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The Hell-Kissed Potion (Chapter 4) · 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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art to entertain people. But we are trying our
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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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this podcast until you have finished book seven.
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We will not be discussing anything from Patreon
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or the Pineapple Cabaret. There are spoilers
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from this point forward. Be warned. Hey, Donut
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said as all the boxes lined up behind me. I saw
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that last one. That was a celestial. I grinned.
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I did get one. I got it when I was in the Demon's
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Fist. Well, I got two benefactor boxes, Donut
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said with a harumph. I reached over and scratched
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her. Yes, you did. You're going to be our secret
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weapon. So much for that self -growth, huh? Donut
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definitely goes back and forth in this book a
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lot between the very serious and matured warlord
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and then the very silly and vapid version of
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herself as well. Yeah, I mean, self -growth is
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in a linear line. I think there is more to talk
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about with Donut going back and forth between
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being serious and her more shallow, superficial
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version of herself. She does use this as a coping
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mechanism. Yeah, I mean, we see a lot of coping
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mechanisms in these books. Katya's drug use,
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Carl's really poorly thought out rash decisions.
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So being a little bitchy in the grand scheme
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of things is not the worst reaction to this situation.
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But Jonah was primarily owned by Miss Beatrice,
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who we know was kind of a horrible person. And
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definitely that's where these super judgmental
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takes come from. Definitely. And I mean, just
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the nature of her being a show cat, obviously,
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all of that is about appearance and putting your
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best foot forward. So it makes sense that this
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is the way that she copes. Getting prizes for
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doing so. Yeah. And this is the mask that she
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has to wear because. You're obsessed with the
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damn mask. Well, I think it's really important.
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And, you know, that scene in that part of that
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book where they're talking about it was just
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such a gut wrenching scene. I get it, but we
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can't talk about it every episode. Yeah, we can.
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We're going to keep going back to it. Another
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coping mechanism. I don't know if you'd quite
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call it a coping mechanism, but Donut uses Mongo
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as her scapegoat for saying when she's scared
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or uncomfortable. You're upsetting Mongo. She
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means herself. It is my favorite, and I've started
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doing that at home, and I've started using our
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cat Salem for that, and I'll tell you. She does.
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And I'll be like, you're upsetting Salem. And
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I didn't realize that that's what she was doing
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when she was saying you're upsetting Mongo. And
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Bree pointed that out to me a couple of weeks
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ago and it just clicked. I was like, oh, OK,
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that makes sense. There is always going to be
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some back and forth on it. But here we are in
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chapter four and we are opening more boxes. That's
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what these first couple of chapters mostly consist
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of. But it is a lot of setup. for the entire
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series, especially with the really powerful spells
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that they're getting here that do play a really
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important role throughout the book. Yeah, and
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there's a lot of stuff that they need to have,
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so it's not building plot holes later. So they
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build trench scrolls, invisibility scrolls, size
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up both scrolls and potions, which Carl finds
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to be a bit weird. Emergency repair, which Carl
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says he gets for some strange reason, which I'm
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like, come on, Carl. I think we know why you're
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going to need that. Yeah. And I mean, those emergency
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repair scrolls definitely come in handy later
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and they actually hold on to them and only use
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them in like super important scenarios because
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they're actually super valuable and rare. So
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there's actually a couple of points where they're
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talking about like, should we use this right
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now? No, no, no. We should use that for something
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more important later. Yeah. And Carl does get
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a fan box, which has a ammo in holster for his
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dad's clock. And Donut comments, wow, they do
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not know you very well, do they, Carl? And yeah,
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this is definitely kind of a mean thing that
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the fans are doing here, which is stated several
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times that fans usually do stuff like that. They
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do. And I think that's kind of like common for
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fans to be trolls towards crawlers with these
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fan boxes. But it seems like the boxes that Donut
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gets are usually really awesome. And then Carl's
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usually are kind of trollish, which just shows
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you like. people like Carl and want to follow
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what he's doing, but they're also kind of like,
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haha, let's fuck him over. Whereas Donut's fans
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seem to genuinely love her and want to give her
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things that she likes. Well, to be fair, Carl
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never does anything to really appreciate his
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fans or engage with them. He mildly tolerates
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them at best. Yeah, he's like, uh, thanks, I
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guess. Which is fair for kind of a fuck you gift,
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but you know. Definitely Donut has a more cultivated
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relationship with her fans and that does improve
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her boxes. It does. She has the Princess Posse
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and Donut Holes fan clubs. I don't think that
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there's ever any like Carl specific fan clubs.
