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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 seven This Inevitable ruin chapters

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sixty nine Nice through seventy two. In these chapters, Mango

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is in mortal danger for far longer than I personally

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find acceptable. And I don't know he's okay. He's okay.

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I keep telling myself he's okay, but I'm starting to wonder, like,

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is he.

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Speaker 2: Is?

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Speaker 1: He really? Does Matt Deniman know he's off limits? Does he?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: To the show, everyone, I am Natasha. Thank you very

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much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Ye'all, we have

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got some revelations in these chapters that we don't get

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fully explained, some in like when it comes to like

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Lucia mar But I mean, I know all of that's important.

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I should theorize about it, but like, I'm just so

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distracted by Mongo. I really had a moment where I

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sort of thought it might be possible for Matt Denneman

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to kill Mongo. Now I don't like thinking it, I

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don't even like saying it, but it's the sort of

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thing that I think we can all agree, killing Donah

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is absolutely off the table. Right, Like, as an author,

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there are certain things that you can do that are shocking,

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that are going to win you some credit and accolades

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as being a ballsy writer who takes risks. But then

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there are things that you can do that will alienate

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people and make them set down the book and never

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pick it up again. And killing Donuh would absolutely be

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one of those things. I think that Mango would also

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be on that list. I think because of exactly what

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Carl says, which is this will be the thing that

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breaks her. But honestly, I don't know, maybe that's going

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to be the point. We don't have to kill a

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character to destroy a character either, you know. So my

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thought of like this will be the thing that breaks her,

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I immediately think, Okay, well, then if she's broken, what

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does she do? And like don'nut's gotten pretty powerful, she

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could function it up, she really could, and she would

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still be alive. She would still not be touched in

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the forbidden manner of you can't kill this character or

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we riot, but she wouldn't be the same ever again.

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And that is something that's a really I don't want

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to see it. I'll just say that it's I can't

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imagine what would happen if she died with Carl. I

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feel like, probably as much as everyone loves don't, a

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certain priority is probably placed on keeping her alive for

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the sake of keeping Carl from completely losing his shit

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as well, you know. So anyway, I'm getting caught up

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in this part of things.

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Speaker 2: But it's just.

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Speaker 1: There's also forever the question of is what I think

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off limits actually a thing? I could be so off

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base here with what Matt Dineman would consider out of

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the question. I don't think, I am, I don't think.

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I don't think. But this is also very much wishful thinking,

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and I will definitely admit that. So Michael says, who

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knew that the ugly, cute little chicken thing would have

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become so lovable? Listen, anything that it becomes like a pet,

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it's just going to be possible for it to be

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lovable almost every time. There are exceptions, but like mostly

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it doesn't even have to be that cute, and it

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still manages it. I say this as my dog is

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barking probably at an Amazon delivery driver right now. Oh boy. Anyway,

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so let's back it up and start at the beginning.

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Oh that's nice, I grumbled, seeing the report that the

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lava abatement had been interrupted by the bear witness spell.

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I'm not certain what the original plan had been to

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stop the literal river of lava pouring into Loroccos, but

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whatever it was, it hadn't worked. A slow moving glob

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of molten rock was just about to enter Shantytown, headed

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straight for the giant hole in the ground. I could

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just hear Ellie right now bitching about how it had

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been a bone headed plan. And by the end of

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this section that is still moving. It's quite slow, so

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slow that Doughnut is kind of like shocked by it.

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I don't know if that's being influenced by anything that

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they're not aware of, if like part of the plan

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to stop it has at least slowed it, But it's

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this weird sort of background threat that's just really slowly

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inching along. So there are so many things that happen

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so close together here that I'm going to really do

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my best to try and get them in the right order.

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It's there's just one thing will happen, and a spell

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will be cast that will change that, but then another

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spell will be cast that will like weaponize the first

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spell and it's just all kind of I can't talk

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about them out of order and it makes sense. But

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you guys, I'm assuming have read the book if you're

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listening to me talk about it, So if I fuck

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it up, hopefully y'all will still be able to like

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follow along with me. It appearedly Not had simply left

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her her Synergy tower and no one knew where she was,

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which we find out later that she is installing her

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brother's eye, which I knew what that meant, but apparently

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Carl doesn't like really stop to think about because when

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he sees her and she's all fucked up, he's like,

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holy shit. And I was like, yeah, dude, Like how

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else did you think she was going to get to

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install it? I think it's a combo of like not

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wanting to waste a really valuable item, wanting to hold

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onto something that was her brother's wanting to make use of,

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you know, any advantage that we have. All of the above.

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Donut and Ferdinand were going back and forth because Ferdinand

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wasn't able to get back into the Desperado Club and

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was now being chased through the city. Juice Box was

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missing as well, who'd been deep in Loroccos at the

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time of the attack, was also running for her life.

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It still wasn't clear what exactly was chasing them. I

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thought there had only been a handful of these war

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Mage guys. The new rule set basically said it was

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every team for themselves. If we won, all the NPCs

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would die and vice versa. That was going to be

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a huge problem, but for right now, we needed to

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focus on getting those assholes out of the castle and

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not to let Juice Box and Ferdinand die in the meantime.

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According to the peeling phase rules, if Juice Box and

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Ferdinand both fell, we wouldn't automatically lose. The war Mages

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would still have to hold the castle for six hours,

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but all the existing NPCs on Team Retribution would just

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drop dead. And if that happened, there was no way

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we'd get to that castle, which I think is probably

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exactly true. I just don't see how we manage it

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without them. I just don't. I don't see it. So

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this is what I keep running up against mentally, is like,

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how do we get around this rule? And I don't

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know other than conscription, And I'm not sure if like,

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the way that that works apparently doesn't seem to be

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applicable if they are already, Like, you can conscript people

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that are not on a team at all, from what

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I understand, but you cannot conscript away people who have

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pledged to a team already. I may be wrong about that,

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and there may be ways around it. If there's ways

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around it, we don't know about them. But that is

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the only thing that I can think is to like

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eventually manage to get everybody onto the one team, and

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that I just don't know how you pull off. So

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then we get the mention of zaragovs from Donut, and

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when she mentions these immediately Mordecai is like, oh god,

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those are generated, which means that the fucking warm mages

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are behind it. They built a generator. You have to

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find it and take it out. And it turns out

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the generators are so hot, they're even hotter than the

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lava that's coming at them. So she has to use

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her sunglasses that detect heat to try and track it down,

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which eventually she is able to pinpoint the spot, but

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she is in a position such that she cannot make

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a shot with the magic missile, and just blow the

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thing up. It's it just you know, she does not

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have the angle for it. And this is this is

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something that later Carl just sads to do something about

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the method. Effective perhaps certainly, but also alienating also perhaps. Yes,

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let's see, hitting the towers all won't work. They're covered

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in protections. If she tries, I think they'll activate on

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their own early, which is correct. So they're holding off

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on attacking the towers. We were going to have to scatter,

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but if I could rally enough crawlers, we could come

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back here and shortcut through the safe room to Lorocos

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and assist there in the fight against the warm mages.

