Florin
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 26 (Epilogue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 4Florin is a mercenary-like crawler with a modified automatic shotgun who chose the crocodilian race, tripling the buffs from eating Ifechi's leeches.
- Ch 4Florin was credited with killing Ifechi; afterwards he sat in the warehouse with her leech staff and spun nothing.
- Ch 33Florin, a crocodilian crawler with a golden player-killer mark like Katia's, was rescued and offers Carl his gun as backup.
- Ch 33Florin was in despair over losing Ifechi until Elle's story of Carl's kindness restored his will to fight.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 36Florin the crocodilian is glad to hear Lucia survived and leaves the room.
- Ch 63Florin claims the right to kill Lucia Mar himself.
- Ch 64Florin refuses the agreed rule to go down the stairs if Imogen wears a loved one's face.
- Ch 65Florin confronts Lucia Mar but backs off, sensing something is wrong with her.
- Ch 69Florin discovers multiple real people, mostly children, are inside Lucia's head, and says they must keep her safe.
- Ch 69Florin says Lucia's dog, linked to a man named Alexandro, controls her in short bursts and must be taken from her.
- Ch 71Florin believes Lucia's body is used by her twin, the sister Iffy had worried about.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 1Florin once hated Lucia Mar for killing his girlfriend but now seems to be her friend while investigating her.
- Ch 5Florin is alone in Ecuador and says he is in contact with Lucia Mar.
- Ch 12Florin has a quest to kill or capture a powerful Unique terrorizing his region in Ecuador.
- Ch 24Florin's squad is full with six totems, and Lucia only sometimes talks to him.
- Ch 24Florin gives Donut a level 140 unique totem card he can't control because it shot him.
- Ch 59Florin goes down to test the stairwell chamber and finds no traps can be set there.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 9Florin sets up the Princess Posse officer hierarchy and holds the rank of General.
- Ch 10Florin has been made general and urges the team to reach their base quickly and build defenses.
- Ch 11Carl believes Florin has military leadership experience and that his expertise with soldiers is needed for this fight.
- Ch 35Florin warns that the northern front may break within hours and requests air support and reinforcements.
- Ch 40Florin personally led a charge that destroyed an enemy tank, delaying the northern armored column.
- Ch 41Florin's forces halt the enemy armor and capture two Operatic Collective tanks.
- Ch 54Florin's 103rd and 105th push slowly into former Operatic territory, sweeping non-magical traps left by the orcs.
- Ch 73With Stalwart dead, Florin's 101st has accomplished its mission and mostly falls back to Shanty Town.
- Ch 90Florin won't take a deal; he'd rather go down fighting than be put in stasis.
- Ch 98Florin parties with Lucia Mar and refuses to take a deal himself, doubting she really will.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 17Florin and Lucia drew a tuk-tuk but won heat one, taking a tech shield, all-terrain climbing tires and a GPS upgrade.
- Ch 38Florin wonders whether Eris knows the full story about Lucia.
- Ch 49Florin and Lucia move to Satan's Water Park, and Florin offers to slow any team in Carl's heat.
- Ch 50Florin, forty minutes ahead, is pursuing Dwight and Lucienne to slow them down instead of going after the boss for Carl.
- Ch 52Florin hits team Sparkles' vehicle with a Denial of Service missile; Lucia's brick-wall spell stops two other teams.
- Ch 53Florin tries to gather the names of everyone inside Lucia and chases after her to protect their gremlin.
- Ch 77Florin's assigned sixth-floor apartment was Lucia's father's house, containing a laughing version of Lucia watching TV.
Connections
- ally ofIfechi
- partner ofIfechihis beloved 'Ife'
- ally ofCarl
- ally ofKatia Grim
- enemy ofLucia Mar
- member ofCrocodilian
- friend ofLucia Mar
- member ofPrincess PosseGeneral
- leads101st Crocodiles
- ally ofLucia Marsame team
- enemy ofHeyZoos
- enemy ofTeam Sparkles
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 4Recap show reveals Ifechi's story
The recap episode shows the end of the Iron Tangle, then a tribute to the dead crawler Ifechi, ending with Lucia Mar confronting Ifechi and Florin in a stairwell station.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Ifechi dies by Lucia Mar's trick
When Lucia's dogs attack, Florin fires at Lucia and the dogs, but her reflection spell sends the damage into Ifechi's head, killing her and leaving Florin with the kill.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Return to Hump Town
Carl and Donut cross the Lacuna back to bubble 543, are applauded by crawlers, and Florin thanks Carl before descending.
