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The War Chant - Chapter 12 This Inevitable Ruin · The Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted

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Hello, and this is the Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted.
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We are a married couple from Atlanta with boring
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day jobs. We have been together 12 years, and
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we usually create a lot of weird performance
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hand at having a podcast because we have had
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an obsession lately, and that obsession is Dungeon
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Crawler Carl. This is a spoilers podcast, and
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we will be discussing plot points from all seven
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Dungeon Crawler Carl books. You should not start
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or the Pineapple Cabaret. There are spoilers
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from this point forward. Be warned. Wanted to
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jump in here at the beginning of the episode
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regarding the giveaway that we announced during
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last week's episode. And we were at MegaCon down
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in Orlando this weekend and we met a lot of amazing
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fans and fellow crawlers. And so we wanted to
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extend the giveaway until Wednesday, March 25th,
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because of the additional interest from people
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that we met this weekend. So the giveaway will
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be closing on Wednesday, March 25th at 10 p .m.
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Eastern Standard Time. So I'm starting to think
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that maybe crawlers can do anything if they're
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together. Are you getting that impression? No.
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Not at all. Where would you get that idea from?
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I don't know. Maybe because I think this is the
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10th time that this has been mentioned in 12
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chapters. Maybe more. I mean, former cookbook
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authors getting together. It's an impressive
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amount of skill and knowledge. I mean, not just
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cookbook authors, but all of these former crawlers
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who, as mentioned in the last chapter, survived
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faction wars, were victors of land wars or the
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Battle Royale. Like, it's very impressive. Yeah,
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and we start this chapter with a short entry
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in the cookbook from crawler Ithaca. Ithaca.
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This is what happens when you read with your
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eyes. You don't know how to pronounce shit. But
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he is wondering how the former crawler York is
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and if he survived. And we will find out about
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that in this book. Yes. And he talks about the
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unbearable loneliness. But he says that reading.
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what York wrote made him feel less alone and
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that he imagines if he could get back together
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with the other cookbook authors that they could
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do anything and that that loneliness would be
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done for him. Yeah. And it's interesting because
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so Akecho says that his people were castrated
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and cast out, whereas York came from a hive.
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But York said that he still felt alone his entire
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life. is interesting. And I think that there's
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always this sense of camaraderie between the
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various cookbook authors. And it seems like all
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of them kind of have at least one other author
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that they kind of hone in on as like a special
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interest of theirs. I would also say that just
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from what we've read in the books, being a hive
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mind doesn't seem all it's cracked up to be.
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No, it sure doesn't. I mean, it also seems like
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whenever you have these mentions of these hives,
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that a lot of the individuals still operate with
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a level of autonomy that is kind of antithetical
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to being part of a hive mind or a collective
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that's a bit of a digression oh well i was about
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to go on a huge digression fuck yeah let's do
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it so actually in the book anamorphs which is
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a major deep dive so if you don't remember those
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were the books that got basically every 90s kid
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super into reading if it wasn't goosebumps I
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read Goosebumps. I read some of them. I never
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read Animorphs. Animorphs are these super dark
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books about fighting fascism. For children. For
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children, yes. Well, for tweens. But that's children.
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In Animorphs, an alien actually comes to Earth
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and gives a group of kids the power to turn into
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any animal that they touch. Like changelings.
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But so that they can fight the fascist aliens
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that are coming there. Okay, okay. Who are actually
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basically like the Valte, where they take over
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people's brains. And that is considered very
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evil in the Animorphs book. I mean, I consider
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that evil. Yes. Although the Valte usually do
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it consensually. Yeah, they do. But there's actually,
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in one of the Animorphs books, they turn into
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ants. And they say that the experience of being
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part of the hive mind is so traumatic for them
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that they are never doing that again. And like
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half the book is like them processing their trauma
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from being ants. Very interesting. Yeah, go read
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Animorphs. They're super good books. But unfortunately,
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my mom's the manager of a bookstore. They are
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out of print. So you have to get them off eBay.
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But they are like super hardcore, like very adult
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themes. excellent books that are kind of maybe
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on a second, third grade level. Okay. Interesting.
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And I assume they're not rare collector's items
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where there'd be like $500 a book. I don't think
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so. Although my mom did make a face when I suggested
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trying to track some down for one of my cousins.