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And then he looks at the time and realizes like, oh,

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there is so not enough time for me to pull

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all of this off, Like I don't know what I'm

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gonna do now. This like shit, shit, we were in

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fucking trouble. We have had Carl be worried before, but

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there was something about this that felt different because he

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is seeing way ahead of the fact the thing that

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I just thought to do can't happen. There's no way.

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First this in the moment as it's unfolding before you

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being like, oh that didn't work, or oh, on the fly,

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we have to switch to a new plan. There's something

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about being this far out from your goal and already

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being like, oh, that's there's no fucking way. So he

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gets in touch with Victory and he's like, can you

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tell me what the fuck is up with the warm

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Ages because I don't understand how Agatha is in the mix.

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I was told not to talk to her, and I

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also would think that the warm Mages would be on

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the side of the NPC, so why are they fighting them?

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And she pops up and actually manages to keep up

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with Carl, even though he has his crazy like speed

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boosting on. Their motivations are unclear, even to me. They

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clearly did not anticipate Agatha would be named as co

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war lord and the other leader, Akuma, does not like her.

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The system is going all in with them. They were

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just assigned an adjutant, Dingboo, the Grixist who was the

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Orc adjutant. He's the only one who would do it.

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He's in Lorocos with the warm Ages right now, trying

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to unravel what is going on. The castle is still submerged.

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and Carlos's way, Agatha is co war lord and she's like,

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yet you can see it listed right now. It's the

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same thing as with Juice Box, where she's an NPC

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so she can't be given access, so he had to

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give her. Ferdinand, same thing with a Kuma. He's you know,

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from the Dungeon and not like he is an NPC.

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I hesitate to say that because it's like, he definitely

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is an NPC. But there's also something so different when

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they are spontaneously born of reactions in the Dungeon versus

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created characters that it's like they feel like completely different species,

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you know what I'm saying. All we know is that

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they're fighting against the NPCs and trying to kill all

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of you as quickly as possible. And he this is

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when he's it's like, what the fuck is up with

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Agatha being chosen though, because I wasn't even supposed to

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talk to her and that was like an order from

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the actual Prime Minister. And this is when Donuts makes

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the announcement that she's about to break up the ball

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because it's close enough. Let's see, Donut's plan had kept

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him from getting crushed to death, but this seemed hardly better.

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The roar was like that of a crowd at a

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football game or concert. Nobody inside the ball was in

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the chat, so maybe they weren't truly conscious. Plus I

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knew from experience that when these things broke apart, all

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the individuals were mostly fine. Still, those screams were terrible

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to hear, and this just made me think of Nope.

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For those who have not watched it, it is a

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horror movie by Jordan Peele, and there is a point

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where there is something that's like passing by and you

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can hear all this screaming coming out of it, and

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it's just this very unnerving like moment. Not one of

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his best, but pretty effective film, full of full of

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weird surprises. So this is when Victory says, I know

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this should probably be obvious, but what exactly is Donut's

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plan right now? She hasn't told me. You're not going

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to question her, No, I trust her. That was so heartwarming.

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It's so heartwarming, and I actually think there's a lot

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of things that wind up happening that are you know,

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that serve to basically put a fly in the ointment

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of her plan. So it does not work out the

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way we want, but it does seem like it would

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have worked had things not turned left the way they do.

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So then we have the other adjutant for the dream

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showing up FOPSI former Prime Minister. The creature said nothing

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and scuttled off to the side. But the moment I

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saw him, I had a sudden revelation that should have

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been obvious. Epitome Tag had fled into the forest. He

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was outside when the witness spell had been cast, meaning

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the warlord for the dream was in the ball somewhere too, which,

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oh boy. Interesting. So then we have two things that

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just shoot up out of the darkness, and Donut is like, ah,

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whatever that is, that's not me. But there are four

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that came from inside Laracos, two moving toward Karl, one

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moving toward Hypocrates, and another moving west. I think it's

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heading toward where Louis is. Another light, this one burning

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black and purple, shot across the darkness and intercepted the

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two meteors it hit one, continued its momentum and hit

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the second, which angled off. This was followed by what

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looked like a magical explosion. In that moment, the sky

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was lit. I saw that other third light was Bianca,

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who appeared to have been injured in the blast. She

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opened her mouth and what might have been a howl

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if I could hear, pivoted in the night sky, and

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then plummeted out of sight, leaving a streak of sizzling

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purple smoke in the air. As Bianca crashed, the remaining

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meteor that had been knocked off course did a loop

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de loop and then slammed directly into the ball. I

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couldn't tell what it was. Nothing seemed to happen. So

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this is when Donut casts you are not done yet.

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All the x's on the map started to blink, and

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we get the announcement that she committed another atrocity. I

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hope she isn't forced to cast a third says the AI.

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So obviously that is going to be something. I don't

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know if we knew that, but we do now. Victory

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muttered something about the system wide message subsystem degrading. I'm

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wondering if that is what the voice kind of going

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back and forth between different versions of itself, because I

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mentioned before that it's not actually noticeable in the text,

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there's nothing to highlight it, but that the narrator is

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definitely jumping back and forth a lot between a sort

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of more impersonal sounding like Alexa style voice and the

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very nasal edge lured AI voice, And I'm thinking that's

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probably what it is. I don't know though, what that

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means overall. Saying it's degrading almost makes it sound as

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if it's just going to completely stop functioning. But that

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might not be what she means. It may be that

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the AI is trying to like gain control of it somehow.

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I thought it already had, but maybe there's limitations there

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that it can break. I don't know. And this is

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when we get like the ripping of the flesh off everybody,

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and Carl is just like revolted by the mere sound

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of it and is going to himself. Well at least

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I can't see it, Thank God for that. So they

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all these like fleshers start to fly through the air

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and land on the outside of the ball. You guys,

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the fleshers flapped onto the ball and started crawling around

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the outside, skittering like manta rays across the ocean floor.

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I watched horrified as most of the dark shapes disappeared,

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slipping their way inside the ball. Pushing themselves into the

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crevices and cracks. They would be seeking those marked as enemies,

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which would be the Dream Soldiers and those from the Reavers,

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but those enemies were still invulnerable. What would happen? How

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long would the fleshers last? I am so curious about this.

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I really don't even have a theory, you know, I

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don't know. So this is when Donut says, I'm gonna

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start hitting the ball with missiles to break it apart,

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and shortly they all tell her, like, don't do that

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after all. But at the moment, we are, you know,

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gearing up for this. The entire ball shuddered as the

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fleshers continued to move around the surface. The sight of

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them filled me with a deep primal revulsion. Primal, you say,

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another magic hit the ball? At this rate, it was

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going to take five minutes for him to kill the thing,

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for her to kill the thing. We didn't have time.

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So he was about to toss when something shoots out

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of it and we just see this like woman and

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she's screaming and like trying to crawl toward them. And

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instantly my thought was like, this is the influencer, isn't it.

