Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Chapters 1-4

very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael is here in the chats, as is miss t and Rob. Welcome to both of you. This is devastating. Now, I want to be clear, I'm not sad that Mordecai is going to stick around, obviously, that is not the issue. I love this little guy. He has been so helpful. He is so what's the word I want? Like the way that he tries to help. It makes me sad though, knowing that the way this is having to be done

is so underhanded. I we're going to get to that moment, so I'm going to wait to talk about it until then. But once I realized what was going on because it's written in such a way that you're not aware he's being tricked until it's in the midst of being done.

I my fucking heart fell. So we start off with welcome crawler to the third floor, and for a moment, Donut thinks that they are outside, but it turns out to be an illusion, and they are walking towards They're on a red carpet going towards this door, and someone steps out, a disgustingly handsome man wearing a tuxedo, who is Mordecai in a new form. He now looks like a sucubus. Well, no, incubi, Incubia is plural. He's an incubus. Okay,

now I've got it straight. The smooth, seductive, and ultimately deadly Incubis can be identified by his stunning good looks, exquisite charm, and sensuous feet. I doubt it, but sure, and Mordecai. As they step inside, he says thank goodness and takes off the tux jacket and stuff, and it's just like, oh my god, I thought you guys were never gonna fucking get here. I have been having to

wear that waiting around. It's been three fucking hours, and Carl explains the interview ran long sorry about that his room was exactly the same as it had always been, but he'd cleaned up even further. A pair of beds had magically appeared since the last time we'd been in here. I love the detail that as Mordecai starts being more and more hopeful, he's taking better and better care of

himself and his surroundings. There's just it's just it's a little thing, you know, but I just really really understand, and I just like it as sort of a detail about his mental state, even if he's not sharing it with them, you know. And the Mornecai is like, all right,

so let's talk about your races. You are Cat, You're being given three hundred and twenty choices in alphabetical order, and of course Donuts says, well, then we're gonna do Cat obviously, and he's like, yeah, okay, that's fine, but also you could just like, you know, check the other ones. And she's like, or I could do what I fucking said, which is pick Cat. And there's a moment when Carl is like, is picking that gonna undo the fact that

she can talk? But it's too late By the time he even thinks of that, she has already gone and chosen cat. It's important to ask questions like that I made it so she actually chose to not make a choice. Nothing will change, but she will now have access to a few racial benefits she didn't have before. So like just pointing out, Mordecai is already doing shit for them, don't it might have just fucked that all up so bad.

And now I really wonder if she hadn't been able to talk, could she had still used the uh like the text chat or would it make it that she couldn't communicate at all? Because if she couldn't talk and she was, like, what I'm thinking about is her reverting back to a pet from a member of the party. But I have to assume that can't really happen if you're choosing a race, Like the choosing of the race is part of being in a party, so I assume

you can't really go backward that way. But yeah, anyway, I just had a moment here of like, Christ, we barely avoided a terrible problem, And it's sure it's purely down to the fact that Mordecai was paying attention. So I love this what are the benefits, don'nut asked, I don't know, Princess Donut. We never got to examine the cat choice. You'll be able to see when we're done, and you wouldn't have changed you anyway. It doesn't happen until the end of the process. Now we need to

think about the next choice. Show me anything with the word princess or queen in the title. And he says, you've been given thirty four. This is the shortest list I've ever seen. But I think that's a combination of your racial choice and the result of your stats. And she immediately is like, oh, I pick that one, and Carl has to be like, you need to fucking talk this through with me now. Later on, it turns out

this is all kind of not real. They have this whole debate, and ultimately we find out that it was the manager benefit that they were looking for, and that is the only determining factor they were instructed by. It's Odette right that she thought. She thought, basically, no matter what it is, having the manager benefit is of the utmost importance because Mordecai is so valuable, So regardless of the rest of the package, take the one that has

the manager benefit. So they knew this here and there's a bunch of conversation that in retrospect is not actually real. Artist Ali Mogul, Necrobard, and former child actor are the ones the AI has picked. Artist Ali Mogel cracked me up. And I really really did want her to choose this one. I appreciated that that is the one we're all pretending is going to be the one, and I was devastated

when she didn't pick it. Although when we get the instructions why later, I get it, but I still maintain, I don't know, man, this might have been the better call anyway. I don't know. I don't know. It's so hard, I don't know. So I'm not going to go through all of the advantages except for mentioning that there is interest earned on coins and there is a fifteen percent bonus to money and a twenty five percent discount at stores. So and by bonus, I mean like when you sell

stuff you get fifteen percent more. As a broke bitch, this spoke to me like, on a personal level, this is that's what I would take purely on that because that just feels so valuable, and that in combination as he mentions later she has a discount due to her charisma, so everything would be fifty percent off, and what she winds up doing, she doesn't get any discounts on anything, which is devastating to me, like truly, I was so heartbroken.

