A routine dungeon announcement brings no important news beyond doubled bounties, sponsor bidding, and absurd bathroom rules for crawlers outside town. After leaving the personal space, Carl finds the other crawlers waiting in the Toe, including the badly drunk Louis and Firas and the prostitute Juice Box sitting with them. Carl studies Juice Box because her transformations seem unusually fluid, and Mordecai explains that she is an exceptionally dangerous changeling who can rapidly mimic races and borrow some of their abilities. That warning makes Carl decide to treat Juice Box and the other prostitutes carefully and respectfully.

Carl gathers everyone into the Royal Palace of Princess Donut so they can speak privately about the gnome fortress and the bombing of the other town. Carl tries to explain that the attack likely happened because something changed with that town’s collateral, but Louis and Firas are too intoxicated to understand even the basic terms. Their behavior frustrates Carl, and Mordecai finally intervenes by threatening them and making clear that they have only survived this long because they landed in Carl’s quadrant. While waiting for Mordecai to prepare a stronger sobering potion, Carl contacts Elle, who reports that Team Meadow Lark is alone in the water quadrant and scouting its own castle, while the other quadrant castles also fit the floor’s environmental theme.

Katia questions Louis and Firas about how they survived, and Louis reveals that he drove a homemade convertible van into the dungeon entrance by accident. More importantly, Louis explains that he has a spell called Cloud of Exhaust, while Firas has an escape spell called Puddle Jumper. Mordecai immediately recognizes that Louis’s spell is unusually strong, especially because Louis’s Pest Control class reduces its cooldown, and realizes the pair have been wasting a powerful crowd-control ability by using it only to flee instead of gaining experience and fighting effectively.

Mordecai gives both men disguised Rapid Detox potions, supposedly to sober them up. Louis drinks first, and after Firas finally follows, both men begin violently vomiting as the potion purges alcohol and most drugs from their systems. Mordecai then explains privately that Rapid Detox will stop them from getting drunk or high for the rest of the floor, making them less of a liability. He also confirms that Louis possesses a legendary-tier spell that should have made him far stronger by now, which reframes Louis and Firas as reckless underleveled fools who might still become useful if Carl can control them.