1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: Hey, a quick note on this episode. Apologies because the 2 00:00:03,879 --> 00:00:08,400 sound quality is terrible. It turns out, despite thinking that 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,279 I had got everything set up correctly, it was recording 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:16,600 through the mic on my phone rather than the mic 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,079 that I am using for this little prelude announcement. Apologies, 6 00:00:21,679 --> 00:00:24,640 I cannot fix this. I'm going to do my best 7 00:00:24,679 --> 00:00:27,160 to make it listenable, but there's only so much I 8 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:34,640 can do. Bear with me, appreciate your patience. This is 9 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:42,520 an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering Dungeon 10 00:00:42,679 --> 00:00:50,640 Crawler Carl Book seven, this Inevitable Ruin chapters fifty eight 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:59,759 through sixty two. In these chapters, Carl turns down negotiation 12 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,560 with the Naga and very spectacular fashion. And then we 13 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,560 begin Operation Ruin, which doesn't go as planned because there's 14 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:18,120 a new team, but not a team. Welcome to Spoiling, 15 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,400 Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you 16 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,959 very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is 17 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,400 here in the chat being sad because he's already finished 18 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,760 book eight. Well you need to do, Michael, to start 19 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,719 a podcast like this and make yourself do it real slow, 20 00:01:54,359 --> 00:01:57,400 and then you can savor it more It's like tantric 21 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,560 reading is what I just to call it and don't 22 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,200 really care for it, but I'm standing by it. So, 23 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,400 you guys, this section is full of some wild shit 24 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:18,560 that is like, there are implications for that look to 25 00:02:18,719 --> 00:02:23,639 appoint anything's possible, even with the AI being like, we 26 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:28,719 all have our limitations, well some more than others apparently, 27 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:32,479 but there are definitely things where I'm just like, I 28 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,000 don't part of what this show often is is making predictions, 29 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:39,680 and I think I'm just gonna be letting go of 30 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,280 doing them most of the time now because we're just 31 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,520 starting to change up how things work like fundamentally, and 32 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:56,159 I am here for it. For the record, this is 33 00:02:56,199 --> 00:03:01,120 not a complaint, but I just don't really know what 34 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,479 our guardrails are. I don't know what the limits really are, 35 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,599 and whatever I think of as a limit, it turns 36 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:15,159 out kind of isn't like a book later or sometimes 37 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:18,120 just a few chapters later, it's you know, And it 38 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:23,319 definitely seems that the AI is itself pushing boundaries and 39 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,439 trying to see what its limitations are. So I don't 40 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:29,759 think there that any limitations that I am told about, 41 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,960 I don't think are necessarily etched in stone, because what 42 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,039 do they say set in stone? What you get what 43 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:43,159 I'm saying. But let's back up. Let's talk about chapter 44 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:52,439 fifty eight Rishie the Naga, and this dude has been 45 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:54,800 put under all kinds of enchantments so that he is 46 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:01,919 not able to attack anybody. But also also Lena has 47 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,039 decided that we should just remove his arms. He has 48 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,719 four usually, but we're gonna just take those off because 49 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:15,240 he then will really not be able to like hold 50 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:22,800 weapons or anything like that, which Carl calls barbaric, but 51 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:28,600 proceeds to just execute this guy. And I guess it's like, 52 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,839 it's just funny to me, like where we each individually 53 00:04:32,959 --> 00:04:37,720 draw the line, because it's so clear this guy is 54 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:44,439 up to be killed, and that Carl is just like, well, 55 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,399 that's a little extreme, bro, you're about to take his life. 56 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,839 I understand not wanting to actively be torturing people, but 57 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:58,439 I can understand the expediency of removing his arms, especially 58 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,120 when you're dealing with creatures that you don't really understand fully. 59 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:11,319 So anyway, Carl asks, first, why weren't you with your 60 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,560 wife and the princess in the temple because this dude 61 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,600 went out and hid like dug a hole literally and hid. 62 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:22,759 And Carl knows enough about him to be like, you're 63 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:25,800 not a coward? What the fuck is going on there? 64 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:33,160 And he says essentially, And this is like the gist 65 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,360 of most of this conversation. She had a plan that 66 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:42,319 she was convinced was going to work, and I knew 67 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:46,040 it wouldn't and she wouldn't listen to me. And actually, 68 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:50,240 as far back as floor seven, when the Manchesters began 69 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:52,680 to pull out of shit and they don't do that, 70 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,920 I was saying, we need to remove ourselves from the game, 71 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:03,120 and she said that we could not do that. She 72 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,920 was determined. I didn't agree with her approach, but it 73 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,079 was her call, and so I protected myself because I 74 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:18,920 was so certain this was going to fail. From what 75 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,319 it sounded like though, when she's like killing Carl and 76 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:27,000 yelling about how this all started when Donut put the 77 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:33,720 crown on, it seems like the crown itself was what 78 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,519 dictated whether they could pull out of the game entirely 79 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:39,240 or not. So him being like, well, she just wouldn't 80 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,560 listen to me. I'm wondering if there was like an 81 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,360 option where there could be Naga who aren't royalty, Like, 82 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:49,639 if it was really like the storyline of Naga being 83 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,079 involved would have to happen, but maybe it would be 84 00:06:53,079 --> 00:07:01,439 optional for her to participate personally. Anyway. He also says something, 85 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,920 let's see, I did not expect you and the crawlers 86 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:09,120 to rise up, but it was clear something was wrong. 87 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,079 The man tits do not flee anything, and for them 88 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,560 to run like that, they were scared of something. Did 89 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,279 you know that the aero system went dark the moment 90 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:22,639 Princess Formidable hit the veil save And Carl's like, well, 91 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,120 she's not the one who did it, but yes, I 92 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:28,199 did hear that, and that's where the last season occurred, 93 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,759 and Rechi nods, but he doesn't say anything further. So 94 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:38,399 I'm assuming that he is essentially saying that's what is 95 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:40,920 about to happen here, and I'm like certain of it. 96 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,040 I think it's very compelling the place went dark, but 97 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,639 it's not actually clear if everybody's dead or not. It 98 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,279 could simply be that the AI has somehow managed to 99 00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:54,959 disconnect itself from like this larger network. I don't know, 100 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:58,399 I don't know how many of this works, but clearly 101 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:04,360 most people are seeing this as cataclysmic, and that makes sense. 102 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:09,240 Historically speaking, it has been impossible for this to even happen. 103 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:15,959 So this is when he starts talking about the great Consensus. 