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117. Goddamnit Donut! (DCC Book 2:Carl's Doomsday Scenario) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a high welcome the book watchers. I'm normal. Ew,
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  Speaker 1: that's gross. Might as well call me a heterosexual. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so much baggatory in my mind when plank.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, Devian, you're you're you're trying your best. That's
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  Speaker 2: all that mattered.
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  Speaker 1: I swear to God, you're girl, say oh you're having
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  Speaker 1: an episode. I swear to God, I swear to God.
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  Speaker 2: It's that you're trying your best. Wow, you're trying your best.
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  Speaker 1: Wow calling me old.
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  Speaker 2: See Devin, No, sorry dev that see now I'm having
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  Speaker 2: a stroke. It's contagious, thank you, Devin. No. See Alex
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  Speaker 2: calls me old. He doesn't call me a faggot. He
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  Speaker 2: calls me old. Well you are, says the old man.
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  Speaker 1: You are. You're thirty one, ladies, old ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming to book watchers. My name is Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, my dear friend Devin here will be
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  Speaker 2: turning thirty four in just two months.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? How do you out
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  Speaker 1: me like that? I don't look thirty four? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: I look youthful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just save your beard. That'll shave off ten years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I actually would, but I would look horrible,
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  Speaker 1: so terrified.
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  Speaker 2: You look like a child.
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  Speaker 1: I look like a child.
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  Speaker 2: You look like a pref besting child.
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  Speaker 1: Gross. Yes, I mean I did that one time. And
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  Speaker 1: then my friend came to pick me up for college
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  Speaker 1: and she looked at she rolled down the window, looked
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  Speaker 1: at me, and drove away. She's like, she rolled down
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  Speaker 1: the window and she looked at me like she rolled
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  Speaker 1: out the window and just drove off, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: were you? And then she drove back after like ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes and I'm like hello, and she's like, you're never
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  Speaker 1: to ever shave your beard ever again. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: note it note it. And I mean I was in
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  Speaker 1: my mid twenties at that point, but I literally looked
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  Speaker 1: I had a baby head stuck on me. So God
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  Speaker 1: only knows why, Like now, probably a toddler at this point,
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  Speaker 1: like a five year old head on a grown man body.
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  Speaker 1: God like it.
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  Speaker 2: Bill's very dough boy.
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  Speaker 1: That's so rude. That's so rude. I don't go when
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  Speaker 1: you poked me, you fucking bitch gonna be asked like
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  Speaker 1: a motherfucker. God, when we talk, we're talking about fucking
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  Speaker 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two. God done with this ship.
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  Speaker 2: That is right. So today we are going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking about the next book in the Dungeon Crawler series.
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  Speaker 2: This is Dungeon Crawler Carl Book two, Carl's doomsday scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Get a look at.
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  Speaker 1: That, Look at that look, look at that pretty book.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that pretty book.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this pretty look. Que don't queen queen Lover
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  Speaker 2: like we call her queen, but she's really a princess.
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  Speaker 2: But Query all right. So, as I said in the
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  Speaker 2: as I said in the last episode that we reviewed
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  Speaker 2: Dungeon Crawler Carl, if you purchase the ACE hardcover edition,
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  Speaker 2: so that ACE is the publisher there the h if
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  Speaker 2: you if you purchased the Ace car hardcover edition. The
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  Speaker 2: Ace hardcover Edition comes with a special bonus content at
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  Speaker 2: the end of every at the end of each book,
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  Speaker 2: and this bonus content is known as Backstage at the
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  Speaker 2: hold On. It is called the Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So this is the little bonus content. It's
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  Speaker 2: not that long. It's just a little extra chapter. And
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  Speaker 2: it does not center I will say, it does not
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  Speaker 2: center around Carl or Donut or any of the other
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  Speaker 2: main characters of the story. This book is actually going
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  Speaker 2: to introduce a lot of characters that Carl and Donut
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  Speaker 2: will be friends and they become like a huge part
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  Speaker 2: of their of their party in the future. But Pineapple
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  Speaker 2: Cabaret is just like a little side story. It's definitely
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  Speaker 2: building up to something. I'm not to this point, I've
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  Speaker 2: read like since I have all of the Ace hardcover
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  Speaker 2: editions that has been released so far. Uh like it's
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  Speaker 2: it's building up to something, but I'm not entirely sure
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  Speaker 2: what just yet. But it gets good. We're eventually going
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  Speaker 2: to do a just the Pineapple Cabaret.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not for that's not gonna be for a while.
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  Speaker 2: So sit back, relax, and let's talk about Carl's doomsday scenario.
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  Speaker 2: It's fitting because Carl causes a lot of He causes.
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  Speaker 2: He he does a lot. He's doing his best, he does.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing his best because his best is still somehow
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  Speaker 2: causing as much anarchy and chaos as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see Jacob as having
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  Speaker 1: an old person moment. I think he forgot to take
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  Speaker 1: his meds this morning, Yes, say whatever. Its pointing out
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  Speaker 1: the obvious, you old fart.
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  Speaker 2: H m hm hm.
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  Speaker 1: Like I fucking hate you. You don't though, mm.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm uh huh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I cause it like I sees it. I CAUs it
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  Speaker 1: like I sees it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh what was happening with you just now? Uh huh
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  Speaker 2: over here having a stroke with your old ass.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm a proms.
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  Speaker 2: Really traveling up north, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible. I'm always scared of getting one. Don't do
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  Speaker 1: that to me. I'm always That's one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always scared of that and or like an aneurysm uh.
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  Speaker 2: Huh okay, I'm I'm scared of that too, because my
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  Speaker 2: because one of my aunts did dive in of a
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  Speaker 2: blood clot, so I can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the things you hyper because you get
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  Speaker 1: you get me going hyper fixated. I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, So anyway, getting back to the story. Uh, so
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  Speaker 2: Carl and Donut have officially answered the third floor of
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  Speaker 2: the dungeon. Now, the third floor is the last floor
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  Speaker 2: of the what is called the tutorial levels. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So floors one and two where the tutorial levels. That's
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  Speaker 2: where they basically learned how to use their heads to
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  Speaker 2: display their skills, uh equipment, their uh, their inventory. That's
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  Speaker 2: like where they get to they get the lay of
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  Speaker 2: the land, the feel of the dungeon, and their powers
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  Speaker 2: and abilities and start leveling up and floor three. At
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of floor three, this is where they're going
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  Speaker 2: to choose their class as well as their race. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course everyone is given the option to choose like
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  Speaker 2: to just keep their same race but sometimes, but for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, most of the of the players ah
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  Speaker 2: and their tutorial guides will uh the assist. I really
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  Speaker 2: am having an old person moment, No, because there's okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's not really an old person moment. It's just more
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  Speaker 2: of like an autistic overload because I'm like, I have
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  Speaker 2: so much information that I'm trying to put out there,
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  Speaker 2: and they're all like just like kind of like it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like those old windows, like those old windows
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  Speaker 2: software where like like at one point, like the like
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of these little tabs to start opening all
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  Speaker 2: at once, and it just crashes the computer. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm having right now. So anyway, Yeah, So the AI,
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  Speaker 2: so after getting through the first two floors, and depending
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  Speaker 2: on how they put their skills, like what skills they've
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  Speaker 2: leveled up, how they leveled up, you know what, what
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  Speaker 2: like powers and abilities, they tend to gravitate towards. The
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  Speaker 2: AI will actually offer recommendations for not only the class,
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  Speaker 2: but also the species because some speed because some different
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  Speaker 2: races do give them special power ups that will actually
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  Speaker 2: help them for their class, will help them better for
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  Speaker 2: the class that they choose. So Donut is offered like
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  Speaker 2: several different species. At one point, she's even offered to
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  Speaker 2: transform it either to like a like a humanoid race
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  Speaker 2: or even keep like a quadrupedal race and turn into
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  Speaker 2: like something like a saber toothed tiger or some other
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  Speaker 2: like some other like bigger beast. But Donut, being the
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  Speaker 2: fastidious queen that she is, she vehemently refuses every other
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  Speaker 2: race and says, I am a cat, point blank period.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to change her race. He's not going
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  Speaker 2: to do anything, and she's given like a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: different options. Now Carl and Mordecai are are both pushing
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  Speaker 2: her to choose a class that grant that focuses on
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  Speaker 2: getting on not only her magic skills, but also focuses
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  Speaker 2: on her charisma and gives her a good boost on
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  Speaker 2: her constitution because because Donut is a glass cannon, these
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  Speaker 2: pretty good at shooting shit with her magic missile and
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  Speaker 2: others and other spells. But if so much to look
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  Speaker 2: at her the wrong way, she's going to die.
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  Speaker 1: As a player, as a player of a glass canon myself,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get that connup, baby, or you're But I.
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  Speaker 2: Just love how like how Caddy the two of us
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  Speaker 2: were yesterday. He plays the wizard in our D and
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  Speaker 2: D game named tell Saria she's the glass cannon, and
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  Speaker 2: I play a sorcerer who is, as according to our
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  Speaker 2: D M and his group and his support group, a
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  Speaker 2: a bad dragon supermodel.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're not a bad Dragons mascot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have like one fun night. My my character
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  Speaker 2: has one fun night in a brothel and then also
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  Speaker 2: hooks up with a with a hot farmers hot farmer boy,
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  Speaker 2: and suddenly you're branded for life.
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  Speaker 1: Like well, I'm not saying, Jacob, you have a character
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  Speaker 1: type that you play for D and D, but you
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  Speaker 1: have a character type when you play D and D.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. Anyway, so before we get into Donuts class, I
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  Speaker 2: want to go over Carl's class that he chooses. So
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  Speaker 2: Carl is given like a dozen different races and classes
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  Speaker 2: to choose from the class though that the one class
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  Speaker 2: that stands out to him the most is actually something
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  Speaker 2: called compensated anarchists. So because Carl in the last two
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  Speaker 2: in the last two levels, he figured out that he
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  Speaker 2: has a kN ax for causing chaos making plans and
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  Speaker 2: then when those plans hit the fan, he comes up
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  Speaker 2: with other bullshit plans which also hits a fan, but
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  Speaker 2: still somehow managed to work out and in the end
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  Speaker 2: it just is total anarchy. And he also has an
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  Speaker 2: act for laying traps and also like demolitions and explosives,
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  Speaker 2: mainly mainly when it comes to handling Goblin Goblin explosives
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  Speaker 2: because Goblins are known for using a lot of explosives
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  Speaker 2: and traps, so he's gotten a lot of stats that
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  Speaker 2: have helped that has built towards that kind of route,
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  Speaker 2: and Compensated Anarchists really like played towards those skills, so
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  Speaker 2: he decided to go with Compensated Anarchist, which gives them
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  Speaker 2: a boost of trap making to demolitions like it actually
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  Speaker 2: gives them special skills that allow him to handle explosives
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  Speaker 2: and explosives when he's handling them become more stable because
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  Speaker 2: if you're not, if he don't have like stats that
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  Speaker 2: help you when it comes to explosive, those explosives can
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  Speaker 2: become unstable and they can actually blow up in your
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  Speaker 2: hand if you're not careful. At least in Carl's case,
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  Speaker 2: his stats now make it to where they have a
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  Speaker 2: higher percentage of remaining stable while he's and eventually as
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  Speaker 2: he levels up, it gets to the point where like,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what kind of explosives he's handling, it'll always
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  Speaker 2: remain stable. And it also gives him extra stats for
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  Speaker 2: using the the bomb making table because they also have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to purchase their own like safe space, because
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  Speaker 2: usually like they whenever they go like in the first
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  Speaker 2: two levels, they go into like safe like safe area
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  Speaker 2: safe rooms they have to use just like the public areas. Right,
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  Speaker 2: but you do have the opportunity to purchase your own
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  Speaker 2: private space. And Carl and Donat actually do purchase their
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  Speaker 2: own private space. And let me see, wasn't in this
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  Speaker 2: one that they purchase it? Do you remember? I think
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  Speaker 2: it was in this one that they actually purchased their
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  Speaker 2: own safe room because they were saving up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. One, yes, they do, and I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: to that. So after picking his class Compensated and our Kiss,
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  Speaker 2: he's also given three. The AI gives him like a
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  Speaker 2: dozen different races to choose from, but it points out
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  Speaker 2: three that would help him better with his class and
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  Speaker 2: that would fit better with his class. One is human,
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  Speaker 2: just stay as a regular, boring old human. The other
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  Speaker 2: is a hobgoblin, which is a big hobgoblin in Dungeon Crawler.
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  Speaker 2: In the Dungeon Crawler world, it's not like the D
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  Speaker 2: which just looks like like I recently found out what
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  Speaker 2: a what a D and D Hobgoblin looks like and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: to me, they look like halfworks, but they're red and
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  Speaker 2: they have longer, plentier ears. But in Dungeon Crawler, Karl,
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  Speaker 2: they are taller and uglier goblins.
