Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
Speaker 1: covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven, This Inevitable ruin chapter
Speaker 1: sixteen through nineteen. In these chapters, somebody sets up somebody
Speaker 1: to set up somebody else. It's a lot of machinations
Speaker 1: in this bitch. I'm into it. Welcome to spoil Me.
Speaker 1: To the show everyone, I am Natasha. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much to Michael for commissioning this episode. So this section, y'all,
Speaker 1: what a series of like devastating moments. It's wild how
Speaker 1: many times I was just like, oh, this is really,
Speaker 1: this is this is rough first you know, it says
Speaker 1: chapter sixteen through nineteen. But the thing about this book
Speaker 1: is that it has been sort of peppered with these
Speaker 1: chapters that are more like sort of interstitial moments that
Speaker 1: are not really their own chapters. So really we have
Speaker 1: first before sixteen, the chapter titled Everlely, and it is
Speaker 1: the you know this, this is the I keep wanting
Speaker 1: to say flash It's a weird thing though, because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: technically a flashback, but also kind of it doesn't count
Speaker 1: when we're not when that character is already dead and
Speaker 1: we're not even like with them anymore or you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And I think probably it does. It's
Speaker 1: just a weird There's there's a quality to it that
Speaker 1: I don't come across in many books, because usually when
Speaker 1: we're doing this, it's something that is directly like the
Speaker 1: history of the character whose head we're in, or the
Speaker 1: history of somebody we are about to meet, which has
Speaker 1: happened in this book a couple of times. So it's
Speaker 1: sort of a it's hard to say, and I feel
Speaker 1: like flashback is fine, but it just doesn't quite feel
Speaker 1: right to me, if you get what I mean. So Everly,
Speaker 1: it's such a it's such a an series of really
Speaker 1: interesting things going on here. It starts with you, Everly hissed,
Speaker 1: pointing her leg at one of her two remaining mercenaries.
Speaker 1: Watching you try to hold up the ceiling is irritating me.
Speaker 1: You're not going to stop it, so don't bother dig
Speaker 1: if you must, just don't stand there like that. And
Speaker 1: it's too This is the one guy trying and hold
Speaker 1: the ceiling up and the other trying to dig into
Speaker 1: the ground, because what it turns out is happening is
Speaker 1: they are being slowly crushed and they are trying to
Speaker 1: find a way out, and she's watching the dwarf who's
Speaker 1: attempting to dig, because that's what dwarfs do, am I right,
Speaker 1: And watching that he is really trying to hold out hope,
Speaker 1: but that it's obviously like beginning to fade every passing moment.
Speaker 1: It's just starting to fade away. And we get some
Speaker 1: background here. The younger version of herself would be raging
Speaker 1: right now, it's not over. She'd say, it's not over
Speaker 1: until you're dead. Get down there and dig, damn you.
Speaker 1: And by younger everly meant the version of herself from
Speaker 1: just before the demons had come to her world. And
Speaker 1: this particularly hit me, this like there was a version
Speaker 1: of me at one time that would never have accepted this.
Speaker 1: I feel like I run into this thought in my
Speaker 1: own head so often, and it's not even necessarily really
Speaker 1: even true in the simplest sense of it. It's just
Speaker 1: that I maybe I feel that there had been a
Speaker 1: version of me, and you know, like, and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: wrong about that, but what it is is just really
Speaker 1: the sense of like I used to be different, and
Speaker 1: what has happened to me that I have come to
Speaker 1: a point in my life that I just don't believe
Speaker 1: in things working out like this anymore, or I don't
Speaker 1: believe in that good will prevail, or that I can
Speaker 1: do anything, or that there's pride or worth to fighting
Speaker 1: to the last breath. There's a certain amount of ego
Speaker 1: involved in that, and I feel like when you use
Speaker 1: the word ego, it's always sort of heard as like
Speaker 1: an inherently bad thing. And I don't think it is
Speaker 1: an inherently bad thing, but I do think that it
Speaker 1: can be more of a driving force than we like
Speaker 1: to admit to our about a lot of stuff in
Speaker 1: a way that we should interrogate. And you must fight
Speaker 1: until your very last breath. You know, I understand that
Speaker 1: feeling like you have making you feel as if you
Speaker 1: have more control over the situation as somebody who has
Speaker 1: dealt with being in control freak my whole life. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. This just sort of hit me. There
Speaker 1: comes this point where we get the real specific item
Speaker 1: and what happened here. Gordon's Compass of vertical labyrinthement Management
Speaker 1: forty nine uses. It was a simple device and it
Speaker 1: appeared it was going to be enormously helpful. It showed
Speaker 1: the bearer the quickest and safest path through a maze,
Speaker 1: but the description specifically stated it wouldn't work in subterranean mazes.
Speaker 1: It was clear that compass was meant to be used
Speaker 1: to navigate Tower and some of her fellow mantises, which
Speaker 1: the fact that this is a mantis is really like
Speaker 1: another bit of a I know that this has happened
Speaker 1: to them, and that it's not even the same type
Speaker 1: of mantis. Nevertheless, they she refuses help, goes on and
Speaker 1: sees that her like views or skyrocketing. She wondered what
Speaker 1: her mother would have thought. The center was watching her
Speaker 1: on a mission to save her fellow mantises. It was
Speaker 1: a good, unfamiliar feeling. And she comes to a dead
Speaker 1: end and then there is an announcement, never trust your
Speaker 1: life to Gordon Waystation outfitters. There's no safe or cheap
Speaker 1: path to safety. This dead end was sponsored by Dictum
Speaker 1: Waystation Controls Limited. Don't get caught with nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: So this is just so hideous, guys, it's so rough. Man.
Speaker 1: I hated it so much, the fact that she got
Speaker 1: played like this, like there's just not words for how
Speaker 1: incredibly grotesque, you know, and every wondered if this would
Speaker 1: have happened if she'd allowed some of the others to
Speaker 1: go up to the tower with her. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: the others had heard of this Gordon Way Station company
Speaker 1: and would have figured out the whole thing was a trap.
Speaker 1: But she'd insisted on staying alone this whole time. She'd
Speaker 1: wanted to work with them, they'd wanted to work with her. Still,
Speaker 1: she'd struck out on her own, determined to fight it
Speaker 1: all in her own way. And she says to herself,
Speaker 1: that's when it happened, wasn't it not now here in
Speaker 1: this damn tower. It happened when I abandoned the others
Speaker 1: so much earlier than I realized. And what she is
Speaker 1: saying is like, that's when it happened. Is the inevitable
Speaker 1: ruin of things falling apart and the ogre change changed.
Speaker 1: He falls down. There's a flash deep in the back
Speaker 1: of his small black eyes. Maybe there's more to it
Speaker 1: than this, the ogre said, just as the slow moving
Speaker 1: ceiling kissed the side of his face. His body shifted
Speaker 1: and he was pushed into the sand. Maybe it's not
Speaker 1: inevitable like you say. I swear to God, you guys,
Speaker 1: that's just so Matt is very, very interested in community,
Speaker 1: and it's a really interesting thing to watch in a
Speaker 1: series that feels like it's not going to be about
Speaker 1: community at the start. It really it's just Carl with
Speaker 1: his cat. That's how we start, and he's alone for
Speaker 1: such a while before they even run into other crawlers,
Speaker 1: and it just feels like this is about a guy
Speaker 1: who's going to do the thing and the way that
Speaker 1: he has subverted the expectation on that, and really like
Speaker 1: it's not that Carl isn't individually important, because there is
Speaker 1: exactly what it is that Surrendel Gore said about. He
Speaker 1: is the one who managed to become a warlord. He
Speaker 1: is key. We need him to keep going like that
Speaker 1: is true, but he is the one that's like creating
Speaker 1: a path for everyone else to follow. And if they
Speaker 1: weren't there him creating this path wouldn't matter. It has
Speaker 1: to be everybody. And I am just extremely down with
Speaker 1: this messaging because we are so individualistic in the US,
Speaker 1: and it is what is killing us. It is what
Speaker 1: is eating the heart out of our populace and what
Speaker 1: has poisoned the thought processes of everybody who thinks that
Speaker 1: we should all just be figuring it out for ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's toxic, it's extremely shortsighted, it's deeply illogical, it's wildly egotistical.
Speaker 1: It's just so flawed. And so seeing this like constant
Speaker 1: returning to there needs to be people, you need to
Speaker 1: accept help, you need to work with people. I just
Speaker 1: really appreciate right now, especially where we're at, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So then we go to chapter sixteen,
Speaker 1: and this is when Carl and Kachia are about to
Speaker 1: undergo this weird thing that's like a drug induced state.
Speaker 1: For Katchya it's to treat her addiction to this drug
Speaker 1: that she took once that has like really affected her.
Speaker 1: And for Carl, it's supposed to possibly help him eject
Speaker 1: the being inside him. She Maria. It's two basically two
Speaker 1: hits of Glory Bound, but compounded with a subdermal gel
Speaker 1: and mixed with a potion called Tough Love, kind of
Speaker 1: like that anti alcohol potion I gave to Louis and
Speaker 1: Farrah on the fifth floor. Remembering that Louis had been
Speaker 1: one of those like kind of hostile drunks. Is really weird.
Speaker 1: I just forget and like who he is now, Like
Speaker 1: what a change? I started making this on the previous
Speaker 1: and it has to sit nice and long before it
Speaker 1: gains potency, and we're now in that window. It goes
Speaker 1: stale fast, so it's now or never. The dose I'm
Speaker 1: giving to you, Karl, I'm also going to combine with
Speaker 1: another potion called removal order that way we'll be visiting
Speaker 1: the Spider's memories instead of your own, he paused, swallowing hard.
Speaker 1: I hope. And the way that this winds up working
Speaker 1: actually is Karl and Katcha are holding hands, and so
Speaker 1: it kind of changes the way this whole thing works,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, this is part of the theming
Speaker 1: of just we need other people. And so he is
Speaker 1: in her memory and gets to see what went down
Speaker 1: with her in a way that I don't think she
Speaker 1: has any issue with. She's holding his hand. They are
Speaker 1: meant to be like, we're going in to this together,
Speaker 1: and I think that him being there is actually kind
Speaker 1: of helpful, so she doesn't have to try and explain
Speaker 1: after the fact if she ever wanted to. He gets
Speaker 1: to see and like, there's something about this to me.
Speaker 1: When you're near a divergent, you're often accused of being
Speaker 1: too preoccupied with like fairness with over explaining things because
Speaker 1: you're afraid of being misunderstood. And I definitely fall into this.
Speaker 1: And there are so many instances in my life where
Speaker 1: I wish I could just go into a memory and
Speaker 1: bring someone with me so they could see what I mean,
Speaker 1: so that I don't have to explain what happened, because
Speaker 1: there's certain things, especially as a woman, when you deal
Speaker 1: with certain types of sexual harassment, trying to expressed to
Speaker 1: someone what creeped you out and what felt wrong about
Speaker 1: an interaction. When you say it out loud, it sounds
Speaker 1: like nothing, and it doesn't feel like enough to even
Speaker 1: be sharing. Sometimes, like you're like, what am I even
Speaker 1: bringing this up for? But in the moment, it was
Speaker 1: unmistakably a threat that was happening and you fucking know it.
Speaker 1: But you also recognize that in words, there's no sense
Speaker 1: of that coming across. So the moments that I wish
Speaker 1: I could go back to and like pull somebody in
Speaker 1: and be like, do you see what I mean? You know,
Speaker 1: that's like a dream, a fantasy to be like, I
Speaker 1: want your take on this, because this is how I feel,
Speaker 1: and I can't tell if I'm just bringing my baggage
Speaker 1: to it or what. So watch this and let's see,
Speaker 1: and like, it's not that he has the chance to
Speaker 1: really even interact with her regarding this by the end
Speaker 1: of this section that I read, but we know we're
Speaker 1: in his head. He witnessed it, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: what an asshole about this guy? And I adore the
Speaker 1: fact that we have like an impartial observer who is
Speaker 1: fully on her side and who can look at her
Speaker 1: and be like, girl, you are right. That guy was
Speaker 1: a bastard and you got done wrong. And how validating
Speaker 1: that would feel, you know? So, uh Rosetta says Carl,
Speaker 1: if you're still under when Kaya comes back, I'll induce
Speaker 1: the wake up sequence. You should be able to initiate
Speaker 1: the ejection yourself. This all turns out to be unnecessary.
