Donut picks her race and class. Shes a cat child actor. As a child actor mordecai becomes her manager. This is goodand bad. Bad is he cant do anything else so thats a lot of resources lost. The good is he's no longer constrained as to what he can tell them.
This was all odette's idea.
Ch 2 pg 15
Carl picks primal as his race. Pro: skills that usually top out at 15 go up to 20 for primals. Con: no up front bonuses of any kind. Mordekai explains this as starting 5 levels below everyone else.
He chooses the compensated anarchist as his class. It's good for both explosives and unarmed combat and it makes him very appealing to fans. The big downside is the minimum charisma is 25. That's gonna take up most of his a available points.
Ch 3 pg 30
This level is called the over city and it goes together with the lower levels in an extinct volcanoes apocalypse theme. There's lots of different villages and lots of abandoned city. A lot of the stuff that they do with genetic manipulation and mind control to make the mobs and NPCs do their thing is illegal in the rest of the galaxy, so a lot of rich assholes like to "party" on the lower levels of the dungeon. Nobody has ever made it past the 13th level, so the 18th abd 15th floors are popular for doing all sorts of immoral shit.
There are giant guards, not to be fucked with. Mordekai suggests running if they ever run afoul of the law or whatever. Donut wants to go shopping cause they have lots of money. Mordekai tells the to go to a bigger village 24 km away.
Ch 4 pg 38
They go into an area that used to be a circus and now is full of lemurs that throw knives at them. They do some fighting but for the most part just run until they get to the first safe room they can find.
Ch 5 pg 48
The safe room isn't as useful as they had hoped because mordekai got drunk and when he teleported here he passed out. They get some fun random things in boxes like old books that remind Carl of his dad and a cat tree. They also get random earth skills scutelliphilly and cestA punta..donut now has a spell that can make duplicate pets for a minute. Having 3 velociraptors at once is gonna be really useful some day.
They leave the safe house to do some grinding. They take out a lemur by surprise also this whole circus thing is a quest they can try to solve if they wanna risk it for the biscuit.
Also in the heat of the moment Carl makes a comment about not risking your life for your pet. The author makes it clear that will come back to haunt him.
Ch 6 pg 59
I dont think I've mentioned yet that nothing level, the whole world was randomly mushed together rather than being spread out based on where they entered the dungeon like the first 2 levels. Carl finds some dead people and thinks they might be Filipino. They were killed by lemurs.
They get some loot off their dead bodies. Carl suddenly sees the appeal of being a crawler killer. Way better loot than mobs.
Mordekai pings them and tells them to get to a saferoom ASAP. Night is coming and its crazy dangerous. They get bombed by circus folk and come across a neutral super powerful npc. She's a sexy tatood elf lady and Carl breaks his own pinky so as to not be charmed by her. They try to skedaddle so as to avoid being caught in the crossfire as they expect her to fight circus NPCs. But its too late for escape. They're surrounded by zoo beasts.
ch 7 pg 74
Carl throws up a shield and donut casts fog of war. Carl and the velociraptor kill one li9n and donut uses his spell to turn the lion into a zombie and then another spell to turn it into three lions and with some punches and magic missles they kill the remaining lions. All the while the tattooed elf lady does nothing. Turns out her plan was to see Carl die and then use his blood to summon something to kill the circus folk and reclaim her land.
Carl says they'll meet again tomorrow to talk about how they can help each other.
They make it back to the safe room and mordekai is beside himself with incredulous anger at Carl for getting involved with the tattooed elf lady. She (and other important npcs like her ) have their own plot lines that they have long term plans for and if a crawler accidentally ends up in the way of said plotlines the powers that be have no problem smooshing them out of the way. All donut gets from this is that its another show and as such more viewers of they stay involved with tattooed elf lady.
Ch .8
Mordecai's advice is to run the hell away from the circus to get away from this quest that is way out of their league. That d9esnt work out. They are stunned. Carl wakes up in a dark room and has received a platinum box for having survived a level 15 spell. Excited to see what's in the box. In the dark room the tattooed lady whispers in Carl's ear how disappointed she is. What ends up happening is that someone needs to bleed to death in 9rder for tatood lady to do her thing. So she's set up a mano eeee mano fight between Carl and a mutant bear named heather. Either way one of them will die and tattooed lady will do her summons and get her vengeance against the circus.
Ch 9 pg 104
Carl and mutant bear fight. It's not going great for Carl as the bear has these worms that not only physical hurt you but also psychologically damage you. In a desperation move Carl uses his lottery scratcher. It's 50/50 fire ball or healing custard. It ends up custard. But in a weird healing hurts the undead kind of deal the custard turns Heather back into a normal bear. A very tired bear that's ready for all of this to be over. Carl punches her to death.
Tatood lady (Tsarina Signet the ELITE) uses Heather's blood to turn her tatoos into giant paper cutout monsters. But they get the job done. All the circus monsters are killed or flee into the circus tent. Neither Signet nor her paper army can enter the tent. Carl had a circus ticket and can. The mission is to bring down. The three poles holding up the tent. This will allow Signet and her Army to end this thing.
Also, Carl is chatting with their publicist and there's some mysterious request that Carl has that the AI might allow under very specific circumstances.
Ch 10 pg 119
Carl goes into the circus tent and its all horrifying. All except the smell. The smell is just like a real circus. It reminds him of a time his mother took him to a circus. The gist of the story is either his dad got sole custody and he never saw her after that or she died.
Long story short, the ringmaster is a giant vine. Think the magic beanstalk Jack climbs up. Carl tries to poison it.
Ch 11
Carl is getting great ratings with the poisoning. He makes a deal with the producers. He'll keep doing this plotline exclusively if he and donut can be regulars on the show. But he doesn't end up poisoning the ringmaster. Instead he eats a worm ice cream cone and casts a spell that prevents mind control the result is that he has the ringmaster in his head and can communicate with him and he goes outside and he talks to Signet and she and the ringmaster are able to make peace. Signet says donut will wake up in the morning. Carl heals himself and runs back to donut cause she has low health.
Ch 12 pg 138
Carl finds donut and mongo (that's the name if their pet velociraptor) nearly dead. They're surrounded by things that look like giant sea urchins. Mongo and donut are full of needles from the things. Turns out they're the cleanup mobs on this level. They came here to "cleanup" all the protective stuff Carl built up around donut. Then Mongo fought them to defend donut and that's how we ended up here. Carl corals mongo and throws more garbage out to the urchins and they do their thing without further incidendt and Carl heals donut and mongo and when donut wakes up in the morning they head to the nearest town.
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