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  Speaker 1: Ugly ass motherfuckers because.
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  Speaker 2: Men are they. And the thing is Karl was somewhat
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  Speaker 2: tempted to take the Hobgoblin class, but he got a
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  Speaker 2: hard hard veto from Donut because they would just be
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  Speaker 2: just horrendous to look at. The hop Goblin race would
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  Speaker 2: have given him the massive boost to his to his
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  Speaker 2: bomb making skills, his demolition skills, so that was pretty
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  Speaker 2: much the biggest perk that he would have gotten from
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  Speaker 2: the hot Goblin race. However, he instead goes with the
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  Speaker 2: third option that the AI picks out for like promotes
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  Speaker 2: for him, and that's something called Primal. Now. The Primal
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  Speaker 2: race is a little bit of Dungeon Crawler world war
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  Speaker 2: is that it In the wider universe, there used to
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  Speaker 2: be a race of aliens called primals. Now the current
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  Speaker 2: alien races that that pretty much run the galaxy. They
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  Speaker 2: don't know what primals look like because the primals went
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  Speaker 2: extincts before any of them, before any of them was
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  Speaker 2: able to like like ever entered this you know, the
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  Speaker 2: space fairing see scene, And the only thing they knew
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  Speaker 2: about the primals was the technology that they left behind.
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  Speaker 2: And the biggest thing that the biggest piece of technology
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  Speaker 2: they left behind were these ais and the the AIS
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  Speaker 2: that run the dungeons, those are prime the AI s
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  Speaker 2: were built by the primals, So uh it, you'll eventually
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  Speaker 2: learn more about like how these ais are found because
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  Speaker 2: they're not made by the by the Barant Corporation or
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  Speaker 2: any of the other syndicate species. There's a world that
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  Speaker 2: was that is controlled by UH one of the one
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  Speaker 2: of the syndicate races, de Mandid races. They they literally
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  Speaker 2: mine a planet for these AI, like they find these
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  Speaker 2: ai like in like little like like I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how don't They don't really go into like the specifics,
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  Speaker 2: but they're literally uh mining for these ai and every
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  Speaker 2: time they get one, they implant the AI in a
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  Speaker 2: special engine that is found in uh in like worlds
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  Speaker 2: across the galaxy. Now, these worlds are the worlds that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of primitive races have been seated because the
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  Speaker 2: one thing the primals were known for was seeding life
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  Speaker 2: throughout the galaxy. Now when the Syndicate was. In the
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  Speaker 2: early days of the Syndicate, they discovered they discovered one
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  Speaker 2: of these AIS was still active and creating like a
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  Speaker 2: sort of like reality warp. And this reality warp in
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  Speaker 2: like the core systems, was not only granting them like
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  Speaker 2: special abilities. Once they figured out how to like interface
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  Speaker 2: with the AI and use it, it granted them like
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  Speaker 2: special abilities Longit like allowed them to extend their life
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  Speaker 2: and pretty much make their lives easier. It's like imagine
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  Speaker 2: if you had all the rules of the Dungeon worlds,
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  Speaker 2: but like across like a vast area of space. So
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  Speaker 2: basically while you're in there, you're basically immortal. You have
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  Speaker 2: free healthcare because they can just literally kill you like
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  Speaker 2: that or resurrect you. They can they can fold and
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  Speaker 2: bend space and instantly transport themselves anywhere across Syndicate space.
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  Speaker 2: So those core worlds are protected by this primal AI,
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  Speaker 2: this AI that was built by the primals. The thing
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  Speaker 2: that the AI itself is like dormant. It doesn't it's
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  Speaker 2: not like self aware or like active. It's just they're
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  Speaker 2: able to interface with it. The Sindicate is able to
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  Speaker 2: interface with it and use it for their purposes.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't there a theory that I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna spoiler from the earlier books, but I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: kind of vibe that the AI are the primals.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I have thought of that myself, because the thing is
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: is that as every season that there is a dungeon
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: crawl or any of these kind of any of these
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: kind of crawls that happen across across the syndicate space,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: whenever they every season, it may be a different type
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: of game, but there's always there is always a primal
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: AI that is that is activated on those planets. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the thing is is that in the early like in
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the early parts of the season, the AI is always like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you know, following the directives of the syndicate and the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: whichever corporation or whichever race syndicate race is running the show.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: But then as the game progresses, the AI begins has
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to become more self aware until eventually goes primal. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: going primal is where it pretty much goes cock eyed
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: cuckoo and takes over and starts running things. And that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: when the syndicate starts losing control of it. They have
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: less at hand, and like how the show and how
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the crawl goes. So by that point, like once it
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: goes primal, the show is pretty much almost it's pretty
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: much over all the crawlers have been killed off or
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: have been take or have taken deals to get off
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the world. And once that's done, they basically seal the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: AI in the crawl, like on that planet, they quarantine
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: on the planet. It's like, all right, well, you've performed
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: your purpose, so we'll go ahead. We'll just leave you here.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: This is your world to do whatever you want. We're
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: just going to take the precious materials that the precious
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: resources that are on the planet, because all the other resources,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: of the natural resources that are on the planet, the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: syndicate doesn't want. What they want is the primal technology
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: that was implanted in the planet, which really is just
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: a tiny little like engine about the size of a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: grain of rice. It's in the core of the planet.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: So they extract it and okay, cool, that's what that's
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: all they wanted. So they leave the AI all right,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: tools and the AI is allowed to live the rest
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: of its existence on the planet by itself, so it
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't like doesn't have to worry about the syndicate trying
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to take over or tell it what to do anymore.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It's free to do whatever it wants.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the are the AI.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's my theory too. We're not going to talk
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: about that too much because they're like there's more details
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: that come in the later books, mainly book six, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: will say, because we learn more about the AI and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: how and the process of them going primal, and we
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: also learn of different factions within the syndicate races that
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: actually want to end the dungeon crawls, because it's hinted
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: that there's like the dungeon crawls are not really necessary.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: They don't need to like take over a world just
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to take that little piece of technology left over by
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the primals, the resources the primals left over. Yeah, yeah
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: it is. But and but the problem is is that
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the crawls make money. Crawls make money, so it's capitalism
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: at its finest. But anyway, the reason why I bring
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: up the primals is because Carl is offered to be made.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: One of the races Carl is offered is a primal race. Now,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the thing is, because no one knows what the primals
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: look like. Every time that race for Mordecai. Every time
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that race is offered, it doesn't really change their parents.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: They are made into a Prime, they're made into a Primal,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and their race is now Primal, but they're still basically
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: they basically stay the same. Yeah. Yeah, it gives Carl
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: access to some other interesting features like benefits and features. Actually,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: let me see what.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Less you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: The third floor system of presents each crawler customers shoos,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: including exclusive races that offer additional venator skills. A few,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: but not many crawler choose the Primal race for the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: first several season Dungeon Crawl wills all because it's sort
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: of the primalst prominals will break are blank slates.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You will look the same as before. You will obtain
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: all skills associated with your current race, with the following
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: exceptions minus one to all base stats. All higher till
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: skills are unlocked, are in locked, unable to train to twenty.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Choosing this race unlocks multiple exclusive Earth based classes, so
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I guess like it just gives them access to more
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: exclusive UH pretty much gives them more like access to
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: more exclusive UH skills that you can't get on so
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like your much higher level, and also gives them access
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to other Earth based skills and classes, so like eventually
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: does get like some extra skills that are only found
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: on Earth and that will later help him to like
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: that like get further along in the game. So kind
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: of took a little too. I kind of took a
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: bit of a segue on there talking about it Carl's race,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: So talking about Donut, she stays as a cat and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: see Carl and Donut. They are now regular guest stars
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of a show of one of the like many different
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Dungeon crawler like talk shows, mainly the talk show hosted
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: by a former crawler named Odette. We talked a bit
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: about Odette in the last episode. Odette was a former crawler.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: She was actually pretty famous and and she made it
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: like pretty far in the Dungeon. I think she like
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: copped out at level twelve and yep, and she was
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a she was a tutorial guide. She she took a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: she took a sponsorship and took a contract, so she
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: she still was in the dungeon for like many seasons,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: so like probably like over a thousand years. She spent
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: in the dungeon as like a man and asitorial guide.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And she eventually she eventually completed her contract, she was
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: freed and she was picked up on as like a
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: celebrity talk show host, and that's what she's pretty much
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: been doing ever since, because they regularly appear on her show,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: usually like at the end of they usually do it
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: at the end of every of every floor, so like
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the end of every floor and like somewhere in the middle,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: they'll get pulled to go on her show. And Audette
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: actually gave Donuts some extra advice when it comes to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: picking her class and picking like her stats, and one
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of the advices she gave her was to pick a
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: certain class called former child actor. So former child actor
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: is a bit of a whimsical kind of class because
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the way it works is that sees every floor, her
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: class will actually change. So she's still gonna be like
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a former child actor. Her class will still be former
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: child actor, but every floor she's given the option to
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: choose a different class, and she'll begin and she'll get
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: like new like she'll get new stats, new skills, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: like access to other spells that are exclusive to that race,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and depending on how she uses them and how she
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: levels up on them, she will actually get to keep
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: those skills. At the end of the floor because if
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: she doesn't level them up to a certain point, and
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: like she moves to the next floor and has to
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: pick a new class, she may lose those other skills.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So it's an opportunity for her to like expand your
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: spell list and her stats and become more of a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: jack of all trade. But it's also kind of a
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: it kind of shoots her in the foot because there's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: no guarantee she's going to get a good like practical
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: class to use, and a lot of them are bear
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and it former child actor does make use of her
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: charisma because she hands a really high charisma, but it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: still it's gonna take it. It's gonna make pretty much
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: life harder for her because it's not going to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: a guaranteed thing that she's gonna get a good class
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: every floor. But the main the reason why Odette told
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: her to take that class was because as part of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: that class, she gets a manager. It's a bit of
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a controversial it's a bit of a controversial like perk,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: because the manager option lets her pick an NPC as
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: her manager, and it's usually a tutorial guide. Yeah, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: when she when she chose that, the thing is that
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Mordecai was pushing in her choose a different classt. While
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: it does make use of her charisma, it also gives
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: her a big booster her constitution. But at the last second,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Donut chose former child actor and she picked Mordecai to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: be her manager, which Mordecai was a bit pissed off
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: by this because the thing is is that this is
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: actually his last season in the Dungeon Crawl. After this season,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that's it. He phases out and he gets to go.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: He gets to leave. He can finally like make he
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: can finally become a citizen of the syndicate. He can
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: uh picket, he can actually like get a like a
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: new job. He can just live his life outside of
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the Dungeon instead of being an indentured servant as he
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: had been for like the better part of a thousand years.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: But it's because like it's an so being a tutorial
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: guy is a pretty easy, like a pretty like high
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: profile position because one it's easy, and it's a it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a guarantee that you're going to like fulfill the uh
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: like constraints of your contract, Like you're actually gonna fill
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: like this the what's the word for it, like the stipulations,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I guess, because they are like certain like terms of
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: agreements that come into like contracts, and like you'll be
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: in the dungeon, you'll be in you'll be in the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: in the dungeon crawl for the next twenty seasons, but
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: you have to like meet certain conditions every season or
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: else like we're just gonna keep the syndicate will just
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: keep extending their contract until they're met and be it's
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: toorial guide. It's it's almost like it's a near one
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: hundred percent guarantee that you're always going to meet your
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: quota every season because the job you have to interact
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: with the of course you have to interact with your
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: dungeon crawlers. You teach them how to use their their
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: stats and their abilities and their heads at display, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: really you only have to interact with them for the
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: first three floors and after that you're home free for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season. So it's always it's like
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: a quick and easy way out of the dungeon. Even
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: if it's like for twenty seasons, which could last for
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: like one hundred two that could take like one hundred
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to even a thousand years to get through the dungeon,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: crawl to get through you know, you never really know
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: how long you're gonna be in the dungeon. So this
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be Mordecai's last season, and after he
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: was finished, after he helped Carl and Donut pick their
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: classes and send and send them on their way, his
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: contract is done. He can finally leave the dungeon, but
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: then picks him as his manager, so now he's stuck
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: with them for the rest of the Dungeon, until they
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: die or until they leave the dungeon. So he was
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: a bit upset about that, but at the same time,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: there was a part of him that's like, okay, cool,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I actually like you too, So he he does eventually
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: accept it, but they but Carl and Donut do their
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: best not to tell him that. It was at the
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: recommendation of Odette. Uh, We're gonna start learning more about
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Mordecai as a charter, as a character from this point forward,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: because in the last book it was just more of
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: like a you know, he was their editorial guide. He
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: was just telling them how to get like how to
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: use their power there, teaching them how to play the game.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And now we're actually there's gonna be a lot more
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: character development for him. We're going to learn more about
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: his time in the dungeon, and we're gonna learn that
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: he actually has a lot. He actually fucking hates Odebt.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: He hates her.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right, he does.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: He does.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He hates actually and who he had a deep pat
