"Oh damn, that would be so cool but it probably wouldn't fit."

“Exactly!!!”

"Lower odds of survival than the crittery ones though."

“Yeah. Even if it could fit it wouldn’t be worth the time and effort. But if it was just the lower chance of survival I would be all over it, because damn.”

"I do wanna see if we can dig up some of the trees."

Nod. “I’m going to direct a whole bunch of the harmless little bird-things out of the portal.”

"I'd actually rather have you on the big ones that are harder for me to drag around in their cages, I can catch the birds."

“Well, fair enough. I can’t control them from the other side of the portal, though, so I’ll have to be careful to go through at the same time and get them secured on this side before going back in.”

"No, we can bring the cages in, just have you walk the monsters into them and then close them up and shove them through."

“Ah, gotcha. I look forward to getting better acquainted with monster extraction practices.”

"You'll have your own custom ones, considering."

“Well, of course. But we’re partners! So the ones you already have are relevant to how we’re going to do it together, going forward, which I expect to happen less than always but relatively often!”

"My protocol is I get a cage, I walk right up to the monster, and I put the cage around it and close it."

“That makes sense. But also, wow, yeah, those must be annoying to haul around.”

"That's why I usually get little ones, though once they're boxed up I can get help with them."

“I think there’ll probably be some monsters where it’s easier to make sure I cross the portal at the same time than to drag the cage through.”

"Probably! You could ride an elephant out."

“Like Hannibal in the Alps!”

"Hopefully it doesn't freeze to death!"

“Nothing freezes to death in a Dr. Seuss book.”

"Not off the top of my head, admittedly."

“It would be tonally inappropriate! …Possibly unless you count Dr. Seuss Goes to War, which is a collection of political cartoons he did during World War II. Very different from the stuff for kids.”

"I think that's not taken as an inspiration for this dungeon, any more than it seems to be grabbing from any of the stuff he published under an alternate pen name."

“Which is good on more levels than just not freezing to death.”

"I dunno, Ren told me the other day that when I was tiny I liked 'would you rather be a bullfrog'."