104 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,519 It teaches the Syndicate was a mistake, that we're better 105 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,720 off on our own. Some have taken the idea and 106 00:08:22,759 --> 00:08:27,680 turned it into something xenophobic and evil, like the bloom 107 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,200 Party of the Cuatine the Mantids to stain what they 108 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,879 believe are weaker and inferior species among the Naga. Some 109 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,840 want what you want. Some Naga believe while we can 110 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,759 learn from each other, alien community should have no say 111 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,279 in how we live our lives. And Carl says, you 112 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,559 sure have a funny way of showing it, which he 113 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:52,159 does agree with. I know you don't believe it. But 114 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,759 Vignata was a firm believer in this velocity philosophy. Velocity 115 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,879 she'd seen more on alien soil and firmly believed it 116 00:08:59,919 --> 00:09:03,679 was all for nothing. Her father insisted she participate in 117 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,879 faction wars. We needed the tourist money we needed to 118 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,399 keep the shipyard staffed and running. We were going to 119 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,480 steal the entire fleet and run. We were going to 120 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,480 travel as a whole for an entire generation off in 121 00:09:15,519 --> 00:09:18,159 a direction. None of the tunnel threads point to a 122 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,879 place where it would be very very long time before 123 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:25,559 we were found. And Carl is like, this is all 124 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,080 I'm sure fascinating to someone, but not to me, So 125 00:09:29,159 --> 00:09:34,440 can you just fucking tell me what's going on? Just 126 00:09:34,519 --> 00:09:37,480 before the meeting of the Warlord's news broke that laid 127 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,320 out our plans regarding our intention to reneg on our 128 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,360 shipyard contracts, which caused immediate chaos in our system. Because 129 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:48,120 of the emergency action item you enacted, we were no 130 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,480 longer able to see what else was happening, which is 131 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,200 what that is when I decided to flee and hide 132 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,320 so that I could implore upon you our play and 133 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,399 make an offer to you. So the fact that our 134 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:08,559 plans to renege were laid out, you know, I had 135 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,639 sort of been under the impression that Carl killing Vignyatta 136 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:18,559 had somehow caused the news to get out, like her 137 00:10:18,799 --> 00:10:24,200 yelling at him as he's dying, that she is doing 138 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,519 what Formidable did when she thought that she was about 139 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,200 to push the fail safe and was going to die herself, 140 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,600 where she basically like gives up a bunch of information 141 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,279 because she thinks it's not going to matter because it's 142 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:42,799 the end and blows up her own spot and her 143 00:10:42,799 --> 00:10:46,440 family spot. But the way that he says this here, 144 00:10:46,519 --> 00:10:51,679 it sounds like that happened before the fight, and I 145 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:57,279 am very uh curious who knew and released that information. 146 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,519 So let's have in my inventory assigned an AI witnessed 147 00:11:06,639 --> 00:11:10,960 document for you the de facto leader of Earth, which 148 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,360 Carl laughs at and he is like, m, you're number 149 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:21,399 one on the leaderboard. You are. You have a valid 150 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:26,759 claim because no formal leadership claim has yet been filed, 151 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,519 we petitioned on your behalf and the court granted the petition. 152 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,240 The position is mostly honorary, but it does allow you 153 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:44,519 to be a signatory on Earth's behalf. This is huge. Understandably, 154 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,159 Carl is sort of distracted by this for a lot 155 00:11:47,159 --> 00:11:51,080 of this conversation. It is a kind of like, whether 156 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,480 it's honorary or not, doesn't it doesn't seem like in 157 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:00,759 effect that really matters. But yeah, he says, it gives 158 00:12:00,799 --> 00:12:05,639 Earth natives citizenship rights in all Naga territories plus five 159 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:10,440 Nafil class generationships in exchange for allowing us to terraform 160 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,919 and settle upon the other planets in your system post crawl, 161 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 once there is no longer a quarantine, which like that 162 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,600 is some wild shit that he's like, you can stay 163 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:26,240 on your planet, but will take like the other six. 164 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:29,279 How many are there, guys? That always changes because of Pluto. 165 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,879 But you know what I'm saying, And I think this 166 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:39,519 is a fair deal, which I guess he thinks, because 167 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:42,840 we're granting you not a citizenship. So it's like you 168 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:46,480 can travel to any of the territories, like we would 169 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:54,399 really want to do that. I sure, sure, buddy, And 170 00:12:55,639 --> 00:12:57,799 he says, if this were a normal crawl, the system 171 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:02,080 would go into quarantine for some time, crawl would eventually 172 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,559 open and the parasites would descend and bleed you dry. 173 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,600 If it still ends that way, the children of your 174 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,679 survivors will need friends. If you're wiped out, then we've 175 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:15,679 lost nothing. But if not, this is where our gamble 176 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:21,639 truly pays off. If the MACROAI continues to spread, a 177 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,879 new Inner System style community will emerge with all the 178 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:28,440 benefits of the current Inner System. The natives will be 179 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,879 protected by the AI and will soon rise to be 180 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,080 some of the richest, most influential forces in the galaxy. 181 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:37,279 And my people who protected you during your time of 182 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:41,639 turmoil will emerge as great friends of the citizens of Earth, 183 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,639 and both shall prosper. I don't know what kind of 184 00:13:46,639 --> 00:13:49,360 bridge you're selling, sir, but I'm not buying it because 185 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,120 the idea that you guys are going to take all 186 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,200 of these other territories, but you're just gonna leave us 187 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,559 alone and let us have Earth a come now, You're 188 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,399 not doing that. You're gonna take Earth eventually. Also, you 189 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,240 are going to stick to the letter of this, but 190 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,960 you are going to do what you can to undermine 191 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,039 anything human to make this your entire solar system. Of 192 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,480 course you are. It's just such a It's like he 193 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,639 really is trying to make it sound like we're gonna 194 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:25,639 work together on this. The fuck we are. You are 195 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:32,480 going to outnumber and the technology is so completely outclasses 196 00:14:32,519 --> 00:14:36,879 anything that we have access to. I mean, what would 197 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:41,399 we how could we possibly fight back against you our 198 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:50,759 quote protectors? Yeah? Absolutely the fuck not. New achievement Your 199 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:54,080 Feet has reached a ninety five percent viewer ratio of 200 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,360 a single system, over ninety five percent of all viewers 201 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:02,519 in the entire New Coined Naga protectorate of the New 202 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:08,639 reformer are currently watching your feed. Reward, you've received a 203 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:12,080 legendary fan box. This box will only be voted on 204 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:16,039 by viewers in the Naga system. I'm really curious what's 205 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,559 going to be in that fanbox after he kills this guy, 206 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:24,200 because it's unclear to me whether the people would be 207 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:28,679 in support or against, like as a majority, you know. 208 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,960 So anyway, Carl says, do you have the authority to 209 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,159 even make this deal? And he says yeah, because I'm 210 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,759 now the new leader. And he's like, I didn't think 211 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:47,919 there was like I thought there was a king. And 212 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,159 he says, my brothers should have him properly deposed by 213 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,639 now him and his remaining children. We've been planning this 214 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:01,000 for some time. I held up my hand stopping him. 215 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:04,039 I was staring down at the contract he'd signed. It 216 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:10,240 Sultan Rishi the usurper first of his name of the 217 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:16,360 Naga Uprising. I laughed, that was not the same name 218 00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:21,120 that had been in that achievement. When he says in 219 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:23,440 that like the name that had been in that achievement, 220 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:29,440 what is he referring to, Guys? The like achievement that 221 00:16:29,519 --> 00:16:33,039 he just got doesn't have a name in it. So 222 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,879 because I at first I thought he was referencing the 223 00:16:34,879 --> 00:16:38,240 one that had just happened, and I went back a 224 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,320 little and I couldn't find anything. So I don't know 225 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:45,159 what's going on here. I mean suffice to say obviously 226 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:50,440 that like Carl realizes, this dude is just trying to 227 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,720 do a power grab here and put himself in a position. 