Elle McGibbons
Names: Elle McGibbonsMrs. McGibbonsElle McGibElle
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 31 (31)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 37Elle McGibbons is a 99-year-old resident who flirts with Carl and remembers her late husband Barry fondly.
- Ch 38Mrs. McGibbons, a ninety-nine-year-old resident, is carried to safety by Carl and thanks him for saving her.
- Ch 41A confused Mrs. McGibbons mistakes Carl for someone named Barry while saying goodbye.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 26Elle McGib, the dementia-suffering Mrs. McGibbons from Meadow Lark, is a level-13 Frost Maiden Blizzardmancer on the leaderboard.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 3Mrs. McGibbons has become a floating Frost Maiden who shoots icicles, and has risen to level 17.
- Ch 8Elle McGibbons, once a 99-year-old with dementia, is now a floating, ice-shooting Frost Maiden with a loud, brash personality.
- Ch 8Brandon had Elle choose Frost Maiden because it came with the manager benefit Carl had told him about.
- Ch 9Elle kills a woman who stunned Donut's guards and was about to attack, earning a skull herself without concern.
- Ch 13Elle and the former Meadow Lark residents kill a giant goat boss; Elle rises to eighth on the leaderboard.
- Ch 15Elle and Imani are stranded at stop 275 on the Camel Line and must walk the tracks, possibly to ride The Eviscerator.
- Ch 16Elle and Imani find a secret tunnel out of the robot rooms leading down toward another train track.
- Ch 18Elle and Imani find that robots load ghouls into carts and send them on a roller-coaster conveyor back to the trainyards.
- Ch 19Elle and Imani's group ride the conveyor to Trainyard D, survive the ghouls, and shelter in the Iron Tangle administrative building.
- Ch 27Elle searched every crawler at the shelter but could not find the four-armed cobra woman Carl asked about.
- Ch 31Elle's job during the siege is freezing pools of Krakaren acid at the chokepoints of station 36.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 28Elle and Imani are stuck in the Desperado Club after Emberus smashed through their popped bubble, setting half their world ablaze.
- Ch 29Elle now holds the Gate of the Feral Gods, passed on by Donut, and Carl needs it back before leaving the floor.
- Ch 32Elle has a knack for spotting lies and helps Katia and Imani interview crawlers seeking rescue at the Desperado Club.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 8Elle changed from Blizzardmancer to Tundra Princess, pursuing a never-completed four seasons build that requires reaching the twelfth floor.
- Ch 36Elle has become a Tundra Princess and reached level 51; she still wears her wedding ring on a chain.
- Ch 40According to Elle, Dmitri and Maxim are good guys.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 4Elle received an ice staff from her boxes.
- Ch 28Elle has been chatting with Samantha, asking about the story of the Fourth Season and explaining the card game.
- Ch 30Elle guards the unconscious Katia.
- Ch 32Elle and Imani are on separate teams and will choose different phase-two locations to avoid fighting each other.
- Ch 56Elle warns Carl that Imani has a martyr complex and begs him not to let her sacrifice herself.
- Ch 65Elle, Imani, Katia, Louis, Li Jun, Li Na and over twenty others, most holding keys, come to Cuba to help Carl.
- Ch 65Elle insists everyone is in this together and asks Carl, as warlord, what they need to do.
- Ch 67Elle's Graupel hailstorm unexpectedly casts at level 16, wiping out the demons outside and raising her six levels to 72.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 4Elle picks wind at class selection, going from Tundra Princess to Hailstorm Queen.
- Ch 20Elle believes she has found all enemy artillery batteries and has learned why the robot team wanted accelerated pet leveling.
- Ch 30Elle uses Carl's missile launcher to knock over the first enemy anti-air battery.
- Ch 57Elle's team kills Emberus-worshipping guards and a big naga, the head of the castle guard, one of the four targets.
- Ch 59Elle's team occupies the empty Blood Sultanate throne room; holding it six hours would defeat the Blood Sultanate.
- Ch 71Elle was knocked unconscious by a war mage spell while guarding the open feral gate.
- Ch 72Elle believes the war mage leader deliberately pulled back to avoid killing her.
- Ch 89Elle tells Donut she is a hero; those in the ball remember being paralyzed but not the screaming.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 7Elle must do a fan meet-and-greet with a lone soother superfan who bought a yacht to visit despite the quarantine.
