Speaker 1: Hey, a quick note on this episode. Apologies because the
sound quality is terrible. It turns out, despite thinking that
I had got everything set up correctly, it was recording
through the mic on my phone rather than the mic
that I am using for this little prelude announcement. Apologies,
I cannot fix this. I'm going to do my best
to make it listenable, but there's only so much I
can do. Bear with me, appreciate your patience. This is
an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering Dungeon
Crawler Carl Book seven, this Inevitable Ruin chapters fifty eight
through sixty two. In these chapters, Carl turns down negotiation
with the Naga and very spectacular fashion. And then we
begin Operation Ruin, which doesn't go as planned because there's
a new team, but not a team. Welcome to Spoiling,
Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is
here in the chat being sad because he's already finished
book eight. Well you need to do, Michael, to start
a podcast like this and make yourself do it real slow,
and then you can savor it more It's like tantric
reading is what I just to call it and don't
really care for it, but I'm standing by it. So,
you guys, this section is full of some wild shit
that is like, there are implications for that look to
appoint anything's possible, even with the AI being like, we
all have our limitations, well some more than others apparently,
but there are definitely things where I'm just like, I
don't part of what this show often is is making predictions,
and I think I'm just gonna be letting go of
doing them most of the time now because we're just
starting to change up how things work like fundamentally, and
I am here for it. For the record, this is
not a complaint, but I just don't really know what
our guardrails are. I don't know what the limits really are,
and whatever I think of as a limit, it turns
out kind of isn't like a book later or sometimes
just a few chapters later, it's you know, And it
definitely seems that the AI is itself pushing boundaries and
trying to see what its limitations are. So I don't
think there that any limitations that I am told about,
I don't think are necessarily etched in stone, because what
do they say set in stone? What you get what
I'm saying. But let's back up. Let's talk about chapter
fifty eight Rishie the Naga, and this dude has been
put under all kinds of enchantments so that he is
not able to attack anybody. But also also Lena has
decided that we should just remove his arms. He has
four usually, but we're gonna just take those off because
he then will really not be able to like hold
weapons or anything like that, which Carl calls barbaric, but
proceeds to just execute this guy. And I guess it's like,
it's just funny to me, like where we each individually
draw the line, because it's so clear this guy is
up to be killed, and that Carl is just like, well,
that's a little extreme, bro, you're about to take his life.
I understand not wanting to actively be torturing people, but
I can understand the expediency of removing his arms, especially
when you're dealing with creatures that you don't really understand fully.
So anyway, Carl asks, first, why weren't you with your
wife and the princess in the temple because this dude
went out and hid like dug a hole literally and hid.
And Carl knows enough about him to be like, you're
not a coward? What the fuck is going on there?
And he says essentially, And this is like the gist
of most of this conversation. She had a plan that
she was convinced was going to work, and I knew
it wouldn't and she wouldn't listen to me. And actually,
as far back as floor seven, when the Manchesters began
to pull out of shit and they don't do that,
I was saying, we need to remove ourselves from the game,
and she said that we could not do that. She
was determined. I didn't agree with her approach, but it
was her call, and so I protected myself because I
was so certain this was going to fail. From what
it sounded like though, when she's like killing Carl and
yelling about how this all started when Donut put the
crown on, it seems like the crown itself was what
dictated whether they could pull out of the game entirely
or not. So him being like, well, she just wouldn't
listen to me. I'm wondering if there was like an
option where there could be Naga who aren't royalty, Like,
if it was really like the storyline of Naga being
involved would have to happen, but maybe it would be
optional for her to participate personally. Anyway. He also says something,
let's see, I did not expect you and the crawlers
to rise up, but it was clear something was wrong.
The man tits do not flee anything, and for them
to run like that, they were scared of something. Did
you know that the aero system went dark the moment
Princess Formidable hit the veil save And Carl's like, well,
she's not the one who did it, but yes, I
did hear that, and that's where the last season occurred,
and Rechi nods, but he doesn't say anything further. So
I'm assuming that he is essentially saying that's what is
about to happen here, and I'm like certain of it.
I think it's very compelling the place went dark, but
it's not actually clear if everybody's dead or not. It
could simply be that the AI has somehow managed to
disconnect itself from like this larger network. I don't know,
I don't know how many of this works, but clearly
most people are seeing this as cataclysmic, and that makes sense.
Historically speaking, it has been impossible for this to even happen.
So this is when he starts talking about the great Consensus.
