Carl and Princess Donut stalk a “ninja crab” perched atop a box truck while Donut uses a Size-Up potion to read its stats and spells. Donut reports the crab, Raul, has high Intelligence, limited Strength (but an asterisk boosting claw crush power), and meditation-based spells including a risky “Chi Cultivator” that can permanently triple power after repeated casts. Carl plans to trap Raul in the truck while Donut uses control spells, and Carl prepares a dangerous Phase Through Walls potion for quick in-and-out strikes.

When Raul loudly “senses” them, Carl realizes the crab is only practicing dramatic lines, not detecting them. Donut casts Hole under Raul, dropping him into the truck’s cargo bay, then immediately casts Mute to stop spellcasting. Carl phases through the truck’s tailgate and door and pummels Raul inside the enclosed space while Donut tries—unsuccessfully—to pull the roll-up door shut by dangling from the rope and adding heavy weights to her tail.

As Raul recovers and lashes out with a huge claw, Carl uses phasing to evade and keep landing body blows, cracking shell. Carl adds a fear-inducing smoke curtain while Donut casts Brain Freeze to drain health and lower resistance. With other crabs beginning to notice, Donut retreats to a car roof and keeps Raul pinned with magic missiles while Carl re-enters, finishes the beating, and jabs Raul with the flag, converting him into a card. The deck resets, and they confirm nearby crabs quickly lose interest amid the ongoing cannibalistic chaos of the migration.

Carl closes and locks the truck door easily (to Donut’s annoyance) and doubts whether skittish Raul will perform well as a summon, deciding they will test him later in the training arena. With the migration still blocking travel, Carl and Donut wait it out in the rain, and Carl pings Samantha—who is impatient and claims she and her “new best friend,” Maria, will restore Samantha’s body and then adventure with them.

Over the next hour, Carl interrogates Samantha in chat and cross-checks details using the Bahamas book, confirming Maria is a unique monster: Shi Maria, also called The Screamer. The entry describes a banished demi-god spider specializing in trickery, illusion, and mind-affecting magic, obsessed with a missing husband she may have killed, and warns, “Beware her lies.” Carl notes her devastating spells (including incurable blindness and insanity without divine intervention) and relies on Mordecai’s expensive daily protection potion, Liquid Therapy, which the guild has stocked up on.

As the crabs finally clear, a system message announces the goddess Semiramis has “re-ascended,” reinforcing Carl’s suspicion that higher-floor players are manipulating crawlers into awakening gods. Just as Carl and Donut prepare to move out, the Chowder War quest updates: Sister Ines Quiteria has negotiated with the Monk Seal Abbot and warned him of a crab “sneak attack,” implying Carl’s earlier plan may now become a massacre without intervention. Carl and Donut hope it resolves without them, but neither believes quests ever end that cleanly.