- Ch 17Elle and Imani drew a Mowag Piranha V military troop carrier, which Elle says handles terribly.
- Ch 24Elle and Imani's team lost two teams in the heat, putting them at risk of facing other crawlers next heat.
- Ch 38Elle distrusts Quemada, saying fire fairies can't be trusted; Donut also dislikes her.
- Ch 39Elle, furious that Akuma's mages tried to kill her and stole her gate, freezes and shatters one of his testicles.
- Ch 39Elle threatens Akuma with further harm and Jacobus's dental surgery unless he answers Carl's questions truthfully.
- Ch 49Elle and Imani's heat is moved to the eternal slum track, separating them from Carl and Donut.
- Ch 71Elle recalls bitter wives at Meadow Lark, including Francine Herrada, who tried to stab her ex-husband's new wife.
- Ch 82Elle and Imani's final heat pits them against the Tracksuit Troika, a trio of Russian crawlers, and the Minister of Blood-Letting.
- Ch 85Scolopendra's transformation attack turned Elle into a goblin.
- Ch 90Elle accuses Carl of keeping secrets like the Eye of the Bedlam Bride; he promises to explain after the next floor.
- Ch 94Elle and Imani's Betrayal float team considered warlord heads on pikes but chose a different, biting idea; Bodi drives.
- Ch 96On the Betrayal float, Elle and Imani's team hold signs condemning viewers; the AI calls it its favourite.
Connections
- related toMeadow Larkresident in their care
- related toCarlrescued
- related toMeadow Lark Adult Care Communityformer resident
- related toMistress Tiathagame guide
- ally ofImani Cracing teammates
- ally ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- member ofMeadow Lark
- ally ofCarl
- ally ofTizquick
- member ofTeam Meadowlark
- friend ofPsamathe
- related toThe Gate of the Feral GodsElle wields the gate
- related toLinussuperfan
- enemy ofAkuma
- partner ofBartholomew Eli McGibbonsher late husband
- friend ofCarl
- friend ofLouis Santiago 2
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 31Floor 1 collapses
As episode four begins, the first floor collapses, killing over 700,000 crawlers while the Meadow Lark group moves into the storm shelter.
- Book 1 · Ch 37The resident train
The Meadow Lark group arrives with a wheelchair train, and Carl leads them toward the stairwell.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Escape to Big Shot Chicken
Carl's Protective Shell buys time; he carries Mrs. McGibbons through reversed gravity and dives into the safe room as the elemental pounds at the door.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Farewell to Meadow Lark
Carl and Princess Donut torch the pupae and see Meadow Lark's survivors safely down the stairs, then head into the kobold quadrant.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Leaderboard revealed
Odette reveals the draft top-ten leaderboard, with Carl and Donut sixth and seventh, and explains the numbers are bounties on each crawler.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Reunion with Elle at the Desperado Club
With hired bodyguards, Carl and Donut meet Elle, now a Frost Maiden, at the Desperado Club.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Imani warns Carl about Chris
Imani tells Carl that Brandon died, and his brother Chris, changed by his igneous race, broke away and is looking for Carl.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Aftermath of the attack on Donut
Elle kills the second attacker; Donut weeps over her first human kill; Astrid apologises and grants free security.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Planning with Imani and Elle
Over Mordecai's train map, Elle points out the prime-numbered transfer stations and they divide up the investigation.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Imani explains the drug system
Imani and Elle report that mobs disembark every five stops to collect drug vials from Pooka bosses supplied by a Krakaren.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Recap and leaderboard changes
The recap shows Elle's team killing a goat boss and Lucia Mar finding stairwells; Quan Ch replaces Li Jun in the top ten.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Elle's party stranded
Elle and Imani report that trains stopped coming, likely because Quan Ch is destroying them, and they must walk to another station.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Updates from Meadow Lark and Bautista
Imani's group survives a ride to Trainyard D, while Bautista's crowd faces a suicidal Kravyad whose death would close their escape portal.
- Book 3 · Ch 22News of the province boss
Elle and Imani report festering ghouls merging into a province boss at stop 48 and plan to hold station 36 against wrath ghouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Yard F crawlers die in explosion
A distant explosion kills a large crawler group attacking a blister ghoul generator; Carl suspects they blew the soul crystal.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Carl's train bomb seals the Vermillion line
Carl sends the Vermillion engine loaded with hobgoblin dynamite backward down the track; the blast kills many mobs, levels him up and knocks everyone at Station 36 off their feet.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Siege of station 36
Crawlers hold station 36 against waves of Krakaren and ghouls; Katia's Crowd Blast and Carl's boom jugs break a breach, with Donut teleporting them back.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Ghoul generators explode
Two nearby explosions shake the chamber, likely soul crystals blowing at station 12 and its mirrored twin.