It teaches the Syndicate was a mistake, that we're better
off on our own. Some have taken the idea and
turned it into something xenophobic and evil, like the bloom
Party of the Cuatine the Mantids to stain what they
believe are weaker and inferior species among the Naga. Some
want what you want. Some Naga believe while we can
learn from each other, alien community should have no say
in how we live our lives. And Carl says, you
sure have a funny way of showing it, which he
does agree with. I know you don't believe it. But
Vignata was a firm believer in this velocity philosophy. Velocity
she'd seen more on alien soil and firmly believed it
was all for nothing. Her father insisted she participate in
faction wars. We needed the tourist money we needed to
keep the shipyard staffed and running. We were going to
steal the entire fleet and run. We were going to
travel as a whole for an entire generation off in
a direction. None of the tunnel threads point to a
place where it would be very very long time before
we were found. And Carl is like, this is all
I'm sure fascinating to someone, but not to me, So
can you just fucking tell me what's going on? Just
before the meeting of the Warlord's news broke that laid
out our plans regarding our intention to reneg on our
shipyard contracts, which caused immediate chaos in our system. Because
of the emergency action item you enacted, we were no
longer able to see what else was happening, which is
what that is when I decided to flee and hide
so that I could implore upon you our play and
make an offer to you. So the fact that our
plans to renege were laid out, you know, I had
sort of been under the impression that Carl killing Vignyatta
had somehow caused the news to get out, like her
yelling at him as he's dying, that she is doing
what Formidable did when she thought that she was about
to push the fail safe and was going to die herself,
where she basically like gives up a bunch of information
because she thinks it's not going to matter because it's
the end and blows up her own spot and her
family spot. But the way that he says this here,
it sounds like that happened before the fight, and I
am very uh curious who knew and released that information.
So let's have in my inventory assigned an AI witnessed
document for you the de facto leader of Earth, which
Carl laughs at and he is like, m, you're number
one on the leaderboard. You are. You have a valid
claim because no formal leadership claim has yet been filed,
we petitioned on your behalf and the court granted the petition.
The position is mostly honorary, but it does allow you
to be a signatory on Earth's behalf. This is huge. Understandably,
Carl is sort of distracted by this for a lot
of this conversation. It is a kind of like, whether
it's honorary or not, doesn't it doesn't seem like in
effect that really matters. But yeah, he says, it gives
Earth natives citizenship rights in all Naga territories plus five
Nafil class generationships in exchange for allowing us to terraform
and settle upon the other planets in your system post crawl,
once there is no longer a quarantine, which like that
is some wild shit that he's like, you can stay
on your planet, but will take like the other six.
How many are there, guys? That always changes because of Pluto.
But you know what I'm saying, And I think this
is a fair deal, which I guess he thinks, because
we're granting you not a citizenship. So it's like you
can travel to any of the territories, like we would
really want to do that. I sure, sure, buddy, And
he says, if this were a normal crawl, the system
would go into quarantine for some time, crawl would eventually
open and the parasites would descend and bleed you dry.
If it still ends that way, the children of your
survivors will need friends. If you're wiped out, then we've
lost nothing. But if not, this is where our gamble
truly pays off. If the MACROAI continues to spread, a
new Inner System style community will emerge with all the
benefits of the current Inner System. The natives will be
protected by the AI and will soon rise to be
some of the richest, most influential forces in the galaxy.
And my people who protected you during your time of
turmoil will emerge as great friends of the citizens of Earth,
and both shall prosper. I don't know what kind of
bridge you're selling, sir, but I'm not buying it because
the idea that you guys are going to take all
of these other territories, but you're just gonna leave us
alone and let us have Earth a come now, You're
not doing that. You're gonna take Earth eventually. Also, you
are going to stick to the letter of this, but
you are going to do what you can to undermine
anything human to make this your entire solar system. Of
course you are. It's just such a It's like he
really is trying to make it sound like we're gonna
work together on this. The fuck we are. You are
going to outnumber and the technology is so completely outclasses
anything that we have access to. I mean, what would
we how could we possibly fight back against you our
quote protectors? Yeah? Absolutely the fuck not. New achievement Your
Feet has reached a ninety five percent viewer ratio of
a single system, over ninety five percent of all viewers
in the entire New Coined Naga protectorate of the New
reformer are currently watching your feed. Reward, you've received a
legendary fan box. This box will only be voted on
by viewers in the Naga system. I'm really curious what's
going to be in that fanbox after he kills this guy,
because it's unclear to me whether the people would be
in support or against, like as a majority, you know.
So anyway, Carl says, do you have the authority to
even make this deal? And he says yeah, because I'm
now the new leader. And he's like, I didn't think
there was like I thought there was a king. And
he says, my brothers should have him properly deposed by
now him and his remaining children. We've been planning this
for some time. I held up my hand stopping him.
I was staring down at the contract he'd signed. It
Sultan Rishi the usurper first of his name of the
Naga Uprising. I laughed, that was not the same name
that had been in that achievement. When he says in
that like the name that had been in that achievement,
what is he referring to, Guys? The like achievement that
he just got doesn't have a name in it. So
because I at first I thought he was referencing the
one that had just happened, and I went back a
little and I couldn't find anything. So I don't know
what's going on here. I mean suffice to say obviously
that like Carl realizes, this dude is just trying to
do a power grab here and put himself in a position.