And let's see necro Bard. This unusual class combines one of the most loved occupations with one of the most reviled. Necromancers specialize in magic related to raising the dead. Bards must choose an entertainment based skill depending on this choice, whether it be singing the kazoo or storytelling. The resulting crawler will use this skill to either entertain, protect or glamour both the living and the dead. Plus let's see instnet access to a level five entertainment based skill of

their choice. Access to all membership based clubs regards less of current membership free rooms at all safe rooms, ten percent man acost penalty on non necromancer or barred spells, which is significant. Instant access to turn undead, Instant access to panty dropper plus five to constitution, charisma and intelligence minus two to strength, which that minus two to strength even though everything else sounded dope, immediately had me going nah, like She's just I know that's not the same as uh,

what do you call it? Oh my god, you guys, what's the one about your overall durability? I can't remember the name of it. Oh constitution, thank you, miss t. I know it's not the same thing, and the plus five to constitution is like significant, But there was just something about how I am not going to say useless in a fight, because that is not true and that is not fair. But it just felt like, ah, you have such a sort of precarious position there. I wouldn't

like it. And she starts talking about playing instruments and is very very excited about this, which of course is like carl is having visions of a five year old being given symbols for a Christmas present, and it's just like, kill me now. I was thinking about this because like, I don't think there's any question that a barred class is what I would be were I to try and take advantage of my natural talents. And I was trying to think, like, because they're talking about storytelling and like

that as an entertainment thing. I really there was a part of me that really liked the idea of like having it be singing except I'm not just like singing. It's just when I fucking like get my add tripped on somebody saying something that sounds vaguely like song lyrics, and I just start to sing a song like it's

it's singing, yeah, but it's like automatic, you know. And I just started to think, like that would probably waste a lot of manna, because I'd be like invoking something by accident, because I you know, anyway, I just I thought about this a lot. I guess storytelling is like the closest probably, but I really the barred class and like the charisma. I Am not saying that I don't want to fight, because I think fighting sounds super fun sometimes, but if we're going with what I'm actually like as

a person, probably for the best. I do think about how in Skyrim, though, when I started playing that game, I was really I did not enjoy the combat aspect of the game, and so what I did was poured all of my points into being indestructible, and I became this unstoppable, fucking wrecking ball barbarian character, which I hadn't really intended to do, but it was I am afraid of fighting, and so I'm going to do everything to make sure that fighting is all I'm fucking good at.

It wound up becoming this like weird reverse reaction, and so I got to this point where I had this like incredible weapon, and I was up on all of these stats, and I could just kill like pretty big level of characters for quests and stuff, you know, the final boss for whatever quest, and I would just walk up to him and just like whap him with this weird staff and kill him in like one hit. And

it was always wow. Really, it was just very funny to me once I stepped back and remembered how much I had hated fighting, and then I built this character this way because I hated it. So I just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. So I started thinking about that with this. But like again, if we're going according to who I really am versus starting from scratch with like a character, I think it's for the best to do Barred. So there's also former

child actor. It can only be obtained by Crawlers who have both received the cut achievement and have obtained at least one trillion views, and both she and Carl later have suggestions that are dependent on the number of views they've gotten, and as Mordecai points out, they are kind of like great options that are meant to give them a boost because they are so popular, which is just more evidence of how the playing field is not level.

Because you're already doing well, you get given better options, very annoying immunity to all poisons and diseases. Level five Cockroach skill plus ten to Charisma plus fifteen fifteen percent faster growth in all charisma based skills. The manager benefit this is an Earth class. As an incentive to choose an Earth class. You will receive a silver Earth box upon choosing this class. And Carl asks about what the Cockroach skill Character actor, and he explains character actor basically

means every floor you get to pick a specialty. You can pick a new class every floor. It would be somewhat useful if it's a floor filled with ice monster. She can pick a fire class, but it's a chance based so if she chooses it and then chooses a fire mage, the AI rolls the dice and decides how many spells and skills to give to her, and as soon as she's done with the floor, she loses the

skills and starts over. Each higher level of the skill gives better skills, so it makes it so she's pretty weak on the early levels, but once she gets higher it can be powerful. And what like where we wind up with both of them is that they are doing something that disadvantages them now in order to give them much greater benefits later as long as they stay alive, which we know they will because there are more books.

