Cascadia
Names: CascadiaZev's bossMudskipper Cascadia
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 76 (EPILOGUE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 76Cascadia gives the daily updates and designed the seventh floor; she screams as Prepotente breaks it.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 3Cascadia delivers the eighth-floor announcement, noticeably less enthusiastic than usual.
- Ch 10Cascadia encourages squads to kill each other for cards and warns there are 13 days before part two's assault.
- Ch 23Cascadia, Zev's exhausted boss, appears in person and dares Carl to attack her, saying she is near pulling the failsafe.
- Ch 28Cascadia said at the start of the level that crawlers could keep a single card at the end of the floor.
- Ch 29Cascadia announces phase two: squads get 48 hours to retrieve a key that opens their original stairwell to the ninth floor.
- Ch 42Mudskipper Cascadia is the recently divorced lead engineer and current executive producer of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.
- Ch 42Cascadia was humiliated by the disaster on the previous floor and cannot control what is happening on the ninth.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 4Cascadia announces the Faction Wars rules but seems drunk or stoned and close to a breakdown.
- Ch 51Cascadia appears sick, slurring and losing scales, at the warlord council.
- Ch 52Cascadia, showrunner of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, is drunk and breaking down amid a civil war in her home system.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 25Cascadia refuses to say her catchphrase on air and the AI tortures her, costing her some flippers.
- Ch 71Cascadia makes the dungeon announcement drunk, revealing that Cumberland, who she bitterly addresses as a cheating ex, has died.
Connections
- enemy ofPrepotente
- related toZevZev's boss
- leadsDungeon Crawler World: Earthexecutive producer
- family ofCumberlandher late husband, per her announcement
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 76Prepotente breaks the seventh floor
From the pole position chamber, Prepotente cracks the glass with an enchanted stick and hammer, shattering the whole Great Race level and sucking every crawler into the stairwell portals.
- Book 6 · Ch 3Cascadia announces the Ghosts of Earth rules
Cascadia explains the replica-Earth environment, the squad system and T'Ghee totems captured with twenty flags before phase two in fourteen days.
- Book 6 · Ch 10Cascadia explains deck combat
After a largely redacted recap, Cascadia lays out the card and deck combat rules, adds saferoom practice arenas, and urges squads to kill each other for cards.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Faction Wars preproduction meeting
Carl and Donut attend a meeting run by Cascadia with the other warlords, where Donut provokes Crown Prince Stalwart and they meet Rishi of the Blood Sultanate.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Viceroy beheaded at the meeting
The Madness's viceroy is decapitated and Juice Box, in Epitome Noflex's form, takes his seat, enraging Tagg and Stalwart; Cascadia says the AI won't let them intervene.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Juice Box's demands
Juice Box demands NPCs become their own Faction Wars team, Carl tables the motion, and her detonator blows up the Operatic Collective's representative before an arrow drops Stalwart.
- Book 6 · Ch 29Phase two rules announced
Cascadia explains phase two and three: squads must fetch a key, and keyless squads may ambush keyholders at their stairwells, setting up crawler-on-crawler fights.
- Book 6 · Ch 42Book of Voodoo distributed
Nearly every crawler receives a Gold Prepotente Box containing the Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo, a messaging book with ominous hints.
- Book 6 · Ch 50The system AI takes control
Instead of the recap, Cascadia and liaison Orren announce the system AI has seized operations from the showrunners and begin explaining Primal Engines and Macro AIs.
- Book 6 · Ch 50Orren announces settlement with the AI
Orren says the system AI has handed most controls back to Borant and will follow the rules in exchange for concessions; Cascadia says crawlers have one day left to get keys.
- Book 6 · Ch 55Final phase announcement
Cascadia announces the third phase: card battles at the stairwells, and keyholders who flee now lose a key to their opponent.
- Book 7 · Ch 51The warlord council assembles
The warlords gather at the production facility; Carl meets the imposing naga warlord Princess Vinata, whom his team plans to kill.
- Book 7 · Ch 51Scolopendra stirs
A system warning that Scolopendra stirs silences the room; nobody has seen it before.
- Book 7 · Ch 52Odette hosts the warlord council
Odette takes over hosting after Chaco is knocked out, interviewing warlords while Cascadia sits drunk and Vinata whispers threats and offers to Carl.
- Book 7 · Ch 53Houston explains Juice Box's form
Architect Houston explains the many-named creature Juice Box impersonated, which Tagg dismisses as superstition.
- Book 8 · Ch 25Zev's scripted announcement
Zev reads the AI's announcement explaining special guest creatures and the 11th floor, A Parade of Horribles; Cascadia is tortured for refusing her catchphrase.
- Book 8 · Ch 71Cascadia's drunken announcement
Cascadia announces Cumberland's death, the rules for the last two heats including the Outreach Guild, and Floor 11's floor boss and three-hour limit.