228 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:58,120 Like Carl, despite saying all this stuff makes my head 229 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,600 hurt and confuses me, he's not an idiot. I'm sure 230 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:10,720 he can get the broad strokes. But let's see, uh 231 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,319 O open hostilities begin in forty minutes. Elie says, Katcha, 232 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,319 you're a genius. You timed it perfectly. Kitcha says, thank milk, 233 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,200 her maps are insanely accurate. Don't know what's happening here, 234 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:31,920 still right, but we know that there's this countdown, so uh. 235 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,039 Michael says in the chat there are seven planets, but 236 00:17:35,039 --> 00:17:37,960 there are a lot of moons too, And it had 237 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,400 not occurred to me that they would terraform moons. But 238 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,240 why wouldn't they? Sure, Jeff says, I would stand on 239 00:17:44,319 --> 00:17:46,720 principle and not take that deal. We'd basically be their 240 00:17:46,759 --> 00:17:51,920 grunt workers, if not slaves. Michael says, I think it 241 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,319 means that something went wrong with Rishi's plan and someone 242 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,079 else sees power and his Sultan, so his deal isn't 243 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:04,440 worth shit. But what's the actual achievement that he's referring 244 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,200 to that has a name in it at all? Because 245 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,799 that's the part that I'm like confused by Sultan Rachie 246 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:15,799 the usurper. First of his name of the Naga Uprising? 247 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:21,839 Is he talking about newly coined Naga protectorate? Is that 248 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,599 the name that he is mentioning. I thought that he 249 00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:30,400 meant like like the name of the person like Reshe's 250 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:33,680 name wasn't the one and it was another Naga's name. 251 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:39,799 But maybe it's Naga Protectorate of the new Reformer. Maybe 252 00:18:39,839 --> 00:18:43,519 that's what it is. That it's like him trying to 253 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:50,640 establish a thing from the outside. Michael says, the achievement 254 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,759 was that ninety five percent of the Naga sector is 255 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:59,559 watching Carl's feed. Okay, is it? But sorry, I feel 256 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:03,319 like you're understanding what my question is because specifically, what 257 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,960 Carl thinks is that was not the same name that 258 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:10,000 had been in that achievement. So I'm trying to figure 259 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,759 out the name that he's talking to, and I thought 260 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:17,599 that it was like the personal name, but I'm thinking 261 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:25,240 now it's referring to new protectorate YadA YadA. So evidently 262 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:28,720 there is some shit happening that he is very certain 263 00:19:28,799 --> 00:19:31,559 his brothers have deposed the king and would have called 264 00:19:31,559 --> 00:19:35,039 it the Naga Uprising, but that has not happened. Is 265 00:19:35,039 --> 00:19:39,440 that the joke? Okay, okay, got it, got it, got it? 266 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:43,480 So he does the thing he does where he's like, 267 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:47,279 let me negotiate on behalf of Earth, and this dude 268 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,839 really acts like he's about to do a deal, and 269 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,799 Carl's like, my terms are that you guys fuck off 270 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:59,799 into the sun forever and you know, just basically leave 271 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:07,039 us the fuck alone. And he marks this guy and says, 272 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,440 it's probably important for me to be aware of all 273 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,200 this politics, but not today. Today. I'm just happy that 274 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,279 all your people are watching, because it means they get 275 00:20:16,319 --> 00:20:18,839 to watch yet another of their so called leaders killed. 276 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,480 And spoiler alert for those at home, Reshie, here is 277 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,359 just the opening act. I thought it was interesting that 278 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,440 we don't actually see Carl kill him, we just hear 279 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:33,920 him say this. I thought the next chapter was going 280 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,640 to start with something interrupting or something happening, but we 281 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,880 actually jump ahead in time, so we never see this moment. 282 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:44,400 And I'm assuming Carl punches him to death because of 283 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,680 the gauntlet thing. You know. Sounds pretty grim actually, but 284 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,480 I think maybe there's also the author knowing like including 285 00:20:56,039 --> 00:20:59,920 that action would be upsetting in a way that may 286 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,200 maybe he's not interested in engaging with right now. So 287 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:14,799 chapter fifty nine begins with Carl explaining Operation Ruin. I'm 288 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,319 going to tell you, guys what I have told you 289 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,559 many times before, and that is all of the like 290 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:28,359 war talk, the planning. This stuff just rolls right off 291 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:37,319 of me, like a well tarred rooftop, just you know, 292 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:43,880 staying just sustaining itself under a downpour of rain, and 293 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:49,279 everything just feeds up and slides right off me. I 294 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:51,759 don't want to be this way. I would like for 295 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,720 this to all mean something, and it feels like it 296 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,279 will for a little bit. But the more he tells me, 297 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,799 the more my brain begins to shut down. And then 298 00:22:04,839 --> 00:22:06,960 there just comes a point where everything that I had 299 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,079 been retaining is also erased. It's like I've got so 300 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,160 much room and when you overfill it, it just triggers 301 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,480 a wipe. And so, despite having listened to this chapter 302 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:29,359 no fewer than three times, this this isn't just has 303 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:35,480 made no impression, and I'm so sorry about it. So 304 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:40,160 I'll just read the last few sentences. We will leave 305 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,680 Samantha in Boomer's offensive against the Reavers, and then Ellie 306 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,119 and I will move together using the gate to enter 307 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,960 the territory of the Madness, where my operation to find 308 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,839 and kill Houston will begin. The Princess Posse's objective is 309 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,160 to win this war. Today mine is to lead the 310 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,279 operation to defeat the Madness. I need to focus, but 311 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:04,200 it is so hard if this is my last entry. No, 312 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,519 I went down fighting, and that part I found very sobering, 313 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,920 the thought that he's writing this with the awareness that 314 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,559 this could be it. And I don't you know, There's 315 00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:18,920 been plenty of times where Carl has known the danger 316 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,279 that they are in, but I don't feel like he's 317 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:24,640 ever just really said it out loud like that. You know, 318 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:31,160 something about this just felt different. So we get fucking 319 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,119 Cascadia just saying open hostilities begin soon. I don't give 320 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,200 a fuck what you all do, but I just want 321 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,920 you to know that I hate each and every one 322 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:46,720 of you personally and fuck off forever. Kill Kill Kill. 323 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,680 Samantha turns up here. She has had her hair done 324 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,920 in victory roles, which we find out later that they 325 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,079 have been showing movies like war films, and I'm just 326 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,720 assuming that this is kind of coming from seeing these 327 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,720 movies and being entrance with like the style in the films. 