid you are. If I haven't
had that exact thought in my life a lot of times,
Oh it is really it's not flattering to see that,
but I do indeed think this way occasionally. I also
want to mention, like the pet biscuits, that he's so
afraid and he says, now I'm afraid it's too late.
What was he because? Does he want to fee another
one to Bianca? I don't remember what the rules are.
Can they give more than one to a pet? Is
that possible? Or is he talking about giving one to
rend or eating one himself. He's not a pet though, now,
so that wouldn't work, like, because you know what, he
has several also, so it may be all of the
above that he's planning on using them for. I don't know. Sorry, Rob, says.
Someone on the subreddit did a calligraphic rendering of that
you can't help how stupid you are a line, and
I just want that on my wall. That's brilliant. That's brilliant.
Michael says, No, Miriam don fed another to one of
her goats and there was a negative effect. Yeah, no,
I know that. But he says, I have several enhanced
pet biscuits. So it sounds like he's saying and now
I'm afraid it's too late. So it sounds like he
has them in his inventory and he is planning to
use them for something I don't but I don't know
what it is. And he's saying it almost like Karl
should know, like they've talked about this before, you know,
So I feel like I miss something. But uh, anyway,
I love that. Samantha off to the side is yelling kiss.
I swear to God, Samantha. She is such a complete disaster.
So we have a little moment where Samantha is on
Bianca's back and he yells at her to get down,
and she has an attitude and she starts to do
the usual I will kill your mother line, and Katya
is able to grab her before she says it and
is like, you do not want to say that to him,
because if you do, he is going to lose his
entire shit and it's going to be very ugly and
we don't need to deal with that right now. And Carl,
because like Samantha calls caught youa a bitch and Carl
is like, no, Samantha, please listen to her. If you
do it again, he's gonna punch you across the map
and you won't be allowed to go with us. And
that stops her, and she's like, wait what, I am
very concerned. I feel like probably she's gonna say it again.
It's just a compulsion. It's like a vocal tick for her.
It's not even like she thinks about it when she
says it, you know, So I just feel like that's coming.
Uh oh, we'll see. Then we get Baron is Victory
popping up and she's been watching this whole thing from
the beginning. Actually, but this is when he says something
about is your family this dysfunctional? I asked the moment
I asked, I regretted it. I suddenly remembered exactly how
dysfunctional her family was. Still a small grin played across
the stoic Orc's face. I smiled back. I did like that,
even if you maybe put your foot in your mouth
a little bit, is still you know. I like it.
And then Ellie chimes in in the chat Coming to
the Throne room, finally ran into some nagas plus a
few other NPC guards and they all worship Embras just
like you predicted. Had to kill them all, including a
big naga that one didn't worship any god, but he
went down hard, which we find out that's one of
the main four that they have to kill, who is
apparently her actual boyfriend. I was like, really curious, is
this a Is this a sacrifice that she makes on
purpose to make it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Does he know he's being sacrificed. I have a lot
of questions because obviously in the end, the Sultana had
seen this coming and was waiting and had things in place.
So there is a method to why things are set
up the way they are, and I'm thinking giving them
this little win is a way of encouraging them to
continue forward because they think, you've only we've only got
for total and we're almost done. We can't stop now,
you know. Anyway, So let me go to chapter forty nine,
and it starts with a note from Karl, and this
is all information about the deities, which is the way
that they believe things work with the Sultana. I am
not going to read this entire thing, but suffice to
say is it is fairly simple once this cause is
thought of, to narrow down which God would be used
to accomplish this, because only some have the ability to
teleport a person who isn't a worshiper, and of those few,
there would be another. Like there's one other, THEA. And
let's see, I'm trying to find the bit where he
explains like she was sponsored by someone in the employee
of the Pacifist network, so this is actually not part
of the plan. Carl calls this a coincidence, which I believe.
But this leads to one other God. Let's see, they
had sponsored THEA because THEA was Samantha's mother. Excuse me,
they had sponsored her to help save my life at
the end of the fifth floor. She was the one
who had appeared at the end of the floor when
we first took Samantha out of the safe room. THEA
was in theory enraged at Samantha, but because of the sponsorship,
she hadn't caused any problems and had only appeared to
kill that giant demon Slit. She'd been too far away
for me to get information before, and Vignata had to
know theo was sponsored, and there was no way she'd
choose her this season, So that left the other god Capri.
