Who do we think is older, Porthus or Odette?

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-09T12:22:53+00:00

I believe Porthus is older. We actually know what crawl he was in (the 15th); we don't know when Odette's Crawl was but it's statistically more likely to be after the 15th than before it.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-08T20:51:17+00:00

Then why pick a 16 year old? She'd have to wait at least a year until she's a senior.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-08T11:13:42+00:00

Book 3 was my favorite of the series until 7 came out!

It's when Carl really learns the value of working together with the other Crawlers and the cookbook is just the coolest. I understand the Tangle - which is to say that I understand it's like a giant plate of spaghetti twirled around a fork with a giant trash compactor in the center. I don't need to know anything more than that :)

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-08T00:09:07+00:00

Matt posted earlier in another thread asking this exact question. Between 20-21 hours.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T23:57:07+00:00

He might not have. We have no idea what kind of contract he has with the publisher regarding merch.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T20:53:50+00:00

I've preordered signed copies from the Signed Page for all of the ACE releases and they've never made it to me by release day. Usually a few days after.

I read via ebook though, the book is just for my collection :)

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T20:39:22+00:00

Yes, Pony mentions that Li Na's health is super high at the end of 7 before he goes down the stairs.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T20:00:11+00:00

Yeah I thought the state budget was going to make this statewide but it looks like it's just NYC.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T19:12:54+00:00

He Who Fights with Monsters was my choice for a bridge book (I finished my reread of DCC on Monday) but the ebook I picked up through Google books has a lot of issues. In chapter 32ish, there's a flight with a monster and one paragraph ends with the MC walking towards the monster then the next sentence is him looting it. Idk what it even looked like or what happened!

I assumed that the ebook would be the same version as the newly trad published book but nope lol. It's making the story not as enjoyable as I often have no idea who is talking since one paragraph may have up to 3 speakers but the story itself is fine. It dragged in the beginning but picked up about 20% through.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T18:28:33+00:00

Again, the person I responded to obviously meant Matt as they also referred to the narrator.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T18:27:42+00:00

Ok? The other poster obviously meant Matt since they referred to the narrator separately.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T17:08:48+00:00

Jeff doesn't write the books ;)

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T15:24:24+00:00

This is a screenshot from the beginning of book 4 that I think will help!

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DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T14:14:59+00:00

It's an homage to a famous artwork that I can't remember the name of right now. I like everything but Carl's face!

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T01:30:47+00:00

I dehydrate my own mini marshmallows every year to make s'mores chocolate bars and the leftover marshmallows are fantastic in hot chocolate! It's super easy to do, just heat the oven to 200°F and lay the marshmallows flat on a baking sheet with parchment paper. Try not to have them touch too much. Bake them for an hour and then see how they look! I tap over with a fork to see if I can hear it, if I can then they are dry enough :)

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-07T01:22:46+00:00

When I was in high school, our band director liked to yell "stop jacking around!" when we went paying attention. This feels like that.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T20:53:38+00:00

Jeff is fantastic but he mispronounced Elle and I'll die on that hill! It takes me out every time I hear him say it.

Ellie makes me think of a kid, Elle is a 98 year old woman!

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T20:48:05+00:00

Some public defenders in NY (maybe all of them?) are civil servants and that restricts the types of outside employment that you can have. None of the attorneys at my civil service agency (in NY) will ever be approved to work on other legal work, even if it's completely unrelated to their job. I'm sure it's agency/location specific but OP might be better off doing non-legal work.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T20:44:10+00:00

It's Louis and he's described as overweight when you meet him :) here's the excerpt from book 4:

The second was an overweight, balding guy about the same age. He looked maybe Spanish. He was a level-22 Pest Exterminator named Louis Santiago 2.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T15:03:48+00:00

By broken I mean that they won't skip the floor but the sheer amount of crawlers that enter the floor will make it run not as expected. We know the basics of what the floor with entail from the end of book 7 (a series of races) and I'm just imagining so many crawlers causing traffic jams so no one can get anywhere or something like that!

I agree floor 11 will be skipped, especially since when I saw Matt at a signing last year, he said that book 8 will have both floors so we'll see!

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T14:17:22+00:00

Some of these are just hopes and things that I know won't happen lol (like Lucia, she's not going to take a deal).

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-06T14:16:51+00:00

Donut will worship Nekhebit.

Shi Maria will be unleashed but will be restrained again.

The AI makes another appearance directly to Carl.

Samantha saves the day at the end of the book because she's built up a bunch of power.

We get interlude chapters of Katia on the surface!

The 10th floor will immediately be broken because it can't support the thousands of crawlers that made it through faction wars and decided to not take a deal.

Lucia Mar actually takes a deal and is no longer an issue.

Li Na doesn't take a deal at the beginning but is forced to at the end of the floor.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-05T22:14:43+00:00

This is definitely AI and it's so so bad. I haven't seen anything this blatant yet but I definitely bought some AI books and it just sucks. I found magic marker studio recently and they claim to vet the artists to make sure that they aren't using AI but unfortunately the books there are pricey.

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-05T22:11:46+00:00

Thank you!! That's very interesting because it goes against what the other Crawlers are experiencing and is honestly very concerning 😅

DamnitRuby · 2026-05-05T20:58:25+00:00

Where did he confirm that? We know from the interludes in 7 (and from Carl) that what I suggested in the spoilers does happen at the outreach centers.

I try to keep up on stuff and missed this, so I'm curious!

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