Like Carl, despite saying all this stuff makes my head
hurt and confuses me, he's not an idiot. I'm sure
he can get the broad strokes. But let's see, uh
O open hostilities begin in forty minutes. Elie says, Katcha,
you're a genius. You timed it perfectly. Kitcha says, thank milk,
her maps are insanely accurate. Don't know what's happening here,
still right, but we know that there's this countdown, so uh.
Michael says in the chat there are seven planets, but
there are a lot of moons too, And it had
not occurred to me that they would terraform moons. But
why wouldn't they? Sure, Jeff says, I would stand on
principle and not take that deal. We'd basically be their
grunt workers, if not slaves. Michael says, I think it
means that something went wrong with Rishi's plan and someone
else sees power and his Sultan, so his deal isn't
worth shit. But what's the actual achievement that he's referring
to that has a name in it at all? Because
that's the part that I'm like confused by Sultan Rachie
the usurper. First of his name of the Naga Uprising?
Is he talking about newly coined Naga protectorate? Is that
the name that he is mentioning. I thought that he
meant like like the name of the person like Reshe's
name wasn't the one and it was another Naga's name.
But maybe it's Naga Protectorate of the new Reformer. Maybe
that's what it is. That it's like him trying to
establish a thing from the outside. Michael says, the achievement
was that ninety five percent of the Naga sector is
watching Carl's feed. Okay, is it? But sorry, I feel
like you're understanding what my question is because specifically, what
Carl thinks is that was not the same name that
had been in that achievement. So I'm trying to figure
out the name that he's talking to, and I thought
that it was like the personal name, but I'm thinking
now it's referring to new protectorate YadA YadA. So evidently
there is some shit happening that he is very certain
his brothers have deposed the king and would have called
it the Naga Uprising, but that has not happened. Is
that the joke? Okay, okay, got it, got it, got it?
So he does the thing he does where he's like,
let me negotiate on behalf of Earth, and this dude
really acts like he's about to do a deal, and
Carl's like, my terms are that you guys fuck off
into the sun forever and you know, just basically leave
us the fuck alone. And he marks this guy and says,
it's probably important for me to be aware of all
this politics, but not today. Today. I'm just happy that
all your people are watching, because it means they get
to watch yet another of their so called leaders killed.
And spoiler alert for those at home, Reshie, here is
just the opening act. I thought it was interesting that
we don't actually see Carl kill him, we just hear
him say this. I thought the next chapter was going
to start with something interrupting or something happening, but we
actually jump ahead in time, so we never see this moment.
And I'm assuming Carl punches him to death because of
the gauntlet thing. You know. Sounds pretty grim actually, but
I think maybe there's also the author knowing like including
that action would be upsetting in a way that may
maybe he's not interested in engaging with right now. So
chapter fifty nine begins with Carl explaining Operation Ruin. I'm
going to tell you, guys what I have told you
many times before, and that is all of the like
war talk, the planning. This stuff just rolls right off
of me, like a well tarred rooftop, just you know,
staying just sustaining itself under a downpour of rain, and
everything just feeds up and slides right off me. I
don't want to be this way. I would like for
this to all mean something, and it feels like it
will for a little bit. But the more he tells me,
the more my brain begins to shut down. And then
there just comes a point where everything that I had
been retaining is also erased. It's like I've got so
much room and when you overfill it, it just triggers
a wipe. And so, despite having listened to this chapter
no fewer than three times, this this isn't just has
made no impression, and I'm so sorry about it. So
I'll just read the last few sentences. We will leave
Samantha in Boomer's offensive against the Reavers, and then Ellie
and I will move together using the gate to enter
the territory of the Madness, where my operation to find
and kill Houston will begin. The Princess Posse's objective is
to win this war. Today mine is to lead the
operation to defeat the Madness. I need to focus, but
it is so hard if this is my last entry. No,
I went down fighting, and that part I found very sobering,
the thought that he's writing this with the awareness that
this could be it. And I don't you know, There's
been plenty of times where Carl has known the danger
that they are in, but I don't feel like he's
ever just really said it out loud like that. You know,
something about this just felt different. So we get fucking
Cascadia just saying open hostilities begin soon. I don't give
a fuck what you all do, but I just want
you to know that I hate each and every one
of you personally and fuck off forever. Kill Kill Kill.
Samantha turns up here. She has had her hair done
in victory roles, which we find out later that they
have been showing movies like war films, and I'm just
assuming that this is kind of coming from seeing these
movies and being entrance with like the style in the films.
And she also has been like especially harassing the troops,
trying to act like this is giving aid and comfort
before the battle. There's also that mention about Kiwi and
how she's about to give birth any day now, and
I desperately hope that whatever she gives birth to is
going to level up quickly and be helpful somehow. It's
definitely like a contradictory opinion regarding child soldiers, I know,
but it just, you know, desperate times, I think that
I Am just going to call it, and we have
this question come up again these chapters. So yeah, Mordecai,
because like all the kids want to be fighting. Mordecai
thinks like maybe if we show these kids really intense
films that don't glamorize war but make it clear how
horrifying it is, it will scare them out of wanting
to be part of this, and it does the opposite,
which I think makes sense because as much as we
want to like show the horrors of war in films,
it never really quite gets it across, does it. You know,
It's everything is so edited and so geared towards telling
a complete story, often with like there being certain survivors
and whatnot, that it can, if anything, make you feel
like more invincible or more righteous somehow. So they have
an argument about whether it's fucked the cheese dicks or
the cheese sticks, which I did think was funny because
I could swear in the chat one time the seraphim
said cheese dicks. And when I said what are cheese sticks?