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of her.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he had a deep patriot of her. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: there's another there is another uh like NPC in the
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: dungeon who's like a game show host, Like he pops
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: up from time to time to give like if you
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: get like a certain achievement or like a certain loop box. Uh.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Those loop box will come with like a special prize
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: achievement where if you use this, if it's like a ticket,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: and if you use it, it'll call up this this
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: dude who's basically like a carnival like you know, spin
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the wheel kind of prize deal or like the price
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: is kind of thing. Like so he'll give you like
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: he'll give you like a bunch of options to choose
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: from and you pick your prize and there you go. Well,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: that dude, that one NPC that does it was once
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: a part of Mordecai's party and Mordecai hates him.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It did not end well for them. No, no, it would.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: You'll know why probably in I think book three, the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: book three that happens yeah, and the Irons.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Book three, and uh, the the Anarchist Cookbook. That's
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: when we'll learn more about like his beef with Odette,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: and uh this other guy I forgot his name.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot his name too, so it doesn't matter,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but he story and book three yep.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: So now that Carl and Donut have picked their races
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: and classes and now Mordecai is stuck with them as
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: their man as as Donuts manager, they are now free
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: to enter the third floor of the Dungeon. So the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: third floor of the Dungeon is actually the first of
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: several themed levels. So like overall the the they're introduced
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: to the overall story of the Dungeon, and that's like
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the story of the like the story of of the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: over City. So like the third floor is called the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: over City. Uh, there's now a bunch of like friendly NPCs,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: so like they'll be they're not just going to be
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: like going through like tunnels and like and like underground.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be like an underground setting like
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the first two floors were it's there. It's actually like
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: they're in wide open space. There's a sky, or at
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: least a fake sky, and there's villages. There's the over city,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: the over city. He explains how it works, is like
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the third floor is like the first of several theme floors,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: So like the third floor is the over City, the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: sixth floor is the hunting Ground, the ninth floor is
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the Faction Wars, and that's where they also get to.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: That is also where the under city is. It's called
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: it's the City of Lauracos. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Lauracas
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: because so Faction Wars like Faction Wars is on level nine,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and then the the twelfth floor is called the Ascendancy.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: So like every three floors there is like a special
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: kind of like theme for a theme for it, with
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the eighteenth floor being the final like boss Boss, which
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: is the skullpen the Scolopendra volcano, So Sculependra, like the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: whole story is is that Sculpendras is massive centipede that
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: broke free from this volcano and ended up sinking and
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: like like ended up just destroying civilization. Loracos gets pulled
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: deeper into the dungeon. The over city is like l
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: is left in ruins, and the hunting grounds is the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: hunt becomes the hunting grounds, and all this other bull
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: crap that all this other bull crap that Carl and
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Donnat don't really give a shit about.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Carl literally, could he could get t ships, he doesn't.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: He couldn't give he couldn't give two ships. He's just like,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: let's just get through this. Let's just get through it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: About some melodrama that they're trying to create.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yep, And Mordecai also informs him that the third floor
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: is also going to be the start of when they
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: will now start getting what are called quests. So they
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: may and they encounter NPCs that'll give them quests and
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: specific like objectives to accomplish, and they do get more
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: stats and like they get more like XP, more loot,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: you know, and more opportunities to level up while performing
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the these quests. But he warns them not to allow
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: themselves to get caught up in too many quests because
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: sometimes quests can go really off the rails and can
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: cost them all. It can cost them their lives and
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: make life harder for them in general. But Unfortunately, the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: per Like typical Dungeon AI fashion, the AI doesn't really
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: like make it easy for them to avoid quests and
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: will often like keep pushing them in the right in
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the direction of taking a quest just to further it's
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: narrative which happens to which will happen to the Carl
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: and Donut, they end up getting stuck on a quest
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: called the Show Must Go On And this quest involves
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: big resolving some family drama at a circus. So they
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: go to the first take. They decide to like go
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: check it out, and they check out this circus and
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: they encounter with some new mobs called lean like a
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: bunch of lemurs and a clown and uh this when
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: they first encountered them, they realize they can't there's just
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: too much mobs for them to take care of at
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: this at that point, so they have to retreat back
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: into a safe room while investigating. So they after going
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: back to the safe room, try to like uh you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: lick their wounds, try to regroup. They open some loop boxes.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Uh Doughnut gets uh gets a new skill like every
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: like with her child former child actors, she gets like
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: a month, she gets like a floorly book she's part
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: of like a now like a new book club or
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: every floor her UH as part of like a perk
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: from her class. She gets a new she gets a
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: spell book in the mail, and it'll have like a
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: neat spell. Some of the spells that she gets are
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: are pretty good, other times they're not really useful at all.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: But part of this UH of this new perk is
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: she gets in a spell called clockwork cerplicate, which allows
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: her to create like uh triplicates of an NPC of
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: her choice or like a character of her choice, and
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: she usually uses this on Mango, their pet velociraptor, but
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: at this point has leveled up, who has managed to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: level up to the point where now it looks like
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: a velociraptor. Still, Mongo is still pretty young, so he's small.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: He's pretty small, but throughout this floor he gets bigger
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: and bigger, and eventually he gets big enough for donnot
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: to start writing him yeah, which is pretty funny. She
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: does that a lot, and you know, she gets a
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: couple other cool uh like they open their loot boxes
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: and they get a couple more like really interesting items.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Though Carl receives a skill called the sesta punts's skill. Well,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: let me look what that is. Oh, I'm sorry. I
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: was like I was pulling up like what that is,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: like what details of what it was? And it opened
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: something else up and I was like, bitch. So sessta
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: punta is a game. It's mainly just a game where
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: like you use like a special kind of basket, Like
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like lacrosse, but instead of like the
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: long pole with the basket at the end, it's just
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: like a short, one handed uh like kind of it's
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: it if you want to, Like, it's basically like a
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: lacrosse net but without the big pole, but it's like
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a different it's like a more narrow shape and you
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: basically like you pull a ball in it and you
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: use the sesta to like fling a ball. M And
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: when he gets his kill, he doesn't really know what
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: this skill is because he's never his like, sesta punta
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: is a or I think it's called like u ji
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: a lie is a game that's not really played like
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: here in the States, but it is very popular in
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: like the Middle East and Asia. So he's not really
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: sure what the hell it is. But he doesn't really
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: get uh. And he also doesn't really get a lot
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: of useful like like useful loot from the loop boxes.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: He gets mainly just a couple like a couple of
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: books and a three dollars cactus from home depot, which
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: she realizes like it is because the AI is fucking
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: with him. He made some comments about like cat pet
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: toys and shit, and is end up giving us a
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: bunch of useless shit from the AI if you complain
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: about something in the dungeon, that the AI is gonna
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: fuck with you and give you a bunch of loot
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: boxes with that shit you just complained about for its
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: own amusement. Like uh, Donut kept complaining that she that
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: all her loop box keep coming within it, like an
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: enormous amount of torches, and so every time she gets
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: a loop box like a common like bronze or brass
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: loot box, she will open it and there's just a
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: bunch of torches in it. Yeah, so her inventory is
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: filled with hundreds of torches right now. And then Carl,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: like in the first two floors, kept complaining that he
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: didn't have that one he does not have actual pants,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: he's just running around in his boxers, and two he
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: does not have any shoes, and what does the AI
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: do give him loot boxes that gave him, that gave
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: him a special tape that like helps his stealth, his
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: stealth skill, and eventually it gives him a pedicure kit.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: It gives him a pedicure kit, and it'll also give
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: him a loop box that comes with a new pair
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: of bright white boxer boxers with hearts on them, bright
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: red boxers on them, bright red hearts on them. And
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the boxers are actually those boxers are actually really good.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: It has a really cool skill that helps them out
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a lot in the next few floors. But it does
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: not give him shoes or pants.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: No, well, the shoes is on purpose.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: The shoes is on purpose because the AI is freaking disgusting. Yeah, vile,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: It's just vile and refuses, and it gives them a
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: petticure kit that every day if Carl like uses it
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: to like uh, like you know, decalous, Like the callous
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: is is the soles of his feet and like you know,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: trim his toenails and like basically make them look all
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: nice and clean. It gives them a bit a bonus
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: stat to his feet, so now like he can walk
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: around barefooted and not like worry about rough terrain. And
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: also it gives them a boost for like anything that
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: involves kicking or stepping or stomping.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: So vile vile, vile vile.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It's it's playing into its own kings with that literally,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: so it's wrong. So anyway, uh, when after opening their
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: loop boxes, they go back out to try to investigate
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the circus more and they actually come across the fallen
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: party that destroyed what is a generator. So mobs are
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: generated by like or come from like other can come
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: from like other mobs, or like special machines in the dungeon.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: And sometimes the AI will overclock these generators to produce
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: more and more of the same mobs, like that happened
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: in floor two with the vespers, those bug wasp like
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: mobs that just kept appearing everywhere. So they learned that
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: there are these things called generators, and if they destroy them,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: that'll actually stop the production of mobs, and if they
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: kill enough of them, those mobs won't come back. Yeah,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So they they find one of these generators, and if
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: they find that not one it's already dead and two
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: that another party of crawlers had tried to kill it
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: had tried to kill it. But the thing is they
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: died in the process. And the problem is is that
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the generator itself was like a neighborhood was pretty much
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: like a neighborhood boss, and it was like some well
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: like creature. And the thing is, because it was it
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: ended up swelling up from the gases and explodes, knocking
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Carl and Donut like just completely bathing them and gore
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: and almost killing them. Yeah. Donut finds an anklet from
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: one of the fallen crawlers named Grace Bautista. Now this
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: the reason why I mentioned this crawler's name is because
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: they're actually going to meet her brother is uh, and
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: he actually becomes a really integral part of their party
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: in the future. Like he never actually joins their party,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: like he remains independent, but he comes. He becomes a
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: really good friend of theirs, a very reliable ally. So Bautista,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: my man, we love you, lovable tiger, because he's like
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a tiger. He chose like a tiger race, like a
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: humanoid tiger.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Anyway, so they managed to scout more of the circus,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: which is called Grimaldi's Traveling Circus, and as it gets
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: closer to nightfall, they noticed that mobs of like different
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: factions are beginning to like fight each other other, and
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: they managed to they managed to escape like the brunt
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: of it, but they end up running into another mob
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: who is actually an NPC called it an elite. Elites
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: are like a form of NPC slash mob that are
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: of a who are one higher level like pretty high
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: level NPCs, and two. These elites are intelligent and they
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: are often used by like the show runners as like
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: a part of like a different soap opera within the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: dungeon crawler world. Because the thing is is like after
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: a point, a lot of the viewers get bored of
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: watching dungeon crawlers get killed. So so the syndicate runs
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: like several different other like dramas and like shows within
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: the dungeon and the elites are often the main characters
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: of those like dramas and other shows going on, so
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: they kind of go on like they they run in
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the background. So like while you have the focusing on
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: their ship over here, you have the elites that are
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: playing that are just playing a role that they were bred.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: So they meet one of So Carl and Donut meet
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: one such elite and her name is Serena's Signet. So
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Signet does become a she becomes a bit of a
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: recurring character over the next Over the next few books,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: we really will only see her again. We won't see
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: her again until floor six, I believe, but uh, like
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: after after the third floor, we won't see her again
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: until floor six. And uh, Signet tries ends up trying
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: to kill Carl by by luring a kind of like
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: corrupted lion mob that's like infected with some sort of mold,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: so it's like it's an undead mob and it nearly
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: kills and she was hoping that it would kill Carl,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: so that way she can use Carl's blood to cast
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: a ritual. And this ritual allows Serena to h allows
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Signet to summon these living tattoos that are all that
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: are painted all over her body. So these tattoos, if
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: she like makes a blood sacrifice, she can summon them
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: as like like actual mobs that will fight for her.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: The problem is is that in order for her to
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: do this, she has to like wait for somebody to die,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: because she can she herself. She can't kill she can't
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: kill another mob or a crawler to activate it herself.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Just to like have somebody else kill it for her,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: like kill for her and then use that use their
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: bloods as part of the sacrifice. But when it doesn't work,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: When it doesn't work, they managed to get away from
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Signet and Carl and Karla and.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Don't Jacob, I can't hear you. Can't hear you. Your
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: audio kind of glitched out. Hang on, Okay, now I
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: hear you.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: What was the last thing you heard?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: It's been about a minute. So you're talking about what
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: were you talking about? Repeat what you were just saying that?
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: There was literally like a second ago.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: It was I was talking about Signet and the elites. Yeah,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: all right, So I'm just gonna go back a bit.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: So they encounter Serena's signet.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Who was it?
