The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Chapters 27-29

If you'd like to get these episodes early AND ad-free, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron, or just follow us as a free member for updates!
Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode!
These are the chapters where Carl & Co. begin executing their plan to help the other crawlers, using portals that they've affixed to the front of trains. It's a pretty genius idea, although...there are a few hiccups.
Thanks so much to you all for listening, and I will see you all again soon with a new episode!
Wanna talk spoilers? Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/rEF2KfZxfV

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me
covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book three, The Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook,
chapters twenty seven, twenty eight, and twenty nine. In these chapters,
this plan Carl has come up with is low key brilliant.

(00:27):
Maybe I could say even high key brilliant. But I
knew after I saw how successful it was going to
be that they would get nerfed. I knew it. We
can't win. That's the thing, the whole point, right, I
hate this place. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the

(01:07):
show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to
Michael for commissioning this episode, and Michael is here in
the chat with me. While I really appreciate it, I really, guys,
I just wanted to start this off by letting you
all know that. Sorry. I just saw in the chat
Rob say. I'm always appreciative for the recap because I

(01:29):
have no self control and have totally finished another read
through in the series and then I have to ask, wait,
what are you covering today? This is something that I
It's funny because you know, reading ahead as many people
wind up doing, I would absolutely not be able to
keep pace with this show recreationally. I can do it

(01:51):
professionally if I am being paid, I will do what
I need to do, But I can't imagine doing it
just for the fun of reading along with me. The
people who do that are like superhuman. If you have
the option to just read ahead, what are you waiting for?
Just do it? Just oh my god, just do it. However,

(02:12):
I will say that, like what Rob is describing, not
only am I gonna be like lost when I go back,
but as somebody who is going bit by bit, I
will sometimes start an episode and be like, oh God,
what happened these chapters? It's like I just I actually

(02:32):
read this section almost the whole section twice. I didn't
quite have enough time to finish the second reread, and
I will often have moments of starting an episode and
just being like, every single bit of detail just leaves
my brain. It's like somebody pulled the plug on a
bathtub and it just drains the fuck out. So, yeah,

(02:53):
I get it. Michael says, I've been sticking to the chapters,
but this is my third time through the series. Yeah, yeah,
I want to reread this different but this is so
really quick. Before I get started, guys. I just wanted
to let you all know something that I am currently
working on, which is creating some separate feeds on my

(03:17):
Spreaker account, which is what I use to distribute my
podcast to other sources. You know. This is how it
goes out to Apple and Spotify and iHeartRadio. If it's
something current and there's a list on Spreaker, that's like,
distribute your podcast on Deezer, on podcast Addict, on wad pod,

(03:42):
on rip cast. I'm making these up at this point,
but it's like a list of ten and I have
not heard of almost any of them, and you could
just click like distribute, and then it does it, or
it submits it to get approved potentially. I have been
up until now just using one big feed to post

(04:05):
these episodes publicly, the big spoil Me feed, and I
maintained that it was not going to happen that I
made a separate feed for everything I cover and spoil Me,
but I forgot about the fact that I think maybe
only Apple, but it's potentially other podcasts as well. Can
only go back one thousand episodes, and anything further back

(04:29):
than that doesn't appear on the feed for people to
even listen to well. I had almost twice that just
on the spoil me feed, so that wasn't going to work.
People were trying to go and listen to old stuff
and they couldn't even find the episodes. So I have
been making separate feeds for a lot of finished stuff,
and I'm also making it for bigger series that are

(04:51):
ongoing that I am confident I'm actually going to get
to finish, and I'm going to make a separate feed
for Dungeon Crawler Carl. So I will alert you'll on
Patreon with the new RSS feeds if that's the way
that you want to do it. But also once I
post the RSS feed, trust that I have also submitted

(05:11):
it to whatever distribution and that if it isn't already
showing for you on whatever podcast you use, it will
almost certainly be showing for you in a day or two.
So if you are following along and you're like suddenly going,
why are the episodes not on the feed anymore, It's
because I moved them. It is not that I am

(05:32):
starting a new feed and reposting those episodes. They are
also I am taking the episodes out of the spoil
me feed. And moving them to the new feed, and
I will also be posting a little like info dump
about this, but I will say here every time I
post an episode to spoil me feed, I choose where

(05:55):
the ads go, and I have to just find a
decent spot where I have like take a break in
whatever my thought was, where it feels like I can
insert an ad here and it's not completely irritating. But
when I move the episodes to a new feed, all
of the ads that I inserted manually are deleted. So

(06:19):
either I can go through every single episode that I'm
moving and manually re add every advertisement in individually, which
is an insane amount of work, or I can just
click the ad advertisements button that speaker enables, and one

(06:42):
of those I am absolutely not doing, which is manual.
And also I would have to just turn off ad
optimization in the meantime, which means no income for ads
at all at that time, and the other means it's
all done automatically, which is great for me, but I
will acknowledge it kind of sucks for y'all because I

(07:02):
know for a fact that they will insert ads mid sentence.
They will just you know, and I apologize, they only
gave me these two really shitty options, and I am
making the I'm choosing the one that is easiest for me,
because overall, I think that the convenience of having a

(07:23):
separate feed is worth it. But just FYI, guys, I'm
sorry if you started listening and you're just like, these
ads are so irritating. I know I hate it just
as much as you do. Just know that I think
that if you're listening through them all that you're a
hero and that you are helping me with income. And

(07:44):
if you're not listening through them and just fast forwarding,
that's also what I would do, So no blame to
you for that. Just to please bear with me, y'all,
because like, it's not easy out here trying to make money,
and sometimes you just gotta do shit that irritates you
just as much is your customer, and it always sucks
when you're put in that position. But everything from when

(08:05):
I make the feed forward, I will still be inserting manually,
so everything from there it will be back to normal,
with the usual number of ads placed, probably way better
than they had been. I just wanted to give you
guys an explanation. So after all of that, now we
will get started. So oh yeah, sorry, Rob is in

(08:27):
the chat saying and if this bothers your listeners, they
should sign up for the Patreon and come join us
at the recording. Yeah, guys, Like, honestly, if you sign
up on my patreon dot com slash and spoiled for
a dollar, you will get these ads early and without
get these ads, get these episodes early and without ads

(08:48):
one single dollar. So if you are that irritated, put
your money where your mouth is. And that's that good point, Rob.
So okay, let's let's start at the beginning. This poor
fucking growler Gary getting his hands chopped off. We find

(09:09):
out later that we still don't even have enough hands,
which is really just rude, and we have this like
ongoing coordination that is happening that I personally am loving
right now. I don't know what other people feel about it,