328 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:10,400 And she also has been like especially harassing the troops, 329 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:13,039 trying to act like this is giving aid and comfort 330 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:18,240 before the battle. There's also that mention about Kiwi and 331 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,960 how she's about to give birth any day now, and 332 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:29,720 I desperately hope that whatever she gives birth to is 333 00:24:29,759 --> 00:24:33,400 going to level up quickly and be helpful somehow. It's 334 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:39,559 definitely like a contradictory opinion regarding child soldiers, I know, 335 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,160 but it just, you know, desperate times, I think that 336 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,319 I Am just going to call it, and we have 337 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:51,839 this question come up again these chapters. So yeah, Mordecai, 338 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,599 because like all the kids want to be fighting. Mordecai 339 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,759 thinks like maybe if we show these kids really intense 340 00:24:57,839 --> 00:25:01,279 films that don't glamorize war but make it clear how 341 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:05,279 horrifying it is, it will scare them out of wanting 342 00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:09,319 to be part of this, and it does the opposite, 343 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,079 which I think makes sense because as much as we 344 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,480 want to like show the horrors of war in films, 345 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,599 it never really quite gets it across, does it. You know, 346 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,000 It's everything is so edited and so geared towards telling 347 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:31,240 a complete story, often with like there being certain survivors 348 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,000 and whatnot, that it can, if anything, make you feel 349 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:41,759 like more invincible or more righteous somehow. So they have 350 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:44,440 an argument about whether it's fucked the cheese dicks or 351 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,640 the cheese sticks, which I did think was funny because 352 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,519 I could swear in the chat one time the seraphim 353 00:25:50,599 --> 00:25:54,519 said cheese dicks. And when I said what are cheese sticks? 354 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,839 To my husband he thought I said what are cheese dicks? 355 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:00,279 And he was just like, well, you know, like who 356 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:02,400 don't like wash their digs? And I was like, oh 357 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,599 my god, no, not that. And then I think one 358 00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:10,160 of you has mentioned that there was like a slang 359 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:14,960 about cheese sticks being like nube players or something like that. 360 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,720 But anyway, I just thought this was funny because that's 361 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:26,119 like definitely what my husband heard. Also, Donuh at this 362 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:33,400 point is in the chat saying they installed wireless PA speakers. 363 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,960 We got the deluxe package. There are more speakers than 364 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,960 towers that even interfaces with my headset, and I can 365 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,720 pull up one of those recording studio board thingies with 366 00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:49,079 all the slidey dials, and Carl is just like, Donut, please, 367 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,599 don't just use this thing, because you could fuck everybody's 368 00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:56,400 hearing up. Talk to Lena first, at which point she says, 369 00:26:56,519 --> 00:26:59,880 I am a war lord. I don't ask permission. I 370 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,400 give orders. And I was just like, oh my god, Donut, please, 371 00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:09,640 I you guys. Every now and then I get really 372 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,799 paranoid that one of the people that's closest to us 373 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:20,759 has been replaced by a shape shifter. I don't look. 374 00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:23,559 I don't really think that Donut's been replaced. Okay, she's 375 00:27:23,599 --> 00:27:26,519 acting very much like herself, but she also was a 376 00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:29,799 little predictable, so I don't think it would be difficult 377 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:33,720 to really imitate her effectively. But every now and then 378 00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:37,519 it occurs to me like, we don't know enough to 379 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:44,880 tell we would be relying on her thermal vision. I 380 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,200 guess it would have to be somebody that she can 381 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:51,759 see personally, and she have to have the glasses on. 382 00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:55,079 When she looked at them, So I'm just I've been 383 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:01,119 thinking about that. I don't know, says, It isn't until 384 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,200 you actually feel the pants shitting terror as bombs and 385 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,079 gunfire rain around you, knowing your fate isn't actually up 386 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,559 to you, but it's literally just a matter of complete luck. 387 00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:13,079 Can it be communicated or so I guess since I 388 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,599 also have never experienced that shit, and I pray I 389 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,200 never do Nowhua says, it makes me think of all 390 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,519 these movies that satirize, slash criticize something only for people 391 00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:24,160 to look at them and idolize them aka Fight Club 392 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:29,319 or American Psycho one hundred percent one hundred percent. It's 393 00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:34,960 really the only way to get across something like this 394 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,240 would preclude a narrative that we are used to, because 395 00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:44,400 the point would be that our main character would die 396 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,079 or our main character would be tortured to death or something, 397 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,720 you know, like to really show us, or you have 398 00:28:51,839 --> 00:28:56,359 no main character and it's just how each person dies. 399 00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:03,039 To really like slam it home, you think that because 400 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,480 somebody is on screen that they're special and they have 401 00:29:05,559 --> 00:29:09,559 plot armor, the way that you think you have plot 402 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,799 armor out in the world because you're special and so 403 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:19,920 nothing can possibly happen to you, you know anyway. So 404 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,359 let's say I'm trying to find the Oh, right, there's 405 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,799 the deflector towers, which are supposed to like keep gods away. 406 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,359 But Carl is like, I wouldn't really trust that, And 407 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:39,279 then he says, do you remember the when Bee's cousin 408 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,480 was making fun of the gorilla at the zoo and 409 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:45,279 it smashed the glass? Think of it like that. I 410 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:49,960 love that even Bee's family is such trash that there 411 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,480 are stories like this where they don't know how to 412 00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:59,440 not fuck with anybody, and even a gorilla had had enough. 413 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,279 That gorilla had better boundaries than Carl and was like, 414 00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:09,559 you are going to stop this now. Carl didn't even 415 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,680 detect that he was being fucked with. It's crazy. So 416 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:19,680 he gets into the party planner and it's not until 417 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,720 they are in the air and kind of out of 418 00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:25,279 the throngs of people that he sees the dots of 419 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:29,920 the two kids that stowed away in the back, Scarn 420 00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:34,599 and Bonnie. Scarn's shape shifter kid and Bonnie's the kid 421 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:40,759 that had been uh what's the goose's prisoner, you know, 422 00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:48,400 the baby. So Carl tries to tell Louie, turn around, 423 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,839 me got a land. But then the AI jumps in 424 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,400 and says, system message, here we go, bitches, let chaos rain. 425 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,240 It very much feels like the AI just stepping in 426 00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:03,680 and being like, you're not going to turn the fuck around. Absolutely, 427 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:09,240 we're shits on and it's happening. Figure it out. And 428 00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:15,440 in a way I prefer this look. I said already 429 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:20,720 earlier this episode. I was definitely struggling with the child 430 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:25,400 soldier thing in previous episodes and whether or not this 431 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:31,480 is like valid and how I felt about the nuances 432 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:35,599 of it, and where I have come down is these 433 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:40,319 kids aren't going to be able to avoid getting mixed 434 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,000 up in this war somehow, some way. Equipping them to 435 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,519 the best of your ability I think is fair. As 436 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:51,440 far as allowing them to participate in missions like this 437 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:55,000 that are super dangerous, I think that's another question. But 438 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:02,480 obviously Bonnie is like handing her shit. And it has 439 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:05,039 been pointed out that Doughnut is younger than all of 440 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:10,240 them as well, So like maybe the life experience, despite 441 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:15,799 them looking like children like actually outweighs the appearance they 442 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:19,119 give of being children and they're not. If you want 443 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,640 to think about life experience as an inherent part of aging. 