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Okay. Okay. Yeah. I just remember seeing the
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covers of them a lot. And even like in kind of
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the last past several years, I feel like. The
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covers kind of became a meme at some point. I'm
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not really sure why, but it was used in some
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kind of meme context around the interwebs. The
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covers are kind of goofy, but like I said, I
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cannot describe how dark the theme of these books
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are. You should really read them. They're very
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good. Okay. I will once I am done filming 200
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episodes of a podcast. Recording, filming. We're
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going to add video to this at some point. Now
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that we have finished that gigantic digression,
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Akita's chapter ends with, I pray you seek out
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the others who came before. It is a dream. Can
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you imagine? Together, there would be nothing
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we couldn't do. Nothing. We get a check -in on
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the timeline of the ceasefire. There is 52 hours
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left, and that means that only 8 hours have passed
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since Chapter 1, and we are now at Chapter 12.
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Oh, that's pretty crazy, because I would have
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sworn opening those boxes took, like, four years.
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Yeah. No, I mean, I think it goes pretty quick,
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honestly, because they can kind of spam through
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them, I think. Like, only, like, the Platinum
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and, like, Legendary and Celestial boxes have
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this huge fanfare. When you're just getting a
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Silver Adventurer box with Trench Scrolls and
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Healing Potions, AI isn't giving long diatribes
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about... this trench scroll it's probably just
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like plus five trench scroll plus ten health
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potions and then the next box opens I mean it
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would be in line with just the way a lot of like
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video games work and of a similar style like
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at some point there's a way where you can just
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kind of spam through certain things and just
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like hold the space bar or like hit escape or
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enter and it just spams through it so there's
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gotta be a way probably doesn't know half of
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what he got in the boxes because you probably
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didn't read the notifications off I would I would
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also guess that there is probably in his inventory
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a recently acquired tab or a way to filter. You
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think he read that either? Yeah, probably. I
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mean, he wants to have a general idea of what
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he's gotten. He knows and understands that those
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build trend scrolls are going to be important.
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He actually doesn't. He says, and we covered
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this in a previous chapter, for some reason we
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got a ton of those, which I called out then that
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I thought that was silly. We've got that timeline.
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And then right here at the beginning of the chapter,
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it lets us know, warning, there is a red alert
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occursion into your territory. Enter the flag
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room to see the details. And this is kind of
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like a mini red herring because you think like,
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oh gosh, what's it going to be? What's happening?
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And it's basically a non -event of it's just
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some mobs. Yeah, they just basically have to
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dispatch whoever needs to level up to go deal
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with it. Pretty much. And then it says that...
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They left Imani behind to train in her magic
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room. Mistress Tiatha was showing her some new
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things that she wanted to work on. So basically
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that means that the last chapter, she was there,
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she just didn't say anything. And we had to go
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back and check that. Was she even in the last
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chapter? When did they leave her behind? When
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they first got to the guild hall, they mentioned
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that she was there. But then basically the entire
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conversation with the former crawlers coming
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back in. Imani just didn't say anything. She
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was just there observing, monitoring, doing her
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due diligence. Maybe she was taking notes. I
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don't know. I think it kind of makes sense for
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Imani because I think that she just like kind
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of sits back and absorbs things. Whereas everyone
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else was super confused. Yeah, she is. I feel
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like a bit of a wallflower. Well, I think that
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she's someone who just like stays quiet and processes
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things until she has formed an opinion a lot
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of the time. I think she's very slow to act.
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And I think that. That's something that is very
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useful for their team. Yeah. So they go out through
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a safe room, which is a tiny bait shop, which
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is just big enough for three people and a cat.
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Yeah, and they leave this tiny bait shop safe
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room and come out into the area outside around
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their home base. And we get some nice descriptions
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of the scenery. It sounds very nice. It's these
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rolling meadows with majestic... flowers and
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grass and there's a small lake. Sounds very nice.
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I think it just hit hard because it's miserable
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here right now. It is miserable, but it is 25
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degrees currently while we are recording. Yes.
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I mean, a lot of the U .S. is by the time you
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hear this episode, it's probably going to be
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starting to warm up. But unless you're in Minnesota,
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in which case, I'm sorry. Yeah, but we're recording
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this at the end of January and it's pretty miserable.