(09:30):
because sometimes it can be a little bit surprising the
reaction that folks have. And I am I'm always someone
who prefers dialogue. I have an easier time focusing on it.
I really enjoy analyzing it. I like figuring out what

(09:51):
a character is like, but also what they're trying to
accomplish here. You know, the way that people talk. I
find kind of fascinating. If a character really good at
giving different people a different sort of voice, it can
be so enjoyable. So when there's a lot of back
and forth in messages in this book, I always really

(10:14):
have a fun time with it because it just feels
like I'm getting more dialogue than we had been getting.
You know, there were there used to be mostly action
and just dialogue between him and Doughnut, because those are
the only people that we ever saw. It was a
while before he ran into anybody. Then he ran into
folks and departed from them again, and they were on

(10:35):
their own. And so now that we've got a bunch
of other crawlers that are in his chat and trying
to create this plan with him, it's just making more
opportunities for that, which I am a sucker for. Also
this whole thing. So I'm gonna I'm trying to figure
out the uh, the main plan here. We had a

(11:00):
portal straight to the Abyss. We'd been brainstorming alternate plans
in case this didn't work, but so far everything that
seemed viable at first kept fizzling out. None of our
plans were feasible, especially since there were so many people
trapped there. We couldn't use a flyer to go through
the portal and bring hats. We tried a rope attached
to a weight, with thoughts maybe we could dangle a

(11:22):
bag over the hole and Batista's crew could try something
to get to it. But the moment we started to
feed the test rope into the portal, the rope went
tight for half a second and then started to tingle. Surprised,
I dropped it and the whole thing disappeared. I was
lucky I hadn't gotten dragged in with it. We decided
to stop experimenting after that, and then we'd get an

(11:44):
excerpt from the cookbook where this person explains every portal
seems to be different. There are some that are like doors,
and you can walk by them without knowing they're there.
You have to touch them. Sometimes you have to put
your whole hand through. Sometimes you can just get pulled.

(12:06):
Sometimes you can break free, in other times you can't.
Sometimes you have to actually be able to physically fit through,
and other times they can be tiny. And they mention
teleport traps are the worst. Hello, everybody, I had not
even considered a teleport trap like this, I don't think

(12:29):
I'd ever touch anything again. That is so terrifying. I mean,
I am hopeful. Carl has two abilities. He has the
one to see through portals and the other to sense traps.
So I am very, very hopeful that this is going
to be something that he doesn't have to deal with

(12:52):
because he has the exact equipment to keep it from
But his partners don't, you know, they don't necessarily maybe
don'nut glasses might do. I don't think Katchia has got
anything so anyway, it's just it's very very frightening. Oh

(13:12):
my god, Michael says, didn't you read Harry Potter The
trophy was a port key fair? But it's it's somehow
like the idea the pork key thing was already such
a bonker's idea, but when it's like an actual portal
that's tiny that you know what I mean, there's just

(13:33):
something like tactile about that that is really unnerving to me.
It's one thing for an object to like do something
to you, and it's another thing that they have like
fit a portal onto an item that you just brush
with your thumb. It's something about you could pick it
up and touch anywhere on this item, and it's fine,

(13:56):
you might not know it's there. But if you brush
your hand on the wrong side, or if the portal
is hidden on the handle and the other part of
it isn't There's just something about like the near miss
of it that is really creepy to me. You know,
I don't know. So let's see, I've been writing. I'd

(14:20):
been spending a lot of time mentally writing in that
second hidden scratch pad, mostly when we were on a
train or sitting down to eat. I didn't know if
any of it made sense. I wasn't a writer, and
whenever I started to mentally type my feelings onto the pad,
I couldn't tell if it was coherent or just bullshit.
I assumed some future crawler would find my chapter and
just think I was being a whiny bitch. And this

(14:43):
is something that, like I think a lot of us,
depending on our levels of paranoia, are the sort of
like when you do have a journal, you have some
sort of awareness that somebody might read at some point.
I wish that I could kind of get rid of

(15:04):
that feeling, And now that I'm older, I've mostly gotten
rid of it, but there was always this thought in
my mind that probably my mom was coming in and
reading my diary, like probably she was my mom's kind
of nosy. And I know other people found out that
their family members had actually gone through their stuff, and

(15:26):
it's just such a shame because, like the point of
journaling is for it to be cathartic for you, and
if you are restraining yourself or censoring yourself because you
think somebody is going to read it, it just changes the
whole experience. I hope Carl is just kind of letting
it be out of his hands what people think of
it in the future, and just letting himself go. So

(15:50):
as it turned out, while every single one of the
portals on the rapid Response cards was a two way
switch where one could select the ABYSS or a training yard,
the train yards themselves different on each one. The train
yard number was helpfully painted on the edge of each cart,
so likely so the workers would know which car to
use when an interdiction was required. I suppose in the

(16:11):
end it didn't really matter which car we used, though
the three separate groups at the end of the line
would all be sent off to different instances of the
train yard. We picked three, where we knew people were
already holed up at the local version of station thirty six. Oh,
Seraphim says, I figured teleport traps are basically port keys,

(16:32):
not just hidden portals on an item. Oh maybe I
like my idea better. It's weirder, but you may be right.
Only one of the cards had a portal that was
tuned to train Yard E, the same yard where we
had come in earlier, and the same one where we
could easily return to the Nightmare and Imani's group if

(16:54):
we needed, we'd keep that cart here with us. Well,
things have happened to train Yard E, as we find
out a little bit later. Meanwhile, everybody else in they
are fortifying thirty six disabled the Vermilion train, blocking monsters
from coming in. I was afraid the blister Ghouls coming

(17:15):
from seventy two would simply turn around and head toward
us at seventy five, but it appeared they were congregating
in front of the train. Not that it mattered much.
There were literally dozens of lines that fed into that station,
and they were in a constant state of battle, pushing
the invaders back. I hoped they'd be able to hold out.
So what we've got. As a means of keeping the

(17:41):
folks who might be in the tunnels from being startled
and caught off guard by the trains that are coming
at them, they have decided to add a that what
do you call it, that spell that adds a song
at this incredibly high decibel level so that the song

(18:04):
is audible from ages away and hopefully that will give
them enough of a lead time to get out of
the train's path, which I do appreciate that it's been
mentioned there is so little space between the train and
the walls of the tunnel. It's not like they could

(18:26):
just step off the track like you need to get
to the next station, So it is a serious The
trains are moving quickly enough too that if you do
hear it from a ways away, that's still not really
a guarantee you're going to be able to get out.
They're just doing the best they can, you know, So
the they it turns out everybody's like trying to guess

(18:48):
what the song is going to be, and eventually we
find out that it is physical by Olivia Newton. John
and Batista is out here like making bets on what
it's gonna be. Other people are making bets, and Carl
rightfully is like, there are so many options for what
song it could be, nobody is ever going to be
able to like make that bet, which I pretty much

(19:11):
agree with. I love the fact that Donut requested Wonderwall
as one of the greatest songs of all time. Donut
has the most, like the most popular pop taste. She's
just and I don't mean just with music, it's just
with shows as well, like anything that was really big,

(19:36):
she's on board. Fully. It seems like, you know it,
like she is the target audience that you want for
literally any kind of media venture. It seems like because
she is the person who is right smack in the
middle of the like opinion range. Does that make sense?