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I bet this is her, and we eventually do get

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confirmation from Victory once we're able to see her better

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that she is. Her name is Namy. Let's see, I'm

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trying to find it here it is. Carl asks Dona

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if she casts laundry day, which once he says this,

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I'm like, oh, that would make sense, but she says

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that she didn't, so you know, at this point, I'm

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still very certain that that's the influencer, and I'm like, well, then,

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how could this possibly happen? She winds up getting jumped

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by fleshers, which Carl, like dong asks should.

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Speaker 2: We help her?

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Speaker 1: And he says, no, wait until it kills her, and

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then I'll take it out, which I really like the

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fact that she evidently had herself made to look like, uh,

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what's her face? I was sort of glad that he

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wasn't gonna have to save her and see her as

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a like I knew he likely wouldn't anyway, she's an enemy,

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she's coming in here for fun, you know, but it

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would have just added a weird element to the whole thing.

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So yeah, she uh as as He's trying to figure

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out while like watching her dissolve, what could have caused

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her to like no longer be in the armor. He

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realizes that there is a war mage in the ball.

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That's what that meteor thing had been. Instead of a teleport,

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they'd cast some long range jump spell. There had been two,

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but Bianca had killed one and caused.

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Speaker 2: Its head to explode.

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Speaker 1: The thing had smacked into the ball and had what

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managed to dig its way to Eris just to free her.

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What was their purpose? There were two gods here and

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two of the warm Ages had come. They'd also fired

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toward the other two gods. So what were they doing?

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And he realizes that they are trying it. It's like

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a comminated because he's puzzling it out, and Victory and

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FOPSI are standing here talking about what could possibly be

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going on, and it seems like Victory and FOPSI are

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understanding it sooner than Carl, but they don't explain to

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him what it is. They just start theorizing that it

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has to be a potion, because there's no way that

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they warm Ages could have gotten the spell up high

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enough this quickly. And FOPSI, who is like is somehow

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able to find this app says they traded the gate

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of the Pharaoh gods with a minion at the midnight

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market in exchange for five of the potions. So there

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are hell kissed potions here that can conscript gods. So

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this fucking sucks. First of all, they traded away the

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gate of the pharaoh gods. Now this is both good

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news and bad news. One, it's of course bad news

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because they got something super valuable, these fucking potions, and

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it's bad news because our friends are even further away

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from having it. However, it's good news because you can

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simply go trade something super valuable to get it back. Now,

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obviously the value of the thing would have to be

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such the I can't even imagine what you would trade,

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perhaps that thing that's in that crystal case that he

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still has yet to you know, get the value of.

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But at the very least, you like, it's possible that

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they could simply hide it from you to in a

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way that you could never find it. So potentially this

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is like easier. You might not even have to fully

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defeat them to get it. I don't know. I'm sure

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that most folks would say killing them to get it

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would be easier than finding an item to trade for it,

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which is probably true. I don't know, depending on like

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the urgency of it. Somebody could also just be willing

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to like kill the storekeeper to take it back, you know,

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I don't know. So they conscripted your reel, O. This

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is like Samantha lets Carl know this. She had apparently

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been going to use your Reela to rescue Louis, and

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this is fucking up her plans. So she tells him

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this without really seeming to know what a big deal

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it is that she just described a god getting conscripted. Period.

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If they managed to control one of the two gods

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in there, especially Eiris, they could just end us all

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with a swipe. I took a fine healing potion ball

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and I tossed it into the battle formation with my chistera.

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The potion arched through the air and disappeared As it

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crashed against the wall of flesh. The giant thing commenced healing.

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I started to slowly back away dong rend back to

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the safe room. Now Lena chimes in here, and she says,

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I was selling my brother's eye into myself. I also

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managed to stop the maids from getting to Hyppocrates. I'm

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not strong enough yet to stop the god on my own.

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He paused because of the deflector towers, but he'll soon

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push past them to Dona. I suggest you run. I

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sent a private message to Lena telling her to grab

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that potion off the corpse of the warm Age, but

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to be careful with it. She didn't reply. Later on,

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she does bring him the potion, but she is by

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no means like she's never been friendly, so I should

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note when she isn't friendly, it's not even really much

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of a change from her overall personality. But she does

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say something like I'm going to try and rescue everybody

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from your chaos, and the way she says that to

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me is giving I blame you. I don't necessarily think

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that she is going to turn on Carl anytime soon,

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because I think that she has enough dispassion to know

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they all need to be working together here. But I

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think if there comes a point where she thinks she

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can survive without being part of the team, taking Carl

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out would be on her list, and I am not

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looking forward to that because her spells are scary as fuck, Like,

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I do not want Carl to be on the receiving

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end of any of that shit. It is up setting.

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So let's see Carl says, I'm trying to keep our

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friends safe for as long as possible. He's talking to Donut.

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If the war Mages are trying to kill us, that

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God is going to kill them on their behalf. New

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plan keep the ball intact for as long as possible,

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so set its direction and leave everyone who is free

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of that ball. Listened to Rosetta's orders, get to Larroccos.

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The two adjutants were completely ignoring me, and in a

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rapid back and forth conversation, POPSI the Tripods guttled forward.

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At first, I thought her motivations were curious, but I

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do believe I understand them now in light of the

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news that the AI is rapidly spreading an influence, I

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suspect the residual in control of the war Mage team

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isn't just trying to win Faction wars and zero out

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the Crawlers. She's trying to stop the ascendency game as

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soon as possible as well. And Victory says, but why

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they're usually trying to talk the AI into joining their

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religion or whatever they do. What's her purpose? Fopsi says,

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It's unclear, but this season isn't normal. Once the ascendancy

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is considered finished assuming there are no crawlers left. It

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automatically triggers the systems shut down and hibernation sequence. That's

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a hard coded limitation which allows elemental reclamation before it's

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woken back up. Now that the AI is spreading, this

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is a possible alternative to the failsafe. All of this

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makes sense if the residual now believes the local AI

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is a threat to the eulogist, which we've heard mention

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of the eulogist. I don't think that we know what

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the eulogist is.

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Speaker 2: And the.

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Speaker 1: Like the fact that the AI might be a threat

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to the eulogist. I had thought the eulogist was like

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a sort of figure of relig religion, you know. But

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it seems like this is an actual being that can

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be harmed somehow. Maybe another AI, maybe something else. Oh,

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Saraphim says, we do know. It's the dormant AI that

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runs the center systems. Okay. Michael says, I feel pretty

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bad for Nammy. Actually, yeah, she was participating in something horrifying,

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but it was a culturally accepted thing for her, and

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I doubt she was doing anything actively horrible. Well, I

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guess I only felt kind of bad for her. Sarahim says,

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the very very slight to be fair on the influencer

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is she was only here for Faction Wars, which has

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almost nothing to do with the Crawlers or the Ascendancy,

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not Faction Wars. Yeah, the one thing that I am

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really like that keeps me from feeling as sorry for

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her is the fact that she got plastic surgery to

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fully look like a dead crawler, which is just like

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so creepy to me. It's just really hard to sympathize

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with somebody that doesn't see what like see that as

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this fucked up thing to do when that person died

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due to this game. I'm sure that it could be

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reframed as like honoring heckless somehow, But you know, anyway,

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Michael says, there's no way Leen now wouldn't have grabbed

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the potion herself. Oh, I knew she'd grab it, but

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the fact that she was going to give it to him,

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Like I kind of wondered if she didn't answer him

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because she was gonna take it and then just keep it,

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you know what I'm saying. But yeah, I think that

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she's just engaged in this now in a way that's like,

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for the moment, this is what she needs to do.

