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[Nirkatze]

OMG I love all y'all's book-inspired outburst lines... I feel like I need to start picking some up...

[Narilka]

I finished Carl's Doomsday Scenario. That was satisfying. (view spoiler)[I am so pissed they were cheated out of Celestial level loot!! Stupid, cheap Vorant Corporation. And pretty funny how the AI tried to hand that out to a lot of crawlers. This, along with the defects Carl has noticed, makes me wonder if the AI is really starting to malfunction or if it's just having fun bending/breaking game rules.

I'm not sure how I feel about Donut losing the crown. Because it was... destroyed? Does that mean that it won't respawn for someone else to pick up?

Poor Carl lol that whole ending scene.. and definitive proof that spoof video was a spoof lol poor guy.

Brilliant of Carl to have them just blow up everything since it as all about to blow anyway. Hes' really living up to his chosen class. (hide spoiler)]

[Narilka]

Virginie, did you want to jump straight in to DDC3?

[Virginie]

Narilka wrote: "Virginie, did you want to jump straight in to DDC3?"

Yeah :) I haven't had time for audiobooks these past few days, but you can start and I'll catch up :D

[Narilka]

Sounds like a plan!

[Nirkatze]

yess! More vicarious Carl awesomeness!

[Tonari no Emily]

So Ive got about a 45 min commute and this morning there was a fatality on the highway i take not too far ahead of me. Theyve closed north and southbound lanes and Ive not moved in about 2 and half hours now. Almost everyone is just out of their cars on the highway... this is insane

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "So Ive got about a 45 min commute and this morning there was a fatality on the highway i take not too far ahead of me. Theyve closed north and southbound lanes and Ive not moved in about 2 and half..."

Did you have to call work?... good luck...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Years and years ago... 5th grade field trip to the Saint Louis Zoo... Spring 1998?...

We went to the zoo, while we were at the zoo or shortly into the trip home, a freight truck went off the big highway overpass and damaged a support strut... we were stuck for hours, had to eventually detour into downtown Saint Louis and take city streets to get across town and out of town to get back on the highway and return home... had to use some emergency school budget to get everyone McDonald's for dinner and got back to school at like 7-8pm to be sent home with parents... otherwise, woulda gotten back to school around the end of the school day 3-4pm, I think...

Vivid memory, 25 years later... bring it up occasionally...

[Tonari no Emily]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "So Ive got about a 45 min commute and this morning there was a fatality on the highway i take not too far ahead of me. Theyve closed north and southbound lanes and Ive not m..."

Yeah most of day shift is stuck in it too. Ive moved about 50 feet since then

[Tonari no Emily]

Yeah so I left my house at 6 AM yesterday and didn't make it to work till 1130 AM...
I had to leave my car and cross the closed freeway to use the restroom at a McDonalds because I was drinking my morning coffee and couldn't hold it any more💀 ..
0/10 do not recommend getting trapped on a highway

Today on my way to work there was another accident and for a time I wasn't moving, but it only made me 10 minutes late 🤡 I was seriously about to panic that it was happening again

[Narilka]

Wow. That's quite an event. Hopefully never to be repeated.

[Tonari no Emily]

Yeah.. The freeway to my job has been under construction for maybe 5 years now with multiple stretches not having shoulders. Super dangerous and has caused multiple incidents

[Nirkatze]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Yeah.. The freeway to my job has been under construction for maybe 5 years now with multiple stretches not having shoulders. Super dangerous and has caused multiple incidents"

Oh yikes, that sounds terrifying... makes me glad I live in a part of the world where a 10-15 minute commute to work with bad traffic is considered long... and the people who come in from the Valley with an hour long commute are seen as Hard Core.

[Narilka]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Yeah.. The freeway to my job has been under construction for maybe 5 years now with multiple stretches not having shoulders. Super dangerous and has caused multiple incidents"

Ick. Come to think of it, most of the freeways in my area have been under construction of one form or another for as long as I've lived here. I'm very glad to not have any commute since I primarily work from home now. I definitely don't miss the traffic.

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through Ch 6. Interesting set up to this level. (view spoiler)[So it's a massive subway system. That's definitely different.

I loved how everyone made that vendor's day by buying all those expensive rooms with vouchers. Win win win!

The trapped luggage I didn't expect. Fire ants, literally lol

I love that Mongo is now full sized and a murder machine :D

I'm glad it looks like they're going to meet up with some old friends. It was sad about the guy who died protecting the geriatrics. Nice that he was able to get a message sent before the floor collapsed. (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You guys are slowly catching up...

Each book, I go in, wondering how or if the title will play into it... so far, most books have been potential artifacts / gear / etc... except for the first one, which was just Carl's name/role...