(19:56):
So anyway, I just find it so funny because she's
always like I don't disagree with a lot of her
assessments about things like entirely, but I'll always be a
little startled by how passionate she seems about something that's
like just doesn't illicit any sort of response in me whatsoever.

(20:20):
Michael says, I heard Wonderwall and Closing Time so many
effing times in the nineties. Closing Time still hits I
know well to take me home. Yeah, that song still
fucking hits. It's so crazy being old, you guys, because
that song feels fresh to me even though it's old,

(20:41):
and that shit is thirty years old at this point,
Like I don't know's it's really Yeah, So he attacks
or he attaches explosives to the Vermilion train. I was
placing them on the short shelf in front of the
door that turn into the between train gangway when it

(21:03):
was properly attached to another train. I had to tie
everything together with a rope and use the door to
keep it in place. And he asks here and a
little bit later, if anybody wants to send me some
duct tape, that would be super helpful. And honestly, duct
tape could like I almost feel like that's too good
a tool. I don't know if you should get that.

(21:24):
That might be duct tape is so useful, And what
I'm imagining is some kind of magical duct tape where
it's like it is a role that never stops, it
always has duct tape on it. You never run out,
you know. Or it could be like duct tape that
anything you tie together will stay. But there's like an
hour max on it and then it will give something.

(21:46):
There has to be something that sort of you know.
I knew I could probably use one of the interdiction
cards and that it cleared the line much more easily,
but I wanted to see if I'd get experience if
I did it this way, which he does and the explosion. Also,
he is not prepared for how intense this winds up being.

(22:08):
It literally rocks people off their feet. A little bit later,
so Ellie gets in touch with him, and it turns
out she has been looking for Eva. And I am
so curious about this, guys, because it's I have read

(22:31):
enough now that I have been occasionally surprised when I
think I know what a what's the word I want here?
I think that I'm going to be able to predict
the level of grudge somebody holds against another person, and

(22:55):
I wind up being wrong a fair amount. And it
can be for a number of like the author has
made that person more reasonable than I expected, and so
they don't have the grudge I would think, or the
author has inserted some weird misunderstanding that I didn't know about,
and so it turns out that person holds a much
greater grudge than I thought, because they are operating under

(23:18):
a misapprehension, or there will be something else that happens
that winds up redirecting the anger that they had toward
a character towards somebody else. All kinds of things can
like get in the mix here, So I really don't
know how to decide, like Eva's level of enraged towards

(23:46):
Karl and co. And I say toward Carl because he's
our main guy, but I really it should be toward
Katya like she already did not, like Katya saw her
as a weight around her neck, and then Katya winds
up killing her pack leader. Basically, I mean that is
it's likely going to be Catia specifically that she holds

(24:09):
a grudge against most and Carl is sort of incidental
to the whole thing, So you know, it could be
that it's not what I think. But all I can think.
All I can think is that it's Eva's number one
mission now to take them all down. And I don't

(24:34):
know if that level of paranoia it feels justified to me,
but I just don't know. And later on he finds
one of her sabers on the floor of the train
and he's like, oh, nice if they don't if they're
not together, because there are two sabers that have this
like powered up thing that happens when you use both.

(24:58):
So Carl is interpreting that feature as meaning, since she
left one saber on the train with them, that she
doesn't have the usual power of weapon to work with,
which he thinks is a good thing. But here's my

(25:21):
I was genuinely surprised when Eva dropped her saber. And
I know that she dropped it because Hecla had been
reanimated and it really startled her. So it may just
actually have been what it looked like, but there was
a little part of me that was like, wow, I'd
never expect Eva to just let go of her weapon,

(25:44):
and I allowed it because of the situation. But I also, oh,
that's right, you guys are reminding me she lost one
of her hands. That's right. I forgot about that. I
am wondering if there is something about these sabers that
means that she can track the other one down. I'm

(26:04):
wondering if Carl picking it up and putting it in
his inventory has made it so that she is going
to be able to find them more easily somehow. I
just think with there being two that a magical link
between the two sabers wouldn't be out of the question
as a feature for an enchanted weapon. So I have

(26:28):
a little you know, and Carla looks at its attributes
and there's no mention of that, and it's possible it's
not a thing if he can't see that attribute. It's
also possible that the original owner gets to see an
attribute that he doesn't that maybe this is somehow part

(26:49):
of how they function. I don't know, but like I said, guys,
I'm on this like little paranoia kick with her right now,
and we still by the end of this group of
episodes or group of chats, we do not see her.
I will tell you what, y'all. There is a point
later where there is a stop sign that's put on
the tracks, and I fully thought that was gonna be Eva.

(27:10):
It turns out to be at Craig Heron, but I
really really thought that was Eva and that she was
about to like jump out and fuck him up somehow.
I don't know what my thought was on what she
would do, but you know why not. So there's a
conversation between carl and Bautista about XP and Carl says

(27:33):
something about the system can be stingy, and he doesn't
really know sometimes whether he's going to get XP for
certain things or not. Bautista commiserates with this, and then
later on Carl winds up getting like more XP for
the explosives thing than he was expecting. And I was

(27:55):
sort of like, did AI hear him call it stingy?
Did he did? The AI go, hey, I am not,
and like give him extra. So this is when Batista
mentions his pets, and I fucking knew instantly. I was like,
the damn beanie babies, and indeed it is the beanie babies,

(28:16):
and we will talk about that in a little bit.
So later on he is there is this explosion that happens,
and everybody thinks, like everybody who is far away thinks,
oh my god, did Carl just blow himself up? Because
this is not part of the plan. This like explosion

(28:38):
came sort of off schedule. And the the way that
everybody is just here's an explosion is like, oh my god, Carl,
are you okay? It's kind of funny. And what he
discovers this is so I saw with Dismay a group

(29:00):
of four crawlers. I'd tossed into a group chat called
yard F. We're now all dead. I don't know if
it's on purpose, but yard F like all I could
think was fail and that like, now they're all dead,
and I was just that's really harsh. But also, are
they failures just because they died because they did something
pretty intense? It seems like he thinks at first, oh,

(29:25):
my god, did I do something that caused their deaths?
And then he remembers those folks were actually trying to
kill the blister Goool generator, which he remembers was powered
by a soul gem, which he didn't want to mess with.
It was like an option for him earlier to deal
with that, and he knows how unstable they are and

(29:47):
was just sort of like, yeah, you know what, I
think that I'm gonna And they decided to go in,
and it was three or four hundred people in that group.
They were going to attempt to fight their way to
the generator and remove the crystal or disable the machine,
which is devastating. That's a huge number of people. I'm assuming,

(30:10):
based on the size of the explosion, that all of
them were killed by it. I also wouldn't be surprised
based on the way that things go later if like,
too many folks are surviving this level, and they decided
to make the explosion that much more intense just because
they haven't lost enough crawlers, you know, and they're sort
of trying to even things out here. So let's see.