But also that's a lot of faith. And I have to admit, guys, I don't think I would make these choices. I respect them. And if I were playing a video game where I knew that I was going to be playing even after I died, I could come back and keep trying. Sure, But if I were in this situation where I could be actually killed, and that's it, I'm sorry, I'm pickings some that helps me now. I really just I would be very like short term benefit about it, and that would feel like the smarter path to me.

Like I said, I respect the choices they're making, and I respect the positive attitude that it would take to get them to choose those, but I would not have the faith in staying alive that they do. And part of me feels like that's kind of sad as a statement, and another part of me is like, that's just me being fucking smart about it. I don't know. So let's see what's the cockroach skill. It gives a chance to survive a fatal attack, though she'd be near death afterwards.

And let's see. Let's spend some time looking at the other choices. I think Necrobard might be better, but you know it's true for your social numbers, that might not be as good because they have to keep in mind for everything that they pick, how is the audience going to react and want to hold on to the viewers they've got. And we go over a bunch of things and then we get donut. I know you're not excited about it, but I really think you should go with

the artist Ali mogul class. It's not perfect, but it's the most well rounded. Okay. I exchanged a look with Mordecai to see if he was buying it. He appeared skeptical. Really, I said, we got to do it's best for the team, right, you want me to be a nerd, I'll be a nerd. Carl, Are you sure about this? He is going to be really mad? Do it? Okay, then the menu is gonna pop up now and you have to scroll down and choose it. Done, I am now a stupid artist Ali Mogul.

God damn it, Donut, Mordecai cried, God fucking damn it, and scene Donut said, waving her paw. WHOA, what's happening, Mordecai, dear, that's Carl's line. You should pick something else, Carl. He's upset because I chose the former child actor class I was acting. Isn't it great? That's not acting. It's called lying. It wasn't a lie, not technically. I picked the artist Aly Mogul as my third floor specialty. It's basically the same thing anyway, So I don't see what he's so

upset about. It said. I received all the benefits except the twenty five percent discount or the shields bell or that pathfinder's skill. And then it turns out she's taking the heat for this. But this was part of a plan. Oh my god. And Mordecai says, then you received the manager benefit. Oh yeah, I said, what is that? I already knew exactly what the manager benefit was. Odette had

explained it in detail. That's me from now on, for the remainder of your time in this god forsaken place, I will instantly teleport to any safe room you are in yay, Donut cried, No, not ya. I was supposed to transfer to a magic guild after this floor. I like running the magic guild. My room gets bigger, and I have access to my potions and more spells. Now, every time you sleep, or eat or stop to brush your teeth, I'll be forced to spend my time with you away from my room and my clothes and food.

Oh gods, and I've lost my tunnel access, no more television, no more access to the information Codex. And since I can no longer watch you stumbling around the dungeon, I will have no warning for where I'm gonna be teleported away. And if you buy a personal space, he started grumbling under his breath. That wasn't cool, Doughnut. I told you he'd be bad. I don't like people mad at me, Carl, Yeah,

he's pissed. Sorry about that. Honestly, guys, it would be very hard for me to deal with him being mad at me when it was part of the plan and take all the heat for that. I get it, Donut excuse me, guys, I'm having allergies today. He made one second to uh wipe some pollen out of my throat. Probably, Oh god, why are we made this way? Why does our body just react to plants stuff being in the air. It just doesn't seem like we're very well built sometimes,

you know. So Anyway, Yeah, they basically have made it that he is on call and also doesn't have his like streaming services and can be yanked out of bed, and shit. That sucks. It sucks. It would be worse, I will say, if he were like with friends and we're being yanked, but he is always just alone. I have to say a part of me feels like this

might be good for him. I understand that he likes the Magic Guild thing, but also it might be good for you to not be able to like totally retreat from the world, buddy, because I just feel like you're I don't know, he's just not he It might improve his overall headspace to have a little bit more going on in his life. What I'm saying is sometimes we resist change because we are very comfortable, and comfort isn't the same as growth. Actually, it's usually the exact opposite.

If you are comfortable, you aren't changing or learning anything, which is sort of a kiss of death. So I'm trying to look at it that way. But the main issue is that he doesn't get to choose, and they are lying to him. Now, we don't get to choose a lot of the things that happened to us that cause change and growth. To a degree, the fact that he doesn't get to choose isn't even that much of a factor to me. Like Carl and I was about to call her Adet Carl and Donut don't get to

choose to be part of this fucking TV show. He not getting to choose. But it's the fact that they are like pretending that they didn't do this to him on purpose. That's what gets me, you know. And then we get the Odet's moment. If you do pick the manager benefit and it's not attached to an obvious choice, you'll want to make it look like a mistake. Don't ask him about it, because once he tells you what it is, it'll be too late. He won't be a he won't be allowed to tell you unless you ask this.

