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Donut lets slip that a man visited the apartment while Carl was at the gym, and Carl realises Bea had been cheating.

The Borant Corporation was given regency over Earth's solar system and chose the 18-level World Dungeon as the reclamation method.

Carl is a twenty-seven-year-old former US Coast Guard member who works as a marine tech fixing boat electrical systems in Seattle.

Mrs. Parsons, Carl's complaining downstairs neighbour, was killed when the building collapsed mid-sentence.

Donut is Beatrice's prize-winning tortoiseshell Persian show cat, left in Carl's care until Beatrice returns.

A Syndicate neutral observer AI announced the rules telepathically and supervises the dungeon's creation and rule-keeping.

The Syndicate seized Earth for mining because no appeal for its mineral rights was filed within 50 Solars of first contact.

Crawlers can't open loot boxes or access inventory until they complete the tutorial, and boxes open only in safe zones.

Everyone who was indoors died instantly when every interior on Earth was crushed at 2:23 AM Pacific time.

Floor 1 of the World Dungeon gives crawlers five days before the level collapses.

Goblins, gnolls and rat-kin rule this borough; Rory says deeper floors have more intelligent mobs.

The Goblin Murder Dozer is a goblin-built, steam-powered, tank-treaded machine with a spiked wheel, driven by a Goblin Engineer.

The Kua-Tin are the dominant species of the Borant System and principal owners of the Borant Corporation.

Mordecai is a bearded, rat-like creature who runs a Tutorial Guild and thought the dungeon wasn't opening for two more years.

Mordecai, himself a changeling, warns Carl not to trust Hump Street's shapeshifting changeling prostitutes.

From floor 10 onward, crawlers are offered several options to exit the dungeon, better the deeper they go.

The 11th floor, A Parade of Horribles, is a parade and march to the arena where all surviving crawlers will work together.

Skyfowl are small eagle-headed flying humanoids with wings instead of arms; Mordecai was one before becoming a shapeshifter.

Crawlers have Syndicate Standard programmed into their brains, letting them understand dungeon monsters.

Carl's friend Billy Maloney was in jail when the transformation happened, so Carl knows he is dead.

Dungeon Crawler World is a show watched by quintillions across the Syndicate's three billion star systems; a new season debuts each season.

The deepest anyone has ever reached is floor 13, by a human from another world who died within half an hour.

Stairs to Floor 2 now appear; descending early puts crawlers in stasis until the collapse, except in the final six hours.

Zev says every third floor (three, six, nine and onward) shares a linked setting, and those floors exist simultaneously.

From the fourth floor, levels have random themes, are smaller, and their stairs are guarded by quests or bosses.

Patrons, usually organisations, sponsor popular crawlers with boxes; only patrons can send Benefactor Boxes, which hold the rarest items.

Creatures entering the dungeon get a crawler ID, but those with intelligence under two can't train and are designated pets.

The Squim Conglomerate runs its seasons as a battle royale, with an entire world fighting down to one champion.

This season each crawler gets an unlimited, time-locked dimensional inventory for anything they can lift for four seconds, except living creatures.

The Nightgaunt Cloak gives +4 Constitution, poison and ice resistance, and anti-piercing resistance to all worn armour.

Instead of shoes, Carl's Gold Shoe Box gives him an Enchanted Toe Ring of the Splatter Skunk, to his irritation.

Carl's Gold Apparel Box gives him an Enchanted Nightgaunt Cloak of Stoutness and an Enchanted Trollskin Shirt of Pummeling, impressing Mordecai.

An Enhanced Pet Biscuit has over 100 possible effects, good or bad; Mordecai urges feeding it to a pet inside a safe zone.

The Goblin Pass from a Silver Goblin Box brands itself onto Carl's left inner forearm and the outside of his jacket.

Loot boxes can only be opened in safe areas; safe rooms always show on the map and offer restrooms and sleeping cubicles.

Each level of Powerful Strike multiplies unarmed damage, so Mordecai suggests Carl consider a monk class.

Princess Donut's tiara made her a royal member of the Blood Sultanate, which the Maestro says dooms them on the ninth floor.

The crown gives +5 Intelligence and a 15% chance to inflict Sepsis, and is a Fleeting, Unique item that crumbles if removed.

Donut's Enhanced Growth buff gives +1 Strength, +1 Intelligence and +2 Charisma per level, but fixes her Constitution at 2.

Mordecai says the 18th floor is a luxury retreat where the galaxy's rich party and gamble; no crawler has ever reached it.

Faction wars happen on the ninth floor; Mordecai says crawlers should keep their heads down and ride them out.

Donut's Magic Missile costs five mana; she has 17 mana and regenerates about one point a minute.

As party leader with the highest stat total, Donut names the party The Royal Court of Princess Donut and titles Carl Royal Bodyguard.

Bad Llamas are horse-sized, lava-spitting mobs that might trade with crawlers who have good goods.

Carl and Donut need to reach the 12th floor for any chance of freedom; six levels lie beyond it.

Every dungeon restroom door leads to the same tiny room; for Donut it becomes a cubicle with a litterbox.

Carl's Smush skill increases the pressure of his bare-footed kills; the system seems to have a foot fetish.

Bopca Protectors are magical, gnome-like creatures who exist solely to watch over Safe Rooms, cooking and cleaning.

The premiere of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth is under 24 hours away, and only about 4.3 million crawlers remain.

The safe room is an entire fast food restaurant, apparently Polish, transplanted underground, with a playground, food and 20 free rental rooms.

Donut's Talisman of the Slate Butterfly gives +4 Light on Your Feet, +1 Intelligence, and stops winged fairies being automatically hostile.

Tally is a level 63 Bopca Protector, a non-combatant NPC caretaker of the safe room who speaks with a Slavic-like accent.

Goblin Dynamite is so volatile that even loud noises might set it off.

Tally says a purchased personal space carries over between levels and safe rooms, and accessories bought early upgrade more.

Scatterer Brood Guardians are level 4 giant cockroaches, more dangerous than ordinary Scatterers.

The Scatterer nest is a dark round room behind a door with an old Spanish health-department 'No entrar' notice.

Discovering a Neighborhood Boss's lair locks crawlers in with music and an announcer, like a fighting game.

The Hoarder is a level 7 Neighborhood Boss: a 15-foot-tall, sore-covered woman who vomits Scatterers and guards her garbage.

Carl's new spiked kneepads add 10% damage reflect to his armour and cancel momentum-based attacks.

Carl's Iron Punch reaches level ten, adding the Breadbasket effect: a 10% chance to stun on a solid blow.

The Hoarder dropped a Neighborhood Map, persistent loot that reveals about a square mile of the minimap to any crawler who takes it.

Crawler Rebecca W, level 3, lies dead less than 200 meters from the safe room.

Donut applies a spell book without reading it and learns Torch, a light-curl spell she considers stupid.

Wisp Armor negates 75% of magic damage and grants temporary mind-control immunity; Carl keeps the tome, lacking the mana to cast it.

Carl's father was a weekend motorcycle rider who abandoned Carl over 12 years ago; they haven't spoken since.

Crawler Frank Q shot and killed Rebecca W, then looted everything she had, leaving only an apple core.

Last season, the Squim Conglomerate's Battle for the Planet Aryl pitted gorilla-like people against each other to protect their loved ones.

The premiere showed ten well-armed crawlers killing the first Borough Boss; 15 borough and over 1,500 neighbourhood bosses have died.

Donut kills Cici, Lucia's giant rottweiler, by closing a Hole spell on the dog's neck, then takes the head.

No crawler this season has faced a city boss and survived before Carl discovers Grimaldi.

Gustavo 3, one of Lucia Mar's rottweilers, gained the ability to shoot lightning when it barks.

Lucia Mar is a girl of about 13, featured on the premiere, who fights with two rottweilers, Cici and Gustavo 3, in silver armour.

Aryl was the site of the previous crawl, a Squim battle-royale season; its whole system went dark when orcs triggered Formidable's failsafe.

Donut glimpses the huge goblin chieftain sitting and reading a book, and only mentions many babies in the room just as Carl detonates.

Goblin Shamans lead goblin clans under the War Chieftain and specialise in Anguish Magic.

The explosion obliterates the goblin workshop and sets the coal pile alight, blocking the way to the boss's corpse and map.

Donut discovers party chat and spams Carl with messages until he asks her to stop.

Rory, a heavily pierced level 7 Goblin Shamanka, agrees to build Carl a steam chopper with a sidecar in exchange for dungeon-made meth.

A green slime dissolves Carl's right glove and jacket sleeve, so he avoids slimes until he can protect his hands.

Carl's Goblin Copper Chopper is a rickety, coal-fired, human-sized steam bike with a detachable sidecar, powered by a permanent water 'permacube'.

Hobgoblin Pus is a scarce, C4-like explosive set off with a trigger; Carl suspects it's the room's most valuable prize.

The magical triggers are single-use detonators with up to ten breakable tips, a five-second countdown and a range of about ten kilometres.

The second safe room resembles a dingy bus station or DMV, with cots, no attendant, and one experience cookie per crawler per day.

The Desperado Club's members-only area is one shared space across every club location on the level; you exit where you entered.

Both Carl and Donut are branded with a Desperado Pass, a bloody-dagger tattoo granting Desperado Club access but barring a Vanquisher pass.

A Skill Potion gives Carl Determine Value; sorting shows the Wisp Armor tome and the chopper are his most valuable items.

Donut gets her first armour, a Fae Steel scale crupper giving +2 Dexterity.

Carl gains the IED skill and a Demolitions Workshop menu, which requires a Sapper's Table bought from a Safe Room store.

Minion Army turns hostile enemies into allies but costs 50 mana; Donut, with only 24, can't learn it yet.

Rot stickers are small ravioli-like mobs that stick to targets and explode after about three seconds, inflicting Take Down.

Blender Fiend mobs were removed after killing 15,000 crawlers in a day; Borant says they will return on a lower floor.

Skulls beside a crawler's name mark how many other crawlers they have killed.

The Feral Rabies debuff is now curable with healing and no longer airborne, after it affected New Zealand.

Carl discovers a lit explosive stays lit when placed in a corpse's inventory, letting him booby-trap loot.

Maggie My, Frank's partner, is a level 9 human crawler with five crawler-killer skulls; Frank falsely claimed she was dead.

Violence or stealing in a safe room freezes a crawler for 100 seconds first, an hour second, and strips and teleports them on the third.

The Street Preacher neighborhood boss has been upgraded to a borough boss.

Brandon An, level 6 with a huge magical hammer, is a night-staff worker at an eldercare facility in Wenatchee.

Dead Chilly Goats show around 15 different crawlers, including Brandon An and Chris Andrews 2, have been fighting in the area.

Chris Andrews 2 is Brandon's quiet, rarely speaking brother, also level 6 and a night-staff worker.

Graffiti warns crawlers not to go deeper into the spiral, a round maze holding the Stairwell to Floor Two, or they'll activate the borough boss.

Agatha, a homeless level 2 crawler with a shopping cart, started the fire that evacuated the facility and was first down the ramp.

Doctor Gracie, an MMA fighter, was among the group's members killed one by one while searching for other stairs.

Imani C, a level 10 caregiver with a longsword, is a Crawler Killer x12 after mercifully killing residents during an attack.

Of the facility's 250 residents, 38 people remain at the spiral, mostly elderly level-one crawlers in wheelchairs and walkers.

Mistress Tiatha, a tutorial guide, told the group borough and city bosses will hold stairwells for the first four or five floors.

A nearby Waffle House safe room is full; its 30 residents voted never to leave and treat it like a party.

Yolanda Martinez 13 is a level 5 archer and CNA at Meadow Lark, around fifty years old.

Troglodyte Pygmies are fast, venomous, three-foot lizard creatures with kangaroo-like legs.

Troglodyte Virtuosos whip a poisonous tongue fifteen feet; Carl's nightgaunt cloak cancels the poison.

Carl's Confusing Fog scrolls blind the troglodytes but last only about fifteen to twenty seconds each.

The 'Ferdinand' Donut calls her star-crossed love is really Gravy Boat, a stray yellow tomcat belonging to their neighbour Marjory.

The Juicer is a level 9 neighborhood boss: a steroid-bloated troglodyte bodybuilder who hurls flaming weight plates and calls everyone 'bro'.

The Juicer's boss box gives Carl 100 fragile shuriken whose damage against a monster type compounds by 8% per hit.

Carl gains a war gauntlet bracer that becomes a spiked orcish-steel fist, boosting strength and Iron Punch.

Grull is a war god worshipped by equine creatures, but Mordecai says there are no real gods in the game, just those who pay.

Puddle Jumper lets Donut teleport herself and up to three others within line of sight; it has a five-hour cooldown.

The Ball of Swine is a level 15 borough boss: at least 30 Tuskling knights and ladies fused into a rolling ball by battle magic.

Sebastian, a level-21 Bopca Protector running the Taco Bell safe room, dotes on Donut thanks to her charisma of 41.

The Speedbump is a modular fortress of goblin tables and gym equipment, built by Carl and the Meadow Lark staff to wedge the ball.

Tusklings are boar-faced orcs who are the ruling class of the Orcish Supremacy.

Tuskling Knights are level 4, short, neckless, drunken bureaucrats; their female Courtesans are level 5.

The Borough Field Guild, the borough boss's drop, labels the monster types in each nearby quadrant on Carl's map.

Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette is an uncensored private show by the Titan Conglomerate, the most-tunneled private program in existence.

Lexis, a thin, non-Earth human, is an associate producer for Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette.

Odette wants to interview Carl and Donut on air about their progress.

Production trailers sit on Earth's surface, have their own rules, and disable crawlers' menus; this one is aboard a boat.

Randall, an elderly resident thrown from the train, is killed by the Rage Elemental alongside Yolanda.

Brindle Grubs eat corpses and grow into dangerous pupae, so Carl begins destroying corpses to deny them food.

A Cheat Code Potion raises Carl's Pugilism skill by three to level 10, making his fists hugely damaging.

Danger Dingoes are level 5, mastiff-sized dogs with corpse-paint faces, usually accompanied by Kobold riders.

Donut joins the Dungeon Book of the Floor Club, receiving one spellbook per floor by mailbox.

Carl's pedicure kit gives barefoot buffs, including a 5-second warning before footfall traps trigger.

Mind Horrors are floating brain-jellyfish with psionic attacks that affect Carl but not Donut.

Second Chance lets Donut raise a lower-level dead monster to fight for them for a minute per spell level.

Carl's Goo-inator 3000 shaping tool lets him freeform-reshape metal like dough, though over-shaping weakens items.

Elle McGibbons is a 99-year-old resident who flirts with Carl and remembers her late husband Barry fondly.

Jack, a crude elderly resident, urinates on the dungeon wall despite the ban, prompting Zev to tell Carl and Donut to run.

Le Mouvement, a party of African soldiers, has shrunk from 150 to about 80 through internal strife and is low on ammunition.

Borant threatens to send a 13th-floor Rage Elemental to kill any crawler who relieves themselves outside a bathroom, along with their party.

Carl invents Carl's Jug O' Boom, a torch-lit moonshine firebomb that burns corpses to ash.

Elle reports a Krakaren borough boss at one of the fifth stations, a relative of a boss Carl fought before.

Laminak consultants are level 6 winged fairy managers immune to health-seeping attacks; their essence protects against disease.