(30:33):
Uh oh, then there's another explosion. This one was my
work and I had gotten experience for it more than
I expected. And yeah, everybody is sort of like Carl,
you know, I'm glad your work was effective, but also,
can you fucking dial it back a little because Jesus Christ.
And he's like, yes, sorry about that, guys, And he's

(31:00):
just thinking, wishful thinking about all of the other ways
that they could farm experience handle this if they had
more carts and doughnut yells to him, you pissed off
the ghules. Now they're heading toward us. The ghules generated
at seventy two had stopped heading toward thirty six and
were now coming this way. Guys, help me position one

(31:21):
of the carts on the track. Then we got to
go talk to Gary again. Bless him. I felt so
bad for poor Gary. He thought he was done. I
bet Carl paid him in booze. Maybe if he's drunk again,
then killing him this time won't even be too bad,
and just give him more booze. Just pay him again.
It's fine. The blister rules didn't even pause. They dropped

(31:43):
like lemmings right into the abyss. We had the cart
parked at the edge of the Vermilion line. My explosion
appeared to have knocked the power out. We had to
run the carts off battery, but that was fine. I
now had plenty of them. You guys. I've mentioned before
how like I can sort of horde things, and the

(32:04):
feeling of him having tons of like fully powered up
batteries is so comforting. It just made me feel like,
oh great, we're at a good place right now. I
mean we're not, we're not at all. But there was just,
you know, something about this that soothed my soul in
some sense. So we've got like these third stage monsters

(32:25):
that are huge, and later on there's a thing that
he has structured in such a way that it's a
little bit too tall for the ones that are not
affected by stage three, but stage three ones are going
to get hit with the thing. Anyway. We spent the
last few hours, grinding against the constant stream of ghoules.
I'd turn off the south facing portal and we'd advance

(32:47):
and kill. I practice with Michisa. Donut was practicing with
mounted attacks. Katcha practice with warming spikes on her arms
and using them as weapons. Guys. Donut practicing with mounted
attacks does not get enough description. I just want to
say for the record, I wanted a lot more about

(33:09):
this specifically, and I just I was describing to Rashaun.
I was on the phone with her yesterday and I
was like, oh, yeah, this one book I'm in. There's
a velossa raptor pet and it's got a lot of
pink feathers on it, kind of like a flamingo, and
there's a cat that rides on it on a saddle
on its back. And there was just a brief silence
of Rashawn is like is this that Dungeon book? And

(33:31):
I was like, yes it is. And she's like, everything
you fucking tell me is the most unhinged ship. And
I was like, yeah, you know what, Like, without any
context around it, it sounds insane. Oh god, So the

(33:56):
let's see they're going through these ghouls Batista was giving
a running update of all the oddities raining into the Abyss,
which I find very fun. I wouldn't mind more of that.
It didn't matter what sort of monster was the original source.
By the time they reached stage three, they were all
pretty much the same creature. And yeah, I'm not even
going to get into describing these things. I don't like it.

(34:18):
Suffice to say that's enough of that. Katya formed a
pair of eyes in her mouth, just behind and above
the lump of flesh that held the crossbow, allowing her
to peer down onto her target. The plan was to
form eyes strategically on the exterior of the large half
moon shaped shield, but she wasn't quite ready for that.

(34:38):
Katya is really getting good at this. At one point
she sticks out her tongue and her tongue gives him
a finger, and I cracked up. I love it. Kotcha
now is loosening up. Now, she's showing some personality, and
I think that we are in a much better place
for her as a party member, and she is like

(35:01):
letting more of her sense of humor show and people
are going to respond really well. I think obviously. Her
killing Hecla and shooting up in every respect was going
to be good for publicity, but that doesn't really change
how much you like a character, so to speak, even
though she's a real person. So I'm glad to see

(35:23):
that she has become more adept and is she seems
to be having a little bit more of a sense
of humor, and there's even just a camaraderie between her
and Donut that is really sweet. So I'm feeling Katya
a lot more and I'm glad to see it happening.

(35:46):
Let's see, there's a description of stage three, and then
this form is only temporary. The dts are always fatal.
I'd explain to you what a razor fox is here,
but it's pointless because this isn't a razor fox anymore.
And later on this thing, it's like they try and
attack it. It doesn't seem to take almost any damage,

(36:10):
even though they're going hard at it, and he gets
a ball actually down its throat, which is the most
effective thing so far. It's just sort of choking it.
But the attacks on its body, it just doesn't really
seem to do all that much. And there was a
muffled thump, its tentacles thrashed about. The monster was no

(36:34):
longer focused on me or anybody else. It was starting
to look like a hedgehog from all the bolts, and
all of a sudden, it just explodes. And I had
actually kind of wondered if there was something about this.
You guys, remember the mentioned Mordechai said of the first
boss they ever meet, which is the hoarder, and how

(36:57):
she had the cockroaches coming out of her mouth, and
if they had killed one that was as it was
coming out, it would have choked her and killed her.
So for a moment, I was sort of like, was
there something that was going to come out of its throat?
And it's sort of funny because that's not entirely wrong,
but it's apparently like it was going to explode anyway.
So it's not like they did something to kill you

(37:19):
know what I'm saying, Like, it's it's that's not really
what happened here. But part of my idea behind this
was a little bit correct. Don't go let's see, oh,
don't need to grace holy shit, holy shit, guys, don't
go to stop twenty four. They're everywhere, millions of them,
worse than the grubs. Don't warning. This message is from

(37:42):
a deceased crawler. My message screen exploded with people asking
what was going on as I jogged up to the
corpse of the monster, and that is when Carl sees
that the creature that exploded is hatching. They are called
Karen crotch dumplings. Crotch dumplings. I've heard a lot of

(38:06):
different derogatory names for children. To be fair, guys, I'm
not really a kid person, per se. I didn't want
to have kids. They can be fine, they can also
be fucking irritating, but I have never really felt like
calling them anything bad. Crotch goblins, you know, is the