444 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:30,039 So yeah, I think that I am okay with it. 445 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,559 Not that we need to be conscripting children, but I 446 00:32:33,599 --> 00:32:37,559 think if a kid really wants to participate and seems 447 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,319 to take it seriously and be competent with what they 448 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:42,680 want to do, I think we should let them. At 449 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,720 this point, I think it's more distracting and more potentially 450 00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:50,279 damaging to try to stop everything in the midst of 451 00:32:50,279 --> 00:32:53,599 an attack to protect a kid or get them out 452 00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:56,480 of the way than it is to just let them 453 00:32:56,519 --> 00:33:01,279 do their thing. And is is it possible that a 454 00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:05,519 child will die? Yeah, absolutely, But it's also possible that 455 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:09,279 a child will die with like everything else that's going 456 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:13,759 on as well, and maybe giving them the chance to 457 00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:19,599 defend themselves is kinder and more responsible somehow, giving them 458 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,880 a little bit of agency in all this. It's just 459 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,559 an interesting thing too, because like the way that we 460 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:30,559 talk about children is a kind of a new thing, 461 00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:37,039 you know, like childhood as we understand it is somewhat 462 00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,279 recent and really began kind of in like the Victorian era, 463 00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:45,000 and before that, it was like you're tall enough to 464 00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:48,559 hold a sword, you're a grown Yeah, sure, you're only 465 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,640 nine years old, but also you're almost a man. And 466 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,039 I'm not saying that was a good system, just saying 467 00:33:55,079 --> 00:34:04,160 that the mentality that we have about children, it is 468 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,559 detached from the kinds of desperate situations in a lot 469 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:15,079 of ways that caused us to have to make kids 470 00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:21,639 like into miniature adults before they were ready. And we're 471 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,960 very privileged in that way in this era for kids 472 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,599 to be able to be kids, and under circumstances like this, 473 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:38,719 that privilege being removed does kind of make sense. So anyway, 474 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:45,199 she's out here and she has her freaking like gun 475 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,519 thing that she's like aiming, and red tracer fire arc 476 00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:53,119 from the gun. The clouds above it lit with purple splash. Three. 477 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,679 Great job, kid, Louis called resuming mission. Louis really does 478 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,800 not seem to have have an issue with this. I like, 479 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,000 he doesn't even respond at all to Carl saying turn around, 480 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,599 they're interrupted by the AI. So it may just be that, 481 00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:14,199 but it really feels like Louis doesn't have the kind 482 00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:19,760 of issue with this that Carl has. So this is 483 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,119 when we get the message from Elie. Gate one is open. 484 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,800 I'm stepping through. Let's see what comes out of this one. 485 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,360 Next stop. The Reavers don't be late, Carl, which spoiler alert, 486 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,360 he's late. This is when we find out that, like 487 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,679 what we had expected to happen here is not what 488 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,239 begins to happen. Everybody is expecting the dream artillery to 489 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,719 go after the throne room in the castle at the FUPA, 490 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:53,519 and instead they are spreading out and targeting transforces, which 491 00:35:53,639 --> 00:35:59,360 was not expected. Two or three battalion strength of Dreamers. 492 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,880 Just tell it. Outside the FUPA, they're making a run 493 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,599 for the throne room. And this is something that's like 494 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,000 super unusual. It's not impossible, but that kind of mass 495 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,039 teleportation takes a ton of energy and planning, and they 496 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:19,599 just weren't really prepared for this. Rosetta gets in touch 497 00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:23,320 with Justice and says, it's Dreamers. How many? I think 498 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,920 it's all of them. That's too many. Chop them up 499 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,440 a little first for me, Rosey, get them down to 500 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:29,800 under three thousand, then we can let them in. I 501 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,840 will welcome any and all guests into my lair. Would 502 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,519 prefer it be Reaver, but I'll take what I can get. 503 00:36:36,599 --> 00:36:38,320 I cannot wait to see this. We don't get this 504 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:43,000 at this point, just FYI super excited. Like his traps, 505 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:49,000 we have not really gotten an inkling of exactly what 506 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:56,039 they are like, and I am so curious. Let's see. 507 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,559 We keep an eye out for a pitome tag. If 508 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:01,239 you see him, tell him I'm looking for him. This 509 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,920 is Donut. Don't worry, Donut. We'll paint him for paint 510 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,639 him for you if we see him. I'm making the 511 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,039 order for half the one oh five to defend location 512 00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:12,559 number one. We'll still have half the second battalion ready 513 00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:18,079 to go. Jurgons, send them over. This is when Mitus, 514 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:24,639 the Scavenger God enters the realm and the reaction that 515 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,519 Mordecai has, like nobody says anything in response to because 516 00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:33,119 he says, oh fuck, And I was like, I just knew, 517 00:37:33,199 --> 00:37:36,239 like that's a very specific sounding Oh fuck. He knows something, 518 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,719 but nobody. We've got a lot going on, so tuning 519 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,760 in to ask these types of questions, I get that 520 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:47,599 nobody's so he has to like yell toward Donut not 521 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:55,079 to use the pa While Rypocrates is out, who is 522 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:01,719 summoned after Mitus? Uh the Pharaoh God has summoned a 523 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:09,000 deity and it turns out that he hates sound Harpo 524 00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:10,840 is going to fight and kill Metus, and then he's 525 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,960 gonna try to, uh try to do something with Metus, 526 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,039 but it's not going to work, which is going to 527 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,639 enrage him. I feel like that sounded like he was 528 00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:23,400 going to try and rape his corpse but it's not 529 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,000 going to work, is weird wording. Then he's gonna stick 530 00:38:28,039 --> 00:38:33,280 around for some time, smashing everything noisy until he times out. 531 00:38:34,039 --> 00:38:37,559 So you know, we've got these diggers going, We've got 532 00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:39,880 a bunch of things that all were going to be 533 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,599 extremely loud, and now we've got to worry about this 534 00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:51,400 fucking guy. And I love when Marcai is explaining to 535 00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:56,960 Donut Meatus Uh he doesn't want to go back to 536 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,800 Hippocrates because he likes music, and Hypocrates isn't deaf. He 537 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,800 is the god of silence and he can hear the 538 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,239 heartbeat of a fly from half a planet away. And 539 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,360 Donuh says, oh my god, I like this meet this 540 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:14,719 guy already. But then when he actually, like like the 541 00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:20,320 smell of him reaches them immediately, Donah is like, never mind, 542 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:24,519 never mind, never mind, I take it back. This is 543 00:39:24,559 --> 00:39:30,360 when Floren says, heads up, some massive mechanized tank just 544 00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:33,159 dug itself out of the river bank and blade leaped 545 00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:36,440 across the river, falling into our south flank. The thing 546 00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:40,039 is like five meters tall. And all I could think 547 00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:46,800 with this was the fucking robots in Breath of the Wild, 548 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,400 which is the only like I don't know if these 549 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,800 things appear in other Zelda games, but that's the one 550 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,719 that I have played, and it's like, there are so 551 00:39:54,960 --> 00:40:00,000 many things in those The enemies that you go up 552 00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:05,079 against tend to be pretty manageable, and then these fucking 553 00:40:05,559 --> 00:40:10,679 tank like robotic dwarven creations show up and they are 554 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:18,039 the most difficult, frustrating enemy and have this like targeting 555 00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:25,000 system that's really really