I didn't get Once he tells you what it is, it'll be too late. Does she mean that once he tells you and you choose it anyway, he will know that you fucked him and will be unwilling to work with you. I guess that's what she's saying, Like essentially, because here's here's my problem. She is assuming that if we bring it up, ask what it is, and he doesn't want it and you and she's thinking, then the next thing is you would just pick it anyway, which

there's another option. We could just have a really intense heart to heart about how much we fucking need you, Mordecai, how we are going to die if you don't do something that makes you little less comfy for like however long the each of the floors, the time spent in is being shortened so dramatically that later on he's like, people are going to be pissed about this, so they're not even asking him to be uncomfy for that long, you know, Like the overall to me, the option that's

missing is attempting to reason with him and appeal to him on a basic empathetic level, and she just assumes that's not an option. And I think the fact that she assumes that's not an option reveals a lot about Odette and why she isn't speaking with Mordecai anymore. What I'm thinking is, maybe don't take advice from the person who alienated him so badly that he'd rather spend a thousand more years doing this indentured servitude than talk to her.

That's what I'm saying is, don't do what she did when you are doing exactly what she says without even thinking that maybe there's another way you could handle it. I don't like it. I think it's disrespectful to him as a person to think that he wouldn't be willing

to hear you out. Mordecai clearly has started to give a shit about these two, and I like to think that if they appeal to him on that level, considering his fate is tied to how far into the game they get, he might be willing to do this just because. But they don't even give him the chance. They don't pay him the respect of even attempting it. And I understand the issue is if you attempt it and it doesn't work, now it's off the table entirely. I get it.

But I have faith in Mordecai, I really do, and it's either you make the attempt and he doesn't agree and you wind up shutting that door, but you paid him the respect of doing that, or you do what they did and you buy some time and then he inevitably finds out that you fucked him over on purpose. I am sorry, but I am like, at this age, forty years old, I do not believe it is possible to keep secrets from the people that you are around for very long, unless you are a truly bad person.

I really don't think anything can be kept secret. I always feel any given secret is going to be found out. It is simply a matter of time, and usually that time is not nearly as long as you think it's gonna be. So what you're doing is for the present, making things easier for yourself. And then at some later point, when he is you've grown to depend on him and he's crucial, he will find out and then he won't even work with you anymore, and now you've fucked yourself,

and for what. I just think this is like a combination of disrespectful, shortsighted, obviously deeply selfish, and fundamentally flawed because it's following Odette's advice, who clearly she ruined her relationship with him. So I think anybody who has something real bad going on with a person and they tell you how to deal with that person, you just should by default not do what they advise you to do. That's just my take. So overall, I get why they did it, but I think it was a bad idea,

and I am mad at them. On his behalf, I'm dreading when he figures out that they did this, Like there's a point leader even just within these four chapters where Carl says something about how like, oh, well, I guess it's good we've got somebody with us who knows what's going on, and Mordecai just kind of narrows his eyes, and I was just like, he's already onto you. We aren't even like a day into this level, and he

already is starting to sense something. I hate it. So yeah, Mistie says, we don't know him, or Odette, we don't know anything. This is the surest thing. It's the surest thing for right now. But I, like I said, I firmly in my guts believe he will find out. And that's not just in fiction, that is in life. If you lie to somebody on this sort of level fucking count your days. They will find out it is you are going to say something by accident, somebody else is

gonna say something thing. There will be a thing that you didn't think of that reveals something later on, and they will begin to think about it and put two and two together. It doesn't matter. And I just think like making it so that he won't work with you later is worse. You know, Ron says, to be honest,

someone is gonna decide something for me. It does feel better if I don't know they knew, and I do love knowing shit if somebody is gonna decide something for you, But that's not my plan is to decide for him in the end. I wouldn't just do it even if he said no, not just because he wouldn't work with me, although that's the main thing, But I just it sort of comes down to me, like I don't know, it's it's a real it's a real weird thing too, because

like it's just making things less convenient for Mordecai. It's not like they're doing something that ruins his life, you know, so to a degree, how unforgivable is it? Like maybe that's part of it. Later on is like, yeah, maybe he'll be super mad at you, but he'll eventually get over being super mad at you. I don't know. I really don't know, like how dramatically awful this might be for him, And I think we need to see some

more examples to really tell. We've got a little sense of it, but like, as of right now, it just feels sort of well, you could also just not act like this and then things wouldn't happen like this. I don't know. I'm mixed on this anyway, So make it all donuts idea. Mordecai can hold a grudge, but he can, but he sees Donut as a child. He'll forgive her if he ever found out you did this on purpose, he would never forgive you. What if a manager benefit

