This is a good point, I think Pirateeba could add some more explanation in terms of the protocol when it comes to monster eggs so we know as the readers what the wise or common sense adventurer reaction would have been. Like maybe there are different protocols with different types of eggs. Or different numbers of eggs, as some commenters have suggested.

Oh finally someone mentioned the ropes! Ahh I’m not alone in that

Oooo yes!

Ahahaah at first I thought this was making fun of Erin’s character and then.. at second thought I could see it happening

Hii I’d like to chime in to this discussion, with a point that I’m surprised no one else is making. The ropes! The fact that Vuliel Drae left the ropes dangling when they went into the dungeon. If that is the reason why the giant mother moths were able to climb out carrying all their babies, then it is most certainly their fault. Since, if they smashed up those eggs, but didn’t leave the ropes dangling, the momma moths would just rampage around the dungeon but not be able to come out to attack the city or the inn.

If leaving the ropes out was the reason why the moths were able to climb up, I think all Pirateeba needs to do, to make the other adventurer’s reactions more realistic, is to include that detail at the beginning of the reveal. Right before everyone has their angry freakout moment, rather than during the longer sit down explanation/trial.

I do think that Toren deserves a lot of the blame here though, since I mean Toren already started smashing the eggs, before Vuliel Drae joined in. So it seems as though the moths would have rampaged whether or not Vuliel Drae joined in.
Unless it was the case that Toren was only planning to smash a few for fun, and Vuliel Drae took it upon themselves to destroy all of them out of a mistaken belief that it would be the safest (like how you’re supposed to destroy Creler eggs) which is what then incurred the Momma moths’ wrath.

Speaking of moths, (and I know this is kind of a gross question) can someone explain to me how/why the smaller moths were filled with larvae? Wouldn’t only the mothers (the giant behemoths – hey pun, behe-MOTHS) be capable of creating larvae? Or were the smaller ones also capable of producing offspring? I remember one of the characters, maybe klb talking about this phenomena as being a way that monsters prevent their species from getting wiped out and now I forget

It is her inn, male Toren doesn’t have an inn.

“They’re organized. There are other monsters down there, but those things—they knew we were down there the instant we arrived and we fought then twice! The masked woman helped us evade them, but there are far, far too many.”

should be”we fought them twice” i think

All of the nests we’ve seen destroyed prior to this one were relatively small, well within the range a single team could deal with, even if it was somewhat difficult.

The nest in the dungeon was likely massive. Any halfway smart team would realize that that many eggs means a proportionally large number of adult monsters nearby, and that destroying said eggs would very likely provoke those adult monsters.

At the very, very least, they should have immediately gone for reinforcements for a nest of that size. They had almost zero preparations, and went about things in practically the stupidest way possible.

As far as Lyonette goes, if those bees had went off to attack other people, she most certainly would have been in lots of trouble. However, she also knew from earlier when Erin used Toren to harvest from the bees that they didn’t really leave the hive very far, at least during winter. And, again, if the bees had attacked someone else the first time Erin provoked them, she would have been in trouble. Thus, very different situation compared to a horde of face eating moths attacking an entire city.