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Saraphim says, Lena has always had a kind of a

472
00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:59,039
you are a fucking idiot vibe toward Carl from the

473
00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:01,720
first moment they met, but she does also seem to

474
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,200
fully agree with him that they are in this together.

475
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,960
You know, I never got that you are a fucking idiot.

476
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:13,279
I got the sort of like bored of everybody vibe,

477
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,079
But I don't remember that from her. But I may

478
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:20,839
just not be remembering by the sound of it. Even

479
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,119
that is something common to do, part of the system,

480
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,759
trying to make sure the crawlers aren't seen as people.

481
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,880
Oh you mean, like getting the surgery. It's yeah, it's

482
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,880
normal to do, but I think it's gross and despicable,

483
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,960
so I will definitely judge her for it regardless. That's

484
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,119
the thing for me that's kind of like crossing the

485
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,640
line into yeah, I don't think I feel sorry for you.

486
00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:50,720
So we get a flesher level one, which is described

487
00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:54,680
as having used to be a human named Derek Riley.

488
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:57,079
Derek was already dead when the skin was removed, though

489
00:32:57,119 --> 00:32:59,000
I suspect he would be happy to know all that

490
00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:02,759
moisturizing while still alive as much appreciated by the monster.

491
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,759
His skin has become, which is something, It's really something.

492
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,079
So Carl takes off. We go into seventy. I burst

493
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:16,880
into the safe room. I had to wait for the

494
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,079
others to pile in behind me. And this is when

495
00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:26,440
he comes across Mordecai reading Anne of Green Gables to Ruby,

496
00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:30,319
and he has a sudden insight that this is like

497
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,880
the same thing as when Katcha held Annie, that she

498
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:39,240
knew that she was never going to see her again.

499
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,759
And that's the vibe coming off of Mordecai right now,

500
00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:46,400
is that he thinks it's over and that Doughnut's gonna die,

501
00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:50,359
and thus he will be done, and he will, you know,

502
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:56,279
be outside the dungeon shortly, and we get the repeat

503
00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:58,279
of the quote, when big things happen on such a

504
00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:00,559
large scale, it's easy to forget some time that these

505
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:03,319
big things are also happening to the little things in

506
00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:09,719
the world. And yeah, it is a good line. So

507
00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:13,280
let's say I'm trying to make sure because like there

508
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,719
are some there are things that I can mention, but

509
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,599
that don't feel so important right now in light of

510
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,960
how much time I have left, so I'm trying to

511
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:25,320
zero in on only what I feel is like, really

512
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,000
really relevant. I could see multiple heights on all the

513
00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:34,079
lower rings of Loroccos despite the billowing smoke. The monsters

514
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:39,639
were all tall, strangely fat obsidian creatures. The tower next

515
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,719
to this one hummed ominously. I spared a quick glance

516
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,159
which held a countdown timer over it. City Defense Tower

517
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,719
number two, Red jeweled. This is an automatic tower. You

518
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,280
may not examine This tower's defenses. Fires a level five

519
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,960
fire lance at a target within range, and it has

520
00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:02,599
been upgraded a bunch of times to fire ten times

521
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:08,320
a second, which is a bonkers Then he gets the

522
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,119
notification that he is in the presence of a deity Rpocrates,

523
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,760
and he gets the temporary pied Piper skillet level fifteen.

524
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,760
Donut tries to say it's fine, he can't see me.

525
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,199
I'm in a ghoolie suit, and Carl has to be like,

526
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:33,719
you are literally on the tallest tower in Moroccos and

527
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,320
you are firing magic missiles. Of course he can fucking

528
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,559
see you, which Rosette is like, yeah, Donut, I'm with

529
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:43,440
Karl on this one. You need to get the fuck out.

530
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,039
This is when donuts like uh Urillo is also coming,

531
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:54,920
And this is when Lenas chimes in. Hrpocrates hasn't entered

532
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,760
the shanty town because he's been stopped by a pair

533
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,199
of changelings in the form of ogre Basilica guards. It

534
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,079
appears the ogres with golden skin have the ability to

535
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,280
stop the gods from passing a threshold, and it also

536
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,679
appears gods are not willing to attack them. They are

537
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,159
standing firm. So that's very helpful because I kind of

538
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:17,119
thought that the ogres were imbued with a kind of

539
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,719
skill that would make it so that they could stop

540
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,880
the gods. But it seems like the fact that they

541
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,519
just look like these guards mean that the god is

542
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:29,880
not going to challenge them. If the god finds out

543
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,679
that they're changelings, I'm assuming that is going out the window.

544
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:43,559
But for right now, so we have the fucking dwarves,

545
00:36:43,559 --> 00:36:48,639
the Samara dwarves getting shot by these freaking orange rays

546
00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:54,000
that are coming from I think the towers. Another Samari

547
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,119
hacked at the mom oh No from a zorgoth. Sorry

548
00:36:56,159 --> 00:37:01,800
sorry sorry, my bad shouted and pressed the attack, hacking

549
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,840
at the fallen creatures who disappeared in a burst of

550
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,920
black oil when they died. The oil, when exposed to fire,

551
00:37:08,079 --> 00:37:10,920
seemed to burn but quickly. And this is when we

552
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,800
get the Zaragoth description, which I did find funny. I

553
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,400
decided to rename them Zaragoths because the name is much

554
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,920
more appropriate. It's the sort of name a weird, socially

555
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,880
stunted kid whose name is Stan Junior or some bullshit,

556
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,320
would bestow upon himself, all the while posting memes with

557
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,559
skulls and motorcycles and guns on the Internet, with phrases

558
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:33,760
like betray me and I'll become your worst nightmare and

559
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,360
yours in the spelt. The sort of kid who threatens

560
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,199
his mom and his friends are around, but still needs

561
00:37:38,199 --> 00:37:40,760
a babysitter. He brags about how he's gonna get rich

562
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,199
because of crypto, but can't pass basic algebra. He's banned

563
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,440
on roadblocks. You get the idea. And I don't know why, guys,

564
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,360
but that he's banned on roadblocks. Like most of this,

565
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,039
I was just nodding along, like yep, that sounds right.

566
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,199
But when he says he's banned on roadblocks, I did

567
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,559
a little like out loud. While I was listening to

568
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:05,159
this one, and they basically are like, they're fairly simple

569
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,920
to take down, but they can't should not be underestimated,

570
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,880
and they smell really, really bad. So this is when

571
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,039
Donut says, if you're gonna make a movie, better hurry.

