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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book four, The Gate I almost said,

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the Fate, The Gate of the Farh Gods, chapters three

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through five. In these chapters, we get to know some

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other crawlers and they are not the competent, almost overachievers

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that we have gotten to know from other groups. And

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it's a real Jason Mendoza situation to me. Welcome to

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spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.

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Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode.

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So these chapters are we're getting the beginnings of our

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sort of script, as Carl puts it, and I am

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into the whole. We've got some real goobers that we

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need to work with. I acknowledge that this is sort

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of like it's funny because I'm not the one that

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has to deal with them, so you know, yes, exactly.

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But if you guys don't know who I mean when

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I mentioned Jason Mendoza, he is a character from the

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Good Place, one of the best TV shows ever made,

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and he is from jackson Florida or Jacksonville Jacksonville, Florida.

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I think it's Jacksonville, Florida, and is an absolute trash

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fire of a person. Very good hearted, sweet, but a

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complete mess. And this dude is very much reminding me

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of Jason min Dozen. That's w I'm picturing, lookie, and

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I'm going to be interested to see how he functions

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when he cannot get drunk anymore, because that's that's really something.

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Michael says, how dare you? Didn't you hear Lewis talk

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about the titty twister? Who else but a super genius

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could conceive of a convertible fan this convertible van guys,

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I am positive that this is out there, you know,

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But if you all have pictures, go ahead and post

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him in the discord. If you find something that you

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feel is like representative, I am not. Like he says

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something about how my mom got really mad, which can

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you imagine letting your kid brow your car and they

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bring it back as a convert I would lose my shit.

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And secondly, he says that it got like one hundred

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thousand likes on Instagram, which isn't that many? Like it's

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a lot if you only get a few hundred or

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a couple thousand, but one hundred thousand likes isn't even

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really enough to make you any money. So if that's

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all that you're getting out of it, that is not

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validating or justifying this at all. It's terrible. Look, I

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don't want to be the kind of person that's like,

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do crazy shit for the algorithm, but like, we got

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to make a living on here. We're all just doing

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the best we can. And if you are going to

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do some crazy shit for the algorithm, I'm not really

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gonna be all that mad at you for it, Like,

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as long as I don't feel like it's actively endangering

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yourself for other people, which one could argue making a

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convertible out of a van is definitely endangering people. So

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it all depends on the execution, I suppose. But anyway,

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I'm getting ahead of myself, as I so often do.

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So let's start with chapter three. Carl is talking about

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their game plan and that they are going to try

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and find as many of the other crawlers as they

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can and try and get them grouped up so that

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they can get in on each other's chats and start

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like formulating a plan together. Katcha is getting very good

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with her. I keep wanting to say shape shifting, and

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I guess that's like a particular race. She is a dumpelganger, right,

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so she's getting really good with that and she has

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managed to make herself look like one of these camel guys.

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And then Mordecai is pointing out a kitchen upgrade which

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was nothing more than three cabinets sitting in a row

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against the blank wall of the kitchen. Able to upgrade

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this into something much better once we get to the

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two tier upgrades. I'm looking forward to that mostly because

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of the magic room, but we'll talk about that later.

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And I'm like, I want to know what the magic

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room is. I'm assuming that it's something that's going to

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allow magic to be like more potent, or that you

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can practice better, or that it's like protected in some way.

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I don't know. These are food synthesizers bought with Kocious coupon.

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You can only use one a day, but this upgrade

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came with three different cabinets, so it's breakfast, lunch, and

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dinner or whatever. I know from experience these things can

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be a little buggy. I suggest not picking the same

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item twice in a row, or suddenly you'll find yourself

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with that as your only choice. Otherwise, the selection changes

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every day and is customized to you. It'll learn your tastes.

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So that's really interesting that it's customized in the first

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place and that it learns your tastes. Because there are

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a bunch of breakfast items for Carl and he doesn't

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mention the skier option, so I'm assuming that that pops

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up for Katcha and doesn't for him. And for those

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who don't know and didn't bother to look it up,

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but do kind of care. Ski is like Greek yogurt

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in a very you know, the profile of it. It's

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a little bit more thin and sour, I would say,

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not much thinner, and it's like lower in calories, but

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it also is lower in protein, and it's got the

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exact same amount of carbs, so it's I've had it before.

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It's perfectly tasty. I like all kinds of dairy products

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pretty much. There's very little I've tried of dairy that

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I do not like. And yeah, it's served with jam

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as well as like granola and stuff in the same

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way that yogurt is yogurt. We can say that we

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don't serve it with jam, but if you buy pre

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sweetened granola that has like fruit on the bottom that's

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basically jam. It's like the same exact idea. And Carl is, uh,

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he gets a sausage bagel sandwich, and she warns him

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how bad it's going to be, but it's exactly what

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he expected because he has gotten kind of the worst

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version of a sandwich his whole life that you just

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pop in a microwave. And I like to think that

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Katcha's is actually like an American equivalent of Skier and Jam,

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because she says it tasted like bad sour cream mixed

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with jolly ranchers, And I'm like, this sounds like a

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This sounds like something we do because we'd love to

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make like versions of foods from other countries, but bad.

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We don't like to put in any effort that it takes.

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We don't like to use good ingredients because it's more expensive,

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and we like to often add a lot of fillers

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that really change the texture. This is something that I

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feel very strongly about, as you all know, because food

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is sort of my thing. And if you are interested

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in Greek yogurt but you've tried it and you haven't

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liked it, I would really suggest if you haven't tried it,

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to try Faje brand, which is Fage, because they are

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one of the only brands that is like actually made

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in the fashion that Greek yogurt is meant to be made,

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which is by straining it all to hell and the

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solas are what remain, whereas a lot of other Greek

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yogurts are loaded with stabilizers and like guar, gum and gelatin,

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or they even add like protein powder into them to

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put protein back in. Fage doesn't need to do that

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because that is just how it is when you make

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it properly, and a lot of other Greek yogurt out

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there isn't. It's just a completely different product, and they

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just slap the word Greek yogurt on it because it's

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got a similar texture kind of so anything anyway, Michael says,

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that thing would screw me. I tend to get obsessed

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with a certain food for a bit before getting sick

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of it and moving on to some else for a while.

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I'd be stuck with whatever my first choice would be forever.

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I completely get that, Michael. Actually, this is something that

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as somebody who tries to food prep as often as

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they can I've had a great advantage where I really

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like eating the same thing several days in a row

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if it's good, you know, And I know a lot

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of people do not like that, and that can get

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in the way of food prepping because it's a lot

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harder to prep a bunch of different things. Rob says,

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the scare we get here is super thick and creamy.

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I mean, the one that I had was super thick

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and creamy, but it wasn't as thick as the Greek yogurt.

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But you know, it doesn't whatever. I later on, Donut

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is eating fancy feast and she's like not happy about it,

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and I think it's supposed to be that, like it's

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not either a good version of fancy feast, or perhaps

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she has gotten so used to eating actual, like fresh

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fish that's been prepared by Bob chefs, that this doesn't

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compare anymore, because I would imagine fancy feast kind of

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used to be her thing. But I can't tell if

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it's just like it was poorly executed, or if it's

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that she has gotten used to something much higher quality

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and now going back is just a real downngrade. So

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then we talk about the marketplace and Mordecai says, we

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bought the marketplace upgrade early. It doesn't really even open

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up until the next floor. For now, it's like having

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a virtual general store interface. The second tier version is

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the same thing, but twice as expensive, so we had

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to buy it. Now you can purchase basic potions and

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scrolls and random items will also pop up for sale.