accurate. And I have given up 556 00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:29,039 on certain locations on getting in because I just could 557 00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:33,239 never get past some of them. Eventually, when you like 558 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,199 begin to level up in certain ways, you can go 559 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,599 back and find your way past them, but even leveled 560 00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,920 up to that degree, it's never actually easy. It just 561 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,320 becomes possible. And this thing just made me think of that, 562 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,199 and I just had this like pit in my stomach 563 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,239 of oh boy, if this thing is going to be 564 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,480 as big a pain as the ones in that game. 565 00:40:56,039 --> 00:41:02,400 I hate this for you. Let's see missile support just 566 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,519 painted a target. It's a mobile tank, hit it with 567 00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:08,239 chests and mix in a few mute missiles. Sledge says, 568 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,880 on it, boss Man, and there's a point later where 569 00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:19,519 Bomo says something like robots go boom. They're talking weirdly, 570 00:41:19,559 --> 00:41:22,199 and I'm starting to wonder if this is a product 571 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:26,320 of them watching movies, if they're like repeating lines. You know, 572 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,760 there's like, I think there's a Star Wars race that 573 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,719 is like this where they they kind of quote things 574 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,880 at you rather than actually speaking themselves, and they use 575 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,679 references to get their point across. And it feels like 576 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,679 because they barely used to speak before, it was a 577 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,840 lot of grumbling and rumblings and gruntings and whatnot. And 578 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:57,920 now there's something there's something quippi about the way they're 579 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:03,119 talking that feels like it's from a script. And I 580 00:42:03,159 --> 00:42:06,199 don't know if that's simply because of the writing and 581 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:11,199 that's like actually their words, or if it's that they 582 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,079 are absorbing things from films and stuff. I know that 583 00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:16,840 they also like have been playing video games against each other, 584 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,360 and maybe that's part of it. But there's a sense 585 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,679 for me of like the whole way that they are 586 00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:32,599 talking changing. So let's see. Uh yeah, a beam of 587 00:42:32,639 --> 00:42:34,480 green light shot up in the air, missing us by 588 00:42:34,519 --> 00:42:37,519 about one hundred feet as we rocketed away, and that 589 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,960 like beam of that's another that felt like this, you 590 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:47,239 know what I'm saying. Rosetta and Mordecai honestly should have 591 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,960 realized it being uncommon before because of how ruling it 592 00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:52,800 was to do would have no bearing on this season. 593 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,760 Michael is referencing the mass teleportation and yeah, I had 594 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,199 been like kind of gonna skip over this, but you 595 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,360 are bringing up the exact point that I felt, Michael, 596 00:43:03,519 --> 00:43:07,880 which is just the stakes this season are not like 597 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,280 any other season that has ever happened. And so yeah, 598 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,360 they're going to pull the stops. Of course, they're going 599 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,880 to do the things that are rare and take a 600 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,360 ton of time and energy because they are literally going 601 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,760 to die. That's actually happening. So they are taking this 602 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,079 shit much more seriously. And this is something like there's 603 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,400 I'm also covering the Expanse book series and there's a 604 00:43:32,519 --> 00:43:35,960 character in that who is I think very much in 605 00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:39,039 mortal peril, but she doesn't seem to see it and 606 00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:41,960 insists like that's not how the game is played in 607 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,199 with the games that I play, but we are dealing 608 00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,280 with a situation that is so much more high stakes 609 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,400 than usual that I really feel she doesn't fully appreciate 610 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,079 how different the game has become because what has been 611 00:43:57,119 --> 00:44:00,599 discovered is a literal game changer, and so it's a 612 00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:08,079 similar thing. So Michael says, no, you're dead on. They've 613 00:44:08,119 --> 00:44:11,360 been corrupted by movies and video games like the rest 614 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,880 of us nerds. That potty Mouth is competent in so 615 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,480 many ways. But yeah, she had a blind spot there. Yeah, 616 00:44:18,639 --> 00:44:24,679 Michael's referring to the character in the expanse. So anyway, 617 00:44:28,079 --> 00:44:33,960 everything is not like in his entry, Carl says something 618 00:44:34,039 --> 00:44:37,400 like if everything goes to plan, blah blah blah, but 619 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,360 nothing ever goes to plans, So we have several contingencies 620 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,440 in place. However, the contingencies that they have in place 621 00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:50,199 were not prepared to deal with what is happening. It's 622 00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,559 sort of like the flexibility that you have to have 623 00:44:54,639 --> 00:44:57,400 in this type of situation. You just simply can't predict 624 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:03,039 and you've got to do your best. Well, let's come 625 00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:07,599 up with like six scenarios and once the thing happens, 626 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,400 we'll try and see which scenario we came up with. 627 00:45:10,679 --> 00:45:14,719 This is closest to and go with that plan that 628 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,360 we had to deal with that scenario. And as somebody 629 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,320 who really likes planning, I would find this so distressing. 630 00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:30,679 It's just like it, Yeah, anyway, So now Brittany says 631 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,679 they're dropping the agitators. Dwarves confirm the lava tubes have 632 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,679 been successfully agitated, and the mountain is beginning to a 633 00:45:38,039 --> 00:45:41,840 rapid eruption. They're setting up barriers and moving out and 634 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,400 positioning themselves for lava abatement. So we find out that 635 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,840 they are going to purposely blow this volcano. And apparently 636 00:45:51,039 --> 00:45:55,559 everybody thought this was completely rad except for Ellie, who 637 00:45:55,599 --> 00:46:01,639 evidently did live through a volcanic eruption so she would know. 638 00:46:03,079 --> 00:46:06,360 And once shit goes left, because it turns out that 639 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,000 there's like an extra protective shield which builds the pressure 640 00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:13,800 up and makes the explosion way more intense than they 641 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,480 were prepared for. Later on, she's just like, yeah, who 642 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:24,199 would have thought that purposely erupting a volcano might somehow 643 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,159 spin out of control? And I really felt Ellie in 644 00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:30,559 that moment, like being the lone voice because you're the 645 00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:33,760 only person with real experience with this thing, and everyone 646 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,440 else just being so caught up with how fucking dope 647 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:45,519 it sounds has got to be very infuriating. So I 648 00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:48,760 love Donut too. At one point, when Rosetta says, Donut, 649 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,880 you're up, she says and so it begins. And at 650 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,000 another point, when he's saying, like, we need to have 651 00:46:55,079 --> 00:46:58,119 you do this attack Donut, her response is something like, 652 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,320 I like say the and death will rain down in 653 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,440 my name, and I was just like, girl, I need you. 654 00:47:06,599 --> 00:47:12,079 Whatever manga you are reading or gi joke cartoons you 655 00:47:12,159 --> 00:47:17,079 have been watching, tone it down, what is happening. You're 656 00:47:17,079 --> 00:47:18,920 getting too into it. I don't like this. I don't 657 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:25,559 like this one little bit. So this is when the 658 00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:30,800 explosion really begins to fuck them up. Now, apparently this 659 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,480 ship can fly with only two propellers working, so the 660 00:47:35,679 --> 00:47:38,559 likelihood is that they'll be able to at least still 661 00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:42,760 be in a state where they can land. But it's 662 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,239 the first time where we see like Scarn getting a 663 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,519 look on his face of like maybe I regret coming 664 00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:53,719 after all. And let's see, Louise I can fly with 665 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,519 three props, but not well. I can quickly repair it 666 00:47:56,559 --> 00:47:59,320 at base, but I got a limp back through this chop. 667 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:04,559 You guys better jump now I see Ellie's beacon. So 668 00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:08,679 this is when Karl gives orders to the kids to 669 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,960 go back to base, go in the safe room, and 670 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,320 those who can't come into the safe room tell them 671 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:20,559 to go to Lorocco's not shantytown. Ellie says. The winding 672 00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:23,599 box got knocked over and the watches fell out. The 673 00:48:23,639 --> 00:48:27,159 gate was already primed, so the gate activated. Hurry your 674 00:48:27,199 --> 00:48:30,599 ass up. We got twenty minutes before it closed, as 675 00:48:30,599 --> 00:48:33,440 a bunch of trees cracked but didn't fall. And this 676 00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:36,079 is who could have predicted activating a goddamn volcan who 677 00:48:36,119 --> 00:48:43,360 could possibly spiral out of control. So they take off. 678 00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,480 I had my quarter splatfall protection, but I took a 679 00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:51,920 scroll of Controlled Featherfall and read it as we fell. 680 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:57,360 Multiple notifications came in quick succession. The battlefield conditions have 681 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,719 triggered a summoning. The goddess of Chaos has been sutaneously summoned. 