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Is there even any like merch with Carl on it?
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So I don't think there's merch with his face
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on it, but the AI does at some point watch out
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or those heart shaped boxers all over the universe
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are going to go on clearance. Which is one of
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my favorite lines. Which is definitely what happened
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at DragonCon this year. I think those must have
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been on clearance because there was just a ton
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of people wearing them for some reason. I don't
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think it had to do with it being on clearance,
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Carl. Okay, so let's talk about Chekhov's gun.
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You put this in the notes and I was like, what
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is that? So tell me what this is. Okay, so Chekhov's
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gun is the concept of if you are writing a play,
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TV show, a movie. and you see someone pick up
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and handle a gun, the gun has to go off by the
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end of the movie. Why? Otherwise, it's a red
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herring. Okay. So the idea is that you don't
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allude to something like that unless you're going
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to use it. However, these books have a lot of
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inversions of tropes. Okay. And as of now, this
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gun has not been used. I have a feeling that
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it maybe never is. I mean, he says right here
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that he... never intends to pull it out of his
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inventory let alone use it he might end up in
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a situation where he doesn't have a choice just
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kind of some more things to say about it so there
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is a lot of tv shows books that the main character
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doesn't use guns and that's kind of for a lot
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of reasons in buffy they don't use guns notoriously
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batman doesn't use guns and In the Dungeon Crawler
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Carl universe, they definitely do use guns. They
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use guns a lot. They have lots of guns on their
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towers. But as you said, they're kind of more
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like laser guns. Yeah, they're more like spell
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cannons or that sort of thing. I mean, Florin
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has his shotgun. He does. And that is interesting.
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And I am looking forward to learning more about
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that. There are definitely some theories. about
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his shotgun. Mordecai comments that he suspects
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Florin's shotgun might even be sentient, which
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is an interesting theory. And I know that's going
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to become relevant at some point, I'm sure. Definitely.
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And I do just want to add that there was a humorous
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line in here that you can't conceal carry if
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you don't have pants. Right. With his dad's gun,
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like I think even if he did want to use it, it's
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just a normal gun. I think it would be kind of
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like the equivalent of using his slingshot that
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he has early on in the books. it wouldn't be
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effective. Not powered by trauma? Correct. The
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next box that Carl ends up getting is the, I
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have the conch box, and he gets some surefires,
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which are an awesome upgrade he's been needing
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to build rockets. This helps with the aim and
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targeting abilities of the rockets, which obviously
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is going to be super helpful. Not a whole lot
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to really comment on with this one, though. Let's
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keep moving. So the next... thing that he gets
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is a punch card in the shape of a foot. And it's
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for picking up a celestial item off the floor.
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Which is Quan's cloak. And he has one out of
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five punches now. Right. And we did talk about
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that last episode, but I am really curious to
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know what that's going to be when he gets all
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five punches. Maybe this is just a MacGuffin.
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For sure. And then they got a gold pet box. Donut
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was very suspicious of this. She's like, You
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didn't get that because of hurting Mongo, did
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you? That's very inappropriate. Yeah, but he
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gets pet biscuits and 500 gold off one item at
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Petscapes, which Carl has never heard of. Carl
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has never heard of, but I have a suspicion this
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is going to come up in the future. Not in this
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book, though. So he gets the Serendal Gore box,
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which I think is just really messed up and dark
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that the AI. Gave this to both Carl and Donut.
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It's really dark. I know that System AI has a
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messed up sense of humor, but this one I think
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is pretty bad. But he does get supplies for an
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automation table and parts for a fabricator,
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which are things Carl had been wanting. Well,
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so I think a fabricator is like a specific tool,
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kind of like that item he gets early on that
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lets him like shape different materials into
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shapes. So he's always very excited whenever
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he gets anything for his automaton table. Throughout
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the series, Carl creates and fabricates things
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much more than really any other crawler. That
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remains true up until this inevitable ruin where
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Katya starts making a lot of stuff for use by
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other crawlers and the army during faction wars.
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I think part of that is having Mordecai as a
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manager. And I think that they kind of feed off
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of each other with pushing each other to make
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more stuff with Carl with his explosive type
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stuff and then Mordecai with his potions. Definitely.