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Now I just want to point this out. The second

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tier version is the same thing, but twice as expensive,

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again with the insider knowledge being absolutely clutched, because if

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you don't know this, you get fucked and you have

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to pay twice as much next floor. And they just

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this is just yet another example of the advantage of

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having somebody who is giving you more information. And I

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keep thinking about the advantage of being surrounded by people

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who know how to play the system when you're growing

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up in our universe. Just like as a kid, I

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had a mother who had dropped out of high school

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and eventually got her ged years later, and then I

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had a father who didn't speak English. I was not

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in a position where I was getting a lot of

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advocacy about studying for SATs or tutors or people who

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were experienced with writing cover letters and resumes, you know,

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like it wasn't like I couldn't talk to teachers about that,

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but it wasn't the sort of thing that was just

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like part of my parents' lives and I could finish

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writing it and have them look it over and they

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would have any sort of discerning eye. They weren't familiar,

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and so I had to rely on teachers for everything,

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and teachers have a lot of kids to look after.

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And it's just a really good example of like I

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kind of wish that I had started keeping a tally

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of the number of advantages they have from Mordecai, just

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in terms of advanced notice about things, you know, just that.

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So he says, you can sell things, Carl, this was

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your coupon, but we gave it to Donuts, so she

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got credit because her charisma adds is automatically added to

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the system, so the prices are lower and Carl has

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to do Okay, So how does it work? Even though

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it turns out from his book he knows already it's

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a simple interface like buying and selling on eBay. There

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will be bid auctions next floor. If you want to

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sell anything magical like those low tier clothing items. You

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keep receiving I'd wait until then for regular junk. Just

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toss it to the AI storekeeper and you'll get a

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good price thanks to Donut. And Donut is like it's

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broken because it says my hats are only worth one

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gold piece each, which I'm sweetie, oh dear, And he

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says the tourists of factions will be able to start

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trading using the system once the sixth floor opens, the

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marketplace will be flooded, and he says, so we're gonna

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have to fight guys we're selling this gear to I

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don't like selling things to people when they might be

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used against us, and he says something about later on,

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like they're mostly going to be using it against each other.

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It's not even really going to be about you, which

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sounds better a sense ofly, but I'm not sure that

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end is better. And uh he asks, does Prince Stalwart

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have one of these? And Mordecai says no. The factions

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on the ninth floor don't get it. The funnel City

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of Laracos has stores with NPC proprietors, and the faction

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leaders have to physically go to the store and buy

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or bid on items, which is interesting. The ninth floor

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seems to be an exception in a lot of ways

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with different things. Once you crawlers get there, everybody gets

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kicked out of laracos and the fighting begins. So you

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make the most money selling your gear on the sixth

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through eighth. Once the ninth opens, the factions are no

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longer able to buy new gear and can only take

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it from the other armies. Yet again, guys, because like,

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if you don't know that and you're saving your shit

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to sell and then all of a sudden it turns

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out you can't do that, you would be fun. That

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is a huge piece of information. Morca tells Carl to

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go and check out the interface, and Carl says, I

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will in a bit, but right now I have work

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to do, and we find out that he he is

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aware that there is a problem for him with this

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interface due to the fact that he has this book.

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I'd been warned that the market interface the book showed

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itself as having almost no value in my inventory, but

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the cookbook included a warning be careful with the marketplace interface.

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It uses a different system to value items. It tagged

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this tone as a unique heirloom item, giving a ridiculous

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value something like fifty million gold. Nothing has happened yet,

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but I am afraid of giving a third party access

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to my inventory like that. And then somebody else adds

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I don't know if this is the cause, but this

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appears to be that Bill's last entry into the cookbook,

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which I would hazard. I guess it probably is that sucks.

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I've been leaving the cards casually on my bed whenever

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I use the marketplace. Make sure you don't have it

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on you, to be safe. It's yet another example of

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the information being able to make or break you. Carl

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is lucky in finding this out before he interacts with

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the interface. But then we had somebody who didn't have

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this warning, and thank god they put it in there

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for others in the future, but they weren't able to

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use that knowledge. It was used against them more than likely.

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And this is something that I think of a lot.

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How many people out there are like accomplishing things that

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really they are likely not going to be able to

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reap any benefits from. They are putting things in place

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so that future generations will be able to do better

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or have better preparation, but they themselves may not necessarily

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get anything out of what they are doing, and that's

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always a very hard thing to like accept, you know.

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So just yeah, the amount of information that Carl has

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is such a massive advantage in so many ways. It's

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frankly way more important than any power that he could get.

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You know. It's like, I just don't think there's a

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value you can place on it. And it makes sense

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why this book is registered as being so insanely valuable.

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So they go to this bar. It's a brothel. It's

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called Spit and Swallow. The bar's logo was a bird

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skewered on a stick. I am so sorry, but that's

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pretty good. That's a pretty good joke. I can't even

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be mad about it. I mean, that's just pretty good. Okay.

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So so they had on into the toe and here

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is when somebody explains the toe joke, which, as y'all know,

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I was not getting. And John was in the chat

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in the last episode and he mentioned that it was cameltoe.

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And John, I don't know if you were spoiling me

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or if you just had gotten the joke long before

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I did. But uh, I definitely needed this to be

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explained because I wasn't going to get it. I know,

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I wouldn't have, And there's this dude who's got a

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prostitute on his lap, and she is called juice Box,

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which is incredible, what a great name. She's doing a

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Jessica rabbit right now. Later on she looks more like

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a rabbit in a or not a rabbit, a mouse

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in like a jumpsuit. And when I tell you guys

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that I fucking knew who this was right away, I

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couldn't remember her name, but it immediately pictured Gadget. As

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it turns out her name is from Rescuers down Under?

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Is it instantly new? And it's so funny because like

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when you when you ask dudes the kinds of like

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little crushes that they had when they were younger, it's

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fun to see how many of those crushes were sort

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of like weirdoh not not even necessarily weird because they're animated.

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Because I know a lot of women had a crush

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on the fox from robin Hood. Is it Disney robin

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Hood or it's that other animation house. I can't remember,

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so no shade to that, but it's just it will

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be unexpected sometimes, you know. I always though of Gadget

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as being like the Tapanka of uh animation. So Rescue

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Rangers is Sarah m thank you. Orto says, I'm finding

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that by listening to this series, I'm finally picking up

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on a bunch of jokes that completely went over my head.

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I love that. I love that, this is what, you know,

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what I'm here for. Michael says, I'm still grateful to

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Natasha for explaining the Luducris boom bitch, get out the

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way joke for me. It's a Michael, It's move bitch,

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get out the way. But oh my god, guys, after

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I was like I forgot that joke, I went and

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listened to that song again and it's still fucking such

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a banger. Sarah from Sissy I Ga just seems to

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be second only to Sally Acorn in trends of first

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crushes in animation. I don't know about Sally Acorn. Who's that?

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Sarah m Rob says. It does make me realize just

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how out of touch with popular culture I am. This

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is like, I actually don't think I ever saw the

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animated Robin Hood, so that like near universal crush of

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the Fox, I did not have that. I'm trying to

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think of an animated that I had. I had a

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crush on Mighty Mouse when I was very small. I'm

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talking like seven or eight years old, very very small.

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I don't really think that it had anything to do

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with Mighty Mouse as he was animated. I think it

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was just that he was such a good dude who

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always saved the day, and I just really loved that

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about him. And it was not like appearance based at all.

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But uh yeah, from the Sonic Sally Acorn Sword in

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the Stone, Saraphim says, from the Sonic Saturday Am cartoon. Okay,

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do not know it. Also, haven't seen Sword in the Stone.

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So Michael says, you might really like the New Superman movie.

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Then I did. I went to see that in the

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theater with my husband and it was a good time.

