Carl and Donut's two-crawler eighth-floor squad turns its first encounter with neighboring crawlers from a near battle into a reciprocal monster-capture alliance.
The Royal Court begins its Havana campaign with six empty monster positions, twenty capture flags, and Donut as the only member authorized to hold cards. Its first killed monster drops Combo but dies before it can be flagged.
Near the second stairwell, the squad meets Anton, Paz, and Sister Ines. A broadcast of Donut threatening cat girls nearly provokes a fight, but Carl exposes the misunderstanding and verifies the trio's background.
Ines offers mutual aid against monk seals: her squad will help the Royal Court weaken one if Carl and Donut help them secure their own first capture.
Represented by a miniature heart-covered boxer-short flag bearing Carl's bomb patch.
The Royal Court is Carl and Donut's fixed squad and the owner of their growing T'Ghee combat deck.
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