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Also, I think the cookbook plays a huge role
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in Carl making things. Definitely. We are about
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to talk about potions so much in just a few minutes
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here. Oh my God, all the potions. Well, it's
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really just one potion, but it's very important.
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Okay, moving on. Platinum Hell in a Hand Basketbox.
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It's just a great name. He gets a small patch
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for his Daughter's Kiss vest. It's a Spider Reaper
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minion. Donut thinks it's Shemaria, but it's
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just a regular Spider Reaper. Mordecai says that
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that patch gives you access to somewhere Carl
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needs to stay out of. And Donut says, never tell
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Carl that. Right. If you're going to tell Carl
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to stay out of somewhere, not do something, you
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have to let her do it. Next, he gets the legendary
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Hell Comes to Crawlertown box. And this is a
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set of unenchanted bagpipes, which goes hand
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in hand with the kilt that Donut gets. Yeah,
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this is a weird throwaway that hasn't come back
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yet. And Donut asks if they know anyone who plays
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bagpipes. And Carl's like. God, I hope not. With
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this box, they do get some very useful upgrades,
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though. They get three third -tier personal space
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upgrade coupons, plus a fourth one, which is
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in a different color. That's a talent upgrade
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that they're going to need for their castle.
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These coupons are extremely valuable. It's great
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that Carl gets these in a box, because purchasing
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these outright would be, gosh, like millions
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and millions of coins, I'm sure. Yeah. And then
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next up is the legendary spicy box, which is
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shaped like a strawberry for some reason. And
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what's in the spicy box? So Carl gets his special
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toe ring, which we're actually going to break
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down here in a couple minutes. I was wondering
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if the box being in the shape of a strawberry
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was a joke or reference of some kind, but he
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does not seem to think so. And I can't come up
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with anything for that. Now, if it's supposed
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to be spicy, then it's over my head. Right. So
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Carl does get. his celestial heavy metal box
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which comes from being touched by amion and surviving
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and this box is awesome you want to read it or
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do you want me to it's a lot to read but so it
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came moving through the room towards me it came
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in the form of a full -sized drum kit with pyrotechnics
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exploding out both sides the twin bass drums
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contained the face of amion on each one An ethereal
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demon creature sat behind the kit, practically
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running on the bass pedals, filling the room
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with a constant speed metal style rhythm as he
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did a roll on the snare drums. The pyrotechnics
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exploded again as Mongo screeched in fear, waving
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his starting to reform chicken wing in the air.
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The drum set exploded and 666 appeared in the
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air in the smoke before dissipating with a little
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electric guitar twaddle and then I got one potion.
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So it's a glittering potion in a bottle shaped
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like a horned skull. There was a little handwritten
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note tied around the top that read, Drink me.
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Alice in Wonderland reference. Followed by what
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appeared to be a drawing of a demon hand giving
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the devil horn symbol. So Donut is like, what?
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What is this? And is very unimpressed. But Mordecai
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is absolutely freaking stupid about this. Donut's
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not impressed unless there's accessories. No.
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Only if there's accessories. And the AI comments,
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if we're going to do this, we want all of you
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fuckers as deadly as possible. Hence this prize.
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It's time to bring out your inner demon. It says
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that drinking this potion will give you a random
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level 10 to 15 celestial tier skill. This skill
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will be combat based and it will be something
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you don't already have. This potion is hell kissed.
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That means this skill will be any combat -based
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skill from any Sheol -level mob level 200 or
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higher. Go ahead and drink it. Do it. Do it.
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And the potion talks too. Yes, but every time
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Sheol comes up or any demons of Sheol come into
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the realm, like, it is a big freaking deal. And
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it just makes me wonder, like, how hard of a
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level the Sheol's floor must be. I know no crawler
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has ever made it down there and it just kind
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of exists and it's never changed season to season.
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But like, it's just got to be a freaking nightmare
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trying to get through that floor. Yeah, definitely.
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And speaking of never made it. So this is the
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first time that Mordecai has gotten to examine
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a potion like this. And he is so excited and
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just absolutely losing his mind. He is. And it's
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like, is he this excitable because he's Canadian
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now? I always thought Canadians were depressed.
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We do not agree with Donut's views on Canadians.