572
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:22,280
In two minutes that Lava is falling over the edge

573
00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:25,599
and then wait, I think I can see the antenna thing,

574
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,400
but like I said, she can't shoot it. Carl is

575
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,119
telling her to get the fuck out of there, and

576
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,760
shortly we find out that she can't, that she's locked

577
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:44,280
into that nest by a spell. This is when Carl

578
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,000
comes across Juice Box, who is flipping out looking for Louis.

579
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:55,039
And this is when Carl realizes that she actually loves Louie,

580
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:58,960
which I can't remember if I had decided that or not.

581
00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:01,800
I think I had. I think there was something about

582
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440
her body language where I was like, I think this

583
00:39:03,559 --> 00:39:09,840
is real, actually, but I wasn't sure. And it appears

584
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,360
now that she is. And you know, we knew that

585
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:18,760
Louis wasn't really feeling the same way about her based

586
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:24,159
on his behavior, but I'm wondering if that moment he

587
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,440
had of seeing himself with her that had him so

588
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:33,320
shaken up has done something to change that for him.

589
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,199
I'm not really sure why it would or how that

590
00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:42,360
would happen, but I'm just wondering about it. Let's see,

591
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,079
he tries to get in contact with Louis and he

592
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,400
can't get a message back, but he does see that

593
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:55,360
he's still alive and he is listed as paralyzed and bound.

594
00:39:56,039 --> 00:40:00,519
When he says somebody is trying to rescue him, juice

595
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:05,079
Box says it's not Samantha, is it? And he says uh,

596
00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:09,440
And she sends a message immediately to Samantha, I have

597
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,519
a form that is a flesh man. So return my

598
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:13,519
husband to me in one piece, and I swear I

599
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:17,800
will make certain you have anybody you desire throwing a

600
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,119
hall past night with Louis and you have a deal, which, like,

601
00:40:21,559 --> 00:40:23,840
can you imagine if she had just gone ahead with it,

602
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:28,920
he would have burned his dick off. Juice Box then says, interestingly,

603
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,239
I know who you are, who you really are. I

604
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,719
also know you've lost your mind and don't understand. I

605
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,360
will help you just get him back, and I will

606
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:48,960
do anything for you. So that's something I am very

607
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:55,800
very curious. It'd be crazy if she was Scolopendra. So

608
00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:02,880
let's see. Then we get all the messages from the mercenaries.

609
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,079
Someone's trying to get in the tower. We are stopping her,

610
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,880
and Doughnut saying that she can't leave the tower. And

611
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,119
then it's a crawler, a woman with a dog. This

612
00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:18,960
message is from a deceased mercenary. We need backup, backup.

613
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,440
This message is from a deceased crawler. Bomo will stop her. Now,

614
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,519
this message is from a deceased mercenary. And I know

615
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:32,239
that it's just editorializing on the part of the audiobook narrator,

616
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,360
but he says the line after Bomo with a lot

617
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,039
more heaviness, like, yeah, we like this guy. And I

618
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:43,719
really was sort of for a moment, I was like, wait,

619
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,880
but he's not really really dead, right, I don't think

620
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,000
he is, but I was still super sad. And then

621
00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:54,840
later on we get the reminder from Carl that yeah,

622
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,440
he will be regenerated on I think the tenth floor.

623
00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:02,119
I think he says this floor, or maybe just the

624
00:42:02,159 --> 00:42:09,559
next one. I don't remember, but anyway, so this chapter

625
00:42:09,559 --> 00:42:14,079
seventy one begins with Carl mentioning how he has been

626
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,559
acting on instinct so much to save his life and

627
00:42:18,559 --> 00:42:20,840
the lives of the people around him, that he has

628
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:24,559
really kind of given himself up to it, and usually

629
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,400
it works out. But sometimes there are things he does

630
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:33,400
that have consequences that don't even register for him until

631
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,440
he has already done something that can't be taken back.

632
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:41,960
So this was how I found myself floating in mid

633
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:44,840
air above Lorocco's on my way up to save Donut,

634
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,239
mere seconds after I received the final messages from Toyo,

635
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:53,679
Tomi and Bomo. I didn't think I moved. I ran,

636
00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:56,920
pushing past juice Box and the smrow dwarfs, punching his

637
00:42:57,039 --> 00:42:59,280
Zaragov out of the way. As I reached the railing

638
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:03,000
hold the final levitation potion I had in my inventory

639
00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:05,159
and drank it just as a dozen of arms, just

640
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,039
dozens of arms, reached for me. I shot straight up

641
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:12,159
in the air, pushing the dangerousest fuck spell to the limit.

642
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:15,159
The apex of the spell actually brought me up and

643
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,119
out of Loracos, but I was still stuck in the

644
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:20,400
middle of the funnel, with a good hundred meters from

645
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,199
me to the edge of shantytown. My original plan was

646
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,760
to carefully aim and then toss the massive payload waffle

647
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,239
maker bombs on the theater housing the generator. Instead, I

648
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,559
just took the entire contents of one of my inventory folders,

649
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:42,079
a folder titled shit Just Hit, and I dropped it

650
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,679
all at once in the general direction of the Piccadilly.

651
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:52,039
The payload included about twenty waffle makers, two not disassembles,

652
00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:55,280
a pair of the anti personnel cheese cutters, approximately five

653
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:01,760
hundred impact hoblobbers, and more sticks of dynamite than I

654
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:06,039
can cowt. I dropped them all all at once and

655
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:09,280
then activated walk on air and made a mad dash

656
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,480
for the lip of the city, hoping my speed would

657
00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:18,400
get me there before the skill would run out. You guys,

658
00:44:19,199 --> 00:44:22,639
I'm real, real nervous about this. Like, he obviously fucks

659
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,000
things up for everybody, so that's its own issue. But

660
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:31,119
also he's like just used up his arsenal, like not

661
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:36,320
his whole thing, obviously, it's it's only one inventory folder.

662
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,559
I'm sure he's got other stuff, but it is a

663
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,039
huge amount that I don't know we can afford to

664
00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:46,920
just be using up right now. It was right about

665
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,800
this moment that I realized my bone headed idea was

666
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:54,000
about to have some seriously negative consequences for everyone in

667
00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:58,840
the area. Plus the walk on air skill runs out

668
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,400
and he just like winds up crashing and has to climb.

669
00:45:06,119 --> 00:45:09,880
Your attack has activated the city defense system notification followed

670
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,800
by a ten second timer. I didn't care Donut was alone,

671
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,679
and I would do whatever it took to get to her,

672
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:24,960
whatever it took. So he's rushing over to her as

673
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,400
Donut is saying, Lucille is in the tower, She's coming

674
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,559
up the stairs, and he's just like, I know I

675
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:33,079
am coming, as he gets locked on by one of

676
00:45:33,119 --> 00:45:37,519
the towers, which is using an eggs orble, and that

677
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:41,199
means it will keep shooting at him until it's destroyed

678
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:47,840
or he's destroyed. Delay her any way you can. She

679
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,199
can't teleport, so she has to go up the stairs.

680
00:45:50,519 --> 00:45:53,719
We prepared for this. Remember Donkey Kong, do, donkey Kong.