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And that man is too fine to exist. He looks

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like he has been augmented by AI. So okay, now

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now I'm thinking about, like, if I were going to

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have a shapeshifter concubine, who would I ask them to

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look like? And honestly, the very first person that occurred

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to me was Jason Momoa. And it sort of surprises

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me because like, I've sort of turned a corner on

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him because of just some shit he said that I

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was like, I don't like this about you, but that

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man is just a type of fine that is so

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unique that I feel like I wouldn't ever meet anybody

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that would even remotely look like this dude, and so

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I think I would have to go with that Jason Momoa.

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So let's see, these two dudes are fucked up, and

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there is a moment where it's it's I thought this

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was very interesting. Carl says we all need to work together.

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The recap is in like six hours meet us there

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or what Lewis said, suddenly sounding inexplicably hostile, you're gonna

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blow us up. Interesting. They've got a dick measuring contest

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going up with Carl that he doesn't know about. I

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mean maybe he does now, it says inexplicably hostile, And

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I think it's explicable simply in that you've got a

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bad reputation. They have poisoned the well and now it's

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gonna be an uphill battle to get people to work

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with you, and that fucking sucks. It's a good thing

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he's got, Donu. It's a good thing that he has Patya,

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because it really this could fuck him real bad. So

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Dona is the one who basically tells them, y'all are

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level twenty two and everything that we have come across

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is at least thirty. If you don't want to be

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smashed to a fucking pulp, you're away to meet us.

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So say, we'll meet you there, Carl, And they do.

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And this is when they go outside and they talk

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to one of the camels about the time of day

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and like how the sun works and whatnot. Here he

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goes through a whole thing, and Katchi is the one

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to boil it down. Days are twenty four hours long.

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Like on Earth, it's only dark for two hours. The

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storms come every day at four hours before sunset and

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last two hours. The second sun is up for eight

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hours and it gets really hot during that time. It

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sounds like our last three days here will be mostly

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dark and the storms will last twice as long. So

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we have twelve hours until it gets super hot, that's right,

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and we have eighteen until the next sand storm. I

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think I'm so glad. I am so glad somebody fucking

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got this, because I'll I tell you. As this man

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began to describe the mythology of the sun and the sunset,

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I can't tell you how bad, my eyes glazed over.

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I actually listened to this section three times, and I

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know I listened to this entire section twice, but I

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listened to his explanation three times because I had to

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rewind it because I completely spaced out and missed it all,

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and I hadn't yet gotten to the part where Katcha

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explains it much more simplified. So the fact that I

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missed it, I was like, oh shit, so I rewound it,

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and then when I kept listening, she just boils it down.

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I was like, fuck, I could have just this is

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so much easier. We found another group of six crawlers

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in another bar. These guys were a party of half

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elves and humans. They were all twenty one through twenty

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four levels, not age, and they all seemed older, mostly

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in their thirties and forties. All were ours, All six

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had the exact same class. And He's just like, this

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is such a fucking idiotic choice. But also, I bet

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this place kind of like gamed the system, even though

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it is the system that is a game. So I

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don't even know if that really makes sense to say

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it that way, but he feels that they were probably

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just so strongly influenced that it was kind of going

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to be more difficult for this not to happen. These

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guys were more serious about their predicament. They'd also received

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the quest to find out. It was in the town hall.

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The town's door was wide open and there was no

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guard when we left. And this is when they head

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out and they're in the desert and there's a mob

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coming at them that turns out to be a ackling.

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There's some monsters first, that are these lizards, which I

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very relieved that these were not wall monitors, because I

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was sort of like, I think we'll run into some.

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I think it's inevitable. But I definitely had a moment

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of just like, please let it not be the ones

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that give him like one hundred and fifty percent more

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damage or whatever. These are male thorny devils, and even

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though it's not one hundred and fifty percent more damage,

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it's twenty percent more. And Katcha is going at them

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crossbow bolts. It's not really doing anything, but the magic

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missiles from Dona are really doing some damage. The creature

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stopped at the top of the hill, suddenly realizing he

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might have bitten off more than he could chew. He

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started to back up as I unsummoned my gauntlet and

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loaded a banger spear. I twirled and fired, scoring a

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hit on the monster's head. It dealt solid damage, almost

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as much as one of Donah's missiles. Donut held off

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killing it while we allowed the clockwork mongos to attack.

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I wanted to see how they do. They did nothing.

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It sucks. I felt very bad, even though they're just clockwork,

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and I know that I just always feel bad for

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the clockwork mongos. So let's see a red geyser of

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lizard gore showered mixed in with a bigger cloud of

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dust and doughnut later. It's just like blood and sand

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is the worst combination. And I was so glad she

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said it, because that was all I could think. Also

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was just like, oh great, you have this very sticky

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substance like blood, and then you have something that is

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so coarse and irritating and gets everywhere like sand. So yeah,

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this is uh just sounds like it really fucking sucks.

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So this is when the plane shows up, because it

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is basically they got their attention by causing these like

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huge explosions. So this thing he tries to use smoke curtains,

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but it seems as if they've got some ability to

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detect his crew despite them, because they're locking in pretty solidly,

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and they have this thing that they drop when they attack,

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but it's uh, not a bomb. It just says what

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their payload is is like more entertaining. And later on

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when we see it, that payload is dead and there's

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something wrong with the like container that this creature is

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in that failed to open it. So the boss is dead,

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and I kind of thought, like, oh sweet, did they

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manage to sidestep something. But Carl's interpretation is not that

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we're side stepping anything. In fact, this is us stepping

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right into some scripted story that they want us to follow.

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And he has a bit of a spidy sense moment

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where he's like, Yeah, we're not gonna We're not gonna

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do any of this. Let's get the fuck out of here,

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which I have to admit makes a lot more sense

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than what I was thinking that they were somehow so

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easily able to kill this thing. So yeah, and the

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creature that was in the egg, by the way, was

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a feral goose, which when he asks Mordecai about it,

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Mordechai says, anything with feral in the name is usually

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bad news. So considering the title of this book is concerning,

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Donut says, there are more airplanes up there, all of

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a sudden, I think we made them mad ah. Hell,

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we need to get our hands on some of these

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camel rocket launchers. I said. These were different planes than

473
00:30:46,559 --> 00:30:50,000
the last. There was an eclectic mix of vehicles, though

474
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,440
they were too far up to examine properly. Change of plans,

475
00:30:55,519 --> 00:30:59,039
back to Humptown, I said, go go, Donut and Mango

476
00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:01,359
took off heading back to the city. As we followed

477
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,039
and started to run, I looked up over my shoulder.

478
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:06,920
As we ran, I caught sight of the drop Bear,

479
00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:11,880
which was continuing continuing to rise into the sky. Catcha,

480
00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:16,160
you saw those engine parts in your inventory? I do good.

481
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,920
We need to build ourselves a dune bungie and fast.

482
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,839
We don't have time for this shit. And that is

483
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,400
what they do. And uh, of course don't has to

484
00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:33,559
name it the Royal Chariot, which the AI promptly does

485
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:40,799
adopt for the name of this thing, and they get

486
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:47,680
a descriptor for it that is not super encouraging. I'm

487
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,160
trying to find it all terrain tracked all terrain suicide

488
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,799
machine the Royal Chariot. If a snowmobile got drunk on

489
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,440
moonshine and had a sweaty, ill advised night with a

490
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:04,440
hill bill, he's coon hunting ATV. This oversized birth defect

491
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,400
of a vehicle would be the result quickly traverses through

492
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,240
both sand and snow. Don't worry about the lack of rollcage,

493
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:14,960
or the grossly misplaced center of gravity, or the fact

494
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,400
this thing will do an impressive impersonation of a catapult

495
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,759
the moment it hits a rock. The most important part

496
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:27,279
is that it looks kind of badass, which I understand

497
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,279
Katya just being like, I feel like that's worrying, and

498
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:35,920
Carl tries to downplay it, but uh, and I know

499
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,759
that the AI is going to try and just like

500
00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:41,440
fuck with their confidence as often as it can. But

501
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:48,480
I really believe this description. I'm worried about the catapult

502
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,559
part in particular, that just seems it just seems like

503
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:58,160
a bad News Bears sort of situation. I think it's

504
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,400
because this a terrible story. Actually, But when I was

505
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:08,160
in high school, there was a girl who died in

506
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,799
a car accident. She was driving way too fast, and

507
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,599
she I don't remember if she had a seatbelt on.

508
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:23,599
I think she didn't, and she hit the steering wheel

509
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:29,160
with her chest, which stilled her body. But she had

510
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,599
snapped forward with such force that her head came off

511
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:38,240
and went through the windshield. And I think about that

512
00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:41,599
a lot as a result of like hitting something and

513
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:47,240
being thrown or just like broken apart. And it's the

514
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,400
kind of thing that, like, looking back now, maybe that

515
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,880
story wasn't even true. That is what I was told

516
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,240
by somebody who knew her family, because, like I said,

517
00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:00,400
she went to my school and she had family and

518
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,359
friends there. But perhaps it was just a you know,

519
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,319
made up thing. I believe it, though, I'll be honest.

520
00:34:07,759 --> 00:34:10,480
She was going really fast and she was on a

521
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,159
few different drugs at the time, so you know, there's

522
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:21,000
just an awful thing. And I are our friends probably

523
00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:24,320
have some straps touble them down. But if you are

524
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,239
going through, if you're doing enough speed or you hit

525
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,079
something the right way, she happens. Man, the human body

526
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:37,039
is weirdly resilient and also weirdly fragile, and it can

527
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:42,400
be very unpredictable which one you're going to get. So

528
00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:48,039
let's see h after the storms were done, it'd spend

529
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,719
the next few hours moving back into position. By the

530
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,760
time the two hour night was over, the fortress would

531
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,360
be back in place several thousand feet over the center

532
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,800
of the bowl. We still had over twelve hours before

533
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,199
this sandstorm was due to start, which meant the airship

534
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,440
was not where it was supposed to be. The waistline

535
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,519
isn't really doing what Watercai cleaned it would, I said.

536
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:14,119
Katchia's face turned to the sky. Yeah, you're right. It

537
00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:16,519
looks like it's headed out to the ocean now. They

538
00:35:16,599 --> 00:35:21,920
must have misunderstood the schedule. And I'll be really honest,

539
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,800
I don't know what they're talking about because I'm not

540
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:31,599
keeping track of the timing of things. I'm sort of

541
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:33,199
treating all of this the way that I did with

542
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,599
the railroads. I don't need to know. I will believe

543
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:39,039
you when you say something isn't doing what it's supposed

544
00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:40,880
to do or what you were told is going to do,

545
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:48,800
and I'm just gonna let it go, you know. So sorry,

546
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,760
there's a bunch of chatter. I just missed it, Saraphim

547
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,639
says at this point, falling for the recap propaganda says

548
00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:57,920
more about them than it does Carl. I think it

549
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,119
really depends, Saraphim, because if you're not featured on the propaganda,

550
00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:07,960
so you have no metric to say, like, they're making

551
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,320
it look like X happened and that's not how it happened.

552
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,480
You might have no idea how edited it is. You know,

553
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,920
you might not be able, you might not be informed.

554
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,719
It's only the people that get featured and are sort

555
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,679
of like, why are they making me look like this?

556
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,360
They're going to be clued in, and other people might

557
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,719
just accept it because they don't have any other examples

558
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:36,000
to go by. Oh Misty says, we know the recap

559
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:37,519
is wrong because our guy is on it. If these

560
00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:40,320
guys never saw the recap be wrong, they can't know exactly.

561
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,679
Seraphim says, anything with goose and it is bad news

562
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,639
as well. Yeah, geese are vicious. Rob says, I feel

563
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:49,480
like anyone who's going through high school as a story

564
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:55,199
like that. Oh yeah about Yeah, under developed brains in

565
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,880
a motor vehicle is rough, yeah, seraf And for us,

566
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:02,559
we live in near Action Park aka the deadliest steam

567
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:07,039
park in the US. I have heard about Action Park recently.

568
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:09,199
That is so weird that that came up again. I

569
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:11,760
have never been, but yeah, they are. They are a

570
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,039
really good example of a place that shouldn't have been

571
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:18,079
allowed to continue operating. Michael says. My high school was

572
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:20,880
next to a long, decently steep hilly road. Four kids

573
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,880
killed themselves racing down it during my junior year. Oh man,

574
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,519
I hate this shit. Like I get it. I get

575
00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,920
this like thrill ride thing in theory, but I have

576
00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:35,679
just never really been somebody who was so without anxiety

577
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,199
at any point in my life that I could participate

578
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,440
in a thing like that. I just couldn't do it.

579
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:44,920
I can. I can stand back and watch others do it,

580
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,519
and that's about as much as I can manage. Even

581
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,679
watching other people take a risk like that is pretty

582
00:37:51,679 --> 00:37:55,400
hard for me, never mind doing it myself. So there's

583
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,599
a certain aspect of personality that I just don't have,

584
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,840
and thus it makes it impossible for me to understand

585
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:09,639
folks who do have it on a sort of fundamental

586
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:14,760
level that I don't think is ever really going to change.

587
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:20,039
So let's see, that's when I realized the wasteland was

588
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:23,760
directly over the other village, and there's a siren that

589
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,079
starts going off, and then these camels have an anti

590
00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:33,719
aircraft gun that they fix on it. Three flares were red.

591
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,559
Let's see, let's get back to town, I said, jumping

592
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:42,039
onto the back of a chariot. We stopped outside the

593
00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:45,000
gate and started to quickly disassemble the vehicle. When we

594
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,480
were done, I turned one last time to look south,

595
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,280
and that's when the bombs started to fall on the

596
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,280
distant town. And they have a talk about what happens

597
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,559
to the NPCs who don't go too safe rooms or

598
00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:04,360
who are in bars that aren't technically safe rooms, and

599
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:08,639
Mordecai says that it's a really complicated thing the way

600
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:14,239
these rooms operate. But certain NPCs will always be protected,

601
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,400
which I'm assuming is based on like their function in

602
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,519
the world and in the story. And then there are

603
00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:24,760
going to be NPCs that are like not around If

604
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,280
they're not around crawlers, then they won't be safe because

605
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,320
it will be just sort of proximity. Whatever umbrella gets

606
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,920
held over that crawler's head will extend to the others.