This is so weird, guys. The quest to gain more
followers only happened if the new worshiper was female, so
this basically like that this transportation wouldn't occur if she weren't.
Speaker 2: She.
Speaker 1: Instead of turning into modes of light, the prospective adherence
would be changed to literal beetles, and the female adherent
in question would then have to swallow these beetles whole.
She would be transferred to the temple of Capri, which
would be in the form of a giant, never ending
buffet feast that was absolutely covered with insects of all kinds. There,
the adherent would sit upon the center of the buffet table,
and she would give birth to the beetles she'd swallowed,
where they'd quickly turn back to their previous form. The
prospects would spend the next few weeks sitting in the
room with an infinite bug infested buffet. I want to
know why it always has to be bugs? Why do
we need it to always be the gods are covered
in boils and give you horrific diseases or their bugs.
Oh my god, I just hate it so much. So
this is, you know, the my antennas start to go
up here pun intended because it just felt like there
were so many clues leading to us coming to this conclusion.
It's been described as this ongoing mystery. And look, granted,
I understand the way that these types of mysteries work
that like on social media, it can basically be understood. Guys,
we all pretty much know that X y Z is
what happened, but until we get absolute confirmation from whomever,
will still not get tired of chewing it over repeatedly
and floating our theories or whatever. But the clues really
did seem to be quite definitive in a way that
had me like, this is solid detective work, but all
most two pointed, you know, And maybe it just looks
like that to me because I'm coming at it. After all,
the clues have been collected already, and if it's like
you are part of the crew watching this over the
course of seasons. Every one of these clues was dropped
over years, and so it doesn't feel like obvious at all.
And I really am trying to keep that part in mind,
because it is really in my nature, as somebody who
loves like murder mysteries and stuff, to when evidence is
pointing too much in a certain direction to immediately be like, well,
then that's not what it is, because that's just storytelling.
Most of the time. Occasionally I'm wrong about it, and
it's always kind of a delight. So I was like,
you know, there doesn't seem to be another option. The
only other thing I could think was maybe it's not
Capri and she did do the god that they didn't
expect because they're sponsoring it, but she would be smited,
so that wouldn't be possible. So then I'm like, then
she has to know that they're piecing it together. And
too much of this whole, all of too much of
the putting the pieces together was done in public in
a way that could be seen, which keeps being something
that I'm a little paranoid about. Is like, you're not
supposed to be getting information from outside the dungeon, but
evidently everybody is. So I can't help but feel if
we're talking openly about what our plan is, its inevitable
they will find out. And I'm not really sure how
true that is. It just feels like it to me.
So anyway, I just I started to get a little sweaty,
that's all I'm saying. I was just like something something
about this is just almost too easy, eh, I don't know.
So there's also the thing with the fairy. I'm going
back just real quick because I want to mention this.
When one worships of God, a link is formed, a
whisker thin connection made of light that can penetrate almost
any substance or spell. After a new adherent pledges themselves,
a tiny, non corporeal fairy mob called a bijou, grabs
a tendril of light from the God and drags it
to the new worshiper and attaches it to the adherent's heart.
This line isn't direct. It goes from the God to
the strongest temple on the floor, and from the temple
to the worshiper. This whole process takes about two minutes
from the third floor until the eleventh, the strongest temple
will almost always be inside the inside of Club Vanquisher.
When a person moves around, other tendrils also grow, connecting
the adherent to other temples and in some cases other worshipers.
These connections, too, are facilitated by the Biju fairies. This
strange little quirk of the game usually has no impact
on anything, and Rosetta seems to think it's actually some
sort of workaround the original designers developed to add the
whole deity aspect to the game. Nobody has ever killed,
or caught or stopped the Biju, the Mordecai says. In theory,
it should be possible to catch one with a certain
type of trap. Certain people with the proper skills can
see the Biju. We have an NPC named Edgar who
can catch their movement. This is he can see upward momentum.
This is a sign someone nearby has just worshiped a
god for the first time. Edgar's skill is level fifteen
and called sense Movement. We are relying on using this
to see if Rosetta's theory about the Naga escape trick
is correct. So I feel like that being connected by
the heart to multiple shrines and multiple other worshippers is
going to come into play in some other way as well.
