Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The dynamite blows a hole in the wall, and they jump inside. New achievements announce that Carl assassinated a high-ranked NPC town official and has become the town’s new acting magistrate. He also prevented another crawler from completing their own quest in the process. From this, Carl surmises that the blast killed both Featherfall and Quill. Carl notes that their quest is still active, meaning they are missing something. He had assumed that either Featherfall or Quill was responsible, or both.

They inspect the rubble of the office and find a secret passage into a room that is “a serial killer’s wet dream” (294). The room is filled with women chained to the walls. Several are missing their heads, meaning they are the current krasue. Others still have their heads, but they are loosely attached, as if in the process of changing. In the middle of the room is a male winged figure, labeled as “Former Magistrate Featherfall” (295). He has been dead for a while, which means they could not have killed him in their explosion. Recalling that krasue do not die unless the body is destroyed, Carl allows Mongo kill one of the bodies on the wall to see what will happen.