- Book 3 · Ch 33Rescue and Grull's banishment
Katia and Elle decoy Grull while Donut, Li Na, Li Jun and Mongo come through the portal; they trigger a second summoning and throw the mantaur torso into the abyss portal, pulling Grull away.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Descent from Floor 4
The group returns to station 36 and heads down the stairwell; Agatha unexpectedly passes them, and Loita summons Carl and Donut to Odette's green room without explaining Zev's absence.
- Book 4 · Ch 14No way to save Chris
Mordecai explains the Infiltrator parasite can't be removed without killing Chris; Chris begs to be killed, and Carl reluctantly apologises to Imani.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Emberus rampages
The blind fire god Emberus smashes through popped bubbles searching for his dog Orthrus, burning worlds and besieging Tserendolgor's group.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Bubble rescues begin
Imani coordinates the first rescue phase from the Desperado Club, covering eight qualifying bubbles.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Bubble rescues completed
Phases one and two use the gate to free about 1,500 crawlers from trapped bubbles, releasing several feral gods and summoning a few real ones.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase three: changelings depart
Imani, Elle, Louis and Firas open a gate portal to the sixth floor, sending the changelings through with the Twister.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase four begins
Elle hands the gate back to Carl, and Carl, Donut and Katia share a farewell hug as phase four starts.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Hunting Grounds recap
The recap, hosted by Kevin, shows the end of the last floor, Katia flooding Larracos, and the top ten crawlers' new classes; much is redacted.
- Book 5 · Ch 36Reunion in the saferoom
Carl reunites with his guildmates, who catch him up on new classes, Team Cichociemni and their own adventures.
- Book 5 · Ch 52Carl considers leaving the floor early
Carl tells the group he plans to take Donut down the stairs early; Katia, Imani and Elle push back, and Donut refuses to go.
- Book 5 · Ch 57Prepotente's delivery
Prepotente brings Donut a potion from his benefactor that reverses Scolopendra's Transmutation, the second benefactor gift meant for Donut sent via someone else.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Raid on the hunter town
The crawler alliance destroys the hunters' anti-air gun and kills nearly all hunters in a fast coordinated raid; Donut scores five kills.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Diwata enters the realm
The last hunter flees into a temple, where Diwata erupts from his body, marks Carl for death, and flies off, apparently to reach Vrah.
- Book 5 · Ch 63The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Book 5 · Ch 64Plan changes
Realising they cannot strike first inside the sealed ballroom, Carl tells his allies to party peacefully while operations outside continue.
- Book 6 · Ch 3Arrival on the eighth floor in Havana
After skipping a floor, Carl and Princess Donut start the eighth floor in Havana's capitol building; their friends check in from regions around the world.
- Book 6 · Ch 6Traffic chain reactions begin
Crawlers in other areas report car pile-ups caused by monsters and debate building roadblocks away from the stairwells.
- Book 6 · Ch 30Katia in the drug den
Imani reports that Katia overdosed on something from a secret drug den and is unconscious with a debuff; she fears Katia has an addiction.
- Book 6 · Ch 32Katia's addiction revealed
In the Desperado Club, a sick Katia apologises while Mordecai explains her four drug addictions and begins treating them with Imani.
- Book 6 · Ch 54Return to Cuba
On December 26th Carl and Donut are dropped in a Cuban church with a key; Carl's stairwell traps fire and other squads report in, many having set traps.
- Book 6 · Ch 64Carl's mass appeal
Carl messages all crawlers to stop fighting over keys and clear around stairwell chambers; after doubts and infighting, Katia, Elle, Li Na and many others agree.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 67Assault on the demon horde
Donut casts Minion Army while the sluggalos charge early; Elle's supercharged Graupel then obliterates the demons outside the FOSCA building.
- Book 6 · Ch 72Digging for Imani and Tran
Elle, Bautista and others dig through rubble to reach the trapped Imani and Tran as demons swarm from all sides.
