1 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:18,519 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven, This Inevitable ruin chapter 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:29,160 sixteen through nineteen. In these chapters, somebody sets up somebody 4 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,320 to set up somebody else. It's a lot of machinations 5 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:41,520 in this bitch. I'm into it. Welcome to spoil Me. 6 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,560 To the show everyone, I am Natasha. Thank you very 7 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:09,920 much to Michael for commissioning this episode. So this section, y'all, 8 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:19,599 what a series of like devastating moments. It's wild how 9 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,280 many times I was just like, oh, this is really, 10 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:28,120 this is this is rough first you know, it says 11 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:33,200 chapter sixteen through nineteen. But the thing about this book 12 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:37,079 is that it has been sort of peppered with these 13 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:41,040 chapters that are more like sort of interstitial moments that 14 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,000 are not really their own chapters. So really we have 15 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:52,760 first before sixteen, the chapter titled Everlely, and it is 16 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:59,120 the you know this, this is the I keep wanting 17 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:03,840 to say flash It's a weird thing though, because it's like, yeah, 18 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,199 technically a flashback, but also kind of it doesn't count 19 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,319 when we're not when that character is already dead and 20 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,639 we're not even like with them anymore or you know 21 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,199 what I'm saying, And I think probably it does. It's 22 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:24,159 just a weird There's there's a quality to it that 23 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:28,000 I don't come across in many books, because usually when 24 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,560 we're doing this, it's something that is directly like the 25 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,479 history of the character whose head we're in, or the 26 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,000 history of somebody we are about to meet, which has 27 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:43,599 happened in this book a couple of times. So it's 28 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,879 sort of a it's hard to say, and I feel 29 00:02:47,879 --> 00:02:50,560 like flashback is fine, but it just doesn't quite feel 30 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,759 right to me, if you get what I mean. So Everly, 31 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:01,360 it's such a it's such a an series of really 32 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:08,520 interesting things going on here. It starts with you, Everly hissed, 33 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,240 pointing her leg at one of her two remaining mercenaries. 34 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,479 Watching you try to hold up the ceiling is irritating me. 35 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:22,599 You're not going to stop it, so don't bother dig 36 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,759 if you must, just don't stand there like that. And 37 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,240 it's too This is the one guy trying and hold 38 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,000 the ceiling up and the other trying to dig into 39 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:41,520 the ground, because what it turns out is happening is 40 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,840 they are being slowly crushed and they are trying to 41 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:47,800 find a way out, and she's watching the dwarf who's 42 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,479 attempting to dig, because that's what dwarfs do, am I right, 43 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:57,120 And watching that he is really trying to hold out hope, 44 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:03,319 but that it's obviously like beginning to fade every passing moment. 45 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,120 It's just starting to fade away. And we get some 46 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:15,919 background here. The younger version of herself would be raging 47 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,240 right now, it's not over. She'd say, it's not over 48 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:20,680 until you're dead. Get down there and dig, damn you. 49 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:23,800 And by younger everly meant the version of herself from 50 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:27,360 just before the demons had come to her world. And 51 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:35,000 this particularly hit me, this like there was a version 52 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,360 of me at one time that would never have accepted this. 53 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:41,399 I feel like I run into this thought in my 54 00:04:41,519 --> 00:04:47,040 own head so often, and it's not even necessarily really 55 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:52,240 even true in the simplest sense of it. It's just 56 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:59,079 that I maybe I feel that there had been a 57 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:02,079 version of me, and you know, like, and maybe I'm 58 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:06,480 wrong about that, but what it is is just really 59 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,360 the sense of like I used to be different, and 60 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:16,399 what has happened to me that I have come to 61 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,519 a point in my life that I just don't believe 62 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,360 in things working out like this anymore, or I don't 63 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:31,480 believe in that good will prevail, or that I can 64 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:37,680 do anything, or that there's pride or worth to fighting 65 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:41,639 to the last breath. There's a certain amount of ego 66 00:05:42,439 --> 00:05:45,160 involved in that, and I feel like when you use 67 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:47,920 the word ego, it's always sort of heard as like 68 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:52,199 an inherently bad thing. And I don't think it is 69 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,279 an inherently bad thing, but I do think that it 70 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,240 can be more of a driving force than we like 71 00:05:59,319 --> 00:06:02,600 to admit to our about a lot of stuff in 72 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:08,199 a way that we should interrogate. And you must fight 73 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:14,120 until your very last breath. You know, I understand that 74 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:17,360 feeling like you have making you feel as if you 75 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,560 have more control over the situation as somebody who has 76 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,480 dealt with being in control freak my whole life. But 77 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,120 I don't know. This just sort of hit me. There 78 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:35,839 comes this point where we get the real specific item 79 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:41,399 and what happened here. Gordon's Compass of vertical labyrinthement Management 80 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:46,319 forty nine uses. It was a simple device and it 81 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,360 appeared it was going to be enormously helpful. It showed 82 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,319 the bearer the quickest and safest path through a maze, 83 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:57,399 but the description specifically stated it wouldn't work in subterranean mazes. 84 00:06:57,519 --> 00:06:59,319 It was clear that compass was meant to be used 85 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:04,399 to navigate Tower and some of her fellow mantises, which 86 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:06,839 the fact that this is a mantis is really like 87 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,879 another bit of a I know that this has happened 88 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:11,399 to them, and that it's not even the same type 89 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:20,240 of mantis. Nevertheless, they she refuses help, goes on and 90 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:26,800 sees that her like views or skyrocketing. She wondered what 91 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:31,519 her mother would have thought. The center was watching her 92 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,079 on a mission to save her fellow mantises. It was 93 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,639 a good, unfamiliar feeling. And she comes to a dead 94 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:42,639 end and then there is an announcement, never trust your 95 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,480 life to Gordon Waystation outfitters. There's no safe or cheap 96 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,040 path to safety. This dead end was sponsored by Dictum 97 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:58,040 Waystation Controls Limited. Don't get caught with nowhere to go. 98 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:11,800 So this is just so hideous, guys, it's so rough. Man. 99 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,079 I hated it so much, the fact that she got 100 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:21,240 played like this, like there's just not words for how 101 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:30,959 incredibly grotesque, you know, and every wondered if this would 102 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,759 have happened if she'd allowed some of the others to 103 00:08:32,759 --> 00:08:34,919 go up to the tower with her. Maybe one of 104 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:37,240 the others had heard of this Gordon Way Station company 105 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,159 and would have figured out the whole thing was a trap. 106 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:45,320 But she'd insisted on staying alone this whole time. She'd 107 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:49,840 wanted to work with them, they'd wanted to work with her. Still, 108 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:53,360 she'd struck out on her own, determined to fight it 109 00:08:53,440 --> 00:09:00,799 all in her own way. And she says to herself, 110 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,639 that's when it happened, wasn't it not now here in 111 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:11,240 this damn tower. It happened when I abandoned the others 112 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:17,159 so much earlier than I realized. And what she is 113 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,440 saying is like, that's when it happened. Is the inevitable 114 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:31,519 ruin of things falling apart and the ogre change changed. 