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No, but he takes this potion and he wants to
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go check it out. I feel like every time he gets
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a new potion that he's excited about and he wants
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to go into his room and examine it, it's like,
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I'll be in my bunk. Yeah, and Carl tells Donut
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to be a little chill on making fun of Mordecai
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just because this is so exciting for him and
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he's wanted for so long. Right, like he's been
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waiting hundreds and hundreds of years to finally
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have the ability. to examine potions to this
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degree and learn how he can make them. And he
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says that he can make this potion with a couple
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more upgrades to his table, which is going to
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be hard because it's already at such a high level.
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Upgrading it more is going to be so expensive.
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Yeah, but he said that the ingredients would
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be expensive and rare. Right, which I feel like
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is every powerful potion at this point. The potion
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says, drink me, drink me deep, put me inside
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of you. Mordecai says that's how you know you
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got a good potion. And the tone of voice that
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the potion is using sounds pretty sexual and
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erotic in the audiobook version. So Carl decides
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he's going to drink this potion manually, which
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was a mistake because it tasted like ass. I don't
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know why Carl keeps deciding to drink potions
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manually because every time he does, it tastes
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terrible. He just doesn't want it smashed on
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his ass. He can put it in his inventory and drink
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it there. I know, but he gained the level 13
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ability, which is the gloom wraith phase. And
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that's able to quickly pass through stuff in
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short bursts. And when he levels it, he is able
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to pass through corporeal objects while holding
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a weapon. Mm hmm. Right. Says any biological
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entity that is unarmored against non corporeal
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attacks is scrambled. So, yeah, this is a good
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spell, but it's also really gross. Carl, of course,
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uses this a couple times later in the book, and
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he notes when he does it that it unravels people
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or turns them to ribbons, kind of like the rage
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elemental from the first floor. It's just crazy
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that at that time that monster was of such unimaginable
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power, and now... He's at the point where he's
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doing that to mobs and enemies. Yeah, it's crazy.
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And they just do point out here again that phasing
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is dangerous. Right. Like every time any kind
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of phasing, teleporting, being able to pass through
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walls, etc. Mordecai's like, hey, that's really
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dangerous. You need to be careful with this.
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You might get stuck inside of something and cut
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yourself in half. So surely that's going to happen
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to someone at some point, right? Maybe. So next,
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Carl gets the enchanted toe ring of the well
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balance, which must be equipped on the left pinky
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toe. And the AI says, do not test me on this.
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It represents balance, which the AI says sounds
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like some yoga bullshit, but it's going to save
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his ass because you're too dumb to realize how
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much danger you're in. Yes, which is foreshadowing
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about she Maria. He gets a couple of skills from
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this. He gets heart balance, which allows him
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to. save a auto -trigger potion if his health
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reaches a certain criteria, and this does save
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his ass later in the book. He also gets mind
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balance, which gives him protection from enslavement
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and conscription, and he gets physical balance,
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which gives him extra steady and the walk -on
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-air skill. So the mind balance skill is, I think,
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what is really important here and does come up
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in a that she Maria is constantly trying to cast
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spells like bloom wraith phase and he sees notifications
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that are popping up hundreds and hundreds of
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times but this mind balance is what's stopping
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she Maria from getting to go through and it basically
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levels up to level 10 because she is constantly
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trying to spam spells yeah and speaking of she
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Maria Carl is very confused because it says that
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he has the walk on air skill and he knows he
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doesn't have that But it turns out that he got
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it by eating an eye. Lee Joon's eye. He's pretty
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upset about that and tries to reach out to Lee
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Joon to apologize and talk to him about it, but
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he doesn't respond. Which later in the episode,
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Lee Joon does respond and he's not mad. Everyone's
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just busy opening their boxes at this point.