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What I wanted to kind of talk about here is basically
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Matt does a lot of world building and a lot of
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descriptions of, you know, the environment and
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the scenery, which I think is common for any
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author to do. But in this, in La Rocos, in the
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fields of action wars, like he makes a point
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of describing how beautiful everything is, even
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this field that their base is in. And I think
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that that's kind of drawing the parallel of what's
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to come. And the destruction of beauty that is
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there. Yeah, definitely. And that's still calling
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back to the cookbook author who lost his shit
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over Loracos getting destroyed. But it says that
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everyone seems like they're working hard but
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having a good time. Everyone's chatting and laughing
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as they're working and building stuff, which
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is nice. Well, I just can't imagine the war stories
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that are getting traded. Yeah, I mean... Obviously,
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you know, they know that they've come into a
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very dangerous situation, but I imagine there
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is a lot of camaraderie of, yeah, being together,
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being around so many former crawlers in one place
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at one time. Being excited to talk about their
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crawl. Their crawl or their experience. Since
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then, like, they have a lot of shared experiences
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and shared trauma to share together, basically.
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And this is probably the largest collection of...
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Former crawlers at one place in the entire history
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of this galaxy, like ever. Yeah, it does seem
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like a good time. Also, testing walls by throwing
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fireballs at them while they are building them
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sounds super fun. Fun and efficient. Very efficient,
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yeah. Which Carl notes that and thinks that is
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very clever and wise to be doing so. They're
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also building multiple towers and burning through
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those build trench scrolls. Which they're using
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all these build trench scrolls, but I'm not really
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clear where they got them from because they don't
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get achievements or loot boxes. So I'm not really
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clear where they got the build trench scrolls
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from and they're very expensive to buy. Well,
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they also said that the shops were pretty wiped
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out. But what I am thinking is that they kind
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of go over some of the experience that the former
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crawlers have later in this episode. They might
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have someone who can create them. Yeah, they
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do mention later like they have some alchemists
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and some engineers and such. So maybe they can
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make them. They did say that like a lot of these
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supplies have been getting made. But being able
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to make... or craft a build Trench Scroll. Sounds
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kind of OP. Well, they said that they had the
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former head of, I believe, the Alchemist Guild.
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Enchantment Guild. Enchantment Guild, yeah. So
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they had the former head of the Enchantment Guild,
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so that might be within his wheelhouse. It could
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be. So Florin is, again, setting up their army
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and assigning roles to everybody, and he does
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find out that there is a limit to how many officers
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they can have. I'm not of... military knowledge
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and expertise. So like having the rankings of
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officers, sergeants, generals, corporals, like
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I'm not very clear on that. But he does say not
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everyone can be an officer. He makes a lot of
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the construction guys and former crawlers, sergeants
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and chief, which allows them to alter the camp.
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Obviously very important for what they're doing.
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And everyone else is a legionnaire, which is
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basically like a ground level like infantry.
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And then corporals are leading individual teams.
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Carl asks here, he's like, it says there's an
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incursion into the territory. And if it tells
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them it's mobs, you know, when they made the
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floor bigger. Now we have some hunting to do,
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but we need to decide who to send because there's
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only so much experience to go around. Yeah, definitely.
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And they need to get some people leveled more
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than others. And this is just kind of a silly
14:06
thing. Rind ate off one of Carl's hair ties.
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This is extremely dangerous for cats, but since
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he's a meatball, he's fine. So at this point,
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they're kind of walking around and everyone starts
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to notice Carl and Donut and people are getting
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excited and they're coming up to greet them.
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Donut gets equal attention this time, so she
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is quite pleased with that, but still bewildered.
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Yeah, like people are coming up and petting Donut,
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which again, like I love that everyone just knows
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like it's okay to like. touch her she's a cat
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pet her totally cool that's what she wants they're
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bowing to her bowing's a little bit weird it's
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again it's it's funny because she's a cat you
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know petting her totally that's normal that's
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what you should be doing bowing to her that's
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a little strange then this gigantic man named
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pin comes up and picks carl up off the ground
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and then gives him a big old bear hug and then
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puts him down and kisses him on both cheeks and
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this gives us the quote of the week which is
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Carl, why is everyone kissing you all of a sudden?