681
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,760
I'm going to come up behind her. Don't stop rolling

682
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,840
the barrels when I get there, And later on we

683
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,639
actually hear Lucia yelling about stop throwing barrels, which that

684
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:11,639
being what donkey Kong is is funny. All the manned

685
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,000
Synergy towers had similar rules to the castles in that

686
00:46:15,039 --> 00:46:16,679
there had to be a path to the main room,

687
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,000
but that didn't mean we couldn't make the path dangerous

688
00:46:19,039 --> 00:46:22,079
as fuck. When Doughnut hit a switch and activated Donkey Kong,

689
00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:26,719
the stairs disappeared, turning into a ramp. Barrels of various

690
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,719
types would start rolling down the hall. Across the way,

691
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,960
I finally caught sight of Hypocrates for the first time.

692
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,760
The deity towered over everything. He was slim, younger looking

693
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,639
than I expected, and other than the fact he was

694
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:43,639
a goddamned kaiju, he looked mostly like a regular human.

695
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:48,320
The god's entrance into town was blocked by a pair

696
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,960
of ogres. As I watched, the bad's attention moved away

697
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,239
from the ogres in the tower to the massive ball

698
00:46:54,280 --> 00:47:00,440
of flesh barreling toward him, and he it's in touch

699
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,800
with everybody, and Mordecai is the one who responds about

700
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,440
finding a way out of the trapnet on the tower.

701
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,960
If Lucia cast it, I don't know if there's a

702
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,280
way to easily dispel it without a dispel magical snares,

703
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,199
scroll or spell. And then Britney chimes in, Holy shit,

704
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,519
Carl Juice Boxes pissed at you. You dropped the monsters

705
00:47:22,519 --> 00:47:25,440
but activated the towers. We had to retreat back into

706
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:29,519
the college. I ignored this. I sent a message to

707
00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:33,880
Lena demanding to know where she was. She didn't answer.

708
00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:36,920
I bet she didn't. And like the thing with Lena

709
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,960
is that I am sure when it comes up, we

710
00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:45,719
will find out that she could have completely fucked everybody

711
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,559
in order to try and save her brother, and she

712
00:47:47,639 --> 00:47:53,480
didn't do it, but Carl did to try and save Donut.

713
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:59,039
And I am not saying that it means she's like

714
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:05,119
a better person, and but it does mean potentially, if

715
00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:10,519
I'm right about that, that she is in certain ways

716
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:17,280
more trustworthy than Carl. And I'm wondering if this is

717
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:22,199
going to cause a rift regarding the faith that people

718
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,480
have in him.

719
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,199
Speaker 2: I fucking hope not.

720
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: Man, So sorry, I just got to the part where

721
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,719
Donah is yelling the barrels are making her madder. I'm

722
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,559
glad we did the collapsible stairs. So this is when

723
00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:45,039
Carl summons rent, which will get him out of Lacos

724
00:48:45,119 --> 00:48:48,440
and will also potentially fuck up some towers. So he

725
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:55,639
does the Hio silver and he sends a note to Donah,

726
00:48:55,679 --> 00:48:58,840
and then he runs into Ferdinand and he has to

727
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,760
like convinces Ferdinand that Donut wants him to still be alive,

728
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,000
at least by virtue of the fact that he is

729
00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:09,679
a regular regular and not an NPC, and so she

730
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,880
values him as simply being somebody from the Before times,

731
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:18,639
which does seem to like help. He is clearly terrified,

732
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,119
and Carl mentions that he's skin and bone, so he

733
00:49:22,199 --> 00:49:27,559
has been having a not great time. And also Carl

734
00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:31,119
says that he cowered under my touch, which there's something

735
00:49:31,119 --> 00:49:34,679
about that that I feel really sad about. He says,

736
00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:39,480
Juice Box hates me. She's meaner than Bill. I didn't

737
00:49:39,519 --> 00:49:42,760
know who Bill was, nor did I care at the moment,

738
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,920
And I'm assuming that this is somebody from the Before

739
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:49,360
times who was really shitty to Ferdinand. And I'm sort

740
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,559
of wondering now, like maybe Ferdinand is somebody that's salvagable.

741
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,760
Maybe he just had some really bad experiences, and if

742
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,119
we just, you know, like give him a chance to

743
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:04,360
be part of things, he could actually be helpful. He's

744
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:10,760
at the very least helpful here due to being so

745
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,719
frightened that it makes Carl feel braver by comparison, like

746
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,960
he is so frightened, but he's doing it anyway that

747
00:50:18,199 --> 00:50:26,280
he's sort of like inspo, you know. Let's see, I

748
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,079
spared a quick sad glance for Toyotomi, Bomo and the

749
00:50:29,119 --> 00:50:32,119
defending Mages, all of whom were cleaved right in half

750
00:50:32,159 --> 00:50:36,920
with a spell. And this is when he meets up

751
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:42,000
with Lena. She gives him the potion. She gouged her

752
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:46,280
own eye and replaced it with lee jiun celestial quality eye.

753
00:50:47,039 --> 00:50:48,760
She dropped the potion in front of me and I

754
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,599
had to dive to catch it with two hands. The large,

755
00:50:51,639 --> 00:50:53,840
warm bottle was in the shape of a demonic head

756
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,599
with no eyes and multiple tentacles coming off. It really

757
00:50:57,639 --> 00:51:03,880
horrible sounding thing. This works like a regular potion of conscription,

758
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,880
but it has been hell kissed. It will work against

759
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,480
pretty much any non affiliated entities, regardless of their protections,

760
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,599
including most deities most It was brewed in the dark

761
00:51:13,679 --> 00:51:17,400
recesses of the Nothing by krak Karen Prime, who is

762
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,159
said to yearn for domination, which is why she'd been

763
00:51:20,199 --> 00:51:23,000
banished there in the first place. She prepares for a

764
00:51:23,039 --> 00:51:26,639
war she considers inevitable. There's an irony that the Indungeon

765
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,679
version of Kerkeren has supplied these potions to the warm ages.

766
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:31,840
Then again, now that this potion has found its way

767
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,000
to your hands, maybe it's not so ironic after all,

768
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:43,119
and she says, I used June's scroll of June's Scroll

769
00:51:43,159 --> 00:51:45,840
of potion duplication on it. I am going to use

770
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,480
the original now on Hippocrates, and then I will save

771
00:51:48,599 --> 00:51:51,559
zang Eli, Katchia and the others before they to fall

772
00:51:51,679 --> 00:51:57,119
victim to your chaos. She turned and left. Wait. I called,

773
00:51:57,199 --> 00:51:59,920
if the level of discrepancy is too high, it's dangerous

774
00:52:00,079 --> 00:52:03,440
for you. The warm age blew up. She did not. Wait.

775
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:07,599
I have a feeling that she knows this, and that

776
00:52:08,639 --> 00:52:11,679
her level is so high that it's probably going to

777
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,800
be okay for her. But maybe she also just doesn't

778
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:23,719
fucking care. I don't know, so stop doing that. Came

779
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:28,159
to Sea's voice. Give me your dinosaur and I will leave.