is attached to a class that isn't as good. I like having him around, but it doesn't seem like that great of a trade off. There's a lot he can't help you, can't tell you or help you with as a game guide. As a manager, that's all out the window. He'll lose access to the codex, and everything he tells you will have to be from his own memory. But Mordecai has been in the dungeon for a very long time, and that brain of his is the single greatest resource

any crawler can have. As long as he wants to help you, it'll be the next best thing to having him in the party. He'll be able to use the chat feature. He's an alchemical master. Get him in front of an alchemist's table and he'll be able to make you potions. Surely you can see the benefit in that. So they decide to go through with it, and then in the next chapter it's down to Carl picking a class, and it's interesting because I'm figuring he's going to stay human,

and what he actually goes with. There's the options of Hobgoblin, which comes with some cool stats that are basically exactly what he was looking for. But the Hobgoblin is so ugly and frightening looking that he's just like, I can't nobody's gonna want to watch this. The sasquatch similar issue. And then eventually he gets to one that has no image and it says primal. For the first several contestants of Dungeon Crawler World, all contestants started off as primals,

primals are blank slates. You will look the same as before. You will obtain all skills associated with your current race, with the following exceptions minus one to all base stats. All higher tier skills are unlocked and are able to train to twenty. Choosing this race unlocks multiple exclusive Earth based classes. How hard does it just train a skill above fifteen? And he's basically like, it's hard. You can do it, but you got to be very focused and like zero in on shit. It's worth it, but it

takes a certain amount of strategy, and he says. Karl brings up the legendary skill potion to Maggie, and for a moment, Mordechai is like, I can't answer that, and then he realizes, oh, now I can. Okay, they're not common at all, and if you can find one for sale somewhere, it would cost millions of gold. If that Maggie crawler has half a brain, she'll sell it. But during the faction war segments on the ninth floor, each clan can bring a war chest of supplies that's a

specific unit of measurement based on volume. Each clan will usually fill these chests with such potions and magical rings and other small but powerful items, so they'll have a bunch of these potions. The ninth floor is going to open up in about half an hour, and about fifteen minutes after that, most of those potions will have already

been used up, but not all of them. Now, when he says the ninth floor is going to open up in about half an hour, I understand that there are floors that our people never even get to that have shit going on, as you know, But I didn't think that there were floors that were just open and active before our people got there. For players of fifteen minutes after that, most of the potions will have already been

used up. I don't understand how that works. Like, if you guys can tell me, I'm not sure if this is him saying shit that I'm not supposed to know yet, and like because Carl doesn't ask about that, and I found it weird that he didn't, so I felt like if he didn't ask, then I must be misunderstanding here. But then he says, Okay, what do you think about Primal and Mordecai explains like they're basically the Boogeyman, the originals that conquered the universe. We don't know anything about them,

like what species they were, what they looked like. It said one day they'll return. I opened up the menu, scrolled all the way to the bottom, and picked Primal as my race. I was surprised, considering that Mordecai says there was a point where a lot of them when they chose Primal, it just like didn't seem to work out for them. I thought Carl would also ask about that, why didn't it you know? But he doesn't. And the fact that he doesn't and then picks it, I was

sort of confused and surprised. So let's see bomb squad Tech Prize Fighter compensated anarchists. When I saw that, I cackled because I knew instantly what that was going to be. And I was right. And he goes through all of these and I won't again go through all of them. But let's see, welcome crawlers to the third floor. He's in the midst of looking through this stuff. We have just over seven hundred thousand crawlers remaining. You will have

eight full days is to complete this floor. We will have a longer announcement later, but we know most of you are currently dealing with your game guides. We are looking forward to seeing what races and classes everyone picks eight days. If they keep this up, the six floor is only going to be open for eleven or twelve days. The factions are going to be pissed. It's usually open for thirty. So they start talking about things, and Mordecai says,

don't didn't have to worry about this. But some of these classes have stat minimums, so basically you'll be given a bunch of points to distribute. But like a huge chunk is going to be sucked up because you have a minimum requirement for this class, and that really sucks. But several of the skills that it comes with a pretty rare backfire, for example, allows you to pick up a trap and deconstruct it. You'll be able to use the materials for your own purposes. The triggering mechanisms are

quite valuable. You could make a living just by farming traps. Multiple classes had a pathfinder skill, including the Trickster class, but I soon learned the compensated Anarchist had the next best thing. What's this escape planned skill? Odd? It looks like it's an old skill, but I've never come across before. You learn something new every day. It shows hidden doors more readily, but you can thank your cat for this one. It offers access to the Dungeon Locator, but it doesn't