It's just a lot of setup in a very specific
way that we don't we don't really need to know
all of that unless that's something. You know what I'm saying.
I am very articulate. So chapter fifty, they have to
get to the temple, but you know it says as
per tradition, the entrance to Club Vanquisher was located inside
of a random temple here on the ninth floor. There
were always only two Club Vanquisher entrance entrances. Why the
one in Moroccos would almost always get trashed. The one
outside the city limits was usually left alone, and this
was where we were currently set up this particular season.
The entrance temple was for a relatively called the called
Dogda or the Dogda. He was a weather and of
masculinity god, and there was a whole class of fighter
clerics who worshiped him. I'd seen more than one crawler
who had him as a god. Apparently the only requirement
to follow him was to grow a beard. That docta
was usually sponsored by some rich celebrity from the Inner System,
some sort of self help guru guy. Is it Andrew Tate?
It feels like it should be Andrew Tait. Am I wrong?
I just that's just a masculinity.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: It depends, I guess, on just exactly how intellectualized and
how rapy this guru is. If it's a lot more
pseudo intellectualism, it's going to be Jordan Peterson, as Michael
pointing out in the chat. If it's rapier, it's going
to be Andrew t Michael says, or Joe Rogan, which
is definitely possible. I'll be honest, though, Joe Rogan feels
like just your like run of the mill meathead and
not like a guru. I don't know about like his
function though, so it may be that he does fill
that role more often than I realize. But I always
hear about him in the context of like he's platforming
people who don't fucking need to be given any platform
and entertaining asinine arguments because he is too fucking stupid
to see through the smoke and mirrors. So I think
of him as just this like unwitting pawn who isn't
uh really like giving instruction so that he can hold
his hands up and be like what, I didn't do
anything because he hasn't explicitly endorsed and he wants to
be able to play both sides of things. Now again,
maybe that he does that and he's a guru. I
don't know, but I just do imagine Jordan Peterson and
Andrew Tate first. So this may all come to nothing.
Perhaps this person won't appear, but I I don't know,
I feel like they will. So they have to get
through the Temple of break into the club, and then
break into the Temple of Capri, which isn't going to
be easy because, like you know, the whole security is
no joke in Vanquisher, especially the moment we broke inside,
Vinyada and her crew would most likely know we were
coming for them. This was also why we had to
time this correctly. According to Rosetta, those under the Prospect
spell wouldn't be allowed to leave the temple for at
least an hour. It was the dungeon equivalent of going
to a timeshare pitch, which is have you guys ever
been to one of those? I went to one of
those ones to get free knife set I don't even
remember if I got it. Anyway, as they are approaching
Donut is not with them, by the way, we have
her as a contingency. We have Carl and Prepotente talking
over the plan and Prepotentie drinking a bunch of sodas,
which will the fact that he first of all he's
limited to seven sodas. Oh my god, or else I
get a sugar high. You don't get a sugar high
off of seven sodas for real, wild shit. And I
love that there's this detail that Carl keeps trying to
pull away, but Prepotente just is like right up against
him the whole time. He's just very needy. That was
so funny to me, guys. I just love the contrast
in the aloofness of his speech versus his body language
and actions and like these emotional outbursts. It's just wonderful.
It's so great. Sorry I'm saying, Jeff says. Scamy sales
meetings are the worst. I felt like we were stealing,
even though we were technically allowed to leave, right, Michael says,
And they somehow do make it seem like a clearly
idiotic financial decision makes sense when they talk long enough. Yeah,
that's the thing. Oh, it really is true. And you
know Carl is worried about the succession thing because of
Doughnut being susceptible, but Pony is like, I just want
them all dead. I don't care about that part. Just
kill them all. And he says, I suppose it's a
good idea to have a backup plan, as there are
indeed secret ways out of the club. I have a
map of the entire place. You know I stopped dead.
You have an interior map of Club Vanquisher. Oh yes,
my mother Bianca and I made friends with a delightful
guild mester inside the club, which we saw that whole thing.