- Book 6 · Ch 74Paz's card ripped
The group agrees to free Paz Lo rather than keep his card; Donut rips it and gets no player killer skull.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Army officers appointed
Donut touches each ally to make them officers; Florin, Imani and Elle head out to prepare the Posse headquarters.
- Book 7 · Ch 10Tour of the Party Planner hangar
Louis takes the group up the new airship elevator to the hangar, where they examine his stealth light bomber Party Planner and discuss Faction Wars armor rules.
- Book 7 · Ch 20Elle reports back
Elle returns from scouting, reporting the artillery positions and a new threat on the naga side tied to the robots' interest in pet leveling.
- Book 7 · Ch 24Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Book 7 · Ch 28Carl prepares the counterattack
With Louis in position in Party Planner and Elle watching the enemy lines, Carl tells Tran it is their turn to strike.
- Book 7 · Ch 29Planning the southern assault on the Nagas
Carl, Tran and Colonel Boomer review Elle's scouting of the enemy trenches, trebuchets, cavalry, tanks and invisible Madness troops before attacking the Naga territory toward the Blood Sultanate castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 30Opening bombardment of the southern assault
Louis bombs the ground before the enemy trenches from the Party Planner, Elle hits an anti-air battery, and the lone trebuchet scatters Dazzlers that blast a deafening song.
- Book 7 · Ch 49Operation: Snake Pit begins
Zev confirms the warlord council will go ahead in the production facility, and Carl is teleported there as Operation: Snake Pit begins.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Operation: Snake Pit goes sideways
Carl returns to find Prepotente already killed most of the naga army, insulted the team, and drew off the sluggalos, forcing a change of plan.
- Book 7 · Ch 55The plan to kill the line of succession
Carl recounts the four-group plan built on Tipid and Rosetta's intelligence to kill the four naga in Vinata's line of succession.
- Book 7 · Ch 56Elle and Imani enter the naga castle
Without the sluggalos to clear traps, Elle, Imani and strippers enter the naga castle; Imani uses the tattooed Tripper spell to trigger traps.
- Book 7 · Ch 57Head of the castle guard killed
Elle's team reaches the throne room and kills the head of the castle guard, the first of the four in the line of succession.
- Book 7 · Ch 59Throne room taken
Elle and Imani occupy the abandoned Blood Sultanate throne room, starting a six-hour capture timer, while Louis gasses the exterior.
- Book 7 · Ch 69Elle opens the first feral gate
Elle opens the Gate of the Feral Gods; Meatus appears near the Dream castle and summons Harpocrates, prompting Rosetta to abort Britney's digger attack.
- Book 7 · Ch 71The war mages rebel
War mages teleport to Elle's gate, knock her out, kill King Stalwart, turn into a new independent faction under Akuma, and steal the Gate of the Feral Gods.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Aftermath of the war mage betrayal
Elle recovers, Carl collects the war mage bodies before their heads explode, and Victory explains the War Mage Rebellion before leaving for an adjutant hearing over Drick's foul.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Carl and Elle go through the gate
As Boomer begins the raid on the Reaver castle, Carl and Elle step through the feral gate toward the Madness castle, while Samantha spots a dragon overhead.
- Book 7 · Ch 73Carl's strike team assembles
In Madness territory, Carl teleports in Katia, Imani, Splash Zone and, unexpectedly, Dong Quixote on Gonk with Bigs, then the team starts picking through the trapped prairie toward the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 74Carl's team is discovered
Elle's Subterfuge is negated and half the Madness forces charge Carl's group on dune buggies; Carl calls in reinforcements and Prepotente while missiles pound the Madness castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 89Allies thank Donut
Freed allies tell a guilt-ridden Donut she saved them; Zhang comforts her over Li Jun's death.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Louis rescued from the Reaver castle
Juice Box possesses Louis and teleports him out as explosive robot dogs attack; Carl pockets a frozen nuke dog and detonates No Disassembles, blowing up the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Katia leaves the crawl
Katia chooses pregnancy from Eileithyia, is made human again with Louis as father, is fitted with cybernetic limbs and disappears, ineligible to continue.