To my husband he thought I said what are cheese dicks?
And he was just like, well, you know, like who
don't like wash their digs? And I was like, oh
my god, no, not that. And then I think one
of you has mentioned that there was like a slang
about cheese sticks being like nube players or something like that.
But anyway, I just thought this was funny because that's
like definitely what my husband heard. Also, Donuh at this
point is in the chat saying they installed wireless PA speakers.
We got the deluxe package. There are more speakers than
towers that even interfaces with my headset, and I can
pull up one of those recording studio board thingies with
all the slidey dials, and Carl is just like, Donut, please,
don't just use this thing, because you could fuck everybody's
hearing up. Talk to Lena first, at which point she says,
I am a war lord. I don't ask permission. I
give orders. And I was just like, oh my god, Donut, please,
I you guys. Every now and then I get really
paranoid that one of the people that's closest to us
has been replaced by a shape shifter. I don't look.
I don't really think that Donut's been replaced. Okay, she's
acting very much like herself, but she also was a
little predictable, so I don't think it would be difficult
to really imitate her effectively. But every now and then
it occurs to me like, we don't know enough to
tell we would be relying on her thermal vision. I
guess it would have to be somebody that she can
see personally, and she have to have the glasses on.
When she looked at them, So I'm just I've been
thinking about that. I don't know, says, It isn't until
you actually feel the pants shitting terror as bombs and
gunfire rain around you, knowing your fate isn't actually up
to you, but it's literally just a matter of complete luck.
Can it be communicated or so I guess since I
also have never experienced that shit, and I pray I
never do Nowhua says, it makes me think of all
these movies that satirize, slash criticize something only for people
to look at them and idolize them aka Fight Club
or American Psycho one hundred percent one hundred percent. It's
really the only way to get across something like this
would preclude a narrative that we are used to, because
the point would be that our main character would die
or our main character would be tortured to death or something,
you know, like to really show us, or you have
no main character and it's just how each person dies.
To really like slam it home, you think that because
somebody is on screen that they're special and they have
plot armor, the way that you think you have plot
armor out in the world because you're special and so
nothing can possibly happen to you, you know anyway. So
let's say I'm trying to find the Oh, right, there's
the deflector towers, which are supposed to like keep gods away.
But Carl is like, I wouldn't really trust that, And
then he says, do you remember the when Bee's cousin
was making fun of the gorilla at the zoo and
it smashed the glass? Think of it like that. I
love that even Bee's family is such trash that there
are stories like this where they don't know how to
not fuck with anybody, and even a gorilla had had enough.
That gorilla had better boundaries than Carl and was like,
you are going to stop this now. Carl didn't even
detect that he was being fucked with. It's crazy. So
he gets into the party planner and it's not until
they are in the air and kind of out of
the throngs of people that he sees the dots of
the two kids that stowed away in the back, Scarn
and Bonnie. Scarn's shape shifter kid and Bonnie's the kid
that had been uh what's the goose's prisoner, you know,
the baby. So Carl tries to tell Louie, turn around,
me got a land. But then the AI jumps in
and says, system message, here we go, bitches, let chaos rain.
It very much feels like the AI just stepping in
and being like, you're not going to turn the fuck around. Absolutely,
we're shits on and it's happening. Figure it out. And
in a way I prefer this look. I said already
earlier this episode. I was definitely struggling with the child
soldier thing in previous episodes and whether or not this
is like valid and how I felt about the nuances
of it, and where I have come down is these
kids aren't going to be able to avoid getting mixed
up in this war somehow, some way. Equipping them to
the best of your ability I think is fair. As
far as allowing them to participate in missions like this
that are super dangerous, I think that's another question. But
obviously Bonnie is like handing her shit. And it has
been pointed out that Doughnut is younger than all of
them as well, So like maybe the life experience, despite
them looking like children like actually outweighs the appearance they
give of being children and they're not. If you want
to think about life experience as an inherent part of aging.
So yeah, I think that I am okay with it.