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Did again? I don't know, it's glitching out. You just
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you're just talking and them like and then just silence.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if your headphones are going out or
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. So yeah, oh.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well I was using my headphones because because
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: because because of cost codes, so your headphones died, No,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: they were still working. I don't know, must be discord
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: probably anyway, so uh, they run into Serena's signet, and
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Signet is an elite, and elites are like higher level
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: NPCs that are often used by the uh the Dungeon
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Crawls showrunners as like part of like side shows, so
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: like other dramas soap operas, uh, you know, like things
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: that like kind of helped to keep the viewers entertained
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: if they get bored of watching, the dungeon Crawlers get
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: like mercilessly slaughtered by the mobs, and Signet tries to
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: like try to lure Carl and Donut to their deaths
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: by having by pitting them against what's a mob called
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: mold Lion, but Carl and Donut managed to kill it.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: And the reason why Signet wanted the mold Lion to
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: kill them is because the mold Lion uh, if it
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: managed to kill them, Serena can use like their blood
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: as part of like a ritual to summon to be
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: able to cast a sumoning spell, and this allows her
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: that something spell allows her to uh summon these living
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: tattoos that are that are tattooed all over her body,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: so they're actually like moving, they are alive, so if
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: you look at her, you'll see the tattoos kind of
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: like crawling up and down her body. And if she,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: if she successfully casts this blood ritual, she can summon
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: them and they will fight for her as mobs. Yeah,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: uh thing is this failed and uh so Signet is
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: part of like a like a soap opera that's not
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: really meant to like go any further than the third floor.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: It was just like a little side show. But the
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: thing is is that when Carl and don't I come
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: into the picture, it ends up complicating things and they
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: become like entangled in this like this now more complex
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: story because like Signet is was once a part was
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: one of the performer of the Grimaldi's circus, but she
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: gets passed out because she has a falling out with
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: the circus's ring leader Grimaldi, and now she's just trying
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: to come home because she thinks that because she thinks
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: that the circus has become corrupted and she just wants
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: to like save her family. Uh So, now they get
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: embroiled in that Mordecai tries to like warn them that
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: like just avoid her if she if she just makes
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: sure to stay away from her, because it leads can
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: bring can pull you into more elaborate and more like
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: complicated quests that will end up just derailing everything and
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: could cost them their lives or other or other bad shit.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: I do want to say, like point out, after they
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: escape Signet and they take shelter in their safe room again,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: they watch the recap episode. They watch the the regular
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: recap episode and they're introduced to they see a bunch
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: of like the more higher performing crawlers getting their races,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: like Carl and don'nut haven't really been like kind of
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: like get like are kind of promoted here and there.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: They're not very popular just yet. But there's several other
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: crawlers out there that are getting that are gaining a
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: lot of significance. Primarily, there are two female crawlers. One
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: is a Norwegian crawler named Hecla, and another is a
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: South American crawler name Lucia Mar. Now Lucium, I want
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: to point out, Luciamrci Mar is a dungeon crawler who's
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: not really supposed to be in the dungeons child. She
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: is a child. Somehow she managed to answer the dungeon
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: the thing is the dungeon. Despite the fact that the
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: syndicate is killing undred millions of people in this fucked
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: up game show, right, they still somehow have morals and
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: don't allow children to enter the dungeon or pregnant women. Yeah,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: so if you're pregnant, or if you're a child under
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: a certain age, they will not allow you to enter
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the dungeon. If you tried to enter the dungeon, you'll
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: just get teleported away and into like a special holding
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: facility where they'll take care of you. But somehow Lucilla
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Marr managed a child, she's like maybe twelve, she's still
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: she's she's just a little girl. She managed to enter
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: the dungeon with her two Rottweilers, these big ass dogs.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: And now the two of them have become like these,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: the three of them have become this, these badass dungeon crawlers.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Lucia with her two dogs, their two dogs have gotten
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: a bunch of power ups, and Lucilla herself, like the
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: more we see Lucia, the more we start to really
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: you'll start to realize that she is crazy. She's she's unhinged.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: The reason why I say this is because the thing
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: is is that as Donut and Carl become more popular
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: and they start getting pulled onto like other talk shows
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: beside odettes, Donut starts talking shit about Lucia and her
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: two dogs, and then Lucia, having seen the talk shows
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: in the recap episodes, she ends up. She ends up
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: calling out Donut and saying like, I'm coming for you, Donut.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: The drama not the girls fighting.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: The girls of fighting.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Literally a child and a cat. That's that's that's kind
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: of hilarious. A child and the cat duking it out.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, after watching the recap episode, Carl gets a
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: message from one of the crawlers from the Metal Lark,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: from the Metal Lark retirement home. So if you guys
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: remember the last book, Carl ends up helping this big
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: group of of retirees, Like there was a retirement community
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: that managed to answer the dungeon for safety but ended
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: up getting pulled in. Uh, they all ended up getting
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: pulled into the dungeon anyway as crawlers, and they meant it,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: and they helped the Metal Ark group get down to
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: the third from like the first to the second and
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: the second to the third floor and now the Metal
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: many of the Metal Lark retire elderly people have chosen
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: new races and because of this, A lot of them
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: get cured of their like a bunch of like their
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: ailments and diseases like like age related diseases. Like. One
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: of the metal Ark retirees is an elderly woman named
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: El And let me tell you something, Elle. She I
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: love her, love her Elle like she was when when
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Carl last saw her. She was a sewe old lady. Yeah,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: but she was so sweet and he and he loved her.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: She was so sweet. And then she gets to the
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: third floor, she picks her class, and she picked ends
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: up becoming like an ice fairy, like some sort of
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: elemental fairy class. And because she chooses a new race,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: it transforms her into that fairy. And when it does that,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: she's no longer like this old senow old lady. She
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: actually gets her like it hears her of her Alzheimer's.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: She's basically been de aged like fifty years or so.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: She's like a twenty something twenty maybe thirty something year
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: old fairy with like any like not short but not
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: tall either, but she sounds like a she has like
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: a voice of a grandma. I'm kick care at almost
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: like a small good grandma, at least in the audiobook
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: she kind of has a voice of a grandma, and
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: it's kind of funny to imagine that voice on the
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: description of a younger body. It's it's it gets like
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: the in my opinion, gets the Agnes effect. That's just me.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Uh huh yeah, you and that fucking known.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Hey leave me alone. I love her. She's my favorite
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: MPC and she'll always be my favorite.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know so anyway, uh so, yeah, Carl gets
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: gets a message from one of the from one of
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: the caretakers of Metal Arc, a guy named Brandon, and
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: telling them that uh of their progress, and he and
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: the two of them later decide to leave and maybe
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: try to catch up with the Metal Art team, try
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: to form like better plan work together things like that,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: though for the most part, Carl and Donut wants to
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: stay on their own so they don't get caught up
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: in any more shenanigans. Uh. Unfortunately for them, as soon
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: as almost as immediately after they leave their safe room, uh,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: they get caught by Signet again and Signet knocks them
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: out with the spell and when Carl comes to at
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: a later time. Uh. When Carl comes to, she tells
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: him that that she wants him to help her to
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: get to fight the Grimaldi circus and try to allow
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: her to get in. So he wants her so she
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: wants him to get into the circus and to kill
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: the ring leader, Grimaldi, who happens to be a city boss. Yeah,
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: and I explained, I explained briefly about the different types
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: of bosses, Like there's borough bosses, neighborhood bosses, city bosses,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: country bosses, and floor bosses. And each boss type gets
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: bigger and stronger and more deadly the higher you go,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Like in these early floors, if you come across like
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: anything above a neighborhood boss, you're fucked. Yeh Yeah, on bank,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: you're you're fucked on a scale of one to ten.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: My friends, you're fucked yep. Literally, uh huh literally. But
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: he wants her to somehow kill Grimaldi, and they actually
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: do figure out a way, Like she gives him like
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: a special poison to try to slip into slip to
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: grimaldy because Grimaldi had because of like it had something
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: to do with a Scolopendra attack, like how Scolopendra had
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: shattered the realms and like the over city was destroyed
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: and it caused a bunch of npts to become corrupted. Well,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Grimaldy got turned into this like moldy vine moss creature thing.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: And she tells them that you can kill him by poisons,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: using a spectual poison and if you and if you
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: manage to poison him, then Grimaldi will then like Signet's
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: banishment will be released and she can come back to
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: the circus and try to help those who were left
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: of her family, those left alive of her family. So
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: she doesn't really give him much choice. She she basically
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: tells them like, while you do that, I'll keep mango
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: and donut here for safe keeping, say keeping, basically saying
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: that she's going to kill him if he doesn't help her. So,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: and the thing is, there's not much Carl can do
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: because Carl is only, like I think he at this point,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: he's like barely level fifteen and she's level sixty. So ye,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: he is way above his rank at the moment, like
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: his level. So he agreed, He reluctantly agrees, and she
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: told him the way she told him. They come up
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: with the plan. She's going to distract the main forces
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: of the circus by summoning her tattoos, but he needs
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: her to kill to get a sacrifice for her, And
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: one sacrifice he calls that he gives that he finds
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: that she wants it to kill is a bear name Heather.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: So Heather is one of the circus performing bears, and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty powerful bear, which would be and killing her,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: like using her as a sacrifice would actually be enough
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: for her to summon her all of her tattoos signify
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: for it'll be enough for signments to some of all
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: of her tattoos and be able to hold off the
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: circus like the lemurs and the other like like attack
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: mobs from the circus. Well, Carl gets in, and she
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: even gives Carl a ticket, like a special ticket so
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: he can get into the so he can actually like
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: get into the circus tent without being harassed by the mobs.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: So he he finds, and he finds and kills the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Heather the bear. And the thing is that he realizes
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: that Heather is actually being possessed by Grimaldi. So Grimaldi
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: infected the circus performers with these moldy worms which give
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: them psychic which gives them complete control over them. In
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: one of his loop boxes, Carl had gotten a special
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: like lottery ticket. It has five uses, and if every
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: time he's practiced something on it, it gives him like
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: a rent, like a one of two effects. Uh. The
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: ticket is called fireball or custard, so it'll in either way.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: It'll either work for her or fuck him. So he
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: scratches it and gets the custard, and he scratches one
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: of the slots and gets the custard effects. So the
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: customed effect is a very strong healing spell. So basically
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: it shoots out strawberry custard at his intended target and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: it heals them. So he does this and it ends
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: up healing Heather and basically pures her, purifies her of
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: the parasites that are controlling her, but it doesn't like
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: restore her fully, so she's still like in pain and suffering.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: So he ends up putting, so he kills her just
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: to put her out of her misery. And uh Signet
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: uses her death to summon her blood and ink elementsals
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: which which are her tattoos. That's what they're called. Signet
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: advances on the circus. While Carl enters the circus itself,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: he shows his ticket to the it's one of the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: clowns at the entrance, and uh, that's when he realizes that, oh,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: the ring Master Grimaldi is is something called the pestiferous
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: pestiferous vine and he's a city boss. He's like, oh,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: I fucked, but still he tries to put uh he
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: basically takes this. He takes the poison that he was
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: given himself, and the poison won't hurt him, is not
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: gonna kill him right away, but the best way to
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: like get the poison into the vine is to like
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: let his blood infect the vine itself, So let the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: vine feed off his blood and then like the infected
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: blood will kill will kill the vine. But Carl decides
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: there's like a there's definitely a different way to do
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: this right way to like not only allow like allow
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: him to somehow get out of this without dying, right
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: and like also like, uh, it's a con It was
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: like he realized, like he was gonna he was probably
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: gonna die. Even if he kills Grimaldi, he still has
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: to uh, he still has to escape the circus because
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: like the the other mobs are gonna still attack him.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: And it's a very like he's stuck in a like
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: really hard situation where like he like it's gonna be
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: like fight or die, right, and he comes with an
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: idea like one, so like like he this is like
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: one of Carl's like like derailing ideas where he like
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: it really like it's one of those things that you know,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: if you ever played D and D in one of
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: your players does something that just completely derails everything you're planning.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I'm not talking about you. I was actually
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: talking about Coda.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: I mean that is true, but also that seems very
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: pointed to me because I've gotten that plenty of times.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Uh huh, he's very pointed.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I've done it too. Okay, it's the point one thing
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: you're pointed at you for a point at me.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I was about to say, I'm like, I was the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: one that caused the mess yesterday, but whatever.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: I did, I didn't cause the mass yesterday.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: You almost killed You almost killed Tao in our D
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: and D game. You brought the lazy and gentlemen. He
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: brought the main villain straight to our party without them knowing,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: and they got and she got riggedy wrecked, riggedy riggedy wrect.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: And what he had.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: To kill him, but what he had to do to
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: apologize to her so she wouldn't kill him. It's got
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: her a bunch of smut.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, our our DM literally wrote smut like incorporated a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: special like series of he made up part and the
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: character in question tal loves reading it.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and she.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: Collected all fifty volumes and I ended up buying her
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: like eleven of the volumes.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: That she's saying now half the series.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Uh. She showed up. She was like, you were the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: one who did this. I'm sorry, here's your smile. She's like, uh, guys,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: she was in heaven. She's like, you're forgiven.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: Oh god, I have half the series.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Now, uh huh, yes, Carl does that. So basically, like
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: the the storyline was Signet and Grimaldi's Circus was actually
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: just spoke to end like that, like right then and there,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: and basically Carl is going to die in order for
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: it to end. But Carl comes up with the comes
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: up with a cop out, and he had actually gotten
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: a special spell called wist Armer, and wist Armer gives
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: him like immunity from like certain magical effects, including mind control.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: So the reason why he did this is because he
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: deliberately allows himself to become infected by the parasites that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Grimaldi uses to control the circus us the circus performer
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: and uh he communicates with Grimaldi through it and convinces
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: him to unbanished Signet so she can move on, and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Uh it works. He manages to convince Grimaldi uh to
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: allow Serena to uh Signet to return. Signet returns and
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: thanks him, and now the circus ends up disappearing. And
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: where they disappeared too was actually to the sixth floor,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: which is where Signet is from. Signet is supposed to
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: be from the hunting grounds and by taking them, by
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: taking them back to the sixth floor there she wants
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: it's gonna basically continue her storyline. And while Carl knows that, like,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: oh grey, we're gonna have to deal with this shit
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: again and three floors from now, Uh, it's like all right, cool,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: got out of it. The thing is right at the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: end of after dealing with the circus, he gets an
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: alert telling him that Dona is that his party member
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: is in danger. Because thing is and it had the
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: skill that Signet had cast on her to keep her asleep,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: it left her pretty vulnerable and when they when the
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: two of them went to attack the circus, the two
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Donut and Mango were left alone, and they're both still unconscious,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: and unfortunately, some mobs found where their bodies were where
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: they were hidden, and they ended up attacking Donut and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: Donut had gained a special ability in one of the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: earlier flow floors called cockroach. So basically, if her HP
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: were to drop to one, dropped to zero, it would
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: instead drop to one and she'd be rendered unconscious. So
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: it's a it's like a one off kind of thing,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: like she can only use it like once per floor,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: and it keeps her from dying. So it's a useful
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: skill since she had a really low constitution. So Carl
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: has to rush back to uh rushed back to the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: two of them, and the thing is that they were
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: being attacked by special kind of janitor mobs called street urchins.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: So like every floor has, these kinds of mobs are
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: like very numerous, and they're not they don't pose much
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: of a threat to the to the crawlers because they're
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: so low leveled. But what they do is they'll clean
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: up the floor of any bodies. And because Carl, Donut
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: and Mango were unconscious, that urchins found them and started
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: to eat them. Yeah, so Carl shows up kills the
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: street urchins and uh and uh heals mango and donut
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: mm hmm. Once once the two of them recover, Once
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: they all recover, uh, they start grinding through the floor
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: again and level up as much as possible. Uh, and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: they eventually returned. They exploded four more and they come
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: across like a bunch of settlements of the over City
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: because the over City isn't like one like big massive
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: settlement because the city, the over City itself was destroyed
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: pretty much destroyed and Sculpendri's attack. Now like they're all
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: scattered settlement. It's they've come across one of the settlements
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: and end up getting embroiled in another quest.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: And they also get a new achievement called one quadrillion
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: one quadrillion achievement, which is a pretty big deal because
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: they their views had reached one quadrillion views. So that
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: means that they're very that the two of them have
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: become very popular. Uh. So that means more sponsorships. They
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: have the opportunity to start earning fan boxes and uh.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: Also like they get invited to sit on more talk
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: shows like more Dungeon shows. Uh. They also they also
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: find this this new settlement that they they also damn it.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, I'm like, breeve got your thoughts.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Anyway, that's I was saying. Uh. So they get there,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Uh so they get some new achievements and the opportunity
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: to start earning fan boxes and sponsorships. They watched excuse me,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: they watched another recap and now some other more notable uh,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: some more notable crawlers that they've been seeing on the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: recaps are becoming more and more prominent, and they're being introduced.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: One of mainly uh crawlers like Florin, who is like
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: a like alligator man. He takes this dude who takes
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: on an alligator like kumanoid alligator class or like came
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: in and uh he's he becomes popular because he's he
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: entered the crawl with a shotgun, so like he's like
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: a sharpshooter kind of like shotgunner. And they also see
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: a woman named Miriam. Miriam was one of the player
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: killers that they encountered on the last in the last
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: two floors, alongside her husband Frank. They also see a
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: strange capride crawler name Prepotente who's pet who is partnered
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: with an Italian woman named Bianca. So here's the thing
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: about Prepotente. Prepotente was a was not originally a crawler.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: He was a pet. So Bianca was an Italian shepherd.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: Like she owned an entire herd of goats, and when
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: the crawl happened, wanting to protect her herd, she shepherd
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: all of her her entire herd of goats into the dungeon.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: And she actually used some of her goats as like,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: since she ansered them, they're they're considered her pets, and
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: they can also get like perks and skills and things
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: like that. At two of her goats end up leveling
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: up more than the others and they become pretty powerful.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: And as a result, because of like like, she ends
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: up earning. Bianca earns like a bunch of different achievements,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: and one of the achievements gives her a loop box
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: that came with a couple of special pet biscuits of
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: the same variety that Carl used on Donut to make
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: her into an intelligent cat. So she ends up giving
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: these pet biscuits to two of her goats. One well,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, was it? I am like confusing my characters.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Miriam is not the player killer, that's somebody else. Miriam
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: is the shepherd. Let's go back. So they they recap
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: introduces like they starts like focusing on like several other
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: crawlers that have started to gain popularity. Florin the Alligator
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: came in crawls like species Crawler. And then Miriam, who
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: was an Italian shepherd and she had entered the dungeon
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: with like a huge herd of goats, and two of
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: her goats ended up leveling up a lot, and like
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: they she was her goats were actually like fighting for her,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: like they would kill mobs for her. So she ended
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: up leveling up a lot because she had like like
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: forty different goats with her and two of them was
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: actually two of her goats were like more like prolific.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: I guess I could say, I guess I could say,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: like they were more like, uh, they were very useful
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: for her, and she ends up getting like to get
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: several achievements that give her special pet biscuits and the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: same kind of pet biscuits that Carl was given to
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: turn donut into well donut, Yeah, and so she gives them.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: She gives those two pet biscuits to her two favorite goats.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: One of them was named Prepotente and the other one
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: was named Bianca Prepotente. The biscuit that she gave to
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Prepotente turns them into a capri, which is a humanoid
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: goat like creature and they are also intelligent. So basically, uh,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: Prepotente is now a dungeon crawler like like like Donut.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: He's a former part that was turned into an intelligent
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: crawl and into an intelligent player that is now a crawler.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: So he's no longer considered a pet. He's a crawler
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: and Miriam is his mother. And the other goat, Bianca,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: gets turned into this demon dragon goat thing. Yeah, and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: let me tell you something like Bianca is gnarley that
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: well for starters, Bianca like he looks like a massive,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: roided like demon goat creature. We're talking like Black Phillip
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: from The Witch except bigger.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: Like imagine if like Satan where to suddenly rise up
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: out of the earth, except Satan has like six teeths,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: like six six big ass boobs grow like going down
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: like her chest and so like has these like dragon
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: wings and her body like her her first turned like
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: pitch black and it flickers with this black flame and
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: everywhere she walks like she leaves like these scorch marks
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: on the on the ground.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: All right, iconic, So.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: She's iconic, and Miriam often uses Bianca as like a
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: mount because she's huge. Now you can actually ride her
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: and mirror like you is aggressive.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, what better way to make a statement? Roll up
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: on a big teddy saggon fucking monster of a goat
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: with wings and black flames and looks like she called
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: right out of hell? I mean, what better way to
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: make a statement?
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, like Bianca's iconic, but Prepotente steals the show.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: That I hate the little bastard.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's hilarious and really because
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: he'll randomly do that goat scream.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah the meme.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, eventually meets the meets them in person, and like
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: Prepotenze being like he's he's a bit of a prick,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: but he's also very like affectionate, so like there will
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: be times where Preppertente will give Carl a hug and
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: then right when he gives him a hug, just screams
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: right in his ear. Yeah, like just like hugs them
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: and just like.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty much pretty much.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I love them. I love him. And after
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: after seeing the recap episode, they explore this new settlements.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: They see that this settlement has an entrance to the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Desperado Club, which is the club that Carl got its.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Carl and Don't both got spectable entrance to. I forgot
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: how they get interest to it, And I think it
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: has something to do with like just basically fucking shut up.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, you know.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: And when they.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Answer the settlement, they they keep encountering a NPC who
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: is a sex worker named Gum Gum. It's an orc
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: sex worker or hobgoblin. I think, hold on, she gum
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Gum is an orc. Yeah, she's an orc sex worker.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: And she keeps trying to give uh. She keeps trying
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: to give Carl a quest called sex Workers who Fell
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: from the Heavens because she wants them to investigate a
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: series of deaths by other sex workers and the way
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: that they've been dying is that something has been dropping
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: them from the sky and like they're dying and they
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: like they're She thinks it's murder, it's foul play because
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: in the settlement settlements are safe zones and mobs can't
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: enter the safe zones and like pickpecs up and drop
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: them like that, So she thinks it's foul play, but
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: Mordecai tells like who's been, who's now, want who's now
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: traveling with them in the settlement exploring settlement with them,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: tells her to fuck off because like they don't need
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: to be embroiled in more quests. Uh. He takes them
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: into the Desperado Club and takes them into like the
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: shopping into like the merchant areas of the Desperado Club,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: because the Desperado Club it's a club. It's like a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a bar, there's dance floor, but it
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: also has halls that are filled with guilds and shops.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: So he takes them to the shops to start buying
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: like much needed supplies. Donut buys a pet carrier.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: For Mango and.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: M hm uh in the in the Death Brotto club, Uh,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: Morki takes them to a like to several different shops,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: like he takes them to uh to a merchant that's
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: that sells like explosives. He takes them to like a
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: like a like a merchant kiosk where they can buy
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: like a starter kite, and also takes them to like
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: a pharmacist so we can get some potions. Because now
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: that Mordecai is there is their manager. He can also
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: help them by using like his own skills from his
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: time as a crawler. He can't fight with them, but
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: he can have to like support them. And since his
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: class back when he was a crawler was like an alchemist, Uh,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: he makes a lot of really useful potions. So he
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: tells them to start investing and like like like potions table,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: alchemy tables, a bo like a like a bomber table
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: for carl so you can start working on making better explosives.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: And uh, like this is I think this is where
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: like they get their own personal safe room. So that's
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: where like they purchased their own safe room. And I
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: think that's what that starter kit is for. I'm having
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: a hard time remembering what it was. But while they
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: were exploring to the Desperado Club, they learned that Lucilla
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Marr was in the Desperado Club recently and she had
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: been permanently banned because she had gone on a rampage.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: So like, I gotta tell you, Lucilla Mar is batshit crazy.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: When she enters the third floor, she actually picks a
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: I don't remember what, like what class she picks, but
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: she picks a race that basically it's like like depending
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: on the time of day, she will transform into different
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: into like two different forms. One is like a form
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: of like a beautiful like uh like ethereal looking woman,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: and when she's in that form, she's like a mage.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: She can cast really powerful spells or like she gets
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: a boost to her spells. And then her other form
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: is like this skeletal like warrior Amazonian form and like
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: she gets a really big boost to like her like
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: combat stats and uh basically brawling and meleeing. Yeah, it
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: kind of reminds me of hell of like the of
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: like Hella. Yeah, Hella from from Norse mythology, because Hella
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: is the goddess of death and in if you in
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: like it, like the biblical version of her, she has
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: like half of her body is dead and the other
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: half is alive, so she looks like half like one
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: half of her looks like a corpse, like a rotted corpse,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: and the other half of her looks like a very
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: lively young woman.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, So like it's kind of her the race
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: she chose to kind of a play on that, like
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: one Like certain parts of the day she looks like
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: a beautiful, ethereal, lively woman. In other parts she looks
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: like a skeletal warrior.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, depending on.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, while on the Silk Road, which is the
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: Merchants guilds, uh Mordecai has Carl uh introduced Carl to
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: an NPC called Pustule, the Hobgoblin, and this Hobgoblin sells
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: a lot, is sells a lot of explosives, So they
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: purchased like a large number of Hobgoblin grade dynamite and
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: uh what are called hobb loobbers, which are just like grenades.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: And think about think about Hobgoblin level explosives is that
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: they're more stable than Goblin level explosives, because Goblin level
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: explosives are very unstable and can blow up in your face. Well,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: hob Goblin like hobb blobbers and Hobgoblin dynamite, they're all
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: pretty stable and almost anyone can use them if you
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: have the right stats. But within Carl's case, he can
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: easily use them, and they're a lot more reliable and
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: they're higher yield explosive. Yeah, and he also decided they
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: She also offers to sell them some special like smoke grenades,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: but she has to order them, so they decide to
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: come back for them. On their way back to uh
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: back to their safe room, uh Mango ends up running
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: off and and when they chase after him, they find
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: the body of this sex worker gum Gum, who'd been
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: trying to give them the quest and it turns out