115 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,960 He falls down. There's a flash deep in the back 116 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,480 of his small black eyes. Maybe there's more to it 117 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:41,159 than this, the ogre said, just as the slow moving 118 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,639 ceiling kissed the side of his face. His body shifted 119 00:09:44,879 --> 00:09:47,960 and he was pushed into the sand. Maybe it's not 120 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:54,279 inevitable like you say. I swear to God, you guys, 121 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:02,320 that's just so Matt is very, very interested in community, 122 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,720 and it's a really interesting thing to watch in a 123 00:10:04,799 --> 00:10:07,159 series that feels like it's not going to be about 124 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:10,919 community at the start. It really it's just Carl with 125 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,279 his cat. That's how we start, and he's alone for 126 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,960 such a while before they even run into other crawlers, 127 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,080 and it just feels like this is about a guy 128 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,039 who's going to do the thing and the way that 129 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:28,440 he has subverted the expectation on that, and really like 130 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,639 it's not that Carl isn't individually important, because there is 131 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,159 exactly what it is that Surrendel Gore said about. He 132 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:40,200 is the one who managed to become a warlord. He 133 00:10:40,519 --> 00:10:43,759 is key. We need him to keep going like that 134 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,879 is true, but he is the one that's like creating 135 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:52,000 a path for everyone else to follow. And if they 136 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:57,000 weren't there him creating this path wouldn't matter. It has 137 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:02,279 to be everybody. And I am just extremely down with 138 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:08,039 this messaging because we are so individualistic in the US, 139 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,360 and it is what is killing us. It is what 140 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:16,519 is eating the heart out of our populace and what 141 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,639 has poisoned the thought processes of everybody who thinks that 142 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,159 we should all just be figuring it out for ourselves. 143 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:36,240 It's toxic, it's extremely shortsighted, it's deeply illogical, it's wildly egotistical. 144 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:44,120 It's just so flawed. And so seeing this like constant 145 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:49,159 returning to there needs to be people, you need to 146 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,919 accept help, you need to work with people. I just 147 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,240 really appreciate right now, especially where we're at, you know 148 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:02,600 what I'm saying. So then we go to chapter sixteen, 149 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,720 and this is when Carl and Kachia are about to 150 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,480 undergo this weird thing that's like a drug induced state. 151 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,919 For Katchya it's to treat her addiction to this drug 152 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,080 that she took once that has like really affected her. 153 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:28,399 And for Carl, it's supposed to possibly help him eject 154 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:34,960 the being inside him. She Maria. It's two basically two 155 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,360 hits of Glory Bound, but compounded with a subdermal gel 156 00:12:38,399 --> 00:12:41,279 and mixed with a potion called Tough Love, kind of 157 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,879 like that anti alcohol potion I gave to Louis and 158 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:47,320 Farrah on the fifth floor. Remembering that Louis had been 159 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:51,720 one of those like kind of hostile drunks. Is really weird. 160 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,679 I just forget and like who he is now, Like 161 00:12:55,759 --> 00:12:59,879 what a change? I started making this on the previous 162 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,960 and it has to sit nice and long before it 163 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,559 gains potency, and we're now in that window. It goes 164 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,720 stale fast, so it's now or never. The dose I'm 165 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:10,840 giving to you, Karl, I'm also going to combine with 166 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,320 another potion called removal order that way we'll be visiting 167 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,799 the Spider's memories instead of your own, he paused, swallowing hard. 168 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:25,600 I hope. And the way that this winds up working 169 00:13:25,639 --> 00:13:34,200 actually is Karl and Katcha are holding hands, and so 170 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,840 it kind of changes the way this whole thing works, 171 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:41,639 which is, you know, this is part of the theming 172 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:48,120 of just we need other people. And so he is 173 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:52,000 in her memory and gets to see what went down 174 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,519 with her in a way that I don't think she 175 00:13:55,639 --> 00:13:57,960 has any issue with. She's holding his hand. They are 176 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,679 meant to be like, we're going in to this together, 177 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,720 and I think that him being there is actually kind 178 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,960 of helpful, so she doesn't have to try and explain 179 00:14:10,279 --> 00:14:14,919 after the fact if she ever wanted to. He gets 180 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,679 to see and like, there's something about this to me. 181 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,559 When you're near a divergent, you're often accused of being 182 00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:32,200 too preoccupied with like fairness with over explaining things because 183 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,360 you're afraid of being misunderstood. And I definitely fall into this. 184 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:41,840 And there are so many instances in my life where 185 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:43,600 I wish I could just go into a memory and 186 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,440 bring someone with me so they could see what I mean, 187 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,960 so that I don't have to explain what happened, because 188 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,200 there's certain things, especially as a woman, when you deal 189 00:14:56,279 --> 00:15:00,720 with certain types of sexual harassment, trying to expressed to 190 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,759 someone what creeped you out and what felt wrong about 191 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:10,120 an interaction. When you say it out loud, it sounds 192 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:15,200 like nothing, and it doesn't feel like enough to even 193 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,759 be sharing. Sometimes, like you're like, what am I even 194 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,519 bringing this up for? But in the moment, it was 195 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:27,200 unmistakably a threat that was happening and you fucking know it. 196 00:15:27,879 --> 00:15:33,960 But you also recognize that in words, there's no sense 197 00:15:34,039 --> 00:15:38,000 of that coming across. So the moments that I wish 198 00:15:38,039 --> 00:15:40,440 I could go back to and like pull somebody in 199 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,559 and be like, do you see what I mean? You know, 200 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:48,399 that's like a dream, a fantasy to be like, I 201 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,840 want your take on this, because this is how I feel, 202 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,720 and I can't tell if I'm just bringing my baggage 203 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:57,919 to it or what. So watch this and let's see, 204 00:15:58,679 --> 00:16:01,720 and like, it's not that he has the chance to 205 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,000 really even interact with her regarding this by the end 206 00:16:04,039 --> 00:16:07,080 of this section that I read, but we know we're 207 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,360 in his head. He witnessed it, and it's just like, 208 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:15,559 what an asshole about this guy? And I adore the 209 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:21,799 fact that we have like an impartial observer who is 210 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,679 fully on her side and who can look at her 211 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:29,559 and be like, girl, you are right. That guy was 212 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:35,279 a bastard and you got done wrong. And how validating 213 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:43,720 that would feel, you know? So, uh Rosetta says Carl, 214 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,840 if you're still under when Kaya comes back, I'll induce 215 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:47,840 the wake up sequence. You should be able to initiate 216 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:54,360 the ejection yourself. This all turns out to be unnecessary. 217 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,559 So once Kachia is under, she's on her own. If 218 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:01,840 we wake her up early, it could be fatal. But 219 00:17:01,919 --> 00:17:07,200 she's not on her own. As we see, Doughnut remained 220 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,400 in the guild in her bathroom, taking shower after shower 221 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,839 in a fruitless attempt to get the stench out of her, 222 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,640 and Mango RND was with them, apparently a big fan 223 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,119 of the shower, which I think is very funny for 224 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:27,039 some reason, and she Maria is like whispering to him, 225 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:28,799 trying to tell him not to do this and that 226 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:32,519 they're both going to die if he does this. He 227 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:35,160 actually slaps himself in the head at one point to 228 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,839 get her to shut up. So there's this bit where 229 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:47,160 it says that she confesses, like, my worst memory is 230 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,240 also my best memory, which I don't really understand how 231 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,759 this works, but I guess it's getting to be with 232 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:01,960 Annie at all. It's just life to be like that, 233 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,279 doesn't it. You know, a potion of somnoalin embrace. This 234 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:10,559 won't remove your worries or your bad dreams for more 235 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,359 than a moment, but it will ease them long enough 236 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,799 to let you sleep. Sometimes this is all we can 237 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:19,839 hope for. And I love when they take a sip 238 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:24,200 and she goes, oh wow, this stuff is great. Oh girl, 239 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,480 she do gotta have it. And as they're going under, 240 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:36,599 Mordecai says, I don't have the fancy bed you guys have. 241 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,400 It's what I use sometimes sometimes. Rosetta asked, what do 242 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,960 you know about it? Mordecai asked her, I saw a 243 00:18:43,319 --> 00:18:45,519 story about you the other way or the other day. 244 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,240 Her what and we are out of there before we 245 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:52,319 get to actually see that whole thing unfold, and Mordecai 246 00:18:52,359 --> 00:19:00,559 has got to be pissed. So somebody try to say, 247 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:06,599 separate them, no touching you two, it will confuse the dream. 248 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,119 But it's too late. It seems like the fact that 249 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:14,920 they touched the way they did was enough. Ah I 250 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,920 briefly touched the minds of others nearby, and Moni, who 251 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,599 was terrified, Mordecai equally weary, but also sad Rosetta, who 252 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,519 just seemed so very tired yet filled with a deep 253 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,359 familiar rage, Edgar, who was worried. These were just flashes, 254 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,880 like my hand running through a flame. The moment only 255 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,559 lasted micro seconds, yet I saw deeper and longer than 256 00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:40,720 I should I shouldn't be seeing this. Katcha was the 257 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,680 one I truly crashed against, and while it was still short, 258 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,759 the glimpses I felt of her lasted longer told me more. 259 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:53,200 She too was afraid, afraid that she was a burden, ashamed, 260 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:56,519 ashamed that we were all doing this for her, and 261 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,480 angry too, angry at herself, angry at the wor angry 262 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:08,680 at me. Why would she be angry? With me. I 263 00:20:08,759 --> 00:20:14,079 quickly started to recede, and eventually it's her and she's saying, 264 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,319 it's not that I'm angry with you. I'm just mad 265 00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:21,000 that you let people hurt you. You meet someone, you 266 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:24,759 start to care for them, and then it becomes and 267 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:35,160 she gets interrupted by the notification, and I'm really wondering 268 00:20:35,279 --> 00:20:41,319 how this sentence was going to end, because it's almost 269 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,720 like you meet someone, you start to care for them, 270 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:46,440 and then it becomes clear that they just like, have 271 00:20:46,559 --> 00:20:48,720 been mistreated for so long that they don't know what 272 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:51,640 being treated well is, or that they have the same 273 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,079 kinds of baggage that you have, or I don't know, 274 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,680 I don't know, but angry and mad that you let 275 00:20:57,759 --> 00:21:02,079 people hurt you. I'm wondering if this is about his past, 276 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,519 or if it's about what has happened since she's been 277 00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:11,799 part of the party, or what I blinked and I 278 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,519 woke up. The Scavenger's daughter has been fed unleash her wrath, 279 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,400 and y'all, I was so confused. I was just like, wait, 280 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:29,480 hold on, wait, hold on, wait, hold on. I was 281 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,920 just like, did I I went and looked, I'm like, no, 282 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:37,640 right chapter and he's looking around and he gets a 283 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:42,240 quest failed bedlam Bride, and I'm like, oh shit, is 284 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:48,119 she Maria like dead? And he's trying to find Katya, 285 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,680 and we get him remembering the memory that he was 286 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:58,200 in Annie, the little baby girl fan are the cancer diagnosis, 287 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,319 after all those hoops, all she'd overcome, they'd caught it early, 288 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,000 she'd be okay, but despite that, it had come with 289 00:22:05,079 --> 00:22:10,480 a terrible price. I understood finally Kotcha's addictions. Fannar had 290 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,920 told them. I didn't understand why she'd been cleaned for 291 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,480 so long. And then a one two punch. I thought 292 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:20,720 of the social worker coming to pick me up from 293 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,720 the interrogation room. Come on now, she'd said, come on now. 294 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:28,799 A minor setback, But to Kachia it had been everything, 295 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,519 a shattering. It was almost by dungeon standers. All of 296 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:42,720 this was almost nothing. So he wakes up, there's blood everywhere. 297 00:22:43,559 --> 00:22:47,960 He's in a room and there's a goblin trying to 298 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,079 pull a trigger on him, and goblin gets frozen up 299 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,440 and I'm looking at this and I'm just like because 300 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:02,920 my initial instinct was to think, oh, something went really 301 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,200 wrong with the potion. And he has hurt members of 302 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:13,079 his party. But then it's like, obviously we don't have 303 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,519 any goblins in the party, so right there, we have 304 00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:21,759 an issue with that hypothesis, the fact that the goblin 305 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,599 is called naughty and kept from being able to fire 306 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,680 on Carl, but Carl was apparently able to just like 307 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,599 brutally murder a bunch of people, or she Maria was. 308 00:23:35,759 --> 00:23:38,519 I was like, how does that make sense? I'm just 309 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:48,839 completely lost, right, so, a new gravelly voice. It's being 310 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,039 ruled an AI action, not an attack. The ceasefire has 311 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:55,559 new rules against teammates fighting one another or monsters. You 312 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:58,559 could have fought back against the unaffiliated NPC while he 313 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,359 was under control of that thing, but you waited too long. 314 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,680 Now that he's no longer possessed, you can't touch him 315 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,839 while the ceasefire is an effect. The AI is claiming 316 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,000 he had a notification over his head while he was vulnerable. 317 00:24:12,519 --> 00:24:16,319 And the person speaking is Panford, who's an adjutant for 318 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:23,480 the Democratic sortion a dreadnought. And there is this caterpillar 319 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:30,680 creature named Commander Stockade, who is not reacting well to 320 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:38,079 this news, to say the least. And what we quickly 321 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:45,079 begin to put together is the fact that this is 322 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:52,480 the fact that these guys were cheating and the cheating 323 00:24:52,920 --> 00:25:02,480 backfired on them quite spectacularly, and they are outraged at 324 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,759 the way it went left because they hadn't seen coming 325 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,400 that particular way. But they were fine with the fact that, 326 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:19,160 like potentially all of Carl's team could have died if 327 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,920 things had gone a certain way, you know, just the 328 00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:25,279 usual like rules for me, but not for the sort 329 00:25:25,319 --> 00:25:29,519 of thing and the fact that the AI is like 330 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:37,160 instituting a particular effect they seem surprised by in a 331 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,599 way that surprised me a little bit, where I was 332 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,880 just like, have you guys been here this whole time? 333 00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:46,839 How have you not spotted the way that the AI 334 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,400 has been behaving. You should have realized that this shit 335 00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:55,519 was like gonna not work out as tidily as you think. 336 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,640 And it's a whole so this takes a while to 337 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,680 sort of unravel. I'm gonna jump ahead a little bit 338 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,240 because it's a lot of Carl like hearing them argue, 339 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:16,559 and really we get much of this repeated later and 340 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,279 explained a little bit more fully. So I'm gonna go 341 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:26,039 over to the moment where Victory shows up, and I 342 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,799 love Victory is feeling pretty happy about this situation. And 343 00:26:31,839 --> 00:26:35,200 we hear that she told Mordecai what happened, and he 344 00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:42,160 started cracking up. Let's see, I'm trying to find this 345 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:46,279 bit here. Oh right, We get the details on she 346 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:51,359 Maria as well. I had no idea what had happened, 347 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,319 how I got here. I remembered the dream. The spider, 348 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,680 not she Maria, but a different one, A male she 349 00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:01,319 Maria had also entered, mocking me, telling me I'd be sorry. 350 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,079 But then she saw the other spider and she changed. 351 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,680 She burst into a rage. She killed him, her own husband. 352 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:14,200 She devoured him while she sobbed. She disappeared and reappeared 353 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,319 a few moments later. She curled into a ball right 354 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,200 there in the hospital in Iceland. But then it got fuzzy. 355 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:27,000 The husband had returned, hadn't he I have her now? 356 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:30,079 He said, she's good and trapped. You can always set 357 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,319 her free if you must, but do not unless all 358 00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:39,799 is lost. So she's trapped in like an eggshell, is 359 00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:42,039 the way he says it later, that he can break it, 360 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:45,039 but only once, and either she can take over his 361 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,960 body or she can expel herself. But if he lets 362 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,920 her out, it's a real gamble. What she's going to pick. 363 00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:02,079 There's an official field ruling education and Panford said. We 364 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,319 all sat in a new room. There was a bag 365 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,240 of literal earth catfood sitting on the counter, abandoned and 366 00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:12,559 leaning against the wall. The large bag was closed with 367 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,839 a little plastic clip. It was some generic, cheap kind 368 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,720 of cat food that Donut would never touch. I am 369 00:28:20,039 --> 00:28:24,680 so curious about this. I couldn't take my eyes off it, 370 00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:28,319 and I had an overwhelming urge to try to steal it. 371 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,720 When he gets that kind of like instinctual reaction, I 372 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:36,079 trust it, and I am dying to know what the 373 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,440 deal is with this fucking cat food. I don't know 374 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,119 what to think. If the cat food itself is valuable, 375 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:45,400 if there's something in the bag that isn't catfood and 376 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,880 that's what he's like sensing, or if there's something hidden 377 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,039 in the cat food itself, or I don't know, but 378 00:28:53,240 --> 00:29:00,480 I really want to know. I'm excited, Stockade. Our plan 379 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,039 was both simple and brilliant. Using the Warlord Chat, you 380 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,920 offered peace terms to Warlord's Carl and Dona. With those terms, 381 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,160 you requested a face to face parlay, and then you 382 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,920 extended an invite directly to Carl using your level fifteen 383 00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:20,359 summon ally spell. You extended this invitation after Carl quaffed 384 00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:22,599 the sleep potion and just as he was taking the 385 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,519 medicine to treat his demonic infestation. Since Carl was still 386 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,640 technically conscious, the request was delivered to his interface. You 387 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,200 knew that while most command and request inquiries are disabled 388 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,160 in certain unconscious states, properly delivered warlord inquiries remained persistent, 389 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:44,039 and we're getting like a replay of it as he's 390 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,559 explaining all of this. You knew that while Carl was incapacitated, 391 00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:52,519 the plan for them was to allow Si Maria to 392 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:56,359 take over Carl's consciousness during the dream sequence. While in 393 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,119 that state, the entity would have no ability to control 394 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,559 Karl or inter with any of his systems, such as 395 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:05,599 casting spells, sending messages, or interacting with his inventory. However, 396 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,119 because of your brilliantly timed request, the entity controlling Carl 397 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:18,359 could and indeed did, accept invitation to parlay. Are we 398 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,400 agreed on those facts? So far? Agreed? Op The adjutant 399 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,480 for Madness said, this was supposed to be a game. 400 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,960 This is bullshit. We're fighting for our lives you're pretending 401 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,720 like nothing has happened. You're complicit in all of this. 402 00:30:33,599 --> 00:30:38,440 Luke is gone. He was real, Like, it's just insane. 403 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,000 It's just insane how they can say right in front 404 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,440 of his fucking face, I don't think that you're real. 405 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,680 He's not talking about an NPC, he's talking about crawlers. 406 00:30:55,079 --> 00:31:06,039 It's just you know, fuck. So let's see, the entity 407 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:12,680 is a special Reaper spider Minion merchant. You knew the 408 00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:15,240 spider would jump at the ability to escape, which is 409 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:18,039 exactly what would have happened if things had gone as 410 00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:25,319 you anticipated. So then we get an information from Mordecai 411 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:29,880 about what summon ally is. At its most basic, it 412 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,920 summons an ally, but it's not meant as an offensive spell. 413 00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:37,440 It puts control in the hands of the summoned and 414 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,200 not the summoner. You have to be in each other's 415 00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:45,000 chat systems warlord chatwork. Second, the summon the summoned is 416 00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:48,160 given the choice to accept. Third, the summoned cannot be 417 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,839 teleported into a wall or anything like that. You were 418 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,720 teleported into the castle, but you appeared as a non 419 00:31:54,799 --> 00:32:00,799 corporeal avatar. It was the system compensating for your unconscious state. 420 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,759 This is actually intended to stop people from using the 421 00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:07,680 spell to remove friends from deadly situations, but in your case, 422 00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:10,599 it saved you. You remained in that state until you 423 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,559 started to wake up. I thought I'd killed you. It 424 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,920 took some time to figure out what was going on. 425 00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:21,960 They wanted to at best ruin your treatment. At worst, 426 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,039 they thought it would simply kill you or act like 427 00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:27,960 teleporting and demon possessed shell. Remember what happened on the 428 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,319 last floor, they thought would happen here. They wanted to 429 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,920 kill us using that crazy spider, So he goes on. 430 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:40,519 Carl was teleported to the ballroom after she Maria accepted 431 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:44,880 the invite. However, they intended for him to fully teleport 432 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,039 to the location and leave she Maria at the base 433 00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:51,440 for the princess posse. The spider would have slaughtered the 434 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:56,200 entire room. What happened instead was that Karl was only 435 00:32:56,359 --> 00:33:05,319 partially teleported here, thwarting the plan. Let's say I'm trying 436 00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:07,680 to jump ahead, guys, cause there's lots of like chit 437 00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:09,880 chat across about it, but I'm trying to get to 438 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:15,200 like the basics of it. There was additional corruption in 439 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,079 the procedure when call Crawler's Katcha and Karl touched hands 440 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,119 during the start of the process. The consciousness jumping like 441 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,680 that is still a mystery, OPI said, it's fascinating and 442 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,519 it shouldn't have happened, and I'm really interested that there's 443 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:29,359 something we can use that for. I don't know what 444 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:38,200 it would be, but hmm interesting. Uh. This is when 445 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,680 he is watching the feed that they're scrolling through and 446 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,759 he realizes they actually have footage of the dream itself 447 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,400 and is really upset at the fact that they are 448 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:56,960 able to observe something that is so deeply personal. So 449 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,039 he and Katya are literally attached to one another as 450 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:06,240 they enter this building, and she sees a man walking 451 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,239 out of the hospital and says, what are you doing here? 452 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,559 Telling them the truth? The man said, pushing past her. 453 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,559 On the screen, the words came out garbled, but I 454 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:19,199 could hear it. I could hear the panic in Kotcha's voice. 455 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,840 His name was Fannar. He was a fellow professor and 456 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,559 they were originally going to adopt together. He'd slept with 457 00:34:26,599 --> 00:34:30,159 a student and she'd reported him. Nothing had come of 458 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:36,679 it other than the ruination of Kotcha's life. Matt Denneman, 459 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:44,280 thank you for that. That's what happens, and anybody talking 460 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:50,039 about cancel culture is a joke. Bad things do not 461 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,400 happen to men who abuse women. It's just so incredibly 462 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,639 rare for there to be any actual consequence. The worst 463 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:03,159 that can happen has been, like, I'm boycotting things that 464 00:35:03,199 --> 00:35:07,480 you're in or that you do. But they're not dropped 465 00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:14,800 by networks, by publishers, they're not made to make restitution 466 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:20,559 in any way. And almost always the woman suffers the 467 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:26,079 brunt of the rage of the people online who like 468 00:35:26,159 --> 00:35:29,679 the man, or friends that the man manages to mobilize 469 00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:38,159 who are in power. And it is simply clockwork. And 470 00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:42,119 you can point to a million examples of this, and 471 00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:47,639 people will still say, why didn't she say anything? Why 472 00:35:47,639 --> 00:35:53,079 didn't anybody report it? We have pages and pages from 473 00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:57,320 the Epstein files, and tell me what has fucking happened? 474 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,679 What show me anything? Ebstein being dead is even up 475 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,599 for debate. There's a lot of theory that he was 476 00:36:07,639 --> 00:36:11,400 smuggled out and his death was faked. Sure, why not 477 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,360 When you've got more money than God and this kind 478 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,559 of dirt, I have no doubt you could basically make 479 00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:27,920 miracles happen. Sure you know, like this entire she reported him, 480 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,480 nothing happened except that it ruined her life. Is so correct. 481 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,800 I cannot overstate it enough. It's like a whole that 482 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,599 one sentence. It just kind of was a gut punch 483 00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:47,440 because it's just in summary, always the end of the story, 484 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:50,760 that's always it. And we just love to act like 485 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:57,159 men are being persecuted, and it's like, nothing happens to you, though, 486 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:04,639 what do you even mean? Ugh, the scene jumped. I 487 00:37:04,679 --> 00:37:07,039 can take a cat, I can take a test, Kotya 488 00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:09,800 pleaded to the faceless woman. I haven't touched anything in 489 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,800 ten years. It was so long ago. It's not just 490 00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:17,440 that you're sick and you've been hiding it. With Annie's 491 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,960 medical needs and with so little time left, we don't 492 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:26,079 feel he had no right, Katya shouted. She screamed the words, 493 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,519 and she swept everything off the woman's desk. He had 494 00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:33,000 no right, she'd said in unison with the ghost on 495 00:37:33,039 --> 00:37:38,000 the screen. The now version of Katya also had a 496 00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:41,159 crow on her shoulder, her card that she'd brought from 497 00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:45,199 the previous floor, a crow with the skull of an infant. 498 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:49,079 The crow's name was also Annie. I didn't know what 499 00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:52,719 that meant, but it seemed important. This is like that 500 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,119 fucking pokemon that has his mom's skull on his head, 501 00:37:56,239 --> 00:38:06,920 like this is devastating. What what fuck? We were in 502 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,960 a hospital room, Kitya standing at a crib, holding the 503 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:13,079 baby the best she could. It was difficult with all 504 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:16,039 the wires and diodes that attached to the nine month 505 00:38:16,079 --> 00:38:19,760 old who just started standing on her own in the crib, 506 00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:32,920 so trying to parse this. Kotya was sick with Annie's 507 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:38,440 medical needs and with so little time left. I had 508 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:45,079 assumed that meant that Annie was dying, but I'm wondering 509 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:48,480 if it's with so little time left before the adoption, 510 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,039 and that they're saying that Annie is going to be 511 00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:56,519 too much for Katya to take care of because she 512 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,840 is about to start undergoing her own treatment. And Annie 513 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,559 is going to need somebody who is fully capable, alert 514 00:39:05,679 --> 00:39:10,199 and healthy because she's going to just require intense care. 515 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,199 And they're basically saying, you're not going to be up 516 00:39:14,199 --> 00:39:16,519 for it, and you should have told us. I think 517 00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:21,559 that's what's happening. So she wasn't able to adopt this 518 00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:26,079 baby because this dude threw her under the bus about 519 00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:32,239 her drug use and about her illness, which is so 520 00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:38,920 incredibly disgusting as a response to her outing him sleeping 521 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,199 with a student. Is it's just like it's just so 522 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:48,639 incredibly gross and like, look, I'm not even like trying 523 00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:52,360 to take cotscious side about adopting a child when she's 524 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,760 hiding things like this. I really don't know what the 525 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:04,159 state is that she's in, but it just is it's 526 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:11,000 just such a completely different moral situation. You know. Sorry, 527 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,760 Michael says, did the AI use Annie's body to make 528 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,079 the crow? And I that like that did occur to 529 00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:22,400 me if I recall correctly. Katscha is already finished with 530 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,480 her treatment. She had presumably gotten addicted to some painkillers 531 00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:28,519 or something similar during her cancer treatment, but she had 532 00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:34,400 eventually overcome them. Oh interesting, but they're saying you're sick 533 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,280 and you've been hiding it, so it seems like this 534 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,840 is still something she's dealing with. If she hasn't touched 535 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,719 a drug in ten years and the drugs came after 536 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:50,119 the treatment, saying you're sick doesn't really make sense. I 537 00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:57,760 don't know, it doesn't matter in the end. It's just, 538 00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:04,639 you know, the spider comes in and then PONSI her husband. 539 00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:10,440 I just knew everything about him. Memories that were starting 540 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,599 to flow back into me diluted and washed away into 541 00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:17,559 the stream. Worry not my children, the male spider had said. 542 00:41:18,119 --> 00:41:21,519 As we watched, he transformed into a large, dark skinned 543 00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:25,159 human wearing simple pants and a vest. His accent was 544 00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:29,719 like that of Asahano's worry. Not only then did the 545 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,760 scene fade, returning me on the floor of the ballroom, 546 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:39,880 still translucent and flickering weird like I'm assuming he is. 547 00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:42,280 You know, he handles her and trustes her up, but 548 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,000 I don't know if he has something to do with 549 00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:53,199 like anything in Katcha's dream. So after some time, the 550 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,559 Shi Maria consciousness was also pulled into conscious dreamscape. Meanwhile, 551 00:41:57,599 --> 00:41:59,599 the parties at both ends scrambled to find a way 552 00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:03,920 to turn Carl's incapacitation to their advantage. Stockade plan on 553 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,960 casting a spell to force Carl to completely form on 554 00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:10,639 your side, but you paused because you once again received 555 00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:14,199 outside information about how the Princess Posse team was planning 556 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,440 to react. You once again needed to time your reaction 557 00:42:18,559 --> 00:42:23,000 to just the correct moment. Meanwhile, members of the Crawler 558 00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:26,679 team became aware of exactly what was happening, and they 559 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:32,039 formed a plan to defend Carl, and the caterpillar just yells, 560 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:37,519 so they're cheating. Also, they also have someone watching from 561 00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:43,480 the outside, which is this Zood is not smart, Like 562 00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:47,199 they could have figured out what was happening, not with 563 00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:51,840 outside help, but with Doughnut having gotten the invitation as well, 564 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,639 they could have begun to put tune two together. I 565 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,519 feel now, is it possible they're getting outside help? Sure, 566 00:42:58,559 --> 00:42:59,800 but I don't know who it would be. I have 567 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:05,360 to toss somehow, someone communicating with Rosetta. I don't know 568 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:12,559 how else this would really work. But yeah, So then 569 00:43:12,599 --> 00:43:16,480 we get a message from Prepatente. I am near the 570 00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:19,320 southern border with the Naga, surveying your defenses, and there 571 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,880 is a great amount of enemy movement. They are attempting 572 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,079 to be surreptitious, but Bianca and I are observing them 573 00:43:26,119 --> 00:43:31,719 from high above, and essentially they're behaving like the ceasefire 574 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,239 is about to end any second, which is really weird 575 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:42,519 because that isn't true. What's going on. Let's see once 576 00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:45,400 the festivities begin, I have a specific score to settle 577 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,519 with the lead producer of the Blood hunter program, and 578 00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,079 after that is complete, only then will I come to 579 00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:53,599 your aid and join in your military if you're still alive. 580 00:43:55,719 --> 00:44:05,400 So chapter nineteen, as they are continuing to debate exactly 581 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:11,400 what happened, Victory is the one who she chimes in here. Finally, 582 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,159 when you tried to expel the Shi Maria presence, Stockade 583 00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:17,880 was using an outside the dungeon partner to watch the procedure. 584 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,840 He timed it precisely because he's an idiot. It only 585 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,239 half worked, and the system split you into because you 586 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,239 were into places. Both sides then attempted to fully drag 587 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,159 you into their presence. But at this point Mordecai became 588 00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:38,639 aware and knew he was being watched and formulated as subterfuge. 589 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,000 I'm going to pull him out, Mordecai said on the screen. 590 00:44:41,039 --> 00:44:43,480 I'm going to use a shock wave salve, but I 591 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,239 got to adjust it to work on a non corporeal form, 592 00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:52,519 and it says well Mordecai brewed this. Stockade prepared a 593 00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:56,679 counter move to fully drag Karl into the ballroom. If 594 00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,639 the spell and the salve were applied simultaneously, Karl would 595 00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:05,599 have likely died, his soul being ripped in two they 596 00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:12,559 can literally affect his soul. That's insane. But Mordecai, aware 597 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,719 that he was being illegally observed, was actually creating a 598 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,960 different potion, not a wake up salve, but something to 599 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:25,639 violently expel the she Maria presence. How would they know 600 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,199 if they weren't also observing us? Oh right, I forgot 601 00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:34,199 about fucking juice Box. Obviously, if they weren't cheating, how 602 00:45:34,199 --> 00:45:37,280 would they know, Paanford ask asked in Stockade, It's like, 603 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,480 oh my god, there's a fucking spy. And honestly, if 604 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,159 they had just figured it out, it would have been 605 00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:48,519 amazing for him to be very paranoid that there's a spy, 606 00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:51,719 and there may be wasn't. But we get information from 607 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,960 juice Box later that she has had to like kind 608 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,280 of out a couple people who were on the inside 609 00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:02,559 by in order to save Carl, which worth it for sure, 610 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,079 But uh, you know, nobody wants to burn up assets. 611 00:46:06,159 --> 00:46:15,280 I definitely understand that. Let see the scene change showing 612 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,719 Mordecai applying the salve to my translucent chest. I buckled 613 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,760 as if in pain. At the same time Stockade cackled 614 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,159 with laughter as he cast his spell. The cackling stopped 615 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,159 a few moments later, the split screen turned to a 616 00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,360 full view of the ballroom, with me on the floor, convulsing, 617 00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:39,079 fully corporeal, And then just like that, I turned. There 618 00:46:39,119 --> 00:46:42,280 was no moment of transformation, There was a blink, and 619 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:47,039 then I was she Maria. I have always loved you. 620 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:53,719 She Maria roared, her voice muffled. Her jaws were still unhinged. 621 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,559 She was still in the midst of swallowing the human 622 00:46:56,679 --> 00:47:00,480 version of her husband in the dream we'd watched devour 623 00:47:00,559 --> 00:47:02,800 the man all all screaming that she loved him and 624 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:07,639 would never hurt him. That got me. This is the 625 00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:10,360 thing that people don't understand someone so would never hurt 626 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,639 them they love them. If you think that love and 627 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:18,639 harm are mutually exclusive, you are out of your mind. Like, 628 00:47:19,079 --> 00:47:24,280 what do you mean? Oh my god, I didn't kill 629 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,360 you a ponsi, Maria screamed, I would never kill you. 630 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,559 She skewered a goblin through the chest and picked him 631 00:47:31,639 --> 00:47:34,760 up with her arm. She shrieked at the goblin, I 632 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,239 would never hurt him. How dare you? How dare you? 633 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:50,480 She ripped the goblin into yikes. Oh, she didn't look 634 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,880 nearly as trapped as a PONSI said still, I now 635 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,360 had control of the eye on my chest. I could 636 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,480 feel it there, clenched closed. In the dream, she'd returned 637 00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:04,119 before before I had awakened. We left her in the 638 00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:08,559 room with Annie, and he's telling Katcha, it's okay, it's 639 00:48:08,639 --> 00:48:11,559 just a memory, it's not real, which I think is 640 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,840 likely true. But I can see the potential where maybe 641 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,960 he's wrong about something. I just don't know what. And 642 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:26,039 then we see the eye contact. She opens her eye 643 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:31,760 and the caterpillar makes eye contact, and the goblins do 644 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:38,719 and begin to kill one another or themselves, and then 645 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:45,679 suddenly she like falls and rolls onto her back. Blink, 646 00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:50,920 there's Carl covered in blood. A silhouette of the spider remained, 647 00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:53,280 made of the blood that had been coating her body, 648 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,079 and it fell over me like I had had a 649 00:48:55,119 --> 00:48:58,880 bucket dumped on my head, which is a wild image. 650 00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:04,639 Like I just picture like somehow managing to close an 651 00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:09,039 umbrella so quickly that the water doesn't fall at the 652 00:49:09,079 --> 00:49:11,119 same rate the umbrella closes, you know what I mean, 653 00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,840 Like that kind of thing, Opie says. Another oddity, Mordechai's 654 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,719 potion only worked temporarily it should have permanently severed the bond, 655 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,000 but in the end the spider was pulled back into Carl, 656 00:49:24,679 --> 00:49:28,039 which if it had permanently severed the bond, but Carl 657 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,039 did become corporeal, she would have killed him in that room, 658 00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:38,519 So I don't I think Mordechai knew that and made 659 00:49:38,599 --> 00:49:42,760 the potion less intense somehow, unless it was an accident, 660 00:49:43,119 --> 00:49:50,960 but the screen disappeared with a flash. We believe stock 661 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,159 Hayden Houston both conspired to use the secured messaging system 662 00:49:55,199 --> 00:49:57,320 to speak with someone upon the eighteenth floor who was 663 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,639 relaying real time info via a third party participating in 664 00:50:00,639 --> 00:50:08,719 the celestial ascendency, and he says, we have identified the 665 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:13,639 party as nurse Yugoslav of the madness. I planted a 666 00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:18,880 fake grin and turned to Architect Houston, your mom. Your 667 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,559 mom is here in the dungeon. I can't wait to 668 00:50:22,639 --> 00:50:26,840 meet her. And later on he is very unhappy about 669 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:33,880 this little threat, Houston's presence here in the castle and 670 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,280 the possible collusion by a family member who is not 671 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:41,119 bound by any such rules as circumstantial evidence. Quite damning 672 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,320 circumstantial evidence, but I don't feel it's enough to officially 673 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,760 charge him unless you want to confess. Do you wish 674 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,800 to confess? Architect Houston, the masked creature made no moves 675 00:50:52,880 --> 00:51:00,679 and said nothing, So Victory is like, yeah, well we 676 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,119 all know he's guilty, but he was clever about it. 677 00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:07,119 There's no evidence, So I'm going to say not culpable. 678 00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,320 Because the other two adjutants are in agreement, I do 679 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,320 not need to render a ruling. This minor quorum finds 680 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,800 the Madness and Princess Posse not guilty of wrongdoing. The 681 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,280 leader of the Democratic Soortion has admitted to has admitted 682 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:28,719 guilt to illegal information gathering Warlord Message. Sir Ferdinand of 683 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,760 Team Retribution has proposed an emergency action item because then 684 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,199 Alien cuts on the other floors of being little bitches 685 00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,320 and cheating. We propose that nobody in the dungeon, including 686 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,320 those pricks partying it up in that centipedees asshole, be 687 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,119 allowed to watch any outside feeds for the remainder of 688 00:51:44,159 --> 00:51:49,159 this little game, which I had thought was already like 689 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,519 part of the way this worked that you couldn't watch 690 00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:56,320 outside feeds. I feel like there's something about this that's 691 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,199 like specific in a way that I'm not getting, so 692 00:52:00,079 --> 00:52:07,880 feel free to help me out with that one. So meanwhile, 693 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:13,039 Stockade is getting worse and worse grieving for this guy Luke. 694 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,280 And it's sort of interesting because it's like the way 695 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,440 that she Maria was flipping out about somebody that she 696 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,320 allegedly cared about and hurt. I'm wondering if it was 697 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,519 like if it's affecting Stockade because of the emotional aspect 698 00:52:29,519 --> 00:52:34,000 a little bit more. You know, I received a new 699 00:52:34,039 --> 00:52:37,480 message directly in the warlord chat. If you ever mentioned 700 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,480 my mother out loud ever again, you and that animal 701 00:52:40,519 --> 00:52:43,559 companion of yours will spend the last thousand years of 702 00:52:43,599 --> 00:52:47,039 your existence upon the amplification table in my surgical theater. 703 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:53,760 This is a promise, Warlord Carl. I'll fuck off, Architect Houston. 704 00:52:54,639 --> 00:52:57,559 You are in mortal danger at this very moment and 705 00:52:57,599 --> 00:53:01,079 you don't even realize it. I do hope you escape 706 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,880 so we can extend our play. But gracious pet owners 707 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:10,599 accept the gifts their animals drop at their doorsteps, Warlord Carl, 708 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:16,159 What the fuck does that even mean? I don't know. 709 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,280 Gracious pet owners accept the gifts their animals drop at 710 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,599 their doorsteps. It's like she Maria his pet, is that 711 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:33,719 what he's saying that like she or is he calling 712 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:46,119 Stockade his pet? Maybe? I don't know. I don't know. 713 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,119 Let's see, I'm just trying to uh make sure that 714 00:53:55,159 --> 00:53:58,679 I'm fitting in everything, because there's a whole, obviously big 715 00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:04,760 moment that happens here. Stockade is continuing to beat his 716 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,239 head against the floor and nobody is actually able to 717 00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,320 stop him from doing this, and because it's a quorum, 718 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:20,559 they can't let his guards in either. Let's see, if 719 00:54:20,599 --> 00:54:22,239 we stay for much longer, we'll have to deal with 720 00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,320 a new education Panford. Victory said, let's end this now. 721 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,559 Wait what happens when this is done? How do I 722 00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:31,880 get back? Because the ceasefire is in effective because of 723 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,320 the nature of your transport, You'll be teleported back to 724 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,199 your base. Shit, okay, I said, quickly end it. And 725 00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:43,199 I was like, hold on, why. What it is is 726 00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:52,559 that we're we're Stockford able to Stockade. I'm conflating Panford 727 00:54:52,599 --> 00:54:58,960 and Stockade. We're Stockade dead. Before they ended this, Carl 728 00:54:59,039 --> 00:55:04,400 would be fucking stuck here. And he realizes this a 729 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,159 second before Victory realizes, and she's just like, yeah, yeah, 730 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:14,159 finish it, finish it, finish it. So he does there's 731 00:55:14,199 --> 00:55:17,760 a pang and victory immediately. It's like I'm transporting Carl back, 732 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:24,159 teleporting in twenty seconds. Twenty seconds. It's quite a long time, actually, 733 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,440 when you're dealing with what they're about to deal with. 734 00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:35,960 Stockade dies. System message, Commander's stockade of the Democratic Sortion 735 00:55:36,119 --> 00:55:38,800 has fallen. Credit for the kill has been ruled as 736 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:44,360 a psychosic induced suicide. System message. The Democratic Sortion has 737 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,679 been defeated. As this defeat was voluntary, the closest ally 738 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,800 castle or roler to their headquarters will receive all their assets. 739 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,639 System message. All assets of the Limit Sortion have been 740 00:55:54,679 --> 00:55:58,280 awarded to the Madness. There was a pause. I felt 741 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:03,039 a tingle of pre teleportation. System message. Due to ceasefire 742 00:56:03,159 --> 00:56:06,400 Rule three sub Section six of the Ceasefire Addendum, the 743 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:11,039 voluntary withdrawal of a combatant squad has engaged. Accelerating acceleration 744 00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:15,039 Scenario two. The ceasefire will be shortened by twenty three 745 00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:19,400 point three three hours. System message. The ceasefire has ended. 746 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:24,119 System message. All unaffiliated crawlers have been teleported from Moroccos. 747 00:56:24,519 --> 00:56:28,519 Warlord message Phase one combat rules have engaged. You may 748 00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:32,840 freely enter enemy territory via designated corridors. No offensive magic 749 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,880 may be used during this first ramp up phase. No 750 00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:41,719 combatants may cast teleport based spells across from me. Architect 751 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,760 Houston jumped to his feet and his robes flung back, 752 00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:49,880 revealing a horrific bug like body in six arms, two 753 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,199 of which were holding a rifle, which he brought to 754 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,800 bear upon my chest. He fired as I dove out 755 00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,039 of the way. I landed heavily against the counter. I 756 00:56:59,159 --> 00:57:02,199 grabbed the bag of cat food just as I dropped 757 00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:06,440 an impact hoblobber onto the ground. I love that he 758 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,000 prioritizes getting the cat food. It's just such an insane move. 759 00:57:11,159 --> 00:57:13,480 But like I'm glad because I want to know what 760 00:57:13,519 --> 00:57:17,679 the fuck? And he teleports to the Princess Posse camp 761 00:57:17,719 --> 00:57:22,039 and like just barely, just barely, the fact that it's 762 00:57:22,119 --> 00:57:24,800 twenty seconds. I can't help but wonder, did the AI 763 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,480 really stretch out all of those system messages to like 764 00:57:28,039 --> 00:57:31,679 fill time before they were able to move, And that 765 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,280 way there was only like one chance for him to 766 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,679 try and shoot Carl before Carl got transported away. Like 767 00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:44,079 I don't know, I don't know, but essentially what's made 768 00:57:44,239 --> 00:57:53,119 clear Architect Houston set Stockade up knowing that this thing 769 00:57:53,639 --> 00:57:58,000 wasn't going to work. I believe he knew that Carl 770 00:57:58,119 --> 00:58:01,119 was going to wind up here and that this would 771 00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,960 end the ceasefire. I believe that there was going to 772 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:10,960 be like something, unless it's just a like happenstance, because 773 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,679 I don't know how you guarantee. She Maria opens her 774 00:58:14,719 --> 00:58:18,880 eye and that Stocky kills himself. But it feels to 775 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:25,639 me like he did somehow put this together. Otherwise, how 776 00:58:25,679 --> 00:58:31,840 would he be so ready? You know what I'm saying? Anyway, 777 00:58:32,199 --> 00:58:37,199 it's uh, I should have dropped a bigger bomb. I 778 00:58:37,239 --> 00:58:40,239 thought I'd gone with my hot list. He'd plan this. 779 00:58:41,199 --> 00:58:43,400 Either that or he'd known what was happening to stock 780 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:50,840 Kayden had compensated accordingly, which is certainly possible. What the fuck, 781 00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,360 let's see what are you sitting around for? The lead one, 782 00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,000 asked the slugglows. He was a level fifty five named 783 00:58:58,119 --> 00:59:03,760 Jason Manning. Fucks. He had dreadlocks shaped like little mourning stars. 784 00:59:04,199 --> 00:59:06,400 He waved his head back and forth. The tiny weapons 785 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,639 spun in a circle. Ain't you heard? We got a 786 00:59:08,679 --> 00:59:11,280 war on Everyone is moving to one of the two 787 00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,239 fronts now, quit your bleeding and get out there. The 788 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:18,440 slug whooped loudly and left the room, trailing orange slime 789 00:59:18,519 --> 00:59:22,679 as his compatriots followed. A moment later, an explosion echoed 790 00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:27,039 as a non magical rock detonated against our shield system. 791 00:59:27,119 --> 00:59:33,400 Message weapons free weapons Free faction Wars have officially begun, 792 00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:40,400 and that is the end of the chapter. Yeah, so 793 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:47,559 pretty dope, terrifying, really clever. I am always a fan 794 00:59:48,559 --> 00:59:53,760 of when the villains are as clever as the good guys, 795 00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:58,360 and the way that they shook out and the fact 796 00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:03,559 that architect Houston understood the timing of it all and 797 01:00:03,679 --> 01:00:06,519 was like figuring it out while Carl was as well. 798 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:12,280 I just it's like simultaneously I love it and I 799 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:15,519 hate it. You know, I want my villain to be 800 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,639 clever and not just powerful and able to influence absolutely everything, 801 01:00:19,679 --> 01:00:23,360 but also like smart, But also I don't want them 802 01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,840 to be smart. I hate this, you know what I'm saying. 803 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:36,559 So like the ramp up ending or starting early. Also 804 01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,760 like I was already so anxious about how little time 805 01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:43,440 we had to get so much done, and I am 806 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:49,920 assuming whatever like soldiers they weren't able to get from 807 01:00:50,159 --> 01:00:56,760 the crawlers are now susceptible to conscription right, which fucking sucks. 808 01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,559 I don't know if there's something that we can use 809 01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:02,400 to count or that, if there's like a spell or 810 01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:07,880 a potion or what. But like, uh, we just had 811 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,840 so many things that we wanted to finish before we 812 01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:12,960 reached this stage that we are not going to get 813 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,679 to do now, and that as somebody who like really 814 01:01:16,719 --> 01:01:27,199 takes comfort in plans, bums me out. So yeah, sorry, 815 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:31,480 Jeff says, this is all much too confusing. I feel 816 01:01:31,519 --> 01:01:36,880 you on that, Jeff. I actually like mostly followed, but 817 01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:44,039 I get what you're saying. Michael says, I didn't know 818 01:01:44,199 --> 01:01:47,119 zomp was an actual color before. Apparently it is a 819 01:01:47,159 --> 01:01:51,880 teal green color. Why did that come up? Michael? Zomp 820 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:57,119 was in the book with the train. I can't remember 821 01:01:57,199 --> 01:01:59,800 the name now which one it was, but uh, all 822 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,000 the lines were named after colors, So yeah, we had 823 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:10,280 like found that out at during that book. Sarah m says, 824 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,199 I don't think it was. He knew as much as 825 01:02:12,199 --> 01:02:15,119 he had plans for ever, every eventuality he could think 826 01:02:15,159 --> 01:02:20,039 of might be. Yeah, I gotta say that. On each 827 01:02:20,079 --> 01:02:23,440 subsequent read through, the Caterpillar's death gets a little harder 828 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:31,360 to read the caterpillar was screaming about Luke's zomp hued thighs. Okay, 829 01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,000 I did not remember that, but it is funny that 830 01:02:34,039 --> 01:02:38,239 they're referencing a color that I had never heard of 831 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,880 until these books, and then we're bringing it back up again, 832 01:02:42,119 --> 01:02:52,119 like why not? Yeah, so I'm really worried. I'm very relieved. 833 01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:58,840 The next session section is titled Christmas Morning, y'all? When 834 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,679 is he going to open the fucking Christmas present? When 835 01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,679 is Zach? I want? Please? When are we gonna find 836 01:03:05,679 --> 01:03:09,159 out what happened at Christmas? Is this? It? Is? This? It? 837 01:03:10,679 --> 01:03:13,599 Because like we're in a different POV. We're not in 838 01:03:13,639 --> 01:03:17,199 Carl's POV as I'm seeing with just the opening sentence. 839 01:03:18,079 --> 01:03:23,800 So now I don't know, but we'll see anyway. Okay, 840 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,679 I gotta wrap up. Oh man, I pushed my third 841 01:03:27,719 --> 01:03:31,039 recording to tomorrow because I had a migraine this morning 842 01:03:31,719 --> 01:03:35,400 and I was sort of like I might be fine though, 843 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,400 and I'm finishing my second recording and I am drained. 844 01:03:39,159 --> 01:03:42,800 Good thing I did it, I think, But yeah, thank 845 01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:44,920 you guys so much for coming hanging out with me. 846 01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,360 Definitely going to be reading the next section immediately. I'm 847 01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,480 so curious and looking forward to coming back Thursday. So 848 01:03:52,840 --> 01:04:26,000 until then, to Loo motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network.