Not that we need to be conscripting children, but I
think if a kid really wants to participate and seems
to take it seriously and be competent with what they
want to do, I think we should let them. At
this point, I think it's more distracting and more potentially
damaging to try to stop everything in the midst of
an attack to protect a kid or get them out
of the way than it is to just let them
do their thing. And is is it possible that a
child will die? Yeah, absolutely, But it's also possible that
a child will die with like everything else that's going
on as well, and maybe giving them the chance to
defend themselves is kinder and more responsible somehow, giving them
a little bit of agency in all this. It's just
an interesting thing too, because like the way that we
talk about children is a kind of a new thing,
you know, like childhood as we understand it is somewhat
recent and really began kind of in like the Victorian era,
and before that, it was like you're tall enough to
hold a sword, you're a grown Yeah, sure, you're only
nine years old, but also you're almost a man. And
I'm not saying that was a good system, just saying
that the mentality that we have about children, it is
detached from the kinds of desperate situations in a lot
of ways that caused us to have to make kids
like into miniature adults before they were ready. And we're
very privileged in that way in this era for kids
to be able to be kids, and under circumstances like this,
that privilege being removed does kind of make sense. So anyway,
she's out here and she has her freaking like gun
thing that she's like aiming, and red tracer fire arc
from the gun. The clouds above it lit with purple splash. Three.
Great job, kid, Louis called resuming mission. Louis really does
not seem to have have an issue with this. I like,
he doesn't even respond at all to Carl saying turn around,
they're interrupted by the AI. So it may just be that,
but it really feels like Louis doesn't have the kind
of issue with this that Carl has. So this is
when we get the message from Elie. Gate one is open.
I'm stepping through. Let's see what comes out of this one.
Next stop. The Reavers don't be late, Carl, which spoiler alert,
he's late. This is when we find out that, like
what we had expected to happen here is not what
begins to happen. Everybody is expecting the dream artillery to
go after the throne room in the castle at the FUPA,
and instead they are spreading out and targeting transforces, which
was not expected. Two or three battalion strength of Dreamers.
Just tell it. Outside the FUPA, they're making a run
for the throne room. And this is something that's like
super unusual. It's not impossible, but that kind of mass
teleportation takes a ton of energy and planning, and they
just weren't really prepared for this. Rosetta gets in touch
with Justice and says, it's Dreamers. How many? I think
it's all of them. That's too many. Chop them up
a little first for me, Rosey, get them down to
under three thousand, then we can let them in. I
will welcome any and all guests into my lair. Would
prefer it be Reaver, but I'll take what I can get.
I cannot wait to see this. We don't get this
at this point, just FYI super excited. Like his traps,
we have not really gotten an inkling of exactly what
they are like, and I am so curious. Let's see.
We keep an eye out for a pitome tag. If
you see him, tell him I'm looking for him. This
is Donut. Don't worry, Donut. We'll paint him for paint
him for you if we see him. I'm making the
order for half the one oh five to defend location
number one. We'll still have half the second battalion ready
to go. Jurgons, send them over. This is when Mitus,
the Scavenger God enters the realm and the reaction that
Mordecai has, like nobody says anything in response to because
he says, oh fuck, And I was like, I just knew,
like that's a very specific sounding Oh fuck. He knows something,
but nobody. We've got a lot going on, so tuning
in to ask these types of questions, I get that
nobody's so he has to like yell toward Donut not
to use the pa While Rypocrates is out, who is
summoned after Mitus? Uh the Pharaoh God has summoned a
deity and it turns out that he hates sound Harpo
is going to fight and kill Metus, and then he's
gonna try to, uh try to do something with Metus,
but it's not going to work, which is going to
enrage him. I feel like that sounded like he was
going to try and rape his corpse but it's not
going to work, is weird wording. Then he's gonna stick
around for some time, smashing everything noisy until he times out.
So you know, we've got these diggers going, We've got
a bunch of things that all were going to be
extremely loud, and now we've got to worry about this
fucking guy. And I love when Marcai is explaining to
Donut Meatus Uh he doesn't want to go back to
Hippocrates because he likes music, and Hypocrates isn't deaf. He
is the god of silence and he can hear the
heartbeat of a fly from half a planet away. And
Donuh says, oh my god, I like this meet this
guy already. But then when he actually, like like the
smell of him reaches them immediately, Donah is like, never mind,
never mind, never mind, I take it back. This is
when Floren says, heads up, some massive mechanized tank just
dug itself out of the river bank and blade leaped
across the river, falling into our south flank. The thing
is like five meters tall. And all I could think
with this was the fucking robots in Breath of the Wild,
which is the only like I don't know if these
things appear in other Zelda games, but that's the one
that I have played, and it's like, there are so
many things in those The enemies that you go up
against tend to be pretty manageable, and then these fucking
tank like robotic dwarven creations show up and they are
the most difficult, frustrating enemy and have this like targeting
system that's really really accurate. And I have given up
on certain locations on getting in because I just could
never get past some of them. Eventually, when you like
begin to level up in certain ways, you can go
back and find your way past them, but even leveled
up to that degree, it's never actually easy. It just
becomes possible. And this thing just made me think of that,
and I just had this like pit in my stomach
of oh boy, if this thing is going to be
as big a pain as the ones in that game.