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: that she was dead and now her body is being
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: attacked like by three creatures called Crossaway. So Crossway are
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: actually real, like come from real like I believe it's
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: like Filipino mythology or like some sort of Southeast Asian mythology. Uh.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: They are basically like what they look like are floating
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: heads that have like entrails like that like this, see
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: like the spinal column like hanging from the head from
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: the head, and then like the the esophagus and the lungs.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Like basically like they're floating head with their entrails like
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: hanging from the head, so like their guts like if
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: you want a better description, look them up. It's crossed
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: the way. It's Crossway k R A s U E
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: must sure if I'm pronouncing it right, but they're really
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: gross looking.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carsway is a female spirit from Southeast
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: Asia folklore. It's literally just a head, a spine, yea heart,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: and then stomach and entrails and and the whole goal
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: and the whole thing is like sparler leg witches. And
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: every night they detach and then they go float around
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: looking for their next victim.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like during the day they look like there are
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: like attached to an actual body, so they look like
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: normal people. But then at night the heads detach themselves
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: from the body and like their guts come with them.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: The description the description for the AI has for them
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: is pretty funny. Like in this book, we don't see
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of like really funny achievements like from the
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: first book, but some of the descriptions are pretty funny,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: Like this one is like Crossway. When they first encountered
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: a crossway, it's like Crossway level sixteen. Holy crap, these
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: things are terrifying. Who comes up with this shit? Said
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: to be the undead shell of a woman who lived
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: a life of sin, Crossway roam the dark places, hiding
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: their hideous true form. They are ravenous, and they devour
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: the blood of the unsuspecting. In other words, these things
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: are flying heads who are also vampires, and they bring
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: their organs along because well, nobody knows why, probably just
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: because it's really growth. You may kill the head and
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: trailing organs defend her off, but this mob doesn't truly
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: die until you find and destroy the rest of her corpse.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: You will not earn experience for killing this mob until
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: it is dead dead not just dead. Warning, this is
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: the ghats class mob. They are only injured with magic
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: or magical items period. So yes, they After fighting off
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: these gross ass costaway, they decide to take the They
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: decided to take her take gum guns quests and investigate
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: and investigate the killing the killing of the sex workers
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: and let's see here. Uh. When taking the quest, they
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: they follow the clues, they investigate the uh, they investigate
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: the other deaths and there and the evidence that they're
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: able to find leads them to believe that the that
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: the magistrate of the town, guy in a skyfowl named
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: feather Fall, may be responsible for all these sex workers'
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: deaths and may be either in cahoots with the Crossway
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: or controlling them. Uh, let me see, I'm gonna skip
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: over some parts because we're kind of not really important
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: to the story. Uh. They decided to go to the
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: magistrate's office. And they decided to go to the magistrate's
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: office to try to speak with the magistrate. But they
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: only they they only succeed in speaking to his secretary
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: Sky follows named Miss Quill. Uh Carl. Uh. It brings
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: her the evidence of like some corpses that they had
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: that he had taken with them. Uh, but she's not
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: really willing to like cooperate with their investigation or give
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: them any extra hints. Uh.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: So Uh.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: While they're in Miss Quill's office, Carl manages to sneakly
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: leave ah an explosive that he's able to trigger from
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: from his inventory, and they leave and try to go
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: investigate and do some other like follow the clues and
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: do some grinding. Uh. They find a boss. They find
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: a neighborhood boss that was killed by another crawler named
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: Daniel Bautista. Yeah, this is the guy that we will
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: that becomes a crucial part of Carl's team in the future.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: They eventually run into him later because like they they
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: find his the boss he killed and UH. The boss
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: is this is the boss that ends up exploding and
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: knocks Carl off and knocks Carl out. Not long after this,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: Carl and Donut are brought to a UH are brought
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: onto another UH to another talk show called danger Zone
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: with Ripper wants on UH. And on this talk show
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: they meet UH. They meet some Syndicate aliens named ev O,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: Princess Dinadia, Manasa Butler, and then a couple other UH
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: and a couple other crawlers like Hecla and Ripper. Hecla
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: UH actually invites Karl and Donut to be a part
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: of her party, but Carl refuses, and on the talk show,
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: like Carl and Donut actually talk. The topic gets to
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: like the Skull Empire, which is the Orc Empire, one
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: of the Orc empires of the Syndicate. And the thing
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: is they already started some pretty like gnarly beef with
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: the UH with the Skull Empire because of the show
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: they were on in the one of the previous floors.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: The show that was run by one of the Orc
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: princes calling himself the Maestro, and they make an enemy
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: of him and Carl like they talk more shit basically
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: like emasculating the Maestro And the thing about the Skull
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: Empire is that they're very like they're problematic and confrontational,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: so they decide they want to try to kill Carl.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: And the thing is, whenever Carl's brought onto these talk shows,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: they transport him into a special kind of like studio
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: trailer that's on the surface of Earth, and when he
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: goes onto the shows up being he's just being like
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: live broadcast onto the show like as a hologram, So
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: he's not on he's not actually on the show. He's
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: just more of like a kind of like a just
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: like a zoom like a holographic zoom call. And the
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: thing is, though, when the thing is is that when
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: they were bringing him onto the show, there were some
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: like issues with his trailer, so they ended up trading
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: him with putting him in a different trailer than they
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: originally scheduled. And because of all the because of all
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: the ship talking that he had done and the antagonizing
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: they do against the Mastro, the Skull Empire decided to
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: try to assassinate him. And when they do that, they
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: blow they blow up the trailer that they thought he
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: was in. Problem is that they had switched his trailer
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: with another with another contestant on this talk show, a
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: woman named Manessa. Now Manessa, she is like a manissa A.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: She was part of the Naga race. So not the
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: Naga are like the snakelike humanoids. Like they have like
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: the upper bodies of like a humanoid person with like
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: like with working arms and like a more snake like face.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: But they but below the waist they have like a
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: full snake body like serpentine body. Manassa looked like a
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: giant cobra person. But she was actually really friendly. She
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: got really she got really uh, she got on well
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: with Donut And think about Manassa though, is so Manassa
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: was a like a famous Naga pop singer, but she
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: actually had died centuries ago. And the thing is that
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: but despite the fact she died, she had made a
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: contract with a one of the syndicate races called the
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: Vaulta Corporation. The Vaulta are a race of these they're
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: basically brain worms, so they're intelligent brain worms. They and
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: they inhabit those bodies of other of other species and
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: basically if you've ever seen Stargate.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: They're those Yeah.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the the worms that take over your body. Well,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: Valta are kind of like that, but they're not, like
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: they don't forcibly take over people's body. They typically either
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: uh like get permission before they take over a body,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: or they use like special like uh android bodies that
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: can support them if they don't have a body like
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: readily available, or in some cases, they can make contracts
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: with other species, like if some if you make a
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: contract with a with the valse while you're alive, they
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: pay you like an exuber amount of money, so that way,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: in the event of your death, your body will be
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: given to them and a Voltai worm will be implanted
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: into your body. So the Valsi worm can like resurrect you.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Basically, but it will be using your body as it's
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: a it's as it's I mean putting you on is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: a little suit yep.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: So it technically does bring you back to life, but
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: you're not going to be in control anymore. It's it's
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: going to take control, which I mean at that point
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: you were already dead, so it's like I'm really bringing
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: you back to life. It's just reanimating your corpse and
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: uh while it keeps your body, it like reanimates you
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: keeps your body alive, You're not really you. It's just
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: using your memories and your personality for its own. So
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: that's that's who Manassa was. And the thing is that
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: when the Skull Empire tried to assassinate Carl, they end
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: up killing Manassa instead, And this really pisss off the
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: Vaultake Corporation because since Manassa is technically what was technically
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: one of theirs, they that was considered an active aggressions
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: retaliates retaliates against the Skull Empire by destroying Prince Stalwart's yacht.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: So there were several different princes of the Skull Empire.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: There's really only two that we uh will see throughout
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: the series. The first one was the Maastro. He was
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: like the younger son, like the younger prince of the empire.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: And then there was like the primary prince who's like
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: next in line to rule, which is Prince Stalwart. And
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: there's another uh, and then they also deal with their sister.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: I forgot her name. I'll pull up her name later,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: but UH. The thing is is that when the Vaulta destroyed,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: they retaliate. They destroy Prince Stalwart's yacht. Which the Diastro
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: and their mother was on. So the Vaulta ended up
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: killing the queen and the one of the princes of
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: the Skull Empire.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: They really said, funk around find out, bitch. I really
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: said that.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: The Vaulta Corporation, since they're not currently running the Dungeon Crawl,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: they can't do anything about Prince Stalwart because he's currently
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: sponsoring one of the of the deities on the twelfth floor,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: and since he's already on the planet. They did there,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: they didn't kill him. They weren't able to kill him,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: and he since he's already a sponsored member of the
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: of the team, they can't really take action against him.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: But still the message was clear, fuck around again and
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: you'll find out.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I killed your mama and your brother. What
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: what's next?
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: And what are you gonna do about it? And want
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: you want to enter the dungeon? Into the dungeon. We'll
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: be running things soon. Oh there's some tea. I gotta
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: tell you, guys, there is some tea. The reason. There's
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: the reason why I'm bringing up the vaults A Corporation. Now.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: It's not only because yes, this is like part of
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: the story, but the VAULTA are going to be taking
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: uh are gonna be playing a bigger role in the
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: Dungeon Crawl because the Fort Corporation, which is run by
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: a race of fishes like fish people.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: UH.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: For the actual name of their race, I think they
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: just call them the They're not the vault They're called
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: uh like the announcer of the the announcer who usually
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: like talked about.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the race's name, but imagine huh quattine.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: Imagine if you will, if you have ever watched not
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: Howling Commandos, Oh my God, DC that commander, that group
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: of monsters that they had for an animated series. I
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: can't think of the name, but one of them was
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: an aquatic fish person and basically kind of looks like
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: that or like hew Boy two you see aquatic.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or strap of water.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Shap of water is another one. Yeah, That's that's the
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: image I think of when thinking about they're.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: Humanoid fish people, but they're actually very like diminutive. They're
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: not very they're not very tall, they're very short. The
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: boran species is called Quatan, but like a lot of
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: the other syndicate races, often referred to them as like
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: mud skippers as like a bit of a racial term,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: like a like a racist, like a very racist term.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: That's that's almost too similar to a very another another
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: very racial term.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So, uh, think about the Borant Corporation and
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: the Quatin in general, is that the Quatin are basically
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: Nazis at this point because they have very strong eugenic
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: eugenesis ideologies and they're very isolationists, so they pretty much
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: shun other species and have like a very strong idea
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: of like their superiority. But the problem is is that
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: their entire system is in debt. Yeah, like the Boran Corporation,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: their governments, they are in stupid amount of death of
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: debt right now, and most of that debt is to
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: the Voltai Corporation. And in fact, they ended up starting
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: the dungeon crawl early as a cash grab, like they
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: cut corners. They got a they got a basically a
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: certified ref certified refurbished like a certified pre owned copy
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: of a primal a of the primal Ai. So the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: Ai that is that was that's being used for. Uh,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: the Earth Dungeon Crawl is a second hands aire schemes
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: previously for a different dungeon crawl, but it was wiped
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: and put into this one.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, and it explains a lot because the because
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: the AI begins to go primal a lot sooner than
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: what they were expecting, and there was a lot of
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: ship that they did cut corners, and this crawl when
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: it started, it was a ship show because a lot
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: of like the traps, a lot of the systems and
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: the structure of the dungeon was not set up right.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: And because of that, a lot of crawlers ended up
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: dying because traps would go off randomly, or if hell,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: they would try to go to the bath one of
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: the many bathrooms they set up around the dungeon, and
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: the bathrooms would just blow up.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just kill them. And yeah, throughout the series, you'll
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: you'll notice that there's a lot of oops. So we
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: announcement we fixed this problem, so this problem won't happen again,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: or we fix this, or we fix that. Oh yeah,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of oopsies. Let me fix this. Here's announcement,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: we fixed this. This won't be an issue anymore.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So they were literally about their entire system was
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: literally about to get repossessed by the Vaultake Corporation.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this game is keeping them there. This this game
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: is literally keeping them alive.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They started the game early as a cash drab
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: to like pay off their debts, and for them, it
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: was working. But the thing is that Carl and a
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: bunch of other dungeon crawlers kept throwing monkey wrenches into
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: the equation and eventually, uh, the vault A Corporation will
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: do a hostile takeover. And yeah that's not until like later.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: I think that's like in book four when the.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert it's gonna happen.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: Anyway, That's what this whole show is about. Spoilers, Like
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: you want to ruin someone's day, like send the link
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: to our to our podcast, will spoil our favorite show
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: or their favorite book.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: I'm still so upset about Stranger Things, but I'm not
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: going to get into that. We are not going to
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: I'm so upset.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: God, what have you said about I'm sorry?
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Like, no, I'm still upset about stranger things.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: Uh huh?
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: How the show ended? Oh okay, and the kool aid
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: that everyone's been drinking about the secret episode. I was
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: drinking that koul aid. I was unfortunately drinking that koul
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: aid too. Yeah, I knew it. Wasn't real, So what
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: route your day, like my day was ruined or my
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: month was ruined.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: Yep. So the Vaulte retaliates against the Skull Empire, and
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: the Empire is even a stern warning that if you
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: interfere again, like you're gonna find out what's gonna happen.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: It's on site. It's on site. It's on site.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: Uh uh, let me see, I'm gonna skip.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Over, book around and find out. I was only listening
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: to that and I'm like, oh, they told you. They
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: say on site, you have no nippis while they were.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: On so yeah, it's on site, but while before that happened.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: While so actually like right when that happens, the show
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: gets cut off and Parl is left there staring at
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: the other two crawlers that were on the show, mainly Hecla.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: So Hecla was became is a pretty popular dungeon crawler
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: because she's she's a bit of a girl boss. She
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: has like a huge party filled with women, right, and
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: it's supposed to be very like like a lot of people.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: They become very popular because it's just like yeah, girl power, right,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: And Hecla does invite Carl and Dona to join her party,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: but and Carl thinks about it, and Hekla wanting to
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: respecting his he's wanting to like think about joining up
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: with them. She asked him to keep an eye out
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: for one of her party members who got separated when
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: they entered the third floor. And this party member was
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: a woman named Katia. And we love Katia. She's she's
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: going to be a very important part of She can
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: become a very important member to Carl's party is yep,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: and she is going to uh like like she she
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: becomes a big help to them. And the thing is
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: that Katsi Unfort when they first meet Katya, Katu was
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: actually very low level. She did not have she was
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: like way behind the curve.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Is that book two or three? If she comes in.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: Book three, they meet her in the third floor, so
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: they Heckla tells her that Katias, she knows that Katia
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: is in the same settlement that they're in and if
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: they could look out for her until they can meet
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 2: up with her, look out for Katia, well until they
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: can meet up with Hekla. She'd really appreciate it and
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: possibly help them in the future. And Carl reluctantly agrees
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: and said we'll keep an eye out for her, and
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: they do eventually run into Katia. The thing about Katya
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: is is that when she when she was picking her
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: races and levels, she basically got screwed by her Uh,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: she got screwed by her tutorial guide. The the tutorial
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: guide was a bit of an idiot and convinced her
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: to take on a race called the dopp called Doppelganger race.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: The Doppelganger race is not a changeling race, so like
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: so like Mordecai who chose to change in the race,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: can perfectly mimic any race that he touches, right, But
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: the thing about the Doppelganger is basically, when you become
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: a Doppelganger, you basically become become a like a block of.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: Clay basically, and you have to you have.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: To manually mold yourself into the shape that you want.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: So while Katia figured out how to like somewhat mold
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: herself into like her what she originally looked like when
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: they first meet her, she looks kind of like a goofy. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: she she did not look right and they could see her.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 2: They could see that like her levels are very low,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: like she didn't. She hasn't done a lot of leveling up.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: So they take her in and they actually help her
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: with like figuring out how to use her skills. They
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: help level up more. And because Contio is pretty like
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: she's very closed off and in her shell.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: And are we talking about book three or book two?
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: We're talking about book two.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, we don't want to go over everything for
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: book three.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, she's no. They meet her in book two.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm you mean her book two. Oh okay, yeah.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: They meet her book thinking, like because like each book
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: after book one is like is an entire floor, right,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: but like it I get confused because like book one
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: was floor one, and two and then two was floor three,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: and then four was then then three was four, four
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: was five, five was seven, was six, six was eight because.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: They like I listened to all the audiobooks for the
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: first like three or four books back to back, so
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: they all kind of mushed together. So I don't remember.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: That's on me. I don't remember. I didn't remember content
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: came in book two or three. So continue what I
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: was saying.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: What I was thinking it it's book two, but I
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: was thinking floor three yeah, because this book two is
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: floor three. So so, yes, they meet Kanto, they start helping,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: they take her in, they start helping her level up,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: and they decide like, all right, well, to complete the quest,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: we're gonna need to just take out the magistrate because
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: they learned that they take out the magistrate, they'd become up.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: They basically take over the town, so the town becomes theirs, right,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: they'll have full control over it and everything. Yeah, So
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: rather than try to like, you know, navigate the possible
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: swarm of Cotsway that are hiding in the magistrate's office,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: Carl detonates the stick of explosive that he had hidden
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: in the in the magistrate's office. Now they learned that
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: the magistrate wasn't They realized the magistrate was not in
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: his office at all, though miss Quill was. And when
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: they kill and when they detonate the bomb, it kills
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: miss Quill and they get the achievement for killing her.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: And as it turns out, she was the real magistrate
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: of the town.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: She's actually been the one in control of everything, including
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: the Cassway. And they also learned that the magistrate, who
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: is her husband, Yeah, was being controlled by her, and
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: with her death like all control of the town goes
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: over to Carl. And but since Donna is the higher
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: rank is like the higher ranked member of the party,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: she's technically the one in control because that's the way
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: where you're in a party, the one with the bit
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: with the better status is the is the default leader. Ah.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: They go into. They decide they go into the wreckage
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: of the Magistrate's office and exploring. While exploring the building,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: they find the remains of h MS Quill Featherfall, and
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 2: they also find the nets of Crossway. Carl uses to
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: scratch off again and ends up shooting a max level
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: fireball into the nests, killing everyone of uh. Killing all
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: of them, though they do find that a skyfoul had
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: survived the fireball, and this sky file UH, this sky
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: skyfoul bird named Burgundy uh tell them tells them that
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, Ms Coole was in charge of everything, and
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: that she that her husband was actually dead but she
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: resurrected him and he and she'd been using him for
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: some weird plan. And seeing that their quest is still
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: going like because it's not, they haven't really like completed
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: the quest yet, they decided to go try and find
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: where her own dead husband is. Uh. While they were
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: in while they were like looking through the magistrate's office,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: see if there's anything of use, they Carl picks up
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: a special glass case and it had like a rare
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: Kimars figure in it, like a little basically it was
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: a little stuffed animal. Right, But they to learn from
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: Batista that these little stuffed animals are like grenades. You
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: pull the tag and throw them, and the stuffed animal
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: will expand into like a live version of there of
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: like the creature that it represents. So like Bautista literally
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: has like an army of these things, Like he will
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: get his inventory is filled with them. He'll pull them out,
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: pull the tag, throw them, like throw a like a
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: dozen of them, and they'll like pop up and fight
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: for him. M So it's really cool. It it's really cool.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: They actually meet him out. This is like right after this,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: they actually do meet Bautista, because Bautista had the same
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: quests as them to kill the magistrate. But like, since
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: they did it first, he ends up taking there. He
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: ends up taking the Carl ends up taking the the
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: credit for it, and uh, like it's a bit of
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: an apology. He tells Carl gives him that Kimars figure
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: as an apology, but keeps that glass case because apparently
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: the the glass case itself is like a special kind
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: of case, like it's virtually indestructible and can contain almost anything. Uh.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 2: They track down the undebt. They track down miss Quill's
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: undeat husband to like a warehouse. Uh. It turns out
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: like the what the warehouse this uh warehouse is like
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: where the guards of the settlement are manufactured from. Because
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: the guards are these like really high level automatons, so
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 2: like they're like like each one's like level of ninety
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: got them. So they're all there for like where the
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: crawlers are right now, like their current levels, it's almost
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: impossible to destroy them. Yeah. And when they when they
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: track down uh miss Quill's undeat husband, Remix, Uh, they
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: find out that Remix is uh. They thought that he
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: is like a like an undead lich or a burrough boss,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: but turns out he's not. And turns out he is
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: what is called a soul leech capacitor uh and that
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: ms Quill was using him as like a form of
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 2: summoning and using his and using the soul energy he
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: leaches from the town's soul crystal to catch the Final war.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: So like, uh, it's like a basically end of the
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 2: world scenario where it's gonna blow.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: Everything up of course like a shit.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: And they got a new quest called The Fools Who
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: Broke the Glass. Uh. So here I'm gonna read you
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: the description because like as always, the AI has a
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: really fucked up description for everything. Uh. New quest the
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: full the Fools who Broke the Glass. This is a
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: group quest. All crawlers currently within the forty five square
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: kilometer Blastratus will receive this quest. Your party has been
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: denignative hopes of this group quest. Hope you will not
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: be allowed to opt out from this quest. What the
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: hell is going on? Am I glad you asked? A
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: lot back, a certain NPC started casting a very powerful spell,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: a spell so potent that it had to be completed
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: by a future generation. Here's the thing with old spells,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: They're like trees. They grow, they get big, sometimes huge.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: That shit happens when they get screwed up. The bigger
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: the spell, the batter the shit. And boy was this
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 2: spell big. Not gonna lie your favorite AI was looking
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: forward to it going off. Oh, well, this was almost
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: as good. This will be almost as good. Shit is
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: about to go down. For example, you may have noticed
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: every sky fowl and Chicka d NPC in this area
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: has fallen ill. Most of them have already plunged into
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: a coma or death. It's not their fault, but they
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: were tied to the spell. And that's just the way
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: it is. Just like, it's not your fault that you
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: will that you happen to be within forty five kilometers
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: of the fallout from this failed spell. Again, not your fault. Well,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: unless your crawler is Carl, Princess Donut or Katya Grim,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: then it is your fault. That's just the way of
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: it sucks to be.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: You call them out.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: There's going to be an explosion. The epicenter of the
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: blast is marked on your map. Every crawler within the
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: designated blast area is fucked. The object of this of
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: the quest is simple, unfunck yourself, don't die. This is
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: an event quest. If you do not want to participate
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: in this quest, you will have sixty seconds from the
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: end of this message to get yourself yourselves into a
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: safe room. After that, all access to safe rooms within
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: the quest zone will be shut off until the event
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: quest is concluded. All NPCs who remain indoors safe rooms
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: are not will remain safe. All mobs and neighborhood level
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 2: boss monsters within the blackbrated subject of both physical and
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: magical explosions will be killed reward. All participants who survive
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: will receive a platinum quest box. Oh, by the way,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: the explosion is coming, is coming in seven minutes.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: Run done, of course, of course, of course.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: I love how he calls him out.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really does. Uh. So the thing is is
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: that the epicenters is going to come from a soul
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: jem that the spell was, basically that the spell was
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: being siphoned through. So Carl figures out that he could
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 2: place the soule jem in that instructible, that indestructible glass
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: case he got from this Quill's office. So he does
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: that and puts it in his and puts this and
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 2: puts the glass case in his inventory, effectively canceling out
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: the explosion. Yeah, and when he checks an inventory later,
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 2: he sees that the glass case is now labeled Carl's
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 2: doomsday scenario.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: Run the credits. Wait, there's more after credits, scene after credit, like.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: Wait, you thought, oh, you thought we were done them.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, doomsday scenario is not the
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: end of it.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: Uh. You see, after taking the uh the explosive, the
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: explosive very volatile soul gem into his inventory, Remix starts
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 2: to convulse and begins emitting these waves of magical foreshock.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: And every time a wave blasts out, it causes magical
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: effects of gear. Uh it knocks them out or it
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: causes them to misfire. So basically, the first blast knocks
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: out the magical effects of gear from the party. The
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: second blast activates weapons, causing like other crawlers to like
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: explode uh. And after like the third and fourth, after
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: the third and fourth blast waves uh doughnuts crowned, the
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: substance the sepsis horror explodes like it just it gets destroyed,
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: though the effects of it are like of it aren't gone.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: They're still there.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: And the fourth activates uh like crawl like hotless items
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: and crawlers inventory because there's like a hotless that they
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: can quick activate like mainly used for like uh like health, oceans,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: healing scrolls, or other special effects. So if you had
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: like a weapon or like an explosive in your hotless
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: it's gonna go off. Yeah, And uh, the thing is
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: is that before they answered the ware, how the depot
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: that the wear that Remox was in the ware how,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: they had lined it with a bunch of explosives explosives
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: before going in as like a failed safe. So Katia
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: sets off the explosives to destroy the to destroy the
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 2: sore depot, hoping that it will like stop this like catastrophe,
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: this catastrophic uh like magical doom, stay away, like goom'
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: stay explosive. That's still gonna go off because the because
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: the AI still is like oh cool, well, like cool,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: you stopped the do you stopped the first explosion? What
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: are you gonna do about the second one? Right? Because
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: there I wasn't about to let this go. He was like, yeah, okay, cool,
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: you stop this one. We're gonna about this one now.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: Because Remix that himself now became the source of a
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: new like catastrophic explosion. Like the first one was just
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 2: gonna blow up. This new one is now causing magical
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: gear to malfunction. And the thing is because Carl is
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 2: now wearing a pair of boxers that give him special
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: magical effects. He had he was forced to shuck the
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: fucking boxers, and his old pair of boxers are god,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: so he can't put those on. So now he's running
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: like he had. He had to take off his cape too,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: because he has he has a spectable like night wing cape,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: and he takes that off. He takes up all his
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 2: magical gear, leaving him in just his bomber jacket, his
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 2: wife beaters and nothing else.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: He is and tell you, I.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: Gotta tell you, this is probably what the funniest thing
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: that ever happened in this entire book, because now we
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: have a half naked Carl. Carl was already half naked.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: Now he is literally Donald ducking it through the streets
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: of this settlement, trying to get away from this new
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: from this second explosion.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: He sure is, uh huh, he sure is.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: And so because this is this new explosion is gonna
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 2: be bigger, and it's gonna and it's gonna basically kill
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: every crawler in the vicinity, Carl starts like like sending
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 2: out messages to like all of like the other dungeon
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: crawlers that he's met so far, telling him to just
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: get to the stairs, to the staircases, to the third
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: to the next floor and just go go down the staircase.