- Book 7 · Ch 99The crew leaves the 9th floor
Samantha is recalled from Emberus, and the remaining crawlers say goodbyes and enter the stairwell as Emberus destroys the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 5Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Book 8 · Ch 7Audience votes on Otto
Donut is told the audience voted for Otto to be the manatee stand-in in the arena; Elle endures a meet-and-greet with an obsessive superfan.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Crawler gathering at the Lollipop
Carl and Donut join the other crawlers at the Lollipop karaoke bar and compare vehicles, results and upgrades from heat one.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Meeting Linus
Elle's superfan Linus hides under the table as her daily tourist companion, wearing unflattering fan merch of her.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Friends check in
Other crawler teams report their heat results: most won or placed, while Louis's team survived last again and Zhang fears crawler rivals conspiring.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Jacobus made permanent
After Eris leaves, Imani's Reverse Tooth Fairy card Jacobus becomes permanently summoned through Carl's Scavenger's Daughter effect.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Carl tells the group about Eris
Carl explains Eris's visit and coin in chat; friends react, and Carl proposes talking to the war mages before sharing a half-formed plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 39Elle's revenge on Akuma
Donut mutes Akuma and Elle shatters one of his frozen testicles, then sets terms for his interrogation under Imani's anti-magic shield.
- Book 8 · Ch 40Interrogating Akuma
Under a draining anti-magic shield, Akuma explains reused NPCs, the dungeon framework, and that everything in the dungeon will be destroyed after this season.
- Book 8 · Ch 44Imani's team joins Carl
Imani reports her team is behind Carl's, that Henrietta's team was lost to a trap, and Carl agrees to wait for them at the cliff.
- Book 8 · Ch 45Mandatory quest triggered
Great Rusty's death triggers Pasty Inferno, requiring Carl's group to kill the northern chieftain Maurice to finish the race.
- Book 8 · Ch 48Passing the Minister of Blood-Letting
Heading into town, the group passes the Minister of Blood-Letting's skeletal creatures carrying a bucket of foul white liquid.
- Book 8 · Ch 49Race tracks rerolled at the pit stop
Zev reveals that each heat rolls a new track for the second half; Carl and Donut get Satan's Water Park while Elle and Imani get the eternal slum.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Guild meeting in the pet stables
Carl outlines the plan for the last two heats and Floor 11, including leaving the party to deal with Hellik, while Donut and Imani object.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Rosetta explains the Scavenger myth
Rosetta recounts the myth of Nekhebit, her children, and the Scavenger's Daughter, a being able to erase the pantheon and take gods' powers.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Bautista's farewell tea
Bautista thanks his friends, speaks of having found peace, and serves them his breakfast tea one last time.
- Book 8 · Ch 75Linus unmasked
Elle's tribute to her husband turns into exposing Linus as an impostor assassin; he admits Imani and Louis were his targets and faces expulsion from the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Escorting Imani and Elle out of 310
Carl's team waits for Imani and Elle to clear their gate amid the beetles, then all drop through a Hole to the second floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 81Preparing for the final heat
Imani coordinates upgrade theft and deals to minimise crawler-on-crawler heats, refuses a deal herself, and Hedy fits Golden rockets for Carl's plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 83Final heat lineups revealed
At the starting blocks of the final race heat, Carl sees that the heats now pit allied crawlers against each other: Chris with Imani and Elle, and Louis and Britney with Florin and Lucia Mar.
- Book 8 · Ch 86Donut destroys the Russian Cadillac
As others retreat to use the Pineapple Cabaret holding plan, the Russian crawlers make a run for the exit; after allies drop its shield, Donut crushes the car with Astral Paw.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Crawlers gather at the Hairpin
About thirty crawlers wait outside the Hairpin; seeing Carl as a dachshund, they all collapse laughing before he proposes robbing a casino.
- Book 8 · Ch 89Mimic ambush in the casino
Everything in the Desperado Club casino turns out to be mimics; the crawlers, with Mongo and his clockwork copies, kill around fifty of them.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Louis enters the Nothing portal
After the mimic fight, Imani reopens the wheel portal; Louis says goodbye and jumps in, and Carl swears to free those sent away.
- Book 8 · Ch 95The parade lines up
The processions line up on the yellow-brick road among silent masked crowds; Carl examines a child spectator and the AI reveals the Horribles are lost memories of Primals.
- Book 8 · Ch 96The Primal history
Across the floats, the AI tells of the Primals' Resolution, Decision, the Betrayal of the doomsday collective, the war, the Eulogist and the Apothecary, then punishes the mantids and breaks Team Resolution's legs for a weak float.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Taranis kills Emberus
Enraged at the attack on Penny, Taranis destroys his brother Emberus; the blast wrecks vehicles across the arena, though the crawlers survive.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.