(38:27):
one that I hear the most. Off something offspring. Oh.
People respond to folks who call their own pets for
babies by calling actual human children skin fins, which I
think is really hideous, but uh yeah, Anyway, this whole
thing is like a story about how she couldn't have

(38:51):
babies and then she figured out a way to have them,
but they're actually clones. The next part of the story
when she discovers the ability to speak to all of
her clones telepathically and then eventually form a collective mind,
where she starts spreading across the universe. And making a
general nuisance of herself is for a different time. All
you need to know is that you have to kill

(39:12):
these things, and you have to kill them fast. Like children,
they grow up so very fast. I suggest a nice,
firm stomp. And apparently this whole description goes on so
long that they have been destroying these things and the
fact that they're standing on gravel means that they do

(39:32):
not have a nice, flat, hard service to smush them against,
so it's not totally working. So he pours moonshine and
lights it up and donut, says growler. Gary had said
they'd turned the whole place into a krakaren nest. He
wasn't kidding. So yeah, this is about to get really

(39:54):
fucking awful pretty quick. And I am not excited about it.
I hate it. Deck is so stacked. It's just and
I know, like that's the point of this, but I
just keep getting tricked into thinking that like it's something
that they can win, really and the point is that
you can't. Like I just keep sort of losing sight

(40:16):
of that in a way because I don't like that fatalism.
I don't want to feel so hopeless. But also, you know,
the second cart for the Mindaro line never arrived. That
was Baptista's leaving his group stranded at the end of
the line. So, without any further fanfare and very little

(40:38):
discussion about how terrible of an idea this was, the
four of us loaded up onto a rapid response car
and dialed ourselves into the Mindaaro line and headed down
the track in an attempt to find the source of
the problem and the color. Donna is asking what color
is Mindaro, and Katia says, I think it might be

(40:59):
a shade of sharp truce, which, when asked what that
is is a she says, it's like a cross between
yellow and green. I just want to clarify, it's not
like a cross between yellow and green, like ordinary yellow
and green. It's a cross between extremely bright yellow and green,

(41:23):
so that it's a sort of almost like electric day
glow sort of color, which is what Mindaro is as well.
It's really really awful. I hate it. That's like my
particular I think everybody has like a color that they
respond really particularly terrible to, and this one's mine. I

(41:43):
fucking hate that color so much. But earlier there was
the mention of the zomb line and the zomb color
is one of my faves. It's like this dark teal.
When I went and looked up what color zomb, I
was like, yeah, I love this one. So anyway, I

(42:05):
really do enjoy all of the different obscure color names
that are going on. Some of them aren't too obscure,
like amaranth. I was able to pretty much guess, you know,
there's a blower. But some of them are real weird ones.
And there are certain color generators that if you select
the hex number, it will tell you what this color

(42:26):
is commonly called underneath, and I think that is really
a fun detail to add. I wish they all did that.
I wish that there could be a little bit more
of an established hex numbers are great, but they're not
in common parlance, you know. And there are times where
I'm trying to explain to somebody, like my favorite color

(42:46):
it's like magenta, but dark magenta, like almost a burgundy magenta,
and it's really hard. I just wish there was a
way to say, you know, and I'm sure there is
a color name out there for what I'm describing, and
I just don't know. But that's my point is that
we should like we should learn them. We should know
what these names names are. It's helpful. So let's see.

(43:12):
It was a stupid mistake. If the second cart had
caught up with the first, the portal in front would
have tossed the whole abys cart back to the train station.
So when Batista's crew only saw one cart, this one
playing Rock of Ages, it was actually the cart they
needed to jump in front of. But they had no
way of knowing that. I shouldn't have put delays on
those alarm traps. I should have known what song went
with what cart. It would have saved us this trip.

(43:35):
So since the obiscuit at the end of the Sinopia
and Grulo line did not line up with the associated
train yard track of the rapid response carts, those who
got transported through never saw the carts again. Instead, they
joined up with the defenders at the closest nearby station,
thirty six. It was eight hundred people between the two groups,

(43:56):
and we'd gotten them all to a stairwell station. That
was the best I could do for them. I mean,
that's huge, you know, And I won't say that like
his tone here is two defeatist. There's no sense of
like it's not enough you know, but I just really
wish I could pat Carl on the back and be like, bro,

(44:18):
you are literally making the difference for like hundreds of
people between life and death. And let's see. A group
happened to be grinding their way through yard M when
the first car, the same one playing physical appeared. Because
of the way the switching stations worked, the car was
automatically routed onto a dead end parking space intended as

(44:39):
a holding area for train engines. The cart reached the
end of the track and flipped it, caused the entire
awning system to be sent into the ABYSS, but the
portal automatically shut itself off a moment later. A few
minutes after that, the second cart showed up and also
flipped over that group. Yard M then managed to get
enough people together and physically flip one the two carts

(45:00):
back over and then bring it to a track. They
managed to get the thing turned back on, giving them
a new weapon to keep at least one of the
nearby tracks clear, which I am loving that everybody is
just onboard figuring things out using these portals, like it's
a fun idea. And I just you know, I've mentioned

(45:21):
before how many parts of this the universes that these
floors are designed to be like feel familiar and a
lot like Skyrim a lot of the time. But this
is clearly Portal if you've played Portal. And I really
enjoyed the little I did play because I was it's

(45:43):
like a puzzle, you know, trying to figure out how
to set things up so that something goes where you
need it to go. But I remember, I think I
got like kind of carsick playing it. I don't remember exactly,
but I wound up being like, I don't think I
can handle this. But I really really liked the idea
of it, and it's fun to see that being put

(46:04):
into practice here with the help of tis Quick the Dwarf.
And I just want to tis Quick is such a
great name, you guys, like, it's so good. It's so good.
I really want to steal it. Found the correct colored
line making their way to the exploded station. Seventy two
loads of other crawlers had the same idea, and she

(46:25):
found a group of people waiting there. The ceiling had
caved in, but the circle of stairwells remained and people
had cleared the rubble. We sent out word it was
a place to descend without fighting, and people were now
flocking to the area. The crawlers who died blowing the
crystal hat at the very least not died in vain,
and honestly I love it. Thank you to those people,

(46:45):
because that was bothering me, that soul crystal thing. Others
like Imani and ling June, thought it was best to
remain put. The monsters approaching Station thirty six were trickling
to a stop, and the crawlers had built a solid
defensecible position so far. The crak Haaren babies were staying
put at Station twenty four. The rath rules, it turned out,

(47:07):
found formed a similar boss to the one parked at
Stop forty eight. If they were allowed to congregate, this
was also a province boss, and that's the thing where
they combine into that creature that we heard about earlier,
covered with mouths that don't stop screaming. Our plan was
to get Batista's crew, get everyone to train yard e,