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That's like the third person in an hour. You're
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going to get mono. Donut's kind of on a roll.
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Our quote of the week for next week is also from
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Donut. We've been putting together a list of
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the best quotes and it just keeps getting bigger
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and longer and it's fantastic. I do feel like
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here, Donut's concern of mono, maybe not entirely
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valid, but also I feel like if that did happen,
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it wouldn't be mono. It would be like... Double
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extreme flaming mono of the eyeballs or something.
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She probably shouldn't have mentioned mono in
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front of the eye. Yes. Don't be given that thing
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any ideas. So everyone is starting to gather
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around Carl and Donut. And Penn starts pumping
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his arm up in the air and saying, Hup, hup. And
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then everyone starts doing it. And there's thousands
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of people that are chanting, Hup, hup, hup. And
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Carl has a quote that I want to read, which is,
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The sound was deafening, but it was more, too.
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It was terrifying. The ground shook. I felt a
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deep well of pride at that sound, that chant.
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In less than three days, we'd all be waist -deep
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in blood. A lot of us would be dead. But for
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now, this war cry filled me with hope and power.
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This is another silly digression, but I am like
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really uncomfortable when people start chanting
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like, huh, huh, huh. Like it's just so like masculine
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and weird. And I'm glad from Atlanta where we
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chant ATL ho at stuff. Yes. So at concerts and
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shows and stuff and a lot of other places, they
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go like, oh. or like something like that in Atlanta.
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And we say, ATL, ho, what? ATL, ho. And a lot
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of EDM DJs that come and play shows at Atlanta
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say that they love that we say that. And it's
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one of the reasons they love playing shows at
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Atlanta so much. It's definitely much better
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than the weird and militaristic. chanting so
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yes and just so everyone is aware that mostly
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happens at edm shows and like hip -hop shows
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that's not happening at like punk or like metal
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shows i have never seen it happen at any kind
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of standard concert i would say i've seen it
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happen at some pop shows but that is beside the
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point anyway oh look here we are in a whole new
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conversation after this quote tippet says this
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is for you this is what you built and it's all
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over and back to work All over. Yep. Back to
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work. Everyone starts going about their day,
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doing what they're doing, building fortifications.
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Well, and earlier in the chapter, a wall fell
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over and it got stuck in the ground. So Florin
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summons another crocodile from his card to help.
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And it's huge and really strong. And the card
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system from the eighth floor is over at this
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point. And both Carl and I say, thank God. But
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you can still summon your favorite card for a
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short time, once a day. So the other crocodile
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is Florin's favorite card. He gets the wall taken
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care of. I mean, the crocodile almost single
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-handedly gets it back up in place. And then,
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you know, people come and kind of help put it
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in its final position. And then it does a cute
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little hop before it pops away, which I just
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love that. Yeah, Carl says it's cute like Mongo.
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Very cute. I'm just imagining this like... 26
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foot long gigantic crocodile doing a little hippie
18:38
hop and being all excited that it put a wall
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back up. Very cute. Great mental image. I can't
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wait to see that in the TV show. Woo buddy. Whenever
18:47
that. I hope it gets a full seven seasons. We
18:49
will see. I mean honestly I mean if they did
18:52
one season per book like if we could get seven
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seasons that would be great but honestly like
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with the amount of content that there is I think
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they could stretch a TV show out further than
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that but. You know how it goes with TV shows
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these days. Well, I'm sure Mr. Seth MacFarlane
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will do a great job. I am sure he will. And I
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know Matt has a pretty reasonable level of creative
19:13
input as the author, which he did talk about
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in a panel we were at at DragonCon. So I am optimistic
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on having that knowledge. So the NPCs have been
19:23
working on building the fortifications, but they
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didn't understand the safe room rules. So things
19:28
are having to be adjusted at this point. Yeah,
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they didn't like understand how important the
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safe rooms were. So they didn't like build any
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fortifications, keeping that in mind that they
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need to keep access to the safe room safe and
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secure so that the crawlers aren't cut off from
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that and then be cut off from being able to access
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their personal space or guild halls. They also
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need to be able to land party planner on it.
