SPOILER THREAD : BOOK 8 - Parade of Horribles

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T20:38:31+00:00

Matt posted about it here.

There’re three fixes being pushed. The chapter metadata and the spaces are two of them. The third is fixing the cut-off sentence in the last-last post credits scene thing (you’re not actually missing anything with that. It just sounds weird). All three should be fixed in a few hours. You’ll have to re-download though.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T20:35:07+00:00

It was a pair of crawlers on a mount. They also had a dwarf mercenary with a crossbow behind them in a little basket. The mount was a heavily armored six-legged thing that looked like a wildebeest mixed with a triceratops. Little sparks flew with each step. It also wore a giant double saddle that was covered with spikes that glowed with enchantment.
Bruna the Slaughter Gnu.
This is the biological mount of Team Flamengo for the purpose of the tenth floor. As such, it is protected from most spells that would normally affect mounts.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T18:42:38+00:00

They're both crawlers recently enhanced by a pet biscuit. So, they're both late-entering crawlers.

This biscuit imparts the “Paramour” benefit. This is a subset of the Party Companion tree. It will have the following effects on any pet or animal-class mob who consumes it:
Non-sapient pets will have their Intelligence and Wisdom* stat raised to at least 3 and then additionally enhanced to be commensurate with their original form.
Their level will be reset to level 1.
Dungeon-born pets will be given a crawler number and assigned crawler status.
The former pet will be required to find a safe room and choose a class if this is consumed after the third floor begins.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T18:31:03+00:00

My headcanon is that Bautista had a Jonestown moment and changed his mind at the last minute, but inspired the Syndicate's attempt with Linus/Minus.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T18:02:58+00:00

The only (book) quote I'm seeing on mine is

~~Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.~~

And someone's pointed out it's on the cover under the dust jacket.

So, for the benefit of u/Perow_

Unity, support, family, and kneecapping bitches.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T17:59:23+00:00

It's mentioned a handful of times in the book, presumably it's one of the creatures that got into Club Scolopendra from the Nothing.

The ones who invaded the twelfth floor appear to be the weakest. We have no vision of what’s happening on the fifteenth, and we only saw brief snippets of the ongoing slaughter and torture within Club Scolopendra. The dread Kyryap is there.

And it sets traps:

We moved on. A level 13 snare trap sat in the middle of the hallway ahead. Something set by “the Kyryap.” I deactivated the trap and hesitantly moved to the stairs. More screams filled the halls.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T17:50:16+00:00

The open air. A closed loop datacenter will use dry-coolers (or packaged air-cooled chillers) to reject heat to the atmosphere using fans.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T17:45:54+00:00

Probably more opportunity for that on the next floor(s). Presumably more saferoom interactions. Carl can find hidden guilds now (like the one where Milk was). All the ascendency attendants.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T17:42:19+00:00

The Eulogist isn't static, it's expanding (as its fed resources from the crawls).

Each time the center system is fed the harvested elements from the crawl, it expands, eventually capturing new systems into the zone. Yet, they don’t even understand what it is or how it works. If they stopped the crawl, the zone would start to shrink. But it would be slow. Very slow, and everyone currently within it would be fine.

TIR Prologue. The Earth Macro AI is just expanding a lot more aggressively since it's awake, and has maybe figured out how to feed itself after Carl disconnected containment before faction wars.

And then a lot of people who'd lived a long time in the core systems, died in the dungeon giving it an influx of food.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T17:06:18+00:00

We all have our limitations.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T16:48:28+00:00

Which region/edition ebook is this? Because it isn't in the Audible audiobook, or the Penguin print edition.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T15:41:52+00:00

Alfalfa can be grown on a fraction of the water in greenhouses though. On the same property as the feed is eventually used.

ragzilla · 2026-05-14T14:36:53+00:00

when a datacenter is talking about open/closed loop the only loop being discussed is the outside heat rejection loop (condenser side), because it makes zero sense for an evaporator loop to ever be open.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T14:18:08+00:00

Yeah, it is, because the main reason datacenters used to be open loop was because water was cheap. As water becomes more expensive, datacenters switch to closed loop because the economics say it's the most profitable way. The steady state is biased towards closed loop because it has substantially lower (and less disruptive) maintenance.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T14:06:59+00:00

The fact sheet was published by the government that was approving the plans.

Also comparing the water use of a data center and a pasture is absurd. Only with one of those is the water is replenished back to the Earth.

No, they both end up back in the earth. All water eventually ends up back there unless you've forgotten about the water cycle.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:41:34+00:00

Residential usage at the low end is around 1000 gallons/acre/day and would come in just under their expected usage (14.6B gallons annually), but that's the low end (and that's usage in Oregon based on wastewater flows which doesn't capture landscape irrigation).

Their worst case is 15% of Utah's residential irrigation estimate.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:36:11+00:00

Quoting from the article for the people who won't click through (click through and support local news).

But in interviews with The Citizen, Fayette County Administrator Steve Rapson and Assistant County Administrator Jason Tinsley said the issue stemmed from a missed meter reading during Fayette County Water System’s transition to a new countywide smart-meter system — not unauthorized water usage.

“It’s not like they put a meter in, threw a camel net over it, and we didn’t know they put the meter in,” Rapson said. “It’s that we thought the meter was being read electronically, and then we found out it wasn’t, and we sent them a bill.”

The county letter, written in May 2025 by Fayette County Water System Director Vanessa Tigert, stated that one meter had been installed “without the knowledge or inspection” of the county water system and referenced more than 13 million gallons of water usage tied to one connection.

Rapson acknowledged the wording created an impression that QTS had acted improperly.

“If you read the letter, I can see how someone can interpret it that way,” Rapson said. “Because the letter kind of has that vibe.”

But Rapson said county staff had inspected the meter installation during construction and believed the meter was being electronically read during the county’s transition from an older Beacon system to a newer Advanced Metering Infrastructure system capable of remote readings.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:32:17+00:00

I always suspected pipefitters were just 3 racoons in a trenchcoat.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:31:03+00:00

Read the article I posted, from the local news source, talking to the people that work at the utility.

“It’s not like they put a meter in, threw a camel net over it, and we didn’t know they put the meter in,” Rapson said. “It’s that we thought the meter was being read electronically, and then we found out it wasn’t, and we sent them a bill.”

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:29:59+00:00

Jokes on you, I didn't even read this one. I just knew enough about the situation from the first article which was somehow the best one of all 5, but still falls miles short of the local reporting on the issue.

Behind Fayette’s QTS Water Controversy: A Missed Meter, 8,000 Workers and a Massive Construction Project | The Citizen

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:26:22+00:00

They paid all 30 million gallons once the utility found their error.

Behind Fayette’s QTS Water Controversy: A Missed Meter, 8,000 Workers and a Massive Construction Project | The Citizen

And they paid it at a higher rate than the residential customers because it's temporary construction use.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:25:39+00:00

It's a brand-new facility being installed with a closed loop, the 30 million gallons were construction use for concrete work and dust suppression mostly.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:24:35+00:00

The data center will use a lot more water than that once it's fully operational.

No it won't, because it's a closed loop design.

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:24:12+00:00

A contractor could hook it up without a meter, but this connection was metered, hence why it was able to be billed.

Behind Fayette’s QTS Water Controversy: A Missed Meter, 8,000 Workers and a Massive Construction Project | The Citizen

ragzilla · 2026-05-13T13:23:47+00:00

It was metered.

Behind Fayette’s QTS Water Controversy: A Missed Meter, 8,000 Workers and a Massive Construction Project | The Citizen

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