And Carl is just like and it says, I was
once again reminded of donuts advice long ago that I
should have tried harder to speak with him. She had
been right, I've been saying, I've been saying, I just
didn't really understand why Carl wanted to get away from
him and Miriam so bad. I found them to be
delightful and very smart. You know, you're the ones who
keep fucking up attacks they've got set up and they
would have succeeded. These are people that you want as allies.
They are competent and sure they have a weird thing
going on, but no offense, Carl, you don't think you
and Donut have a weird thing going on. I got
a fucking bridge to sell you, dude. Y'all are strange
and you just are used to it. That's the only difference.
So you don't have the right to throw any stones whatsoever.
And then Miriam being taken out of the picture. I
genuinely just had so much sympathy for Prepotente because it
made me think of what Donut would be like without Carl,
and it just kept surprising me that Carl wasn't like
seeing things through that lens a little bit more, you know,
and was just as resistant as he is. And it
just Carl can be a bit of a control freak.
That's kind of what it boils down to a lot
of the time with him, is that he just it's
not exactly that I think he saw Prepotente as a
threat so much as the fact that Prepotente is obviously
not somebody who is low level enough that Carl can
really like force him into being a team player. He
has enough power to have the agey to go off
and do his own shit, and would like he has
that attitude as well, and I think Carl just doesn't
want to deal with that headache. But look at the
way this stude acts like he is so obviously in
need of friendship, and he would be a wonderful team
player if you just knew how to handle him right.
And Carl just doesn't really seem interested in like learning
how to do that, and I find that a weakness.
I think that this is a resource that was squandered
for a long time, and uh, no offense to just
call you a resource, Prepotente, But I think you would
agree with me. Actually, I don't think that you would
have a problem with me saying it that way. Anyway,
they have to take this aura potion to keep themselves
from being susceptible to it. And Prepotente comments on how
good the quality is because he has found them before,
but they only lasted for two minutes, and when he
drinks it the regular way rather than like from the menu,
so that you can't taste it, and he says it's
similar to a crodino, and I had to look this up.
Crodino is a non alcoholic bitter aperteef produced since nineteen
sixty five, produced by the Manu produced by Gruppo Campari.
It is an orange colored drink made from herbal extracts
and sugar. It is primarily consumed in Italy and other
European countries. So there you have it, and I kind
of want to try it now. I also want to
know how he knows what cordina tastes like. That's another question.
So here comes this moment where I was thinking, when
I was listening to the audiobook that the narrator is
going to say a certain thing, that it is not
what the narrator winds up saying, but then later on
it seems to me it should have been. So this
is the aura mechanic. Wasn't something I normally needed to
worry about. We only had two crawlers in the guild
who used it. One was a money and you know
all of the different blessings in YadA. The other crawler
who used ours was Lee Nah. Hers were very very
and I thought it was going to say scary, terrifying, upsetting, disturbing.
Instead it just says different, and I was just like,
you know, so you guys, well we'll get there in
a second. I really want to jump ahead, but I'm
not going to do it. So Doughnut chimes in. He says, Dona,
if you guys don't see anyone approaching the Naga temple,
might as well join Ellie and Amani. And she says
be careful everyone, and he dms her specifically, and it's like,
you need to be careful. Don't go anywhere that hasn't
already been anywhere that hasn't been swept for traps and stuff.
And Donut is like, listen, you're the one breaking temples open,
so I think you should just worry about yourself, which
she isn't wrong. Ooh sorry. Jeff says, I thought it
was because he was afraid of their murder goat. It wasn't.
It just wasn't as a self starter, I too have
difficulty with friends who have severe emotional issues. Michael says,
I find a very sweet that pony still sticks to
the rules his mom gave him about soda. Miriaan don
was Italian. He probably managed to lick up some that
Miriam spilled at some point. That's probably true. That's probably
exactly it, not only breaking temples open, but condemning the
inhabitants to a fate worse than death, which ye, we'll
get there. Listen. I'm trying not to jump ahead, Michael.