- Book 5 · Ch 60Coordinated hunter raids
With hunters scattered by the brambles and blood bar, Carl, Donut, Katia's team and Imani's crawlers launch coordinated raids on hunter-held towns, starting another with traps, Ping and spider bombs.
- 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 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 63Queen Imogen revealed
Drawn out by Pearson's disguise, Queen Imogen materialises in Carl's wagon; Carl recognises her as Ifechi, Florin's dead girlfriend.
- Book 5 · Ch 65Tensions in the ballroom
Katia nearly attacks Eva and Florin approaches Lucia Mar, but Carl and others keep the peace as Theobold opens the masquerade.
- Book 5 · Ch 69Florin uncovers the children in Lucia
Florin comforts a suddenly childlike Lucia and learns that several real children, including a Dutch girl named Jill, are inside her head, controlled through her dog.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Imogen defeated at heavy cost
The crawlers wear down Imogen with coordinated blunt attacks; the Popovs, Gwen and Cleiton die, Zabit falls to his own trap, and Prepotente lands the final strike.
- 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 24Florin's totem card
Florin hands Donut a powerful unique totem card he cannot control.
- Book 6 · Ch 24HeyZoos joins the squad
Carl and Donut take Florin's unique HeyZoos card, giving them four of six totems, before planning to rescue Samantha.
- 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 59Teleport trap plan
After Florin finds traps can't be set in stairwell chambers, Carl loads teleport-trap automatons into Samantha and throws her toward the capitol building as Quan arrives there.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Lucia Mar's gift and threat
Li Jun recounts the Battle of Beijing, where Lucia Mar slaughtered crawlers, then gave them five Doggie Door upgrades and threatened to kill Donut and Mongo.
- 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 14Louis and Juice Box marry
Louis and Juice Box hold a small changeling wedding in the entrance bar, whispering private vows; the Confirmation will follow in a month. Florin then summons Carl to headquarters as recruits flood in.
- Book 7 · Ch 16Former crawlers arrive as reinforcements
In the Meadowlark saferoom, Carl meets cookbook authors Tipid and Rosetta, who reveal that over 50,000 former crawlers have joined the Princess Posse.
- Book 7 · Ch 17Carl arrives at base camp
Carl arrives at the Princess Posse Base Camp, where thousands of former crawlers building the stronghold greet him with a thundering war chant started by Penn.
- Book 7 · Ch 18Herman's suicide bombing foiled
Herman the Fleet, covered in explosives and compelled by Sensation Entertainment, nearly kills Carl's group until Baroness Victory axes him and Carl stows the body in his inventory.
- Book 7 · Ch 19Victory's war briefing
Baroness Victory explains the four phases of combat and the Ramp-Up rules, and reveals about 100,000 enemies massing on the northern border.
- 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 27Faction Wars Phase One begins
With the ceasefire over, the base scrambles to send troops to the northern and southern fronts as enemy artillery pounds the FUPA's shield.
- Book 7 · Ch 37Northern front falls back
Florin's forces retreat under the enemy's big armored push, and he warns the enemy will flow around them toward the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 39Bracing for the main assault
Reinforcements arrive as the enemy's main armored force, possibly led by Prince Stalwart, approaches the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 41Florin captures enemy armor
Florin's forces stop the enemy armor column and capture two Weeper tanks, and he moves to support the castle while Carl stalls Rust.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Carl prepares the assault
Carl checks in with his commanders, then collects hundreds of potion balls from Mordecai and sets off with Samantha.
- 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 94Kiwi's twins are born
Kiwi gives birth to twin girls fathered by Mongo, a new legendary species called Ursensus, with Imani, Bucket Boy, Edgar and Florin assisting.
- 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 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 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 40The Pineapple Cabaret revealed
Akuma reveals Herot and Menerva secretly built the Cabaret behind the seventeenth floor, and that the war mages need crawlers to retake it.
- 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 52Satan topples the loop
Satan knocks down the loop-de-loop; Florin's tuk-tuk lands and races ahead while team Sparkles' burning vine spins out.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Voices inside Lucia
Lucia confronts Carl, channelling the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue's warning, then shifts to the frightened child Azra asking about her father.
- Book 8 · Ch 61Jurgen pleads with Carl
Jurgen begs to escape through the Pineapple Cabaret and reveals his fear for his pregnant partner Heidi; Carl promises to help after the race.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Aftermath of heat five
Carl's team mourns Dong; allies check in, and Osvaldo reveals Dwight won by going over the factory instead of through it.
- 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 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 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 96Carl's vengeance speech
Carl reveals an Unwashed effigy, heals Chaco under Grigori's gaze, and vows vengeance on the galaxy; sluggalos drop from the airship and slaughter the masked elites in the stands.
- 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.