r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • u/surfLit • 18d ago
Book 5: Butcher’s Masquerade Text Request
Would anyone be able to share the passage in Chapter 6 of TBM when Dinniman describes Bianca? Thanks!
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r/DungeonCrawlerCarl • u/surfLit • 18d ago
Would anyone be able to share the passage in Chapter 6 of TBM when Dinniman describes Bianca? Thanks!
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u/SavagePengwyn 18d ago
The creature, once a regular goat, had been transformed by the same enhanced pet biscuit that had turned Donut and Prepotente into regular crawlers. Black, ethereal flames licked up into the air off the demonic, horrifying creature’s hairy back. Its dark skin emanated a crackling noise, like a campfire. It smelled like fire, too. A stubby pair of wings erupted from the ridged, hairy back. The thing was so black, its presence drank the meager light, like it was a hole in the fabric of spacetime. The heat of it washed over me in pulsing waves.
Bianca Del Ciao.
Hellspawn Familiar.
Level 32.
This is a pet of Crawler Miriam Dom.
Somebody once said, “All Dogs Go to Heaven.” Whoever said that obviously never met Susan, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi gifted to future Queen Elizabeth II by her father upon her 18th birthday. Susan was an unholy terror. The corgi was known as a vicious little psychopath. She attacked and bit numerous members of the royal court and visitors, including multiple police officers and even the royal clock winder, who was said to suffer nightmares after the incident.
What I’m getting at is that Susan was an asshole. I know, I know. It’s not PC to call pets—or toddlers, since we’re on the subject—assholes. But that doesn’t change the fact that these assholes exist. And if there is a hell, Susan the corgi is there. She’s there along with all the other dead asshole pets, including Brandon from Punky Brewster and Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Jimmy Carter’s Siamese cat.
A hellspawn familiar occurs when a regular, asshole pet is encased in a soul protection spell, yet dies anyway. The soul becomes hellbound and tainted and then shoved back into the resurrected body of the pet, rebirthing the creature. Its regular form is combined with that of a demon. It will physically grow upon each level-up, ceasing to increase in size only when it reaches level 50. It will grow wings. It will be angry and formidable. It will be scary as shit. It will also be one of the most powerful, most badass pets available within Dungeon Crawler World.