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Pet transport · Introduced in Book 2
Magical Pet Carrier
The Magical Pet Carrier is a small cube that holds Mongo in restful stasis. It lets him recover properly instead of staying alert and guarding the party in a safe room.[1]
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Rest, storage and release
Mongo needs more than somewhere to stand while the crawlers sleep. A pet that keeps watch in an ordinary safe room is still working, with consequences for its condition. The carrier suspends Mongo in a restful state and releases him when its button is used.
The compact form also lets the party move him through places where bringing an active pet would be a problem. This is a practical transport tool, not a new attack or a replacement for Donut’s bond with Mongo. It does not make every large creature a pet, and it does not erase distinctions between pets and mounts.[1]
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Why the purchase matters
The fifteen-thousand-gold price buys reliability in the party’s daily routine. Donut can keep Mongo with her without requiring him to remain awake and exposed throughout every journey or conversation. The equipment supports the animal’s continued usefulness by meeting a need that ordinary healing and shelter do not automatically solve.
Its first demonstrated purpose is pet handling. Later attempts to adapt a carrier for other occupants require additional machinery and should not be treated as powers of the original small cube.[1]
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The modified XL plan
A modified XL carrier can hold a consenting crawler only briefly—about ten seconds before the carrier breaks and ejects them. The ejected crawler then suffers roughly twenty seconds of Bonked. An occupied crawler carrier also cannot simply be placed in an ordinary personal inventory, blocking the obvious storage shortcut.
The proposed workaround relies on a cleaner’s different, weight-based storage. The cleaner must ingest the carrier before it breaks, then be deactivated and sold through Herot’s standing order. This combines several systems with strict timing; it is not the carrier independently transporting people out of the dungeon.
Capacity, cost and a thirty-day relisting restriction constrain the plan. The estimate of about fifty people is a planning figure, not proof that fifty have escaped. Survival in transit, release at the destination and the effect of the floor’s collapse remain unresolved when the route is proposed.[2]
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History
Book 2
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Buying proper rest for Mongo
The party buys it for Mongo and can release him with its button. That makes it useful both for travel and for giving him uninterrupted rest.[1]
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Book 8
A Parade of Horribles
Adapting the idea to a rescue route
The later XL design can briefly hold a willing crawler. It breaks too quickly to keep them indefinitely, and the occupied carrier cannot be placed in ordinary inventory.
The group proposes having a cleaner swallow it before it breaks, then selling the cleaner to a waiting buyer. The plan combines a short-lived carrier with storage measured by weight and the shop’s sales system. At this stage, they have not established that the passenger will survive or be released.[2]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Chapter 14.
- A Parade of Horribles, Chapter 61.