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Clarabelle challenges Samantha's unfamiliar pass, tolerates a threat after Carl intervenes, and warns that further trouble will bring a permanent ban.
Clarabelle recognizes Samantha from recap broadcasts but has never seen her inside the club. The new neck pass catches her attention and prompts questions about its origin.
Samantha answers with a bizarre story about a self-consuming crocodile goddess and threatens Clarabelle's mother. Clarabelle begins refusing entry until Carl restrains Samantha, supplies a quest-based explanation, and gives her a gold coin.
The door guard waves them through but explicitly orders Carl to keep Samantha away from club guards. Another incident will get the entire party expelled permanently this time.
A stern crocodilian door guard crossing her arms over a rolling animated head with a suspicious tattoo.
Clarabelle is the first security threshold and an early indicator of how little provocation the club will tolerate.
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