Chapters 175 + 176

I was just rereading the end of book four and noticed that one of Carl's perks as an adherent to Emberus is other worshipers of the god are indicated to him with a symbol. So in theory he should be able to tell for himself which hunters he can't kill.

DrSubterfuge

I found a word that needs correction. It's right before the description of 'Pawna's Cries'. The paragraph is, "It was a highly-valuable and familiar potion, though not as valuable as the one I already hat." I think the last word of the sentence should be 'had' and not 'hat'.

Not quite clear what the Quarter Fall ring does. If it simply quarters the speed at which someone is falling, then it effectively just reduces the acceleration due to gravity down to a quarter. If, however, it reduces the maximum speed at which someone falls to one quarter, then it basically means that the maximum speed the wearer could fall would be roughly 30 MPH, regardless of at what height the wearer starts.

Stephan Doyle

Here comes Laundry day!

Douglas Fotheringham

I think it means arrive at that floor.

MatrixM

I think it's a building addiction. Currently enough to sway him when he lets his guard down and is already emotional. But we'll see

MatrixM

I think these chapters do a good job of dispelling the “Carl is addicted to the ring” theory- dozens of kills either he or an ally did, and almost no use of the ring

Erik Leiden

The quarter fall nipple ring…. So terminal velocity of your average human (in the belly down position) is 120MPH, a quarter of that is a maximum falling speed of 30 MPH which is Carla new maximum fall speed…. But it doesn’t just quarter his maximum fall speed, it quarters the speed it takes to fall, if he jumps off a table and normally it would take him 1 second to reach the ground does it now take 4 seconds? Is it only for natural fall damage or would it apply to him blowing himself up into the air? I’m now picturing Carl blasting into the sky howling like Goofy

Dirty Dibbler

3rd floor. Which is level 1. 6th floor is level 2

Adam McGuire

Plus it seemed odd to go to that word count and include calling in the 100G overcharge "favor" to get access, then to skip over the whole scene of what they saw and did inside. Why all of that work to not show the payoff they needed, be it for information, merchant access, or whatever.

Nice one. I have to note, though, that the conversation in the Desperado Club confused the hell out of me. I don’t know who is allowed on what floor of what, or which hunters are where.

Jason Davis

At what level did Carl and Donut enter Desperado club. All that talk of club levels and changed rules is confusing or am I the only one turned around?

tehlu

Dumb question - in Book 4 didn’t Carl know where the Skull Empire was because they picked the only place with a pre-built castle? But this latest chapter says everyone builds a castle when crawlers “arrive”? Does that mean “enter the dungeon”, “enter the third floor” when the Hunting Grounds opens, or literally just “when the 8th floor closes”?

Zachary T Pruckowski

I feel like Carl should have gotten an achievement for when the dino was licking the blood from his feet. The AI would definitely have made a creepy comment about it.

Sinful

I might've missed it, are the Valtay also making the Crawl go as quickly as possible? Do they get to decide or is this a borant corporation decision? Of the latter, would the corporation still want to make the crawl end asap so the money goes to borant the country? Asking cos I was thinking about how the later books would cover more than one floor each

MatrixM

Oh good idea.

MatrixM

Every successive box sent to each sponsored crawler costs significantly more. Implied to be a LOT more. So this is them getting around that problem. Also they seem to want the plan to be on the downlow but prepotente might've messed that up a little by being so obvious.

MatrixM

You sack of shit! That was quite the cliffhanger! Can’t wait for the next one

That’s… a good question. I think it would count them as an npc but I’m not sure

Quinn Hamm

Holy hell, he wasn’t kidding about that cliff hanger! Love to see it, keep up the great work!

Quinn Hamm

Could the ring of divine suffering be stacking a wisdom debuff? I know that the game unlists wisdom, but does it make the wisdom Stat immutable?

The hunters are summoning Diwata, not Signet.

Ligma

Woohoooooo. Clift hanger be dammed...... Thank you matt

Zach West

Donut has some of the best lines in these chapters “Besides, based on his porn-viewing habits…”

DannyK

“My king is a fan of swapping partners, just so you know,” she said up to Louis. “Maybe we can talk your fiancée into portraying my bitch of a mother. Then we can have some fun.” Then she did some Hannibal Lector thing with her tongue, causing everyone in the room to stop and look at the talking sex doll head. Holy shit dude. This is so fucking funny. Thanks for the great story.

Alexander Dupree

What happens if someone uses a Ring of Divine Suffering... on a god?

Adunk

I only know this because I looked it up, but you spelt perineum wrong.

Alex LeBlanc

Happy new year

Abhijit Pawase

The question of whether the AI's attention is good or not is interesting. I've always felt the foot thing was a bit it was doing for the audience that evolved into a convenient excuse to show favoritism to Carl as it recognized his mindset and goals. The rewards given in those Spicy boxes are all extremely powerful and if I'm remembering correctly were most often Cookbook/anarchist type items. It also seems to push Carl towards significant events like this Tina/elf thing or by placing him in the bubble with the Gate of the Feral Gods (did other bubbles have special things like that that?) Given its hate for legal restraints and Carl's desire to tear down the system and do damage outside of the crawl, it seems natural it would want to elevate him to let him do his damage. Prepotente's sponsor box being for Carl and Donut seems weird to me. He and Carl share the Plenty and the Apothecary as sponsors and Donut also has the Apothecary, who presumably sent the box, unless Pony's unknown(?) third sponsor gave it to him. So why not give it directly to her or Carl? It seems like it could be some kind of trap, but the instructions read as sincere. I'm not sure what Carl's potion is intended for. All I can think of is Donut's Laundry Day, which the book said could be used to extract a deity sponsor from their deity, but its level must be fairly low and that would require using the bolt and would leave the pissed off god still wanting to kill Carl. That feels like a plan best used for Gruul.

Oh boy, that cliffhanger. Damn.

I just started the new Boba Fett series and got setup to not be interrupted. This I got the notice for these chapters... TV Paused, reading now.

EliteGeek