Chapter 6

Carl equips himself with the loot he's collected, gaining magical items that significantly boost his stats and abilities. As he experiments with his new gear and explores his skill menu, a mysterious female voice emerges from Beatrice, suggesting the cat may have a personality or consciousness beyond what Carl initially understood.

Carl begins sorting through his loot in order. He dons the fingerless gloves and chooses the toad cudgel as his weapon. He discovers the Goblin Pass tattooed onto his forearm, which grants him passage through goblin territory but makes him vulnerable to fairy-class creatures and cannot be hidden. He examines the nightgaunt cloak, which provides +4 Constitution and resistances, and the trollskin shirt, which offers +7 Regeneration and immunity to melee debuffs—Mordecai identifies this as exceptionally valuable loot. After equipping the cloak and shirt, Carl's Constitution rises to nine and he receives two achievements along with a Bronze Adventurer Box containing a torch and two healing potions. Still lacking pants and shoes, Carl puts on the toe ring of the splatter skunk, gaining +3 Strength and the Powerful Strike skill at level three, which triples his unarmed damage. While fidgeting with the skill menu, Carl discovers he has a Frogger skill level of 8, reminiscing about playing the arcade game in his basement as a child. As he reflects on the dungeon being composed of discarded human civilization, a sultry female voice emerges from Beatrice, criticizing his fashion choices and questioning why she was hired, suggesting the cat may possess more than one personality.