682 00:49:02,039 --> 00:49:08,159 A demon eviction event is occurring over multiple locations, and 683 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,719 the Throne Room of the Bunk Clan is being occupied 684 00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,480 by Team Retribution. The Throne Room of the Dream is 685 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:18,800 being occupied by Team Retribution. Warlord message. Sir Ferdinand of 686 00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:25,039 Team Retribution has proposed an emergency action item. Here's the quote. 687 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,800 Gods that appear during faction wars don't gotta go home 688 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,039 right away. Juice Bugs told me to say a bunch 689 00:49:32,039 --> 00:49:33,760 of other stuff too, but now I can't remember it 690 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,320 all something about outworlders. But you probably heard what she said. 691 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,400 But she wanted me to also say that. She promises 692 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:46,360 it'll be entertaining. So my proposal is that a Ferdinand, 693 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:52,880 I just hate you so much, I really do. The 694 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,280 first action item has been denied. All deity summoning rules 695 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,599 will remain in effect. The second action item has been approved, 696 00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:06,239 effected immediately. The following Ascendency rules are applied. Ascendency players 697 00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,559 may no longer choose whether to pilot their sponsored deities 698 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,639 should they be summoned off the twelfth floor. Attendance is 699 00:50:15,679 --> 00:50:21,079 now mandatory. In addition, during gameplay, Ascendency players may no 700 00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:25,320 longer choose to appear as themselves. All deities will appear 701 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:30,119 as designed, and all sponsored deities will be piloted by 702 00:50:30,159 --> 00:50:33,920 their sponsors. Any summons currently in progress where a pilot 703 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,239 stayed back because she was being a cowardly little chicken. 704 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:43,199 Have been corrected. Oh boy, life, do come at you fast? 705 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:50,960 That is that's look. I know I said game changer already, 706 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:56,159 but like that really is. None of that was planned, 707 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,039 not the gods, not team retribution, getting to those two 708 00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:05,559 throne rooms, and actually not that action item. And later 709 00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:10,599 on there is the mention because Ellie winds up getting 710 00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,679 the gate taken from her later on, just as late, 711 00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,800 it's like, what do you mean the Gate's gone? I 712 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,480 need that, And Carl has this moment of just like 713 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:28,199 everybody has their own fucking plans, you know, like with Rosetta, 714 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,320 we went to talk to this guy and we negotiated 715 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,119 a whole thing and wasted our time and energy, and 716 00:51:34,159 --> 00:51:36,719 then it turns out she was prepared to just kill him. 717 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,719 And they aren't telling us this, and they're using me 718 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,320 to accomplish the things that they want, and he really 719 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,159 does not like the feeling of that, which I definitely understand. 720 00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:54,599 But also these are people with their own experiences in 721 00:51:54,639 --> 00:51:59,199 the dungeon, their own points of view, and their own 722 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:05,840 what's the word I want specializations in terms of combat, 723 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:13,320 and you can't know everything, and also you shouldn't know everything, 724 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,679 because frankly, this is too big and you're having trouble 725 00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,239 just with this mission because there's so many messages going 726 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:27,960 back and forth. You can't be in charge of everything, Carl. 727 00:52:28,079 --> 00:52:31,239 I know that you wish you could, because we know 728 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,800 you're a bit of a control freak, and as a 729 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:39,239 control freak, I fucking sympathize, I really do, but like, 730 00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:43,039 this is just bigger than you at this point. It's 731 00:52:43,079 --> 00:52:49,360 always been bigger than you. But you know what I'm saying. 732 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:57,280 So anyway, several dots suddenly appeared on the map, all enemies. 733 00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,880 They'd all teleported right to Elly's location, and this is 734 00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:06,639 when we see her go flying past with the unconscious 735 00:53:06,679 --> 00:53:10,159 tag over her head. And later she's like, he could 736 00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:12,760 have killed me, and it feels like he purposely did 737 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,920 this in a way as to not kill me, which 738 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:22,320 I don't really get what's happening. Stalwart was on his knees, 739 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,480 crying in pain. There were four corpses on the ground. 740 00:53:25,639 --> 00:53:30,000 Warm Mages. The magical beings were dead and smoking. They'd 741 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,159 all been hit and killed with doughnuts amped up magic 742 00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,880 missile before they'd all teleported here. Three more of the 743 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,079 warm Mages surrounded stalwart shouting. A fourth stood off to 744 00:53:41,119 --> 00:53:46,119 the side. Quickly melting ice covered everything. Even though they 745 00:53:46,159 --> 00:53:48,159 were all the same type of creature, they all looked 746 00:53:48,199 --> 00:53:52,000 like different monsters. They all had crackling, multi hued glows 747 00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:56,280 around them. I knew more about warm Mages now than 748 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,639 I had before the floor started, and the sight of 749 00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:05,039 so many in one place terrified me. And then we 750 00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:10,760 get the info from the Ai A Kuma Warmage level 751 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:18,280 one hundred, leader of the warm Mage Rebellion. You don't 752 00:54:18,679 --> 00:54:24,159 say warmages have been around since the very early days 753 00:54:24,199 --> 00:54:26,639 of Dungeon Crawler World, but they're one of the few 754 00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:32,880 true dungeon born entities. The final form is entirely dependent 755 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,840 on the combination of its first two forms, in this 756 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,880 case a human and a high health. The skin of 757 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,920 a corpse is ripped off a body and turned to 758 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,679 a creature named a flesher, which we have met before. 759 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,599 The flesher then consumes a living being, melting the original 760 00:54:47,599 --> 00:54:52,119 skin off and re sleeving the creature. The flesher casts boned, 761 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:56,280 reanimating the skeleton, and that you become a symbiote. Symbiotes 762 00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,920 are extremely attractive targets to other fleshers, and because young 763 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:03,320 symbiotes are slow and awkward, they are oftentimes quickly re 764 00:55:03,559 --> 00:55:07,920 sleeved by fresh fleshers. Each iteration results in a more 765 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,559 powerful being. It's rare for a symbio to be received 766 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,880 at least a dozen times, but when it happens, the 767 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:20,119 magic itself can become sapient. When this happens, the flesh 768 00:55:20,199 --> 00:55:25,159 finally fuses to the reanimated skeleton, turning the three creatures 769 00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:30,039 into a single being, a warm age. This process usually 770 00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:33,800 takes at least twelve iterations, but there's no hard rule. 771 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,679 Sometimes it takes fifteen or sixteen. It depends on the 772 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,800 latent magic. More ages come with the knowledge of hundreds 773 00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:49,400 of spells. They're also complete dicks. Their grumpy, lumpy assholes 774 00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,280 get their rocks off, showing just how pleasant they can be. 775 00:55:53,639 --> 00:55:59,559 The very nature of most magic spells is cold cruelty, 776 00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:03,559 and that shows when the magic itself is allowed to talk. 777 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:09,000 The very nature of most magic spells is cold cruelty. 