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Yes. Yeah, being able to have their airport is
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extremely important as well. But luckily they
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have a few. thousand purification engineers and
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they can level up by doing construction. Which
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is extremely handy. We haven't seen any other
20:07
classes that level up via non -combat methods.
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That's not true. Imani levels up from healing.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess that makes sense. I think
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Katya also is able to level while she's building
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things. So I think that there is some precedence
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for this. Yes, definitely. So Tipped, you know,
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kind of keeps... explaining to Carl giving us
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what is it called exposition exposition no I
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like calling it info dumps yes so Tippett is
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info dumping all of this and explaining to Carl
20:38
what's going on so Tippett tells Carl that there
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have been some changes to safe room rules basically
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they are back to the blood bar system and mercenaries
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are not going to have access to Safe rooms and
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then all the former crawlers and the other warlords
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and stuff aren't just going to be able to camp
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out in safe rooms and avoid conflict and just
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hide. Well, nobody can hide out in safe rooms
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because the blood bar rules are back into effect.
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Right. But they do have to have barracks for
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the former crawlers because they cannot go into
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the safe rooms. So those are also currently being
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built. Yes. Yeah. I mean, barracks, they got
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to have somewhere to lay down and sleep and rest
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and recuperate. And Tippett does make a note
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that this is unfortunate because they can't keep
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basically people in reserve and just have them
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kind of back and safe. Carl asks Tippett if he
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is considered a mercenary and Tippett explains,
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yes, he is. They're not going to have access
21:38
to the safe rooms and says Carl should ask their
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adjutant for more details on the specifics of
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that. But he also says that. He only gets level
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notifications and has access to messaging. None
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of the achievements and all that weird stuff.
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Thank the gods. I'm sure that all the former
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crawlers are glad they don't have to put up with
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the insane AI and its unhinged nonsense. That
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definitely seems like a relief for them. Yeah,
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and then Carl kind of gives us some more observations
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about Tepid. He doesn't seem to be several thousand
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years old. He's just goofy and free spirited
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and reminds Carl of his friend Sam that he misses
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a lot. And Carl says that Tippett does seem less
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haunted than he does in his cookbook entries.
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And he seems very relieved about that. He's definitely
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maybe done some therapy in the last several thousand
22:32
years. And I like this point of reference of
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timeline. that Carl says he must be several thousand
22:39
years old because we've definitely like talked
22:42
a few times in prior episodes of like how much
22:44
time has passed. I've said like several hundred
22:46
years or a thousand years, but several thousand
22:49
years is insane. And that's just since Tippid's
22:55
time in the dungeon. And that also gives you
23:00
an interesting timeline of the cookbook. And
23:03
so Carl's the author of the 25th edition of the
23:06
cookbook. And so the cookbook doesn't show up
23:08
every season. Correct. It only shows up occasionally
23:12
when I guess the system AI decides that there
23:17
is someone who kind of meets the criteria of
23:21
the type of personality, the type of person who
23:24
wants to burn it all down, who has that fuck
23:27
you all kind of feeling and personality. Well,
23:31
and I might be wrong, but I think it only shows
23:33
up in Dungeon Crawler World. I don't think it
23:34
shows up in like Battle Royale. Yeah, but still,
23:38
I would guess that there could maybe be like
23:41
10 seasons where the cookbook just doesn't show
23:44
up. And so it is interesting that there's this
23:48
kind of criteria, so to speak, shared between
23:52
different AIs to decide when a crawler is going
23:58
to be chosen to receive the cookbook. It doesn't
24:01
just happen randomly. Yeah, that is interesting.
24:04
Maybe a bit long -winded, but interesting. Yeah,
24:07
we've talked a lot about the different authors
24:09
of the cookbooks and my thought process and opinion
24:12
of it has been developing as we've been recording
24:15
and researching. At first, I was kind of like,
24:17
oh, wow, look at Porthis and Carl. They have
24:21
the same like, fuck you all, burn it all down
24:24
to the ground. But like all of the cookbook authors
24:26
have that. It is a defining characteristic of
24:29
being a cookbook author and being eligible to
24:33
receive it. It is. Where are we going from here
24:35
after yet another digression? But Carl does say
24:39
that if you know where to look for it, you can
24:42
see the tension and anger in Tippett and it's
24:46
just below the surface. I think that's adequate
24:49
or true for everyone, honestly. But it is interesting
24:54
because we see this with a lot of former crawlers
24:57
throughout this book that are hundreds or thousands
24:59
of years old, but they still... behave almost
25:02
like teenagers in some cases, which I find very
25:05
interesting. Well, you know, there is a theory
25:07
in our society, which is that people stop maturing
25:12
once they get famous. So like they say people
25:15
like Tom Cruise are permanently stuck at 21,
25:17
which is when he, you know, really blew up as
25:20
an actor because they're not really forced to
25:22
grow after that. Yeah. I mean, you're not forced
25:24
to grow. And there's also I can't say exactly
25:28
how much of this is. true in you know the universe
25:31
of dungeon crawler carl but as a tom cruise for
25:34
example or other famous actor you also have this
25:38
expectation of like what people know you for
25:41
and so there's kind of this sense of feeling
25:44
like you need to stick to this certain personality
25:47
type so i think both those things you know are
25:50
factors in that i do i also think that carl has
25:53
been on a digression here just like we often
25:56
go on digressions So they're back to talking
25:59
about safe room rules. And so basically the rules
26:03
change of reinstituting the blood bars has hurt
26:08
the operatics and the Naga the most is they like
26:12
to hide as opposed to actually fighting. Yeah,
26:15
we don't really see this hurt them directly too
26:18
much. You know, at least in the case of the Nagas,
26:20
I don't think it interferes with their plans.
26:23
Might have gone differently from them if they
26:25
could hide. Who knows? Yeah, at least some of
26:27
them. Because they get to some of the Nagas a
26:29
little bit easier than the others, a .k .a. the
26:33
sepsis whore. Yeah, and of course, as soon as
26:37
someone mentions the Naga, Carl wants to go after
26:39
them first. He's like, all right, speaking of
26:42
which, we need to focus in on them first. And
26:44
Tippin's like, yeah, yeah, I figured you'd say
26:46
that. Yeah, but we need to be a little bit more
26:48
strategic than that. We know that's what you
26:51
want. They've got some good theories as to how
26:55
to approach that, but not relevant to start getting
26:58
into that right now. And then Mongo starts acting
27:01
kind of weird, making some weird noises. He's
27:04
kind of moving around strange and donuts like,
27:06
Carl, what did you do? Why is Mongo acting weird?
27:08
And then they find big ass door and the amount
27:12
of detail that they go into about how big this
27:17
door is, is a little insane. Yes. Carl says it
27:21
looked. as if it'd been hammered into shape by
27:24
a blind and drunk metalsmith, which I love that
27:27
description. And they go into AI gives a whole
27:30
description of cumbersome door. These are in
27:33
the enchantments that has blah, blah, blah, blah,
27:35
blah. And I do think that part of that is explaining
27:39
the mechanics of fortifications of their base,
27:42
like how these things work. And with the enchantments,
27:45
that is very important for the rest of this book,
27:48
because those things do come into play to a very
27:51
In a very serious way. Definitely. It's still
27:53
funny when you're dealing with an actual chapter,
27:56
though, that has like a page and a half detailing
27:58
Cavagadoras. Yeah. And how hard it is to open.
28:01
Yeah. But they do get it open. They sure do.
28:05
And as Pippet and Carl are grunting to open it,
28:08
Carl says that Rend is on his shoulder and he
28:11
is also making grunting noises as if he is helping,
28:14
which is flippin' adorable. That is very adorable.
28:17
Super cute. He is a big help, okay? So the doors
28:21
are trying to get them open. And then all of
28:23
a sudden they burst open and big Tina comes out.
28:28
And everyone's like, oh shit, she's out again.
28:32
Well, one would think that solving the quest
28:34
would mean that she'd be less of a problem than
28:36
she was before. I mean, she is. She doesn't come
28:38
out and just start eating everyone. She's just
28:39
hopping around and being excited, which is totally
28:43
valid. It is very valid. And that's where this
28:46
chapter ends. Next chapter is going to be a lot
28:49
of fun. And with that, this chapter comes to
28:52
a close and we look forward to having you join
28:55
us next week when Baroness Victory finally makes
28:58
an appearance. Yay, she's my favorite character.
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