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And Lee Joon does get a pretty cool replacement
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eye. So next up, he gets his upgrade patch. It
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depicts a traveling reaper spider. minion merchant
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the ai is like hey these guys are known for their
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sense of humor and i highly recommend the first
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thing you do the next time you meet one is to
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insult them they'll love it this patch gives
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him access to the midnight market only if the
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desperado club gets fixed but the midnight market
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carl never goes to in the book well he hasn't
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gone yet and i do just want to say that structurally
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sometimes these descriptions can be a little
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hard for us trying to podcast because they will
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open the box saying that they got something,
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but the actual description of the item won't
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be for a couple of pages. The Midnight Market,
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though, is relevant later in the book because
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that is where the War Mages take the Gate of
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the Feral Gods after they've used it how they
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needed to and trade it with a merchant named
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Paka in exchange for the level 18 conscription
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potions that allows Li Na to conscript. gods
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into their armies. And just a reminder that like
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all patches installing them increases all of
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Carl's stats all across the board because of
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his scavenger's daughter patch. So once they
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finish going through all of Carl's new upgrades
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and skills and we went through all of Donut's
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upgrades and skills and spells from the last
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chapter Mordecai stops and is like you guys have
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always been really powerful especially for your
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levels but like You guys are some of the scariest,
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most powerful bastards that I've ever worked
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with, including some who made it through to the
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11th floor. And Carl's like, good, because we
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have eight armies to kill. And I think the happiness
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that Carl has with getting these new skills and
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upgrades is very fleeting because he realizes
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that everyone is getting that. And that includes
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the other armies. Right. This did make me think
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of a part from the hunting grounds floor that
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I was listening to the other day where. Carl's
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at CrawlCon and he's talking to Vrah's mother
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and he's like, you should have thought about
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that before you sent your daughters into my dungeon.
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And like, it's just freaking badass. I love how
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absolutely confident and cocky he can be sometimes.
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I actually don't think that's really related
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to that chapter. I think you've just been loving
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that quote for the last two days and wanted to
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work that in. I didn't say it was related, but
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this kind of like confidence he has of being
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like, OK, cool, we have eight armies to kill
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is kind of reminiscent of that quote. Yeah, but
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I think he says that and then, you know, he just
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immediately has a like, oh, shit, like. Right.
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I also wanted to say here with Mordecai commenting
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on how powerful they are now, that only multiplies
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by the end of the book, especially with Donut.
22:10
Yeah, definitely. So they do need to get to that
22:13
whole killing the armies business. So they need
22:16
to start. Do they kill the armies? Mixed bag,
22:19
I would say. I think they kill pretty much all
22:22
of them. Some of them just self -destruct. Yeah.
22:25
Yeah. They need to start recruiting and getting
22:27
officers, trying to get all the crawlers on the
22:30
same team and trying to get them to join them.
22:32
There is notably someone who does not want to
22:35
be involved in Carl's army at this point. Carl
22:38
doesn't quite know that yet. This whole process
22:40
of assigning generals and officers and setting
22:44
up their battalions and everything like it's
22:46
really complex and it really feels like the military.
22:50
And they are so lucky to have Lauren helping
22:53
out with all that because he we don't know what
22:56
he was doing before the dungeon, but he obviously
22:58
has some kind of experience with this. I certainly
23:01
enjoy the theories on what he was doing before
23:03
the dungeon, but we are not going to discuss
23:05
that here. Right. There is the Florin book that
23:08
is going to be coming out when? I was told that
23:11
I should probably expect to actually get it in
23:13
about two years, but I am signed up for the Kickstarter.
23:16
Yay. I can't wait for that. And I also can't
23:19
wait for in a couple of chapters now when Carl
23:23
learns about all of the former crawlers coming
23:26
into the dungeon. We do have a cute little comic
23:29
relief stuff going on here. So Donut is trying
23:31
on her cape in front of the mirror and practicing
23:34
how it twirls, which she is happy with. And very
23:38
satisfied with it. It does meet her expectations.
23:40
Yeah. And then a little bit more in Carl's hair
23:43
saga, which there's some very funny stuff in
23:46
here. So Carl says his views are spiked and he
23:49
thinks something is going to go wrong with this
23:51
hair tonic that he has. It's because it says
23:54
that you have to follow the instructions perfectly,
23:57
but the instructions are confusing as fuck. Right.
24:01
It's funny here because Donut is telling Carl
24:03
that he has to be on top of his physical appearance
24:07
as the top crawler. And she says, believe me,
24:10
when I was number one, it was a terrible burden.
24:13
My physical appearance was a priority. And Carl
24:16
says, you were number one for like five minutes.
24:19
And she responds, I was number one for the entirety
24:21
of the seventh floor. Thank you very much. With
24:24
the hair tonic, Carl ends up deciding that he's
24:27
going to have Katya do it because of her monster
24:29
truck class. She's really good at these sort
24:31
of things. And I do wonder if Katya end up going
24:35
a different route, if she would be really good
24:38
or even better than Carl is at making bombs and
24:41
gadgets and such. Carl starts wondering what
24:44
is holding Katya up. Oh my God, we finally get
24:48
to talk about other characters. We're nine episodes
24:50
in and we get to talk about somebody besides
24:53
Carl and Donut. As good as they are. Definitely
24:56
the whole gang is what makes these books really
24:59
awesome. So we're glad to have everyone else
25:01
coming back in. So Carl starts trying to figure
25:04
out what's going on and why Kati isn't here yet.
