Chapter 11

Carl's group encounters Sister Ines's team (Anton, Paz, and a cat woman) on a beach hunt for monk seals. After establishing cautious trust, they work together to defeat Yago, a Level 70 monk seal with martial arts abilities, while simultaneously triggering a new quest called "The Chowder War" involving monk seals and land crabs.

Carl, Donut, and Mongo travel with Sister Ines, Anton, Paz, and an unnamed cat woman to a rocky northern beach in search of monk seals. The group's initial wariness gradually eases as they interact; Mongo's friendliness helps break tension, particularly with Paz. Sister Ines reveals her team's classes: she is a poet laureate bard healer, Paz is a Santero necromancer cleric with tank abilities, and Anton is a fugitive rogue. When Carl examines a sleeping seal named Yago, he receives a quest called "The Chowder War," involving a conflict between monk seals protecting sacred waters and land crabs migrating to spawn, with absurdist descriptions of the crabs' reproductive behavior. Paz provides context that land crabs are real creatures that migrate on the island. The group executes a battle plan: Paz uses his Turtle ability to tank while ranged attackers damage the seal from afar, and Carl applies an invisibility potion to land the killing blow with the flag. Yago proves formidable, employing Caribbean kung fu techniques, body slams, flips, and a protection spell that blocks ranged attacks. Carl's close-range punches force the seal's attention away from the dying Paz. After Paz recovers and lands a heavy mace strike, Carl plants the flag into the seal, defeating it and obtaining an uncommon totem card featuring Yago. The card can only be activated by Sister Ines as squad leader. As the battle concludes, another seal named Geraldo approaches the group at the same level as Yago.