say what that is or how to access it. At every major intersection of the dungeon is a concealed map legend thatte intelligent and wandering mobs can utilize. It gives a very general overview of what's in every direction. You know how at the zoo there's arrows that say monkeys this way, lions that way. It's the same concept. It'll point you toward exits and city bosses and so forth. It's not quite as good as the Pathfinder skill, which opens the map up in a wide area, but this

might be even more useful in some ways. Okay about this Naughty Boy's Employment agency. That felt very much like we're doing and only fans But okay, and subclasses. We can't see what they are yet. It's rare you're required to choose one, but I've seen it a few times. You'll likely have to specialize further in one of the three skills. Bombs traps are hand to hand. If you were a more well rounded party, I'd say Prize Fighter if you were in a larger group, I'd say bombs squad.

Compensated anarchist our anarchist is potentially the best, but like with your race, it requires a lot of work. You're gonna need to grind and grind and focus on gaining as much experience as possible. With these shortened timers, it's gonna be a lot harder. I grinned. I guess it's a good thing. We have a group member who knows what he's doing. Mordecai narrowed his eyes at me as I scrolled down and picked compensated anarchists as my class,

showing your hand. Just if you're gonna lie to the man, be fucking careful at least Jesus so Donah Strength twenty, Intelligence twenty nine, Constitution six Dexterity twenty one, Charisma seventy. That's bonkers. And then Carl Strength sixteen when Gauntlet formed Intelligence five, devastating, Constitution nineteen, Dexterity eleven, Charisma twenty five. I wasn't too happy yet with this build. Donah was

still way more powerful than me. For the hundredth time in as many seconds, I wondered if I was an idiot for choosing this path, I'd been forced to spend a ton on charisma. The stat was mostly useless, especially since Donut was already deity like with hers, I was going to have to level as quickly as possible. In my head, I originally was hoping for much more strength and constitution from now on. All my points were going into those two until their base was at least twenty.

That is the same as what I had been hoping. So I wasn't very excited about this either. I have no doubt that it's going to pay off. But again, I only have this like complacent attitude because I know they survive for a certain amount of time, and I would not be feeling this way at all if I were in this actual situation with an uncertain future. It would just feel to me like, yeah, you fucked up. So let's see. Only one thing is going to make this work. Training, no money and lots of it. Come on,

let's go outside. You can leave your room, of course, I cand leave my room. I'm your manager now, Plus I have to present you to It's part of the whole deal. Technically, you're my manager, Doughnut grumbled. Mongo screeched that was actually a good point, but neither Mordecai nor I wanted to broach that subject just yet. He ignored it for now. When we'd entered the room, we'd been in a long, golden hallway with tall walls, but now spread before us was a bustling village with dozens of

creatures of all types walking about. The Stench of sulfur and smoke filled the polluted air. Dozens of medieval style shops filled the area. The ground appeared to be made of wooden slats with wide spaces in some areas. Smoke drifted lazily from the holes above on the fake ceiling. A blazing red sun rose filling the area with a crimson hued light. I'd like to present dungeon crawler Carl. The level thirteen COmON been sated anarchist primal Welcome Carl

to the third floor. So this is called over City, and everybody here is mixed together, like from all over the world. It's not like it had been previously there. When he mentions about Brandon and Maggie, Mordecai says, based on where their game guide is, they'll be with them. They had someone called Mistress Tiata as their guide. I don't know where that well, but I can try to figure out where she is. Is this one giant city he nodded. The over city are all in are a

tradition in Dungeon Crawler World. There are hundreds of small, scattered villages surrounded by wider swaths of abandoned city. It's all connected as far as you're concerned. These urban areas appear every three levels. Most of this is just window dressing. You're still below the surface of your planet. That isn't really the sky. There's in a massive oc you know. Think of it as a stage set for the benefit

of the viewers. All the following floors will be significantly smaller than the first two, with the exception of the ninth floor. This is about the size of the state of Arizona. What about these NPCs. A pair of dwarven girls no older than teenagers were practically swooning at the site of Mordecai. Oh, they're very real. They are living, biological creatures similar to some of the mobs. Most have been engineered by the Borrent Corporation and therefore are owned

by the Borrent Corporation. This is the only world they know and have ever known, and we find out that this is basically a West World situation where they are built for the game. They are built for each iteration of the game. Their memories are wiped before a new iteration and implanted with false memories to make that iteration seem like home to them. And Carl is just like, wait, that's fucked up, and like is that legal? And he's like, well, yeah,