Rev-Up is a pyramid-scheme moonshine business on Floor 2, run by Krakaren with clurichaun and laminak consultants.

Rev-Up moonshine is highly flammable and valuable, sought by drinking establishments on deeper floors.

The Taint, inflicted by a clurichaun, blocks all healing for its duration; Carl suspects it sets up a follow-up attack.

Clurichauns are toxic, slingshot-wielding hillbilly relatives of leprechauns; as fairy-class mobs they do extra damage to Carl.

Caroline and Max, two laminak managers, are lured away by Donut and killed; one cries that they had hoped to move to the third floor.

A hidden recipe blends moonshine and a laminak corpse into a smoothie granting immunity to the Taint and the Vigorous Measles.

Eris, goddess of chaos, is sponsored and piloted by Nami, a model who had surgery to look and sound like Hekla.

The Krakaren Clone is a level 10 neighborhood boss of screaming, mouth-covered tentacles; Krakaren Prime births two for each one killed.

The Krakaren is an anti-science collective mind that births diseased minions and sells harmful products.

Carl assumes the boss atop the arena's giant tree is Krakaren Prime, who escaped the Nothing to the eighteenth floor.

Carl discovers personal-space tables like his alchemy workstation are indestructible, a bug he intends to exploit quietly.

Damien is a location manager over a city area and Mordecai's manager's manager; crawlers aren't supposed to know of him.

Inventing the Jug O' Boom earns Carl Dungeonpreneur, entering it in the Dungeon Codex and paying him a coin per kill by others.

Carl's boss box gives Enchanted BigBoi Boxers: +2 Constitution and a Protective Shell spell every 30 hours.

Protective Shell creates a static sphere blocking physical attacks and mobs, but not magic.

Zev is a two-foot-tall kua-tin, Borant's Assistant Communications Representative and a Dungeon Admin, wearing a water-filled suit.

The Bloom is an ultra-nationalist party that now controls the bankrupt kua-tin government and makes kua-tin wear membership badges.

Imani's Yog's Special Chain scroll makes a feather-light chain up to 1,000 feet long lasting 30 hours, linking the train cars.

Big Shot Chicken is a dusty chicken-restaurant safe room guarded by a Bopca Protector, where the survivors shelter.

The Daughters are also at a station 83, but at a junction of the Orange and Indigo lines, so line numbers repeat.

Hekla, an Icelandic crossbow-wielding crawler, leads a growing band of female warriors called Brynhild's Daughters.

Qwist is the Bopca Protector at Big Shot Chicken, who obediently grooms Princess Donut and fetches her custard.

Carl's MOAB is a ramp-like launcher on a bike trailer that rolls wheeled bombs, called babies, out behind the chopper.

In the show's Death Watch segment, doomed crawlers are frozen and made to guess outcomes to earn teleport points to save themselves.

Kobold riders resemble armored chihuahuas and ride Danger Dingoes into battle with lances.

Mexx-55 is a floating robotic disk in a rental production trailer, owned by Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited.

Administrator Mukta substitutes for Zev, who has been put in a time out, and forces Carl and Princess Donut onto a higher-paying show.

Carl's Gold Sapper's Box gives him a Sapper's Table and ten valuable Proximity Triggers for setting trap activation conditions.

Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited owned most rental production trailers until the Valtay kicked them off system.

The Maestro hosts Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a show that even Mexx-55 seems to dislike.

Brindled Vespas are human-sized hornets that hatch from grub pupae and spit acidic white goo.

Li Jun, a warehouse worker, refuses to choose who gets saved, insisting he and Zhang stand together.

Li Na is Li Jun's sister, trapped with him, Zhang and their manager between troglodytes and Brindled Vespas.

Zhang, Li Jun's best friend, is a level-28 human Earth Mover whose shrinking wand gets the portal cart into station 36.

Tourists playing Faction Wars on the ninth level have the same protection package as managers.

Carl drinks a skill potion that gives him Level Five in the Find Crawler skill.

The Maestro gives Frank and Maggie a Legendary Skill Potion that raises Find Crawler to level 15, locating any named crawler anywhere.

The Maestro says the Skull Clan has won six of the last ten Faction Wars, while the Blood Sultanate is usually eliminated first.

Yvette, Frank and Maggie's daughter, refused to kill anyone and was badly hurt by the dynamite Carl left in a rat corpse.

Crown Prince Stalwart, the Maestro's older brother, owns the Maestro's show; both are princes of the Skull Empire.

An anonymous, flawless, explicit fan video of Carl dominating the Maestro has gone viral, mocking the prince as 'Pork Boy'.

Thousands of frenzied gerbils overrun Hump Town; the attack only stops once Carl gives in and stomps one.

The kobold boss chamber is a former dog pound turned fighting arena, with caged, abused Danger Dingoes outside.

Ralph, a level 11 Frenzied Gerbil neighborhood boss, is a hate-filled champion pit fighter whose mouth opens impossibly wide.

The Master Pen Key opens the kobold pit cages but breaks after one use for a non-kobold.

Princess Donut insists on choosing Mongo, a tiny pink-feathered, chicken-like dinosaur, over Carl's preferred brindle grub.

A Mongoliensis is a pet-class mob that is never truly tamed, attacks any mob on sight, and is fully grown at level 15.

Mordecai's brother was also a crawler and took the Storm Commander class on Odette's recommendation.

Valtay is a powerful parasitic corporate government whose fleet waits outside the Borant system to collect a debt; it will run the next season.

King Rust of the Skull Empire, the Maestro's father, has recently arrived in Earth orbit and stayed quiet about the snick controversy.

A tummy acher regenerates when killed, gaining a new weakness each time, and resets to level one every five deaths.

The Character Actor skill lets Princess Donut pick a new chance-based specialty class each floor, losing its skills when she leaves.

The Cockroach skill gives a chance to survive a fatal attack; at level five it guarantees surviving one lethal hit per fight.

Former Child Actor needs the 'Cut!' achievement and a trillion views; it gives Charisma, poison and disease immunity, Cockroach, Character Actor and the Manager Benefit.

Through the Manager Benefit, Mordecai now teleports to any saferoom Princess Donut is in, losing his magic guild transfer, tunnel access and codex.

Katia's Pathfinder skill greatly enlarges her map, showing all 20 train cars and approaching stations.

The Backfire skill lets Carl pick up and deconstruct traps, salvaging their valuable triggers.

Compensated Anarchist is a Monk/Rogue trap- and bomb-making class needing Explosives Handling 5 and 500 billion views, with a Charisma minimum of 25.

The Escape Plan skill reveals hidden doors and grants access to the Dungeon Locator, concealed signposts at major intersections.

Mordecai warns the shortened timers may leave the sixth floor open only 11 or 12 days instead of the usual 30, angering the factions.

Carl's class grants him invite-only access to the Naughty Boys Employment Agency for specialised quests, though it costs 500,000 gold.

Primals were the original crawler race: blank slates with -1 to all stats, but all higher-tier skills can train to 20.

The Over City is a vast ruined city, about the size of Arizona, dotted with small villages; urban floors like it appear every three levels.

Level 75 village guards protect the villages by day and enforce the death penalty; crawlers who anger them must flee into the ruins.

A Platinum Asshole's Box potion raised Carl's Fear spell five levels to 10, adding a 2% chance to paralyze targets.

Former Circus Lemurs are stealthy, knife-throwing descendants of Grimaldi's circus who wear painted human skulls and ride giraffes.

Grimaldi's circus is fortifying for battle with walls, barbed wire, caged monsters and cauldrons that fire magical mortars.

Terror the Clown is an 11-foot, eyeless, knife-wielding stilt clown immune to Fear; Carl and Princess Donut kill one.

The Belly-Rubbed Pug is a tavern saferoom run by the Bopca Gordo, where rooms and food now cost money.

Carl's first quest, The Show Must Go On, asks him to learn why Grimaldi's circus endures and end its reign of terror.

Carl's hobby potion gives him level 3 in Cesta Punta, a skill he can't identify.

Princess Donut's new spell Clockwork Triplicate creates two clockwork copies of a pet or minion for one minute, costing 26 mana.

Earth Hobby Potions, legally required for crawlers with domestic classes, grant a random level-three Earth hobby skill.

Carl realizes Donut's useless hobby potion, Scutelliphily, relates to patches; Britney explains it means love of small shields.

Elites are powerful, one-of-a-kind non-boss heroes of Dungeon Crawler World, either NPCs or mobs.

Princess Donut reluctantly wears the Enchanted Anklet of the Fallen Oak, gaining Dexterity, Constitution and the Double Tap skill.

Grace Bautista 3, Nica and Lea, three related level 8 crawlers, were killed by lemurs and left as bait.

Clint says the high elves sheltered in their castle during Scolopendra's attack, protected by an item they had stolen from her.

Tsarina Signet is the daughter of the High-Elf King Finian, whose mongrel children the High Elves hunt down.

Princess Chonkalot was Princess Donut's grandmother and Bea's childhood cat, the subject of Bea's lower-back tattoo.

Puppy Dog is a high-Charisma effect that drives men mad with desire; Carl breaks it by snapping his own finger on Mordecai's advice.

A circus poster of Tsarina Signet and Her Amazing Battle Squad is crossed out and labelled 'Wanted. Traitor.'

A Divine Guardian is a kaiju-sized Country Boss of the 12th floor guarding a fire gate to the 13th floor.

Signet told Carl that Grimaldi has turned into a Vinev, a plant-based creature.

Mold Lions were the circus's tame dancing lions, transformed by Scolopendra's spores into fungus-covered, tentacled monsters.

Scolopendra's poison cloud was a Nine Tier attack; Carl suspects Scolopendra is the monster at the bottom of the volcano.

Sponsorships officially start on the fourth floor, but sponsors can place early bids during the third floor.

A single mold spore returning to the vine lets a slain Mold Lion regrow by the next day.

Heather is a transformed black bear in clown hat, tutu and roller skates, with worm paws, and appears to be a boss.

Water Lily is Signet's heirloom sleep spell; the victim cannot wake until she cancels it, dies if moved, and dies if Signet dies.

Collapsing the big top requires breaking three poles at the centres of its three rings; the vine is in the center ring.

A Big Top Ticket grants safe passage inside the big top's public areas, but not within the three rings.

Signet's summoned minions are huge, flat paper-like Blood and Ink Elementals, yet they can genuinely fight.

Eklund is a game guide in town and an old friend of Mordecai's.

Carl's Fireball or Custard ticket finally casts Fireball, incinerating the krasue nest and Featherfall's corpse.

Ink Marauder animates drawings with a blood sacrifice; Signet's tattooed monsters live on her own blood until released.

Satch Toad extract mixed with a healing potion negates all naiad sleep effects and curses, but isn't sold in this town.

Signet's storyline program is called Vengeance of the Daughter, as Carl had suspected.

Apollon the Mighty is an elite strongman ogre resembling the center head of Signet's three-headed ogre tattoo.

A Pestiferous Vine is a fungus-plant hybrid whose spores infect parasitic worms, which then infect and control other mobs.

Panic is the first play in Carl and Donut's playbook: Carl casts Fear and Donut hits the mob with a missile.

Ripper Wonton, a furry Setonix or Quokka, hosts the live talk show Danger Zone and leads its panel discussion.

A Prism scout who flooded a Posse tunnel was a Saccathian prince related to Empress D'Nadia; he died on a landmine.

Sensation Entertainment, Incorporated produces Vengeance of the Daughter; Zev's contact there was a Sac.

Street Urchins are spiky, rolling janitor mobs of the Over City that clean up corpses and refuse at night.

Carl's 100,000 gold comp chip can only be played at the Desperado Club Casino's High Roller's Roulette Table or Wheel of Fortune.

Donut drinks a skill potion for level three Acute Ears, which reveals size and likely type of unidentified mobs on her map.

Donut decides to give her Fang Caps, which add poison and paralysis bites, to Mongo.

Carl and Donut are among the first ten crawlers to reach one quadrillion views, earning Gold Fan Boxes whose contents fans vote on.

Freeballing doubles damage of Carl's below-the-waist attacks but allows only one layer over his crotch, so he can't wear trousers.

The Hadji achievement rewards completing a quest in an unusual way, upgrading Carl's and Donut's quest boxes to Platinum.

Fitz is the fat, bald, level-30 human proprietor of The One-Eyed Narwhal pub.

GumGum, a weeping level-5 orc NPC, asks for help with an apparent quest, but Mordecai sends her away.

Mordecai calls hellspawn familiars among the most powerful pets; they can eventually grow wings and reach dragon size.

Carl and Donut buy a magical pet carrier for Mongo so he can rest; pets aren't allowed in the Desperado Club.

The Boomy Boy is a playbook move where a clockwork copy of Mongo charges a boss carrying dynamite.

The Dispenser is a manta-ray-like neighborhood boss that camouflages on walls; the party kills it in under a minute.

The quest The Sex Workers Who Fell from the Heavens asks Carl to find out why dead women appear in town each morning.

Quint gives Carl free Blitz Sticks, addictive hallucinogens that can raise Intelligence, which Carl keeps without intending to use.

Clarabelle is a level 40 crocodilian bouncer at the Desperado Club and an old friend of Mordecai's.

Carl can enter Club Vanquisher as a worshipper of Emberus, but Donut cannot.

Quint is a level 75 half-Djinn, half-garbage scowl pharmacist at the club, a former crawler who chose that race.

The Silk Road market inside the Desperado Club is mirrored on the next floor and will fill with merchants later.

Hob-lobbers are baseball-sized hobgoblin bombs, either impact-enchanted or fused; Carl buys a case of fused ones.

Krasue are flying, blood-drinking female heads trailing organs; they die only when the rest of their corpse is destroyed.

Pustule is an odd, oozing level 30 hobgoblin with excellent hearing who sells explosives at Hobgobs and Boom Sticks.

The 201st Security Group is a poorly organized city-elf militia that believes skyfowl are angels needing protection from the earthbound.

Elves worship Apito, the Oak Mother and mother of all gods, who in one apocryphal story forbids violence against her angels.

Brad survived the collapse in Seattle with Bea, regrets not entering the dungeon, and repeats to himself that he is a king.

City elves are a separate race of conspiracy-minded elves expelled by the high elves for their stupidity.

The Gate Pass, signed by Magistrate Featherfall, stops the town guards bothering its holder about carrying corpses.

Fitz says the town's magistrate is a black cleric who can control the undead, yet ignored GumGum's complaints about the krasue.

Meat Hooks summons nearby carnivorous pets away from their owners toward a burning stench; Donut takes the scroll.

GumGum's Mysterious Letter is written in necroscript, a script used by undead magic users.

Vicente was a level 16 city elf who used the Meat Hooks spell to lure Mongo and knew Carl and Donut's names.

Carl's fan box gives him a xistera, a jai-alai throwing scoop that retracts into a bracer and works with his gauntlet.

Burgundy is a young dark-haired human worker at the town hall with one blue eye and one brown.

Daniel Bautista 2 is a level-18 Tigran Swashbuckler whose quest to kill Miss Quill was ruined by Carl's explosion.

Miss Quill is the elderly skyfowl assistant to the magistrate, a fierce gatekeeper who collects stuffed toys and resists Donut's charm.

Shambling Berserkers are undead piles of sewn-together body parts, weak in light but four times stronger in darkness.

