Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast
Ep 44: This Inevitable Ruin | Ch 27- Ch 31
24 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the focus of the Dungeon Crawler Carl read-along in this episode?
Thank you.
Be sure to lock the doggy door. Under Siege. Worms and Speed. Antina Unleashed. Hello, crawlers, and welcome to episode 44 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl podcast. I'm Grant. I'm John.
And I'm Martin.
And we are tackling Book 7, chapters 27 through 31 today. We, um... This one is pretty much covering the first siege of their castle. It's going to be the big push of this.
Wait, you said the first. Are there more?
Well, it seems like the orcs are now coming. We're left off with this. Orcs are on their way.
Right, right, right.
But before we get into all that, folks, we got a number of things to address.
Well, no, before we get into that, I feel attacked right now because you guys are both coming in with a really strong hat game in Hat Watch. Hat Watch! And it's... So I have... I've got the biggest human head...
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Chapter 2: What significant events occur during the first siege of the castle?
Well, we don't want you going to HR over it. There's no HR. It's just the three of us, Martin.
If there was HR... They would shut us down.
Yeah.
Right. We wouldn't even have this show.
Anyway.
We are compromising the business's bottom line.
I'm sorry to interrupt. I just had to get that off my chest.
All right. Fair enough. All right. This hat I have on was not my, not, this was my great grandfather's hat. Oh, yeah. You didn't have to say that. Ward. This is very obvious. It's all beat up.
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Chapter 3: How do the characters address their hat game in the podcast?
Ward Green. I want to say this dude had this hat back in, uh. The 40s, 30s? I don't know. He was born at, like, the turn of the 19th century.
I had it pegged for 1812, but go ahead.
Yeah.
I need a cane. I was like, there's never been a color photo taken of that hat.
And tip my hat and be a little racist.
Unfortunately. Yeah, what if that was a story like... completely liberal until you put that hat on. Oh, no.
I'm realizing he can make things great again.
I did just feel my DNA twitch really deep inside of me.
Why are you running for the border?
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Chapter 4: What gifts do the hosts receive from Maeve and how do they react?
It's not adjacent to them, so they don't feel like they can hold it.
Which I'm glad they made that decision because it was like, the force is already pretty thin. Right. Don't waste resources on this.
Well, at this point, Ten gnolls, if you recall from our last episode, a bunch of mercenaries were about to come into the castle. They come in and eight of these ten, they're all gnolls, which are those hyena guys, and eight of the ten were prism gnolls. people. And as soon as they, uh, Carl killed Denati and took control, they're now princess posse personaries.
So they gotta do what princess posse says, but two of their mates, one's from the dream and the other is like maybe from the madness. I remember what the other one's from, um, aren't these, but they're all buddies. And so cousins. Cousins, right? So Carl's like, hey, those two, they better not start shit or else you guys got to kill them.
But otherwise, we're not going to kill them necessarily unless they start shit.
Yeah, because the other gnolls ask them not to. Right. It's like, hey, you know, if you want fair and square, we will serve you. But if you make us kill our cousins... we won't do it willingly and we won't be good soldiers. So it's up to you.
They were like guarding communication equipment on the moon when they got sucked in. So it's like everyone's getting pulled in to this, regardless of how low on the totem pole, blue collar, whatever kind of person. They're all being dragged into this battle and fight or die kind of thing.
Can we also just kind of touch on how fucked up the under orders thing is? Like when somebody goes under orders and they're like forced to actually take an action that might not be along with their will. Oh yeah.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What theories arise about the character Boomer's actions?
But Carl's still hearing in his head, please no from Donut. He knows everyone's scared of him, so he puts away the ring. And everybody is like, I see everybody see me put the ring away.
Like they're all staring at him. All sweating.
Yeah, yeah. Because the whole thing, you know, for all the explanations of why he was so mad at Donati, I was like, his anger is still disproportionate to the situation. Yeah. Except for the goddamn ring. Yeah.
He must feel like you feel in this room dressed like that.
I want to kill them both.
We're both staring at you. Why so mad, bro?
Is Grant about to do a racist?
I think Grant's about to sell one of us. I'm not taking this hat off.
Oh, no, not now. It's only been keeping me safe at this point. But yeah, him making the decision, they're like, all right, you guys. You eight can stay. These two, yeah, let them go or whatever. I thought like a telltale game with the gnolls. It's like, they will remember this.
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Chapter 6: How does Carl's leadership change throughout the chapters?
We haven't heard of this book one character in six bucks.
And all of a sudden, Mukta is back. They just name drop Mukta. Something's telling me some of this is complicated. The whole thing's complicated, Carl.
And then he's like looking at the other competing factions, not in the faction wars, but in the larger picture. And he starts listing them off. There's the Syndicate Council. There's two different types of residuals. There's the Apothecary, the Goat People of the Plenty, Open Intellect Pacifist Network, Nebulars, Audet, and then, of course, the humans, the Crawlers. Led by him.
Yeah, let's not forget those.
Right? Like, there's so many different warring factions. And I was thinking about, like, we're on book seven. And if the trajectory of this goes the way we might assume, Carl's going to kill a lot of these leaders of the planet. But that doesn't mean all the threats are gone. No, not at all. So many other threats. Right. Okay.
And then I just had a question for you guys, because we listened to the audiobook here. Yeah. The very last line doesn't sound like the rest of the book for Carl. Did you hear this? He goes, Jeff, he goes, it's blob hunting season. And it sounds like Duke Nukem. Oh. It doesn't sound like regular Carl. And we couldn't make that move at all if our northern front buckled in on us.
I grinned. It's blob hunting season. The voice shift is weird. Well, do you think that's because of the ring or it's just Carl, you know, thinking of himself as Duke Nukem?
I think Jeff was putting a little Duke Nukem-y thread in there. I think he put a little sauce on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's blob hunting season. Just doesn't sound like Carl. More sauce than that. I can't go that deep. That's as deep as I got. The only sauce I got is I am 57. It'll clear you up in your own rickets. I swear, yeah. Rickets.
They had back then rickets? Yeah, back then they had rickets. Rickets, yeah.
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Chapter 7: What strategies do characters use to prepare for the impending battle?
I'll get to it.
Put it in the drawer with all the other legendary boxes and infinity stones. We don't need it.
It's probably another crying book. Truly tasteless jokes. Remember that series? Yes. Yeah. Oh, it's crying though. Fuck.
Florin says he's falling back from the front lines. The big push is now happening. He's asking for Louis to fly up there and help. And at that moment, boom, things are exploding. And the the docking bay for the party planner has been exploded. But Carl's like, it couldn't have exploded from outside. We got air defense. So someone has infiltrated our castle.
He's like, and he starts spitting out.
Blowing it up from the inside. He's like, think, think. And Carl can think faster than any other human being alive.
Yes, he can.
And he's struggling to figure it out. But he does eventually figure out, oh, and Tip is like, hey, there's enemies at the base. We're all being attacked. So shit's hitting the fan. And Carl realizes that somehow the monkey wrenchers, those invisible guys from the madness?
Yeah, the madness.
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