25:07
Louie says that they are having a bit of a delay
25:09
because they have run into Samantha and Samantha
25:11
is doing Samantha things. And they said that
25:15
she is running around screaming and Katia is
25:17
trying to catch her. But Samantha is rolling
25:20
around and Samantha rolls really fast. Thankfully,
25:23
she's not flying right now. Katia says like she's
25:26
got to catch her soon because otherwise the guards
25:28
are going to get involved, which is not going
25:29
to be a good time for anybody. So Samantha is
25:32
trying to find Tish, who is in the college, presumably,
25:35
screaming that she is going to kill her. And
25:38
Carl forgets who the hell Tish is. And Jonah's
25:41
like, oh, you forgot about Tish. Come on, Carl.
25:44
And I also kind of forgot who Tish was. And so
25:48
I had to go back to Gate of the Feral Gods. So
25:52
she is the ex -girlfriend of Ghazi, who is the
25:55
sorcerer in the Sand Pyramid Castle. from Tish
26:01
from a letter that she wrote to him, which is
26:03
just fantastic. She says, Ghazi, you fucking
26:07
idiot. I told you this was going to happen. The
26:09
second I found you with that thing, I knew you
26:11
were beyond saving. You have ruined everything.
26:14
I hope it was worth it. Skolopendra will never
26:16
be defeated now. We needed that artifact, the
26:19
winding box. And all you could think about was
26:22
your cock. I will never forgive you. I was here
26:24
the whole time, but I guess I wasn't enough.
26:26
Fuck you. I hope you die in pain. Do the right
26:29
thing. And we will talk more about Tish and Ghazi
26:32
eventually, but that might be in three years,
26:35
the way that recording this podcast is going
26:37
at this point. So they get into the safe room
26:41
and it's a little bit more delayed because everybody's
26:43
opening their boxes, which I think we're going
26:45
to talk about more boxes in the next chapter.
26:47
But we're also definitely talking about more
26:50
hair potion, but we get some great Samantha quotes
26:53
in this one. This episode has been a little quote
26:56
heavy, either because we had a lot of great,
26:59
hilarious quotes or we had some stuff that was
27:01
going to come back later. So we wanted to quote
27:04
it directly. But Samantha says, somebody tell
27:07
this doppelganger bitch to let me go or I will
27:10
kill her mother and uninvite her to my bachelorette
27:12
party. Donut says, she's saving you for your
27:15
own good. Tell Katya thank you. Never. I am a
27:18
scorned woman and my need for revenge is the
27:20
only thing I know. And I will not be denied this.
27:23
Tell her to release me so I can exact my vengeance
27:25
against my arch enemy, Tish. Donut ends up luring
27:28
her back by saying Samantha can see her new cloak
27:31
and Samantha is very okay with that. And then
27:34
she asks, has Carl shown Donut his new tummy
27:38
acher? And she says that Carl promised that Samantha
27:41
could name him. Yes. And that's how the chapter
27:46
ends with Donut being like, I'm sorry, what?
27:49
Yeah, it's a great place to end. And we are so
27:51
excited to be back with you next week. We are
27:54
really looking forward to it. Pretty much every
27:56
chapter from here on out just starts ramping
27:59
up. Yeah, and we definitely don't want to be
28:01
a book report podcast. But I think now that we
28:04
have gotten through the spells and boxes portion,
28:06
we can be a bit less so. Yeah, we definitely
28:09
want to cover everything in a chapter, but not
28:11
everything that we bring up is necessarily something
28:14
that we're going to dive into and explore in
28:16
detail and talk about. theories and relevance
28:18
and so on. Yeah, but we've both looked up spells
28:21
more times than we can count later on in the
28:24
book. So it's definitely important to us to go
28:28
ahead and make sure that we're really fleshing
28:30
out, you know, what the possibilities are with
28:32
them when they're introduced. Right. It's a lot
28:34
to keep up with. I don't know how Matt does it.
28:36
Probably a Google sheet. New achievement. You've
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