780
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,480
It's justice. I seek nothing more. Throwing barrels at Gus.

781
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,039
You're ruining my revenge. I cannot with that. You are

782
00:52:37,159 --> 00:52:44,760
ruining my revenge is just delightful. What a funny fucking line.

783
00:52:45,039 --> 00:52:47,639
Donut says. I hit her with the sleep potion barrel

784
00:52:47,639 --> 00:52:50,960
and it didn't work. She's crawling upside down on the

785
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,840
ceiling of the stairwell, waiting for her dog, who keeps

786
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,760
sliding away from her. She has him on some sort

787
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:03,159
of invisible leash. She blocks explosion too, which the fact

788
00:53:03,159 --> 00:53:05,360
that she's like on the ceiling is so creepy. It's

789
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:12,679
just very much, you know, it's giving exorcists a little bit. Uh.

790
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,360
She threw the dog, but Lucia got hit and she's

791
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,880
tumbling down. Watch out, Carl, And just a moment later

792
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:29,960
she appeared, and also Donut has summoned Raoul who getting

793
00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:35,480
him back? What we get Travis Baldry's voice acting, and

794
00:53:36,039 --> 00:53:40,599
he is clearly having such a good fucking time. You

795
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:44,800
dare challenge my master, You dare challenge Daddy Carl. The

796
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:50,960
heavens laugh at your temerity. Churl, oh, churl. That's a

797
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:56,199
fucking line that does not get used enough. Look at

798
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,320
Daddy Carl. You will cow tow or you will suffer

799
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,360
such a death that her ancestors will weep until the

800
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:07,800
very end of days. And he says something about kissing

801
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,800
his beautiful alabaster feet at some point I'm trying to

802
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:18,360
find the line, but yeah. He eventually snaps through her shield,

803
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,840
but Lucia is yelling like stop, please, I don't want

804
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,079
to play anymore, please, And she's like acting in such

805
00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:29,920
a way that Carl does not, after all, want to

806
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,679
see her die. So he uses the conscription potion on her.

807
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:39,679
And here it is, now you shook his his famed

808
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:44,239
alabaster feet and beg for forgiveness. There it is, Oh God,

809
00:54:45,559 --> 00:54:49,119
Raoul Donut needs help. Go Without another word, he scurried

810
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:54,800
away back up the ramp. So because she's conscripted, he

811
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:59,000
can give her orders and it works. So he tells

812
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,159
her that she has to undo rubber or any other

813
00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:06,119
spell to hurt them, and then her face changes and

814
00:55:06,159 --> 00:55:09,320
he thinks to himself, like, I knew it. She'd been

815
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,639
faking it. She'd been trying to fool me. It was

816
00:55:11,679 --> 00:55:16,079
a trick. And I'm like, Carl, you know that's not it.

817
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:21,400
You know that's not true. You know fucking Florine has

818
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,039
told him already. There's just a lot of moments where

819
00:55:26,199 --> 00:55:31,079
we know something, and Carl behaves as if he doesn't.

820
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,440
And this is not the first time that's happened, or

821
00:55:34,559 --> 00:55:36,880
the first time that I'm like, you should know, even

822
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,199
if you don't, you should have put the pieces together here.

823
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:46,880
But eventually he puts on the ring of Divine Suffering

824
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:54,400
and is ready to fucking kill her, and he tells her,

825
00:55:55,119 --> 00:55:57,000
you need to call your dog off, and she says,

826
00:55:57,039 --> 00:55:58,719
do you think I have control over Gus that he

827
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,599
listens to me. You're kiddy and her dinosaur are dead

828
00:56:01,599 --> 00:56:03,840
and they don't even know it yet. You are too

829
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:10,400
call him anyway, Gus, Gus, come, okay, good now, turn

830
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,280
off the net you have over the tower. I can't.

831
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,280
It was a scroll and it's not on the tower.

832
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,559
It's on donut. She's bound to the room she's in.

833
00:56:17,599 --> 00:56:20,639
She'll she will explode if she tries to teleport, it

834
00:56:20,679 --> 00:56:28,000
will run out soon. Harpocrates has been successfully conscripted. Harpocrates

835
00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:30,239
level two hundred and fifty is now a member of

836
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,360
the Princess Posse, and Lena is still at full health.

837
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,920
So somehow she managed to do this fucking thing. Remarkable.

838
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,719
Let's see. This is when he smells the like childlike

839
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:51,599
perfume that she's wearing and he tells her, I don't

840
00:56:51,599 --> 00:56:54,440
have any player killer skulls. I was really hoping i'd

841
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,519
never get one. But that's the thing with scars, we

842
00:56:56,599 --> 00:56:59,639
rarely get to choose them. I still don't understand what's

843
00:56:59,639 --> 00:57:02,280
going on with you? Floren thinks it's important to keep

844
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,480
you alive because there's something going on in the head

845
00:57:04,519 --> 00:57:06,079
of yours, and he things a bunch of kids are

846
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:08,800
trapped in there. Maybe there are I don't know. I

847
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:14,119
don't understand. And this is when her demeanor changes back

848
00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:17,800
and she says, my name is Dia. Lucia is with Alexandro,

849
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,639
and Alexandro is only here when the dogs are close.

850
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,159
My name is Diya. We are in the dark. You

851
00:57:24,239 --> 00:57:26,679
need to wait until the dog is close, and Lucia

852
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:32,079
will be back. Wait until she is back, pleads, and

853
00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:37,000
then he gets the notification you are in the presence

854
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,719
of another deity. She says something like, we are in

855
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,320
the dark, and it's so cold. Sometimes we can hear

856
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,360
them talk. We can hear them whispering. It's like there's

857
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:51,719
a river running through our room, and if we touch

858
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,039
it it hurts. They say such sad things. When the

859
00:57:56,159 --> 00:57:59,559
dog wanders off, Lucia fades and one of us takes

860
00:57:59,559 --> 00:58:03,719
over and we can see again. We take turns. Sometimes

861
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:10,360
it's day and we can see the light. So I

862
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,079
have no idea what the fuck is going on here,

863
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,800
But I'll tell you what kids, And this is so funny.

864
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:19,599
Michael in the chat says, it's a damn good thing

865
00:58:19,639 --> 00:58:22,079
that Mark didn't finish for me. That's exactly what I

866
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:26,920
was gonna say when he marks her. I really like

867
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,719
my stomach dropped because I didn't want him to kill her,

868
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,760
and I also knew that it would affect his health,

869
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:39,280
and I was like, I don't think she's gonna die here.

870
00:58:39,719 --> 00:58:43,320
So what happens to Carl? He is able to cancel it,

871
00:58:44,159 --> 00:58:49,760
but I really didn't realize that there was going to

872
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,159
be time enough for him to do that, So I

873
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:57,599
thought he was about to be truly fucked, and I

874
00:58:57,639 --> 00:59:00,000
am concerned about that in the future. I feel like

875
00:59:00,199 --> 00:59:04,000
that's got to be something that winds up happening. So

876
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,559
this is when your relo shows up and the AI says,

877
00:59:08,719 --> 00:59:12,960
the Scavenger's daughter fills with new power temporary effect from

878
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,719
your relo. Please wait, Oh shit, we hadn't fixed that one.

879
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,639
It's not exactly fair for either of you, a bit

880
00:59:19,679 --> 00:59:23,119
anti climactic. Let me fix it real fast. I am

881
00:59:23,159 --> 00:59:25,480
wondering what that was was. Were they both just gonna

882
00:59:25,559 --> 00:59:31,880
drop dead? Like I don't know what would happen here?

883
00:59:34,199 --> 00:59:40,159
So this is when Mango runs down the stairs with

884
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:45,360
the clockworks and she can't leave the room and Donah

885
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:52,280
is freaking the fuck out. Carl says to Lucia, I

886
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,880
want you to remove every stable magical item and artifact

887
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,400
and pile it on the floor. And wait here, I

888
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,880
don't know what that means. I don't know how to play.

889
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:05,960
I paused, surprised. The very fact she wasn't immediately complying

890
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,599
suggested she really didn't know what that meant. And if

891
01:00:08,599 --> 01:00:15,440
she didn't know, yeah, yeah, this is a weird thing.

892
01:00:17,719 --> 01:00:23,159
So this is when we have the horrible attack that

893
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:27,039
almost kills Mango, and you guys, I don't even really

894
01:00:27,079 --> 01:00:29,679
want to talk about it. I just don't even want

895
01:00:29,719 --> 01:00:35,599
to talk about it. Let's see, I'm trying to find

896
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:41,039
the bit because he Harpocrates has the Ball of People

897
01:00:41,559 --> 01:00:46,519
in his hand and he's holding it by Mitus's dick

898
01:00:46,599 --> 01:00:49,519
that was sticking out of it and is swinging it

899
01:00:49,639 --> 01:00:57,400
like a flail, which is just really something. Her proprates

900
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,920
had under orders over his head, and he was ranked

901
01:01:00,119 --> 01:01:03,239
legionnaire in the White Dragons. He was under the direct

902
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,079
control of Lena, who was having him fight the god

903
01:01:06,119 --> 01:01:09,239
of Lust, who was a member of the war Mage team.

904
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,800
He too had under orders. Metus was still a free agent,

905
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,760
and it was unclear if the Chaos goddess Heiress, who

906
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,599
remained completely encased in the ball, had managed to get

907
01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:26,920
recruited by the warm Mages or not. So we have

908
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:34,360
this whole fucking horrifying attack as Mongo gets like quilled

909
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,440
and it, guys, I just don't even want to talk

910
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,639
about it, I really do. I'm just gonna move on.

911
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,800
My shoulder was in the middle of my chest. I've

912
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,519
been folded in half, I cried in agony as I

913
01:01:49,719 --> 01:01:53,840
rolled away, still in sight of the tower. Yeah, he

914
01:01:54,119 --> 01:01:57,800
lunges a little bit too far to one side, and

915
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:02,199
the whole thing with like being hit by this ball

916
01:02:02,239 --> 01:02:08,119
of air. I spun and landed, tumbling into the indentation

917
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:15,559
caused by the God's foot. So then he calls Rend

918
01:02:16,159 --> 01:02:22,840
to him again. I watched, as if in slow motion,

919
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:28,440
as Ren started rolling toward me. He'd gotten bigger, much bigger.

920
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,760
I swear to God, rend.

921
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 2: I, what a.

922
01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:44,079
Speaker 1: Weird little guy, what a weird little creature. As he

923
01:02:44,199 --> 01:02:47,159
was magically pulled in my direction, he activated the only

924
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:51,679
skill he had, wrecking ball, the special attack increased his

925
01:02:51,719 --> 01:02:54,800
mass and speed, and it did exactly what the name implied.

926
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,800
The back half of Gustavo three, the second of Luciamar's

927
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:04,119
two Rottweiler's, exploded in a red mist as Rend rushed

928
01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:08,440
right up to me, stopping inches from my face. Good boy,

929
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,039
I gasped at Rend. I downed a healing potion. What

930
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,960
Rend grunted as the tower's bolt slammed right into me,

931
01:03:17,719 --> 01:03:21,400
right into him. He barely moved, but he did giggle.

932
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:26,719
That is crazy. I am wondering if he bites a flesher,

933
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,800
does that count as undad flesh? Would that hurt him?

934
01:03:30,039 --> 01:03:33,360
I just really hope he doesn't. I really just don't.

935
01:03:35,159 --> 01:03:37,199
Speaker 2: Huh.

936
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:43,559
Speaker 1: So we have Lucia crying, talking to Mango and pouring

937
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,679
a health potion on him, and she is saying, you

938
01:03:47,719 --> 01:03:52,639
did it, you did it. But even as I watched,

939
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:58,119
something changed in the girl's posture. She stood to her

940
01:03:58,119 --> 01:04:01,280
full height. A blast whip to write past her, missing

941
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,760
her head by inches, and she didn't flinch. You should

942
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,840
have killed us both when there was still a connection,

943
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,679
the girl said to me. Now it's too late. Now

944
01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:12,480
that eulogist has another ally in the dungeon, and now,

945
01:04:12,719 --> 01:04:15,320
you can't kill me, not unless you want all the

946
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,880
children of earth to die. She shook her head and

947
01:04:19,079 --> 01:04:26,320
walked off. What what, how does what? I don't even

948
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,280
have a theory, guys, I do not. The only thing

949
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:31,079
that I can imagine is that it has something to

950
01:04:31,119 --> 01:04:34,320
do with that orphanage in India, that there was something

951
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,480
going on there, and I don't know even like what

952
01:04:36,519 --> 01:04:40,599
that could be. I really have no theories, and I'm

953
01:04:40,639 --> 01:04:45,920
over time, so I do have to wrap. Yeah, this

954
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:51,400
whole thing with Lucia is so weird and I am

955
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:56,320
going to be on tenter hooks to find out. I

956
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,280
can't wait. I'm glad that Carl didn't kill her because

957
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:02,199
I really want to know what the fuck you know?

958
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,960
But her saying you should have killed us both when

959
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,440
there is still a connection, I don't understand that, because,

960
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:14,320
like I know that Dya is that her name. She

961
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:16,320
said something about like you need to kill them while

962
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,960
they're connected, and I thought she said like if the

963
01:05:20,039 --> 01:05:22,519
dog were close enough, which I thought he was. I

964
01:05:22,519 --> 01:05:25,960
thought that he was close enough that that all you know?

965
01:05:26,079 --> 01:05:29,159
But I don't know, maybe not. I guess I don't

966
01:05:29,199 --> 01:05:34,559
really get what even was supposed to happen there. All right,

967
01:05:34,639 --> 01:05:36,800
I have to wrap. Thank you guys again for hanging

968
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:39,079
out with me. I appreciate you all very very much.

969
01:05:39,119 --> 01:05:42,440
Thank you Michael for commissioning this episode. Having a lot

970
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:46,639
of fun, and until next time to the Loo, motherfuckers.

971
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,000
That was an unspoiled network podcast.