Princess Donut is communicating with the official fanclub, the Princess Posse, and they're chartering as a NFC (not-for-conquest) organization.

Carl meets his lawyer, Quazar (favorite character, me) for the first time and has him filing a bunch of legal matters outside the crawl, including liasing with the Princess Posse. There will be more about this in a later book, but so far it's almost all been off-screen.

I don't know the exact place in the book, but isn't this Donut stealth organizing the Princess Posse outside the dungeon to buy