[Nirkatze]

Still loving reading y'all's DCC notes... makes me so excited for the next one...

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook ch 7. And there it is. (view spoiler)[The titular item is an actual book! I know it was played off as a waste of a prize but I have a hunch this book will prove invaluable given Carl's chosen class. It's too bad he didn't choose the chaps for pure comedy reasons.

And now they got Mordecai out of the way for a few days. Let's see how Carl and Donut do fully on their own for a while. (hide spoiler)]

[Nirkatze]

Narilka wrote: "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook ch 7. And there it is...."

Ah, such an iconic moment. Just got chills.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm deleting as many BRs from my plan as possible, at this point, without abandoning the ones I'm super committed to... the goal was to reach 500 pages/day... still at 550... not sure I can delete anything else...

[Nirkatze]

Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm deleting as many BRs from my plan as possible, at this point, without abandoning the ones I'm super committed to... the goal was to reach 500 pages/day... still at 550... not sure I can delete ..."

Would it help to table the series that just you and me are BRing, Iain? I think we might be the only ones going through Kushiel and Black Jewels at this point. Those can easily be delayed. Maybe just wrap up the Kushiel trilogy and look to move the rest later...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Nirkatze wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm deleting as many BRs from my plan as possible, at this point, without abandoning the ones I'm super committed to... the goal was to reach 500 pages/day... still at 550... ..."

Probably, yea... delay Kushiel 4-9 until the Fall... leave Twilight's Dawn in June even tho we read Shalador duology completely in April... decide when to schedule the newer Black Jewels books later (Fall, again?)... I definitely read more from About September/October to March/April, I think...

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through Ch 11 (view spoiler)[The mantaur was just weird. And I guess that's the thing on the cover that Carl is fighting. Too bad, seemed like a nice guy and he gave the group a lot of good information.

I like the patrons Carl and Donut have. I think the one for Katya could be problematic. We will see. (hide spoiler)]

[Nirkatze]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Probably, yea... delay Kushiel 4-9 until the Fall... leave Twilight's Dawn in June even tho we read Shalador duology completely in April... decide when to schedule the newer Black Jewels books later (Fall, again?)..."

Sure thing, I'll make notes in my tracker. Might be a good idea to postpone Twilight's Dawn too, since the introduction of the High Lord's Daughter short is really the start of the new series.

I'll leave myself a note to poke folks about Imriel trilogy and Black Jewels new stuff in August. Maybe folks will be more interested in joining then...

EDIT: eh, I went ahead and asked folks now for fall, will poke again later too if don't get much of a response.

[Narilka]

Beware of Chicken 4 is up for preorder on Audible with a release date of 11/19 :D

[Narilka]

Oh nice! Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5 is also up for preorder for a Sept release. Though I think I'm the only one reading the Bobiverse books.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Narilka wrote: "Beware of Chicken 4 is up for preorder on Audible with a release date of 11/19 :D"

Great to hear!!!

I abandoned Bobiverse after book 1 I think

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Ch 16 (view spoiler)[Ha! Donut got her sunglasses :D They have pretty sweet stats/abilities on top of looking cool.

I'm glad Carl is starting to crowdsource dungeon solving. With all the various tracks and color lines, they could use the help. I bet it will be handy on lower floors too. (hide spoiler)]

[Nirkatze]

Narilka wrote: "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Ch 16 Ha!..."

When I first read your comment I had to double-take--(view spoiler)[The crowdsourcing continues to be a common element throughout. And it is so good! (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You know... I'm not that behind so far, in May... looking at my spreadsheet today, after burying my head in the sand all week... and I'm only like 5 books behind... because everything starts stacking up tomorrow for the next 2 weeks...

[Nirkatze]

I'm running about a week behind right now and kind of cherry-picking my BRs... mostly focusing on the ones that other people have already started... and agreeing to all "let's delay" suggestions...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

In more LitRPG news, The Daily Grind 4: A Slice-of-Life LitRPG came out yesterday, and The Daily Grind 5: A Slice-of-Life LitRPG is scheduled for October release on Audible...

Amelia the Level Zero Hero Book 3 came out 2 weeks ago...

Dead Tired 2 came out yesterday... Sporemageddon: Volume 3: Penicillium came out 2 weeks ago (and doesn't seem to have a goodreads link I can find)...

That's all I can think to check, right now...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I have a feeling you guys might catch up with us on Dungeon Crawler Carl, just in time to wait for book 7 to come out...

Just finished #5 today and it was alot of fun... more insanity... things are getting more and more dangerous with each book... somehow... every book seems unsurvivable, honestly... not very fair... but the more we learn about The Superiority, the more everything seems horrible, even outside the dungeon...