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: If you're not able to get into the safe room,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: go down the stairs. Because they weren't able to. Unfortunately,
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: they weren't able to enter the safe room because they
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 2: already missed the They already missed the uh the time
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 2: of safety right where they can enter the state room.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 2: And no, and the nearest safe rooms that other crawlers
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 2: could get to were too far away. So he started
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: calling out to everyone, sending messages to everyone and telling
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 2: them to said to any other crawlers they know, get
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: to the stairway, go to the next floor. We're still
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 2: gonna we may have two days to go, but until
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 2: the next floor, until this floor collapse, but just go
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: we you don't got a choice. So there's there's Carl
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: Donald ducking it through the streets right to make it
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 2: to the stairway, and he he had done it, and
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 2: Kattia managed to make it to the staircase, and they
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 2: go down to the next floor. They wake up to
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 2: they appear on the fourth floor two days later. Because
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 2: when you go down the stairs before the floor is
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: built about to collapse, you're actually gonna be put into
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: like a stasis and You're just gonna be what you're
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: gonna be in stasism until the until the floor collapse,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: and at that point you'll be released into the next floor. So,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 2: having two and a half days left, they learned that
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: the explosion that Katia set off to destroy the depot
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: actually stopped the final blast. So they ran down the
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 2: stairs for no reason, and a lot of crawlers and
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 2: NPC's are actually saved because of that. And when they
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: did that, it caused a new achievement to appear. It
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: gave every surviving crawler an achievement called the Bandit achievement.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 2: Here's a description new achievement. Bandit screw Hadji. Hadji was
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: a little bitch. Anyway, You have completed a quest, but
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 2: it was completed in a way unusual enough to trigger
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: the Bandit achievement. Unlike the real Bandit, who is usually
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: instrumental in helping Johnny quest complete his taxed you didn't.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 6: Actually do anything to do to deserve this prize, but
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 6: that's okay because you're still getting it. This is one
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 6: of the rare achievements that can be rewarded more than
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 6: one reward. Your Platinum Box quests, your Platinum Quest box
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 6: has been upgraded two times to a Celestial Quest box.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 2: So I've mentioned breees like like I've mentioned briefly before
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: that depending on the type of achievement you get, can
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 2: give you like special loot boxes ranging from like just
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: common bronze boxes or like other types of boxes like
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: common loot boxes to like silver, gold, platinum, legendary, and
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 2: the most rare one, the Celestial box. Depending on which
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: one you get, it can be a lot, it can
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: be like the type of shit you get in these
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: boxes are pretty powerful, and the Celestial box gives you
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: the most powerful gear, like you have a really high
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 2: chance of getting a very rare celestial item. Now, the
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 2: thing is is that this resulted like over eighty three
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 2: crawlers got this achievement, each and every one of them
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: got a Celestial box. Here's the problem. Celestial boxes are
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: exuberantly expensive. They are ridiculously expensive, so expensive that just
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: giving out one can put a can put the showrunners
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: in debt. So the Boriant Corporation was forced to put
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: a veto in So despite everyone getting these loop boxes,
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 2: because of the veto, they the b loop boxes were
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 2: taken away, but not before one crawler managed to open one,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: and that crawler is a guy named Kwan. I gotta
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 2: tell you, guys, you're gonna come to hate this dude
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 2: as much as I do because quanh.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah that guy.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: Fuck that guy all right. He is what is called
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: a stat steeler, like a killer, like he's killer. No,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 2: he's not a player killer because he doesn't kill other players.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 2: Now what he does is that, uh he steals like
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 2: he steals XP. So like let's say you're let's say
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 2: you're in the middle of fighting a boss.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: Right, he comes in the last second and takes the
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: final blow.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, stealing all of the XP, getting all of the
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: achievements right. In fact, like part of his class is
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: like his class is literally built around stealing achievements and
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: stealing XP. So the more times he does it, the
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 2: more shit and the more XP he gets. Right, And
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: now he has a celestial level item, so he gets
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 2: like a special rope that gives him like some really
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 2: like powerful abilities and he ends up using it a lot. Like,
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 2: uh so, if your class or race gives you the
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 2: ability to fly, you're not gonna be able to use
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 2: those flight abilities until the sixth floor. Well, because of
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 2: this celestial item, Kwan can now fly regardless of that,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 2: regardless of that restriction, and it also gives them some
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 2: extra like really powerful spells like a lightning bolt spell
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 2: and a few other like stat boosts. We're gonna see
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 2: it more in the next couple of floors. But he
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 2: ends up popping up several times, pissing off Carl to
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: the point where Carl actually straight up wants to kill
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 2: this guy. Like yeah, he ends up like making decision
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 2: like if I if I run into Kwan again, if
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 2: I run to quand cch again, it's on site, because
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: like Kwan really derails several of Carl's plans on almost
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 2: cost him in some of his friend's life. So Carl's like,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 2: all right, Kwan, get my hands on you sick.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: It's on site.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 2: It's on site. So Kwan is the only person who
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 2: gets a celestial box. Unfortunately, after this floor, they actually
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 2: start introducing what it's called leaderboard, so it shows like
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 2: every floor they can now see who's like in the
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 2: top ten and Carl and don't see that they're now
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 2: on the top ten. And since they're now just opening
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: on the first they're now just entering the next floor,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 2: they are immediately called in for their for their floor
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: lye uh interview with Odette and actually warns Carl about
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: heckless plans for Donut, and she also warns him about
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: uh a specific god sponsored god called Grol, and that
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: Prince Stalwart is sponsoring Grol. So having so since there's
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: a sponsored god, uh, since there's like one of the
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: syndicate races of sponsoring God in the ascendancy, this god
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: can prove to be like very problematic for them in
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: the future. So they got to avoid anything to do
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 2: with Grol because since staal Wart is the one controlling Grawl, now, yeah,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: that can anything to do with Gral can backfire against them.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: And she also warns them of Hecla's plans because the
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 2: thing is, even though Hecla invited Carl and Donut to
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 2: the to her party, it's hinted that Hecla only really
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: wants Donut.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: Of course he doesn't want no metal around.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: And also the Skull Empire has put a bounty on
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 2: the crawling Donuts.
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: Said, of course they did. Of course at this point,
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: you're just like you got anything else.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, congratulations, you're on the leaderboards. Now you're done.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: Oh you're a target.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: Like, oh joy, I'm a target now, lovely. We love
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: being targets.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: We love it here, we love that for us.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 5: So anyway, guys, that was book three, Book two, Book
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 5: two two two, which takes place on floor three, dungeon
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 5: crawler carls Carl's doomsday scenario.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: So I enjoyed this book. I like, like, I inhaled
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 2: these books. It took me like a month just to
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 2: read all of them except the seventh one. The yeah,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 2: the seventh one, which took me a little bit longer
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: to read because like I finished reading the first sixth
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: and I had to wait another month for the last
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 2: for the seventh one to come out, And when I
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 2: got the seventh one, like life got really busy for me,
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: so I wasn't able to like read through the whole
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: thing as fast as I wanted to, So I only
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 2: recently just finished it. But I love these books. It's
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: such a fun read because it's so unserious, but it's
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 2: so like it's gritty, it's comedic, it's uh, you know,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: it's relatable, and you just come to love these characters
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 2: like I love Carl, I love Donut, all right, Katia.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 2: At first, I wasn't really sure abou Katya because I
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: thought she was just she was giving cannon fodder. I
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: thought she was gonna kill get killed off pretty quick.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: But she turns out to be one of the more
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: pivotabal like pivotal characters in this entire book series. Yeah,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 2: got a.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: Lover, lover her mom, mom, mama and Papa and her
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: and Carl mom and pop up.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 2: They don't actually ever get together, so I will I
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 2: will tell you that. Don't get your hot your wow.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: Wow. I'm still on book like five and you just
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: my dreams are crushed. How dare you? How dare you?
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 2: You dare? And then of course and then of course, guys,
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 2: remember if you do purchase uh Dungeon Crawler Carls, I
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 2: do highly recommend the Ace uh uh the Ace hardcover
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: copies because they do come with that little extra behind
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: the scenes with Pineapple Cabaret. So it's really interesting and
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: it's building up to something and I'm here for it
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 2: and I want to see more of it. So I
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: thank you guys for tuning in. We are gonna be
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 2: we are going to be coming back to the Dungeon
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 2: Crawlers series soon. We're gonna be reviewing the next book
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 2: of the series, which is, uh, the Dungeon Anarchist Cookbook.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, and that one will do. It'll be next month
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: because normally, because like I was saying before, with the
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: first start of the series, we play on doing at
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: least one or two at least a month that kind
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: of spread out the series. The next month there's gonna
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: be one episode and then so on and so forth,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: so you'll get them in there spread out throughout the year.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: Like this one.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, this one was probably one of
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: my favorites because like the first of the Chonkier books,
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: this is bigger than the than the second book.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: The Trains the train station.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 2: It's taking place, so like the third floor is the
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 2: start of the themed floors, because the first two floors
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 2: were just kind of like bland and they're pretty much
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 2: the same, uh, and then now they're in like if
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 2: every floor is going to have a different theme. Now
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 2: for three, six, nine, and twelve are going to be
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 2: like part of the like the Scolopendra storyline, and but
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 2: everything in between is just gonna be like something different.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 2: So for the the Dungeon Anarchists, Book three is Book three.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: Book three is gonna be Uh, it's gonna be taking
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 2: place in what's called the Iron Tangle, which is like
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: a labyrinth of subway tunnels. Uh. This one's a really
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 2: interesting read. It was very like it was chaotic, but
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 2: it was there was like a lot of like uh
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 2: like problem solving, like they were trying to figure out
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 2: like how to like navigate the the subway systems, like
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: how to avoid these new stronger and more deadly uh
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: more deadly mobs. And this is also where we see
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: like Carl starts calling together all these like all of
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: these dungeon crawlers, Like he's really starts really pushing for
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: cal for all these crawlers to start working together instead
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 2: of being these like like independent agents. And we also
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 2: we also start learning more about like certain player killers
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: that give Carl and Donuts some grief. But uh, we
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: will talk more about that next time we review Dungeon
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: Crawler Carl, So look forward to that. Next week, we
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: are actually gonna be.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: Reviewing issue wells War of the World's War the Worlds.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be doing the War of the Worlds. I
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: find I finally got around to reading that book that
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: is a classic book and it's one of the classic books.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: In fact, it is the first book to ever depict
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: an alien invasion. Before that book, there was never there
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 2: had never been anything like it. There have been other
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 2: side science fiction novels like of course Frankenstein, Dracula and
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: things like that. But is she Well's book was the
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 2: first book that incorporated aliens and the idea of aliens
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 2: invading Earth to try to take our world. So that's
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: something that I had never been done before. So you
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: think about it. Nothing like before that, no one had
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: ever used that idea. No one ever really gave much
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 2: thought of, Like, oh, what if there's life on other worlds?
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 2: And then here comes HG. Well It's just like oh
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 2: the Martians, Like there's a plant called Mars. What if
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: life it since on Mars? What if that life came
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: to like attacked us?
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: Plot twist. Mars probably did have life at one point
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: in time before it became dead, probably plot twist. But
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, so catch sex. I want to talk about HG.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: Wells until then, I mean