I hate this for you. Let's see missile support just
painted a target. It's a mobile tank, hit it with
chests and mix in a few mute missiles. Sledge says,
on it, boss Man, and there's a point later where
Bomo says something like robots go boom. They're talking weirdly,
and I'm starting to wonder if this is a product
of them watching movies, if they're like repeating lines. You know,
there's like, I think there's a Star Wars race that
is like this where they they kind of quote things
at you rather than actually speaking themselves, and they use
references to get their point across. And it feels like
because they barely used to speak before, it was a
lot of grumbling and rumblings and gruntings and whatnot. And
now there's something there's something quippi about the way they're
talking that feels like it's from a script. And I
don't know if that's simply because of the writing and
that's like actually their words, or if it's that they
are absorbing things from films and stuff. I know that
they also like have been playing video games against each other,
and maybe that's part of it. But there's a sense
for me of like the whole way that they are
talking changing. So let's see. Uh yeah, a beam of
green light shot up in the air, missing us by
about one hundred feet as we rocketed away, and that
like beam of that's another that felt like this, you
know what I'm saying. Rosetta and Mordecai honestly should have
realized it being uncommon before because of how ruling it
was to do would have no bearing on this season.
Michael is referencing the mass teleportation and yeah, I had
been like kind of gonna skip over this, but you
are bringing up the exact point that I felt, Michael,
which is just the stakes this season are not like
any other season that has ever happened. And so yeah,
they're going to pull the stops. Of course, they're going
to do the things that are rare and take a
ton of time and energy because they are literally going
to die. That's actually happening. So they are taking this
shit much more seriously. And this is something like there's
I'm also covering the Expanse book series and there's a
character in that who is I think very much in
mortal peril, but she doesn't seem to see it and
insists like that's not how the game is played in
with the games that I play, but we are dealing
with a situation that is so much more high stakes
than usual that I really feel she doesn't fully appreciate
how different the game has become because what has been
discovered is a literal game changer, and so it's a
similar thing. So Michael says, no, you're dead on. They've
been corrupted by movies and video games like the rest
of us nerds. That potty Mouth is competent in so
many ways. But yeah, she had a blind spot there. Yeah,
Michael's referring to the character in the expanse. So anyway,
everything is not like in his entry, Carl says something
like if everything goes to plan, blah blah blah, but
nothing ever goes to plans, So we have several contingencies
in place. However, the contingencies that they have in place
were not prepared to deal with what is happening. It's
sort of like the flexibility that you have to have
in this type of situation. You just simply can't predict
and you've got to do your best. Well, let's come
up with like six scenarios and once the thing happens,
we'll try and see which scenario we came up with.
This is closest to and go with that plan that
we had to deal with that scenario. And as somebody
who really likes planning, I would find this so distressing.
It's just like it, Yeah, anyway, So now Brittany says
they're dropping the agitators. Dwarves confirm the lava tubes have
been successfully agitated, and the mountain is beginning to a
rapid eruption. They're setting up barriers and moving out and
positioning themselves for lava abatement. So we find out that
they are going to purposely blow this volcano. And apparently
everybody thought this was completely rad except for Ellie, who
evidently did live through a volcanic eruption so she would know.
And once shit goes left, because it turns out that
there's like an extra protective shield which builds the pressure
up and makes the explosion way more intense than they
were prepared for. Later on, she's just like, yeah, who
would have thought that purposely erupting a volcano might somehow
spin out of control? And I really felt Ellie in
that moment, like being the lone voice because you're the
only person with real experience with this thing, and everyone
else just being so caught up with how fucking dope
it sounds has got to be very infuriating. So I
love Donut too. At one point, when Rosetta says, Donut,
you're up, she says and so it begins. And at
another point, when he's saying, like, we need to have
you do this attack Donut, her response is something like,
I like say the and death will rain down in
my name, and I was just like, girl, I need you.
Whatever manga you are reading or gi joke cartoons you
have been watching, tone it down, what is happening. You're
getting too into it. I don't like this. I don't
like this one little bit. So this is when the
explosion really begins to fuck them up. Now, apparently this
ship can fly with only two propellers working, so the
likelihood is that they'll be able to at least still
be in a state where they can land. But it's
the first time where we see like Scarn getting a
look on his face of like maybe I regret coming
after all. And let's see, Louise I can fly with
three props, but not well. I can quickly repair it
at base, but I got a limp back through this chop.
You guys better jump now I see Ellie's beacon. So
this is when Karl gives orders to the kids to
go back to base, go in the safe room, and
those who can't come into the safe room tell them
to go to Lorocco's not shantytown. Ellie says. The winding
box got knocked over and the watches fell out. The
gate was already primed, so the gate activated. Hurry your
ass up. We got twenty minutes before it closed, as
a bunch of trees cracked but didn't fall. And this
is who could have predicted activating a goddamn volcan who
could possibly spiral out of control. So they take off.
I had my quarter splatfall protection, but I took a
scroll of Controlled Featherfall and read it as we fell.
Multiple notifications came in quick succession. The battlefield conditions have
triggered a summoning. The goddess of Chaos has been sutaneously summoned.