I just said that. So they go into the temple
of Dogda, and I really love this. Stu's only for
brothers of Dogna, so please move along, he said, with
a thick, all most intelligible Welsh accent, which is so
hilarious to me as a line. It's just such a
throwaway little joke. And I remember, like one of my
mother's friends married an irishman and she had just been
watching a movie set in Wales and was telling him
about how she had to put the subtitles on because
she couldn't understand, and he said something like, oh, yeah,
the Welsh wonderful singers, but they can't speak to save
their lives. And that's always what I think of when
I hear like anybody is Welsh, I just think of,
can't speak to save their lives. And so that joke
just hit me exactly right. Entering Club Vanquisher members, only
heathens will find no solace here, and we have this
ram Guard mork Aries Warrior level forty worships hellic. He
will be automatically hostile toward you because you worship Embrass
and the way they play. This is that Prepatente is
is Carl's bounty that he captured, and Prepotente has to
pretend to be captured and is very over the top
with it. It's giving community theater Shakespeare play kind of thing.
It's a lot and Mork says, you want to collect
the bounty, you're on probation. I'm not even sure you
can collect the bounty. We'll have to tell them we
caught it together. And I'm like, is that true or
do you just want to steal from Carl. I feel
like it's the second one, but I don't know, and
he does the whole. We will give half to Hellic
as he is the superior god to your filthy embress,
and we will flit the rest ourselves. Because he's got
a lisp when he says he's a superior god to
your filthy embress. I was like, I'm surprised he can
say that without like getting in trouble. And then instantly
new Quest killed the blasphemer and I was like, ah,
there it is okay. You will get an additional embress boon.
The more entertained, the better the boon. And Carl just
goes one step ahead of your buddy, and then he
tells Katya to come up on stage. It's her cue.
And this, you guys, this whole scene. Four minotaurs burst
into the room. The guards look much the same as
the last time I'd seen these guys, furry furry shorts,
no shirts, no hats, but blue paint splattered all over
the place. They have these like wolverine cloth things that
they keep embedding in the ceiling and getting stuck because
they're very tall, and they just keep doing this, which
is very, very hilarious. This is when Katchya bursts in
brothers hail, it is the end of days. Demons attack
the temple behind me. We must initiate temple defense protocols
and I love. They get this blank look and they're
like what And this is language that she was told
to use by Tippid, but like shit changes, so she
has to adapt. But she does quite quickly kill all
the heathens hail. The other mantors shouted. Another got his
arms stuck, this time in the wall, and one of them,
let's see, I'm trying to find from over both of
Kotsa's shoulders flew a pair of ridiculously cute stuffed animals
there were stuffed versions of a demon mob called Eclipse Pixies.
They looked like fat, fur covered guinea pigs, but with
bat wings and jagged teeth, which, like guinea pins, are
already covered with fur. Maybe it's considered hair, I don't know. Anyway,
the real version we're about the same size, and we're
just as cute, which is wild. So Prepotente smashes his
smoke grenade Carl inflicts black nimbus and let's see the smoke.
This blinded all of us. I burst forward. Prepotente jumped
to his feet and rushed with me. We reached the
open entrance into the club, smoke swelling inside. Mork lay
there on the ground, crying with the black halo around
his head, half in and half out of the main room.
It says I'm trespassing, he gasped. How how can I
truspass my own home? What did you do to me?
And honestly, guys, this got to me. The fact that
he worships this god so bad and then feels completely
abandoned is genuinely super sad. It really bummed me out.
I was just not you know what I mean. I
didn't expect to be this like upset by this attack,
so Zang has the vestibule door open. Lena is ready,
Carl says, wait for my signal, and they go into
the club, and I held the door open. At this point,
all three doors were open from Shantytown to the Temple
of Dagda. Only the second two were actual portals. We
needed to keep both open at all costs. As long
as we kept an unbroken line of the capacitor wire,
which was really just an antenna from the clockwork tower
to the interior of the club, the tower enhanced effects
of Lena's aura would work inside the club. Which is crazy.
This is a very this is so intricate, this is
just a really like to a degree, I'm not even
sure I really understand. I'll be perfectly real with you, guys.
So upon the walls remained the hundreds of taxidermied monster
heads of all sizes. The faint church music that usually
played was now turned off, which added to the menacing effect.
