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* MeaningfulName: The garbage scow sent into the system by '''Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions''' is called ''Homecoming Queen''. What no one else knows is that it's packed full of more than 50,000 former crawlers, coming to join Carl's and Donut's faction and get their revenge. This will be a homecoming to be remembered.
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** The Primal Engines seeded throughout the universe somehow also allow life to flourish in an unnatural fashion and the Syndicate believe they're doing a difficult but necessary job in pruning the excess growth by slaughtering most of the living beings they produce and harvesting the "essential materials" that would allow the System AI to mature into something greater.
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** The Primal Engines seeded throughout the universe somehow also allow life to flourish in an unnatural fashion and the Syndicate believe they're doing a difficult but necessary job in pruning the excess growth by slaughtering most of the living beings they produce and harvesting the "essential materials" that would allow the System AI to mature into something greater. One faction of Residuals [[spoiler:aka still extant Primals]] believe it's necessary to slaughter all life and another [[spoiler:aka followers of the Apothecary aka the Krakaren]] have another, still mysterious purpose regarding the AI and the crawls.
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** The Primal Engines seeded throughout the universe somehow also allow life to flourish in an unnatural fashion and the Syndicate believe they're doing a difficult but necessary job in pruning the excess growth by slaughtering most of the living beings they produce and harvesting the "essential materials" that would allow the System AI to mature into something greater.
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* FriendToAllChildren: We hear a few times about the fires spreading across India. In the epilogue we learn that that's where humanity is leading LaResistance against the mudskipper security forces. [[RousseauWasRight Because that's where the Kinder Facility is and they're trying to rescue humanity's future.]]
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** In the epilogue, we learn that [[spoiler:AI aren't AI. They're infant ''primals''. Agatha is a renegade part of a faction that opposes the faction that tried to give Carl information about the center of the galaxy. That faction is run by the Apothecary, a Primal traitor. Agatha's purpose is to destroy all life in the universe.]]
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** In the epilogue, we learn that [[spoiler:AI aren't AI. They're infant ''primals''. Agatha is a renegade part of a faction that opposes the faction that tried to give Carl information about the center of the galaxy. That faction is run by the Apothecary, a Primal traitor. Agatha's purpose purpose, as part of the Eulogist's faction (may the Eulogist ever sleep) is to destroy all life in the universe.]]
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** Also from the epilogue, the message Carl got at the homeless shelter [[spoiler:was full of lies and half-truths so that it wouldn't be cut off early. Its true purpose was to give Carl a mystery upgrade.]]
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* OhCrap: Carl assumes Ines's bat-shitly intense Catholicism would mean she had no relationship with a deity. Turns out her bard patron is a goddess who gets summoned when Ines dies. The Vinegar Bitch is a big problem and everyone knows it.
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** Carl assumes Ines's bat-shitly intense Catholicism would mean she had no relationship with a deity. Turns out her bard patron is a goddess who gets summoned when Ines dies. The Vinegar Bitch is a big problem and everyone knowsit.it.
** Just before everyone gets pulled into the sky and onto the ninth floor, Donut tells Carl that his patch is glowing because he forgot to activate his soul-strike from the Scavenger's Daughter. Then the Bedlam Bride speaks in his mind.
-->'''Shi Maria:''' You did not diffuse your soul power from the Scavenger’s Daughter. That was a mistake. You should never allow it to linger within you. I need you alive, Carl. I need you reasonably sane. We have so much work to do.
** Carl assumes Ines's bat-shitly intense Catholicism would mean she had no relationship with a deity. Turns out her bard patron is a goddess who gets summoned when Ines dies. The Vinegar Bitch is a big problem and everyone knows
** Just before everyone gets pulled into the sky and onto the ninth floor, Donut tells Carl that his patch is glowing because he forgot to activate his soul-strike from the Scavenger's Daughter. Then the Bedlam Bride speaks in his mind.
-->'''Shi Maria:''' You did not diffuse your soul power from the Scavenger’s Daughter. That was a mistake. You should never allow it to linger within you. I need you alive, Carl. I need you reasonably sane. We have so much work to do.
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* BadassBoast: Combined with RageAgainstTheHeavens when ''98%'' of the galaxy's voting audience votes to remove the protections of the ninth floor and allow the vainglorious elites to die in the Faction Wars.
-->'''Carl:''' You wanted a slaughter? Don’t worry. It’s coming. Thirty thousand of us, plus our mercenaries? Do you remember what we did to the hunters? That was nothing. Your people voted for this. Your own citizens said, yes, we’re okay with the crawlers killing you one by one. Make no mistake. That’s exactly what’s about to happen.\\
''I angrily jabbed my finger upward.''\\
You may have destroyed our homes, but guess what? We have just taken any sense of peace you will ever have in your own home. And that’s only if you get there. There will be no prisoners. There will be no quarter. Those of us who remain are battle worn and tested. Every single one of us that is left, to a crawler, is more experienced than any one of you. We are coming. There is nowhere for you to hide. It is going to be a bloodbath the likes of which has never been seen.
-->'''Carl:''' You wanted a slaughter? Don’t worry. It’s coming. Thirty thousand of us, plus our mercenaries? Do you remember what we did to the hunters? That was nothing. Your people voted for this. Your own citizens said, yes, we’re okay with the crawlers killing you one by one. Make no mistake. That’s exactly what’s about to happen.\\
''I angrily jabbed my finger upward.''\\
You may have destroyed our homes, but guess what? We have just taken any sense of peace you will ever have in your own home. And that’s only if you get there. There will be no prisoners. There will be no quarter. Those of us who remain are battle worn and tested. Every single one of us that is left, to a crawler, is more experienced than any one of you. We are coming. There is nowhere for you to hide. It is going to be a bloodbath the likes of which has never been seen.
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* OhCrap: Carl assumes Ines's bat-shitly intense Catholicism would mean she had no relationship with a deity. Turns out her bard patron is a goddess who gets summoned when Ines dies. The Vinegar Bitch is a big problem and everyone knows it.
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* BellisariosMaxim: InUniverse, in response to Britney wondering how the armless Sluggalos can swing axes, Elle advises her not to worry about it.
-->'''Elle:''' I’ve learned not to think about that sort of thing too much, and it makes everything so much easier.
-->'''Elle:''' I’ve learned not to think about that sort of thing too much, and it makes everything so much easier.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: When the whole crew (minus Florin, who already went to the ninth floor) show up for the final battle, everyone warms up and relaxes. Tran smiles for the first time since he lost his legs and Britney smiles for the first time ''ever''.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: When the whole crew (minus Florin, who already went to the ninth floor) show up for the final battle, everyone warms up and relaxes. Tran smiles for the first time since he lost his legs and Britney smiles for the first time ''ever''. Even Lucia Mar, that crazy mind-controlled MindHive, opened up thanks to Florin reaching out to her and gave the team the ability to reunite with stolen Tier 3 loot.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: When the whole crew (minus Florin, who already went to the ninth floor) show up for the final battle, everyone warms up and relaxes. Tran smiles for the first time since he lost his legs and Britney smiles for the first time ''ever''.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Donut is acting really weird after the fight in the turkey barn, and it doesn't take Carl long to realize why. Just like he freaked out about Ferdinand and tried to protect her from that trauma, she's freaked out about him having to face his father and trying to protect him from that.
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* Carl might not be a math whiz, but Dinniman is. With an eighteen card deck, six of which have to be totems, the odds of getting a starting hand with no totems is a little less than 17%. Therefore the odds that you'll get at least one totem is a little over 83%.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Carl and Donut get to pick their adjutant for the Faction Wars and they pick an orc lawyer who is a stickler for the rules but who also loves taking advantage of loopholes.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mordecai's not a jerk, but he's definitely TheCynic. When he went into the dungeon, it really put him through the wringer. Nevertheless, he made it a point to bring in the most badly disabled of the Changeling children as attendants (at a cost of about 1000 gold a day) so they wouldn't have to go through the final battle of the sixth floor, and has been spending some of his free time playing with them and giving them snacks. He even let them put makeup on him.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Part of Sister Ines's power-set as a cat-girl is that she has an always-on skill called Toxoplasmosis. The more time you spend around her, the more you find yourself determined to protect her. Part of the skill's power is that it makes you forget learning about it. Anton and Paz started worshipping Ogun because they hoped the god would protect them from that power. It didn't work.
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** Katia got a celestial prize for opening the gate to Larracos, it had a box in it.
-->'''Engaged Lock Box of the Night Wyrm.\\
“[[Film/{{Se7en}} Ahh, what’s in the box? What’s in the fucking box?]]”
-->'''Engaged Lock Box of the Night Wyrm.\\
“[[Film/{{Se7en}} Ahh, what’s in the box? What’s in the fucking box?]]”
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* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Near the end of the eighth floor, Quan Ch shows up and screws everyone over thanks to his knowledge of collectible card games (presumably from the daughter who gave him the ring Carl recovered on the fifth floor). However, Carl turns it around on him by preventing a card battle, getting Donut to get into a low-stakes, drawn out card fight with a Duende so Carl can just pummel Quan.
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* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Near the end of the eighth floor, Quan Ch shows up and screws everyone over thanks to his knowledge of collectible card games (presumably from (which was something he was good at before the daughter who gave him the ring Carl recovered on the fifth floor).dungeon, a champion even). However, Carl turns it around on him by preventing a card battle, getting Donut to get into a low-stakes, drawn out card fight with a Duende so Carl can just pummel Quan.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A goddess shows up at the temple where Carl, Donut, Anton, Paz, and Ines have to repair a shrine. Her insanely high charisma charms Carl and Anton, who have to break their fingers to escape it, and also gives them erections. Donut compliments Anton on his.
-->'''Donut:''' You have to break his finger! Goodness. Carl, look at his erection! Good for you, Anton!
-->'''Donut:''' You have to break his finger! Goodness. Carl, look at his erection! Good for you, Anton!
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** Apart from ''Gilmore Girl'' and ''Gossip Girl'', all of the recaps that Donut has to choose from on Rosetta's show are from shows set in Miami. ''Miami Vice'', ''Golden Girls'', ''Dexter'', ''Jane the Virgin''...
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** Apart from ''Gilmore Girl'' and ''Gossip Girl'', all of the recaps that Donut has to choose from on Rosetta's show are from shows set in Miami. ''Miami Vice'', ''Golden Girls'', ''Dexter'', ''Jane the Virgin''... They even had a show Donut didn't recognize with the guy from ''Evil Dead'' in it (''Burn Notice'').
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: We finally get more than hints about Carl's childhood. His father was such a worthless piece of shit that Carl's mother tried to poison him and then killed herself (Carl found her and her suicide note). Carl's dad then abandoned him. Carl struggled to keep things going for a few months, eating all the food in the house, then being taken care of by a friend, but the power finally got shut off (unpaid bills) and Carl was taken into custody first by the police (they thought he'd killed his father) then by child services (when they learned his father was still alive). He was sent to a home, but when he broke another kid's nose, they sent him to a juvenile facility where they pretended to educate him while sending him to a nearby ranch to work as a day laborer. They gave him a worthless GED and shoved him out the door at eighteen, which is when he joined the Coast Guard, the only option available to him.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When he was a kid, after people finally realized he was living on his own, the police initially suspected that Carl had killed his dad. The cop interviewing him gave him cigarettes to butter him up. When they learned his dad was alive and living in another state, they stopped caring about Carl and yelled at him for smoking.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Carl's fans get him a massage coupon to the Penis Parade. They're encouraging him to go there so he can delve into the naughty, naughty [[spoiler:Naughty Boy's Club, where you can get murder contracts]].
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** Carl's fans get him a massage coupon to the Penis Parade. They're encouraging him to go there so he can delve into the naughty, naughty [[spoiler:Naughty Boy's Club, where you can get murdercontracts]].contracts]].
** Apart from ''Gilmore Girl'' and ''Gossip Girl'', all of the recaps that Donut has to choose from on Rosetta's show are from shows set in Miami. ''Miami Vice'', ''Golden Girls'', ''Jane the Virgin''...
** Carl's fans get him a massage coupon to the Penis Parade. They're encouraging him to go there so he can delve into the naughty, naughty [[spoiler:Naughty Boy's Club, where you can get murder
** Apart from ''Gilmore Girl'' and ''Gossip Girl'', all of the recaps that Donut has to choose from on Rosetta's show are from shows set in Miami. ''Miami Vice'', ''Golden Girls'', ''Jane the Virgin''...
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* TheUnintelligible: Orren, the Valtay Liaison Carl had been dealing with is replaced by... some sort of Satanic goat monstrosity from the Plenty. It's a Caprid. All it does is scream.
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** Asojano is an Orisha, a deity of the west African religions that spread out in the diaspora. Originally an omen of smallpox, he became a healer figure, just like his corrupted form is a plague-bearer and his corrected form would have been a healer.
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* FantasticRacism: Donut immediately considers the concept of a CatGirl an abomination, but is even more upset to learn that she's a Havana Brown.
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** Donut immediately considers the concept of a CatGirl an abomination, but is even more upset to learn that she's a Havana Brown.
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* ShownTheirWork: Cuba is a sub-tropical island and quite warm even in December. It's also a tourist destination, despite the US embargo.
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** Cuba is a sub-tropical island and quite warm even in December. It's also a tourist destination, despite the USembargo.embargo.
** The Scavenger's Daughter is the name of a torture device that's like the opposite of the rack (also known as the Duke of Exeter's Daughter), because it compresses instead of stretching. It's a big triangular metal device where the prisoner's head goes at one point, the feet go at the other two points (it's isosceles), and the hands go at the middle. Then the prisoner is scrunched, forcing blood out the nose and ears. Carl's patch is basically forcing souls into him and, if he doesn't release them, it'll be forced out of him.
** Cuba is a sub-tropical island and quite warm even in December. It's also a tourist destination, despite the US
** The Scavenger's Daughter is the name of a torture device that's like the opposite of the rack (also known as the Duke of Exeter's Daughter), because it compresses instead of stretching. It's a big triangular metal device where the prisoner's head goes at one point, the feet go at the other two points (it's isosceles), and the hands go at the middle. Then the prisoner is scrunched, forcing blood out the nose and ears. Carl's patch is basically forcing souls into him and, if he doesn't release them, it'll be forced out of him.