A demon eviction event is occurring over multiple locations, and
the Throne Room of the Bunk Clan is being occupied
by Team Retribution. The Throne Room of the Dream is
being occupied by Team Retribution. Warlord message. Sir Ferdinand of
Team Retribution has proposed an emergency action item. Here's the quote.
Gods that appear during faction wars don't gotta go home
right away. Juice Bugs told me to say a bunch
of other stuff too, but now I can't remember it
all something about outworlders. But you probably heard what she said.
But she wanted me to also say that. She promises
it'll be entertaining. So my proposal is that a Ferdinand,
I just hate you so much, I really do. The
first action item has been denied. All deity summoning rules
will remain in effect. The second action item has been approved,
effected immediately. The following Ascendency rules are applied. Ascendency players
may no longer choose whether to pilot their sponsored deities
should they be summoned off the twelfth floor. Attendance is
now mandatory. In addition, during gameplay, Ascendency players may no
longer choose to appear as themselves. All deities will appear
as designed, and all sponsored deities will be piloted by
their sponsors. Any summons currently in progress where a pilot
stayed back because she was being a cowardly little chicken.
Have been corrected. Oh boy, life, do come at you fast?
That is that's look. I know I said game changer already,
but like that really is. None of that was planned,
not the gods, not team retribution, getting to those two
throne rooms, and actually not that action item. And later
on there is the mention because Ellie winds up getting
the gate taken from her later on, just as late,
it's like, what do you mean the Gate's gone? I
need that, And Carl has this moment of just like
everybody has their own fucking plans, you know, like with Rosetta,
we went to talk to this guy and we negotiated
a whole thing and wasted our time and energy, and
then it turns out she was prepared to just kill him.
And they aren't telling us this, and they're using me
to accomplish the things that they want, and he really
does not like the feeling of that, which I definitely understand.
But also these are people with their own experiences in
the dungeon, their own points of view, and their own
what's the word I want specializations in terms of combat,
and you can't know everything, and also you shouldn't know everything,
because frankly, this is too big and you're having trouble
just with this mission because there's so many messages going
back and forth. You can't be in charge of everything, Carl.
I know that you wish you could, because we know
you're a bit of a control freak, and as a
control freak, I fucking sympathize, I really do, but like,
this is just bigger than you at this point. It's
always been bigger than you. But you know what I'm saying.
So anyway, several dots suddenly appeared on the map, all enemies.
They'd all teleported right to Elly's location, and this is
when we see her go flying past with the unconscious
tag over her head. And later she's like, he could
have killed me, and it feels like he purposely did
this in a way as to not kill me, which
I don't really get what's happening. Stalwart was on his knees,
crying in pain. There were four corpses on the ground.
Warm Mages. The magical beings were dead and smoking. They'd
all been hit and killed with doughnuts amped up magic
missile before they'd all teleported here. Three more of the
warm Mages surrounded stalwart shouting. A fourth stood off to
the side. Quickly melting ice covered everything. Even though they
were all the same type of creature, they all looked
like different monsters. They all had crackling, multi hued glows
around them. I knew more about warm Mages now than
I had before the floor started, and the sight of
so many in one place terrified me. And then we
get the info from the Ai A Kuma Warmage level
one hundred, leader of the warm Mage Rebellion. You don't
say warmages have been around since the very early days
of Dungeon Crawler World, but they're one of the few
true dungeon born entities. The final form is entirely dependent
on the combination of its first two forms, in this
case a human and a high health. The skin of
a corpse is ripped off a body and turned to
a creature named a flesher, which we have met before.
The flesher then consumes a living being, melting the original
skin off and re sleeving the creature. The flesher casts boned,
reanimating the skeleton, and that you become a symbiote. Symbiotes
are extremely attractive targets to other fleshers, and because young
symbiotes are slow and awkward, they are oftentimes quickly re
sleeved by fresh fleshers. Each iteration results in a more
powerful being. It's rare for a symbio to be received
at least a dozen times, but when it happens, the
magic itself can become sapient. When this happens, the flesh
finally fuses to the reanimated skeleton, turning the three creatures
into a single being, a warm age. This process usually
takes at least twelve iterations, but there's no hard rule.
Sometimes it takes fifteen or sixteen. It depends on the
latent magic. More ages come with the knowledge of hundreds
of spells. They're also complete dicks. Their grumpy, lumpy assholes
get their rocks off, showing just how pleasant they can be.
The very nature of most magic spells is cold cruelty,
and that shows when the magic itself is allowed to talk.
The very nature of most magic spells is cold cruelty.
I mean in here, AI have a little imagination. I
don't know anyway, and nobody made them. All of this
just happened on its own. And there are apparently books
about this, like how this even happens. Most Warmages find
their minds wiped and themselves sitting in quests or mercenary
guilds each time a new dungeon opens. However, their very
existence also creates problems. Each warm Age one may find
in the dungeon was created naturally, meaning they could have
been made several seasons previous, and because the showrunners like
to use warmages, especially for their precious Faction wars, they
are rarely recycled. So here's a message for all the
assholes reading this. If you can't see why that's a problem,
maybe you should ask that pissed off changeling army that's
in the middle of wrecking your shit why you should
probably keep an eye on the things you unleash, especially
when you don't fully understand what they are. Yay, warm
Age heads explode and create something called sapient moment of
destruction ten minutes after they die, so heads up and
as he dies, King Stalwart just says, my sister was right,
And then these warm Mages finish killing him, and a
Kuma has the gait of the pharaoh gods in his hand,
looks at Karl's feet and says nice shoes, asshole, and
then teleports away. My god, so I'm over time, you
know the way I be. I'm going to quickly get
into sixty two. It's not that long a chapter anyway,
but Stalwart has fallen. Credit has been given to three
members of the war Mage Rebellion, which later Donut says
that she landed a hit and she didn't get credit.
What the fuck. The war Made Rebellion is not an
active team. As per the current season's rules, the team
currently occupying the Bone Clan's Throne Room, team Retribution will
be awarded all their assets. Sections one and two are
not connected to Larroccos. As such, the King's Point Throne
Room remains a capturable asset. Yes, even though the castle
itself just blew up, the Throne Room is still there.
So the fact that they are a group but they're
not like an official participating group is really really odd.
And this is why Victory winds up turning up. And
it's just like, yeah, this is not a thing. It's
brand new, and we don't even really understand what that means. More,
mess are always up to something tricky, Samantha muttered as
she examined the open crackling portal. They're just mad because
nobody likes them. She seemed nervous as she floated near
the gate. She continued to mutter under her breath. I
am periodically remembering that, like Samantha's power has increased since
coming here, and just really want to know more about that,
pretty pretty please. Then we have that chaos goddess yelling
I didn't want to come down to other floors. I said,
how do I eject? Get me out of here? And
then there's laughing, and then she says, I'm not the
one laughing. Stop and Patch's like that sounds like hecla.
And we find out it's very common for influencers to
get surgeries to make themselves look and sound like crawlers
who have died, which is so insane. I don't even
know where to begin with that florin. We need to
figure out if we're being fucked by the NPCs or not.
I'm toe to toe with a big force that's now
under NPC orders and we don't know if we're supposed
to be fighting them or not. I'm pretty sure they
don't know either. We've got demons popping up everywhere, trying
to take over corpses and we've got our hands full
either way. That mountain's leaking pretty bad, and it sounds
like it's flowing lava right into the river bed, which
is going to find its way down here pretty quick.
I hope this lava abatement team knows what they're doing,
because it's going to roll right into Lroccos. We've got
flaming ute sized rocks raining on us. A Ute is
a Uto vehicle, just for those who would like to know,
because I would. And this is when Justice Light's requests
for the gate shows up, and we have Carl thinking
about the fact that, like everybody has their own plans.
And let's see, the gate was open to spot number eight,
the woods above the Madness Castle. The plan was for
me in La to go through it and then I'd
use a standard teleport trap to escape back to shanty
Towne when we were done. We weren't going to use
the Pharaoh God Gate a third time unless we absolutely
had to, so we didn't need the gate anymore, which
works out so very well. I'm wondering about removing the
gate from their possession if this is like, because obviously
this newly created not really a team is the AI's participation.
He's using dungeon born creatures to directly play as much
as he can without breaking the rules that he is
bound by. So I just am wondering. Is it possible that,
like taking the gate away, was a purposeful thing to
screw them up? Or is it just that it's going
to come in useful for something the AI wants to
do and it has no idea about their plans. I mean,
it must know about their plans. It's got to write.
I don't know. Let's see. Uh More, reports flooded in
trying had taken heavy losses even though they hadn't engaged directly.
There was heavy fighting at the food Butt against the Dreamers,
along with demon event demon evictions starting there as well.
Like we anticipated, there were no signs of the bulk
of the madness or reaver forces. And Ellie says, okay,
I'm good. Let me cast my subterfuge spout so they
don't spot us. We need to keep this rolling. Ready
to finally get your hands dirty, And Carl says to
a man, the stay close, not too close, and Boomer
will tell you where to go if a pharaoh god
chases you. But she's not listening and she's looking up
at the sky and she says, Oh, I know what
that is. That's a dragon. And that's the end of
the chapter. So I'm real curious, Like I'm assuming that
the dragon is some kind of god itself, but I
don't really know. It could be anything. So we'll see.
But I have got to go because I am over time. Yeah,
this is wild, guys. This feels so chaotic and it's
like not I know. There are moments where I feel
like I'm sort of zoning out, like when he's explaining
the plan in words, but when we're in the action,
I feel like I'm mostly able to stay on top
of it, which is kind of remarkable considering how much
is going on. Mostly there are times where it's it's
like more than I can keep track of, but I
think that's okay. When it happens, I really don't think
that it affects my understanding of the overall story, so
I think it's fine anyway. Thank you all again so
much for hanging out with me. Until next time to
Ulu motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast