WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:08.359 This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me 2 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:16.039 covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book five, The Butcher's Masquerade, chapters 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:26.199 seventy three through seventy six. In these chapters, nothing goes 4 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.640 how I thought it was going to go. I was 5 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.759 continuously surprised in a number of ways that I will 6 00:00:35.759 --> 00:01:00.679 get into. I apologize early. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome 7 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.759 to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very 8 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:09.920 much to Jackie for commissioning this episode. Jackie, I do 9 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.120 not think you're hearing the chat. I think you're unable 10 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.799 to come to these usually, but you are very appreciated. 11 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.920 I know that for a minute it was just Michael 12 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.319 commissioning these, and I'm sure that he appreciates not being 13 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:25.680 the only one. So when I said that, I apologize. 14 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.719 It's a funny story, you guys. Remember how I mentioned 15 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:34.599 in the previous episode how there can be parallels with 16 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.719 things that I am covering and they'll both have like 17 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:45.560 a similar plot thing going on. Well, this isn't really 18 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:50.159 the same thing. But I had a spreadshe I have 19 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.159 a section in my phone for the spreadsheets for what 20 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.560 I am supposed to read for the week. And I 21 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:01.120 don't know if, like I believe that it was another 22 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:08.439 book that had like the same chapter numbers. I misread 23 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:16.800 and I was short two chapters. Today I had I 24 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:20.080 read what I thought was up until the point, and 25 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.080 then today I had a doctor's appointment, I had a 26 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.639 bunch of admin stuff I needed to deal with, so 27 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.639 I didn't have the time to do my normal reread, 28 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.199 which I try to do every single time. I almost 29 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:35.680 always do. But I was telling myself, it's okay, you 30 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:41.840 just listened yesterday. You'll be fine. And then about forty 31 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:46.800 minutes before the recording was supposed to start, I was like, 32 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.479 let me just double check that I didn't like short 33 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.800 myself an episode. I shorted myself. I think I said 34 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.560 two earlier, three I shorted myself three episodes. I don't 35 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:03.639 know how I fucking did it. And so I read 36 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.080 as quickly as I could, and I got about three 37 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.560 quarters of the way through chapter seventy six and it 38 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:14.599 was time to record. So I am starting this recording 39 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.479 allegedly four through chapter seventy six, but I actually don't 40 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.840 know how the chapter ends yet. So I'm going to 41 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:23.759 be doing that live on camera, and I hope that 42 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.560 you guys can all bear with me, because like I 43 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:31.759 don't normally, you know, I really don't know how I 44 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.800 did this because usually if I make any mistake in 45 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:40.039 any direction, I overread a little bit, usually under reading 46 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.240 when I want to keep reading, especially I want it. 47 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.840 I was like, I stopped myself after checking. 48 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:48.960 And was like, oh, that sucks. 49 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.400 I really wanted to keep going. I don't know how 50 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.240 I fucked up so bad. So I'm just gonna put 51 00:03:54.240 --> 00:04:00.919 it down to like the holiday like brain gremlins, and uh, 52 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.479 that's just gonna be my excuse is continually holiday brain gremlins. 53 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.560 And so thank you all for your bearing with me, 54 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.319 and I will accept some thoughts and prayers during this 55 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:20.879 trying time. So all right, let's begin. This is so 56 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:28.839 you guys, I'm I'm gonna jump ahead like a little 57 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.759 bit here in just talking about what happens with Signet 58 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:40.240 because I really didn't know what was going on. I 59 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:42.199 when I say don't know what was going on, I 60 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.399 mean that Carl is thinking about how he is going 61 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:49.839 to do something and it's going to be a pretty 62 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.720 drastic choice because they have to break the seal. But 63 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:56.319 he doesn't there's nobody that he wants to do it 64 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.839 to or you know, make do it, and so he 65 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.959 is rapidly reaching this conclusion that the other members of 66 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.120 his party is. He is reaching out and being like, 67 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:10.759 please take care of Donut. It's very clear whatever he 68 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.519 is about to choose to do is going to be 69 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.399 suicide for him, and they know that it will be. 70 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:27.759 And yet I was still not realizing that he intended 71 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:33.959 to literally commit suicide. Do you get what I'm saying. 72 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.759 I thought he's gonna like go for imagen or something. 73 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.240 He is going to do something that breaks the seal, 74 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.279 and his death is a guarantee, but it is a 75 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:52.720 side effect of his attempting to do Instead, it seems 76 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.040 like he was planning to do precisely what it is 77 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:01.399 that Signet winds up doing. Maybe I'm wrong about that, 78 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.680 but that's sort of what it felt like to me. 79 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:10.079 And Signet's decision here and using herself as this sacrifice 80 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.040 is really honestly quite moving. You know, she has not 81 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.800 been a character that I've been all that invested in. 82 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:24.240 I have found her abilities interesting. The things that she 83 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.800 has been involved with, like in terms of the tangential 84 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:34.199 characters are that are in her party are interesting. I 85 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:39.120 think that it's probably a pretty difficult needle to thread 86 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.959 as an author to create a character that is simultaneously 87 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.360 not a huge bore to read about, but that one 88 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.399 can believe is a huge bore to watch on screen, 89 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:56.399 if that makes sense. So he manages to make me 90 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.879 not just like dread any time that signet showed up. 91 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.519 But I didn't expect, if I were to see her 92 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:11.199 death in this book, to be this moved by it, 93 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:19.079 and I really was. I really just didn't. The manner 94 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:26.279 in which she decides to sacrifice herself and the revelation 95 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:30.000 that has come for her right beforehand. It's very much 96 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.439 giving Westworld, you know what I'm saying. If you haven't 97 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:37.439 watched Westworld, later seasons are very I would just say, 98 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.120 watch the first season and you're probably pretty much good. 99 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:44.360 But the second season isn't bad. It's just that the 100 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.120 first season is so good, you know what I'm saying. 101 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:53.600 But yeah, I really it was like such a great 102 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.319 note to hit And I'm wondering if the AI was 103 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.759 like aware, you know, that this would be a choice 104 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.920 that she would make or could make, Like how much 105 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.279 are the people who run the show able to influence 106 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.240 her as things are happening. I am assuming that as 107 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:19.279 she's being told the reality of her situation, that they 108 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.319 just can't do anything because she's in the palace and 109 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.040 so that's off limits to them that you know, as 110 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:29.560 Carl had said before, do not fuck with the main event. 111 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.960 So I think that they were just sort of forced 112 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:41.399 to sit and watch this happen. And that is very funny, 113 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.799 you know, not funny for her, not funny in her death, 114 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:50.120 but funny that like things just spun so wildly out 115 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:56.080 of their control that they ended up here and everything 116 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.559 that they had planned just blew up in their face. 117 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.960 You know. Michael says, you were wondering if this was 118 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000 a heist movie where everything that was going wrong was 119 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.440 actually part of the plan. Nope, everything was going wrong, 120 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.799 and the basic human kindness he showed to signat and 121 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.960 the changelings is what saved his ass. I wouldn't say 122 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.919 I was wondering if this was a heist movie where 123 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.080 everything that was going I would say I think that 124 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:22.679 I was pretty much a like certain that's not what 125 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:25.919 was happening, because there was just an energy to it. 126 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.360 But I yeah, I'm a big fan anytime that it's like, oh, 127 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:38.440 being a person circled around and paid off, because like frankly, 128 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.240 it's very rare that that isn't what happens. Being a 129 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.679 person pays off most of the time, and even in 130 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.240 the times that it doesn't pay off in quotes where 131 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.000 you get bit in the ass by somebody who is 132 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.159 scamming you or who takes advantage of you, even then 133 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.480 you can at least sleep at night knowing that you 134 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.519 were still trying to do the right thing and the 135 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.200 other person and screwing you. It may suck, and you 136 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.039 may wind up, you know, like screwed over by them, 137 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:13.120 but that isn't because you made a decision that was 138 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:17.159 cruel or selfish or thoughtless. It is because you were trying, 139 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:22.360 and I think that's still worth something. Sarah fem says 140 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.360 he did do a good job. You can get why 141 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.320 most people don't care for watching a sign that story, 142 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.399 but her interactions with Carl are great, and so we 143 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.759 see the best. I think it's also a case of 144 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.240 their control over elites is limited. They can write new 145 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.559 directives into their scripting, but they have enough free will. 146 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:37.559 It only truly works if they don't know what's coming 147 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.720 from outside them. Yeah, I agree. Jeff says, I can't 148 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.519 imagine enjoying a TV show that gets derailed by some 149 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:51.039 crazy AI. I can't decide, Jeff, because, like, imagine this 150 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:57.399 happening today where a TV show is airing that is 151 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:03.039 being controlled by AI, and there are many people watching 152 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.720 who are being exploited by whatever the fucking crazy system is, 153 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.240 and it all begins to go completely off the rails. 154 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:20.240 There's going to be some shadn Freud in there, for sure, 155 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.559 you know. So it's not exactly that I enjoy the show. 156 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.159 I enjoy the derailing. As soon as I begin to 157 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.519 hear through the grapevine that it looks like the showrunners 158 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:38.080 have lost control over their pet AI, I'm probably tuning in. 159 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:41.879 I'm probably gonna want to know, because, like frankly, this 160 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:45.879 is what I am hoping is going to happen with 161 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.440 like the AI bubble. In the United States, we are 162 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:56.200 having these weird, rapidly expanding server you know, server farms, 163 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:02.279 and all of these programs and little like functions added 164 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:06.080 to our phones to search engines, to websites, to our 165 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:11.000 software that we use in our business, and everything is 166 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.759 sort of behaving as if there's nowhere to go but up. 167 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.679 But a lot of this stuff doesn't work properly. I 168 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.879 want to watch it fall apart, and I know that 169 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.960 it's probably, unfortunately due to how it is being implemented, 170 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:29.039 going to affect a lot of people badly and that 171 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:33.720 will likely learn very little from it. But I can hope. 172 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:41.240 I don't know. So we start off with another note 173 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.000 from from Crawler Carl. It's not you know, it's to 174 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:54.080 his other group members, party members, and he's talking about 175 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:04.080 the the attempt to try and charm Ferdinand and make 176 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.759 him do whatever it is that Donut wants, and that 177 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.240 we have to use charm animal, which they have her 178 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:16.360 blood for, which is great. They brought him into fight Donut, 179 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.200 We're going to make them eat that decision. And later 180 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.679 on Ferdinand winds up getting like tossed in such a 181 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.120 way that he is in the building that transfers to 182 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:33.000 the ninth floor. So we are not done with him yet, 183 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.720 and I have to be honest, I'm kind of glad 184 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.799 he had some interesting things going on for him. And 185 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.960 I don't think that, you know, donuts charisma is not 186 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.080 going to be as high once she doesn't have the 187 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.240 little boosts that she's getting, right, now, I don't know 188 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.360 if he will be as acquiescent to her, but we've 189 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.679 got some time for her to build it up before 190 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:02.440 she gets to the ninth floor, so it's possible. And 191 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:07.440 I am I'm sort of hoping that maybe as much 192 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.440 as they tried to turn this whole thing into like, 193 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.399 let's watch Donut's heartbreak as she fights her long lost love, 194 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.600 maybe there's a weird way that this can all turn 195 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.519 a corner and actually like work out for her. I 196 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:28.559 don't know. I don't know, So let's see, I'm trying 197 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.159 to jump ahead here. Okay, So we had Imagen. She 198 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.120 comes in, everybody gets locked into the room because she 199 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.759 is here, which actually affects her as well. She has 200 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:42.519 like makes a move at one point to leave and 201 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.240 realizes that she can't, which I don't know how I 202 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.399 missed the fact that it would also work on her, 203 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:54.759 but uh. She sees Ferdinand and is like, get over here, 204 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:00.399 and he says, I am locked in this on this 205 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.120 floor because you came in, so I can't, and she's like, 206 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:11.200 we will discuss this later, which no, we won't. And 207 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.240 this is when she turns and begins her little confrontation 208 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:23.879 with Imagen. And or no sorry signet and as this 209 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.960 is like as this conversation with dialogue that is pretty 210 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:32.000 like this is not me like throwing shade on the writer. 211 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:36.399 I think it's meant to be. It's a little tropy, 212 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:41.720 and that's fine. Katcha is checking out what imagen stats 213 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:50.720 are and she says something Imagen about how you know, 214 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:55.799 are you even going to hate me enough to kill 215 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.600 your lover and damn yourself? And everybody is like really, 216 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.159 and I think it's Louis that is like, wait, are 217 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.159 you banging her? I never even thought of the fact 218 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.840 that Imagen might assume that, and it makes some sense, 219 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:16.200 but you know, it caught me very much off guard too, 220 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:17.960 And I'm wondering if there are going to be other 221 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.240 people later who assumed that they were sleeping together just 222 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.759 based off of this, even though it wasn't like probably, 223 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.279 I have to imagine there's like nothing in the uh, 224 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.879 the film that could suggest that they were sleeping together, 225 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.080 like off camera at all. That would be on camera. 226 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.799 I would have to think, I don't know, I don't 227 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.159 know how it works with this show, because like you know, 228 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.440 we had that thing in the first book where what's 229 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.720 his name decided to pee in the hallway and it 230 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:51.039 summoned that creature and they zeroed right in on his 231 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:55.440 dick with no problem whatsoever. So I'm assuming that if 232 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:00.159 they are having sex in like in the dungeon, that's 233 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.120 just going to be part of the programming, and that 234 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.359 they aren't pulling the camera away for that, like why 235 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:13.960 would they. So she then like says to Carl that 236 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.400 I know that you have people out there and that 237 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.880 you're trying to fuck things up, and Carl immediately is like, 238 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.400 oh shit, and he tries to tune in to tell 239 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.440 his people outside to run for it, and he gets 240 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.480 warning this crawler is deceased. They have been removed from 241 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:36.279 your address book. I really felt for him in this moment, 242 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:40.839 finding out that this dude, Gideon specifically, is dead and 243 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.359 realizing that the blood down images front is because she 244 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:53.039 killed him. Oh it sucks. And you know, there's like 245 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.839 a bunch of things. I want to emphasize how much 246 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:02.240 is happening all at once, and I imagine that this 247 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:04.960 was probably a difficult thing for the author to juggle. 248 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:09.960 If you are attempting to show us both what a 249 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.720 person is thinking, what is happening externally, and what is 250 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:18.200 going on with other characters via a chat system, and 251 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.599 those other characters aren't necessarily even in the same place, 252 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.359 so those are also separate storylines that we're sort of 253 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:27.720 getting updates on. It's a lot to keep track of, that's, 254 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.519 you know, And I feel like it's done well enough 255 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.000 that it's quite clear throughout it. I never really feel 256 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.359 like I don't know what's going on any more than usual, 257 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:46.160 you know what I mean. So let's see. This is 258 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:50.160 when Floren comes up and Carl says, are you okay? 259 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.839 I'm okay. Katcha was right. It looks like her, but 260 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.359 it ain't. It's her twin. I can tell it's not 261 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.480 really her either. If he was worried about what happened 262 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.400 to her, her sister, it's not right there using her 263 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.279 body like that. We gotta do something about it. Floren 264 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.519 was a lot more fucked up about this than he 265 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.279 was letting on. It was obvious, but he was doing 266 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:15.319 his best not to let it show. Good for you, 267 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:20.640 I thought, And yeah, Florin just keeps impressing me like this, 268 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.160 combined with the way that he took a beat and 269 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.000 like realized that something with Lucia was not right. I 270 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.200 am delighted. I am pleased very much with Florin and 271 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:35.319 am like low key, you know, can he be somebody 272 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.839 that takes up more space going forward, because I would 273 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:43.640 definitely be here for that. So he has to tune 274 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:45.880 back in with Samantha, who really thinks that she that 275 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.880 he screwed her out of getting to kill some guards 276 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:52.200 because they're dead already, which is like a combo. Of 277 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.400 of course he didn't do that, And also you couldn't 278 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.000 have killed them anyway, Samantha, you don't know how to. 279 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:04.319 You can't do that. So then up on stage, Ellie 280 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:07.279 and Amani finished up. You are no longer muted, You 281 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:10.359 may now cast spells, you are no longer peace bonded. 282 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:15.640 You may now access your inventory, And Samantha says, okay, 283 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.079 I pulled out the soul crystals, but there's a problem. 284 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.519 The other two on the left side are already pulled out. 285 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:23.480 They're still here here on the floor. The person who 286 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.079 killed the guards took them out and turned off the 287 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:32.720 protections of the ballroom already. So we are not the 288 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:36.680 only ones with a plan, as it turns out, And 289 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:42.319 we have this moment where Carl is realizing I've got 290 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.599 to get a grip on what's happening now, because clearly 291 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.519 I thought it was just us about to like fuck 292 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.519 with shit, and you know, trying to look around and 293 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:55.880 see who's moving and what is happening. The soul crystal 294 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.799 for the goodwill interface has already been taken away. It's 295 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.440 still working because of the cap, but whoever was here 296 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.440 tried it anyway. And all of the Mantises or all 297 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:09.400 of the guards, she says, they're severed heads are sitting 298 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:15.200 right there, so it's definitely Mantis's that killed them. And 299 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:17.279 he says, take those two crystals from the left and 300 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:19.519 put them back into place, do it fast, and do 301 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:23.480 it now. Then get ready. So it makes some sense 302 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.119 why Vra looked up at that censor that had been 303 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.279 turned off and didn't really like say or do anything 304 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.559 about it, because that is working to her advantage at 305 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:40.440 the moment. And let's see, I Ron her mother had 306 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.680 an alternate plan. They were still filling the castle with 307 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:46.799 the nymphs de Wata slash Circe gave the hunters back 308 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:49.400 their magic ability and was waiting for her daughter to 309 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.640 get someone to break the seal. If Samantha shoved the 310 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.079 soul crystals back into the slot and effectively blocked the 311 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:57.880 hunters from using their magic and inventory again. It wouldn't 312 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:01.119 stop them, but it would be all the more difficult 313 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.599 for them to prepare for the inevitable breaking of the 314 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:11.000 seal or to cause it. So Eva I had sort 315 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:13.519 of wondered if Eva was like teamed up with Ra, 316 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:16.279 you know, because she just seems like that kind of 317 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:20.200 idiot who is just going to go for like it 318 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:24.039 wouldn't really make sense in the long run. But Eva 319 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:27.319 would be so sure she could double cross Ra eventually, 320 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.400 and Ra would be so sure that she would be 321 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.720 able to kill Eva that I could see the two 322 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:35.559 of them like actually kind of working together for a minute. 323 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:39.359 But that is not what's really happening. She just has 324 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:44.519 an object that is going to allow her to escape, 325 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:49.160 and so she's keeping an eye out for when things 326 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:57.920 begin to really go down. So let's see, Imani says. 327 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.279 Most of the crawlers outside are getting forced down this stairs. 328 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:02.039 The brambles weren't supposed to get this far into the 329 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.599 Elf territory for hours, but I think they're reacting to 330 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.440 the elves trying to beat them back. The elves at 331 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.519 the border who were fighting them have retreated to defend 332 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.599 the castle, and now the brambles are chasing them. So 333 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.920 another thing that is not going according to the plan. 334 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:20.400 And later on, once the actual palace disappears, they have 335 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.680 come up like within one hundred feet of the walls 336 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:29.839 of the palace. It's really really they are close. And 337 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:36.119 this is when Carl begins to come to the conclusion 338 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:38.880 that he is going to have to do something really drastic. 339 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:45.559 As he is figuring this out, he is warning Samantha 340 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:49.240 that the goddess is going to be coming for her. 341 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.359 She's in the form of a flaming mantist giving birth, 342 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.440 and do everything you can to keep her away from 343 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.920 the control panel. If you can stop her from giving birth, 344 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.720 she'll go away. I believe in you, and Samantha just 345 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:08.079 says you do, which sounded very sincere, like she genuinely 346 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:13.240 just needed somebody to believe in her. Oh, Samantha, you 347 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:20.680 are such a little weirdo. I do enjoy her. So 348 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:24.880 we get an update from Sledge. Shit's going left outside, 349 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:27.559 Prudence winds up dead. He says that they're like way 350 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.920 too many mantises, and then like at the last second, 351 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.440 he's like, oh, the mantises turned out to be changelings 352 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.680 were good. I really enjoyed that moment of just thinking like, 353 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:44.880 hold on, hold on, we're fucked, and then surprise, I 354 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.279 closed my eyes for just a second and pretended like 355 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:50.799 everything was all right. The world had never ended. My 356 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:53.599 mother and I had never left Texas. I was outside 357 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:55.839 right now, sitting in the shade of a tree I'd 358 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:00.279 planted years before. Everyone here, all my friends I never 359 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:04.119 met each other under these horrific circumstances. Doughnut was fat 360 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.680 and happy, sitting in her cat tree somewhere warm, growling 361 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.640 at a cocker spaniel. I had never heard the water 362 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:13.599 running through the pipes or gone down into the basement 363 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.680 to investigate the noise. I had never found the note 364 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.079 followed by my mother a minute later. So when he 365 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:25.039 talks about that river that's in his mind, I'm assuming 366 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.559 that it's like this running water thing just sort of 367 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:32.680 amplified within his memory and the trauma of this. Because 368 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:36.680 I haven't connected the running water with her suicide. I 369 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:40.240 thought that she had hanged herself for some reason. I 370 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:42.400 had it in my head because I think in the 371 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:45.640 basement was why, Because a lot of times houses don't 372 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.559 have like exposed beams or anywhere to hang, like except 373 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.000 for in the basement, so I always sort of that's 374 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:57.480 my go to. But yeah, we just don't really actually 375 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.720 have that many details about this, and I keep making 376 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:07.640 all of these assumptions about it, you know. So this 377 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.359 is when he tells Donut like, go on and do 378 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:15.680 your performance and don't forget Ferdinand. I have a plan, 379 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.319 and we know that the plan is supposed to be 380 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:22.640 that he is going to do something bonkers, and he 381 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:25.039 is telling her to do her performance to distract her, 382 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:29.599 which the way that she would just never recover. I 383 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.720 don't know what she'd do, honestly, Guys like, I really 384 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:35.400 I don't it would h I don't even want to 385 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:40.079 see it. And this is when Signet comes up to 386 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:44.400 him and is like that, Empress, do Nadia told me everything? 387 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.519 That there are people watching, that there are folks controlling it, 388 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:55.559 that my family was never real. And the tone of 389 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:59.240 all of this is not like, are you going to 390 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.599 saw me out of it? Is this like a lie? 391 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.519 Is she fucking with me? Tell me it's not true. 392 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.400 By the time Signat comes to speak to him, it 393 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:12.720 feels like she has already accepted this that maybe there 394 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.240 are some things that weren't really making sense to her 395 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:18.720 in the view that she had of the world, and 396 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:22.319 now that she's gotten this information, some details and clues 397 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:24.720 are kick clicking into place, and so it seems like 398 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:34.480 she really is fully turned the corner here. And this 399 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.720 is when he is talking to her about, you know, 400 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.960 having Tina do her recital because it's what she wants, 401 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.920