Speaker 1: So once Kachia is under, she's on her own. If
Speaker 1: we wake her up early, it could be fatal. But
Speaker 1: she's not on her own. As we see, Doughnut remained
Speaker 1: in the guild in her bathroom, taking shower after shower
Speaker 1: in a fruitless attempt to get the stench out of her,
Speaker 1: and Mango RND was with them, apparently a big fan
Speaker 1: of the shower, which I think is very funny for
Speaker 1: some reason, and she Maria is like whispering to him,
Speaker 1: trying to tell him not to do this and that
Speaker 1: they're both going to die if he does this. He
Speaker 1: actually slaps himself in the head at one point to
Speaker 1: get her to shut up. So there's this bit where
Speaker 1: it says that she confesses, like, my worst memory is
Speaker 1: also my best memory, which I don't really understand how
Speaker 1: this works, but I guess it's getting to be with
Speaker 1: Annie at all. It's just life to be like that,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. You know, a potion of somnoalin embrace. This
Speaker 1: won't remove your worries or your bad dreams for more
Speaker 1: than a moment, but it will ease them long enough
Speaker 1: to let you sleep. Sometimes this is all we can
Speaker 1: hope for. And I love when they take a sip
Speaker 1: and she goes, oh wow, this stuff is great. Oh girl,
Speaker 1: she do gotta have it. And as they're going under,
Speaker 1: Mordecai says, I don't have the fancy bed you guys have.
Speaker 1: It's what I use sometimes sometimes. Rosetta asked, what do
Speaker 1: you know about it? Mordecai asked her, I saw a
Speaker 1: story about you the other way or the other day.
Speaker 1: Her what and we are out of there before we
Speaker 1: get to actually see that whole thing unfold, and Mordecai
Speaker 1: has got to be pissed. So somebody try to say,
Speaker 1: separate them, no touching you two, it will confuse the dream.
Speaker 1: But it's too late. It seems like the fact that
Speaker 1: they touched the way they did was enough. Ah I
Speaker 1: briefly touched the minds of others nearby, and Moni, who
Speaker 1: was terrified, Mordecai equally weary, but also sad Rosetta, who
Speaker 1: just seemed so very tired yet filled with a deep
Speaker 1: familiar rage, Edgar, who was worried. These were just flashes,
Speaker 1: like my hand running through a flame. The moment only
Speaker 1: lasted micro seconds, yet I saw deeper and longer than
Speaker 1: I should I shouldn't be seeing this. Katcha was the
Speaker 1: one I truly crashed against, and while it was still short,
Speaker 1: the glimpses I felt of her lasted longer told me more.
Speaker 1: She too was afraid, afraid that she was a burden, ashamed,
Speaker 1: ashamed that we were all doing this for her, and
Speaker 1: angry too, angry at herself, angry at the wor angry
Speaker 1: at me. Why would she be angry? With me. I
Speaker 1: quickly started to recede, and eventually it's her and she's saying,
Speaker 1: it's not that I'm angry with you. I'm just mad
Speaker 1: that you let people hurt you. You meet someone, you
Speaker 1: start to care for them, and then it becomes and
Speaker 1: she gets interrupted by the notification, and I'm really wondering
Speaker 1: how this sentence was going to end, because it's almost
Speaker 1: like you meet someone, you start to care for them,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes clear that they just like, have
Speaker 1: been mistreated for so long that they don't know what
Speaker 1: being treated well is, or that they have the same
Speaker 1: kinds of baggage that you have, or I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but angry and mad that you let
Speaker 1: people hurt you. I'm wondering if this is about his past,
Speaker 1: or if it's about what has happened since she's been
Speaker 1: part of the party, or what I blinked and I
Speaker 1: woke up. The Scavenger's daughter has been fed unleash her wrath,
Speaker 1: and y'all, I was so confused. I was just like, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, wait, hold on, wait, hold on. I was
Speaker 1: just like, did I I went and looked, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: right chapter and he's looking around and he gets a
Speaker 1: quest failed bedlam Bride, and I'm like, oh shit, is
Speaker 1: she Maria like dead? And he's trying to find Katya,
Speaker 1: and we get him remembering the memory that he was
Speaker 1: in Annie, the little baby girl fan are the cancer diagnosis,
Speaker 1: after all those hoops, all she'd overcome, they'd caught it early,
Speaker 1: she'd be okay, but despite that, it had come with
Speaker 1: a terrible price. I understood finally Kotcha's addictions. Fannar had
Speaker 1: told them. I didn't understand why she'd been cleaned for
Speaker 1: so long. And then a one two punch. I thought
Speaker 1: of the social worker coming to pick me up from
Speaker 1: the interrogation room. Come on now, she'd said, come on now.
Speaker 1: A minor setback, But to Kachia it had been everything,
Speaker 1: a shattering. It was almost by dungeon standers. All of
Speaker 1: this was almost nothing. So he wakes up, there's blood everywhere.
Speaker 1: He's in a room and there's a goblin trying to
Speaker 1: pull a trigger on him, and goblin gets frozen up
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at this and I'm just like because
Speaker 1: my initial instinct was to think, oh, something went really
Speaker 1: wrong with the potion. And he has hurt members of
Speaker 1: his party. But then it's like, obviously we don't have
Speaker 1: any goblins in the party, so right there, we have
Speaker 1: an issue with that hypothesis, the fact that the goblin
Speaker 1: is called naughty and kept from being able to fire
Speaker 1: on Carl, but Carl was apparently able to just like
Speaker 1: brutally murder a bunch of people, or she Maria was.
Speaker 1: I was like, how does that make sense? I'm just
Speaker 1: completely lost, right, so, a new gravelly voice. It's being
Speaker 1: ruled an AI action, not an attack. The ceasefire has
Speaker 1: new rules against teammates fighting one another or monsters. You
Speaker 1: could have fought back against the unaffiliated NPC while he
Speaker 1: was under control of that thing, but you waited too long.
Speaker 1: Now that he's no longer possessed, you can't touch him
Speaker 1: while the ceasefire is an effect. The AI is claiming
Speaker 1: he had a notification over his head while he was vulnerable.
Speaker 1: And the person speaking is Panford, who's an adjutant for
Speaker 1: the Democratic sortion a dreadnought. And there is this caterpillar
Speaker 1: creature named Commander Stockade, who is not reacting well to
Speaker 1: this news, to say the least. And what we quickly
Speaker 1: begin to put together is the fact that this is
Speaker 1: the fact that these guys were cheating and the cheating
Speaker 1: backfired on them quite spectacularly, and they are outraged at
Speaker 1: the way it went left because they hadn't seen coming
Speaker 1: that particular way. But they were fine with the fact that,
Speaker 1: like potentially all of Carl's team could have died if
Speaker 1: things had gone a certain way, you know, just the
Speaker 1: usual like rules for me, but not for the sort
Speaker 1: of thing and the fact that the AI is like
Speaker 1: instituting a particular effect they seem surprised by in a
Speaker 1: way that surprised me a little bit, where I was
Speaker 1: just like, have you guys been here this whole time?
Speaker 1: How have you not spotted the way that the AI
Speaker 1: has been behaving. You should have realized that this shit
Speaker 1: was like gonna not work out as tidily as you think.
Speaker 1: And it's a whole so this takes a while to
Speaker 1: sort of unravel. I'm gonna jump ahead a little bit
Speaker 1: because it's a lot of Carl like hearing them argue,
Speaker 1: and really we get much of this repeated later and
Speaker 1: explained a little bit more fully. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: over to the moment where Victory shows up, and I
Speaker 1: love Victory is feeling pretty happy about this situation. And
Speaker 1: we hear that she told Mordecai what happened, and he
Speaker 1: started cracking up. Let's see, I'm trying to find this
Speaker 1: bit here. Oh right, We get the details on she
Speaker 1: Maria as well. I had no idea what had happened,
Speaker 1: how I got here. I remembered the dream. The spider,
Speaker 1: not she Maria, but a different one, A male she
Speaker 1: Maria had also entered, mocking me, telling me I'd be sorry.
Speaker 1: But then she saw the other spider and she changed.
Speaker 1: She burst into a rage. She killed him, her own husband.
Speaker 1: She devoured him while she sobbed. She disappeared and reappeared
Speaker 1: a few moments later. She curled into a ball right
Speaker 1: there in the hospital in Iceland. But then it got fuzzy.
Speaker 1: The husband had returned, hadn't he I have her now?
Speaker 1: He said, she's good and trapped. You can always set
Speaker 1: her free if you must, but do not unless all
Speaker 1: is lost. So she's trapped in like an eggshell, is
Speaker 1: the way he says it later, that he can break it,
Speaker 1: but only once, and either she can take over his
Speaker 1: body or she can expel herself. But if he lets
Speaker 1: her out, it's a real gamble. What she's going to pick.
Speaker 1: There's an official field ruling education and Panford said. We
Speaker 1: all sat in a new room. There was a bag
Speaker 1: of literal earth catfood sitting on the counter, abandoned and
Speaker 1: leaning against the wall. The large bag was closed with
Speaker 1: a little plastic clip. It was some generic, cheap kind
Speaker 1: of cat food that Donut would never touch. I am
Speaker 1: so curious about this. I couldn't take my eyes off it,
Speaker 1: and I had an overwhelming urge to try to steal it.
Speaker 1: When he gets that kind of like instinctual reaction, I
Speaker 1: trust it, and I am dying to know what the
Speaker 1: deal is with this fucking cat food. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to think. If the cat food itself is valuable,
Speaker 1: if there's something in the bag that isn't catfood and
Speaker 1: that's what he's like sensing, or if there's something hidden
Speaker 1: in the cat food itself, or I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I really want to know. I'm excited, Stockade. Our plan
Speaker 1: was both simple and brilliant. Using the Warlord Chat, you
Speaker 1: offered peace terms to Warlord's Carl and Dona. With those terms,
Speaker 1: you requested a face to face parlay, and then you
Speaker 1: extended an invite directly to Carl using your level fifteen
Speaker 1: summon ally spell. You extended this invitation after Carl quaffed
Speaker 1: the sleep potion and just as he was taking the
Speaker 1: medicine to treat his demonic infestation. Since Carl was still
Speaker 1: technically conscious, the request was delivered to his interface. You
Speaker 1: knew that while most command and request inquiries are disabled
Speaker 1: in certain unconscious states, properly delivered warlord inquiries remained persistent,
Speaker 1: and we're getting like a replay of it as he's
Speaker 1: explaining all of this. You knew that while Carl was incapacitated,
Speaker 1: the plan for them was to allow Si Maria to
Speaker 1: take over Carl's consciousness during the dream sequence. While in
Speaker 1: that state, the entity would have no ability to control
Speaker 1: Karl or inter with any of his systems, such as
Speaker 1: casting spells, sending messages, or interacting with his inventory. However,
Speaker 1: because of your brilliantly timed request, the entity controlling Carl
Speaker 1: could and indeed did, accept invitation to parlay. Are we
Speaker 1: agreed on those facts? So far? Agreed? Op The adjutant
Speaker 1: for Madness said, this was supposed to be a game.
Speaker 1: This is bullshit. We're fighting for our lives you're pretending
Speaker 1: like nothing has happened. You're complicit in all of this.
Speaker 1: Luke is gone. He was real, Like, it's just insane.
Speaker 1: It's just insane how they can say right in front
Speaker 1: of his fucking face, I don't think that you're real.
Speaker 1: He's not talking about an NPC, he's talking about crawlers.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, fuck. So let's see, the entity
Speaker 1: is a special Reaper spider Minion merchant. You knew the
Speaker 1: spider would jump at the ability to escape, which is
Speaker 1: exactly what would have happened if things had gone as
Speaker 1: you anticipated. So then we get an information from Mordecai
Speaker 1: about what summon ally is. At its most basic, it
Speaker 1: summons an ally, but it's not meant as an offensive spell.
Speaker 1: It puts control in the hands of the summoned and
Speaker 1: not the summoner. You have to be in each other's
Speaker 1: chat systems warlord chatwork. Second, the summon the summoned is
Speaker 1: given the choice to accept. Third, the summoned cannot be
Speaker 1: teleported into a wall or anything like that. You were
Speaker 1: teleported into the castle, but you appeared as a non
Speaker 1: corporeal avatar. It was the system compensating for your unconscious state.
Speaker 1: This is actually intended to stop people from using the
Speaker 1: spell to remove friends from deadly situations, but in your case,
Speaker 1: it saved you. You remained in that state until you
Speaker 1: started to wake up. I thought I'd killed you. It
Speaker 1: took some time to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1: They wanted to at best ruin your treatment. At worst,
Speaker 1: they thought it would simply kill you or act like
Speaker 1: teleporting and demon possessed shell. Remember what happened on the
Speaker 1: last floor, they thought would happen here. They wanted to
Speaker 1: kill us using that crazy spider, So he goes on.
Speaker 1: Carl was teleported to the ballroom after she Maria accepted
Speaker 1: the invite. However, they intended for him to fully teleport
Speaker 1: to the location and leave she Maria at the base
Speaker 1: for the princess posse. The spider would have slaughtered the
Speaker 1: entire room. What happened instead was that Karl was only
Speaker 1: partially teleported here, thwarting the plan. Let's say I'm trying
Speaker 1: to jump ahead, guys, cause there's lots of like chit
Speaker 1: chat across about it, but I'm trying to get to
Speaker 1: like the basics of it. There was additional corruption in
Speaker 1: the procedure when call Crawler's Katcha and Karl touched hands
Speaker 1: during the start of the process. The consciousness jumping like
Speaker 1: that is still a mystery, OPI said, it's fascinating and
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have happened, and I'm really interested that there's
Speaker 1: something we can use that for. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it would be, but hmm interesting. Uh. This is when
Speaker 1: he is watching the feed that they're scrolling through and
Speaker 1: he realizes they actually have footage of the dream itself
Speaker 1: and is really upset at the fact that they are
Speaker 1: able to observe something that is so deeply personal. So
Speaker 1: he and Katya are literally attached to one another as
Speaker 1: they enter this building, and she sees a man walking
Speaker 1: out of the hospital and says, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Telling them the truth? The man said, pushing past her.
Speaker 1: On the screen, the words came out garbled, but I
Speaker 1: could hear it. I could hear the panic in Kotcha's voice.
Speaker 1: His name was Fannar. He was a fellow professor and
Speaker 1: they were originally going to adopt together. He'd slept with
Speaker 1: a student and she'd reported him. Nothing had come of
Speaker 1: it other than the ruination of Kotcha's life. Matt Denneman,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. That's what happens, and anybody talking
Speaker 1: about cancel culture is a joke. Bad things do not
Speaker 1: happen to men who abuse women. It's just so incredibly
Speaker 1: rare for there to be any actual consequence. The worst
Speaker 1: that can happen has been, like, I'm boycotting things that
Speaker 1: you're in or that you do. But they're not dropped
Speaker 1: by networks, by publishers, they're not made to make restitution
Speaker 1: in any way. And almost always the woman suffers the
Speaker 1: brunt of the rage of the people online who like
Speaker 1: the man, or friends that the man manages to mobilize
Speaker 1: who are in power. And it is simply clockwork. And
Speaker 1: you can point to a million examples of this, and
Speaker 1: people will still say, why didn't she say anything? Why
Speaker 1: didn't anybody report it? We have pages and pages from
Speaker 1: the Epstein files, and tell me what has fucking happened?
Speaker 1: What show me anything? Ebstein being dead is even up
Speaker 1: for debate. There's a lot of theory that he was
Speaker 1: smuggled out and his death was faked. Sure, why not
Speaker 1: When you've got more money than God and this kind
Speaker 1: of dirt, I have no doubt you could basically make
Speaker 1: miracles happen. Sure you know, like this entire she reported him,
Speaker 1: nothing happened except that it ruined her life. Is so correct.
Speaker 1: I cannot overstate it enough. It's like a whole that
Speaker 1: one sentence. It just kind of was a gut punch
Speaker 1: because it's just in summary, always the end of the story,
Speaker 1: that's always it. And we just love to act like
Speaker 1: men are being persecuted, and it's like, nothing happens to you, though,
Speaker 1: what do you even mean? Ugh, the scene jumped. I
Speaker 1: can take a cat, I can take a test, Kotya
Speaker 1: pleaded to the faceless woman. I haven't touched anything in
Speaker 1: ten years. It was so long ago. It's not just
Speaker 1: that you're sick and you've been hiding it. With Annie's
Speaker 1: medical needs and with so little time left, we don't
Speaker 1: feel he had no right, Katya shouted. She screamed the words,
Speaker 1: and she swept everything off the woman's desk. He had
Speaker 1: no right, she'd said in unison with the ghost on
Speaker 1: the screen. The now version of Katya also had a
Speaker 1: crow on her shoulder, her card that she'd brought from
Speaker 1: the previous floor, a crow with the skull of an infant.
Speaker 1: The crow's name was also Annie. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: that meant, but it seemed important. This is like that
Speaker 1: fucking pokemon that has his mom's skull on his head,
Speaker 1: like this is devastating. What what fuck? We were in
Speaker 1: a hospital room, Kitya standing at a crib, holding the
Speaker 1: baby the best she could. It was difficult with all
Speaker 1: the wires and diodes that attached to the nine month
Speaker 1: old who just started standing on her own in the crib,
Speaker 1: so trying to parse this. Kotya was sick with Annie's
Speaker 1: medical needs and with so little time left. I had
Speaker 1: assumed that meant that Annie was dying, but I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if it's with so little time left before the adoption,
Speaker 1: and that they're saying that Annie is going to be
Speaker 1: too much for Katya to take care of because she
Speaker 1: is about to start undergoing her own treatment. And Annie
Speaker 1: is going to need somebody who is fully capable, alert
Speaker 1: and healthy because she's going to just require intense care.
Speaker 1: And they're basically saying, you're not going to be up
Speaker 1: for it, and you should have told us. I think
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. So she wasn't able to adopt this
Speaker 1: baby because this dude threw her under the bus about
Speaker 1: her drug use and about her illness, which is so
Speaker 1: incredibly disgusting as a response to her outing him sleeping
Speaker 1: with a student. Is it's just like it's just so
Speaker 1: incredibly gross and like, look, I'm not even like trying
Speaker 1: to take cotscious side about adopting a child when she's
Speaker 1: hiding things like this. I really don't know what the
Speaker 1: state is that she's in, but it just is it's
Speaker 1: just such a completely different moral situation. You know. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Michael says, did the AI use Annie's body to make
Speaker 1: the crow? And I that like that did occur to
Speaker 1: me if I recall correctly. Katscha is already finished with
Speaker 1: her treatment. She had presumably gotten addicted to some painkillers
Speaker 1: or something similar during her cancer treatment, but she had
Speaker 1: eventually overcome them. Oh interesting, but they're saying you're sick
Speaker 1: and you've been hiding it, so it seems like this
Speaker 1: is still something she's dealing with. If she hasn't touched
Speaker 1: a drug in ten years and the drugs came after
Speaker 1: the treatment, saying you're sick doesn't really make sense. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it doesn't matter in the end. It's just,
Speaker 1: you know, the spider comes in and then PONSI her husband.
Speaker 1: I just knew everything about him. Memories that were starting
Speaker 1: to flow back into me diluted and washed away into
Speaker 1: the stream. Worry not my children, the male spider had said.
Speaker 1: As we watched, he transformed into a large, dark skinned
Speaker 1: human wearing simple pants and a vest. His accent was
Speaker 1: like that of Asahano's worry. Not only then did the
Speaker 1: scene fade, returning me on the floor of the ballroom,
Speaker 1: still translucent and flickering weird like I'm assuming he is.
Speaker 1: You know, he handles her and trustes her up, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has something to do with
Speaker 1: like anything in Katcha's dream. So after some time, the
Speaker 1: Shi Maria consciousness was also pulled into conscious dreamscape. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the parties at both ends scrambled to find a way
Speaker 1: to turn Carl's incapacitation to their advantage. Stockade plan on
Speaker 1: casting a spell to force Carl to completely form on
Speaker 1: your side, but you paused because you once again received
Speaker 1: outside information about how the Princess Posse team was planning
Speaker 1: to react. You once again needed to time your reaction
Speaker 1: to just the correct moment. Meanwhile, members of the Crawler
Speaker 1: team became aware of exactly what was happening, and they
Speaker 1: formed a plan to defend Carl, and the caterpillar just yells,
Speaker 1: so they're cheating. Also, they also have someone watching from
Speaker 1: the outside, which is this Zood is not smart, Like
Speaker 1: they could have figured out what was happening, not with
Speaker 1: outside help, but with Doughnut having gotten the invitation as well,
Speaker 1: they could have begun to put tune two together. I
Speaker 1: feel now, is it possible they're getting outside help? Sure,
Speaker 1: but I don't know who it would be. I have
Speaker 1: to toss somehow, someone communicating with Rosetta. I don't know
Speaker 1: how else this would really work. But yeah, So then
Speaker 1: we get a message from Prepatente. I am near the
Speaker 1: southern border with the Naga, surveying your defenses, and there
Speaker 1: is a great amount of enemy movement. They are attempting
Speaker 1: to be surreptitious, but Bianca and I are observing them
Speaker 1: from high above, and essentially they're behaving like the ceasefire
Speaker 1: is about to end any second, which is really weird
Speaker 1: because that isn't true. What's going on. Let's see once
Speaker 1: the festivities begin, I have a specific score to settle
Speaker 1: with the lead producer of the Blood hunter program, and
Speaker 1: after that is complete, only then will I come to
Speaker 1: your aid and join in your military if you're still alive.
Speaker 1: So chapter nineteen, as they are continuing to debate exactly
Speaker 1: what happened, Victory is the one who she chimes in here. Finally,
Speaker 1: when you tried to expel the Shi Maria presence, Stockade
Speaker 1: was using an outside the dungeon partner to watch the procedure.
Speaker 1: He timed it precisely because he's an idiot. It only
Speaker 1: half worked, and the system split you into because you
Speaker 1: were into places. Both sides then attempted to fully drag
Speaker 1: you into their presence. But at this point Mordecai became
Speaker 1: aware and knew he was being watched and formulated as subterfuge.
Speaker 1: I'm going to pull him out, Mordecai said on the screen.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use a shock wave salve, but I
Speaker 1: got to adjust it to work on a non corporeal form,
Speaker 1: and it says well Mordecai brewed this. Stockade prepared a
Speaker 1: counter move to fully drag Karl into the ballroom. If
Speaker 1: the spell and the salve were applied simultaneously, Karl would
Speaker 1: have likely died, his soul being ripped in two they
Speaker 1: can literally affect his soul. That's insane. But Mordecai, aware
Speaker 1: that he was being illegally observed, was actually creating a
Speaker 1: different potion, not a wake up salve, but something to
Speaker 1: violently expel the she Maria presence. How would they know
Speaker 1: if they weren't also observing us? Oh right, I forgot
Speaker 1: about fucking juice Box. Obviously, if they weren't cheating, how
Speaker 1: would they know, Paanford ask asked in Stockade, It's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's a fucking spy. And honestly, if
Speaker 1: they had just figured it out, it would have been
Speaker 1: amazing for him to be very paranoid that there's a spy,
Speaker 1: and there may be wasn't. But we get information from
Speaker 1: juice Box later that she has had to like kind
Speaker 1: of out a couple people who were on the inside
Speaker 1: by in order to save Carl, which worth it for sure,
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, nobody wants to burn up assets.
Speaker 1: I definitely understand that. Let see the scene change showing
Speaker 1: Mordecai applying the salve to my translucent chest. I buckled
Speaker 1: as if in pain. At the same time Stockade cackled
Speaker 1: with laughter as he cast his spell. The cackling stopped
Speaker 1: a few moments later, the split screen turned to a
Speaker 1: full view of the ballroom, with me on the floor, convulsing,
Speaker 1: fully corporeal, And then just like that, I turned. There
Speaker 1: was no moment of transformation, There was a blink, and
Speaker 1: then I was she Maria. I have always loved you.
Speaker 1: She Maria roared, her voice muffled. Her jaws were still unhinged.
Speaker 1: She was still in the midst of swallowing the human
Speaker 1: version of her husband in the dream we'd watched devour
Speaker 1: the man all all screaming that she loved him and
Speaker 1: would never hurt him. That got me. This is the
Speaker 1: thing that people don't understand someone so would never hurt
Speaker 1: them they love them. If you think that love and
Speaker 1: harm are mutually exclusive, you are out of your mind. Like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? Oh my god, I didn't kill
Speaker 1: you a ponsi, Maria screamed, I would never kill you.
Speaker 1: She skewered a goblin through the chest and picked him
Speaker 1: up with her arm. She shrieked at the goblin, I
Speaker 1: would never hurt him. How dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 1: She ripped the goblin into yikes. Oh, she didn't look
Speaker 1: nearly as trapped as a PONSI said still, I now
Speaker 1: had control of the eye on my chest. I could
Speaker 1: feel it there, clenched closed. In the dream, she'd returned
Speaker 1: before before I had awakened. We left her in the
Speaker 1: room with Annie, and he's telling Katcha, it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: just a memory, it's not real, which I think is
Speaker 1: likely true. But I can see the potential where maybe
Speaker 1: he's wrong about something. I just don't know what. And
Speaker 1: then we see the eye contact. She opens her eye
Speaker 1: and the caterpillar makes eye contact, and the goblins do
Speaker 1: and begin to kill one another or themselves, and then
Speaker 1: suddenly she like falls and rolls onto her back. Blink,
Speaker 1: there's Carl covered in blood. A silhouette of the spider remained,
Speaker 1: made of the blood that had been coating her body,
Speaker 1: and it fell over me like I had had a
Speaker 1: bucket dumped on my head, which is a wild image.
Speaker 1: Like I just picture like somehow managing to close an
Speaker 1: umbrella so quickly that the water doesn't fall at the
Speaker 1: same rate the umbrella closes, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that kind of thing, Opie says. Another oddity, Mordechai's
Speaker 1: potion only worked temporarily it should have permanently severed the bond,
Speaker 1: but in the end the spider was pulled back into Carl,
Speaker 1: which if it had permanently severed the bond, but Carl
Speaker 1: did become corporeal, she would have killed him in that room,
Speaker 1: So I don't I think Mordechai knew that and made
Speaker 1: the potion less intense somehow, unless it was an accident,
Speaker 1: but the screen disappeared with a flash. We believe stock
Speaker 1: Hayden Houston both conspired to use the secured messaging system
Speaker 1: to speak with someone upon the eighteenth floor who was
Speaker 1: relaying real time info via a third party participating in
Speaker 1: the celestial ascendency, and he says, we have identified the
Speaker 1: party as nurse Yugoslav of the madness. I planted a
Speaker 1: fake grin and turned to Architect Houston, your mom. Your
Speaker 1: mom is here in the dungeon. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: meet her. And later on he is very unhappy about
Speaker 1: this little threat, Houston's presence here in the castle and
Speaker 1: the possible collusion by a family member who is not
Speaker 1: bound by any such rules as circumstantial evidence. Quite damning
Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence, but I don't feel it's enough to officially
Speaker 1: charge him unless you want to confess. Do you wish
Speaker 1: to confess? Architect Houston, the masked creature made no moves
Speaker 1: and said nothing, So Victory is like, yeah, well we
Speaker 1: all know he's guilty, but he was clever about it.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence, So I'm going to say not culpable.
Speaker 1: Because the other two adjutants are in agreement, I do
Speaker 1: not need to render a ruling. This minor quorum finds
Speaker 1: the Madness and Princess Posse not guilty of wrongdoing. The
Speaker 1: leader of the Democratic Soortion has admitted to has admitted
Speaker 1: guilt to illegal information gathering Warlord Message. Sir Ferdinand of
Speaker 1: Team Retribution has proposed an emergency action item because then
Speaker 1: Alien cuts on the other floors of being little bitches
Speaker 1: and cheating. We propose that nobody in the dungeon, including
Speaker 1: those pricks partying it up in that centipedees asshole, be
Speaker 1: allowed to watch any outside feeds for the remainder of
Speaker 1: this little game, which I had thought was already like
Speaker 1: part of the way this worked that you couldn't watch
Speaker 1: outside feeds. I feel like there's something about this that's
Speaker 1: like specific in a way that I'm not getting, so
Speaker 1: feel free to help me out with that one. So meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Stockade is getting worse and worse grieving for this guy Luke.
Speaker 1: And it's sort of interesting because it's like the way
Speaker 1: that she Maria was flipping out about somebody that she
Speaker 1: allegedly cared about and hurt. I'm wondering if it was
Speaker 1: like if it's affecting Stockade because of the emotional aspect
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You know, I received a new
Speaker 1: message directly in the warlord chat. If you ever mentioned
Speaker 1: my mother out loud ever again, you and that animal
Speaker 1: companion of yours will spend the last thousand years of
Speaker 1: your existence upon the amplification table in my surgical theater.
Speaker 1: This is a promise, Warlord Carl. I'll fuck off, Architect Houston.
Speaker 1: You are in mortal danger at this very moment and
Speaker 1: you don't even realize it. I do hope you escape
Speaker 1: so we can extend our play. But gracious pet owners
Speaker 1: accept the gifts their animals drop at their doorsteps, Warlord Carl,
Speaker 1: What the fuck does that even mean? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Gracious pet owners accept the gifts their animals drop at
Speaker 1: their doorsteps. It's like she Maria his pet, is that
Speaker 1: what he's saying that like she or is he calling
Speaker 1: Stockade his pet? Maybe? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm just trying to uh make sure that
Speaker 1: I'm fitting in everything, because there's a whole, obviously big
Speaker 1: moment that happens here. Stockade is continuing to beat his
Speaker 1: head against the floor and nobody is actually able to
Speaker 1: stop him from doing this, and because it's a quorum,
Speaker 1: they can't let his guards in either. Let's see, if
Speaker 1: we stay for much longer, we'll have to deal with
Speaker 1: a new education Panford. Victory said, let's end this now.
Speaker 1: Wait what happens when this is done? How do I
Speaker 1: get back? Because the ceasefire is in effective because of
Speaker 1: the nature of your transport, You'll be teleported back to
Speaker 1: your base. Shit, okay, I said, quickly end it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, hold on, why. What it is is
Speaker 1: that we're we're Stockford able to Stockade. I'm conflating Panford
Speaker 1: and Stockade. We're Stockade dead. Before they ended this, Carl
Speaker 1: would be fucking stuck here. And he realizes this a
Speaker 1: second before Victory realizes, and she's just like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: finish it, finish it, finish it. So he does there's
Speaker 1: a pang and victory immediately. It's like I'm transporting Carl back,
Speaker 1: teleporting in twenty seconds. Twenty seconds. It's quite a long time, actually,
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with what they're about to deal with.
Speaker 1: Stockade dies. System message, Commander's stockade of the Democratic Sortion
Speaker 1: has fallen. Credit for the kill has been ruled as
Speaker 1: a psychosic induced suicide. System message. The Democratic Sortion has
Speaker 1: been defeated. As this defeat was voluntary, the closest ally
Speaker 1: castle or roler to their headquarters will receive all their assets.
Speaker 1: System message. All assets of the Limit Sortion have been
Speaker 1: awarded to the Madness. There was a pause. I felt
Speaker 1: a tingle of pre teleportation. System message. Due to ceasefire
Speaker 1: Rule three sub Section six of the Ceasefire Addendum, the
Speaker 1: voluntary withdrawal of a combatant squad has engaged. Accelerating acceleration
Speaker 1: Scenario two. The ceasefire will be shortened by twenty three
Speaker 1: point three three hours. System message. The ceasefire has ended.
Speaker 1: System message. All unaffiliated crawlers have been teleported from Moroccos.
Speaker 1: Warlord message Phase one combat rules have engaged. You may
Speaker 1: freely enter enemy territory via designated corridors. No offensive magic
Speaker 1: may be used during this first ramp up phase. No
Speaker 1: combatants may cast teleport based spells across from me. Architect
Speaker 1: Houston jumped to his feet and his robes flung back,
Speaker 1: revealing a horrific bug like body in six arms, two
Speaker 1: of which were holding a rifle, which he brought to
Speaker 1: bear upon my chest. He fired as I dove out
Speaker 1: of the way. I landed heavily against the counter. I
Speaker 1: grabbed the bag of cat food just as I dropped
Speaker 1: an impact hoblobber onto the ground. I love that he
Speaker 1: prioritizes getting the cat food. It's just such an insane move.
Speaker 1: But like I'm glad because I want to know what
Speaker 1: the fuck? And he teleports to the Princess Posse camp
Speaker 1: and like just barely, just barely, the fact that it's
Speaker 1: twenty seconds. I can't help but wonder, did the AI
Speaker 1: really stretch out all of those system messages to like
Speaker 1: fill time before they were able to move, And that
Speaker 1: way there was only like one chance for him to
Speaker 1: try and shoot Carl before Carl got transported away. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, but essentially what's made
Speaker 1: clear Architect Houston set Stockade up knowing that this thing
Speaker 1: wasn't going to work. I believe he knew that Carl
Speaker 1: was going to wind up here and that this would
Speaker 1: end the ceasefire. I believe that there was going to
Speaker 1: be like something, unless it's just a like happenstance, because
Speaker 1: I don't know how you guarantee. She Maria opens her
Speaker 1: eye and that Stocky kills himself. But it feels to
Speaker 1: me like he did somehow put this together. Otherwise, how
Speaker 1: would he be so ready? You know what I'm saying? Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's uh, I should have dropped a bigger bomb. I
Speaker 1: thought I'd gone with my hot list. He'd plan this.
Speaker 1: Either that or he'd known what was happening to stock
Speaker 1: Kayden had compensated accordingly, which is certainly possible. What the fuck,
Speaker 1: let's see what are you sitting around for? The lead one,
Speaker 1: asked the slugglows. He was a level fifty five named
Speaker 1: Jason Manning. Fucks. He had dreadlocks shaped like little mourning stars.
Speaker 1: He waved his head back and forth. The tiny weapons
Speaker 1: spun in a circle. Ain't you heard? We got a
Speaker 1: war on Everyone is moving to one of the two
Speaker 1: fronts now, quit your bleeding and get out there. The
Speaker 1: slug whooped loudly and left the room, trailing orange slime
Speaker 1: as his compatriots followed. A moment later, an explosion echoed
Speaker 1: as a non magical rock detonated against our shield system.
Speaker 1: Message weapons free weapons Free faction Wars have officially begun,
Speaker 1: and that is the end of the chapter. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: pretty dope, terrifying, really clever. I am always a fan
Speaker 1: of when the villains are as clever as the good guys,
Speaker 1: and the way that they shook out and the fact
Speaker 1: that architect Houston understood the timing of it all and
Speaker 1: was like figuring it out while Carl was as well.
Speaker 1: I just it's like simultaneously I love it and I
Speaker 1: hate it. You know, I want my villain to be
Speaker 1: clever and not just powerful and able to influence absolutely everything,
Speaker 1: but also like smart, But also I don't want them
Speaker 1: to be smart. I hate this, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So like the ramp up ending or starting early. Also
Speaker 1: like I was already so anxious about how little time
Speaker 1: we had to get so much done, and I am
Speaker 1: assuming whatever like soldiers they weren't able to get from
Speaker 1: the crawlers are now susceptible to conscription right, which fucking sucks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's something that we can use
Speaker 1: to count or that, if there's like a spell or
Speaker 1: a potion or what. But like, uh, we just had
Speaker 1: so many things that we wanted to finish before we
Speaker 1: reached this stage that we are not going to get
Speaker 1: to do now, and that as somebody who like really
Speaker 1: takes comfort in plans, bums me out. So yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: Jeff says, this is all much too confusing. I feel
Speaker 1: you on that, Jeff. I actually like mostly followed, but
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. Michael says, I didn't know
Speaker 1: zomp was an actual color before. Apparently it is a
Speaker 1: teal green color. Why did that come up? Michael? Zomp
Speaker 1: was in the book with the train. I can't remember
Speaker 1: the name now which one it was, but uh, all
Speaker 1: the lines were named after colors, So yeah, we had
Speaker 1: like found that out at during that book. Sarah m says,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was. He knew as much as
Speaker 1: he had plans for ever, every eventuality he could think
Speaker 1: of might be. Yeah, I gotta say that. On each
Speaker 1: subsequent read through, the Caterpillar's death gets a little harder
Speaker 1: to read the caterpillar was screaming about Luke's zomp hued thighs. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did not remember that, but it is funny that
Speaker 1: they're referencing a color that I had never heard of
Speaker 1: until these books, and then we're bringing it back up again,
Speaker 1: like why not? Yeah, so I'm really worried. I'm very relieved.
Speaker 1: The next session section is titled Christmas Morning, y'all? When
Speaker 1: is he going to open the fucking Christmas present? When
Speaker 1: is Zach? I want? Please? When are we gonna find
Speaker 1: out what happened at Christmas? Is this? It? Is? This? It?
Speaker 1: Because like we're in a different POV. We're not in
Speaker 1: Carl's POV as I'm seeing with just the opening sentence.
Speaker 1: So now I don't know, but we'll see anyway. Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta wrap up. Oh man, I pushed my third
Speaker 1: recording to tomorrow because I had a migraine this morning
Speaker 1: and I was sort of like I might be fine though,
Speaker 1: and I'm finishing my second recording and I am drained.
Speaker 1: Good thing I did it, I think, But yeah, thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for coming hanging out with me.
Speaker 1: Definitely going to be reading the next section immediately. I'm
Speaker 1: so curious and looking forward to coming back Thursday. So
Speaker 1: until then, to Loo motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network.