With DCC 5 and Warm Hands of Ghosts done, I've finally made it to my May BRs... I read Magic Slays the other day, but I have plenty of others on my backlog and in the coming week...

Just cleared out my finished books from iTunes and Audible, and downloaded 6 books from Audible, and transferred 4 books from iTunes, to go with the 4 books on Hoopla... just need to grab 1 more on Hoopla tomorrow, and I'm good till the 15th... busy week... at least have are short/quick reads...

[Narilka]

Maybe. I plan to put something else between DCC3 & 4.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

When you two started, there was talk of trying to catch up... with only a few weeks to go until the last released book BR, I figured you guys would probably be late to the party for exactly that reason... but maybe not too too late... "Paula Late"... 3-4 weeks max...

[Paula]

I have been summoned! I clicked in here by accident and see myself mentioned haha

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Did I say Paula Late?… I meant Paula On Time :D

[Tonari no Emily]

Narilka wrote: "Oh nice! Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5 is also up for preorder for a Sept release. Though I think I'm the only one reading the Bobiverse books."

I'm caught up on those! I saw that was coming out, I'm pretty excited!

[Paula]

of course, also known as being fashionable on time haha

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through Ch 25. I did not see that coming! (view spoiler)[I didn't expect things to go well with Hekla's group, expecting a betrayal of some sort, but not like that. I didn't think she'd deliberately kill Katya to try and goad Carl into a rage so she could take him out too. AND I definitely never expected Katya to end up killing her sort of by accident/semi on purpose instead! Glad Donut got to witness it all and really glad that Carl kept two of those special bolts as proof. They're going to have to watch out for Ava in the future. I also hope that Katya revoked everyone's access to her private room.

I hope Carl and crew can rescue Batista.

Any crawlers that survive this mad game are going to have horrible PTSD at the end if they don't already. Or be completely psychotic from their circumstances. Possibly both. (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Audible App recommendations got me again, from the blurb:

Momo the Ripper: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure

Added to wishlist to see if it appears on sale...

[Narilka]

I finally got my husband to start Dungeon Crawler Carl today. He's enjoying it immensely :D Yes, on audio.

[Nirkatze]

@Iain--I'm updating my tracker and itching for firm dates... How does moving both Kushiel & Black Jewels to August sound? Or do you want to spread them out more? Kushiel on 1st and Black Jewels (starting with Twilight's Dawn) on 18th?

[Narilka]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook through Ch 31 (view spoiler)[I was thinking since my last update... man that fight with Hekla would have been the grand climax of a regular book. I have no idea what Carl's glorious idea is but I expect it to be epic :D

Imani and Ellie have really grown on me. I'm going to be sad when something finally happens to one or both of them.

Very interesting that through their actions Carl and team are waking up some of the NPCs to the fact that they're basically just actors. I wonder how that will play out on later floors. Normally they are memory wiped between each floor and being recycled right? I wonder if any will keep a hint of their memories. (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Nirkatze wrote: "@Iain--I'm updating my tracker and itching for firm dates... How does moving both Kushiel & Black Jewels to August sound? Or do you want to spread them out more? Kushiel on 1st and Black Jewels (st..."

That's fine

[Narilka]

Finished The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. That was pretty great. (view spoiler)[So many layers to the story. The NPCs started to remember and fought back in their own way. The whole Prince Piggy not dead and inhabiting a god's body lol I'm with Donut - I don't like what they've done to Xev. Nor do I like their new PR manager.

With their chats going public, the groups going to have to figure out how to be sneaky. Can more than one person go into a bathroom at a time??

I like where this is heading. Even though surviving the dungeon is important, it seems the real goal is to get at the sadistic bastards who created the whole mess. (hide spoiler)]

[Narilka]

Random aside -- as I was grabbing the page count for DCC 3, I noticed that there's going to be a hard back release this year by Ace! Kudos to the author - he's been picked up by a big publishing house!

Wandered over to the publisher's site. Looks like they have plans to release the first 3 so far: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

[Nirkatze]

Ooh shiny! Though I have my heart set on kickstarter copies, myself...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Surprised I've gotten so much reading done the past few days... big boss talked me into going into work 2hrs early the past 2 days... messing with my sleep/body cycles... opted to leave early at the 8-8.5hr mark instead of stay overtime to regular end of shift... was completing some projects best done this way... been failing to find time during regular shifts the past 3 weeks for these projects... ready for my weekend already...

2am to 10:30-11am shifts, instead of 4am-12:30pm... just me and one mid-tier boss in the building/working together, since safety requires a minimum of 2 people at all times... and I don't have security codes anyway...