Lee June, trailing three separate lengths of wire, rushed up
to me. He quickly handed me the third length, which
was as thin and light as fishing line. I looped
it around my wrist and mork over here is trying
to get up. I kicked him down and put my
foot on his chest. I should have killed already, but
the note at the end of the embras quest had
given me pause, which, like he later yells at me, nah,
And I'm like, you didn't need to do what you
did either, though, Carl, So I don't know what to
tell you. When we first discussed the next part, Lena
stated she had several dreads that would be effective if
they were allowed to fill Club Vanquisher. We settled on
one called Dark Purpose, so she activates it, and apparently
the way she had described dark Purpose is it's similar
to donuts, why are you hitting yourself, which, when he says,
according to Lena, was basically the same thing. I was like, oh,
it's not, it's me. Nah. This is going to be horrific.
It's called a dread, it has the word dark in
the name. This is about to be really fucking sickenings.
And it is wild to me that Carl doesn't understand
that yet. I mean, are you sure, dude, that you
didn't see this coming anyway? This is when they everybody
stops and seems to get confused and more whispers, he
doesn't see me anymore, and that line also got me, guys,
and he just yanks his own eyeballs out and then
flips them around and sticks them back in the sockets.
And this is what they everybody starts to like rip
themselves apart. So in that she's like, it's like, stop
hitting yourself, okay, ma'am, Like she wants to level up,
and she knows Carl's not gonna use this if he
knows just how bad it's gonna be, you know, So
I get it, But also like, holy shit, And then
fucking the heads on the walls start to scream and groan.
The rugs too, were all suddenly alive. And I love
the Prepotente had been like her dread doesn't seem to
have done anything. And here he's like, I take it
back my heart. I gave you my heart. Please please
take it back. The blinded mork dug into his own chest.
He grasped, and with a sickening crack, ripped one of
his own ribs away. I'm so cold, he whispered. He
promised me I'd never be cold again. That is awful.
It's so and it's not even over yet. That's the
thing he dies, Carl gets quest complete. He has received
a celestial Boon level fifteen. He even scald received for
the the remainder of this floor. Any punch attack will
add the heathen skull kill damage, and we don't know
what that even means, because Carl doesn't have time to
check that out. But then Mark's ghost forms. That's when
the chains appeared. Ethereal white chains rose up all around
the prone form of the dead. NPC. No, the ghost
of Morc cried, surprising me. No, please, I've already died.
Isn't that enough? His words changed to screams as the
chains jumped like snakes, wrapped around him and pulled him
into the floor of the club. A puff of smoke
appeared where he'd been, and I felt a wave of
ice cold air on my legs. Fascinating, Prepotente said, did
you notice his lisp was gone when he turned into
a ghost. I love you so much, Prepotentie. I'm so sorry,
but I just love you so much. I absolutely cannot
So they're like dragged into the nothing. I'm assuming that's
where they're going. I don't even know. So then there's
this alarm shelter in place. Demon activity detected within the club,
and these chains keep appearing, dragging people down, and Carl
is likely not that spell wasn't what I expected, And
she says did it work? He doesn't answer, did you
know this is gonna happen? What was that? Are they
trapped somewhere? I ask again, Carl, did it work? And
he still doesn't answer. What the hell level was that?
I've never even heard of something like that? Dark Purpose
was level four when I cast it is not meant
to be used like this, and it leveled even more
rapidly than we anticipated. It hit level fifteen, and I
moved to a different dread. I am cycling my dreads
and rapidly leveling the mall right now, I am using
Defile Soul. Next, I will train Bleeding Horror. She was
using this as an opportunity to power level. It sounded
like she'd known this would happen. In the distance, more
screams filled the club. A translucent, on fire ghost of
a faery blew into the room and was skewered by
a chain before it was dragged sobbing into the ground.
I felt sick. I couldn't stop thinking of Mordecai's warning
not to do too much damage, and he asks, what
does this blood Dread do. I've never gotten it to
work before. But if someone with bloody hands gets near me, oh,
this is a different thing. If bloody hands gets near
me and I have the Dread active, it's supposed to
turn their blood against them, and then the blood would
turn on my enemies, which is wild. I need to train,
and I I can't give up this opportunity. When mantors
extend their claws, they bleed. That should be enough. When
the Dread trains high enough. It's already level five and rising.
You are marked as an ally. The blood won't hurt you.
But if the new guards have an aura protection, this
will be better because the blood already under my control
will still attack them. I suggest you use the Berserker
plan after bleeding Horror. I have one more to train
if I have time. Her simple, matter of fact, almost
emotionless delivery was chilling, chill washed over guys. It was
like she was a sociopath. She was always so calm.