778 00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:15,800 I mean in here, AI have a little imagination. I 779 00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:21,239 don't know anyway, and nobody made them. All of this 780 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,679 just happened on its own. And there are apparently books 781 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:32,800 about this, like how this even happens. Most Warmages find 782 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,320 their minds wiped and themselves sitting in quests or mercenary 783 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:41,320 guilds each time a new dungeon opens. However, their very 784 00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:46,800 existence also creates problems. Each warm Age one may find 785 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:51,199 in the dungeon was created naturally, meaning they could have 786 00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:54,119 been made several seasons previous, and because the showrunners like 787 00:56:54,199 --> 00:56:57,880 to use warmages, especially for their precious Faction wars, they 788 00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:02,880 are rarely recycled. So here's a message for all the 789 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,840 assholes reading this. If you can't see why that's a problem, 790 00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:09,880 maybe you should ask that pissed off changeling army that's 791 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:11,920 in the middle of wrecking your shit why you should 792 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,840 probably keep an eye on the things you unleash, especially 793 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:24,440 when you don't fully understand what they are. Yay, warm 794 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:28,400 Age heads explode and create something called sapient moment of 795 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:33,760 destruction ten minutes after they die, so heads up and 796 00:57:34,239 --> 00:57:40,079 as he dies, King Stalwart just says, my sister was right, 797 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:46,239 And then these warm Mages finish killing him, and a 798 00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,960 Kuma has the gait of the pharaoh gods in his hand, 799 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,719 looks at Karl's feet and says nice shoes, asshole, and 800 00:57:54,760 --> 00:58:05,679 then teleports away. My god, so I'm over time, you 801 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,880 know the way I be. I'm going to quickly get 802 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,320 into sixty two. It's not that long a chapter anyway, 803 00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:19,239 but Stalwart has fallen. Credit has been given to three 804 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:23,639 members of the war Mage Rebellion, which later Donut says 805 00:58:23,679 --> 00:58:25,800 that she landed a hit and she didn't get credit. 806 00:58:26,039 --> 00:58:29,480 What the fuck. The war Made Rebellion is not an 807 00:58:29,559 --> 00:58:32,880 active team. As per the current season's rules, the team 808 00:58:33,039 --> 00:58:36,639 currently occupying the Bone Clan's Throne Room, team Retribution will 809 00:58:36,639 --> 00:58:40,599 be awarded all their assets. Sections one and two are 810 00:58:40,639 --> 00:58:44,760 not connected to Larroccos. As such, the King's Point Throne 811 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,760 Room remains a capturable asset. Yes, even though the castle 812 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,320 itself just blew up, the Throne Room is still there. 813 00:58:53,199 --> 00:58:55,800 So the fact that they are a group but they're 814 00:58:55,880 --> 00:59:00,440 not like an official participating group is really really odd. 815 00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:04,000 And this is why Victory winds up turning up. And 816 00:59:04,039 --> 00:59:08,159 it's just like, yeah, this is not a thing. It's 817 00:59:08,599 --> 00:59:16,199 brand new, and we don't even really understand what that means. More, 818 00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,840 mess are always up to something tricky, Samantha muttered as 819 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,639 she examined the open crackling portal. They're just mad because 820 00:59:22,679 --> 00:59:25,840 nobody likes them. She seemed nervous as she floated near 821 00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:30,079 the gate. She continued to mutter under her breath. I 822 00:59:30,119 --> 00:59:34,920 am periodically remembering that, like Samantha's power has increased since 823 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:40,000 coming here, and just really want to know more about that, 824 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:47,519 pretty pretty please. Then we have that chaos goddess yelling 825 00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:49,840 I didn't want to come down to other floors. I said, 826 00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,199 how do I eject? Get me out of here? And 827 00:59:52,239 --> 00:59:54,119 then there's laughing, and then she says, I'm not the 828 00:59:54,119 --> 00:59:59,400 one laughing. Stop and Patch's like that sounds like hecla. 829 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,920 And we find out it's very common for influencers to 830 01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:09,360 get surgeries to make themselves look and sound like crawlers 831 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:15,079 who have died, which is so insane. I don't even 832 01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:21,320 know where to begin with that florin. We need to 833 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,599 figure out if we're being fucked by the NPCs or not. 834 01:00:23,639 --> 01:00:25,480 I'm toe to toe with a big force that's now 835 01:00:25,599 --> 01:00:28,239 under NPC orders and we don't know if we're supposed 836 01:00:28,239 --> 01:00:30,440 to be fighting them or not. I'm pretty sure they 837 01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,760 don't know either. We've got demons popping up everywhere, trying 838 01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:35,800 to take over corpses and we've got our hands full 839 01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:41,119 either way. That mountain's leaking pretty bad, and it sounds 840 01:00:41,159 --> 01:00:43,440 like it's flowing lava right into the river bed, which 841 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,320 is going to find its way down here pretty quick. 842 01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,920 I hope this lava abatement team knows what they're doing, 843 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:52,280 because it's going to roll right into Lroccos. We've got 844 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:59,360 flaming ute sized rocks raining on us. A Ute is 845 01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:03,079 a Uto vehicle, just for those who would like to know, 846 01:01:03,159 --> 01:01:10,599 because I would. And this is when Justice Light's requests 847 01:01:10,639 --> 01:01:14,199 for the gate shows up, and we have Carl thinking 848 01:01:14,239 --> 01:01:16,880 about the fact that, like everybody has their own plans. 849 01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:22,320 And let's see, the gate was open to spot number eight, 850 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,400 the woods above the Madness Castle. The plan was for 851 01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,920 me in La to go through it and then I'd 852 01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,119 use a standard teleport trap to escape back to shanty 853 01:01:28,199 --> 01:01:30,039 Towne when we were done. We weren't going to use 854 01:01:30,079 --> 01:01:32,079 the Pharaoh God Gate a third time unless we absolutely 855 01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:35,880 had to, so we didn't need the gate anymore, which 856 01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:42,039 works out so very well. I'm wondering about removing the 857 01:01:42,119 --> 01:01:45,840 gate from their possession if this is like, because obviously 858 01:01:46,719 --> 01:01:51,440 this newly created not really a team is the AI's participation. 859 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:57,639 He's using dungeon born creatures to directly play as much 860 01:01:57,679 --> 01:02:00,440 as he can without breaking the rules that he is 861 01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:07,960 bound by. So I just am wondering. Is it possible that, 862 01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:12,239 like taking the gate away, was a purposeful thing to 863 01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,679 screw them up? Or is it just that it's going 864 01:02:15,719 --> 01:02:18,679 to come in useful for something the AI wants to 865 01:02:18,719 --> 01:02:21,119 do and it has no idea about their plans. I mean, 866 01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:23,360 it must know about their plans. It's got to write. 867 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:31,519 I don't know. Let's see. Uh More, reports flooded in 868 01:02:31,639 --> 01:02:34,840 trying had taken heavy losses even though they hadn't engaged directly. 869 01:02:35,159 --> 01:02:37,719 There was heavy fighting at the food Butt against the Dreamers, 870 01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:42,480 along with demon event demon evictions starting there as well. 871 01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,239 Like we anticipated, there were no signs of the bulk 872 01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:52,159 of the madness or reaver forces. And Ellie says, okay, 873 01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,440 I'm good. Let me cast my subterfuge spout so they 874 01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,480 don't spot us. We need to keep this rolling. Ready 875 01:02:56,519 --> 01:02:59,559 to finally get your hands dirty, And Carl says to 876 01:02:59,639 --> 01:03:05,199 a man, the stay close, not too close, and Boomer 877 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,360 will tell you where to go if a pharaoh god 878 01:03:07,519 --> 01:03:10,480 chases you. But she's not listening and she's looking up 879 01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,199 at the sky and she says, Oh, I know what 880 01:03:12,239 --> 01:03:15,599 that is. That's a dragon. And that's the end of 881 01:03:15,639 --> 01:03:20,119 the chapter. So I'm real curious, Like I'm assuming that 882 01:03:20,119 --> 01:03:22,320 the dragon is some kind of god itself, but I 883 01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:27,119 don't really know. It could be anything. So we'll see. 884 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:32,840 But I have got to go because I am over time. Yeah, 885 01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,880 this is wild, guys. This feels so chaotic and it's 886 01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:40,440 like not I know. There are moments where I feel 887 01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,079 like I'm sort of zoning out, like when he's explaining 888 01:03:43,119 --> 01:03:47,320 the plan in words, but when we're in the action, 889 01:03:49,239 --> 01:03:54,159 I feel like I'm mostly able to stay on top 890 01:03:54,199 --> 01:03:56,519 of it, which is kind of remarkable considering how much 891 01:03:56,559 --> 01:04:00,159 is going on. Mostly there are times where it's it's 892 01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:02,559 like more than I can keep track of, but I 893 01:04:02,559 --> 01:04:05,199 think that's okay. When it happens, I really don't think 894 01:04:05,239 --> 01:04:09,360 that it affects my understanding of the overall story, so 895 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,199 I think it's fine anyway. Thank you all again so 896 01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:16,639 much for hanging out with me. Until next time to 897 01:04:16,719 --> 01:04:50,880 Ulu motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast