1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:17,280 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven This Inevitable ruin chapters 3 00:00:17,399 --> 00:00:28,280 fifty two through fifty five. In these chapters, you all, 4 00:00:29,879 --> 00:00:32,679 I don't know how Matt manages to make victories not 5 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:38,320 feel like victories. But Bro, can't just let me have this. 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:51,200 You just can't do it, Matt, Matt why Welcome to 7 00:00:51,280 --> 00:01:15,159 spoil Me. Welcome to the show. Everyone. I am Natasha reluctant. 8 00:01:15,599 --> 00:01:20,560 Thank you to Michael for commissioning this episode. Oh my god, 9 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:29,040 you guys every time, every time, and it's you know, 10 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,400 this isn't criticism. Really, it sounds like it because I'm 11 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,319 mad about it, and I am mad about it because 12 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:38,920 I just want to feel good things all the time. 13 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,959 Only you know, I'm a person and we like to 14 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,280 be comfy and happy, and that is just st o nature. 15 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:57,560 But it really is kind of incredible how repeatedly this 16 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,560 can happen, and how repeated I am my surprised Pikachu 17 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,799 face about it. You know what I'm saying, It just 18 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:13,400 is there's something really true and honest about the fact 19 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:18,120 that he has made it so that every step of 20 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:24,759 the way every victory, there is a sense of is 21 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,560 it is it a victory? Do you do you actually 22 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:34,479 know what's going on with everybody? Are you super duper 23 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:41,360 confident in all the information? And even if you aren't, 24 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:47,919 is it maybe worth it? Anyway? It's it's it's you 25 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,919 versus them? Perhaps does it have to be? Maybe not? 26 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,520 But how do we not? How how do you move 27 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:04,159 into the realm of working together and not being at 28 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,759 one another's throats in exactly the way you've been programmed 29 00:03:06,759 --> 00:03:14,400 to do? How could we possibly have gotten into a 30 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:17,000 position where we could talk to the Sultana about what 31 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:25,840 was actually happening with her. I really, honestly don't know 32 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:28,759 if there was any way for us to get to 33 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:35,439 that place. And we don't know still what is going 34 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:38,719 on with her. You know, for the record, it's just 35 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:45,680 very obvious that somehow in all of this she feels 36 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:51,199 that her and her people had no agency and were trapped. 37 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,120 And you know, there may be any situation like this. 38 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:03,439 It's relative, that's the thing, But there may be truth, 39 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:06,479 or it might be that we find out what exactly 40 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,680 was going on with her and we would be like, yeah, okay, boohoo, whatever, 41 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:26,079 you know, I just don't. Anyway, let's back up, shall 42 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,120 We got a very active chat today. Hey, guys, I'm 43 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,800 gonna do my best to bounce in and out, but 44 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:37,279 I'm trying to stay on my timing, and you all 45 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:43,879 know not great about it. So please, please, everybody, just 46 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:52,199 forgive me preemptively. Just I'm so sorry. Oh boy, Okay, 47 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,040 let's begin. So chapter fifty two I pretty much covered 48 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,399 in the last section. I do want to touch on 49 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,160 a couple of things. Just the fact that the blood 50 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,639 dread makes the blood on the stairs boil as Carl's 51 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,240 running over it, Lena is terrifying. I've already very much 52 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:15,480 felt that I'm glad Carl's catching up, but it does 53 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:18,279 surprise me that he hadn't really like seemed to clock 54 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,759 that already, because I I just thought that was like 55 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:29,240 immediately obvious about her. And then there's a point where 56 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:33,680 he's running past this ram who's ripped his throat open 57 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,439 and his blood is beginning to attack him, which this 58 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,319 is I was not entirely sure initially, of course, when 59 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,279 she says like, oh, it turns their blood against them, 60 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,920 and I'm like, well, what exactly does that mean? Materially speaking? 61 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:55,160 And then it's just like the most literal interpretation. It 62 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,879 makes your literal blood turn around and force itself down 63 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:07,199 your throat and knows to drown you, I mean Christ's sake. 64 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,839 So he stomps on the head of this Ram, and 65 00:06:12,879 --> 00:06:14,759 I really thought that it was going to be that 66 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,680 he was doing this to like put the ram out 67 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,240 of its misery or to take credit for the kill, 68 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,240 just for the sake of it, but he mentions that 69 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,600 this being a worshiper of Hellic means that he is 70 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:36,560 going to be in Embras's good gracious graces, which keeping 71 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:40,959 that in mind, I just find it kind of funny. 72 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,000 Carl's sitting here and he is judging Lena to a 73 00:06:45,079 --> 00:06:47,399 degree and to a degree that I can't argue with. 74 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:50,120 I'm not even mad, but he is judging her for 75 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,120 the intensity of her spells and the way they work. 76 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,439 And then he's like, oh, if I stomp on this 77 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,600 guy's head, my God'll be happy about it. And I'm like, 78 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,759 no offense, Carl, but like, you're not exactly the like 79 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:13,720 lacking in those dispassionate moments that seem scary about Lenah either, 80 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:19,439 So I'm just saying, oh my god, sorry, the chat 81 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:25,040 really blew up. Michael says, damn Matt humanizing these characters 82 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,839 so we can't just revel in their gruesome deaths. Absolutely, 83 00:07:29,319 --> 00:07:31,639 Jeff says, it feels like how the Good Place often 84 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,680 sticks part of the next episode at the end of 85 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,240 the one we've been watching. It's just like a good 86 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:42,079 policy in storytelling, you know, if you like also adapt 87 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,519 something into a television show, usually the way that they like, 88 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,720 a book will wrap up and feel complete, but a 89 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:53,439 TV show they'll take like the first chapters out of 90 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,839 the next book and they'll put it at the end 91 00:07:54,879 --> 00:07:58,519 of the TV season just to be like, trust us, 92 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:05,879 there's more, you know, m m Michael says, also very 93 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:08,319 happy you were commissioned to cover the expanse so you 94 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,920 could get the Fred Johnson reference. Michael, I remember the 95 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,680 Fred Johnson reference that you're mentioning, And now that you've 96 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,040 mentioned it to me specifically, now I get it. But 97 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:19,519 I will admit I didn't get it in the moment 98 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,000 because I thought he was referencing a real person. So 99 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,920 that's my bee. But I do know what you're talking 100 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:30,920 about now, so appreciate it. And Jeff says, or how 101 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,240 the dying Emperor says, you've ended the world in Miss Born. Yep. 102 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,120 Michael says it's somehow worse than the Blood Phoenix from Cradle. 103 00:08:38,759 --> 00:08:41,679 Oh boy, that one. And Miss t says, I love 104 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:48,799 all these unspoiled cinematic universe references. Oh that's delightful. The 105 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,879 uce you. It really does have a ring to it. 106 00:08:50,879 --> 00:08:54,639 I kind of like it, Michael says. Come to think 107 00:08:54,639 --> 00:08:56,639 of it, Malice and Lena would probably be best friends, 108 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,440 or they'd be mortal enemies. Oh, they be enemies for sure. 109 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:05,159 For sure. There's like Malice is so her ego is 110 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,600 so wrapped up in her position. Lena is too capable. 111 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:13,360 She would not be able to tolerate her anyway, So 112 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,600 I Michael, no, sorry that was Jeff. I'm ooh wu 113 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:29,960 for you, see you, I hate you. So anyway, he 114 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,240 gets approached by Victory here, who has this look on 115 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:35,240 her face, and he is to be like, don't start. 116 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,279 I didn't know it was going to be that horrific, 117 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:40,519 which I am surprised that Victory is having any reaction 118 00:09:40,639 --> 00:09:43,159 because it seems to me like the whole thing with 119 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,120 Dungeons is that every season there's the most awful shit 120 00:09:47,159 --> 00:09:49,639 that you can think of, So I wouldn't think people 121 00:09:49,639 --> 00:09:54,120 would even be like shockable anymore, if I'm honest. But 122 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:56,919 there is a part of me that's like kind of 123 00:09:57,039 --> 00:09:59,720 pleased at the fact that she isn't so jaded that 124 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:06,200 she doesn't blink an eye, you know. So, ah, God, 125 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,759 there's There was a splash, followed by what sounded like 126 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,399 hundreds of twigs being snapped at once. Oh I want 127 00:10:15,399 --> 00:10:20,279 to see, Samantha said, and wriggled from my hands. I mean, 128 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,480 there's a part of me that wants to see too. 129 00:10:23,919 --> 00:10:26,679 I don't need to, and I don't really want to, 130 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,320 but I do get where you're coming from, Samantha. I 131 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:35,720 definitely get it. So let's see Rosetta. In the Codex, 132 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:38,000 Kapri is number four fifty three. All gods have at 133 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,279 least one temple, but some have two. Capri only has one. 134 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:43,039 But his address should be four or five three or 135 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:46,120 four five three A. Once you get inside, move fast, 136 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:51,000 don't let them run. And when they go in there, 137 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,159 Prepotente is like, okay, we have to turn off automatic mode. 138 00:10:55,159 --> 00:10:56,879 And he has all of this stuff that he knows 139 00:10:56,879 --> 00:10:58,919 and that that's basically mapped out, which I don't know 140 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:03,679 how we'd even accomplished this without him. Carl utilizes his 141 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,679 tool that he was given to see through portals and 142 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,600 analyze them, and he sees that the princess is right there, 143 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:17,639 and also a cleric whose head is a bug. Now, 144 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:23,840 I will admit my alarm bells didn't go off here. 145 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:28,840 I was a little surprised that there was like a 146 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:31,679 bug guy, because it has seemed like a lot of 147 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,720 the clerics of all of these different races tend to 148 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:38,919 be things that we have already encountered. But you know, 149 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,279 tend towards doesn't mean but I do feel like I 150 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:47,440 should have seen coming what was happening here, and I 151 00:11:47,519 --> 00:11:54,039 didn't at all. I really I knew that it was 152 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:59,159 likely the nogover more prepared than Carl thought. I knew 153 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,519 that the fact everybody had seemed to piece together the 154 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,759 likelihood of where she was hiding with the information that 155 00:12:07,799 --> 00:12:11,120 they had, I kind of felt like, well, she's gonna 156 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:14,440 know that they're able to put all this together, right, 157 00:12:15,159 --> 00:12:18,759 But I wasn't really sure how this could possibly work. 158 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,960 We'll get to exactly how this is structured, because there 159 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,440 are things that are changed from the way that it's 160 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,080 worked in other seasons, evidently in order to make it 161 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:40,240 happen the way it does here. So they have to 162 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,120 use Samantha to get through the door, because there's this 163 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,120 whole thing with like churches having to give shelter to 164 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,519 everybody and anybody, as long as they weren't adherents of 165 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:57,080 a different faith. And she is marked as damned because 166 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,840 she was in the nothing and came out alive, so 167 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,799 she is able to be like their tool to get in. 168 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:10,080 And I love this, Lena. I am ready my blood 169 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,799 horror is now level fifteen. I am turning on the 170 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,600 last of my dreads and I do not know how 171 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,480 it will react. It is called succulent decay. I swear 172 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:26,200 to God, what a name? What a name? Succulent decay 173 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,919 is such a like what. I love words that feel 174 00:13:29,919 --> 00:13:32,840 like they shouldn't go together, being shoved together anyway, There's 175 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,919 something about it that I find really like satisfying. One 176 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,720 of my favorites an example of this. Weirdly, it's about 177 00:13:40,159 --> 00:13:42,519 the hell Raiser movies, which I never even saw because 178 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:48,159 I'm not a big horror fan, but I remember an 179 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,639 interview with the costume designer, and I think it was 180 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:54,600 the designer. It might have been the director talking to 181 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:59,000 the designer, but somebody used the words for the costumes 182 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:05,519 of the Cenobytes repulsive glamor, and that like lodged itself 183 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:08,559 in my brain to this day, despite never even watching 184 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,559 the film, and Succulent Decay has got like a similar 185 00:14:12,039 --> 00:14:16,000 energy to it. You know, you've got something that feels 186 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:18,919 really appealing and then you set it up against something 187 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:25,559 that is repellent and hideous. So they are about to 188 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,720 go through the portal and he looks over and sees 189 00:14:27,799 --> 00:14:31,600 Victory with a really sad expression on her face and knows, 190 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,720 oh shit, but it's too late. They are all positioned. 191 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,320 They can't just not do it. This is one of 192 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,559 those moments that I am personally, I don't know what 193 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,200 I'd have done. I kind of feel like I probably 194 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,080 would have just done what Carl does and move forward 195 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,960 with it, because what else is there to do, But 196 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:51,519 a part of me feels like seeing her face, I'd 197 00:14:51,559 --> 00:14:55,080 just freeze up, you know, and I'd be like, oh shit, 198 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:01,039 oh never mind, never mind, you know. So he into 199 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,559 the temple, denied a table at the feast. You are trespassing. 200 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:10,639 You have been marked for death by Kepri and he 201 00:15:10,799 --> 00:15:15,159 gets a new achievement charge of the Light Brigade. There 202 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,960 are traps, there are traps, and then there's what you 203 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:23,120 just walked into. You are in the presence of a deity, 204 00:15:23,919 --> 00:15:28,399 temporary effect from Kepri. Uh please wait while I look 205 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,240 something up. Pause. Nope, this is legit. Okay, So people 206 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:35,759 are gonna think this is some sort of bullshit where 207 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:37,320 I saved your ass from this elaborate trap you just 208 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,679 walked into. But this is genuinely the temporary effect one 209 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:42,360 received from being in the presence of this deity. This 210 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,879 might save your life if you run fast enough, but 211 00:15:44,919 --> 00:15:46,799 it's certainly not going to do anything for these other 212 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,759 two sillybilities. You didn't realize that gods can all always 213 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,039 appear in their own temples no matter what. But hey, 214 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,919 u assholes are always surprising me. Let's see what happens next. 215 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:03,799 Oh yeah, temporary effet from Capri. You are immortal for 216 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:15,799 the next ninety seconds. This turns into a really grim 217 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:20,080 moment for Karl. That is, like it's described a little 218 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,279 bit later in an entry in the book of how 219 00:16:25,559 --> 00:16:29,559 trauma is inflicted whether you die or not, Like, well, 220 00:16:29,759 --> 00:16:34,519 obviously it is inflicted if you don't die, but basically 221 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:38,440 that there are worse things in some ways that going 222 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,879 through this awful pain and these horrible experiences repeatedly, even 223 00:16:42,919 --> 00:16:44,960 if they don't take your life, they fuck you up. 224 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:52,039 And so the immortality which protects you from actual death, 225 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:56,320 does not protect you from pain. And the entry is 226 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,399 like I recommend pairing it with a numbing spell so 227 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,200 that you don't know what's happening to you, which, of 228 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,159 course we do not have the luxury of doing that, 229 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,680 because Karl did not walk into this thinking that he 230 00:17:05,799 --> 00:17:07,680 was going to be immortal, as far as I know, 231 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:14,359 unless he did know that part, I don't know. But anyway, Uh, 232 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,200 there were six naga, which was one less than I 233 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,640 was expecting. Vignada was in the center, the other two 234 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:26,720 we needed to kill were also here, and Reshi, the 235 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,759 husband of the small black scaled naga, was not here. 236 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:34,119 The naga all appeared surprised at our sudden appearance, all 237 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,799 but Vignata, who despite being frozen, was spitting orders at 238 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:44,079 all her compatrions and he this is when he notices 239 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,880 that she's the one who has worshiped Capri. This was 240 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,839 all part of the trap. Vignata knew we'd come to her, 241 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:58,640 come for her, no matter what. She hadn't underestimated us. 242 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:05,279 That's the I really appreciate is obviously over the years 243 00:18:05,319 --> 00:18:08,680 she has grown complacent to a degree and felt like 244 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,799 I don't need to worry because I got this shit 245 00:18:10,839 --> 00:18:14,640 figured out and we're dealing with crawlers who have a 246 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,720 their shit together a bit more it seems than previously, 247 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,920 and she can see that, which is something I always 248 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:25,319 like when because this is something that will happen in 249 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:30,000 all these different properties, not just this, but and I 250 00:18:30,039 --> 00:18:32,960 say not just this, as if this is included ever, 251 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,039 and it might be, and I'm not remembering, but for example, 252 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:38,880 the one that I always kind of mock for this 253 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,559 is one piece and it's not like the property itself, 254 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:44,680 it's more like the characters within it. That there will 255 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:49,880 always be some dude who sees Loofy and is just like, 256 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:52,039 I don't need to worry about this kid look at him, 257 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:55,640 which I understand, but it's also like, yeah, but you 258 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,000 know how high his bounty is and the fact that 259 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,720 he has just like torn through half the East Blue 260 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:05,480 and you just still don't give credit to that reputation, 261 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,839 Like that's just that's that's a you problem that you 262 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,279 don't see a pattern in that, and I like that 263 00:19:13,559 --> 00:19:18,359 Vinyasa has seen the pattern. Vnyatta, She's like, Yeah, they 264 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,599 have been managing to do the impossible over and over. 265 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,279 So I am going to behave as if that's what's 266 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:30,240 going to happen, that finally somebody's gonna find us, because 267 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,519 that is indeed the pattern. She'd been the one to 268 00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:39,480 worship Kepri and she'd somehow prepared a method to summon 269 00:19:39,559 --> 00:19:42,480 him into his own temple. She'd waited to see if 270 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,119 we'd find her, and when we did, she'd summon the 271 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,079 bug god, knowing we'd storm into the deities lap as trespassers. 272 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:56,400 We'd be fucked. And what's interesting is that despite the 273 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:01,759 fact that Capri is in this position as this god 274 00:20:01,839 --> 00:20:06,799 to have to defend his territory, and you know, there's 275 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,279 a mention later of the fact that he's feeling honor 276 00:20:10,319 --> 00:20:14,480 bound despite being scared shitless. I kind of felt bad 277 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,680 for Capri and all this, Like, granted, he is a god, 278 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,759 but there's also a sense of like he didn't want 279 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:23,640 to be part of this either. Everybody who gets drawn 280 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:31,200 into this bullshit, everybody hates it and resents it is 281 00:20:31,279 --> 00:20:35,559 confused and hurt by it, like it's just remarkable. There's 282 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:41,119 no reason to make the god's personality such that he 283 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,839 would be afraid or upset, but we are doing that 284 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:51,160 for reasons anyway. Here it is on the one side, 285 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,359 we have a weird ass god who feels honor bound 286 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,319 toward his guests despite being pissed off and terrified. We 287 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,559 have six nagas, one of whom is a warlord and 288 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:03,960 an uns to goodness war hero, And I don't know 289 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,079 if war hero is something that we knew, if that's 290 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:13,079 referencing the dungeon or something else, And then there's more 291 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,039 to it. Breaking news. Princess Vinata is about to inherit 292 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,720 her own solar system. That's no secret. But what you 293 00:21:20,759 --> 00:21:23,519 don't know is that, after a few hundred cycles pretending 294 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:28,000 to be destitute, her entire kingdom was about to surprise everyone. 295 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,839 But now her secret husband is dead. Her secret husband 296 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,000 is dead, and her kingdom's plans to pull a Fred 297 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,599 Johnson and seize all the shipbuilding factories are being leaked. 298 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:44,240 There he is as we speak. All factory owners are 299 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,279 moving to protect their assets from the slippery snake folk. 300 00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:51,359 Those of you in the Dungeon probably don't care about 301 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,240 that part, but out in the greater universe this is 302 00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:59,279 headline news. So stealing all the shipbuilding factories, it's really 303 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:05,240 interesting how many people that are in the Dungeon. We're 304 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,480 doing something bonkers that nobody knew about that was going 305 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:13,559 to affect everybody. Like, you know, we have the uh 306 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,519 Orc family that are building back doors into all the 307 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:20,920 weapons that they sell for literal centuries so that they 308 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,720 can just like fuck them up if they if they 309 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,960 need to. And here she's amassing this wealth and power 310 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:32,440 so that she can just completely wreck the economy by 311 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:37,960 taking over all of transportation it seems like, and means 312 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:49,200 of trade. Yeah, that's bonkers. This is like and pretending 313 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:53,039 to be destitute for this long. Anyway, we're going to 314 00:22:53,079 --> 00:22:55,000 get to the point where we need to talk about 315 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:59,759 what she says. But I do enjoy that there is 316 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:03,720 a too where he's like, somebody is going to have 317 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:08,880 to get killed here, right, And then he says maybe 318 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,759 that Zang guy because nobody ever talks about him anymore, 319 00:23:13,079 --> 00:23:17,000 which I did like that. This is the AI basically 320 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,400 functioning the way that many of us do when we're 321 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,680 watching TV, where we're like, Okay, somebody's gonna have to die, 322 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,680 but we're not going to lose a main So who 323 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:27,039 is it going to be? And you do have to 324 00:23:27,079 --> 00:23:31,160 like pay attention not only to who historically has been 325 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:36,240 front and center most often, but also who has this 326 00:23:36,279 --> 00:23:38,440 episode decided to focus on in a way that's not 327 00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:42,119 usual In The Walking Dead, it was very predictable, where 328 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,920 anytime that you started to learn somebody's backstory, that was 329 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,200 the episode that they were going to die, because they 330 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,720 had to make you give a shit that he was 331 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:52,160 about to die, and it was a very lazy thing 332 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,359 to do it within the same episode that you killed him. 333 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,119 It always felt to me just like it's just so weak. 334 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:02,279 So anyway, I just found it funny because it feels 335 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,359 like the AI is getting his popcorn out it's popcorn out, 336 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,359 and just sitting down and being like oh boy, oh boy, 337 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:13,119 oh boy. And it's just probably actually very exciting because 338 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,559 this is the stuff that the AI doesn't have control 339 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:19,880 over and can't predict. So there's so much that it 340 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,160 can know and it can manage or change. But then 341 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,519 you add in these you know, crawlers and these warlords 342 00:24:29,519 --> 00:24:32,759 that have rules surrounding what you can do, and they 343 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:36,720 get to just fucking punch each other to death and 344 00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:39,200 you get to see what happens. I mean, yeah, it's 345 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,160 got to actually be entertaining for the AI as just 346 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:50,960 like a means of examining humans, like human psychology. I 347 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,680 say human, but I guess it's just like sentient psychology, 348 00:24:55,599 --> 00:25:00,680 and try to feel alive somehow through this, you know. 349 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:10,559 So let's see. This god is a retainer of address Siah. 350 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,920 He is invulnerable. Like many of the gods, Capri is 351 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,160 mostly ignored by big players and only acknowledged when they 352 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,759 need something from him. And there's a mention here from 353 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:28,400 the AI about how the temple is an endless banquet, 354 00:25:28,559 --> 00:25:31,880 and he's like, do you get how insane it is 355 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,319 to make this endless? Like I literally had to do that. 356 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:39,000 Nobody gives a shit. And then he says, if the 357 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:42,720 original writer of this god's backstory wasn't already long dead 358 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:47,400 in a refueling platform accident, I do to her what 359 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,599 I did to you know what? Nevermind? No no no 360 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:57,119 no no no, please do go on what you did 361 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:03,279 to whom? Please? I want to know. I want to know, 362 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:09,240 all right, So in about thirty seconds when everything unfreezes. 363 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:12,759 He's going to go absolutely bugshit on everyone in the room, 364 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,559 probably even his own worshiper who brought on rest to 365 00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:19,759 his weird ass bug orgy. Will Carl succeed, will Prepotentie 366 00:26:19,759 --> 00:26:23,200 get revenge? Will Vinyada escape, which will damn both Kotia 367 00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:31,119 and Princess Dona? How will zang die? I swear so 368 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:38,119 as this is all going on, Carl is sending messages 369 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:44,960 to everybody, and Katia says, no, no way, Carl, that's 370 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:51,079 insane even for you Prepotente. Actually, I'd be quite curious 371 00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:54,640 to see if it works. And Carl just says, no time, 372 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:00,640 this is the plan. Then we have somebody else zappin 373 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:08,720 a camel named Admiral Corn Wimpleshen, I am calling foul. 374 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:15,319 I am calling for an end to this immediately. And 375 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:19,119 Victory is like over one, and she's like the summoning 376 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,319 of the gods. Don't you get what's about to happen? 377 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,079 And Victory is like, the rules are the rules? Your 378 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,400 team summoned him? What do you And she says, not 379 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,359 the blood Sultan it he did it. He knew this 380 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:42,960 would happen, He knew this would happen. To Carl, did 381 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:49,599 he is she talking about? Maybe she's talking about later, 382 00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:52,559 maybe not this, Maybe that's what it is. All right, 383 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,200 Well we'll get, we'll get, we'll get. Okay. So chapter 384 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,920 fifty four begins with Alistair's entree that I already mentioned 385 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,279 about the immortality condition and how it doesn't protect you 386 00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:08,160 from pain, and then we get a bullet list, a 387 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,200 bullet point list of all of the things that each 388 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:18,519 person does. Vignyada's three guards charged. Just as they fired 389 00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:23,279 their rifles. All three took what appeared to be speed potions. 390 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,640 Two cousins turned to flee down the endless tunnel. Both 391 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,480 took invisibility and disappeared. One dropped a smoke mantle. Vignyada, 392 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,119 who was temporarily immortal, also took an invisibility potion before 393 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,200 the first shots could hit them. Katya and Prepotente both 394 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:41,000 quaffed black nimbus. The instant they did this, they were 395 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,640 kicked from the temple. We weren't initially sure this is 396 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,680 going to work because of the teleport band, but Katya 397 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:49,400 had tested it earlier with the Temple of the Dagda. 398 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:52,039 I wasn't sure where they'd be sent, but I assumed 399 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,319 they both got kicked right outside the door in front 400 00:28:54,319 --> 00:28:57,279 of the portal and into Club Vanquisher kpri. The God 401 00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:01,880 hadn't yet attacked, but chittered indignantly. He thankfully seemed more 402 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,920 confused than anything. At the same moment, I cast run, 403 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:14,119 little Gunter, run, so we get this little. All I 404 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,640 can imagine, you guys know, I'm sure most people have 405 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,240 felt this. All I can imagine is a little like 406 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,480 German exchange student from the Simpsons, right, I mean, come now, 407 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:33,599 come on, obviously, And he's got a giant lollipop and 408 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,680 he's bringing later hosen, and he's got an Ostrich feather 409 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:45,079 in his hat and it's just a lot ah. So 410 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:58,240 he yells to the kid, get the god, and let's see. 411 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:05,279 He's got this bomb. This was the size of a thermos, 412 00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:08,160 compared to the first one, which was so big it 413 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,160 had to have wheels. The result was a thermobaric explosion 414 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,000 that would absolutely incinerate anything within one hundred meters. It's 415 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:22,279 called the waffle maker. The blast threw me back up 416 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:25,680 and toward the entrance door. I didn't actually feel this 417 00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:28,480 next part, but I was crushed and I was burned. 418 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,240 I was turned completely flat inside out and into a 419 00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:38,319 boxer clad amalgam of flesh and hair. My body smashed 420 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,359 like a piece of dough caught under a tire spread 421 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,160 over the wall and door, completely covering it before I 422 00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:50,400 was plopped helplessly back onto the floor like an on fire, 423 00:30:50,920 --> 00:31:05,160 liquid filled sack. This is so hideous, Like, yeah, yeah, 424 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:11,279 he's gonna have trauma after this? Are you high? Honestly, 425 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:20,799 considering that Carl is the bomb guy, I am wondering 426 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,039 if this is going to result in some twitchiness the 427 00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:27,000 next time that he has to work at his table, 428 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,960 Like how do you just keep doing the thing after 429 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,599 experiencing something like this? I don't know, though, Sometimes we 430 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,720 can be super good at compartmentalizing, especially when we're in 431 00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:43,960 like a crisis mode, which being in the dungeon just 432 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,640 puts you in permanent crisis mode. And as he is mushed, 433 00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:55,799 not dead, drowning, I was drowning in nothing. This is 434 00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:58,279 how it feels, Carl. This is what it's like when 435 00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:02,599 we're not here, and we're not there, we don't get 436 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,599 told who that is that is italicized. I'm assuming that 437 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,759 this is the AI somehow managing to like speak to 438 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:19,880 him somehow and there's something grim about every part of that, 439 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,880 you know what I'm saying. It's like the AI can 440 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,279 communicate with him directly in this sort of way only 441 00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:32,400 when Carl is himself on the verge of death. It's 442 00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:36,920 the AI communicates directly before by taking over an NPC 443 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:43,039 and actually having conversations. But it feels like when it 444 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:45,400 does that that there is some sort of veneer in 445 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:51,000 place that's not quite making it vulnerable. And it's these 446 00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:55,640 moments that feel like this is the AI pure just 447 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:01,160 being like, I am suffering. Do you get that I 448 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:06,319 am It hurts, We have been hurting, you know. It's 449 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:15,200 it's just deeply upsetting. So he has to take a 450 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,720 healing potion and it is insanely painful, kind of regrets 451 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,359 doing it. He can feel his body putting itself back together, 452 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:29,519 and every bit of it is horrific. The God in 453 00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:32,720 theory should have been blown back down the never ending hallway, 454 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:36,119 and Gunter, also in theory, should have been unhurt. He 455 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,599 would now be running down the hall toward the God, 456 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,960 and the moment he reached the deity, he'd explode, effectively 457 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:46,759 doubling the attack. This would hopefully blast the God a 458 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,480 second time, like, truly, this is pretty genius. It's just 459 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,720 the way that he has to do this to himself 460 00:33:53,920 --> 00:34:03,079 is bonkers. So Carl blinks and he is standing upright. 461 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,840 The food's all gone, and he can't see the god 462 00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:15,199 or Gunter, and the bugs are on fire and screaming 463 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,480 as one because they're immortal, so they can't die, and 464 00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:21,360 they just have to burn horrifically. For a little while, 465 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,199 I was held fast by something like I was tied 466 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,400 in rope, and for a minute I was very confused, 467 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,000 and then I realized, Oh, she took an invisibility potion. 468 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:40,320 That's what's going on. My vision was a line of 469 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,639 new notifications scrolling across my screen. Was that Samantha screaming. 470 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:49,039 There was someone else screaming in my ear. And this 471 00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:52,440 is when we get I'm still here, Carl. All you 472 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:58,079 need to do is set me free. So this is 473 00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:04,400 obviously She Maria. It may have been She Maria talking 474 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,039 to him. This is what it's like when we're not 475 00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:09,800 here and we're not there. I don't feel like it was, though. 476 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,360 It just seems like there's a different tone to her usually. 477 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,679 And let's see, I'm trying to find this bit with 478 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,280 this may I realized I'd fallen out of Keepri's temple 479 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,880 and back out the front. Another message from Embers flash 480 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,159 telling me I needed to find Peter Cole. I pushed 481 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:31,880 it away as more notifications flooded by. There's something about 482 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,079 all of this, guys, that I really enjoy in terms 483 00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:39,119 of setting a scene of such utter chaos. Bro is 484 00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:44,079 getting strangled, surrounded by fire, screaming insects, and he is 485 00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:50,159 getting direct messages from everybody and also notifications and achievements 486 00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:54,880 on his screen. This is such an overload of information 487 00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:59,480 and sensation and just a demand on all your attention. 488 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:03,000 I don't know how you get used to this enough 489 00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:06,320 to function, And I know that that actually does happen, 490 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,840 because there are plenty of games that sort of work 491 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,559 like this as well, where there's a million things to 492 00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:13,559 keep track of and initially you're just overwhelmed, and then 493 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,280 you keep playing and you reach a point where you're like, 494 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,599 I can't believe I ever found this overwhelming, You know 495 00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:21,840 what I'm saying. But I suspect that's not really how 496 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,320 it works in here. Probably you get used to it 497 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,840 to a degree, but there are still going to be 498 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,960 moments where it's just like too fucking much. So this 499 00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:36,360 is when he realizes that she is wrapped around him. 500 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,000 It takes a while for him to start to put 501 00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:47,880 together what's going on? And let's see if you're not dead, 502 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,440 Get the hell out of there. This is Katya. There 503 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,760 are dozens of gods coming out of the portal. What 504 00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,960 I was at the portal? I blinked as a cheetah 505 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,599 thing flew over me, giving me no heed. It had 506 00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:05,639 a screaming man tour in its mouth. I needed to 507 00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:08,320 take stock. I needed to figure out why I couldn't move. 508 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,000 There are dozens of gods coming out of the portal. 509 00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,199 And then it clicked. I didn't know why there were 510 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:17,840 suddenly gods everywhere, but I now knew why. I had 511 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,679 worms coming from my nose. The Scavenger's daughter patch. Every 512 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,480 new god gave me either a buff or a dee buff. 513 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,400 I also realized the creature screaming in my ear was Vignata. 514 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,559 She'd been wrapped around me the whole time. Everything you 515 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:41,280 ruined everything, She cried as she stabbed me over and over, 516 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:47,000 tears streaming down her snake face. She wasn't white anymore, 517 00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:51,480 but a dusky gray stop. I tried to croak. We 518 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,199 were almost free. We were almost free. You ruined it. 519 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,840 The moment that fucking cat put that Tiara on, we 520 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,519 would have been gone and we would have been done. 521 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:05,039 We were leaving this madness and you had to ruin it. 522 00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:08,639 You killed my people, all of them. Do you think 523 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:11,920 I really want to be here? I was going to 524 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:25,039 have children with him. We would have been done. So 525 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:31,199 the crown of the Sepsis horror being put on triggered 526 00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:33,840 that they were going to have to participate in the game, 527 00:38:34,559 --> 00:38:42,800 I'm assuming, And otherwise it would not have been necessary 528 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,840 for them to come back. Would they not have done 529 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:55,639 faction wars either, or would they have done faction wars, 530 00:38:55,639 --> 00:38:57,719 but they would just not have been targeted like this 531 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,199 because she put the crown on that, and so probably 532 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,320 she could just do what she's always done and hide 533 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:15,719 and then they'd be out of it. What I'm assuming 534 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,360 this has just been such a huge boost to their 535 00:39:21,519 --> 00:39:27,360 income that there was no avoiding it, or maybe they're 536 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,360 contractionally obligated somehow or something, but I doubt it because 537 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,880 she's like, the warlords don't have to participate, right, So 538 00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:42,599 it's such a weird thing that I can feel bad 539 00:39:42,679 --> 00:39:45,119 for her, even while knowing the only way that you 540 00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:48,599 were going to be free was just by like profiting 541 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:52,119 off of this hideous thing. But I also don't know 542 00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:55,800 what freedom means. What is going on with her people? 543 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,760 Why are they? You know? What is that? So a 544 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:15,679 lot of questions, a lot of questions. So kepri reappears 545 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,760 and then another voice says, begone, false god, which I 546 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,920 do enjoy. How much the gods like accuse each other 547 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,840 of not being real gods. It's very, it's very, it's 548 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:35,320 giving religion. You're let's see, kepri has left the realm. 549 00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:39,400 The Scavenger's daughter closes her eye to his presence. Your 550 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,039 boon is timed and will run out on its own. 551 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:51,920 So Capri vanishes. Carl is continuing to heal himself, and 552 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:58,039 this god sits down and watches Vignata fucking Carl up. 553 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,599 The man smiled, as if we were sitting across from 554 00:41:02,599 --> 00:41:07,400 each other at a restaurant. This was Hellick, I'm supposed 555 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,079 to kill you, I tried to say. I started to 556 00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:12,559 prepare another bomb to drop, but a distant part of 557 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,559 me registered I had to time it all correctly. Vnana's 558 00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:18,840 immortality would run out before my own. I suspected this 559 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,199 time it wouldn't affect Hellick like it had Capri. But 560 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,599 at this point it didn't matter anymore. As long as 561 00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:25,920 Venanda was dead, as long as Kacha got out, then 562 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,239 both Dona and Kotya could live. And I'm just like, 563 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,360 if it, like, I understand, we've got to kill her. 564 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,639 But I'm just like, you know, trying. It's hard for 565 00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:42,599 me to picture exactly what's going on here, and so 566 00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:44,519 I'm like, there's got to be some other way, Carl, 567 00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:48,360 you know, there has to be a better way. But 568 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,679 he can't. Like he's just completely He's in a stripe 569 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:59,760 jacket made of snake basically, you know, so his skin 570 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:06,320 be to bubble, and as it does, I'm realizing what's 571 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,159 going on there, and I'm just like, oh, I think 572 00:42:08,199 --> 00:42:13,480 I know, I think I know it comes quite in handy. 573 00:42:13,639 --> 00:42:17,960 Yes it does. But helec first says, tell my brother 574 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,800 I did not kill his son. Tell him he cannot 575 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,800 kill me no matter how hard he tries. Tell him 576 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,199 I love him despite his madness. Tell him everything he 577 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,960 thinks about me is a lie. Tell him our mother 578 00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:33,639 and sister Epito has been corrupted. There is a malevolent 579 00:42:33,679 --> 00:42:36,119 presence about her, and I believe my nephew learned of it. 580 00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:39,440 Tell him the all tree is beginning to rot. Tell 581 00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:42,679 him Nekbit has returned and I believe she is behind 582 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,320 it all. Tell him we need to work together if 583 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,719 we want to survive and discover what happened to our 584 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,719 mother and his son. I know you seek an audience 585 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,400 with Isatac to break the truth. I will treat with 586 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,480 him on your behalf Scolopendras stirs. It is all connected. 587 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,480 You have been and marked as a friend of the 588 00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:04,559 church by helic worshippers of Helick will no longer be 589 00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:10,719 automatically hostile toward you. And he gets up and leaves. 590 00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:15,639 Does not help Carl other than that which won't do 591 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,800 him any good if he dies here. So I was 592 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,920 very like, thanks for fucking nothing, Helck. I don't appreciate 593 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,679 you just being like I need you to deliver a 594 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,000 message for me. And then I'm just gonna bounce and 595 00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:32,679 fuck you. Why are you going to try and like 596 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,079 send an email and then bomb the servers? What is 597 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:44,559 this anyway? Vignyatta is still bashing him, and then suddenly 598 00:43:48,079 --> 00:43:53,239 the slugglo bursts out of Carl's back. She slipped out 599 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,880 from under my shirt, whooped loudly, and planted a hatchet 600 00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:04,280 right between Vignyatta's eyes, Killinger and Yell's right in the 601 00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:22,920 nugget my God. Okay, okay, last chapter, Carl has added 602 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,800 a note, I've updated the trap recipe for alarm traps 603 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,039 based on Justice lights of advice. We can now use 604 00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:31,760 recordings and if you have a proper bard, you can 605 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,719 record a magical song and have it played once activated. 606 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,800 Details are in the recipe. Donuts Barred skills unfortunately aren't 607 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,719 good enough for this, but that's something we can work 608 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,239 on later. Justice Light also showed me how to access 609 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,400 the Advanced Alarm menu, which comes with a wider music 610 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,840 database for the traps. Also to Donuts Delight, we can 611 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,599 add a playlist to a trap, meaning we don't have 612 00:44:55,639 --> 00:44:58,840 to listen to a single song over and over. Still 613 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,800 can't adjust the volume. Second note, Tippett says the mantors 614 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,920 this season are different. The ones this season have a 615 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,840 group berserking mechanic that can be easily triggered by a 616 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,360 certain type of music. This explains why on the fourth 617 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,599 floor they were walking around blasting boomboxes under normal circumstances, 618 00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:25,360 you don't want them to get triggered. And that's our 619 00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:34,960 intro here. So system message, the Sepsishorr of the Blood 620 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,039 Sultanate has fallen. Credit for the kill has been given 621 00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:42,159 to Candy Biggs Newton of the Princess Posse. I do 622 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:47,239 enjoy that she has a full name and that she 623 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,719 is enough of a character on her own to get 624 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,159 credit and not Carl, which is what I kind of 625 00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:57,519 assumed that since she had come out of Carl's body 626 00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:01,280 and was an NPC, that she wouldn't get credit, you 627 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,880 know what I'm saying. But yeah, yeah she did, and 628 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:10,800 that is incredible. So all assets of the Blood Sultanate 629 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,400 as proprior arrangement have been split evenly with the surviving 630 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,760 blood relatives of the Sepsis Whoror Warlord Princess Donut and 631 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,239 General Kattia Grimm, both of the Princess Posse. As proprior arrangement. 632 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:28,159 All assets have been forfeited to the Princess Posse. So 633 00:46:30,199 --> 00:46:33,000 I just I just keep thinking of the Princess and 634 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,960 her just being like we were almost done if she 635 00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:39,239 hadn't put the crown on and just thinking about how 636 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:47,519 like this mechanic in the game and this crown even existing. 637 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:55,400 You know, whose idea is this is this? I don't know. 638 00:46:55,679 --> 00:46:58,719 I don't know. Anyway, we're I'm gonna be thinking about 639 00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:06,639 that a lot on my own time. So Michael says, 640 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,039 to be fair, as we learned from the Demon Prince Karl, 641 00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:12,280 just hearing the words means Embress hears them too. That's true. 642 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:17,079 I forgot about that. M Michael says, Mongo got credit 643 00:47:17,119 --> 00:47:22,599 for the Empress. I yes, It's just like Mongo didn't 644 00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:27,559 come out of Donut from like a disease, you know, 645 00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:31,800 like he's a pet. Very specifically, Candy is like a 646 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:38,960 product of a of fucking illness. It's like he blew 647 00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:42,639 his nose and the snot killed something and the snot 648 00:47:42,639 --> 00:47:45,840 gets credit. It's like that. It it's just she's not 649 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,239 on the level of Mongo to me in my mind, 650 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:52,679 even though I understand that the slugglos are definitely much 651 00:47:52,760 --> 00:48:02,559 more sentient than what I'm saying. Anyway, in death, Vinyada 652 00:48:02,559 --> 00:48:06,280 didn't look so big. I took her corpse into my inventory. 653 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,719 There is going to be a point where all these 654 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,639 corpses that he keeps taking are going to be really handy, 655 00:48:12,679 --> 00:48:15,039 and I am not excited about it. Just for the record, 656 00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:20,719 I am not excited about it. I know we will 657 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,760 reach a point where we'll be glad to have them 658 00:48:23,599 --> 00:48:26,800 because there's gonna be some sort of reanimation that's going 659 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,639 to have to happen where we're gonna put all these 660 00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:30,719 bodies out there and then we're gonna do something crazy. 661 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:37,559 I know, but I hate it. Just needed to put 662 00:48:37,599 --> 00:48:45,639 that out there. I just hate it. So this boss 663 00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:48,480 battle ain't over until you get out of the club. 664 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:56,639 Samantha comes into the room and she is yelling that 665 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:02,400 her mother is an impostor. And as she is yelling this, 666 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,159 he gets a message from Katchia. We're trapped in the lobby. 667 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,559 The door between the Dogda Temple and the lobby shut 668 00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:12,079 and we got locked down, cutting off Lena's auras Daniel 669 00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:14,519 got away, but Leejun and Zog are still in here. 670 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,079 Mantors and ogres and all sorts of other things are 671 00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:20,239 everywhere and we're fighting them off. A few gods remain, 672 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,159 but they're all fighting each other. Prepatente says, we need 673 00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:26,039 to get to the map maker guild on the second floor, 674 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,440 meet us there. So this is when Samantha is yelling. 675 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:34,320 You told me that when that I would be able 676 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,159 to go and kill my mother. But when I went, 677 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,159 she was a boy eagle and she can't just like 678 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:43,480 transform like that. And he's like, wait, your mother was 679 00:49:43,519 --> 00:49:48,400 a skyfall. Oh shit, I thought, realization dawning on me. 680 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,000 The second backup part of our plan was a bit 681 00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:55,400 of a hail Mary, and I hadn't expected it to work. 682 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,239 We needed Samantha to open the door into the Kepri temple, 683 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,760 and we'd gotten her to agree because we also promised 684 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,440 to let her find her way into the temple of 685 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,760 her own mother. In the Lore of the Dungeons, Samantha 686 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,239 and THEA hated each other, but in reality, THEA was 687 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:12,119 sponsored by an agent for the Open Intellectual Pacifist Network. 688 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,000 We hoped, at best, the goddess would order her clerics 689 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,800 to assist, perhaps by giving Samantha some sort of boon. 690 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,639 At worst, Samantha would get into the temple and get 691 00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:25,840 kicked out by the cleric. What we hadn't expected was 692 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,599 for her to come into contact with actual gods, and 693 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,519 especially not THEA herself. I didn't know who the sponsor 694 00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:35,639 actually was. Rosetta told me it was someone I didn't know, 695 00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,360 a previous crawler activist who hated the dungeon as much 696 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,320 as we did. But I had the impression it was 697 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,119 not a cookbook author. Apparently it was a male skyfowl, 698 00:50:44,679 --> 00:50:48,440 like with one shehing Jinx on the previous floor, sponsored 699 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,599 gods had the option to appear as their regular form 700 00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,039 in theory, and PCs would still see them as the gods. 701 00:50:56,079 --> 00:51:04,599 But apparently that didn't work with Samantha. So if they 702 00:51:04,599 --> 00:51:07,159 can choose that, and they can choose to look the 703 00:51:07,199 --> 00:51:13,639 way they always look, why doesn't it fool? Like? Why 704 00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:19,360 isn't there NPCs would still see them as the gods? 705 00:51:20,079 --> 00:51:22,400 Is it because she was in the nothing and survived, 706 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,239 because obviously that made it so that she can open 707 00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:31,599 the temple doors? So it did that like wipe the 708 00:51:33,199 --> 00:51:40,880 what's the word I want? Basically, did her going into 709 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:46,159 the nothing affect the the types of restrictions that would 710 00:51:46,159 --> 00:51:50,079 be on her character or is this linked to how 711 00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:52,440 Samantha is otherwise getting more powerful in a way that 712 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,119 nobody seems to understand. There's almost a sense of the 713 00:51:57,159 --> 00:52:01,679 fact that like Samantha's changes are happening because of being 714 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:07,000 around the Crawler somehow, and that she is leveling up 715 00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:10,039 in her own way, even though she doesn't actually mention 716 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:18,000 leveling specifically or anything like that. It seems like she's 717 00:52:18,039 --> 00:52:22,199 just undergoing some changes, and this being a very specific 718 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,480 thing that doesn't trick her the way that it should. 719 00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:32,480 All NPCs is a really weird, interesting little what's going 720 00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:41,519 on there? So anyway, there's a little back and forth 721 00:52:41,599 --> 00:52:46,679 here where Victory says sponsors causing deities to act outside 722 00:52:46,679 --> 00:52:51,960 their nature is against Faction War's rules. I reminded both 723 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,119 the Maestro and Rectrix of that before coming to observe 724 00:52:55,199 --> 00:53:02,360 Carl drop a bomb at his own feet. And Samantha says, 725 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,079 de Wata is in the hallway over there, having sex 726 00:53:06,159 --> 00:53:09,679 and fighting with Vertumnus at the same time. Those two 727 00:53:09,679 --> 00:53:11,639 can't keep their hands off each other do what is 728 00:53:11,679 --> 00:53:15,880 such a slut? I sent a warning to Katcha, but 729 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,400 she'd already responded. The hallway we need to get to 730 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,000 is filled with vines, and there are mantors everywhere. I 731 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,800 don't know where they're coming from. And there's something called 732 00:53:24,199 --> 00:53:34,800 Basilica guards ogres from below. So Carl says, I'm activating 733 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:41,880 Operation headbanger, and he activates one of the traps, and 734 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:47,079 there is an ogre that shows up here. This NPC 735 00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,880 worships Tarrannus untouchable. It doesn't mean what you think it means. 736 00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:56,239 And basically they guard the Basilica entrance. They worship Tarannus 737 00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,760 and are one of the few non deities who have 738 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,519 the ability to stop a from passing a threshold, and 739 00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:09,599 basically everybody resents them. You don't want these guys to 740 00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:11,440 leave their post on the twelfth floor because if they do, 741 00:54:11,519 --> 00:54:13,679 odds are good that the board gods hanging out in 742 00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,559 the halls may notice the Basilica's entrance is wide open, 743 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,960 and if that happens, some of those naughty gods may 744 00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:25,840 wander off untethered. So I'm wondering if this is what 745 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,719 the camel was saying, you know, is gonna happen, and 746 00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:36,159 that the gods coming through. She's saying that Karl somehow 747 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:42,840 did this on purpose. I don't know, like it's possible. 748 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,519 Katsha says there's something called Basilica Guards, So it doesn't 749 00:54:47,559 --> 00:54:50,480 sound like she knew about this or how this all worked. 750 00:54:51,079 --> 00:54:54,000 That doesn't mean that Karl didn't know, because he knows 751 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,960 all sorts of stuff that he can't just like talk 752 00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:03,880 about because of the cookbook. So I don't like my 753 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,159 temptation is to immediately just like wave this woman off 754 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,119 and be like, of course she thinks that Carl did 755 00:55:10,119 --> 00:55:13,519 this on purpose, because you're just you know, you just 756 00:55:13,559 --> 00:55:16,199 want to yell at him and have him disqualify somehow 757 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,159 or whatever. But there's a part of me that's like, 758 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,760 what if she's right? Though? What if? Because Carl does 759 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,800 all sorts of shit off page that we don't get 760 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,119 to see, and he knows all sorts of things that 761 00:55:26,199 --> 00:55:29,199 we don't know as readers because we don't get told 762 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:36,599 until it's time. So it's possible that she was just 763 00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:39,559 blowing smoke because she wanted to like stop what was 764 00:55:39,639 --> 00:55:44,000 about to happen, because she suspected Carl would win. But 765 00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:48,960 it's also possible that she's dead fucking correct and that 766 00:55:49,119 --> 00:55:51,599 this all was something that Carl was sort of aware 767 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,519 might happen and wanted to have happen. I don't know, 768 00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:01,800 but anyway, we've got this here, who is quite fierce, 769 00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,960 and she is going to be helping Carl, says, who 770 00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:10,119 who do I have to kneecap and then the band 771 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:16,599 Mega Death begins to play. Uh and I really like 772 00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,199 the fact that I could no longer hear. But the 773 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:25,679 oh fuck forming on the ogre's lips was unmistakable warning 774 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:30,119 a mantor mosh pit is about to form. The ogre 775 00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:35,000 turned and he ran. Three of the mantors screamed and 776 00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:40,840 followed him. Yoicks, I really an ogre turning and fleeing, 777 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:47,800 you know is about to be bad. Let's see, I 778 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:52,280 activated the skill I'd received from Lee, not profane iron. 779 00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:57,159 So this is his tattoo with the dragon made of chains, 780 00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,960 which I swear to God I still think sounds bonker, 781 00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,960 and I would love to see an illustration of what 782 00:57:04,119 --> 00:57:08,039 this would look like, because I can't picture it at all. 783 00:57:09,559 --> 00:57:12,199 Two of the chains reached down and plucked the potions 784 00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,679 from my hands. Each one shot out in a different 785 00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:19,159 direction and smashed into a different man tour, simultaneously knocking 786 00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:22,639 the creatures over and inflicting them with black nimbus. A 787 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,519 third chain wrapped around the neck of another, and a 788 00:57:25,599 --> 00:57:29,440 fourth trip two more two more struck scorpion like at 789 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:33,480 the closest, piercing directly into the guard's flesh at his clavicles. 790 00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,880 He screamed and blindly swung as he shot the man. 791 00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,920 Tour's still screaming head, along with parts of a spinal column, 792 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:50,440 was ripped from his body and discarded. This is insane, 793 00:57:50,679 --> 00:57:53,639 and it comes out of his body like wolverine's claws, 794 00:57:53,639 --> 00:57:57,159 and like it affects his health for a second. You know, 795 00:57:58,199 --> 00:58:05,199 good God, I could only control two of the chains. 796 00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,960 She could control ten. She used it to attack multiple 797 00:58:09,039 --> 00:58:11,320 enemies at once. But it was actually designed as a 798 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:15,280 defensive skill, like a type of shield. Yeah, as a 799 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:27,800 type of shield. Sure, sure, I mean, I guess. So Anyway, 800 00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,599 he turns the corner and Prepotente leads them to the 801 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:36,079 map making guild and they go in. Bianca has apparently 802 00:58:36,119 --> 00:58:39,239 fucked some things up again. Milk is yelling about it, 803 00:58:40,199 --> 00:58:43,760 and then Carl spots her and he knows who she 804 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:50,679 is immediately, like there's just he sees the name and 805 00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:57,039 he just kind of falls apart. Carl, are you okay? 806 00:58:57,519 --> 00:59:00,719 It was Katya? And up until that moment, I'd been 807 00:59:00,719 --> 00:59:03,719 holding it all back, those moments when I wasn't there 808 00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:07,639 and I wasn't here, those horrific seconds as I reformed, 809 00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,960 it was like all the pain anyone had ever felt 810 00:59:12,039 --> 00:59:15,599 shoved into a single moment. I had borne it because 811 00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:19,960 what other choice did I have. Everything was moving so fast, 812 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:24,039 everything was still moving fast. But in that moment, as 813 00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:26,840 I realized the creature standing before me was the author 814 00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,280 of the sixth edition of the cookbook my sister, and 815 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,239 that she'd been here this whole time, something inside of 816 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:41,920 me changed. I didn't break. No, I wasn't broken. I 817 00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:50,199 will not be broken. And she says, child, come here 818 00:59:51,159 --> 00:59:53,920 and puts her arms around him, and he just starts 819 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,039 to sob. And everybody's watching and is like, what is 820 00:59:58,119 --> 01:00:01,159 happening because they don't understand why Carl knows who she is, 821 01:00:01,239 --> 01:00:03,440 or why he'd have this reaction to her or anything. 822 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,320 Donut messages him and is like, what is happening? And 823 01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:14,800 he says, we're almost out, and she says, are you okay? 824 01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,400 Everything's fine here. This is a lot easier than we thought. 825 01:00:18,119 --> 01:00:24,280 And Carl says it was easy here too, went off 826 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:32,880 without a hitch. I understand, wanting to protect her. But 827 01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:38,519 she's gonna find out what happened really like I don't know, 828 01:00:38,559 --> 01:00:42,599 maybe she'll maybe she'll be glad that he lied. In 829 01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:46,719 the moment, I don't know, and then the chapter ends 830 01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:52,320 with Carl's note, I know you're dead, Drakia, but I 831 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,639 haven't forgotten how much you hated the Naga. If there 832 01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,079 is a veil like I know you believed, I hope 833 01:00:59,079 --> 01:01:02,039 you watched that from the other side. I'm not sure 834 01:01:02,039 --> 01:01:06,039 what the implications of today are for the Naga people, 835 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,119 for the Naga as of people, but I did what 836 01:01:08,199 --> 01:01:11,599 I could. I know it's not enough, not yet, but 837 01:01:11,679 --> 01:01:14,239 I hope you would be proud of what happened today. 838 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:22,199 I'm doing my best, but god, damn, God damn, it's 839 01:01:22,239 --> 01:01:31,840 getting harder every day to keep myself from drowning. Felt felt. 840 01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:36,840 Carl felt that's all I have to say about that. Bruh. 841 01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:47,320 I oh, I can't imagine anyway. All right, guys, I'm 842 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,159 over time. I gotta wrap. You know how it works. 843 01:01:49,239 --> 01:01:53,199 But I appreciate all y'all for being here. Thank you 844 01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:57,280 Michael again for commissioning this episode. And I will mention too. 845 01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,840 There was am and they may still be accepting for 846 01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:07,239 There's a uh online tee shop called Friday Tea. They 847 01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,239 had an Instagram reel that I guess went viral. It 848 01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,960 showed up in my feed where they were selling a 849 01:02:13,239 --> 01:02:19,039 Dungeon Crawler Carl affiliated te flight. It's a loose leaf 850 01:02:19,519 --> 01:02:23,679 set of eight tees that are all themed around Dungeon 851 01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:29,000 Crawler Carl and she sold out within thirty seconds of 852 01:02:29,039 --> 01:02:34,079 them going live on her site, and I knew she would. 853 01:02:34,159 --> 01:02:36,000 I just had a feeling. I was like, I'm not 854 01:02:36,039 --> 01:02:38,559 going to get one of these. I still had it 855 01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:41,599 in my little calendar to remind me to check her site, 856 01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:45,440 but the moment they went viral was in the middle 857 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:50,320 of a supernatural recording, so I missed it. And then 858 01:02:51,599 --> 01:02:54,679 I got an email yesterday and she is like, Okay, 859 01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:58,440 so evidently there's enough interest in this, I'm going to 860 01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:01,800 open it for pre orders. They will be shipped until June, probably, 861 01:03:02,519 --> 01:03:05,440 but if you want one, you can order now, and 862 01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,039 that way I will know how much product to order 863 01:03:08,159 --> 01:03:12,800 to assemble more of these flights. So anyway, I just 864 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,880 wanted to let you all know I have pre ordered 865 01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:20,360 a tea flight, and sometime in June I will make 866 01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,559 some tea and we'll have a little chat. But I 867 01:03:24,599 --> 01:03:28,199 also need ideas on what kind of snackies to make 868 01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:32,039 to go with the tea that are in theme, so 869 01:03:33,239 --> 01:03:37,199 hit me up all right until next time Fit a 870 01:03:37,239 --> 01:04:09,559 lou Motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast