WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.119 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