(47:28):
and then work our way to Station sixty. From there,
people could decide to go wherever they wanted, either to
one of the more heavily defended Station thirty six stairwells
or the free station seventy two. A few people were
also putting together rating teams to take on the station
forty eight. Boss. Nobody else was braving Station twelve twenty

(47:49):
four or the other occupied station seventy twos. As for us,
we'd decide what we were going to do when the
time came. So this is when they are rolling up
on some crawlers on the track that they hadn't seen,
and they plow through them. The poor things like teleporting

(48:11):
them to train yard E, which had to be a
serious shock. They all probably thought they were about to die. Sorry,
I called back over my shoulder. As we continued down
the track, dozens of xes appeared on my map, all
of them on the platform where the previous portal cart
hadn't been able to scoop them up. Every time I

(48:32):
saw something like this, I felt the anger starting to
rise in my chest. And then this is when there's
that crossbeam with the stop sign. It had only fooled
me for a pair of seconds, but it was enough.
I moved to flip the switch back to the ABYSS,
but I hesitated too late. Too late. We were going

(48:55):
to hit it. A long, fleshy appendant snaked out from
the end of the cross beam lead up into station
four thirty three. We hit the crossbeam. A moment later
there was a mighty swomb as the portal sucked it away.
We just accidentally teleported the entire station mimic city Boss
to train yard. E whoops. I said, Oh my god,

(49:22):
that sucks. That sucks. I was so distressed by this.
Can you imagine? I also don't know how like that
teleportation works, because is it possible that just by appearing
it killed people by crushing them so that there was
not even an opportunity to defend themselves, you know, like,

(49:43):
Oh god, Batista, I said. Stepping off the platform, I
shook hands with a hairy orange tiger man and this
is when we let's see, I'm trying to find the thing.
We have to fight that thing again, Carl. It's a
city Boss and it's really strong. I don't know how

(50:05):
to kill it. And Carl takes a screenshot. The station
mimic was so large it took me a minute to
figure out what I was looking at. It was significantly
larger than I had anticipated. The monster had taken up
residents in the middle of the train yard and hadn't
yet changed shape into anything. It looked as if the

(50:25):
wall of the train yard had moved, swallowing half of
the station. Only after staring at the image to by
brains start to figure it out. It was a potato
shaped blob the size of a neighborhood block. The damn
thing reached all the way up to the ceiling, taking
a huge portion of the yard. It seemed much too big,

(50:46):
like the total mass was enough to mimic five or
six more stations. The blob looked disturbingly like how Kotcha
appeared when she was not formed into anything. So, yeah,
this is just fucking awful. The people that they teleported
to eat are probably dead because they sent them. And
then instantly this thing that is so unfair, like thinking

(51:09):
you were going to die because you're about to be
run over. Then you get teleported and you're like, oh
my god, we're not dead, and then this happens right after,
Like just so fucking unfair. Carl tells Ellie to ask
her manager if there's a secret way to kill a mimic,
and basically she comes back with no, like there is,

(51:35):
but it is so hard. They grow back their bits
that you cut off. The separate piece is unable to
return to the main body will instead attack you. They
only die when the mimic dies. And one day we
might be strong enough to fight one of those things.
But it ain't gonna be on this floor. Fuck that.

(51:55):
You can hear it screaming from here. So this is
just it's gonna take everybody. This is gonna have to
be another group project. The cart behind me, with the
much smaller portal, led to yard e. This one led
to h There was no mimic here. I could see

(52:16):
the interdiction cart, the one that had been playing the
def Leppard song. This one hadn't flipped and was sitting
stopped a short distance away, having gotten a seb wedged
against the wall. The portal appeared to still be on.
It had jumped The track at the service bay remained upright,
which thankfully hadn't teleported the entire cave system away. I
didn't see any mobs, though there were dozens of corpses

(52:37):
spread throughout the abandoned train yard. The entire building and
mouth was faced directly at the portal. I knew if
I took another screenshot in a minute, the mouth would
be gone and only the building would remain. It was
waiting for us. Sorry, Dona in all caps, what do
you mean? I climbed back into the cockpit and turned

(53:00):
the switch. The portal to train yardy shut off. I
looked down at Batista, where he stood next to Katya.
New plan, we go through the abyss portal instead of
the cart portal. I have enough hats in my inventory
for everybody here, so we don't need to worry about
fighting this mimic thing. It's expecting us, and if we
go through that portal will be like pigs walking to slaughter.

(53:22):
Batista looked relieved. Thank god for Plan B. That was
actually Plan C. Kotya set and Donut is so upset
that they are going to be using these hats. It's
kind of funny because there is the possibility. Well, we'll
get there later. There's a whole thing with the hats,

(53:44):
and you know, she had a whole idea of what
they could buy with it. YadA YadA. We only have
eighty three left. Actually it's less than that. I pulled
thirty of the hats and started tossing them onto the
ground behind the cart in case there are any stragglers.
Donut looked at me like I just slapped her. This

(54:09):
just cracked me up. I really I get it, Curly.
You know, it's no wonder you were always so poor.
There's a fine line between being helpful and being a dumbass. Carl,
we still have over fifty of them, caughtcha, laughed as
Donut glowered. She turned and looked back over my shoulder,

(54:30):
as if she was contemplating jumping off the cart to
go retrieve them. I put my own hat on my head.
Donut didn't want to remove her tiara, so instead she
sighed and held an engineer's key in her mouth. Mango
went into his carrier. Our plan was a success. There
had been just over fourteen hundred people trapped at the

(54:52):
end of the line, and we'd gotten them, if not
to safety, to a place where they at least had
a chance. That' incredible. I just want I know that
we're in like emergency mode, but I just want Carl
to take a second and really think about that. I mean,
that's huge. I want him to feel some pride here,

(55:15):
just a moment of like, I really fucking did something,
you know. So this is when they roll out and
their music, the alarm stops, and they are brought into
the area with all of these people that they have rescued,
and everybody is just having this moment of silence, of gratefulness,

(55:40):
and they come up to Donut specifically, and they drop
their hats on the ground in front of her, and
it's just so you, guys, I loved it so much, Carl,
was this your idea? Batista partner Katya suggested it. I

(56:02):
looked over at her and she grinned. Donut gathered all
the hats up into her inventory, tail swishing with pleasure.
I suspected, now that most of the crawlers were all
at the front of the lines, shopkeepers would be less
likely to give us money for these things, but we
held on to the moment, and yeah, that had I
had thought of that also, just like how long are
they going to be worth what they're worth? But I

(56:23):
don't know how that works. So I was hoping that
as long as we hadn't left the floor, they would
still be worth something. Maybe not, and then you know,
it was maybe delaying the inevitable, but it felt good.
By god, it felt good. So he has this, he

(56:43):
has his moment. If I really fucking did something, I
got what I asked for, so twenty nine. Uh, whoa hey,
I just got a box from my sponsor, Katya suddenly said,
a silver benefactor box. Yay, donut, But that means you
have a sponsor box and a fan box to open.

