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The crocodilian bouncer resists Donut's bribe and blackmail but ultimately reveals a secret bathroom stair to the Hunting Grounds club level.
Clarabelle explains the club's new floor segregation, trapped hunter population, Larracos drainage delay, and full-Blood-Bar entrance rule. She refuses to reroute Carl and Donut directly because management wants to prevent patron deaths and their visits always cause trouble.
Donut offers not gold but silence about a missing one hundred gold from their original five-hundred security payment and four-hundred refund. The ledger-backed threat would expose Clarabelle's theft privately or to management.
Clarabelle does not openly change the entrance. Instead, she tells them about a latch inside the last toilet tank in the women's bathroom, which opens a hidden metal stair to the corresponding restroom on the Hunting Grounds floor.
A large crocodilian nightclub bouncer guarding an extradimensional door.
Clarabelle's compromised bookkeeping gives Donut the leverage needed to reach the changeling representatives.
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