The Divider was a level-17 two-headed whale-like neighborhood boss already killed by crawler Daniel Bautista 2.

D-0NAH, nicknamed Donna by Princess Donut, is the frisbee-shaped robot running the rented production trailer for Carl and Donut's next show.

Evo, the director of Danger Zone, is one of the Forsoothed, a people commonly called Soothers.

Manasa is a famous cobra-headed Naga singer, now a dead body driven by a Valtay parasite under contract to continue her career.

Apartment 231 shows Marjory Williams, Ferdinand's owner from Carl's building, being urged to report her abusive ex Bill for violating a restraining order.

Princess D'nadia of the Prism is a tentacle-faced Saccathian, a regular panelist and a fan of Carl and Donut.

Ugloo, the orc queen killed in an earlier assassination attempt, was Baroness Victory's sister.

Tucker, a human comedian, mocks Donut's presence on the panel; Donut humiliates him for half an hour, deliberately calling him Butler.

Eunice, a heavily pregnant level-30 Fathom Dwarf, attacks Salvatore with a rolling pin for hitting her son with a rock.

Carl's upgraded hobgoblin dynamite is so powerful that one stick collapses a building facade, making it impractical in normal fights.

Eating acorns grants the elves Magical Fervor, tripling mana, boosting strength and making them immune to Carl's Fear.

'Mic Drop' is a planned play: Carl tosses a lit boom jug upward and Donut's Puddle Jumper teleports the group away before it lands.

The Oak Fell is Apito's version of the antichrist; the elves think Donut is it because she wears an oakwood anklet.

Ricky Joe, a juvenile Fathom Dwarf, loses his arm to Mongo after punching the raptor for eating his pet salamander Benjamin.

Salvatore, a city elf Root Druid, admits the elves tortured GumGum and believes Donut is the Oak Fell.

The quest only requires finding out why the women are dying, which is why killing Quill didn't complete it.

A doppelganger can reshape its mass, including absorbed gear, into any form, painfully and by hand, without gaining that form's abilities.

Hobgoblin smoke curtains produce a heavy fog that also works on krasue because they have a physical presence.

Katia Grim, the Daughter Hekla sent, is a level-9 crawler, a former art teacher whose guide Bannon pushed her into a hard race and class.

The magistrate's living quarters were already looted and empty, with a broken chest clasp predating the explosion.

Monster Truck Driver is an Earth version of the Juggernaut class: a tank whose Constitution bonus grows the faster she moves.

Suppurating Eye is a common lich spell: the caster leaks bodily fluid onto a surface and can see and hear anything near it.

Mordecai believes the System AI is making high-performing crawlers stronger via loot to compensate for Borant's shortened floor time limits.

Remex, Miss Quill's husband and a former magistrate, is neither alive nor dead and is casting a great spell to fully restore himself.

Carl salvages an apparently enchanted, unbroken glass case from Miss Quill's collection holding a plush armoured rider tagged 'Kimaris'.

Full-power demons open ranged portals labeled 'Entrance to Sheol, Floor 15' and need two souls to return home.

Quan Ch, a level-15 Imperial Security Trooper, opened his Bandit-upgraded Celestial Quest Box before Borant's appeal, gaining a flying magical robe.

The Sheol Glass Reaper Case, forged on Sheol, the World Dungeon's 15th level, protects its contents against most forms of abuse.

The Soul Crystal, elf technology, recharges the town's swordsmen each night with soul power from deaths nearby and shatters if touched by living flesh.

A Soul Leech Capacitor is a loved one's soul dragged back from death; it stores stolen soul power so its owner can draw huge mana.

The Final War would unleash beasts killing everyone in the Over City except skyfowl and chickadees whose feathers were collected, and their families.

Quill's failed spell triggers a group quest: a magical explosion in seven minutes across 45 square kilometres, with Carl, Donut and Katia as hosts.

Carl's Doomsday Scenario is an unstable explosive formed from the overloaded soul crystal sealed in the Reaper Case, able to level a city; it explodes if removed from inventory.

Conrad E, a level-12 Ranger, is killed when a precursor burst detonates the arrows in his quiver.

The quest's double upgrade awarded 83 Celestial boxes; Borant may owe Syndicate taxes on 82 more, threatening its financial survival.

Florin is a mercenary-like crawler with a modified automatic shotgun who chose the crocodilian race, tripling the buffs from eating Ifechi's leeches.

Ifechi, a human healer, survived the slime boss that killed his armed group and now travels with Florin.

On the draft top-ten leaderboard, Lucia Mar leads, Hekla is second, and Carl and Donut are sixth and seventh.

Miriam Dom is a forty-ish Italian shepherd with a crook who keeps Prepotente in line, calling him Pony.

Prepotente is a sapient goat crawler with a British accent who screams randomly and threatens people; he admires Donut.

Dreks are demonic baby-like mobs travelling in packs of 50 or more that swarm the Sirin Station platform.

Donut's Guinness skill doubles her strength while she is drunk.

Jikininki are tall ghoul janitors of the Iron Tangle that eat flesh and leave alone those who don't bleed, litter or trespass.

Donut's Mascot skill gives the whole party Dexterity and Constitution bonuses whenever Mongo damages or kills an enemy.

The Nightmare Express runs every 90 minutes on a figure-eight with five stops, four of them transit stations; the other is station 436.

Psycho Stickers are huge hedgehog-like ogres; Mora Station is said to be their home.

The train's service plates are magically locked and require a Red Line Engineer's Key.

Yellow Line trains carry Cave Mudge Bonkers and Shock Chompers, and the lead car requires a Yellow Line Engineer's Key.

Carl learns Bang Bro, a cheap spell adding fire and electrical damage to an equipped item such as his gauntlet.

Combining the three level-three coupon spaces gives the party a level-five personal space; Katia's share leaves with her if she goes.

Carl's necklace holds a gem for the Medium Skyfowl Settlement, paying him permanent taxes and granting +5 Dexterity and Talon Strike.

Princess Donut's Hole spell lets Carl pull Dismember's head through the barrier; closing the hole decapitates him.

Limp Richard is a bookish Mole Man shopkeeper; he says Carl's party are the first crawlers to reach station 83.

Mordecai says Mana Genita is an obscure goddess; of thousands of gods, most never leave the 12th floor.

Transfer station 83 links the Red Line, Yellow Line and Nightmare Express, with a saferoom, a mace guild and Limp Richard's Sundries.

Talon Strike turns Carl's bare-foot kicks into slashing attacks, each with a small chance to cast the instakill Eviscerate.

Wendita is overjoyed at the coupon sales and believes Donut's demand that she pay was only a test.

Limp Richard sells a 75,000-gold Battery Fabricator, taken from a dwarven automaton factory, that makes batteries from mana potions; Carl covets it.

Bonkers are club-wielding monsters that attack the party inside a train car.

Banshee Station's apparent boss room holds only a materials cart and two sleeping Dwarven Industrial Light-Duty Automatons.

Red Cornets are blind, skinless rabbit-like monsters, devolved Lepus, whose sonic attack makes victims Queasy.

Carl's Find Traps skill activates for the first time, warning him just after he starts opening Donut's suitcase.

Grapples are a servile quarter-giant slave race bred by the High Elves from hill giants, Vegetal Ogrids and large humans.

Pierre is a level 25 Grapple, a non-combatant Yellow Line Porter who hands out suitcases from the reward room.

Vernon is a level 32 dwarf, the Yellow Line Train Conductor, who drinks in the employee break room instead of doing his job.

The Yellow Line Reward Room in the train's tenth car lets each crawler pick one numbered suitcase prize per train line.

Mordecai explains control sigils gate specific mobs, are switched by showrunners, and only Carl can see them through his Escape Plan skill.

Eva is another of the daughters and a friend of Katia's from before; she and Hekla found a similar robot room.

After repeated exposure, Carl, Donut and Katia all gain resistance to the Queasy debuff.

One prize appears to be Carl's father's motorcycle, recalling the day his father beat him bloody after Carl knocked it over.

Chaco the Bard is a level 66 Pterolykos NPC, a former crawler champion and host of The Prize Carousel.

Carl recognises his own tool chest from work among the prizes but suspects it is empty.

Donut's Platinum fan box gives her an Enchanted Mongoliensis Saddle, letting her ride Mongo for spell and combat bonuses.

Fragmenting Potion Balls let Carl throw potions at enemies; potions work on mobs and NPCs but not other crawlers.

Mordecai's Special Brew grants thirty seconds of constant healing and regeneration but adds about ten hours of potion sickness.

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Anonymous is a unique item described as a joke recipe book of chicken and goblin recipes.

The Prize Carousel offers Carl nine mystery prizes, including items taken from his own life on Earth.

Bomo and The Sledge, Donut's bodyguards, are knocked flat during the attack.

Crawler Drakea's note in the 22nd edition advises reading the book in saferoom toilet stalls, which the Syndicate supposedly forbids watching.

Porthus, the first to receive the Cookbook and author of its 2nd edition, accepted 'the deal' and vowed to one day make the enemy pay.

The Sledge bought a protection spell with his own money to guard Princess Donut, whom he now carries on his shoulder.

Astrid is a level 125 Bloodlust Sprite, Assistant Manager of the Desperado Club, wielding magic over circulatory systems.

Ji-Hoon, a level 21 Knife Sharpener, stabbed Princess Donut in the back with an enchanted dagger and was killed by her.

Larracos is the capital of the disputed lands, the prize over which the factions will fight once crawlers reach the ninth floor.

The Jelly Bomb is Carl's spiked, hob-lobber-packed landmine, built to derail a train when hit.

After stop 435 the engineer drives the engine car through the abyss gate back to the depot; passenger cars are 'deep cleaned', sometimes leaving bones.

Gore-Gore is a level 40 ManTauR, Ochre Line Train Engineer, a shouting warrior devoted to Grull the war god.

The Kravyad use dark magic to prepare Tangle employees for the portal home at stop 435, which causes memory loss.

A ManTauR is a genetically engineered half-human, half-human creature with two torsos and four arms, used as Tangle train engineers.

Dismember the War Mage commands hundreds of Fleshers in the Dismemberment Limited's rear cars and boasts of skinning previous crawler groups.

With few enemy targets left, fleshers begin creeping toward Carl, who flees to the saferoom.

The quest Levi is On the Menu! requires protecting Levi from Fleshers; failure turns every crawler aboard into a Flesher.

Levi the Seventh, the Dismemberment Limited's driver, is a Troll Flesher and Hobgoblin Skellie symbiote who begs them not to board.

Looting Gore-Gore gives Carl an Ochre Line Engineer's Key and a map of the entire Ochre line with live train positions.

Katia is sponsored by Princess Formidable of the Skull Empire, whom Carl believes is the sister of Prince Stalwart.

Flesher-skeleton Symbiotes are weak; Fleshers hunt them, and each re-sleeved iteration grows more intelligent and powerful.

The armorer's table turns shaped metal into equippable items, letting Katia add crafted armour to her mass.

Fannar revealed Katia's past addictions, which shattered her after she had fought so long to stay clean.

Forkith, an Urgyle Sapper who reached at least the 11th floor, wrote the Cookbook's 20th edition and mourned his sister Barkith.

Carl and Donut narrate segments for Planet Beautiful, a cultural show that has become a ratings powerhouse.

After taking the pill, Carl can analyse doorways as subspace portals and see a picture of what lies beyond them.

Carl builds an open backpack filled with heavy metal; when Katia equips it, its contents become part of her mass.

The Valtay neural enhancer permanently alters Carl's brain, letting him identify and analyse subspace portals.

Fire Brandy is a level 75 lesser demon, the non-combatant fire(wo)man of the Nightmare Express, living inside the firebox.

Koki, a human warrior from Japan, discovers how to mass-message everyone on a crawler's list.

Lesser Demons bear thousands of babies over sixty days; the non-viable ones harden into Sheol Bricks that burn long and hot.

The Nightmare Express boiler is a Shattering Train Bomb that will explode from pressure within about two minutes.

The Nightmare Express runs on Sheol Bricks, the corpses of Fire Brandy's failed babies; the 15th floor will be full of them.

Carl finds a Steam Engineer's Key granting access to employee-only areas on all 400 steam trains of the Tangle.

Love Vampire makes one enemy of Donut's level or lower take damage meant for her until it dies; it recharges every couple of hours.

Princess D’Nadia sent Donut unique goggles that turn her Magic Missile into a laser she can fire at four targets at once.

Seize the Day Toothpaste gives triple damage to bosses, or quadruple to Province, Country or Floor Bosses, for 30 hours; it must be applied in a safe room.

The Abyss is a burning pit a mile across, ringed with thousands of portals; trains reaching the end of the line crash into it.

The souvenir conductor hat every crawler received at the floor's start is a key that lets the wearer pass through the end-of-line portals.

The end-of-line portals lead to a fenced trainyard of engine cars full of thousands of zombies, with dwarves waiting beyond the fence.

York, a crawler from a hive species, wrote the cookbook's 10th edition and its rambling philosophical essays.

Babababoons are level 17 human-faced baboons, crossed with a Florida jail drunk tank population, that wear ripped shirts and caps.

Carl makes hundreds of baseball-sized Banger Spheres from dwarven robot scrap as ammunition for his xistera.

Mobs suffering stage two of the DTs have doubled strength, lose speech and reason, attack anything, and can now enter transit stations.

The Station Repair portal is a two-way pass-through portal; track switches beyond it are controlled from the far side.

Terminus Station itself is a city boss that swallowed twenty of the 400 crawlers Bautista's group brought there.

CrackJack was the Nightmare's engineer, whom Carl's party killed; Widget calls him a cock.

The stairwell room above station 24 holds five stairwells and platforms, including the named train Escape Velocity III.

Festering Ghouls are not undead; they seek to devour organic matter and gather with their kind toward an ominous unexplained purpose.

Herot, writer of the cookbook's 16th edition, proposed the Worn Path Method of breaking NPCs out of their reverie.

Madison is a level 10 non-combatant human NPC, an Iron Tangle human resources associate who enforces mandatory overtime.

Mobs addicted to the Rev-Up vitamin shot suffer withdrawal and then the DTs if they don't get their dose in time.

Station and Repair Hub E is a vast underground trainyard where thousands of ghouls are pushing down the walls and fence.

Madison reveals six ravenous Station Mimics at Terminus consume passengers; workers are told to send customers off at 433.

Iron Tangle Substation E burns as ghouls kill dwarves and porters who keep materialising to wait for trains that never come.

The Worn Path Method holds that challenging NPCs' knowledge, kindly but firmly, makes quests easier, though it is cruel.

Widget is a level 19 Grease Gremlin train technician who wields a giant wrench and helps the crawlers out of the yard.

Madison blames Doris of substation B, who handles Krakaren and ghoul disposal, for the cheap system behind the ghoul outbreak.

A PVP Coupon rewards its holder with loot boxes and levels for killing the crawler named on its back.

Rod is Madison's ex-husband and the Iron Tangle's CFO, working at Station A; Madison insists he will come.

Station 60, supposedly a settlement of employee homes and families, turns out to be an empty, decrepit platform.

Wrath ghouls are gathering at station 36, where Imani's group plans to hold the line and kill them.

The ring gives +5% to all stats and the Marked for Death skill; Frank gives it to Carl as 'revenge', expecting it to ruin him.

Marked for Death marks a full-health crawler; when it dies the user gains a permanent stat point, but cannot heal until the mark dies.

Bin, a gray alien producer, created Planet Beautiful to record erased cultures but is now pressured by Titan to use crawlers and AI scripts.

Mexx-6000 explains Borant uses a cheap dual-layer planetary zone, so crawlers keep their interface in an undersea trailer.

Princess Posse is emerging as the name for Donut's fans; some use Donut Holes, which she dislikes.

Loita, Hekla's former representative and a Bloom member, is trying to take over the crew's account through her claim on Katia.

Tizquick, a Mango line dwarf conductor, weeps after realising his little girl was never real.

Blister Ghouls are level 20 undead spawned by soul-crystal Ghoul Generators, one for every non-undead mob that dies on the floor.

A Dirty Little Phased Bolt is an invisible crossbow bolt that drains a victim to 1% health and hides the kill's true source, avoiding skulls.

Silfa is a level 25 Wisteria Fairy Holistic Healer among the daughters, slow to heal Katia without Hekla's approval.

A crawler team of 300-400 attacking a blister ghoul generator at a station 72 apparently died when its soul crystal exploded.

Rush turns Katia into a battering ram once a day, with unpredictable distance and occasionally an off-centre angle.

The crossbow never runs out of basic ammo, boosts dexterity and strength, and casts Birth Defect on monsters that spawn others.

Legend says the vulture goddess Nekhebit cursed the high elf court's seed when elf mothers turned to Apito, creating the Fae Diaspora.

Carl chooses station 36 for the crawlers' stand against wrath ghouls, with nearby saferooms for resting in shifts.

Katia's Wrestling Belt of the Great Gorgo grants +5% strength and constitution and Avalanche, doubling the force of her body impacts.

Hinter, the company that normally rents out the cores for the pocket system, refused Borant their use at the last minute.

Station 75 is an overrun hobgoblin and gnoll yard with an armory, repair shop and the bar The Downward Dog, already looted.

Azin wrote in the cookbook's 17th edition that indestructible, regenerating NPCs carry or know something important.

Growler Gary is a level 25 Shade Gnoll bartender who couldn't leave The Downward Dog to fight and regenerated after a woman tore his throat out.

Interdiction Rapid-Response carts move at five times passenger speed with a portal scoop sending everything ahead to a trainyard or the Abyss.

Jumping Jen-Jen, a cart driver Gary admired, called him a coward and died outside the bar's door.

Set to the Abyss, the cart's clean-up portal drops everything half a mile into the pit; set to trainyard, it's safe.

Donita Grace died warning crawlers not to go to stop 24, which she said was swarming with millions of creatures.

Krakaren Crotch Dumplings are rice-sized parasitic clones of the Krakaren that grow quickly and must be killed fast.

Razor Foxes each pick a weapon proficiency in childhood plus a ranged weapon, usually throwing stars.

Station 24 is swarming with thousands of dog-sized juvenile Krakaren octopuses.

Elle's team, guided by Tizquick, found the exploded station 72, whose stairwells became a place to descend without fighting.

The Left Fang of the Green Sultan is Eva's saber; it is only magical when paired with its twin, so Eva has lost her main weapon.

Carl's cookbook warns that mimics are everywhere on the 8th floor.

Atwin, a legendary Sage Sprite Lecturer figure, taught Bautista that the stuffed figures perform true summonings.

Katia gives Carl her Auto Buckler of the Peach Pit, which can disarm opponents.

Katia's fan box gives her a riot shield that upgrades her Rush to Crowd Blast, usable every five minutes.

Jaxbrin Amusements, Limited makes the summonable stuffed figures and is Bautista's sponsor.

Carl owns a Unique figure of Kimaris, a demon riding a horse; Bautista advises keeping it until its value is known.

Princess Formidable sends Katia the Bolt of Ophiotaurus, which pauses a deity's invulnerability when shot into its eye.

The Plenty invented the tunneling system for real-time universal communication; the Pooka on this floor caricature them.

Krakaren Juvenile Clonelings have burning tentacles and caustic blood; fire and psychic attacks work well, lightning does nothing.

Tserendolgor is a level-27 Dog Soldier Crisper who works a flamethrower and clashes with Donut.

Per the cookbook, big gods are sponsored by rich players in the Celestial Ascendency game, contained on the 12th floor.

Crawler Coolie, a past crawler from Qurux, blew up a ship in orbit with bugbear paste, but the admins aboard were only holos.

Crawler Tin noted gods are Soul Armor worn by aliens, so armor-removal spells could in theory strip the alien drivers out.

The cookbook's 22nd edition mentions a guild system for linking parties that turns on at the sixth floor.

Accidental god summonings via traps or equipment arrive untethered and furious; deities are invulnerable below the 12th floor.

The mimic's minions are car-sized mouths on centipede legs that split in two when cut; Carl blames himself for the mimic being there.

The tunnel between a station and its upside-down twin room has gravity pulling toward the nearest wall; Donut names it the noodle.

Odette explains a Death Challenge is a pop-up gambling event; the system AI gave Carl 50 to 1 odds of survival.

Jabbering Jibber-Jabbers are giant mouth minions of the Mimic Rex that split when killed and feed energy back to their master.

The Mimic Rex is a level 90 city boss credited with over 23,000 crawler deaths.

Taranis is a major god, big brother of Emberus, Hellik and Eris, and was married to his own mother Apito.

The Mimic Rex drops the Map of the Stars, which adds boss locations and descriptions to a large area of the map.

A forcefield blocks a trap-filled tomb entrance to the subterranean quadrant until the air quadrant's castle is liberated.

The Dirigible Gnomes were once a peaceful race who took to airships to escape war, but were eventually forced to fight.

The fifth floor's theme was chosen by paid viewer vote; Odette hints the team's crafting tables will be useful.

Real Nightgaunts are peaceful, semi-intelligent vegetarians that the Nullians capture and use as mounts and pack animals.

The gnome castle floats high up near the ceiling of the dome, so the team must find a way to reach the sky.

The Bactrians' town is also spared bombing because it holds something the gnomes value.

With all four quadrants liberated, bubble 543's top pops, opening all four stairwells while leaving the ocean and island intact.

Clay, a level 30 Dromedarian gatekeeper, takes Carl's blitz stick as a toll and warns him to stay out of city hall.

The Dromedarians of Hump Town are in a three-way stalemate with the Bactrians and the Dirigible Gnomes.

Hump Town is a Dromedarian brothel town sheltered by enchanted sail awnings that are furled when the daily sandstorm ends.

The gnomes don't bomb Hump Town because something their leader wants safe is kept in town hall; it eats mushrooms.

Juice Box is a changeling prostitute who shifts races instantly; Mordecai warns she is far more powerful than her level 17 suggests.

Bubble 543 is a bowl atop the Necropolis of Anser, a very high tower, with ground and sea far below.

Entering a stairwell while in the top ten earns Carl an achievement that doubles all bounties against him.

Donut learns Astral Paw, a utility spell letting her manipulate or strike things at a distance, gaining claws and power with level.

Skarn's roof telescope is a salvaged gnomish FarSeerer that shows distant targets in detail but alerts gnomes being watched.

Carl's new toe ring grants Sticky Feet, for walking on walls, and Super Spreader, for passing debuffs to a target.

Wiping out the abyss's Wall Monitors gives Carl a tiny lizard-foot Extinction Sigil tattoo under his left eye.

Flint, a dromedarian on patrol, looks after Skarn and despises the gnomes as bomb-dropping cowards.

Gnomish Knock-Knocks are unstable fuel-air bombs; the few remaining are kept as mutual-standoff weapons on gnome patrol ships.

Elle gains Graupel, a powerful 50-mana ice storm spell that Mordecai calls a war spell.

Gwendolyn Duet, a level 27 Boring Ol' Fighter, is in Bubble 543's land quadrant facing the Sandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage.

Surviving Grull's physical attack earns Carl the rare Indomitable achievement, which warns other deities tend to notice.

Mordecai says Pawna is the goddess of peace, Grull's sister and arch enemy.

Carl's legendary deity box holds Pawna's Tears, which adds five levels to any chosen skill; Mordecai calls it his best loot.

Ruby is a changeling orphan with compression sickness, who has no arms in human form.

The land quadrant's sandcastle is solid sand around a stairwell, guarding the necropolis drainage tunnel.

Skarn is a level 3 changeling orphan who mimics people he meets; his village was bombed by gnomes.

Carl receives 25 Surefires, crafting items that add guided targeting to any projectile.

The gnomes' dropped egg is a rusty Altitude-Based Deployment Device meant to release a monster but broken.

For Allister, the cookbook took the form of a deck of T'Ghee playing cards from his home planet.

The egg contained a level 45 Feral Goose neighborhood boss, killed by the impact; Mordecai says 'feral' usually means bad news.

Firas M., a level 22 Hammersmith, and Louis Santiago 2, a level 22 Pest Exterminator, drink at the Spit and Swallow.

The Gnomish Drop Bear is an old, underpowered gnome attack biplane carrying escape balloons and, instead of bombs, egg-shaped payloads.

Hellik, Emberus's twin and another sun god, is obsessed with killing both Emberus and Taranis.

Langley, level 24, leads a party of six Helsinki car salesmen who all chose the Archer class.

Donut bullies a drunk, hostile Louis into promising to attend the crawler meeting at the Toe.

The team's new marketplace interface, on Donut's account for her Charisma bonus, lets them buy and sell; factions join from the sixth floor.

The suns Taranis and Hellik govern the bowl's days; in eleven days the Red Equinox brings near-constant darkness and longer storms.

A level 34 Thorny Devil attacks; as a lizard-class mob, it deals Carl extra damage due to his Extinction Sigil.

Mordecai believes Lucia uses Rubber, a spell that reduces incoming damage and reflects it to a chosen target, and says it has a big vulnerability.

Carl and Katia build a tracked, portable all-terrain vehicle that Carl stores in his inventory in two pieces; Donut names it the Royal Chariot.

Cloud of Exhaust knocks mobs out until touched and boosts damage to them afterward; Mordecai thinks Miriam Dom has the same spell.

Mordecai secretly doses Louis and Firas with Rapid Detox, which sobers them and makes them violently ill if they drink for the rest of the floor.

Bobby D.J. is a jittery level 24 Spy, likely the trap-handling rogue of the subterranean party.

Mordecai says Changeling Principals are a power-hungry changeling sect obsessed with collecting forms, since changelings can only become creatures they have touched.

Commandant Kane and his roughly ten-year-old daughter are the only ones left on the flying house above the bowl.

According to Wynne, the changeling Henrik drugs and tortures him to make him cast a spell giving flesh to Quetzalcoatlus.

Low Thi, a level 25 D-Bag Geek crawler from the subterranean quadrant, kills Wynne at the gnome's request, ruining Carl's quest.

The Mad Dune Mage holds the ground quadrant, and Carl's group knows little about him yet.

Morris's subterranean quadrant is a trap-filled maze descending from a village of Nude Glabers to the Crypt of Anser, where the stairs are.

Quetzalcoatlus, Anser's wife, is now a screaming, bird-like ghost who can pass through walls within the tomb.

The guards in the town hall are changelings disguised as dromedarians; Svern is a level 49 Changeling Principal.

Wynne, a level 50 Dirigible Gnome Flesh Mechanic able to temporarily raise the long dead, is held chained beneath the town hall as the dromedarians' hostage.

Anser was an emperor; when he died, his court and living wife were sealed into his tomb with him.

Emerald, a dromedarian, reveals the town must give the gnomes proof of collateral each sunrise or be bombed like the Bactrians.

Nude Glabers are naked, undead mole rat creatures with almost-human anatomy who live in the subterranean quadrant's village cavern.

Carl's sponsor sends him an Emergency Platinum Benefactor Box containing a custom xistera attachment for throwing Samantha's head.

Donut's Veriluxx benefactor box holds a product sample: a cheap robot toy of Donut, merchandise from Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.

Very Sullen, a rock cretin, becomes a third regular bodyguard for the group at the Desperado Club.

Ruckus is a giant half-machine borough-boss buzz-ard that roosts near town after storms; a third camel city reportedly fell fighting it.

Carl calls the subterranean party the tomb raiders; Katia lied to them to push them not to wait for Carl's group's help.

The pacifist network's silver box contains a rare, nearly useless toraline root that Mordecai thinks might be a potion ingredient.

Carl takes a second Valtay neural enhancer pill, which adds elevation and airspeed readouts to his interface.

The group must reach the submarine Akula and turn off its pump to fully drain the necropolis.

Bugbears are goblin-like engineers common in the Kapok district of the Hunting Grounds, and rivals of the Ursine.

Shamus Chaindrive was a paranoid bugbear treasure hunter, crewed only by constructs, who sought the Gate of the Feral Gods by submarine.

The Gate of the Feral Gods is an artifact said to be buried in the Necropolis of Anser.

With the Water Quadrant liberated, crawlers who started there may now travel freely to the other quadrants.

Compression sickness afflicts one in four changeling births; Henrik hopes a new food source could stave off these birth defects.

Leon the Commissar is the gnomes' ambassador, who inspects the collateral with a spell to ensure it is not a changeling.

The quest Squeeze out the Juice Box requires Carl to save Hump Town from the gnome bombardment within 75 minutes.

The Vahana is an old black-and-gold Gnomish Legate Balloon, a type once seen as a symbol of peace and ambassadors.

Crixus, the gnome sniper, says the bactrians and dromedarians were slaves who built Anser's tomb and calls the camels complicit filth.

The potion Dolores Doesn't Splat lets a fast-falling drinker survive impact by slamming the ground five times.

Carl's achievement says the AI suspended an 'acceleration action' against him after he appeased it.

The Coffee Shop Author Kit is magic paper linked to Carl's scratchpad that can sell written scrolls on the market.

Gnomish live ammo balls hold a creature in stasis that is released on impact; the recovered ones all contain frenzied gerbils.

Carl's platinum quest box holds gold, healing scrolls and a sharpening stone that permanently strengthens his spiked gauntlet.

The robot Donut toy's AI persona is a garbled mix of Donut and Garfield, spouting lines about lasagna and Mondays.

Maggie tries to use a Celestial Grenade, which summons the wielder's god for sixty seconds; Carl grabs it before it goes off.

Infiltrators, or Scree, are parasitic brain worms related to the Valtay that take full control of living hosts, locking them out.

A young gnome girl in a blood-smeared Dallas Cowboys jersey answers the door and says her father is already dead.

Feral gods are immortal beasts banished into the Nothing by the pantheon before the world's creation, driven mad by banishment.

Carl renames a salvaged gnomish Drop Bear biplane called Death Trap to Nightmare II and uses it to reach the flying house.

The sponsor's robot Donut toys keep exploding; Loita says the showrunners required them to self-destruct when broken.

Denise the Feral Goose Mother is a Level 53 Borough Boss who suppresses magic and compulsively protects children.

The AI announces the seventh floor has been completely redesigned because crawlers are fighting back so well.

Carl's bronze pocket watch, etched with a bone symbol, matches Henrik's and needs a winding box to work.

The Nothing breaks and drains into the Halls of the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair.

Veritan Linkage is a mostly-Soother lending fund that advocates enslaving those who can't pay their taxes, closely allied with Borant and the Bloom.

Carl creates the Hobgoblin Disco Ball by infusing a smoke curtain with an invisibility potion, a recipe secretly taken from the cookbook.

Liddi, a soother host, says bringing the Donut doll to life was her idea, and her favorite feeds are Donut's and Lucia Mar's.

Orren is a Syndicate Liaison, an independent fact-finder who investigates incidents and recommends what should be done.

Tran, a level 28 human Swashbuckler with metal detection, finds a ring under the drainage wheel.

The Mysterious Winding Box is an old wooden case with space for two watches; the last watch is with Henrik in the necropolis.

A glass statue in the castle depicts Lika, a half-naiad trobairitz from a popular stage play series; she was never real.

A council letter tells Ghazi the creature he summoned is Psamathe, a banished lesser deity accompanied by an ooze familiar.

The sand covering the floor of Ghazi's chamber is actually a monstrous ooze.

Tish wrote Ghazi a furious note saying Scolopendra will never be defeated now because he lost the artifact they needed.

In the legend of the first masquerade, Yarilo broke the peace and was banished to the Nothing by Apito, sparking a slaughter.

Carl's burn gel, a hot-burning paste from a recipe Mordecai suggested, is used to burn the ooze's core.

Mrs. Ghazi is a level 52 Sand Ooze borough boss and minion of Psamathe, torn between loving Ghazi and resenting that he doesn't love her back.

Concierge Sharks are fast, voracious level 41 sharks drawn to blood, the water quadrant's main predators.

Pandinus is a land quadrant town of pazuzu, half-human half-scorpion creatures dressed in Mad Max style gear.

Mordecai warns Carl never to use his Potions of Bloodlust, berserk potions that once made someone kill half their party.

When Gwen's team breaks the castle's crystallization, the glass Lika head in Carl's inventory turns back into a latex sex doll head and is ejected.

The King's Point is a pre-built fortified castle area that previous winners usually choose as their starting location.

Mordecai explains a withering spirit results from a botched reunion of a split soul; it haunts an object with little power.

Britney Proskurina is a level-27 human Pit Fighter from Ukraine who refuses ever to go back into the water.

The Bugbear's Delight, the sentinel-gun neighborhood boss, was killed by deactivating a hidden box under the floor.

Vadim Zbar is a level-28 Kuhli Gut Rearranger, a healer/rogue, and was a cosmetic surgeon in Ukraine.

Kevin, the orange lizard recap host, and orc Magnificent Troy live-commentate the Lusca fight as a beta-test special event.

Lusca is a level-82 Octo-Shark Brood Mother Queen city boss, a mouthbrooder who feeds prey to her babies for ten minutes.

The Torn Book Page describes the Wailing Shrieker ghost, neutralized by exorcism, destroying her lover's corpse, electric shock or flesh-giving spells.

A Wailing Shrieker forms when a grieving widow dies in despair on hallowed ground near her lover's corpse, then jealously guards his grave.

Lusca's level-30 juvenile Octo-Shark brood are lamprey-like with tentacles; only one or two of each 2–3,000 pups survive.

The Leatherface plan uses a giant 25-foot buzzsaw held by Katia; spinning out, it slices straight through Lusca's head.

Carl's boss-box bandana grants Detect Traps, a level-15 Tripper spell every five hours, and the Remote Detonator benefit.

Emberus is a blind fire god who plucked out his own eyes when his favourite son died; he is rampaging, shouting for Orthrus.

Carl's new sleeveless patch jacket gains stats for every upgrade patch and boosts thrown explosives' range and accuracy by half.

Carl wins seven Fight the Power! achievements after he and the AI win a Syndicate Court lawsuit brought by seven plaintiffs.

Orthrus is Emberus's dog, sucked into the Nothing when Emberus's son was murdered; Carl's group released him.

Mordecai explains that all large-scale AIs eventually go insane, a process called Primal Degeneration, or going primal.

Each Summary Judgement box gives Carl a gold piece, one share in a plaintiff's home-system company, and a photo of a plaintiff's mother.

The Dream are zebra-riding elves using poison, druid magic and artillery; outside the dungeon they control half the universe's food supply.

Louis and Firas named the flying house the Twister, after Louis's van, the original Tiddy Twister.

Carl's Tripper spell comes from Drakea's Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder; lending it by tattoo cost him six levels temporarily.

A quest update urges Carl to ask Amayon who murdered Geyrun, the quest giver's son.

The lightning strike on the twin towers turns the beach around them to glass, trapping Carl's team and nearly killing Tran.

Every crawler who started in the Subterranean Quadrant died, but their sacrifice liberated it, credited to Gwendolyn Duet, Low Thi and Morris.

The group quest Where the Red God Glows warns that if Orthrus dies, Emberus will turn the bubble into a kiln.

The world quest Get Orthrus offers every crawler on Floor 5 a million gold and more for killing the puppy before it reunites with Emberus.

Sinjin, a 15th-edition Cookbook author, worshipped Kuraokami and regretted it; Azin noted it was Sinjin's last entry.

The Dumber of the Flunkies quest tasks Carl's group and bubble 18 with reuniting Orthrus and Emberus; failure means being smote by Emberus.

The Lacuna is the dark in-between world housing the bubbles, like an egg carton, beneath the planet's surface.

Per the Cookbook, worshipping a god grants benefits but imposes daily rules; lapsing brings debuffs, and falling from grace or leaving risks being smote.

Summoning a god with the celestial grenade gives Carl Divine Intervention, sixty seconds of invulnerability.

Ripping off Quan's arm earns Carl a Silver Savage Box, meant for player killers, containing Enchanted Handcuffs.

Emberus asks Carl to find who murdered Geyrun; Hellik, the obvious suspect, was in council when it happened.

Justice Light, a skyfowl Cookbook author, killed the only trap-shop owner on the sixth floor and lost access to the shop's stock.

Emberus orders Carl to kill Hellik before reaching the 12th floor or be smote, offering a Celestial God Box.

Carl learns Ping, a Dream artillery spell revealing the location of all non-crawler, non-red-tagged targets over a wide radius.

Priestly wrote the Cookbook's 14th edition, the best source on the ninth floor; Carl thinks Priestly would not approve his plan.

Carl loots Rockard's Ring of Sniping from Quan's severed arm; it marks wounded and gear-wearing creatures on the map.

A feral turkey god ate an exploded feral god's remains, tripled in size to level 150; Miriam Dom and Prepotente try to kill it.

The Semeru dwarves built Larracos and care for its inverted castle; Priestly thinks their reaching for the Celestials woke Scolopendra.

Ysalte, called the Vinegar Bitch, is the goddess the Semeru Dwarves of the ninth floor worship; she kills every crawler who comes near.

Bogdon Ro, a top-10 player killer, was the only top crawler killed by a hunter; Vrah wears his head.

Caprids are not a collective mind but act as a herd; Lexis says Liaison Harbinger is an anomaly among them.

The Nothing is full of a demon harem that hates Samantha; Slit was a minor one, and her sister Gash is far more dangerous.

Dmitri and Maxim are fraternal twin brothers sharing one two-headed nodling ogre body, the number five crawler in the dungeon.

Maxim, the left head with a knitted beanie, is a melee Bogatyr who wields a flaming meteor hammer.

Mordecai, helped by Samantha, brewed the yam into a Phase Lava Rock potion, letting Carl reach inside Chris's head.

Dmitri and Maxim Popov are a two-headed Nodling crawler; Dmitri became a Visionary while Maxim remains a Bogatyr.

Slit is a level-200 feral minor demon, freed from the Nothing, hunting Samantha out of jealousy over a man.

Team Cichociemni killed their leader for refusing murder; Eva has joined them, and Chris and Li Na watch them.

Gennrik is a tentacle-faced saccathian bounty hunter partnered with Sadir, hunting for the Prism's buy-in bid.

New Queen Anne is a survivor settlement of 74 humans in Seattle, ignored by the aliens and starting to rebuild.

Sadir is a Null bounty hunter with two strikes who took Walk-On work to support his children in the Filt system's null commune.

The Walk-On List is an illegal practice where producers hire trackers to sneak onto the planet and kidnap desired surviving natives.

The Agent Provocateur specialty focuses on mass-casualty bombs, adding intelligence, explosives handling and the advanced Bomb Maker's Workshop.

The Dreadnoughts abandoned their stake in faction wars after Carl wiped out their entire army.

The Guerilla specialty focuses on traps and ranged weapons, granting the Advanced Trap Maker's Workshop, Camouflage and crossbow skill.

Floor 6 hunters normally start at level 30 but have been bumped to level 50; registration stays open until release.

Ian is a Bush Elf attendant who says he was once a human crawler, and that all the arena workers were once crawlers.

The Revolutionary specialty focuses on melee, adding strength, unarmed combat and the Blend into the Crowd benefit.

Vrah is a mantis hunter, a regular every season, who wears her victims' heads and has thousands of kills; she killed Ian's brother.

Zockau is a city in the north of Floor 6 where the hunters are held during the grace period.

Funeral Bells are tall, level-95 mushroom-men guards protecting the smaller settlements of the sixth floor, on duty day and night.

Night Weasels are invisible, six-legged pack hunters whose scouts paralyze prey for the rest of the gang.

Pocket Kumas are half-fairy creatures bred as pets for the High Elf court; High Elf King Finian ordered them executed.

Hunters inside Zockau vanish from Carl's map at the border with the Selva jungle, which appears opaque from outside.

Tootsie is a Night Weasel scout, a pet of Hunter Zabit, that ambushed Carl at the settlement gate.

Zabit is a level 66 Atoll Beastmaster hunter whose night weasels attacked Carl early on the floor; he has collected 25 crawler scalps.

Clay-ton, a cretin former guard, now plays bass in the Desperado Club band after his contract ran out.

Quasar is a Nullian attorney assigned to represent Carl alone, appearing as a hologram after Carl asks for a lawyer.

Bomo gains Teleport to Stairwell, a level-15 spell that teleports to any stairwell on the floor, with a roughly twenty-five-day cooldown.

The Sledge gains Zerzura, a teleportation spell suggested by Quasar, who says it always leads to carnage and that Remex the Grand used it.

Carl's Advanced Bomber's Studio lets him simulate explosions virtually and dissect real explosives at a specialty workbench.

Donut's new bard class casts spells by singing in key instead of using mana, and spell power depends on how well she sings.

Encore is Donut's bard heal-party spell that can also remove multiple debuffs; Standing Ovation and Entourage are her other support songs.

Golden Throat is an enchantment Mordecai calls the dungeon's version of autotune.

Laundry Day knocks a piece of armor off an opponent, growing stronger with level; Carl secretly tells Donut to train it.

Chin'Dua is a drunk level-50 Draconian hunter whom Carl marks with the ring and then beats to death.

Grand is the title given to mayors of the biggest settlements on the Hunting Grounds.

Left to Fester is a debuff that prevents healing until the marked target is dead.

Predator is Carl and Donut's move: both go invisible, Donut uses infrared vision and they speak only by chat.

Super Spreader, the second ability of Carl's toe ring from Grull, copies his Left to Fester debuff onto a target he can see on his map.

After word of the Dark Hive's fate spread, most hunters on the floor have retreated.

Xindy is a level-61 flying Mantis hunter of The Dark Hive, the little sister of Vrah; Carl's missiles kill her.

Bianca Del Ciao, once Miriam's goat, is now a level-32 Hellspawn Familiar, a fiery, winged demon pet the size of a draft horse.

Crawler Everly's cookbook note warns that hired mercenaries are expensive, unreliable and easily lost when using a personal space.

Panel audience members say poison hits mantids three times as fast, their necks are least armored, and loud sounds hurt them.

Plenty of Plenty is a caprid interlocution show where interviewers judge a guest and ask questions if they find them worthy.

The Small Bugbear Settlement near Zockau has already been looted by hunters and is ringed with traps, which funeral bell guards deactivate inside town.

Hunting Trophies can be exchanged at a prize counter at the Butcher's Masquerade, a party near the end of the sixth floor.

Mordecai says the Guild of Suffering is a cult worshipping the demigod Night Wyrm, tied to divine suffering artifacts and memorial crystals.

Carl's 34 Hunter-Killer boxes held 595,000 gold and the hands of slain hunters, each a Hunting Trophy.

The Night Wyrm, who hired Carl and Katia to kill Astrid, is actually Astrid's husband, Hamed.

Carl's Gold Junkie's box gave him a spiderweb tattoo on his elbow granting access to the Guild of Suffering.

Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home is Carl's wheeled thermobaric bomb, amplified by Nitro Sludge and imbued with Fear, able to flatten a third of a mile.

Nitro Sludge is an inert by-product of Mordecai's shield potion that releases huge amounts of oxygen when vaporized, amplifying explosions.

Elmer is the level-40 Ursine mayor of the Large Ursine Settlement, who refuses to let Mongo into town.

Goiter, a level-42 bugbear council member of the looted town, befriends Carl on learning he is there to kill the hunters.

The Large Ursine Settlement across the river bridge bans dancing, singing, alcohol, Naiads and dinosaurs, on pain of decapitation.

The Ursine are bear-like humanoids whose surviving clerics built a strict, puritanical society after Scolopendra's attack.

Donut's collar charm marks her as Point Mongo's leader, pays town taxes every ten days, and lets her command the guards.

Kiwi is a level-60 Mongoliensis pack leader whose all-female pack surrounds Mongo outside Point Mongo.

Snitch is a skill from Donut's town gem that summons town guards to her location, even up to a kilometer outside her town.

Tam, a level-45 Ursine Light Cleric, warns that naiads and dinosaurs constantly attack Point Mongo and demands the old rules return.

The Recital is a quest to stop escalating dinosaur attacks on Point Mongo, by extermination or by discovering what the dinosaurs want.

Carl receives the Double-Billed achievement, for being one of the first five crawlers given double-billing, a deliberate kind of switch-over.

Areson the Wise is a level-45 ogre strongman elite travelling with Signet who resembles Apollon the Mighty.

Bravvo is an unaffiliated level-50 yenk hunter shot down by the town's guards while hunting Carl.

Clint Smashgrab is a level-50 were-kin light recon specialist, a survivor of the Chee, whose land was taken by the High Elves.

In the cookbook, Ikicha's last entry warns that loved ones brought back by the dungeon are never the same.

Yenks are humanoid aliens with three genders; adult males are driven out, becoming fighters, bounty hunters and mercenaries who cannot work with other males.

Herman the Fleet, an ogre strongman from Grimaldi's circus and brother of Areson and Apollon, was a level 70 elite in the Princess Posse.

Imogen, Signet's half-sister and Finian's former Sorcerer General, now rules the high elves and cast the spell that transformed the Chee.

Nadine, the level-50 Bearded Sage Caterpillar, was once a Chee teacher transformed during the High Elf attack.

The confederate naiad government refuses all taxes, has an empty treasury, and still pays tithes to the high elves.

Donut learns that a castor is a beaver, and calls Holger a were-beaver.

Carl stabs Vrah in the neck with the Arrow of Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea before she flees.

Edgar, a talking tortoise, is a Shell Mage who casts a large spell hiding Signet's army.

Fort Freedom is the former naiad palace, mostly submerged, which Signet's team plans to assault.

Arwick carried a crayon map showing hunter groups dividing the hunting grounds and claiming specific crawlers, with their locations.