607
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,559
So what about that other thing that we were talking

608
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:46,440
about with the primary and secondary zones, that's different, he said,

609
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:50,440
shooting me a warning blare that doesn't directly impact crawlers

610
00:39:50,519 --> 00:39:55,159
or NPCs at all. I don't remember this the primary

611
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,760
and secondary zones. I'm sure if you guys draw my memory,

612
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,280
I will. But the way that he looks at Carl,

613
00:40:02,639 --> 00:40:06,400
it's almost like he isn't supposed to say this out loud,

614
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:09,639
and I thought that was sort of interesting if it

615
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,400
may be their conversation that I'm not remembering with something

616
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:18,000
that happened mostly via chat, and Carl thinks to himself,

617
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,119
there was still there was still just so much I

618
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:24,760
didn't understand, and then thinks to himself, and you've probably

619
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,760
known more than ninety percent of the other crawlers, which

620
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:32,880
is exactly the thing. I really the way that everything

621
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,880
has to work is that not everybody can have the

622
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,199
rule book, or else it won't be fun and interesting

623
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,920
to watch, it won't be entertaining. I hate this so much,

624
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:52,840
so let's see if this is Let's see sometimes during

625
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,119
quests and special events, the system prevents access to safe rooms,

626
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:00,000
as you've seen. But if this town gets that same

627
00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:02,360
treatment from the nomes, just come in here and you'll

628
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,519
be protected, And Donut says, I hope the poor people

629
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:07,960
in the other town knew all this stuff, which I

630
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:12,400
am guaranteeing that they did not. We still didn't know

631
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,960
why the Gnomes had blown the factory in town to hell.

632
00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:18,159
From what I gathered based on the frantic activity. They

633
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:23,320
didn't know either the Camels. We kept sticking our heads

634
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,559
out to keep track of the ponderous Fortresses location. So far,

635
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,400
it hadn't made a move in our direction. So then

636
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,079
we get the recap show and we see Miriam Dom

637
00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:41,800
and Prepotente trying to take down a province boss and

638
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,199
they are doing some really smart stuff. Mordecai is extremely impressed,

639
00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:54,800
and then Quanchie just fucking ruins it. This guy sucks

640
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,599
so bad. I look, I was really trying to withhold

641
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:05,480
my feeling about things, just because the virulence of irritation

642
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,960
coming from Donut toward this guy. I felt like I

643
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:13,159
was not willing to let her unfairly influence me, and

644
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:14,599
so I was going to give him more of a

645
00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:17,760
benefit of the doubt than I might have otherwise, simply

646
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:23,599
because she was so against him. Now I'm like, no, no,

647
00:42:24,039 --> 00:42:28,440
Donut is correct. He zips in, he shoots the boss

648
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,320
with a magic bolt and makes it wake up everybody

649
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,800
else has to flee. Kwan stays in the room and

650
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,960
shoots it to get the health down halfway, and as

651
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,760
soon as the monster takes a swing at him, he

652
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:50,960
fucking leaves. And that shit is absolutely that is some

653
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:55,840
baby bitch shit. As it turns out, there's a bunch

654
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,119
of people that are functioning in this weird way where

655
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:02,119
they can have like an encounter, but they get out

656
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:06,639
of it without actually fighting the boss. And it's one

657
00:43:06,679 --> 00:43:11,840
thing when Carl does that using a gauntlet ability that

658
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,880
is up against a god and he literally cannot beat

659
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,679
that god, like it's impossible to do. That's one thing.

660
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,880
But here's a guy who could have taken him down

661
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:30,119
and doesn't for whatever reason. Granted I say he could

662
00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:33,280
have taken him down and doesn't because that is what

663
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,239
Donut says. Maybe she's wrong, maybe not, I don't know,

664
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:43,119
but Mordecai is impressed with that robe and the powers

665
00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:48,119
that it gives them. And then they have this awful

666
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:55,079
story about Effecchi and this other guy. I'm trying to

667
00:43:55,119 --> 00:44:03,360
find the name that he's got legitimate do Florin. That's right, Florin.

668
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:16,480
So Effecchi was a healer, and she chooses a hero class,

669
00:44:17,519 --> 00:44:22,559
like a healer class. And is I say hero because

670
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:26,440
like people who prioritize others over themselves. Just I'm not

671
00:44:26,599 --> 00:44:29,800
that type man. I just don't. I am a self

672
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,519
absorbed person, I will admit it. And nobody listening to

673
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:36,840
this podcast is at all shocked. So anybody who has

674
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,079
that sort of instinct I'm always just very impressed by.

675
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,519
And then the guy Floren who is He says he's

676
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:49,239
from France, but he has an Australian accent and was

677
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,159
in Africa when it all went down, and says he

678
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,880
works for quote Private Security, And Yeah, as soon as

679
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,000
I read that, I'm just like, ooh, that is some

680
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:05,079
had some shady shit. Probably he'd also come into the

681
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:08,000
dungeon arm to the teeth, but now he relied solely

682
00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:11,199
on his automatic shotgun, which appeared to be heavily modified

683
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,800
even before he received a magical unlimited AMMO upgrade. Unlimited

684
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:23,760
AMMO upgrade is incredible, that's just great. And Florin's weapon

685
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:29,239
is super useful and Effecci, this is crazy. Effecci. She

686
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,440
has a staff that summons and flings leeches. They'd covered

687
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,119
the mob sucking at its fluids, killing it in seconds afterward,

688
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:38,880
the wriggling leeches would be filled with blood and fluids

689
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,599
and they could be eaten, giving a wide array of buffs.

690
00:45:43,079 --> 00:45:47,440
Florin would gobble them right up, getting temporarily stronger. It

691
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:53,400
was disgusting. Yeah, that sounds fucking foul. Eh so gross

692
00:45:55,199 --> 00:45:58,079
Mordecai is like I read the thought that they had

693
00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:03,400
removed that spell, which I'm assuming Keith means is just

694
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,559
because it's like a little bit too ope. And then

695
00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:13,719
we get then we get our first, our first like

696
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:22,920
scene of Lucia mar interacting with other crawlers in like speech,

697
00:46:23,079 --> 00:46:26,559
because we've seen her having interactions in fights and stuff,

698
00:46:27,199 --> 00:46:32,199
but there's been very little of her actually having a

699
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:39,880
conversation or talking at all. So Florida and Effecchier waiting

700
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:44,199
to go down the stairwell because obviously all of this

701
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,639
footage is from like before the level collapsed. The CMR

702
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:54,639
comes in, flanked by her two dogs, Ceci and Gustavo. Uh,

703
00:46:54,760 --> 00:47:00,000
Gustavo three, sorry, Circi the wrong Ceci. The roight Whilie

704
00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:03,079
had undergone a transformation, having grown ve almost twice the

705
00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:09,000
size of the other dog. The remaining crawlers scrambled at

706
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,440
their chance to hit the stairwell, a glut formed. At

707
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:16,599
the exit, Florin and Effecchi approached Lucia, apparently in an

708
00:47:16,639 --> 00:47:21,760
attempt to say hello. No, this is mine, Lucia said,

709
00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:29,199
hugging herself. The two dogs growled, all right, mate, Floren said,

710
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,559
backing off. He turned away and muttered crazy bitch under

711
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:36,280
his breath. As soon as he said that, I was like, Oh,

712
00:47:36,639 --> 00:47:38,719
why would you do that? Dude? Do you think she

713
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,400
can't hear you? Like you don't interact with a person

714
00:47:43,519 --> 00:47:46,119
like this with the power that they have and see

715
00:47:46,159 --> 00:47:48,519
that sort of in front of them. I Am not

716
00:47:48,639 --> 00:47:53,000
trying to victim blame here, but I can't help but

717
00:47:53,039 --> 00:47:55,079
wonder what would have happened if he had just not

718
00:47:56,039 --> 00:48:01,920
you know what I'm saying. So yet his attention, Lucia

719
00:48:02,199 --> 00:48:05,440
literally picks up a dude and chucks it at Florin

720
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:11,400
chucks this guy at him, and Floren says, what the

721
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,320
hell you're not right in the head. We're all friends here.

722
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:18,760
There is nothing wrong with my head, Lucia mar said,

723
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:24,159
sounding strangely offended. Why would you say that? Speak no

724
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:30,239
more or there will be something wrong with your girlfriend's head. Uh,

725
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,119
Florin backed away, not saying anything. I could tell the

726
00:48:34,159 --> 00:48:39,519
guy was smart, he recognized her insanity. The last of

727
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:41,639
the crawlers pushed their way to the stairs, leaving just

728
00:48:41,679 --> 00:48:43,840
the three of them plus the injured crawler and the

729
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,519
dogs and doughnut. Notice is that nobody stays for the

730
00:48:47,559 --> 00:48:51,679
guy that Lucia threw that He's just left completely to

731
00:48:52,199 --> 00:48:57,119
fenn for himself, which does suck. Uh. He reached up

732
00:48:57,159 --> 00:49:00,840
totach this Florin to tap if she on the shoulder

733
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,039
and signaled for her to proceed toward the stairs. She nodded.

734
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,199
The injured man sat up, rubbing his head. He gave

735
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,320
a terrified glance at Lucia and scrambled toward the stairwell.

736
00:49:11,079 --> 00:49:16,239
Gustavo moved to block his access. What did you say,

737
00:49:16,599 --> 00:49:20,079
Lucia snarled at the fleeing boy. What did you say

738
00:49:20,119 --> 00:49:24,400
about my papa? Gustavo took a menacing step toward him.

739
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:29,679
What I I don't know what you're talking about. He

740
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,000
didn't say anything about your father. You're right cunt for

741
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,119
and said, distracting her. But if I could say something

742
00:49:36,159 --> 00:49:39,000
to him, it'd probably be quit dropping your babies on

743
00:49:39,079 --> 00:49:43,320
their heads. It makes them a touch daffy. He pulled,

744
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:48,039
fetchy up, come on to the stairs. Don't take shit

745
00:49:48,159 --> 00:49:52,159
from anyone. It's just a game. It's not real. Lucia

746
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:56,199
said she was talking to someone over her shoulder, someone

747
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:02,719
who wasn't there. I am so curious what the fuck

748
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:10,920
is happening right now? Now? Carl is assuming Luciumar is

749
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:18,320
just mentally ill, maybe has some kind of like schizophrenia.

750
00:50:18,519 --> 00:50:21,559
You know, there are plenty of mental illnesses out there

751
00:50:21,639 --> 00:50:28,880
that cause auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, paranoia, all kinds of things.

752
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,199
And yeah, I'm imagining that down here. You're not getting

753
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:38,840
medication for that sort of stuff, so probably, you know. Also,

754
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,840
her comment don't take shit from anyone. It's just a game,

755
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,480
it's not real, is very interesting because it suggests that

756
00:50:46,599 --> 00:50:51,199
luciumr might not really be the psychopath she looks like.

757
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:57,440
If she genuinely does not think any of this is reality,

758
00:50:57,559 --> 00:51:00,719
if she thinks that this is all some of game

759
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:06,000
or dream, then her actions and her like really intense

760
00:51:06,119 --> 00:51:13,639
ruthlessness might make a bit more sense. You know, But

761
00:51:14,039 --> 00:51:16,400
I can't help but wonder when he says, like she's

762
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:21,519
talking to someone over her shoulder, who wasn't there? Are

763
00:51:21,559 --> 00:51:27,119
we sure there's somebody there? Are we sure? I'm just

764
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:31,159
asking because like this, this world has different rules in

765
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:38,559
a lot of ways, and it's possible something is up

766
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:43,519
that we don't know about. And I would imagine if

767
00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:48,039
there were somebody there and they were by Lucy mrs,

768
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,480
Like if they were by her side throughout this whole

769
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,119
game so far they couldn't help, but also being leveled

770
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:58,400
up and they would show up on the leader board also,

771
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:02,320
So I'm not trying to say that it's something as

772
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:08,159
as specific. It's like, oh, maybe there's a crawler who

773
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,800
chose a class that can make them invisible, because I

774
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,800
think we would have to know if there was an

775
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,159
invisible crawler with her, it would just be part of

776
00:52:18,199 --> 00:52:21,920
the narrative. I don't see them actually hiding that, you know.

777
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,239
But I also wonder if there isn't something else that's

778
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:31,639
actually real going on with her, and I don't know

779
00:52:31,639 --> 00:52:35,800
what that would even be. That, to be clear, does

780
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:42,199
not make her any less frightening. Even if there is

781
00:52:42,199 --> 00:52:47,000
somebody there, it's clear like she is not understanding the

782
00:52:47,039 --> 00:52:49,800
reality of where she is and the effect that she's

783
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,760
having on other people, and that the consequences of what

784
00:52:52,960 --> 00:53:03,840
she does are like whether not she intends to be

785
00:53:04,119 --> 00:53:12,000
a ruthless maniac, she winds up killing what's her name,

786
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:17,639
I already forgot it. If et she and that is

787
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:21,079
a real consequence. So like, I am not trying to

788
00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:25,440
say that we shouldn't fight Lucy Amar or we should have,

789
00:53:25,519 --> 00:53:29,199
you know, it's just sort of something that has to

790
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:33,880
be set aside as Carl says, But I am really

791
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,519
curious about it because there is clearly it seems to

792
00:53:38,559 --> 00:53:43,920
me something very specific happening here. Saraphim says. We know

793
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,000
they do edit certain people out of the recap, like

794
00:53:46,079 --> 00:53:49,679
Agnes or she's just crazy, you know, Saraphm, It's funny

795
00:53:49,679 --> 00:53:51,880
you said it because like Agnes did pop into my

796
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,440
head when I was watching this. We've run across her

797
00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:02,320
the one time. She's a really low level. It's possible

798
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,920
that she's being edited out here, and like it would

799
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,840
also mean it would also make sense why she has

800
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,920
managed to survive this long because she's attached herself to

801
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,880
somebody who is so high level. And also Agnes isn't

802
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:21,079
a joiner, so I don't think that she would wind

803
00:54:21,159 --> 00:54:25,440
up leveling up in proximity because she isn't. I would

804
00:54:25,519 --> 00:54:28,079
guess if she were to meet up with Lucy Mr,

805
00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:32,079
she wouldn't be in the party with her. I don't

806
00:54:32,079 --> 00:54:35,239
think that she would want to do that. But I

807
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,719
also in the context of the way that this is

808
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,559
being what Lucia says, don't take shit from anyone. It's

809
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:47,440
just a game. It's not real. It feels like she's

810
00:54:47,519 --> 00:54:53,559
either trying to give instruction to somebody hesitant, or she

811
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,039
is repeating back to them something they have told her,

812
00:54:58,159 --> 00:55:02,159
And in either case that doesn't feel like agnes to me.

813
00:55:03,559 --> 00:55:06,880
So I don't know. Is there somebody like actually purposely

814
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:14,559
misleading her about stuff? I you know, and like thinking

815
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:19,800
that the kid who she threw said something about her

816
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:26,280
papa when he hadn't spoken at all. Is it possible

817
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:31,239
that she's been enchanted by somebody like I genuinely do

818
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:38,519
not know what the limits are here, and I'm wondering

819
00:55:38,679 --> 00:55:42,960
how much she is being manipulated by somebody. I don't

820
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,800
know how that would even work, though, you know, it's

821
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:55,960
just all of this feels very strange and very It's

822
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,199
written in such a way that it feels like there

823
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,079
is more than one weird thing going on. These weird

824
00:56:01,159 --> 00:56:06,440
things don't seem to really go together and create a

825
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,679
picture where I can say here's what I think is happening.

826
00:56:10,039 --> 00:56:12,800
It's like there's a few things that are off with

827
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,719
her and they point in different directions, so I can't

828
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:22,480
figure out how they go together, and it's just really intriguing.

829
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,760
I am super curious about this. Something something here isn't

830
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:33,280
lining up. So then we have the most devastating thing

831
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:38,679
that has happened, in my opinion on this show so far,

832
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,559
what happened with once we find out the truth behind

833
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:52,360
it with Frank q May's daughter is so so sad,

834
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:59,280
But there is that initial choice to make to make

835
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,400
her use the ring that feels so gross that I'm

836
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,639
not trying to make it be like so it's less sad,

837
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,719
but it does feel like you guys did take a

838
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,039
calculated risk and it didn't pay off. And I know

839
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:16,159
that you didn't intend to pay this price and you

840
00:57:16,159 --> 00:57:19,480
didn't want to play this game, so it is tragic,

841
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:24,320
but you knew the risk you were taking. And here

842
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:31,039
she being the CMR, has a power that apparently reflects

843
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:38,440
damage onto a target, and so when Florin shoots at her,

844
00:57:39,159 --> 00:57:44,719
that damage gets reflected to if at she and her

845
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:49,519
head gets blown off and Floren gets credit for killing her,

846
00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:53,280
gets the golden skull, and I imagine the bounty and

847
00:57:53,559 --> 00:57:58,920
the way that I would absolutely do what he does,

848
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:04,800
which is collapsing somewhere, unable to move forward. Like Carl's

849
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:09,159
theory is, the guy is still sitting there between the

850
00:58:09,199 --> 00:58:14,360
floors and he hasn't spun the wheel and chosen that

851
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,880
is all because like, you could do something where you

852
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,360
kill yourself, but I feel like the game is set

853
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,199
up in such a way that that probably isn't possible

854
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:30,320
super easily. And also like there is a kind of

855
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,880
despair that would make you just give up instantly, and

856
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,679
there is a different kind of despair that makes you

857
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,920
give up but not completely completely give up. And that's

858
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,119
where I often fall is like, really, at my core,

859
00:58:45,599 --> 00:58:50,639
I am a pretty positive person and I deeply feel

860
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:57,519
in my heart that things will get better. But despite

861
00:58:57,599 --> 00:59:01,360
not feeling like suicide is an option that I would consider,

862
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,400
simply stopping taking any action to care for myself at all,

863
00:59:06,239 --> 00:59:10,599
that is certainly something that I have done. And so

864
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,000
the way he sort of goes into this stasis, I

865
00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:16,400
was like, oh, that's it. I feel like that's what

866
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,559
I would do. I would just like fucking camp out

867
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:22,280
somewhere and just be like, you can't make me, and

868
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,320
if you do, fuck it. I'll die that way, you know.

869
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:28,199
I'll just let you make me until you can't make

870
00:59:28,239 --> 00:59:32,239
me and it's quicker for you to just kill me off. So, yeah,

871
00:59:33,039 --> 00:59:36,920
this is so devastating because being responsible for the killed.

872
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,639
Of course, it's not his fault. He didn't understand the

873
00:59:40,679 --> 00:59:45,199
power that Lucy Amer has. And even Mordecai says, whatever

874
00:59:45,239 --> 00:59:50,400
power she's got is ridiculously broken because the cool down

875
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:55,119
for that particular spell, as he knows it, is supposed

876
00:59:55,199 --> 00:59:58,079
to be pretty long. So she has found a way

877
00:59:58,119 --> 01:00:01,719
around that, or she's got more than one item that

878
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:06,559
is equipped with that type of spell. And yeah, the

879
01:00:06,639 --> 01:00:10,840
whole thing is just so incredibly tragic. I hate this.

880
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:17,360
And Carl mentions the protection spell that Effetchi cast on

881
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,239
him and the other guy, and Mordecai says, yeah, there's

882
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,199
a lot of protection of spells that you can't cast

883
01:00:22,239 --> 01:00:25,400
on yourself. It takes a special type of person to

884
01:00:25,519 --> 01:00:30,159
want to use and train such enchantments. And yeah, y'all,

885
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,159
I don't have enough trust in other people to have

886
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:38,199
my back, to be willing to always be helping everyone

887
01:00:38,239 --> 01:00:41,119
around me. I'll just be straight up. There is a

888
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:46,679
kind of absolute trust that somebody has your back that

889
01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:50,960
you have to have in order to be able to

890
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,800
put others first. In this way, I don't have it.

891
01:00:56,679 --> 01:01:01,320
So yeah, Katcha says about her poor thing, but she

892
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:06,400
needs to be dealt with. Mordecai in chat says, here's

893
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,559
the good news. If she does use that rubber spell,

894
01:01:08,639 --> 01:01:13,079
it hasn't a vulnerability, a big one. They've been editing

895
01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:16,480
out her using the spell until now there's a reason

896
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:21,920
for that. They might want her killed. That's interesting. So

897
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:28,519
he doesn't say what the vulnerability is specifically, but like

898
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,079
saying that they're showing it now. Maybe they want her killed.

899
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:38,199
I wonder why is it? Because she is demonstrably out

900
01:01:38,199 --> 01:01:40,039
of her mind and they feel like that's sort of

901
01:01:40,119 --> 01:01:43,039
ruining the vibe of the show. I would think that

902
01:01:43,199 --> 01:01:46,079
the entertainment value of this woman would make it so

903
01:01:46,159 --> 01:01:48,480
that they would want to keep her, But I don't

904
01:01:48,519 --> 01:01:50,719
really know what their priorities are. A lot of the time,

905
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:56,760
you know, Lucimur was given the land quadrant in a

906
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:02,280
bubble design similarly to ours, but massive, massive stepped pyramid

907
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:05,519
was in the center and the weather was cold and

908
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:09,519
covered in nice Prepotente and Miriam Don landed on the

909
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,760
air quadrant of a bubble that was like a giant

910
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:16,119
cave with rock growing along the interior wall of the sphere.

911
01:02:16,519 --> 01:02:18,840
Their domain was nothing more than a shelf of rock

912
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,199
that ringed the interior wall. Their target was a nest

913
01:02:22,239 --> 01:02:25,400
of spiders that hung from the ceiling thousands of feet

914
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,199
into the air. And I do not know how you

915
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,760
start with that, Like at first I thought, oh, okay,

916
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,239
just a little bit of rock and you have a

917
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:38,039
goat with you. Fucking done. Goats could climb sheer cliff

918
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:40,039
face that you would never believe they'd be able to

919
01:02:40,039 --> 01:02:44,559
find a foothold on. It's frankly terrifying sometimes to see

920
01:02:44,599 --> 01:02:48,559
where goats wind up perfectly fucking chill, chewing on some

921
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:53,039
weird you know, some weird route that they found and

922
01:02:53,119 --> 01:02:56,679
you're sitting there having a heart attack and they're fine,

923
01:02:57,039 --> 01:03:01,400
But sphere, you know, we're going upside down. Like nah.

924
01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:05,440
So the CMR is still number one, Carl is number two,

925
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,840
Prepotente is three, and then Donah is fourth, which Donah

926
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,760
of course does not care for. Katcha does not feature

927
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,960
on the list at all. Quan Chit is right after Donah,

928
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:23,519
which obviously cannot be born. Miriam Baum is seven, and

929
01:03:23,559 --> 01:03:26,639
I just really like the fact that Prepotente is ahead

930
01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:30,719
of her when he was her pet is crazy. I

931
01:03:30,719 --> 01:03:33,960
don't know how I would feel about that. Elle mcgibb

932
01:03:34,079 --> 01:03:37,760
is back on the leader board. Bogden Roe do not

933
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,639
remember this, dude, but there is a character named Bogden

934
01:03:40,679 --> 01:03:43,360
in The Thursday Murder Club who is great, So I

935
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,599
already have a better opinion of him that he has

936
01:03:45,639 --> 01:03:49,000
not earned due to that. And then Florian Urt Florian

937
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:55,360
Florin is level ten. He dropped a bunch because he

938
01:03:55,440 --> 01:04:03,159
hasn't progressed forward. So oh, man, guys, I'm over time,

939
01:04:03,239 --> 01:04:08,639
and I haven't even covered chapter five. I kind of

940
01:04:08,679 --> 01:04:11,360
talked about a lot of what goes on here already.

941
01:04:11,639 --> 01:04:15,079
There's a conversation between Carl and Mordecai where they are

942
01:04:16,239 --> 01:04:20,599
discussing the difference between different like shape changing races, and

943
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:23,440
he says that Juice Box is like way more powerful

944
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,559
than she looks and he can't quite figure her out.

945
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,440
And then we have the whole thing with these two

946
01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:32,639
dudes who are more fucked up than they were last

947
01:04:32,639 --> 01:04:40,039
time Carl came across them, and finally Mordecai convinces them

948
01:04:40,079 --> 01:04:43,239
to go into the safe room they're like personal space,

949
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,440
because he doesn't want the Uh, Karl doesn't want the

950
01:04:47,559 --> 01:04:53,440
Dromedarian bartender to hear their plan, and Mordecai mixes up

951
01:04:53,559 --> 01:04:56,960
a sober up potion, but it's different looking than what

952
01:04:57,039 --> 01:05:00,239
Karl remembers, and when he tries to examine it, there

953
01:05:00,239 --> 01:05:04,280
are no properties listed, it doesn't have any info, and

954
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,880
one of the guys just drinks it instantly, not caring

955
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:10,159
about that, and the other is very suspicious and keeps

956
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:15,119
asking why there's no description and finally drinks it as well.

957
01:05:15,639 --> 01:05:18,000
And what it turns out to be is like a

958
01:05:18,119 --> 01:05:21,320
detoxing potion that also will make it so that they

959
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:25,480
cannot get drunk or fucked up again for this entire floor,

960
01:05:26,119 --> 01:05:30,480
which is pretty great. I've worked with some people that

961
01:05:30,519 --> 01:05:40,599
could really have used this. So uh, there's this thing

962
01:05:40,639 --> 01:05:46,360
where Carl is like trying to explain, like double they

963
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,480
bomb the hell out of that other town. It probably

964
01:05:49,519 --> 01:05:52,599
has something to do with whatever collateral they had. Something

965
01:05:52,719 --> 01:05:55,159
changed that let the nooms know the Bactrians no longer

966
01:05:55,199 --> 01:05:58,800
had collateral, and the guys are just like Bactrians, what

967
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,159
are you fucking talking about? They have no idea, they

968
01:06:02,159 --> 01:06:07,280
haven't been paying attention at all. And we eventually find

969
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,519
out because the big question has been how did you

970
01:06:09,599 --> 01:06:15,480
get this far? And they find out that the one

971
01:06:15,519 --> 01:06:20,239
of them wound up getting this like exhaust spell that

972
01:06:21,039 --> 01:06:24,920
means that they can like get out of situations without

973
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:31,519
actually having to fight, so they stay alive and they

974
01:06:32,079 --> 01:06:40,480
use exhaust and puddle jumper, and so they just don't

975
01:06:40,519 --> 01:06:42,480
know how to take care of themselves at this point.

976
01:06:42,519 --> 01:06:45,480
And it's a very funny, like, you know, analogy for

977
01:06:45,559 --> 01:06:47,480
the way that some people can go through life getting

978
01:06:47,519 --> 01:06:50,440
out of shit over and over again and never actually

979
01:06:50,519 --> 01:06:54,800
learning any lessons and never actually growing as a person.

980
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:01,199
So my guides, my guy guy said the only way

981
01:07:01,239 --> 01:07:04,760
I could possibly live was to choose the pest control class.

982
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:09,679
He was a dick again, so curious about these guides,

983
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:13,960
and they're like, you know, what is what is the

984
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:19,039
angle here? You know, sometimes we paralyze whole groups, but

985
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:23,480
they wake up after you hit them, so we don't

986
01:07:23,519 --> 01:07:26,039
attack them. And some of them take a lot of

987
01:07:26,119 --> 01:07:31,119
hits to kill. We just usually spray and run and

988
01:07:33,559 --> 01:07:35,800
oh my god, I forget one of them starts vomiting

989
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:39,960
after taking this drink, and the cleaner bot is quite irritated.

990
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:44,039
This cleaner bot expressing itself and its frustration at cleaning

991
01:07:44,519 --> 01:07:48,320
bums me out because I have the ability that a

992
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:51,519
lot of people do of like kind of making something

993
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:55,039
a little bit too real and human like in my

994
01:07:55,119 --> 01:07:59,039
head and then attaching feelings to it. And I would

995
01:07:59,079 --> 01:08:02,480
start to be feeling guilty about making this cleaner bot

996
01:08:02,679 --> 01:08:10,800
do its job, and we can't have that. So at

997
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:16,199
the end of this chapter, Carl says, can we get

998
01:08:16,199 --> 01:08:18,439
on with it now? I just not have got a

999
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:21,920
notification that says I can't drink anymore, Lewis said, his

1000
01:08:22,079 --> 01:08:26,680
voice turned to a whisper. Not cool, man, not cool,

1001
01:08:27,159 --> 01:08:30,760
It's all I got left. That's not true. You still

1002
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,319
have your date with juice Box, said Donut. And I

1003
01:08:34,359 --> 01:08:36,760
couldn't help but wonder if he really does have his

1004
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,199
date with juice Box, because those guys had run out

1005
01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:42,039
of money, so I'm sort of thinking that he might

1006
01:08:42,079 --> 01:08:44,199
not be able to even pay for that now, but

1007
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:49,560
who knows, So very very interested in what these dudes

1008
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,159
are like once they're like truly sober, and if they

1009
01:08:52,199 --> 01:08:59,520
are able to get like advance at all. Mordecai says

1010
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:08,119
that the detox thing it is used to cure alcoholism

1011
01:09:08,199 --> 01:09:13,079
and also used to torture people, which is pretty horrifying. I

1012
01:09:13,119 --> 01:09:17,560
don't want to know how that works, but uh I yeah,

1013
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,359
And there also is I want to touch on this

1014
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:27,000
because I didn't just a brief mention. Katscha is like,

1015
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,600
you know, she has this engineering ability that has been

1016
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:33,760
like put into her brain, and she's thinking about the

1017
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,560
fact that she can drink something that gives her all

1018
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,520
this knowledge or get given something or and she's sort

1019
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,079
of like that means that anybody can be an expert

1020
01:09:43,159 --> 01:09:48,359
at anything. So if everybody has been so equalized by this,

1021
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,119
then how can there still be this kind of cruelty

1022
01:09:51,319 --> 01:09:57,079
and whatnot? And Carl rightfully predicts that this is gate

1023
01:09:57,159 --> 01:10:00,720
kept by the rich and that probably there's also consequences

1024
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,840
to like doing too much of it or you know whatever,

1025
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:07,520
which is an interesting question because she's comparing it to

1026
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,000
the matrix where you can just get jacked in and

1027
01:10:10,079 --> 01:10:13,720
learn whatever over and over again in all different areas

1028
01:10:14,199 --> 01:10:16,399
and I think that Carl's probably right that there's a

1029
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:20,920
few things that limit how that would work. All right,

1030
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,760
So I've got to wrap over time again. But thank

1031
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,399
you guys again so much for hanging out with me.

1032
01:10:25,640 --> 01:11:16,960
Appreciate you all, and until next time to the lou motherfuckers.

1033
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,560
That was an unspoiled Network podcast.