it's legal. Well, technically, doing anything like this anywhere outside of the games is considered a war crime. And Carl's like, so making a brothel full of compliant women And he's like, yeah, it's it is illegal, but you know there is a place where they do that, and he points downward to the deeper floors. Most tourists are on the eighteenth floor. It's like a billionaire's luxury retreat. The galaxies, rich and elite congregate on the eighteenth floor to party and gamble

and satiate their most base desires. I don't understand. I assumed the eighteenth floor would be Hell on Earth, filled with dragons and lightning giants, and shit, what would happen if a crawler managed to get there? Nobody ever has, so I don't know the same with the fifteenth floor. Born in the system, AI are required to have a plan in place, but nobody has ever gotten that deep, so nobody knows. This sort of thing is way above

my pay grade. I am very interested in, like, because I of course assume our guys are going to get there eventually. But yeah, I really like the fact that it isn't just like a healthscape the way I was picking.

That it's so far above what's possible that it turns around into it's like comes full circle into being a paradise, which is, you know, if we're talking about all these different levels being metaphors for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, makes some sense that actually there comes a point where you get high enough up in society and instead of it being hard work anymore, now it's a playground, because that is sort of what happens if you manage to

reach a certain echelon of success. Now the hard work isn't anymore, you know, which is sort of it's the goal, but we still try to pretend that it's worth the amount that they're making, which is not true anyway. I just thought that was really really interesting. We get some information about how the guards will fuck you up, so don't attack them, which is usually the way like in Skyrim. Again, don't attack the city guard because then you won't be

able to go back to a place. They will remember you, and it's like just a huge headache. If there's any quest that you need to complete in there, it becomes a huge hassle and sometimes you just can't do it anymore. He talks about how during the day it's like much safer, but at night the creatures that come out outside the city are much more dangerous, and the alleys within the city are actually maybe more dangerous, and he talks about the sixth floor part of this Volcano City storyline for

the end. Here it's the next level down called the Hunting Grounds. It's another urban level with similar villages, though the villages are much bigger and the original residents were much wealthier. They talk about gods briefly, but he says that's going to be later, and then they talk about whether they should go shopping or what, and Mordecai is like, you should not shop here because they won't buy shit from you someplace this small, and they will also gouge you.

And he points out a sign that comes out from this rock by the entryway. It showed arrows with signs and distances in kilometers. Medium sized skyfowel settlement thirty four kilometers. They talk about the safe rooms that are going to be scattered around. They are not just in the villages, and they agree that they'll grind their way to the next village. Will the monsters be a lot harder on this floor? Oh yeah, I'd probably tell you. It's hard to remember. There is night and day. And this is

when he exclaimed, explains about all of that. Don't stop at this first safe room you find. Give it at least two hours, maybe four. And Donut keep ringing on Magic Missile. You're almost at ten. I'll be on chat if you need me. If I'd known he was going to be so bossy, I wouldn't have picked that manager. Benefit Donut muttered. Shut up, Donut, I said, under my breath. You know, I'm just saying. I'm just saying he's gonna

find out. So Chapter four, three hundred and seventy one point five trillion views, seven point eight trillion followers, one point one trillion phaves. We have Donut continuing to train Mango. And I was thinking here, she's the one that's really the most focused on Mango, obviously he's her pet, and I'm wondering, we haven't really tested what happens if she's down for the count and Carl has to handle Mango.

And I'm concerned about that a little bit because, like you know, I think about how it is with the dogs and Pippin. He listens to me, Hell, listen to my husband if it feels serious, but like he just kind of doesn't take him too seriously most of the time. And I just kept thinking, like, oh, man, I hope if she goes unconscious that Mango isn't just like, well, now I'll attack you, Carl. You know, I don't think

that would happen, like it just occurred to me. They get contacted by Zev and everybody is very happy with them sticking with their their classes and races, or not sticking with their classes, just their races. A couple of people are grumbling it doesn't allow for growth, but most seem to believe it's offset by Carl picking something that requires such rigorous training. And both of you have picked unique classes. No one out there has chosen them. There

are a few cat girls walking around. Doughnut looked absolutely scandalized. I laughed. They know you have a manager that go to see him when he they got to see him when he introduced you to the world. But from now on it's how it was before. This floor is eight days. I'm still in negotiation with a few programs. It'll likely be during the fourth night, but I haven't locked in an interview yet. I've had to take a few extra people just to field all the interview requests, which is

pretty encouraging. So this is when they get attacked by a former circus lemur. It's pretty awful, and it's got a human skull as a mask, which, as we hear later, is likely the human skull of a child that it killed. Mango screeched in rage, and Doughnut yelled for the dinosaur not to rush out into the street. Admin notice a new tab is available in your interface Quests New quest, The show must go on. You've discovered the remnants of an ancient circus. Hundreds of years after the toxic cloud

that devastated the over city. This traveling circus endures, but instead of joy and laughter and cotton candy, it now delivers devastation, and pain, find out why this circus still exists, and put an end to its reign of terror. Reward, you will receive a gold quest box, and he goes on chat to Mordecai. We just walked into a quest Should we stay here and try to figure it out? You should try to figure out your face? What mom loved him? More? Well, who's the dead one? Now? I'm

glad that Kat used her ashes bathroom? What's wrong with Mordecai? Are you drunk? It's been like fifteen minutes. Did you know INKYBI have a very low tolerance for Mordecai. He didn't answer. Ah, buddy, I guess it makes sense. You just got roped into playing this role. You had no interest in going getting drunk. I guess that makes sense. So mongo heads for the lemur. He screeched, jumping through the air legs first, and executed a perfect pounce onto

the corpse. The dinosaur growled with glee as scorched Lemur fur went flying. I altered course to grab him. The dino chicken howled in rage as I scooped him up. A knife bounced off the bricks inches from my head. I stopped dead a giraffe, A goddamn giraffe. It bent, then flipped its neck, flinging a dozen of the lemurs into the air in our direction. I am loving this a weird circusole situation. Control your damn chicken, I cried, dropping mango to the ground. The next street had a

single red dot in the center. Hit it with a missile as we cross. Smoke filled the street ahead of us, but blew in the wrong direction. Shit, these things suck. We brushed into the street and I cast fear just as Doughnut shot a full powered magic missile, warning scary ass mobs are immune to fear effects. My first impression was slender Man. Slender Man dressed as a clown. Holy shit,

clown Terror of the clown Level ten. It was humanoid, but with splotchy bone, white skin, no eyes or nose, and a red tooth filled mouth that was much too large. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it so much. I hated it so much second, she yelled as she skidded to the ground. The clown's chest caved in with a crack. As I landed, it felt as if I just crunched into a wooden palette that had splintered under

my weight. Another missile crashed into the clown's raising arm as I punched it in the face as hard as I could. A massive red dots was getting closer. I pulled up the clown's inventory, clown meat, ew, big top ticket, thirty five gold. I looted it all, plus the oversized butcher knives. Red Wig, and little hat. Hunger remained at the clown's ankle, tearing at the skin and growling like a dog with a bone. I bent to pick him up, and I realized he'd gotten noticeably larger. I picked him up anyway,

and he squealed in rage. I put him back down a foot away, tell him to follow us hurry, and later on Donut is just like, oh my god, he's bigger. So they have to run to a safe room a lot sooner than they had intended to, because they are being borne down upon by this like crowd. It's set up to look like a pub with five sleeping rooms that cost ten golden night, and that's not much. Food is also cheap. Mordecai teleported into the room. He stood with his pants down to his knees, eyes closed. Now

lennies one at a time Granny. First, there's play more kind. He trailed off. My good sir, I must ask you sheave your sword immediately. This is a family establishment, oh boy. And Mordecai is like, I was supposed to have hours left yet you're supposed to listen to me. And then he throws up and sits down in his puke and passes out, and Gordo says, this is your manager. You two are so dead. So I started reading five, and

that's why I said that. Donut says they grow up so fast, but she doesn't actually say that until, like, you know, the very beginning of chapter five. But I stopped. I stopped, everybody I stopped. But yeah, I really really liked it as an opening. This new landscape is really interesting. Mordecai being more involved in stuff is cool. But again, I'm really worried about this lie. And also I am concerned about how much Donut and Carl are both gonna

have to grind for certain things. It just sounds dull to me, you know, But like, I have no doubt this author can make it interesting. I just at this point where I'm at, I'm just like, ah, that sounds like a drag. Michael says, the long gap between this episode and the rest of book two sucks, but at least it gives me time to figure out the new breakdown.

That's true because, just for those who are listening in real time, the next two weeks I had taken off to go traveling for an event that now is not actually going to happen. So it's rather annoying because I didn't find out that that event wasn't happening until I was far into July with bookings, and there was not really an easy way to go back and fill up those weeks. So now I have some open weeks that I'm going to be doing some maintenance stuff with the

website and whatnot. But yeah, that works out for Michael.

Because this was originally going to include chapter five, I felt like that was like going to be too much, and we have talked about redoing the breakdown, and based on the fact that, like it was just an hour, I'm sure I could have adjusted and talked less about some other things to fit in chapter five, but it wouldn't have been as fun for me or you probably, so we're going to try and break it down to slightly smaller sections than what was originally planned, so thank

you for doing that, Michael, and thank you all for listening. I hope you're having fun and until next time to loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network, Pat