The Nebular Sin Patrol sends young priest trainees to every crawl, seeing hunting crawlers from seeded worlds as a crusade.

Holger is a mullet-wearing were-castor and follower of Signet who carries a sickle sword.

The Apothecary becomes the third sponsor of Carl, Donut and most of the top ten crawlers.

Shade Gnoll Riot Forces mercenaries search Carl and Donut at a security checkpoint aboard a ship orbiting Earth.

The Borant System Government loses any stake in the planet, its resources and the show; regency passes solely to the Borant Corporation.

Circe Took, moderator of Carl's panel, is a mantis minor hive queen, former famous hunter and amusement park owner.

Carl's fan box makes him a virtual special guest at CrawlCon for three events: an art contest, a panel and an autograph session.

The Royal Court of Princess Donut joins the guild Safehome Yolanda, led by Imani and controlled by Team Meadowlark.

Most of team Meadowlark descends the stairs early, with Imani and Elle staying behind.

Akland is a level 51 moon elf artillery specialist of the Dream who claims to be an accountant hired to hunt.

Epitome Tagg of the Dream is one of the galaxy's richest men, controlling food-growing operations across many systems.

Fantasy hunter camp lets people pretend to be on the show; it is run by Vrah's family, and top players join faction wars.

Major Charlie, Mordecai's potion, raises intelligence by 10 for thirty seconds, then lowers it by 10 for five minutes.

Carl gives Donut the Enchanted Obsidian Bracelet of the Raggle Rouser, which grants stat boosts and a level-10 Fireball every twenty minutes.

Carl takes the Dream's Enchanted Venomous Elven Rock Chucker, a light trebuchet that infuses thrown objects with Poison Cloud.

The all-tree is one huge magical tree whose outgrowths reflect spells cast near forest-kin back onto the caster.

Future Huntress, a level 50 Skull Empire orc, warns that killing her frees Vrah and the Dark Hive to hunt Carl.

The Talent, a Skull Empire hunter, killed himself with his own Lightning scroll near the all-tree; Donut loots his gold and a credit chit.

Claude Sludgington the Fourth is a level 65 lightning-shooting Eryops borough boss that took over Fort Freedom's throne room.

Eryops gain a 10x constitution bonus when rooted in place, and their stomachs are their weak point.

Big Tina is a young, angry dinosaur in a pink boa who eats ursine, often runs away from the mongoliensis, and attacks Point Mongo.

Killing Imogen unlocks the High Elf Castle's loot, rumoured to include something that protects against Scolopendra's attacks.

Alucarda is a small dryad village whose mayor R'aggah has died; Lucia Mar has taken control as mayor.

Di-we was a three-headed nodling who died protecting Signet from her sister's agents; his body became her second tattoo.

Nodlings have two to six heads and split into new creatures on death; the Popov Brothers are two-headed nodlings.

An older shade gnoll security chief asks Carl to look favourably on his granddaughter Lix's entry, offering to overlook future thefts.

G'valt is a camel-like playwright whose drama Session of Love is performed only by NPCs on the ninth floor.

Hurk is a drunken gleener judge who designed the Desperado Club and several sets, and a perennial CrawlCon panelist.

Keith H., a human child, tells Carl his father calls him a cheater and the AI's toy; Carl scores him lowest.

Carl's panel 'Crawling through the Ages' has him as the only current crawler among the panelists.

Dr. Ratchet, an older dwarf panelist, wishes Carl luck and warns him to keep his head down.

Gnoll guard Frito tells Carl 'the captain sends his regards' and hints he should be creative with the tier-four room.

The tier-four Ultimate Training Room allows six skills, includes workshop training and has true AI trainers.

Carl finds a level-five Automaton Table left in the empty studio and takes it into his inventory.

An autographed copy of Dr. Ratchet's automaton guide sits on the table, and Carl takes it.

Drick is a former crawler, an iguanoid turned moon elf, who tapped out after the 11th floor about 400 seasons ago.

The Nebulars are camped out too, claiming the right to hunt Carl because he is in their territory.

A robed woman, one of Carl's sponsors and a CrawlCon sponsor, orders that Carl be allowed to speak.

Sydnee Iglacia is a saccathian crawl historian who wrote A Petite Chronicle of the Crawl; Carl endorses it.

Uptown Hal is a former game guide who spent over 200 seasons in the dungeon and now hosts Uptown Hal Talks Tactics.

Drick quotes the Nebulars' Ballad of Survival: violence breeds chaos, and from chaos we were born.

The Burrowers are the mantis royal family and government; the Dark Hive is a private corporation selling only to them.

Mordecai says Diwata is a vengeful minor nature goddess, a moss-covered antlered squirrel, worshipped by some dryads.

Carl's new tattoo makes Diwata's adherents attack on sight and warns him never to let Diwata see him.

Donut won a vocal coach training room with holographic NPC Lover Illiana; her singing is now level four.

Carl chooses the Swole upgrade, doubling future level-up strength points, over Prison Bitch and Stepson.

By breaking Diwata's desecrated shrine with his body, Carl earned Temple Defiler and a Gold Apostate Box.

Carl gains two upgrade patches, an archery patch and a finely made bomb patch boosting explosives, which Katia sews onto his jacket.

Carl suspects that in the ship's zero zone he lost all his enhanced stats and abilities.

The recap cut Lucia's mention of Alexandro, whom she called her youth assistant.

Mordecai says Lucia's Loop-de-Loop trap spell can send a victim to a set spot or swap places with them.

Mordecai says youth assistants care for children removed from the dungeon; their presence in the crawl is strange.

Edict is a level-50 male mantis merchant of the Dark Hive who calls himself just an accountant.

Edict says finding the stars doomed his people and that some kua-tin call this realization the Great Consensus.

Prepotente Town Number Four is walled by Jericho Bush vines and full of day-old ursine corpses killed by Big Tina.

Dmitri got an orange cat, Kapitan Whiskers, the day before the collapse.

Skindle is the twins' kua-tin associate; Zev is her boss.

Jenn'ifer, a woman with a tentacle symbiote named Maggie, is chapter president of a Princess Posse fan group.

Nihit, a naga reporter scooped by Odette, accuses Carl of cheating and receiving illegal help.

The Syndicate uses warrants instead of prisons; convicts can be bought out and franchised as workers for the rest of their sentence.

The Apothecary gives Carl a Charm Animal potion recipe that requires a liter of Mongo's blood per potion.

Donut gets a bracelet from the Apothecary with the same anti-vampire and anti-lycanthropy benefits as Carl's patch.

The Midnight Epicure is a child-scaring fable; its goat symbol, the same as Prepotente's hand tattoo, became a ward against night evils.

Carl's gold box from the Plenty holds a jacket patch giving protection against vampirism and lycanthropy and +25% magic damage against sapient undead.

Reunited glamoured fragments add their levels together, becoming far stronger than the original creature.

Mordecai makes Holy Goopers, potion balls of Emberus shrine water, healing potion and coagulant that act like napalm against vampires.

Prudence, an ursine barmaid, hides in the pub with her twin cubs Randy and Todd after Big Tina ate her husband.

Randy and Todd are orphaned ursine cubs whose father was killed by Tina.

At a small dryad settlement, the Diwata-worshipping mayor brands Carl a troublemaker, and its guards attack on sight.

Sierra, a level 65 Northropi Vampire neighborhood boss, was the mount of vampire hunter Viscount Fog.

Viscount Fog hunted Miriam Dom and died; Sierra was injured by Miriam and turned vampire within a day.

Prepotente cast Community Pool to move Miriam's infection to Fog, but the spell ping-ponged between their counter-rings, stunning both.

Miriam unlearned her Get Out of Jail spell into a spellbook, which Donut reads to be able to wake Prepotente.

Miriam gained the title Princess of Hell for surviving a floor while infected, which made her vampirism permanent.

Volteeg's only cookbook entry grieves a lost loved one; Drakea adds a bitter note beneath it.

Odious Creepers formed from Big Tina's uncontrolled undead army; they merge and grow stronger and faster in darkness.

The Wild Hunt used team form magic called Size Up to assess Carl and Donut's capabilities.

The world quest The Creeping Apocalypse orders all sixth-floor crawlers and hunters to kill fifty Odious Creepers before sunset.

Immortalized is a debuff from being cured of vampirism: weakened in direct sunlight, unaffected in shadow, empowered in moonlight.

Simoom is Ferdinand's gentle albino rhinoceros, kept in the Posse castle, where Tina now treats her like a pet.

After the quest fails, saferoom access is timed by a blood bar that fills by killing; at zero you are teleported out.

Gehenna Bramble spreads from the surviving creepers, turning plants into uncounterable walls of thorns whose prick makes blood boil and victims explode.

Club Scolopendra is on the 18th level, and those partying there keep security teams in orbit.

Iota is a level 50 Crafter Alliance hunter who works as an accountant and loot broker, not a fighter.

A primal dungeon AI defies outside orders; this usually happens after the tenth floor, and the council lets it continue for profit.

Creatures killed by a Zerzura landing rise as Children of Inpewt, revenants that hunt the town's residents and the caster.

The I Take it All Back potion removes the effects of Scolopendra's Transmutation spell.

Slate butterfly figures release harmless butterflies that fly to the nearest light source and drain its energy.

Katia's squad is Katia, Bautista, Louis, Britney and Tran, working alongside the last daughters from Hekla's team in Iceland.

The Dreadnought Clan quit the faction wars after Larracos flooded and the war chief's wife was stung by a jellyfish.

Haxor the Destroyer, an unaffiliated level 50 Dreadnought merchant hunter, is killed by Carl in a club bathroom.

Pearson, a changeling formerly disguised as a dromedarian bartender, meets Carl to hear the evacuation plan.

Liaisons are chosen for wanting the game to succeed while fundamentally disagreeing with their own nation's goals.

Hunters now have sponsor-supplied pulse rifles and anti-air guns, gear restricted to the original owner.

Milk's cookbook entry warns that a country boss drops a Treasure Map whose loot locations sparked crawler-on-crawler slaughter.

The Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward and Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams, both for Donut, each bear a hidden number seven.

Everly's sponsor Dictum Waystation Controls built the tower as a deadly advertisement mocking its competitor Gordon.

Ren's Garret the Tummy Acher wins Best in Show at the pet show, outraging Donut.

Theobold, a level 35 High Elf Footman, escorts Carl's caravan and explains the masquerade's rules.

Crawlers use Ballroom A on the fourth floor, hunters Ballroom B on the second, and the queen has a ballroom on the seventh.

Kibben, a level 50 High Elf Stablemancer, cages the pets and lets Donut's dinosaurs go to the hunters' attendant room.

The Atoll are not citizens; Zabit hunts crawlers to pay for his people's habitat and avoid them living under indenture.

Gimli is a Team Flamengo crawler's stone hawk that can turn people to stone.

Memorial crystals are made by fallen gods and demigods and hold god-tier spells and knowledge, released by charging them through kills.

Sheet music lets a bard sing songs they otherwise couldn't; singing one perfectly adds it permanently to the bard's repertoire.

Team Flamengo dumped points into single stats early, hid during Faction Wars, and has since been whittled down.

Jill is a ten-year-old Dutch girl Florin spoke to inside Lucia; she knew the prime minister of the Netherlands.

Size-Up potions reveal specific facts about a mob after about 30 seconds; Katia uses one to read Ferdinand's stats.

Donut sings 'All Eyes on Me', the song Bea used to sing to her, a minor charm focusing everyone's attention where she chooses.

Princess Lunette, Signet's mother, appears as an incomplete flesh golem; Carl stores her body in his inventory at Nadine's urging.

The memorial crystal belongs to the goddess Apito, which Prepotente finds puzzling since Apito is not believed dead.

Osvaldo, a Curupira ranger, takes the memorial crystal from Imogen's body, enraging Prepotente, then leaves down the stairs.

Katia's totem Annie is a level-80 Útburður, a raven with an infant's skull, kept summoned permanently with a Timeless card.

Cascadia gives the daily updates and designed the seventh floor; she screams as Prepotente breaks it.

The Donut Holes are an unofficial Princess Donut fan club whose licensed merch shows Donut's backside; Donut is outraged.

Armita, Odette's friend and former party member, became a demigod attendant for the Celestial Ascendency and brokered a bribe with Huanxin.

Huanxin Jinx is a wealthy grixist heiress who sponsors the storm goddess Dodola every season, and tried to extort Odette for more.

Outreach guilds offer crawlers deals to leave the crawl, such as low-floor undead, city attendant or game guide.

Uzzi, a skyfowl Storm Commander and Mordecai's brother, was killed by Chaco with the Dart of Ophiotaurus to summon Dodola inside him.

The cloak raises Donut's Bad Attitude to level 15, letting her lower resistances and drain intelligence of large groups.

Carl and Donut's squad holds a key for El Capitolio Nacional de Cuba, about 50 kilometers from where they're dropped.

The capitol building's exit door is damaged and will become unusable in five minutes, dissipating its key.

Planting a squad flag in a living entity below 5% health turns it into a T'Ghee totem, a minion that joins the squad.

Donut's new spell Why are you Hitting Yourself? makes a monster savagely attack itself.

Princess Donut's De-Sleeving box held a chained, quivering spellbook that made Mordecai gasp; he hints it is a powerful summoning tome.

The nipple ring grants fire immunity, boosts fire spells by intelligence percent, and lets Princess Donut cast the berserking spell Bitch, What?

Tome of Legionnaires of the Damned reanimates recently unequipped armor or weapons with wailing spirits as temporary minions of the caster.

Black Nimbus removes a target from their god's grace; Mordecai can now mass-produce it as a potion.

Carl's Defiler nipple ring reveals religious affiliations, lets him destroy shrines safely, and casts Black Nimbus to cut a target off from their deity.

Carl swaps his old buckler for the Right Back Atcha shield, which can catch and reflect physical and magic bolt attacks.

Mysterious Bone Key makes a one-use key for any lock in the dungeon, but destroys the jacket and uses one of Carl's bones.

Soul Reaper stores the essence of creatures Carl kills in melee, which he can release in one powerful attack; Mordecai warns not to store it long.

Carl's celestial box held The Scavenger's Daughter, a divine back patch whose powers change near deities and certain demons.

The floor recreates Old Havana as a replay, with ghostly people and real moving cars; only clothing and objects are physical.

Each squad's flags are enchanted metal spikes that stick into any creature, even ghosts, once its health drops below 5%.

The T'Ghee Card is a very rare consumable utility card that temporarily combines two monster cards into one creature.

The Experience is a level 55 wolf-like monster with a giant bearded human head, drawn from Taino folklore as a guardian of the dead.

Anton Lopez is a level 47 human Fugitive with prison tattoos and two player-killer skulls who worships Ogun.

Monk seals are kung-fu fighting seal monks sworn to protect the coast from the Red Maníseros Land Crabs.

Mordecai says Ogun is a common god of blacksmiths and protection whose worshippers can't be charmed.

Paz Lo is a level 45 human Santero in heavy plate armor who worships the god Ogun.

Sister Ines Quiteria is a level 47 Cat Girl Poet Laureate and a Discalced Carmelite nun who appears to have worked at a prison.

Geraldo is a second level 70 monk seal that charges the group soon after Yago's capture.

A captured monster's totem card belongs to the team whose flag was used, and only that team's Squad Leader can activate it.

Collecting a totem card while a squad has empty slots automatically places that monster into the squad.

The Chowder War quest asks crawlers to pick a side between the monk seals and the land crabs and end the conflict.

Yago's totem card shows a level 70 aquatic melee tank from Cuba with a 60-second summoning duration.

Duendes are weak level 20 gnome-like mobs that knock over vehicles and likely cause most of the local car crashes.

Shadow Boxer is a documentary program owned by sponsor Open Intellect Pacifist Network, wanting Carl's life from ages 15 to 18.

When Carl's essence bar fills, The Daughter's Kiss drains it into one devastating melee attack, growing stronger each cycle.

In a deity's presence, Carl's Scavenger's Daughter patch opens her eyes, boosting his smash attacks by 300%.

Burcu, number ten, is a level 59 badger-headed Porsuk Swashbuckler who fought Osvaldo and Prepotente after Imogen's death.

Squads need six totems to activate a deck; cards are Totems, Utility, Snare, Mystic and Special.

Prime Minister Glory, a gleener, is the boss of the entire Syndicate and rarely appears on the show.

Shi Maria is a unique spider demi-goddess living in a southern swamp, seeking her husband, with attacks causing permanent insanity or blindness.

The Mock Battle Arena lets squads pay 1,000 to 5,000 gold to fight generated opponents in customizable environments.

The Squonk is a perpetually weeping, harmless legendary creature that dissolves into water on its own.

In the dungeon, Havana's Colón Cemetery is fenced off and contains a corrupted Medium Ghommid Settlement full of undead.

Ghommids are varied spirit creatures from the land of the dead; a spirit turned this settlement's ghommids into ravenous unsettled monsters.

Pueblo de los Olvidados is a compulsory quest locking crawlers in until they find and eradicate the source of the settlement's corruption.

A level 130 barefoot figure in a straw headdress, trailing black tendrils, appears to be the cemetery's boss.

The Yellow Zone is a saferoom pub inside a crumbling crypt in the cemetery, staffed by a bopca.

Asojano is a level 130 non-corporeal Orisha city boss, the Lord of Smallpox, a faded former god who is disease incarnate.

Hobbled is a very rare consumable snare card that cuts an enemy totem's summoning time by 90% for the rest of combat.

The Bard's Golden Throat is a fan-voted enchanted headset microphone that auto-tunes Donut's songs and amplifies her voice.

Harbinger, a towering caprid of the Plenty, is the liaison at Shadow Boxer, the same one who helped Maggie My try to kill Carl.

The Lemig Sortion is a democracy that can't undo its vote to participate in Faction Wars without an 80% majority.

Rosetta Thagra is a Crest former crawler and game guide, recently freed from indentureship, who hosts Shadow Boxer.

Carl lived at the Anacortes Boys' Ranch until age 18, then joined the Coast Guard.

On Carl's fifteenth birthday his mother poisoned his father, then hanged herself in the basement; Carl found her body.

La Iglesia de los Olvidados is an octagonal ruined temple with seven broken shrines, including Asojano's.

Skylar Spinach is a rare level 66 Enraged Ghommid Splitter totem whose pieces grow stronger with each split.

Asojano conjures the Sun of Reawakening, a flaming skull-shaped ruby nobody may touch until his shrine is rebuilt.

The temple is a Celestial Thorn Room: seven Orisha shrines, one Sun of Reawakening, and only one shrine may be repaired.

Eileithyia, Goddess of Childbirth and Female Pain, is sponsored by Huanxin Jinx of the Grixist Swarm, CEO of Icon Industries.

Inle is a deaf, mute, unhinged former healing god who spent time in the Nothing and whispers to Carl that they are alike.

Oshun, a ghostly Orisha goddess, charms Carl and Anton with overwhelming charisma; Carl breaks his own finger to resist.

Phantasm combines Laundry Day, blasting off Bomo's scrap armor, with Legionnaires of the Damned, which animates the pieces into a blade swarm.

SlugPox makes boils on Carl burst into toothed Pox Slugs, each a level higher than the last, calling him daddy.

The ruined church becomes The Temple of Yemaya, a Club Vanquisher entrance temple, and Carl is named Friend of Yemaya.

Restoring Yemaya, the river mother, would make her ascend, give each squad a special card, and earn a boon from her friend Eileithyia.

Tipid notes Carl needs to expel a presence inside him quickly; Rosetta says an NPC showed Carl how ink shares powers.

Pater Coal is a Hobbledehoy High Cleric Supreme of Emberus who stays in constant contact with the god.

Potsy is a ram-headed Ares warrior cleric of Hellik who guards the Club Vanquisher door and is hostile to Emberus worshippers.

Martyr's Path is an eighth-floor-only benefit that releases flames over Carl's outdoor footsteps when he drops below 5% health.

Damascus Steel is a level 75 ifrit, assistant lead dancer at the Penis Parade, bearing the same spiderweb elbow tattoo as Carl.

Katia's celestial prize, earned for flooding Larracos, is a lock box holding the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace; two of three seals are broken.

Eating the orchid grants one of three boons: tripled Constitution, Celestial Attendant transfer to the 12th floor, or pregnancy and ejection from the game.

An adjutant is a neutral third-party observer for a Faction Wars team, like a referee and color commentator.

After Rust's death, Hortense of the Operatics claims leadership of the Bloc, disputed by Stalwart, and orders the attack.

Luke of the Lemig Sortion laments they should have left like the mantids did, predicting everyone will die.

About 100,000 enemy troops mass on the Princess Posse's northern border with the Operatics, with Dream artillery behind them.

The Reavers are a megacorporation and system government of brain-only cyborgs who have won Faction Wars multiple times.

Rishi represents the Blood Sultanate, the team Carl and Donut must destroy, and pointedly mentions Katia.

The Madness's silent viceroy representative is suddenly decapitated during the meeting.

Warlord Fangs represents the Reavers at the meeting, appearing as an old-school robot.

HeyZoos, or Uzi Jesus, is a level 140 undead, ranged healer totem card from Ecuador, armed with an uzi.

Author Steve Rowland, a troll totem, is pulled into hell by a demon crab.

Dong Quixote arrives in Holger's place, mounted on Gonk, King Rust's former swamp yak, with Bigs riding behind.

Ifrit are demons attuned to lust, sin and greed, leaking into the world more as one nears Sheol on the 15th floor.

The Penis Parade is a male strip club inside the Desperado Club, hiding the entrance to the Guild of Suffering.

Rosemarie, an elderly dwarf, secretly runs the top floor's Meat Shields location from her table in the strip club.

Donut's new citrine tiara halves potion cooldowns, adds intelligence, and grants a Hover skill usable five times a day.

Gluteus Maxx is a hairy dancer whom Katia thinks is a little in love with Donut.

Raul is a level 70 Red Maníseros Land Crab warrior meditating for a breakthrough before the war against the monk seals.

Mordecai brews Liquid Therapy, a daily potion protecting against Shi Maria's insanity and blindness spells.

The goddess Semiramis re-ascends, one of several gods woken by crawlers for the Ascendency game.

Reaper Spider Minions are regular mobs of the fifteenth floor; outside it they usually work as merchants selling dangerous wares.

The Bedlam Bride quest tasks Carl with escorting Shi Maria to the city of Larracos.

Damnation is a snare card that discards an enemy totem when it times out, whether or not it is dead.

Glow-Up is a one-use mythic card that permanently locks a card or totem's current buffed state into the card.

La Ciguapa, a legendary hairy woman with backward feet, is killed by Mongo before the party can flag her for the deck.

Imani believes Bliss Surfing means reliving a memory, like blitz sticks but more intense.

A Puppet-Master creature is intangible until all its puppets are killed.

Der Schachmeister, a tuxedoed boy deckmaster, uses mystic cards to lock Donut's summoning and burn her Shi Maria card.

Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions becomes Princess Donut's new sponsor, to her disgust.

Glory Bound, the most addictive drug, puts the user in a coma to relive a memory; its cure forces reliving a worst memory.

Charles Ellis, the badger bartender, was dragged around by Samantha and then torn in half by Minge.

Astrid's passive Cosmic Sense warns her of nearby gods and demons.

A sealed room of the defunct Demon Tamer's Guild holds fifteen unknown, deadly monsters that killed every party entering.

The Armored Sai, rhino-like samurai, are the regular guards of the Larracos level.

Emir Akbas, a drunk level 55 Zebani Ghazi crawler, punches Carl and threatens that Burcu will kill him.

Minge is a level 225 Minor Feral Demon, Slit's sister, who hates Samantha and rampages through the Desperado Club.

Mordecai explains vorpal is a condition: creatures deputized by the gods, drawn to demons, which explode if they think they'll lose.

Zeynep, a level 52 crawler, joins Carl's chat and mutes her own teammate Emir to stop his attack.

Bucket Boy, a crocodilian former Penis Parade attendant and low-tier healer, will run the field hospital with other healers.

Doctor Bones, the club's former announcer and DJ, is a Level-90 Skin Skellie Bard who can grow flesh.

Jola the Yule Cat is a house-sized Persian cat totem whose head candle reveals invisible things; he's stronger against naked foes or children.

Crawler Ossie's cookbook note suggests the dungeon lies about the origin of some NPCs, as bopcas were 'offered' a place in the dungeon.

Commander Stockade, warlord of the Lemig Sortion, was eaten by concierge sharks after being ejected from the Desperado Club.

Each team gets three emergency action items, decided by the system without a vote; other teams have used theirs up.

Baroness Victory, an orc attorney and judge formerly of the Skull Empire, is half-sister of the late Queen Consort Ugloo.

After a location glitch, Carl and Donut arrive in Monroe County in the Florida Keys on December 24th, with 46 hours to get the key.

Crawlers must collect nine numbered tokens from card-wielding mobs before fighting the final opponent for the key.

Lazarus-A-Bang-Bang is a level 140 totem Donut created by combining Uzi Jesus and Asojano with the Combo card.

The Book of Voodoo, given to most crawlers in a Prepotente box, lets owners who have met exchange messages; it cannot be traded or destroyed.

A disguised turkey was a deckmaster; when combat began it knocked Mongo unconscious and all the turkeys turned silent toward Carl.

The top of the mound is a chunk of Dallas County, Iowa, including a farm and trailer park, eroding into the sea.

Carl and Donut must fight a spiked ogre and a turkey deckmaster at the same time for their final tokens.

The Visitor, deckmaster seven, is a Nightgaunt that escaped from a Nullian tourist in 1903 and was shot in Iowa.

Tom's Idolized card turned the thousands of turkeys hostile, while his Ralphie card dispelled all magic and muted spellcasting.

Sharp-Elbows, deckmaster nine, is a spiked ogre necromancer witch who protects Tom's turkey congregation in exchange for daily sacrifices.

Tom, deckmaster eight, is a turkey shaman whose god Wakinyan was killed after escaping the Nothing.

Sharp-Elbows' Worm Fulcrum, both totem and mystic card, raised the dead turkeys as zombies.

Golden Combo is a unique, non-consumable combo card, letting Donut combine totems repeatedly.

A vending machine bearing Carl's father's silhouette offers 'One Fight for Nine Tokens' outside a junk-filled single-wide trailer.

Asher, about six, is Carl's half-brother, a son of Carl's father that Carl never knew existed.

Carl's stepmother, a much younger nurse with a pitbull neck tattoo, kills Carl's father with a lethal dose of morphine hidden in a flowerpot.

Alpha Male Carl, a Level 69 hydra totem, is a cocky copy of Carl with his father's voice who destroys both clockwork Mongos.

Bea's mom's head is the hydra's fire-resistant head; she taunts Donut about caging her as a cattery breeder.

Judge Lucian, a cat show judge Donut recognizes, is the hydra's deckmaster head; only his head follows card combat rules.

King Croissant is a Level 60 kitten totem representing the cat Bea would have bought if she'd sold Donut.

Macro AIs can seemingly alter the physics and reality of the worlds around them, and are grown in nurseries before being implanted.

The keyholder is a Level 125 city boss hydra with nine heads of people Carl and Donut know, including Asher, Tami-Lynn and Bea's mother.

The Champion Pack, earned for defeating a keymaster, gives two reserve totem slots, a trophy, Gatorade and two Flee cards.

Carl's boss Dick, a former Navy EDO terrified of drowning, fired Sally in exchange for photos, souring Carl's opinion of him.

Leveled-Up Frank is a level-90 totem card of the dead crawler Frank Q, showing the dungeon can bring back dead crawlers as cards.

Self-Immolation surrounds Carl with a sphere of Sheol Fire once a day, resetting with the shrine countdown; it's dangerous near allies.

Primal Engines are ancient, rice-sized, non-sentient planet-regulating computers at the core of many planets, older than the planets themselves.

Book Burner, from an upgrade patch, lets Carl once per day make an opponent forget a spell for 30 hours.

According to Louis, Homestead is about forty minutes north of the Keys, near an air force base just south of Miami.

Zev doesn't know what the failsafe does, but believes it won't be used while the galaxy's most powerful people are near Earth.

The Shepherd's House is a homeless shelter in Homestead; its flyer has 7 AM breakfast and 'No pets allowed' circled in red.

The Wand of Nighty-Night casts a level-10 Sleep on a single non-boss target for five minutes.

The man in the red hat is a roughly 70-year-old Asian-looking resident of the Homestead shelter who wears a red trapper hat.

Zev believes Carl's mysterious errand concerns the Residuals, but is forbidden from telling him what a Residual is.

The man in the red hat, called Paulie, says his real name is Goff and that he is a Residual inhabiting a human body.

The council fears the system AI is holding everyone hostage via the quarantine, and backs the Valtay plan instead of the failsafe.

Conscript is a charm spell that turns weak-minded targets into minions; factions use it heavily against crawlers on the ninth floor.

Donut's Bull Rush shield, looted from a Soother mercenary, forms a bubble and can also protect her mount or a vehicle.

Eye in the Sky is a rare area-wide scroll spell; a level-10 casting revealed Carl's location and level to an unknown caster.

In the final phase, a keyholder who plays a Flee card in a card battle automatically loses a key to their opponent.

During Demon Eviction, demons ejected from Sheol possess zombies and weakened dead, and can return only by dragging a soul down.

The new quest Hell Comes to Crawler Town warns that so much death has drawn hell's attention; crawlers must reach the stairs alive.

Madre de Aguas is a level-125 city boss sea snake who can control local creatures; she now has pre-zombism after zombie fish bites.

Carl's strength ring is enchanted to remove most disease debuffs, like his slug condition; it is disguised and cursed for non-worshippers.

Force Play makes an opponent automatically play a chosen card from their hand; Quan uses it to force Flee cards.

Chuluuna dies in the fight, mangled by the death worm, and Khulan arrives to find his body.

Khulan, who lost her little girl and now her husband Chuluuna, intends to kill herself.

Amayon, youngest of the four crown princes of Sheol, enters the realm through the zombified Madre de Aguas; he likes setting things on fire.

The FOSCA building is partly collapsed, with Imani and Tran trapped near the stairwell as demons swarm it.

The remaining exit door is in the Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar, where Imani waits.

Carl gives Quan's celestial cloak to Donut, who got credit for killing Quan; Mordecai says wearing it needs planning.

Masoud dies exploding when a demon portal pulls his gear through, since crawlers cannot pass to the 15th floor.

Sheol is ruled by a queen with four demon-prince sons; all five are essentially as powerful as gods.

The sluggalos charge the demons prematurely, are mostly destroyed, and the survivors flee back into the city.

Jurgen, a level 65 Harii crawler, thanks Carl with a kiss for saving him and Heidi at the end of the last floor.

In the quest Where the Sidewalk Ends, Amayon's portal will suck up all of Cuba in two hours unless freed or killed.

Warlord Fang of the Reavers now appears as a too-pink young human, revealed as a robot only by lights at his temple.

The Tier 3 Doggie Door lets a personal space exit through any door previously used on the floor, a fast-travel system for the party.

Carl gives Dong Quixote the sapient nickel sock from Quan's loot; the sock talks to Dong.

In The Missing Piece, Ysalte will take Amayon to the Ascendency in ten minutes unless he grows strong enough to break free.

Naamah, Amayon's level-120 succubus totem, attacks Carl, but Donut's stolen Hell Scrub totem Banjo drags her away.

Ysalte's Raid Stash card steals a card from each crawler, including inactive totems such as Tran's mom, Zhe and Frank.

Midnight Express is a consumable card from Ren that makes Carl the deckmaster for three minutes, freeing Donut to cast spells.

Zhe, apparently Li Jun and Li Na's cousin, is turned against them as a totem and tears the heart from Li Na's Legendary Master.

The Scavenger's Daughter has been fed, and Carl's interface bar now holds her wrath ready to unleash.

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride is a tattoo of an eye on Carl's chest that blinks, closes and vanishes into his skin.

A tenth Faction Wars team of NPCs, the Home Team, is based in Larracos with Juice Box and Sir Ferdinand as co-warlords.

Homecoming Queen is an enormous Long Haul garbage freighter in orbit, crewed secretly by the Crest Tipid and Rosetta.

Horatio stayed in the dungeon hoping for a better deal for his wife and child, who had already left after the tenth floor.

Parvati, Agent 21, kills and infiltrates a Borant-employed human at the Mumbai site, taking the name Alexandro.

Zev says the Eulogist is another name for the AI in the center system.

Tempest, a young nullian, interviews her uncle Quasar for a school report recapping Carl and Donut's eighth floor.

Elements harvested from crawlers' brains feed the center system, letting Syndicate citizens live unnaturally long lives and expanding its zone.

Carl drinks a neural enhancement in Paulie's coffee, installing a Containment Interface that can trip the fuse.

Paulie is a homeless man in a shelter whose body was taken over by Goff, one of the beings showrunners call Residuals.

The game guide deal is a hundred seasons, relatively safe, and offers the most potential wealth on exit.

Kimu, a member of Porthus's party, was ripped in half on the tenth floor.

Menerva was a schoolteacher near retirement who dreamed of opening a club for musicians; her fate is unknown.

Deathbed Hellcat quadruples spell range, raises dexterity and instakill odds, grants invisibility at will, and comes with a hat and ghillie suit.

Carl suffers Soul Poisoning from carrying stored souls in his jacket; he disperses them with Daughter's Kiss on a dead shark.

Team Retribution is the defending NPC team headquartered in Larracos, with Ferdinand as a warlord.

The eight sponsored teams form a truce called the Bloc and declare war on Team Retribution and the Princess Posse.

Non-warlord crawlers can use the Cosmic Lounge in the Desperado Club to transfer straight to the 18th floor.

Donut's Spellbook of the Floor prize is Flak, a strong anti-air spell.

A Heal Pet potion upgraded at the end of the last floor became Revitalize Pet, which will regrow Mongo's wing.

Find Weakened shows which member of a group is closest to death; Quan used it to pick off weak crawlers.

Mordecai brews MySpace Photo to fake Donut's Charisma at 193, so the cloak will raise her Constitution from 4 to 193.

The tiara, made for Donut by Long Haul, holds 99 absorption jewels and can be charged with buffs drained from hats over ten hours.

You're Not Done Yet is an insidious spell similar to Second Chance that frightens Mordecai; Donut receives its spellbook.

The toe ring auto-triggers a stored potion at low health and protects against Enslavement and Conscription; its Mind Balance is already triggered.

Carl gains level-13 Gloom Wraith Phase, letting him rush forward non-corporeally and scramble unarmored flesh he passes through.

Carl's celestial box yields a talking hell-kissed skill potion granting a combat skill from a high-level Sheol mob.

A Reaper Spider Minion patch grants Carl access to the Midnight Market, likely hidden in the Desperado Club.

Carl already has Walk on Air, Li Jun's skill, gained when Shi Maria made him eat Li Jun's eye.

Dante is a crocodilian thief, top level 89, who took a deal on the eleventh floor and became a game guide.

Louis names Carl's tummy acher Sir Rendlegore, 'Rend' for short, honouring Ren, whose name nobody could pronounce.

Splash Zone is a short, otter-like water mage stripper whom Katia calls to power-wash tonic off Carl's head.

The Airship Portal guild upgrade lets the guild leader designate saferooms as airports where airships can be hangared.

Louis named the airship Party Planner because Firas had once suggested that name for the Twister, and Louis had called it stupid.

The Larracos College of Magic, on the city's 50th level, is held by Team Retribution against zarogoth attacks.

War Leader Arief is a young level 80 Semeru dwarf commanding the Larracos Defense Force Infantry, allied with the crawlers.

Architect Houston is the Viceroy leader of the Madness; nobody has managed to get into his operating theater lair.

Hunger Hammy is an old one-eyed gnoll managing the Headlamp Colonnade, who leaps on Louis and kisses him.

The Jatismara are NPCs with quickened memory of past seasons; Arief's uncle is one and sits on Juice Box's war council.

Donut spots the zarogoth generator antenna, shielded, inside the Piccadilly Theater on the city's 9th level.

The Sultana is the real-life naga crown princess, play-acting the Sepsis Whore; she has military experience and has never been killed in the game.

Shanty Town is a newly appeared slum ring encircling the top entrance to Larracos, with food markets and temples.

The truce between The Princess Posse and Team Retribution is renamed The Good Guys.

The Crawler Project won citizenship, healthcare and housing for newly released crawlers, but was branded a terrorist organization.

Each of the eight other teams received about 20,000 armed mercenaries with the Hired Mercenary class, about 150,000 in total.

A few thousand former crawlers chose Fortification Engineer so they could build fast and level up through construction.

Langrim is a yenk who once ran the enchantment guild and now enchants the base's walls.

The Princess Posse Base Camp is a grassy plain with a bait-shop saferoom, around which former crawlers are building a stronghold.

The stronghold's name got locked as Fortress of Unyielding Power and Authority after the Sledge and changelings fought over it; Carl dubs it the FUPA.

Only 18 crawlers with the Scout endorsement may cross borders during the ceasefire; discovered scouts are teleported home.

As the Operatic Collective's closest ally, the Bone Clan receives all of its assets.

Carl's Mind Balance skill, from his toe ring, keeps blocking Shi Maria and has jumped from level five to nine.

During the 180-hour Ramp-Up, offensive and teleport magic are suppressed and enemies may only cross through kilometer-wide gates.

Griffin and Morales got neck tattoos reading 'Princess Posse or Death' for the 103rd Recon Legionnaires and their squad, The Tenner Wraiths.

Bodi, a quiet Land War veteran and level 60 Big Game Spear Hunter, is a battalion commander with a returning spear.

Fancy Boy, a level 55 Skank Skunk Battle Wizard, controls the skunk warriors and holds back their spray attack.

Griffin, a level 60 Eviscerator, is a pale former-crawler elf and tenner, eager to fight.

Jamal is a 17-foot hammerhead shark tattoo given flesh who breathes air, can no longer fly, and longs to hop.

Meeps, a former crawler surviving as a street artist in Alpert, drew the cat-human skull emblem.

Morales is a level 60 Plumbing Specialist, a healer class, and a tenner elf who carries a large saber.

Once Fancy Boy was knocked out, the Skank Skunk warriors all released their spray at once.

The Skanked debuff makes victims stink for three hours, cuts Charisma by 70%, and causes vomiting; nothing removes it.

Everly's sponsor gave her a compass with 49 uses that guided her through the tower maze to its top.

Mantis culture calls the moment one realizes there is no hope left 'the Inevitable Ruin'.

Mordecai adds the potion Removal Order to Carl's dose so Carl enters Shi Maria's worst memory and can lock her inside it.

Hapanzi, Shi Maria's husband and a god, tells Carl he has trapped her, and Carl may free her only if all is lost.

Panford, the Lemig adjutant, calls a foul on the Lemig Sortion and the Madness for using outside help.

Opiee, a tiny floating bune, is the Madness's adjutant.

Summon Ally is a rare teleport that lets the summoned accept; an unconscious Carl arrived as a non-corporeal avatar, which saved him.

Nurse Yugoslav of the Madness, on the 18th floor and Houston's mother, relayed real-time outside information through a Celestial Ascendency participant.

Lightning Lou is the memory ghost of an old dog alone at a gas station on Christmas, where Carl went to think.

Jurgen's pregnant wife Heidi is in the kinder facility on the surface with Katia, yet Jurgen pretends she's with him.

Each warlord pair gets a 15-member Personal Guard platoon with a constitution bonus near them; Donut chose its members.

Colonel Boomer is a grizzled level 62 Elven Legate, a former crawler who quit on the tenth floor and later escaped the crawl.

Cybernetician Yeller of the Reavers owned Dumplin', one of about 1,000 rot sticker behemoths sent against the southern trenches.

The Frothing Tunnel Moles, a special operations unit, detonated buried explosives to destroy the pet wave.

Kristen Cronin, a level 56 Crisper, burned infected comrades with a flamethrower and then broke down sobbing.

The Reavers raise rot stickers as loving pets, then inflate them with steroids and diseases and launch them as living bombs.

The Gurgles is a contagious, incurable debuff the factions long ago agreed never to use; infected pets spread it into the trenches.

The Nagas built their castle on rocky ground to prevent tunneling, oddly close to the edge of Shanty Town.

"Cheese Sticks" has become the army's slang for enemy soldiers, even appearing in tattoos.

The Monkeywrenchers are invisible Madness infiltrators; twenty once took the Dreadnaught and Naga castles within hours.

Dazzlers are alarm-and-spotlight traps that strobe light into enemy eyes and blast the same song in unison.

Build Trench scrolls are craft magic that ignore most protections, so they can dig straight into enemy trenches, a long-known unfixed exploit.

Post Nut Clarity is a soul-poisoning debuff that knocked Carl unconscious for 25 seconds after using Daughter's Kiss.

Corporal Pillbox leads ten gnoll mercenaries; eight join the Princess Posse, while his friends Lockjaw and Mange serve other teams.

Carl leaves Lockjaw, the Madness mercenary, in the captured Prism throne room to sow discord between the Madness and the Dream.

Mange, Corporal Pillbox's cousin, is a gnoll mercenary for the Dream; Lockjaw is a gnoll mercenary for the Madness.

Toyotomi is a level 70 Sai mercenary leader whose contract passed to the Princess Posse when they defeated the Prism.

Li Na's 107th White Dragons garrison Shanty Town and are spending heavily on its defenses.

Donut's War Crime spell, classed by the system as an "Atrocity," came from the Legendary 1914 box received after killing D'Nadia.

The Beefy Boys SOF are mages who keep the castle wall buffs and shields topped up; Lonnie leads them and half are dead.

Imani's Extreme Focus buff boosts dexterity and multitasking but makes people manically chatty; Carl seems unaffected.

Lonnie, a half-elf veteran mage, has been killed and taken over by a brain worm, which is switching off the castle's protections.

X2, once Jake Tortokai, is a level 53 cyborg drop trooper in Warlord Fang's personal guard, killed by Tina.

Reaver mercenaries are cyborgs who trade body parts and unpaid deployments for upgrades, chasing Reaver citizenship.

King Rust's swamp yak Gonk falls into the tunnel with Carl's group; Simoom comforts the distraught animal.

The Necklace of Indelible Woe swaps a random spell of the wearer's for a target crawler's; combatants agreed to stop using it.

Judge Deng Bao, a grixist, is the orc adjutant, always serving the previous year's victor, and sits on a high galactic court.

Weepers are high-tech Operatic tanks resembling WWI British Mark Vs, with a top turret and anti-air tube.

The AI leaves the Venus satellite station unlocked to see whether Formidable's crew goes through with triggering it.

The residual claimed Carl's implant was meant to manually set off the failsafe; Carl says it will stop Formidable instead.

Operation: Snake Pit is the crucial raid to wipe out the nagas, needed to get Donut and Katia off this floor.

The spell summons Little Günter, who stores an attack made on him and runs to a designated target before releasing it.

The Syndicate council tried to cancel the warlord council, but the AI insists it be held and broadcast live.

Neelii is a gnoll guard in power armor whom Donut knows by name; he security-scans Ferdinand.

The Aryl tunnel node switched off the instant the failsafe was pressed, something Zev says has never happened in history.

Odette reveals the Blood Sultanate produced the drama Blood Hunter through its Blood Hunter Holdings studio.

The form Juice Box took is a creature with a thousand names, banned as a dungeon mob, which some believe people see at death.

In a past season, the goddess Mazu, summoned by the Viceroy team, buried the temple entrance to the club, and Vinata never reappeared.

When someone first worships a god, a non-corporeal fairy called a Bijou drags a tendril of light from the god, via the strongest temple, to the worshiper's heart.

Khepri, an obscure, unsponsorable light god, turns prospects into beetles that a female adherent swallows and births in his bug-covered buffet temple.

Khepri's 'endless' temple is one long feast table covered with 433 kinds of bugs.

Theia, Samantha's mother, is sponsored this season by someone in the Pacifist network, so Vinata can't use her temple.

Travel the Path lets a light-god worshiper become light and follow a path almost instantly; the system doesn't count it as teleportation.

Combined with Travel the Path, the one-use Welcome Home skill sends an adherent along the Bijou's tendril straight to the strongest connected temple.

Mork, a ram cleric of Hellik guarding Club Vanquisher, believes Carl's ruse that he has captured Prepotente for a Holy Crusade bounty.

After this raid, Toyotomi's builders will erect an expensive synergy tower called The Nest at the edge of the hole into Larracos.

Dark Purpose's victims' ghosts are dragged into the floor by ethereal white chains, and the lobby is declared defiled.

Li Na's Bleeding Horror dread turns bleeding enemies' blood against them and then against her other enemies.

Temple doors open only for adherents or the 'damned', a status held by Li Na and anyone who entered the Nothing and survived.

A single portal door in Club Vanquisher reaches every temple by dialing the god's codex number; Khepri is 453.

Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin, the Blood Sultanate's camel adjutant, calls foul, but Victory rules temple rules apply.

Little Günter absorbs a mallet strike and releases it on contact, flipping Prison Pocket onto his back.

The Waffle Maker is Carl's thermos-sized thermobaric bomb, a compact version of Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home.

Basilica Guards are ogres worshipping Taranis who guard the 12th-floor Basilica Entrance; their Untouchable status bars gods from attacking them.

Kandy 'Bigs' Newton, a level-29 sluggalette with a hatchet growing from her head, gets credit for killing the Sepsis Whore.

Profane Iron, borrowed from Li Na by tattoo, rips dozens of chains from Carl's flesh for about thirty seconds once a day.