(57:03):
I got a sponsor box not too long ago, too,
Bautista said, but I haven't had the chance to open
it yet. I'm on my way to do it now.
Who's your sponsor, Jack Sprinn Amusements Limited. The same folks
who make my babies your babies. Here is where they
talk about the beanie babies, this whole thing. It's very fun.

(57:27):
It turns out that the rarer they are, the longer
they last, and you activate them by pulling the tag
off like a grenade, and they all do different things.
Ms Quill had more than a thousand different stuffed monsters
so far. I've used about forty. You can keep that

(57:50):
when if you want. I have four more just like it,
though the one has a different colored hat. We'll attack
bad guys for you. And they're pretty strong, but they're common,
and the common ones only last to thirty seconds before
they're done. Fifteen to thirty seconds does not feel adequate
to me. I don't really know what you can get
done in that time. I'm sure something, but it just
doesn't feel like helpful. Grulk Infantry Jack sprid Amusements Limited.

(58:16):
There was a symbol of a smiley faced star on
the other side that was it takes about ten seconds
for it to work. Depending on what it is, it'll
fight for you or attack you. The rarer it is
the longer it lasts. When they're done, if they haven't
been killed, they turn back into the beanies, but the
tag is gone and you can't use them again. If
they do get killed, the little beans fly everywhere when

(58:37):
they die and then disappear. And Carl remembers the one
that he has named Ki Marris that's in that box,
and you know, I'm just I don't want like again.
The hoarder in me is just like, don't use it
for any reason, save it, but also I really want
to know what it does. And he mentions the first

(59:02):
one that he took the tag off was a crane crasher.
It came to life and flew to the ceiling, attacked
a guy in my party in teleported way. After that,
I found another one, a sage sprite lecturer. It said
he was a teacher, so I pulled the tag. I
thought it looked a little like my grandfather. He was helpful,

(59:22):
but I should have saved him for later when I
was better prepared. He was really, really rare and valuable,
but he told me what was up with these things?
Acted like I was an idiot for not knowing. He
was one of my most valuable legendary rareness, only one
of five, but I didn't know how to see that
until he taught me. Lasted two whole hours. He was
in this weird glass case. I have five more legendary rares,

(59:45):
but I'm afraid to open the cases now because the
description says there's a chance I'll be blast of the fire.
So let's see. You can rip the tags off inside
your inventory, which is what I do. It takes about
two seconds off summoning time, but you got to be careful.
If it's a monster you're not familiar with, you don't
know how big it's gonna get or how mean. Some

(01:00:05):
of them are huge. The sprite lecturer's name was Atwyn.
He said, these are actual summonings, so uh, it looks
like you're making a new one because of the way
they die, but you're actually teleporting one of those creatures
to you, I don't see the difference, but he insisted
it was a big deal. I guess there are spells
that say they're summoning, but they're really just creating a temporary,

(01:00:27):
fake version. This is a true summoning, which is interesting.
I kind of thought that distinction like this is gonna
have to be something significant at some point, you know.
And yeah, he says, like he's worried about when he
runs out. My class is something called a swashbuckler, and

(01:00:47):
I need to practice more with my sword. But I've
been relying on these monsters a lot. That's why I'm
glad I got sponsored by Jacks Brinn. I hope maybe
they can replenish my supply. You should train with your
sword as much as you can anyway, I said, suddenly
worried for the man. You can't rely on someone else's
good will to keep you supplied. Also, some of your
friend's levels are too low. The guy with the sling

(01:01:10):
is good at twenty eight, but his friend is only
twenty one. That's not enough. He's getting left behind. I know.
Batista said, we're doing the best we can. I was
disgusted to hear that he has grown reliant on these
things again, part and parcel with the hoarder thing. You
can't hoard if you're using up stuff, and if you

(01:01:33):
have something that is this helpful, you need to be
so sparing with it, even if you have a fucking
like thousand of them or however many. I just I
understand them getting you out of tight spots, but them
being something that you use with practically every fight is
such a poor method to me. I really lost some

(01:01:55):
respect for Batista in this moment. I really really did.
I just like, I understand how this could happen, but
it's such short term thinking. And then becoming his sponsor
does not mean that they are going to give him
more of the thing. All that means is that they

(01:02:17):
are sponsoring you because you probably have their product and
it's interesting advertising for them or something. That doesn't mean
that they give a fuck and that they're going to help.
It's just I don't know. It just felt really really
like a bad idea. Let's see. We said our goodbyas

(01:02:37):
to Batista's team and found ourselves on the zombp line.
Here it is again. The plan was to make our
way to Amani in La and Lee June and reunite
with their teams. In the meantime, we were going to
pick up a random transit station and hit the safe room.
We ended up stopping at station fifty nine. The track
was filled with ghouls and baby Krakerans who were now

(01:02:57):
about the size of small dogs. We teleported them all
to the abyss as we rushed the line. The only
time we were in any sort of danger was as
we passed twenty four. The juvenile monsters covered the platform.
There were thousands of octopuses swarming over each other. I
tossed a precious Juggaboom off the side of the train.
Even then, almost a dozen were fast enough to leap

(01:03:20):
onto the cart. Kocha's crossbow made short work of them.
They didn't drop any loot at all, and their blood
sizzled against the metal deck of the cart. What a ripoff,
not even dropping loot. Fuck that. The safe room at
fifty nine appeared to be a restaurant from Costa Rica
called Soda, So they opened their boxes. Kaya opens her

(01:03:44):
fan box first, and she gets a riot shield and
a police baton. Her lips were tight with what appeared
to be both irritation and fear. I I'm really curious

(01:04:05):
if she had some sort of like history with police
or protesting or something, and this is like a dig
at her. There's just the fans tend to pick things
that have some kind of significance to you and like it.
Certainly the way that these work, they fit well with

(01:04:29):
her abilities, but I still kind of was like, is
there something more to this? I don't know. Crowd blast,
which enhances the rush ability she could only use once
a day, and she basically her range of attacks spreads
out in this like cone shape, which is really like

(01:04:51):
expands things a lot. Let's see the baton that I.
I won't go through all of the things that they
can do because I'm running out of time. But Conscious
says I can't tell if people were trolling me with
this or not. People know I hate using rush, and

(01:05:12):
Donut says, yeah, it's not very thrilling. This is like
getting an electric litter box for your birthday. It's useful,
but it's a litter box. I was hoping for something
with a little more pizzaz And people might know that
you hate using rush, but it also killed somebody who
was like many levels above you, and they didn't even

(01:05:34):
stand a chance, So they are encouraging you to start
using one of your best weapons more effectively. And I
think it's I don't think it's a troll. I think
it's a just like start, you got to start to
lean into it. Girl, you can't be hesitant anymore. But
maybe I'm just giving them too much generosity and the
benefit of the doubt on that. When Donut brings up

(01:05:55):
the getting litter box, Carl says, first off, that's what
b asked for. I don't understand how someone can get
pissed for receiving what they asked for. Second, that thing
was like three hundred bucks. And I do think it's
funny because like she gets upset over and when somebody
asks her something very practical for their birthday, you've got
to really know that person to decide if it's a

(01:06:17):
good idea. It would be great if you could just
take somebody at their word. And I don't blame Carl
for doing that in theory, but having gotten to know
be secondhand, I definitely see her as being a person
who asks for this litter box, but what she really
means is buy that litter box and also get me

(01:06:37):
a present, like a real present. She is essentially hinting
that she wants this thing that's practical and hopes that
you're going to like recognize that there needs to be
something in addition to that. This is not Carl's fault.
It's Bee's fault, to be clear, but I definitely can

(01:06:59):
see how this would happen. It's yeah, anyway, gifts are tough.
So let's see. Oh yeah, Katscha gives Carl a bracer.
Any attack that lands upon the shield has one point

(01:07:19):
five chance to disarm the opponent. If the opponent is disarmed,
there's a ninety percent chance the item will drop to
the ground, a five percent chance the weapon will break,
and a five percent chance the weapon will be immediately
transferred to your own inventory, which is pretty cool. So
let's see, I'm trying to find the spot. Oh here,

(01:07:40):
it is a cross bow bolt. This is one of
one hundred. This item acts as a regular cross bow
bolt unless it is shot directly into the eye of
a deity. Upon a successful strike to the god's eye,
the deities in vulnerability pass pauses for fifteen seconds. Well, shit,
I said, I'm starting to think the sister isn't a

(01:08:01):
huge fan of her big brother, they have to, they
take showers, they have their recap show, and let's see.
It was a dark, dripping cave, only lit by the
torch spell only a single stairwell. It was different than usual.
It went both up and down, and I wasn't sure

(01:08:22):
why only part of the stairs below the ground glowed
but it still reached upward, corkscrewing into the air and
disappearing into the dark. It was only on screen for
a moment, so I didn't have enough time to investigate
what that meant. That's where we teleported the mimic away.
That's station four thirty three. I bet there's a stairwell there,
just like with Grimaldy. And it's like, wait, we could

(01:08:46):
have just gone back and used those stairs, and he's like,
I think so, but you know, people who are trapped
on that side, this is good for them. I'm wondering
about them going up and down, curious about it, just
like maintenance stairs. What is the deal? Let's see. Oh,

(01:09:07):
and then we have the edit of Carl where it
makes him look like a fucking maniac again standing over
Carl or standing over growler Gary like he's fucking Jason,
and then like snickering to himself as he ropes the
guy's hands to a thing. The way that they keep
doing this is so rude and donut is like they

(01:09:29):
keep cutting things out that are important, that have to
do with me. How could they leave out everybody saying
thank you? This is bullshit, Carl says, It's okay. People
are watching it happen live more every day. They know
what really happened. It's the same with the other crawlers.
By now everybody knows all of this stuff is pure propaganda.

(01:09:52):
I wish that were true, Carl, but as we saw
with some of Heckla's crew, they do not. They think
you're you know, like yeah. And this is when they
bring up Lucia and whether or not maybe she isn't
as crazy as she seems to be, which is something
I've been theorizing as well. And then we get our
last message. So Katya has just finished cleaning all the

(01:10:13):
blood off of their personal space, which it turns out
was a completely futile exercise. I just wanted to say
how proud we are of human tenacity. We expected the
number of deaths to be much higher on this floor.
It's making us rethink how easy the next floor was
going to be huh. Odds are good. You may have
had your hands You might have your hands full this

(01:10:35):
time tomorrow, so we're sticking all the important information into
this message. The next floor, we'll see the crawlers scattered
throughout further apart than usual. Parties will still travel together,
but only parties that are formed before this message started.
We love how you plucky humans are starting to all
band together to defeat the big bad monsters, and it's great,
it really is, but we wish to focus more on

(01:10:58):
individual stories. The next floor. Feel free to chat to
your friends, but if they aren't on a party with you,
it's best to get your goodbyes out of the way.
There will still be Desperado and club vanquish our entrances,
so don't worry about that. But if you haven't trained
yourself up, you might regret it. And speaking of chat,
we've added and exciting feature for a small feel. Viewers
may now subscribe to your private messages. Signups started yesterday

(01:11:19):
and we're very pleased with how many have joined up.
We have also patched a few persistent bugs with the
inventory system. Effective immediately, you may no longer store liquids
in your inventory unless they are in a container, and
all of a sudden, Mordecai reappears and apparently no time
passed for him. I thought that he was like put
somewhere in a timeout and was watching them play, and

(01:11:43):
evidently he just missed everything, which sucks because they have
to bring him up to date with like all of
these different details, which is going to take ages. They
are certainly going to forget to tell him stuff and
leave things out. Yeah, yeah, it sucks. And just as
they are about to catch up with him, Katya explodes.

(01:12:06):
All of the blood that she had stored in her
inventory just comes out of her, and Mango, of course,
is fucking delighted, dancing around like it's a singing in
the rain number. And quickly they all realize like exactly
what happened here? And Katya herself doesn't have any blood

(01:12:26):
on her at all, which I think is like so
much funnier, her standing like immaculate while everything around her
is like that target bullseye. I just think that's so funny.
And then it ends with Donut saying if you needed
to borrow a sanitary napkin, just ask, which I think
is maybe the worst joke of this series so far.

(01:12:50):
I get what he was going for, it just does
it just falls so flat. It's I understand it, I
get what you're you know, but it's just doesn't. I
don't think it works. I feel like there are a
million directions we could have gone in, and I especially
because it's a cat, I'm just like, this doesn't even

(01:13:13):
work because she doesn't. That wouldn't you know what I'm saying.
So anyway, the uh theatricality of this was funny though,
so I am interested in where we're gonna go next.
I am not surprised that everybody's gonna be separated next floor.
You know, we got to find a way around this
because obviously being like grouped together is much much more

(01:13:37):
helpful to all of them. So yeah, I am over time.
I gotta wrap up, but thank you guys again for
hanging out with me. I appreciate you all, and keep
an eye out for the new feed until next time
to the Loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled Network podcast.