How was it I'd never noticed this before? I don't know, Carl,
how is it that you never noticed this before? Like,
it's not just the spells because she's not responsible for
them exactly, but she chose a class that has the
kinds of spells that she has, and only a very
certain type of person is gonna do that. Everything about
her abilities involves as much pain and torment on her
opposition as you can imagine, and the more pain and torment,
the more it seems she levels up. So it was
apparent to me instantly upon meeting her that this bitch
was not okay. I thought we all knew that. I
thought we were all on the same page with this
Wena is terrifying, and not in a fun I am
kind of in love with her terrifying sort of way.
She's terrifying in a I'm super glad she's on our side,
but there may come appointmhen she's not. And when she's not,
she won't hesitate because she doesn't hesitate. That's like not
her thing. I really get the impression. I am a
team player for now until it doesn't serve me anymore,
and then I will have zero problem turning on you
because I don't really see us as friends were co
workers at best, and that is terrifying. I am not
even mad at her for that, to be clear, This
doesn't really affect whether I like her as a person
or not. It's like I don't like her, but it's
more because of the fact that she can utilize spells
that cause suffering explicitly, and that is something that is
important to me. All this scene is so upsetting, you know,
the way that everything happens to Mark, who is you know,
he's kind of annoying, but Jesus, and this is the
way all of her spells seem to like work. You know,
she's you can't even touch her without getting this horrible reaction.
I just I just thought we knew this already. It's
weird to me that Karl wasn't picking up on it.
Lena was always kind of scary to me, says Michael.
She became scary in all caps to me after this.
So the shit that was happening when it was level four,
I don't want to know what the shit does at fifteen. Indeed,
Natasha is too into it, she can't stop. I can relate.
I'm too into what ooh what is it? William Jones
says she picked a class that can't be touched exactly.
Rob says, I reread this section earlier this week to
see what the coverage would be on I finished the
book again. Elolo, I'm on fifty two. Wait am I?
Oh I read too far. I was worried about not
being able to finish, and I went too far? Are
you guys? Oh my god? The irony. Well, I will
say I got to the end of this one chapter,
so sorry about it. But yeah, this is the fact
that he didn't know. This, I just maintain is kind
of wild, and I feel like her being a sociopathic
might be part of the reason. She isn't blaming Carl
as much for what happened to Lee June's eye because
there isn't emotion wrapped up in what happened to him.
She understands in a very almost clinical, detached, like this
is just facts level, that it's not Carl's fault, and
she can really compartmentalize in a way that a lot
of people can't really do. I can be really good
about compartmentalizing, but I still will have emotion leak out
and it'll pop up in unexpected ways, and I'll be
very annoyed by it because I'll be like I thought,
we all agreed that XYZ was true, and my brain
will be like yeah, we did. But like this feeling
has its own ideas, but when you're really not dealing
in emotion, you can compartmentalize utterly. So I had been
sort of surprised that she wasn't blaming Carl, and now
I think I get why she might not be, you know,
Michael says, Or she's cold enough to bide her time
and wait for a chance to get revenge when it
is more convenient, or that behaving as if she's not upset.
Like again, it's hard because like the way I understand
sociopathy is like there you do not have emotion, or
the emotions that you have are very different, and you
feel separate from other people because you don't experience things
the same way. So I don't know well enough to know.
It may be that she's very territorial and you fucked
with one of her people, and now that's the thing,
you know. I don't know. But anyway, I since I'm
not supposed to be covering this chapter, I'm going to
stop here because I'm overtime. Anyway, I feel bad that
I overread, sorry about it because I wasn't supposed to
find out until next time that the Naga had set
a trap evidently, and I already know, but I do
kind of feel like it was a great ending point
for my little section that I read. So it's okay,
we will get there. Lean Nah, I'm like very interested
to see what else you can do, but I'm also
dreading it because it's always going to be something like this,
Like it's just the suffering that keeps being the way
this functions, you know who. Anyway, thank you guys all
for being here. It's very funny that I said at
the start, like and I might not finish, and you
guys know the drill. You didn't know the drill because
I didn't know the drill. Who knew? Sorry about.
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