Katia Grim
Names: Katia GrimKatiaCrawler KatiaKatia Grimmsdottir
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 21 (21)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 21Katia 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.
- Ch 21Katia joins Carl and Donut's party at Hekla's request; she has very high Constitution but weak Strength and no useful spells.
- Ch 26Katia's true appearance is a short-haired, black-haired woman in her mid-thirties; she is introduced as the newest member of the Royal Court of Princess Donut.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 1Katia's momentum bonus doubles her Constitution to 102 aboard the train, making her the party's front-line tank.
- Ch 1Katia is horrified by the gore, never having seen anything like it.
- Ch 2Katia intends to save her coupons for Hekla, and Mordecai wants to persuade her to use the valuable table upgrades.
- Ch 2Katia gains a metal shield bracer; as a doppelganger she can disguise and reshape absorbed gear, making any part of her body armoured.
- Ch 4Katia can reshape her body, growing long, bulging arms; the faster she changes, the more it hurts.
- Ch 4Katia has been practising shape-changing in the training room and uses her altered arm to deflect attacks.
- Ch 5Katia relays Vernon's station-by-station knowledge to Mordecai, who grudgingly records it.
- Ch 6Katia has almost ten billion followers since joining the team, while Princess Donut claims over 700 trillion.
- Ch 6Under Donut's fashion advice Katia adopts a black bodysuit, boots and a purple mohawk, clearly unhappy about it.
- Ch 6Katia is a doppelganger and says she never really knew what being herself meant.
- Ch 7Katia is from Iceland, once spent a summer working at the Pushkin museum in Moscow, and leads student trips to Paris and Amsterdam.
- Ch 8Katia lacks a pass to the Desperado Club and stays behind to buy a crafting table Mordecai recommended.
- Ch 10Katia can copy Hekla's appearance; her Walk in Their Shoes ability changes her displayed name if she matches someone at least 90%.
- Ch 10Katia spent her upgrade coupons on a level-three Makeup Table to help sculpt disguises, coupons Mordecai wanted for his alchemy table.
- Ch 12Gore-Gore severed Katia's fingers; she can reform them but feels she is losing part of herself.
- Ch 12Katia, who speaks Icelandic, German, Russian and English, plots a route via the Dismemberment Limited to reach the Nightmare Express.
- Ch 12Katia reshapes herself into a brace to help Carl hold a metal barrier against the Fleshers.
- Ch 13With over a ton of extra metal, Katia can grow to about 11 feet tall with a strength bonus but reduced dexterity.
- Ch 13Katia says someone named Fannar once called her useless.
- Ch 14Hekla warned Katia that Carl was crazy and would probably get her killed.
- Ch 15Katia has received no sponsor prize; Carl still doesn't know what her sponsor's angle is.
- Ch 16Katia learns to shift metal inside her body mid-fight and plans to make traveling spikes that impale attackers.
- Ch 16Katia tells Fire Brandy she was about to adopt a child before aliens destroyed her planet.
- Ch 18Katia can grow a third eye to see behind her, but it makes her feel less human.
- Ch 18Carl likes Katia's earnestness and sees her as a potential ultimate tank, but weighs cutting her loose given Odette's warning about Hekla.
- Ch 21Katia, now level 24, whitelisted all of Brynhild's Daughters into the shared personal space.
- Ch 21Katia herself proposed becoming a living cowcatcher on the front of the subway train, grateful the daughters came back for her.
- Ch 21Katia agrees to stay in Carl's party until the rescue is done, and hugs him in thanks.
- Ch 22Katia forms herself into a spiked, rubber-insulated plow on the front of the Vermillion subway train, bolted through the cab windows.
- Ch 22Katia can absorb blood and dead body parts caught in her scoop into her inventory, under a new 'Gross shit' tab.
- Ch 22Katia earns a fan box for gaining the most new followers in a 30-hour period.
- Ch 22Katia drops her mass and survives after Carl pulls two invisible bolts from her shoulder.
- Ch 23Katia's ex Fannar left her for one of his students, and she had been told she couldn't adopt.
- Ch 23Aiming Rush at Eva, Katia misses and kills Hekla, claiming a 500,000 gold bounty for killing a top-10 crawler.
- Ch 23Killing Hekla jumps Katia from level 24 to 37 and gives her a special golden skull.
- Ch 24Katia is at level 37, probably the highest-level crawler in the dungeon; Carl reaches 34 and Donut 32.
- Ch 24Katia loots Hekla's unique repeating crossbow, which only women can wield and grows stronger for each female party member.
- Ch 25Katia is now accepted as a permanent part of Carl and Donut's team.
- Ch 25Katia's loot includes a Club Vanquisher tattoo, a Find Crawler skill potion and Hekla's 500,000 gold bounty.
- Ch 25The recap portrays Katia killing Hekla as an act of rage, which Katia says isn't how it happened.
- Ch 26Katia can shift into a gnoll form that the system recognises, but it fails to fool the cart's sensor.
- Ch 26Katia's Gear Head knowledge base lets her lead dismantling a cart engine to rebuild it elsewhere.
- Ch 27Katia can reshape into a tripod sentinel gun with a flesh shield and Hekla's former auto-loading crossbow.
- Ch 28Katia is getting much faster at small doppelganger shape changes and secretly arranged the crawlers' hat tribute to Donut.
- Ch 29The liquid rule change makes all the blood Katia had stored in her inventory spray out around her without touching her.
- Ch 30Katia deduces each train line has an inverted twin on its opposite side, so each station mimic occupies two stations.
- Ch 31Katia uses Crowd Blast with her riot shield to smash a corridor full of monsters, letting Carl bomb both stairwells beyond.
- Ch 33Katia disguises herself as Carl to lure Grull away while Elle harasses the god in flight.
- Ch 35In the secondary zone of the production trailer, Katia's doppelganger abilities stop working and she reverts to her human self.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 3Katia's Earth Hobby Potion gave her deep engine knowledge; she still carries the mechanical parts of a disassembled rail cart.
- Ch 4Katia credits an earth hobby potion with giving her sudden, unnatural-feeling engineering knowledge for designing the chariot.
- Ch 5Mordecai describes Katia as a doppelganger.
- Ch 7Katia gains the Squim Conglomerate as a sponsor, a planet-mining company that ran the previous season's crawl.
- Ch 7Katia hand-draws a route through the subterranean maze from Carl's map to give to Morris's party.
- Ch 8Katia gives the subterranean crawlers a general map of the necropolis and a detailed route to a town halfway down.
- Ch 9Katia grows a second face on the back of her head and uses added mass to keep the Chariot from flipping.
- Ch 11Katia, disguised as the Chariot's chair, voices a fake Henrik, whose staged throat-cutting by Firas is part of the deception.
- Ch 11Disguised as Wynne, Katia drinks the 'potion' of Mountain Dew and is carried, bound in duct tape, to the gnome balloon.
- Ch 12Katia simultaneously shapeshifted into the Chariot's back seat, Wynne's body and a fake Henrik to deceive the gnomes.
- Ch 13Katia's platinum quest box gives her a crossbow bolt that replaces her basic ammo, adding armour piercing and level-based damage.
- Ch 15Katia tells Carl she could not have children and had been approved to adopt in Iceland before being disqualified.
- Ch 19During the five days, Katia flew the house to the land quadrant, reached level 41, and fought scorpion men while arguing with Gwen.
- Ch 20Katia put the whole flying house in her inventory until a patch popped it out, wrecking a pub and getting the group banned from town.
- Ch 20Katia has been clashing with Gwen after vowing not to take bullying from anyone anymore.
- Ch 22Carl orders Katia to escape the collapsing castle with Ghazi; once outside, Donut urges her to kill him.
- Ch 22Katia kills Ghazi after a brief fight and loots a note explaining the winding box; his body turns to sand.
- Ch 23Katia finds Ghazi's gate coordinates all lead around Larracos on the ninth floor and thinks she can map it.
- Ch 24Katia deduces Psamathe, in the doll, tricked Ghazi into opening the Nothing, and was never fully in Quetzalcoatlus.
- Ch 25Katia says women in the dungeon stop menstruating and are told they cannot conceive until their crawl ends.
- Ch 25Katia shapeshifts into a diving bell on the fly to carry Carl, Tran and Vadim 500 meters down to the Akula.
- Ch 25Waiting outside the sub, Katia spots a monster larger than the submarine itself, accompanied by unfamiliar music.
- Ch 28Katia's boss box gave her an adjustable, unbreakable mass-storage backpack with stability enhancement and retractable stilts.
- Ch 30Katia and Elle threaten to hunt down anyone who attacks Orthrus as it passes their bubbles.
- Ch 32Katia's platinum quest box gives her Hanzo, a spell that draws mobs toward her.
- Ch 33Katia plans to split from Carl and Donut on the next floor to gather and protect the former daughters before Eva does.
- Ch 33Katia will lead a large group including Louis, Firas, Gwen's team, Bautista and Florin, but stays in Carl's party for now.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 1Katia keeps her Monster Truck Driver class and takes the HAZMAT endorsement.
- Ch 1Katia is leaving Carl's party.
- Ch 3Katia jumped from level 44 to 52 after opening the Gate of the Feral Gods onto Larracos, and gained the Steely Skin skill.
- Ch 3Katia plans to leave Carl's party after the guild system is understood, heading out with Chris to meet other crawler teams.
- Ch 4Katia leaves the safe room with Chris, Clay-ton and Very Sullen on a caravan, separating from Carl and Donut.
- Ch 7Katia returns to the personal space with Very Sullen, Louis, Firas and Britney, irritated that Carl did something stupid.
- Ch 8Katia coldly says ranked crawler Eva Sigrid won't be on the top ten list much longer, worrying Carl and Mordecai.
- Ch 9Katia built the floor map from gate coordinates Gwen's team looted from Quetzalcoatlus, with crowd-sourced updates coordinated by Imani.
- Ch 11Katia reports her group, including Gwen, Florin, Louis, Firas and Britney, is clashing but plans to head southwest and gather former daughters.
- Ch 21Katia leaves the Royal Court of Princess Donut so she can get her own quests.
- Ch 34Katia shapes a fake crown and sunglasses for Daniel's stuffed back alley mouser to impersonate Donut.
- Ch 36Katia rests her hand on Bautista's shoulder, which Carl notices without comment.
- Ch 48Katia estimates some creepers could exceed level 150 and plans to attack in groups from afar.
- Ch 50Katia has become determined and all business, and is now level 54.
- Ch 52Katia urges Carl not to descend early and privately says she needs his advice on something important.
- Ch 62Katia receives a beanie from the Apothecary boosting all stats 3% and granting the knockback spell I Need My Personal Space.
- Ch 65Katia lunges at Eva after Eva taunts her about Fannar and her motherhood; Bautista and Florin hold her back.
- Ch 75Katia goes after the injured Eva and returns with a second golden player-killer skull as a bounty is claimed.
- Ch 76Katia secretly uses blitz sticks, drugs found on Eva's victim Sally, to see visions of Annie, a baby she once held.
- Ch 76Katia and Daniel Bautista are lovers; they slept together before the party, expecting to die.
- Ch 76With the crown on Katia, only one of Katia or Donut will be allowed to take the stairs from the ninth to the tenth floor.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 6A car pile-up started by a splattered monster is blocking Katia's safe area, trapping Louis and Britney inside.
- Ch 7Katia has been compiling a list of untrustworthy crawlers; Sister Ines's group is not on it.
- Ch 12Katia is hunting a Christmas cat and asked Carl not to tell Donut yet.
- Ch 13Katia gives Carl two consumable Flee cards plus Stout, Blue Stuff and Greased Lightning utility cards dropped by the Lads.
- Ch 17Katia secretly tells Carl she wears the Crown of the Sepsis Whore and that resurrecting Yemaya is the first step to saving her and Donut.
- Ch 18Katia warns through Donut that another god is coming with a quest they must accept.
- Ch 19Katia knows of Eileithyia's deal but is keeping it from Donut, who says she is acting weird.
- Ch 20Katia now worships the goddess Eileithyia, which Carl notices but Donut cannot see.
- Ch 20Katia prepares to tell Donut a frightening story whose ending, she says, isn't set in stone.
- Ch 21Eva put the Crown of the Sepsis Whore on Katia right before dying, meaning only Katia or Donut can leave the next floor.
- Ch 21Katia vows she will die rather than fight Donut.
- Ch 21Katia began worshipping Eileithyia via a scroll from Princess Formidable and plans to take the Celestial Attendant boon.
- Ch 21Katia's final seal requires a guild job: killing Astrid, the level 125 Bloodlust Sprite assistant manager of the Desperado Club.
- Ch 26Katia asked Li Na to watch over Donut while Carl and Katia work on their secret task.
- Ch 29Katia found a secret merchant in the Desperado Club and is asleep and 'out of sorts', Bautista says.
- Ch 30Katia made herself something in a secret drug den and will be passed out, 'Bliss Surfing', for ten more hours.
- Ch 31Katia has offered Carl a totem card because two of hers hate each other.
- Ch 32Katia's drug use has scrambled her stats, lowering constitution and charisma and leaving her permanently susceptible to addictive spells.
- Ch 33Katia feels guilty about killing Astrid and recalls Eva, the only person she ever wanted to hurt.
- Ch 34Katia refuses to abort, insisting on reaching Astrid during the chaos to finish the quest.
- Ch 34Katia's squad flag shows Hekla and Eva's faces with Xs over their eyes and a player-killer skull.
- Ch 34While using her deck of totem cards, Katia cannot cast spells or use inventory but can drink potions and shapeshift.
- Ch 36Katia is deteriorating, with dark rings under her eyes and a hand tremor, and needs treatment from Mordecai and Imani.
- Ch 40Katia's area mixes Ukraine and Da Nang, Vietnam, where the key sits in the building of Tran's ex-wife and estranged mother.
- Ch 50Katia's squad survived a hydra of Louis's, Britney's and Bautista's relatives; she rejected a 'Four-Armed Eva' totem.
- Ch 54Carl has learned that Katia has the Crown of the Sepsis Whore on her head.
- Ch 63Katia reports that a broken doorway leaves the stairwell sealed in an impenetrable chamber that spells cannot breach.
- Ch 66Katia still needs a final rehab treatment; Bautista and Carl fear using the orchid could be a death sentence for her.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 1Katia has a deal with Huanxin Jinx, sponsor of Eileithyia, to eat a flower and become a celestial attendant on the 12th floor.
- Ch 9Katia uses Rev-up hair tonic to regrow Carl's eyebrows and eyelashes, and says Mordecai is brewing something to help her rehab.
- Ch 9Katia uses Carl's automaton table to build something for Tran, who lost his wheelchair, and plans to build vehicles.
- Ch 22To cure her Glory Bound addiction, Katia must take a modified dose and relive a memory from her past, which could take eight to ten hours.
- Ch 22Katia says her favorite memory and worst memory are the same.
- Ch 22In a shared flash of minds, Katia reveals she is not angry at Carl but mad that he lets people hurt him.
- Ch 23In the shared dream, Katia's past involved a baby girl named Annie, an ex named Fannar, and a cancer diagnosis.
- Ch 30Katia is needed on the northern front; Carl misses her and hasn't spoken with her since the dreamworld.
- Ch 41Eileithyia will choose Katia's fate when she eats the orchid in her inventory, possibly their only way off this floor.
- Ch 49Katia tattoos a skill taken from Li Na's freely given blood onto Carl's right arm, designed as a chain shaped like a dragon.
- Ch 56Katia shapeshifts into a four-armed mantaur to begin her role in the raid.
- Ch 56Katia privately tells Carl she would give him the flower for Donut if it came to that, believing Huanxin would take Donut to Floor 12.
- Ch 60Disguised as a gore-covered mantaur, Katia tricks the club guards into believing demons are attacking.
- Ch 62Katia and Prepotente refuse Carl's order to flee and stay to fight Khepri and the naga.
- Ch 63Katia and Prepotente drink Black Nimbus potions to be expelled from Khepri's temple the moment the fight starts.
- Ch 66Once the enemy is finished, Katia plans to eat the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace, hoping Huanxin Jinx takes her to Floor 12 as an attendant.
- Ch 66Katia received the celestial Enchanted Spiked Knee pads of the Munificent Goddess Kina from the Club Vanquisher fight.
- Ch 66Katia gained 20 intelligence by eating throwaway items before unequipping and giving away the knee pads.
- Ch 79Katia had planned to kill herself after her last visit with baby Annie, and names her bird card Annie.
- Ch 79Katia tells Carl she loves him and Donut as much as she loved Annie, and worries about Daniel and Huanxin Jinx.
- Ch 96Katia eats the Orchid of Eileithyia, falling unconscious for an hour while the goddess Huanxin Jinx is summoned for her.
- Ch 98Katia chooses Eileithyia's boon to become pregnant, so she will be sent to the endangered children up above.
- Ch 98Restored to human form, Katia is revealed to be missing her right arm, left leg, right lower leg and an ear.
- Ch 98Katia had made cybernetic limbs for herself in anticipation; Bautista finished them and the group fits them before she leaves.
- Ch 98Katia becomes ineligible for the crawl and disappears from the dungeon.
Connections
- related toBannonKatia's game guide
- friend ofHeklaHekla saved her life
- member ofThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- ally ofHeklarelays information
- ally ofCarl
- friend ofEva
- related toDoppelgangerspecies
- related toPrincess Formidablesponsor
- enemy ofHeklasecretly shot her with phased bolts
- enemy ofEva
- partner ofFannarformer partner who left her
- related toEvaabandoned her on the third floor
- createdThe Royal Chariot
- related toSquim Conglomeratesponsor
- related toGwendolyn Duetuneasy allies who constantly argue
- enemy ofMad Dune Mage
- ally ofDaniel Bautista 2
- ally ofFlorin
- related toVery Sullenher bodyguard mercenary
- ally ofLouis Santiago 2on Katia's team
- partner ofDaniel Bautista 2Donut calls him Katia's boyfriend
- related toFannarabusive former partner
- related toThe ApothecaryKatia's sponsor
- related toPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonkonly one may descend to the tenth floor
- ally ofBritney Proskurinaon Katia's team
- ally ofTranon Katia's team
- leadsTeam Katia
- related toEnchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whorewears it
- related toEileithyiaworships
- member ofGuild of Suffering
- friend ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- friend ofMordecaiconsiders her family
- related toDaniel Bautista 2teammate in conflict over her addiction
- friend ofCarl
- enemy ofAstrid
- has memberTranin Katia's squad
- member ofPrincess PosseGeneral
- family ofAnnie
- enemy ofFannar
- related toTranbuilt his wheelchair armor
- member of107th White Dragons
- related toAnnieKatia tried to adopt her
- ally ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- related toLouis Santiago 2father of her unborn child
- family ofLouis Santiago 2parents of a baby together
- related toThe Bolt of OphiotaurusKatia's bolt
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 21Katia Grim joins the party
At the One-Eyed Narwhal, Hekla's friend Katia Grim, a struggling doppelganger, meets Carl, Donut and Mordecai, and joins their party at Hekla's request.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Preparing to confront Remex
With a crowd of townsfolk watching, Carl wires the swordsmen depot with dynamite, hands Katia the detonator, and climbs up with Donut to face Remex, who turns out not to be a lich.
- Book 2 · Ch 24The Fools Who Broke the Glass begins
The failed spell triggers a group event quest: a 45-square-kilometre magical blast in seven minutes. Skyfowl and chickadees fall ill, and Carl's party, as hosts, can't use saferooms.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Flight to the stairwell
Carl leads naked crawlers east through the Over City as precursor bursts kill Conrad E and destroy Donut's crown; they reach the stairwell and descend.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Detonator pressed at the stairs
At the fourth-floor door, Katia presses the dynamite detonator seconds before the blast, and Carl, Donut, Katia and Mongo descend.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Odette's post-floor interview
On Odette's show, Carl, Donut and Katia learn their blast tempered Remex's explosion, but Borant's veto denied them Celestial rewards; Quan Ch kept his.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Arrival on the Iron Tangle
Carl, Donut, Katia and Mongo arrive in the last car of a speeding Red Line subway train, and Donut picks the Football Hooligan class.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Drek swarm at Sirin Station
Hundreds of Dreks board at Sirin Station; the party retreats into the windowless Janitor's Lair, kills two Jikininki janitors, and prepares traps.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Protective Shell bulldozer
When the Dreks breach the forward door, setting off the alarm, Carl casts Protective Shell; the static barrier sweeps the rear cars, crushing Dreks and a Psycho Sticker as the party flees aft.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Arrival at station 83 saferoom
The party reaches transfer station 83's saferoom, where Mordecai reappears as a Grulke and reveals the crawler count has fallen to 389,441.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Buying the conjoined personal space
Guided by Mordecai, Carl, Donut and Katia redeem their coupons with Wendita to create a conjoined level-five personal space and buy major upgrades.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Setting up the Royal Palace
Donut lays out the conjoined personal space, Mordecai gains his manager's room, and the party sleeps two hours in the new bed, earning the Good Rest bonus.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fourth-floor recap and rules
The recap redacts the level explanation, the leaderboard opens bounty hunting, and the announcement forbids descending early this floor.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Platform sniping and boarding the Yellow Line
The party kills mobs through train doors from the platform for an hour, then boards a Yellow Line train, where Cave Mudge Bonkers open the doors and charge.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Funnel defence against the bonkers
Carl, Princess Donut, Katia and Mongo hold a formation in a train car, funnelling attacking bonkers and killing them, then reset as four more charge in.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Pollyslogs cut down by the train doors
Carl's door wedges keep pollyslogs from boarding; two are maimed or killed when the doors close on them.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Meeting Vernon the conductor
In the employee break room the party meets Vernon, who explains the train's strange looping reset, the unseen engineer, and the stations ahead.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Fire ant trap destroys the break room
Donut's suitcase unleashes Literal Fire Ants; a moonshine bottle explodes, Vernon dies, and the party escapes onto the platform at Banshee Station as the train burns away.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Zev criticises Katia
Zev messages Carl and Donut that audiences find Katia boring; Donut tells Katia she needs to be more vibrant.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Training against the cornets
The party fights Red Cornets in small groups, led by the immune Mongo, until they become resistant to Queasy.
- Book 3 · Ch 6The robot room behind the sigil
Carl finds a control sigil outside a warehouse holding two dormant automatons and a cart, and decides to scrap the robots.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Clearing Banshee Station
Using reanimated cornets and explosives, the party clears all the cornets and finds a hallway littered with empty vials.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Katia's makeover
Donut gives Katia a new look with a mohawk and bodysuit to make her more interesting to viewers.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Mordecai attacks Chaco
Carl's fan box triggers The Prize Carousel hosted by Chaco; Mordecai hurls a chair at him and is removed for a seven-day time out.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Carl chooses his Prize Carousel prize
Shown nine prizes including his father's motorcycle and his own tool chest, Carl picks a thick book with an anarchy symbol.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Katia's disguise and new table
Katia greets Carl and Donut disguised as Hekla, revealing she used her coupons on a Makeup Table.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Setting the derailment trap
On an ochre line platform Carl tests the rails and plants two Jelly Bomb landmines to derail the next train.
- Book 3 · Ch 11The first derailment
Carl's landmines derail an ochre line train; Gore-Gore the engineer emerges, believing the party fellow passengers, and explains the abyss gate.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Boss battle with Gore-Gore
Learning they caused the crash, Gore-Gore attacks; Carl's punches trigger a countdown to summon Grull, and Carl drop-kicks the engineer onto the tracks.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Sponsors revealed
Donut is sponsored by Princess D'nadia, Carl by the Valtay Corporation and Katia by Princess Formidable of the Skull Empire.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Boarding the Dismemberment Limited
The party boards a gore-covered maglev train driven by Levi the Seventh, who pleads with them to get off.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Holding back the Fleshers
Trapped on the Dismemberment Limited, the party barricades the rear door against hundreds of Fleshers to protect Levi the Seventh.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Escape from the Dismemberment Limited
After Dismember's death the party holds the door until the next stop, then leaves the train as Levi waves goodbye.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Katia's backpack transformation
Carl crafts a metal-filled backpack that Katia equips, absorbing over a ton of metal into her mass and becoming a huge armoured form.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Recap shows war mages on named trains
The recap episode shows crawlers slaughtered on named trains by war mages, and Quan Ch destroying a train.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Ambushing the Nightmare Express
Carl and Donut use Puddle Jumper and Protective Shell against the oncoming Nightmare Express; Carl is struck and carried away on its front.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Donut's benefactor box
Donut shows Carl the unique focusing goggles Princess D’Nadia sent her and describes her new Love Vampire ability.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Babababoons invade the transit station
DT-stricken Babababoons swarm the transit station outside the safe room; Carl, Donut, Katia and Mongo kill them and protect the Nightmare.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Scouting the Station Repair portal
Carl drives to the switching station, examines the Station Repair portal and watches a red train emerge from it, choosing it as their route.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Arrival at the ghoul-infested trainyard
The Nightmare passes through the portal into Station and Repair Hub E, which is overrun by Festering Ghouls breaking through the walls.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Widget is killed
Gremlin technician Widget unhooks the damaged cars and offers to guide them out, but a reanimated spider ghoul rips off his head.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Escape via the turntable
Donut operates the turntable from Widget's tower, then the crawlers steam the engine slowly toward the yard's exit through the ghouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Rescuing Madison
Fleeing the burning substation, the crawlers stop to save Madison, an HR associate, from a flaming wolf ghoul.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Katia reveals the PVP Coupon
In the empty stairwell room at station 24, Katia hands Carl a PVP Coupon with his name that Donut had hidden, fearing Donut has one for her too.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Ghouls on the move
At station 24 Carl spots festering ghouls travelling up the line from the trainyard and kills a few before leaving.
- Book 3 · Ch 18The empty employee town
The crawlers find Station 60 has no settlement at all; Madison refuses to leave and is left behind to wait for Rod.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Hekla's party in the personal space
After looting the trailer and hearing Bautista's group is stranded, Carl sees Hekla and dozens of women in their personal space.
- Book 3 · Ch 21The daughters arrive
Hekla and about thirty of Brynhild's Daughters enter the Royal Palace of Princess Donut through Katia's whitelist to collect Katia.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Plan to rescue station 101
Hekla recruits Carl and Donut to rescue a thousand trapped crawlers using a subway train with Katia as a living cowcatcher; Carl reluctantly agrees.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Riding to Station 60
Carl drives the Nightmare toward Station 60 with the daughters clinging to its outside.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Plowing down the Vermillion line
With Katia as a living plow and Eva driving, the subway train smashes through ghouls at station 72 and onward, Katia nearly electrocuted.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Hitting the main horde
Near station 101 the train hits the main horde; living gore floods the cab waist-deep and Katia cries for help.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Hekla's betrayal exposed
As Katia's health plunges, Donut spots Hekla shooting her with invisible bolts; Carl has Katia disengage and pulls the bolts out, saving her.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Standoff in the cab
After Donut's attack, Eva and two mages strike at Carl until Hekla halts the fight and tries to dismiss the betrayal as a mistake.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Katia kills Hekla
Mocked by Eva, Katia uses Rush on her but veers and kills Hekla, the number two crawler, earning a bounty and a golden skull.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Escape from station 101
Donut turns Hekla's corpse into clockwork minions, Katia loots the key and crossbow, and Carl drives the packed train backwards away from stage-three monsters.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Confronting Silfa
Carl catches Silfa hiding in the cab and convinces her Hekla used her as bait; she reveals the daughters' party is collapsing.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Katia's loot
In the saferoom off The Downward Dog, Katia opens ten boxes, gaining Club Vanquisher access, Find Crawler, the bounty gold and a wrestling belt.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Hekla tribute recap
The recap honours Hekla, shows Eva abandoning Katia, frames Katia's kill as rage, and reshuffles the leaderboard with Carl third.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Zev's warning visit
Zev teleports in to congratulate the crew, explains Odette's contract changes, and warns that Loita may take over their account and their chats will go public.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Questioning Growler Gary
The drunk, regenerating gnoll bartender tells the crew about the ghoul massacre and points them to the interdiction carts.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Discovering the portal-scoop carts
In station 75's yard Carl finds Rapid-Response carts whose front scoop is a mobile portal, but they need two gnoll hands to start.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Starting the portal carts
Carl activates a rapid-response cart with Gary's hands, tests its clean-up portal on the Sinopia line, and finds every cart needs its own pair of hands.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Portal carts sent to the abyss
Carl, Katia and Donut send six rapid-response portal carts, rigged with musical alarm traps, through portals toward the abyss so trapped crawlers can escape to trainyards.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Fight with a stage-three DT monster
Carl, Katia, Donut and Mongo fight a stage-three DT Razor Fox; it is barely hurt by bolts until it bursts open from within.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Krakaren clones hatch
The exploded monster releases thousands of Krakaren Crotch Dumplings, revealing the DTs spread Krakaren clones; Carl burns the hatchlings.
- Book 3 · Ch 28Station mimic teleported to Trainyard E
Fooled by a fake railroad crossing, Carl drives the cart's portal into the station mimic at station 433, sending the whole city boss to Trainyard E.
- Book 3 · Ch 28Bautista's group escapes via the abyss portal
Rather than face the waiting mimic, Carl hands out train hats so Bautista's 600 crawlers can pass through the abyss portal to Trainyard H.
- Book 3 · Ch 28Hat tribute to Princess Donut
The rescued crawlers applaud and, at Katia's suggestion, each bows and gives their train hat to Donut.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Katia opens her boxes
In the station 59 safe room Katia gets a riot shield and baton from her fan box and a god-wounding bolt from Princess Formidable's benefactor box.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Recap shows a hidden stairwell
The recap shows a stairwell in a cave that Carl realises was hidden under the station mimic they teleported away.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Mordecai returns
Mordecai reappears in the safe room, shocked to have lost seven days, and notices the golden skulls over Katia and Donut.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Katia's stored blood erupts
Because of the new liquid rule, gallons of blood stored in Katia's inventory burst out of her, drenching the room and everyone but her.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Mordecai rejoins and is caught up
Mordecai returns from his timeout, buys a cleaner bot for the blood-soaked room, and hears what the crew did while he was gone.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Katia decodes the Tangle map
Using Mordecai's Syndicate-logo insight, Katia folds the map and concludes the lines have upside-down twin tracks, suspecting a floor-flipping trap.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Carl figures out the trap
Recalling the size of the empty space inside the circle of stairwells, Carl realises how the Krakaren swarm will strike.
- 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 32Ride to the trainyard
Carl's group reaches the portal cart, teleports a neighborhood-boss Krakaren at station 24, and stops at the edge of the monster-filled trainyard cavern.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Mantaur pushed into the portal
The group lures two mantaurs into the tunnel; as Carl's gauntlet triggers Grull's summoning, they shove the dying mantaur into the portal, but it drags Carl in with it.
- 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 35Odette interview after Floor 4
Odette discusses the Death Challenge, Borant's losses and the Maestro's humiliation; Carl needles her about sponsoring Hekla, and Loita mutes topics about Eva and Chris.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Spinning for Floor 5
Donut spins the wheels placing the team in the Air Quadrant against the Dirigible Gnomes, and a door opens onto a desert.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Arrival on Floor 5
Carl, Donut and Katia enter a sandstorm in Bubble 543; Donut picks Glass Cannon, and they find a sealed tomb entrance to the subterranean quadrant.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Entering Hump Town
Clay the Dromedarian admits them for a blitz stick and warns them off city hall, prompting a quest; Mordecai meets them in his new skyfowl body.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Floor 5 rules announced
At the Toe, the system announces that all four quadrant castles in a bubble must be taken before any of its stairwells open.
- Book 4 · Ch 2Opening Floor 4 rewards
In their personal space the team opens boxes from the Grull fight and the abyss bombing, gaining Astral Paw, a lizard tattoo, a two-benefit toe ring and Pawna's Tears.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rallying Hump Town's crawlers
Carl's team recruits drunk crawlers Firas and Louis and Langley's archer party for a planning meeting at the Toe.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Thorny Devil attack
Heading across the desert toward the Bactrian town, the team fights a level 34 Thorny Devil with magic missiles and clockwork Mongos.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Drop Bear attack
After Carl kills a Thorny Devil, a gnome Drop Bear biplane drops two eggs on the team; Donut teleports them clear and Carl's hob-lobber damages the plane.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Dead goose in the egg
The dropped egg proves broken, holding a dead Feral Goose boss; with eight more aircraft descending, the team retreats to Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 4The Royal Chariot is built and tested
Carl and Katia design and build a tracked vehicle at the engineering table and field-test it on the dunes outside Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 4The Wasteland bombs the Bactrian village
After flares rise from the south, the gnome fortress Wasteland drops bombs on the distant Bactrian village while Hump Town's dromedarians man anti-aircraft guns.
- 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 4Carl's group resolves to stop Lucia Mar
After the recap, Carl, Katia and Donut agree Lucia Mar must be put down, though Mordecai hints her spell has a vulnerability.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Break-in at the town hall
Carl, Donut, Louis and Firas teleport onto a town hall balcony, sneak downstairs and knock out the basement guards with Cloud of Exhaust, but the noise brings about 15 guards and traps them inside.
- Book 4 · Ch 7New sponsors announced
Carl, Donut and Katia each receive a second sponsor, and Loita announces Donut's record bid and upcoming promotional shows.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Carl shares intel with the subterranean party
At the club, Morris and Bobby describe their maze quadrant, the lost first map, and the ghost Quetzalcoatlus; Carl outlines the other quadrants and has Katia map them a route.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Preparing to test missiles on Ruckus
With the gnome bombing hours away and the camel town under siege, Carl plans to test his upgraded missiles on the cyborg borough boss Ruckus.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Missile battle with Ruckus
Ruckus wakes and attacks; Carl's first two-stage missile blows up short, then three guided missiles fired together hit and explode the boss overhead.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Ruckus defeated
Carl's missiles destroy Ruckus; its runaway buzzsaw lodges in the tomb's rock, and Carl plans to have Katia carry it off.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Quest to save Hump Town
After the gnomes cut off contact with Henrik, Carl receives the quest Squeeze out the Juice Box to save Hump Town before the bombardment.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Hostage exchange ruse
Carl's group meets the gnome ambassador's balloon with a zombified Wynne, a fake Henrik and a fake potion, hoping to get aboard the Wasteland before it bombs Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 11The fake watch secures the deal
As Leon finds Svern's corpse and seeks the missing watch, Carl produces a fake; Leon accepts and lets Carl and Donut board with the disguised Katia.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Hijacking the Vahana
Aboard the gnome balloon, Donut's Hole drops the three gnomes while ground missiles destroy the escort planes, leaving Carl's party in control.
- Book 4 · Ch 12The Wasteland is crippled
Carl's missiles detonate on the Wasteland as the party leaps from the balloon, survives the fall by potion, and crashes through the necropolis roof.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Zev's changed return
Zev messages to congratulate the crawlers, now only as a social media manager who can't be messaged directly, leaving Donut worried.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Gerbil siege of Hump Town
A punishing wave of thousands of frenzied gerbils pushes the defenders back to Weird Shit Alley until Carl stomps one, appeasing the AI.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Opening the quest rewards
Back in the personal space, Carl upgrades his gauntlet with a platinum sharpening stone and receives a scroll-writing author kit.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Donut's merch arrives
Donut's sponsor box contains a shoddy robot toy of herself; it insults Mongo, who decapitates it, and Donut vows to complain in her review.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Maggie unmasked inside Chris
Chris's slips reveal he is really Maggie My; as she pulls a celestial grenade, Katia petrifies the body with a bolt and Carl seizes the grenade.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Settling Bonnie in
Carl, Katia, Donut and Mongo visit Bonnie at Skarn's house; Carl gives her old bed and photo, Mongo gives her the pink bunny, and Juice Box comforts her.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Reunion after the liaison hold
Back in the personal space, Donut recounts the interrogation, and Katia explains how she moved the flying house to the land quadrant during the five lost days.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Meeting Gwen
Carl meets Gwendolyn Duet, who has been waiting impatiently while Katia stalled the castle assault for Carl's return.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Planning the sandcastle
Katia explains the easy flooding plan versus the hard lightning-door plan that could recover Ghazi's winding box.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Opening the sandcastle
As the storm hits, lightning electrifies the towers and the door of Ghazi's sandcastle opens into a hallway; Katia charges inside.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Exploring the glass castle
Carl, Donut, Katia and Mongo explore the crystallized castle, finding a glass statue of Lika that Mongo knocks over and shatters.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Snatching the winding box
The sand ooze attacks through the door; Carl's shell blasts it back, then he takes the winding box from Ghazi and the party flees upstairs with the mage.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Interrogating Ghazi
Carl questions the revived Ghazi, learning the sand ooze is his 'wife' and the Lika statue was a companion doll, then demands how to kill the ooze.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Killing Mrs. Ghazi
While Katia distracts the ooze, Carl walks on the ceiling and sets its core ablaze with burn gel, killing the borough boss.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Buried in the sandcastle
The castle collapses as the boss dies, trapping Carl and Donut in the basement under three stories of sand while Katia escapes with Ghazi.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Death of Ghazi
Outside the castle, Katia kills Ghazi in a short fight and loots a note about the winding box.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Ghazi's notes on the gate
Back in the personal space, Carl reads Ghazi's letter to Tish explaining how the watches and winding box open portals and the danger of feral gods escaping.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Studying the gate
Carl, Katia and Mordecai study Ghazi's notes and diagrams on using the gate, debating whether it could reach the ninth floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 24The talking head
The de-crystallized Lika doll head pops out of Carl's inventory and is revealed to be possessed by the withering spirit of Psamathe.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Keeping Samantha
Over Carl's objections, the group decides to keep Psamathe's head in the training room, and Carl plans to finish the last castle and rescue people.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Mordecai explains the faction wars
Mordecai corrects Katia's ninth-floor map and explains how the faction wars and the sixth floor's Hunting Grounds work.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Planning the submarine dive
At the Death Stalker tavern Carl meets water-quadrant survivors Britney and Vadim; Vadim agrees to guide Carl, Katia and Tran to the Akula's pump controls.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Chum bombs and the dive
From the flying house, Donut detonates chum bombs to distract the concierge sharks, then Katia becomes a diving bell and drops Carl, Tran and Vadim onto the Akula's hull.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Quetzalcoatlus attacks
The ghost of Quetzalcoatlus screams through the bulkhead, nearly killing Vadim, while a gigantic creature approaches the sub and reaches for it as Katia flees.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Henrik's body found
As the Akula is dragged to the sea floor, Carl reaches the bridge and loots Henrik's corpse, briefly triggering a Syndicate court lock over the gate items.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Lusca boss battle begins
Lusca swallows the Akula in a live-commentated special event; Carl orders the depth charges dropped and everyone topside to saferooms as a ten-minute timer starts.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Bloodlust bomb in the Akula
Trapped as Lusca's babies flood the bridge, Carl seals himself, Katia and Tran in the stateroom and detonates a bloodlust-potion bomb that makes the juveniles devour each other.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Protective Shell and Leatherface vs Lusca
As Lusca swallows, Carl's Protective Shell breaks open her jaw, and Katia's rocket-propelled buzzsaw spins through the octo-shark's head.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Lusca killed
Lusca's tentacle stops the spinning buzzsaw, but she is already dead; Carl, Katia and an injured Tran trudge across the crushing sea floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 27The feral god is released
With everyone in saferooms, Carl uses the Gate of the Feral Gods to teleport to Pandinus, flooding the town wall, and shelters as a feral god arrives.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Loot after the feral god's release
Sheltering in the safe room while a feral god shakes the world outside, Carl opens his boxes, gaining a patch jacket, an Earth patch and Drakea's bandana.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Orthrus in the bubble
Carl's team finds the giant two-headed puppy Orthrus trapped in their bubble, hurt by lightning and sharks, triggering the group quest Where the Red God Glows.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Connecting the lightning trap
While Carl's team fights feral pazuzu, Morris reconnects the electrical panel as Low Thi decoys Quetzalcoatlus; both die, and lightning strikes the towers.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Luring Orthrus out
Carl flies the drop bear while Donut heals Orthrus and casts Meat Hooks, drawing the puppy out of bubble 543 into the Lacuna toward Emberus.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Looting Quan's arm
Carl takes Quan's rings, then drags the stairwell to the All-Seeing Spleen saferoom while a secret message is nearly exposed to Louis.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Bubble rescues begin
Imani coordinates the first rescue phase from the Desperado Club, covering eight qualifying bubbles.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Phase one extractions start
Imani launches the bubble rescues; the first group passes through the gate to Hump Town and hands it on without stealing it.
- 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 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 4 · Ch 33Katia's decision
Katia tells Carl and Donut she will separate on the next floor to protect the former daughters from Eva; Carl gives her Eva's lost saber.
- 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 4 · Ch 34Setting the gate
Carl buries the winding box near the stairwell atop the bowl; Katia calculates the ninth-floor portal will open 23 minutes before collapse.
- Book 4 · Ch 34The real plan revealed
The thrown box was a decoy; Katia opens the real gate underwater, draining the sea, bombs and sharks into Larracos's faction market on the ninth floor.
- Book 5 · Ch 1Orren demands the gate
Syndicate liaison Orren tells Carl he must voluntarily give up the Gate of the Feral Gods or be removed; Carl stalls and demands a lawyer.
- Book 5 · Ch 2Night Weasel ambush
Invisible Night Weasels belonging to Hunter Zabit paralyze two guards and then Carl at the dryad settlement gate; Donut, Mongo and Chris fight them off.
- Book 5 · Ch 2Mordecai's new form
Carl wakes in the personal space to find Mordecai turned into a tiny Pocket Kuma and can't stop laughing.
- Book 5 · Ch 2Collateral arrives
A knock comes at the personal space door, which Carl says is a delivery of collateral.
- Book 5 · Ch 3Mercenaries as collateral
Carl gives up the Gate of the Feral Gods until the ninth floor in exchange for four mercenaries, two of whom carry the teleport spells Teleport to Stairwell and Zerzura.
- Book 5 · Ch 4Katia departs
Katia, Chris and their two mercenaries leave on a caravan to join other crawlers, leaving Donut sad.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Donut heads off the lecture
Back in the personal space, Donut preempts Mordecai's scolding, and Carl announces a plan for a much bigger bomb before the hunters are released.
- 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 9Bridge plan
Carl studies Katia's crowd-sourced map and asks her to have every bridge but one knocked down.
- Book 5 · Ch 21Hunter communication cut off
A system announcement downplays the Valtay takeover and reveals that hunters can no longer communicate with anyone outside the dungeon, following a court injunction.
- Book 5 · Ch 21CrawlCon fan box
Carl opens his fan box and finds he is a special guest at CrawlCon, scheduled for three virtual events without Donut.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Langley's team dies
As Carl prepares the sacrifice above Fort Freedom, news arrives that Langley's whole team died hunting Bogdon Ro, before Carl kills the orc Future Huntress.
- Book 5 · Ch 34Carl coordinates his return
In his last minutes in the green room Carl sends the team a plan; Donut and Samantha report Lucia in the saferoom and hunters fighting outside.
- 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 36Carl picks his strength upgrade
After reaching 100 strength, Carl weighs three upgrades with his friends' advice and chooses Swole, while Katia sews his new patches on.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Weedkiller prepared for the creepers
Mordecai hands out jugs of his extra-strength anti-undead weedkiller; Katia and Louis take two to attack creepers from the Twister while Carl plans spray bombs.
- 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 54Planning around the brambles
Carl and Katia realise the Gehenna brambles will drive everyone toward the high elf castle by floor's end, and plan to regroup and map stairwells there.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Planning the castle
Carl and his allies study Edgar's castle map and learn Donut's contest entries were accepted, while Prepotente heads their way with a present.
- Book 5 · Ch 57Bautista and Katia revealed
Carl congratulates Bautista on his relationship with Katia, shocking Donut.
- 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 64Plan changes
Realising they cannot strike first inside the sealed ballroom, Carl tells his allies to party peacefully while operations outside continue.
- 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 70Donut charms Ferdinand
Ferdinand appears wearing a giant turban; after Katia reads his stats, Donut uses her doubled charisma to charm him, but he leaves to come to the crawlers' ballroom via the tunnels.
- Book 5 · Ch 75Aftermath of the battle
Carl wakes to find many dead; Osvaldo and Prepotente quarrel over the memorial crystal, and Katia claims Eva's bounty.
- Book 5 · Ch 75The Popovs escape the dungeon
Katia finds the Popovs reborn as baby nodlings; Zev reveals children are ineligible, so they are freed to the surface.
- Book 5 · Ch 75Descending the stairs
Prepotente forms a party with Carl and Donut, reveals the memorial crystal is Apito's, and leads the survivors down the stairs.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Katia kills Eva
Katia and Li Na find the wounded Eva, strip her escape ring, and Katia runs her through after Eva begs for her life.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Eva's last act
Dying, Eva puts the Crown of the Sepsis Whore on Katia, so only one of Katia and Donut may reach the tenth floor.
- 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 5Crawlers reel from the last floor
Over chat, Carl learns Britney and Louis are grieving Firas, and Tran lost his legs and his friend Gwendolyn Duet.
- 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 13Opening fan boxes
Donut receives the snare card Hobbled and The Bard's Golden Throat microphone, and Carl gets a massage coupon; then Katia, Bautista and Louis visit.
- Book 6 · Ch 13Catching up with Katia's group
Katia, Bautista and Louis visit Carl and Donut, share news of their losses and squad, discuss Tserendolgor possibly joining the guild, and give Carl spare cards before both teams leave for shows.
- Book 6 · Ch 17The Celestial Thorn Room
The temple becomes a Celestial Thorn Room offering seven Orisha shrines with competing rewards, while Katia urgently tells Carl to restore Yemaya.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Eileithyia's secret deal
Under cover of a spider-killing quest, Eileithyia secretly messages Carl, demanding he accept Odette as Faction Wars Adjutant and tell no one, in exchange for protection and help until the twelfth floor.
- Book 6 · Ch 20Return to the saferoom
Cured and banned from the club for three days, Carl recounts events to Donut, Katia, Mordecai and Bautista and notices Katia now worships Eileithyia.
- Book 6 · Ch 20Katia prepares to confide in Donut
In the tense saferoom, after Carl recounts a partly falsified story, Katia sits with Donut to tell her something very scary.
- Book 6 · Ch 21Katia reveals the crown
Katia shows Donut the Crown of the Sepsis Whore that Eva placed on her and promises she will never fight Donut.
- Book 6 · Ch 21The lock box plan
Katia reveals her Lock Box of the Night Wyrm and Eileithyia's orchid, planning to escape the crown's trap via the Celestial Attendant boon; Mordecai explains Huanxin Jinx and the Ascendency.
- Book 6 · Ch 21Assassination job revealed
Carl reads Katia's Guild of Suffering job from the Night Wyrm: kill Astrid of the Desperado Club.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Scouting the Desperado Club
Carl and Katia secretly plan how to lure out and kill Astrid while meeting allied crawlers at the Desperado Club.
- Book 6 · Ch 29Katia goes quiet
Katia stops responding after scouting the Desperado Club; Bautista says she is asleep and out of sorts after finding a secret merchant.
- 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 32Carl refuses to abandon Katia
Mordecai suggests letting Katia self-destruct to protect Donut; Carl refuses and demands she pull herself together to do their Astrid quest now.
- Book 6 · Ch 33Setting the Astrid ambush
Carl disarms traps in a secret corridor, sets teleport traps and walls off a room of deadly monsters to prepare the ambush on Astrid.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Ambush on Astrid goes wrong
Astrid bypasses the trapped secret passage and heads down the main stairs as an alarm announces a containment breach in the casino.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Minge breaks out of the Nothing
The level 225 demon Minge escapes into the club hunting Samantha, slaughtering NPCs while Katia refuses to abandon the Astrid mission.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Death of Astrid
Katia, shapeshifted and using totem cards, attacks Astrid; Carl rips off her wings to break her spell, and Katia kills her, then flees pretending to be a monster.
- Book 6 · Ch 35Katia completes the orchid quest
Katia retrieves the orchid as the Night Wyrm's assassination job completes, putting their plan to escape the Sepsis Crown problem within reach.
- Book 6 · Ch 36Damascus reveals his family
Damascus Steel tells Carl and Katia that Astrid was his mother and the Night Wyrm his father, then leaves with Anaconda to take revenge.
- Book 6 · Ch 37Odette declines the adjutant role
Odette explains the adjutant role, then reveals she can't be one this season, threatening Carl's secret deal to save Katia.
- Book 6 · Ch 52Zev hints at the Residuals
Zev covers for Carl with his team and says the AI forbids interference; she suggests the errand involves the Residuals but cannot explain them.
- 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 63Broken doors and sealed stairwells
As crawlers worldwide threaten each other's doorways, Katia confirms a broken door seals its stairwell chamber completely.
- 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 66Approaching the FOSCA building
Leaving others to demolish the church, Carl leads his friends, strippers and sluggalos to the FOSCA building surrounded by docile demons waiting for Amayon's portal.
- Book 6 · Ch 69The final card battle
On the ruined 32nd floor, Carl's team battles Amayon's demon totems and Ysalte's deck while the building collapses, quickly emptying Amayon's hand.
- Book 6 · Ch 71Paz Lo slays Ysalte
Using an arrow from Katia, the totem-crawler Paz Lo kills the goddess Ysalte, completing the quest with two seconds left.
- 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 73Shi Maria possesses Carl
Combined with Shi Maria, Carl loses control; she casts Self-Immolation, burns through the floor and wounds Katia and Mongo.
- 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 7Samantha hunts Tish
Samantha chases a woman named Tish through a college in Larracos, vowing to kill her, until Katia catches her.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Naming the pet and fixing Carl's hair
Friends argue over a name for the tummy acher while Katia regrows Carl's eyebrows and lashes with hair tonic.
- Book 7 · Ch 22Katia and Carl go under
In the base field hospital, Mordecai gives Katia and Carl modified Glory Bound so Katia can confront her past and Carl can try to trap Shi Maria in her worst memory.
- Book 7 · Ch 22Minds collide
As they fall asleep, Carl's mind briefly floods into Katia's and others', before a Lemig Sortion peace offer interrupts.
- 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 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 48Preparing Operation: Snake Pit
Back at base, Boomer debriefs Carl and signals in code that it's time to launch Operation: Snake Pit against the nagas as Katia returns.
- Book 7 · Ch 49Carl learns Run, Little Günter, Run
A crying, leggy spellbook from Carl's box begs not to be read; Carl studies the strange summoning spell with Katia and learns it.
- Book 7 · Ch 49Katia tattoos Carl
Katia uses ink made with Li Na's blood to tattoo a level-13 skill onto Carl's right arm as a dragon-shaped chain.
- 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 56Katia's promise
After arguing with Bautista, Katia tells Carl she'd give him the flower for Donut if needed, as Prepotente arrives on his dragon.
- 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 60Breaking into Club Vanquisher
Katia's fake demon alarm and Bautista's pyxies sow chaos; Carl hits Mork with Black Nimbus and the team kills the guards and holds the portals open.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Li Na's dread massacre
Li Na's wire-amplified Dark Purpose makes guards and trophy heads destroy themselves, their ghosts dragged away by chains, defiling the lobby.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Race to the temple portal
Carl, Katia, Prepotente and Samantha cross the blood-soaked club to the temple portal and dial Khepri's temple, where Vinata is visible.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Entering Khepri's temple
Samantha opens the door and the team storms in, only to find Vinata immortal-tagged and Khepri himself present.
- Book 7 · Ch 62Vinata's trap sprung
Carl's team storms Khepri's temple and realizes Vinata anticipated them, summoning Khepri so they'd trespass in a god's presence.
- Book 7 · Ch 62Temple Battle Grudge Match
The AI declares a boss-style temple battle against Khepri and six naga, drags in Li Jun, Bautista and Zhang, and opens betting.
- Book 7 · Ch 64The Blood Sultanate falls
With Vinata dead, the Blood Sultanate is defeated and its assets go to the Princess Posse; the sluggalette Bigs gets the kill.
- Book 7 · Ch 64Carl meets Milk
Prepotente leads the team into a hidden guild where Carl finds Milk, the sixth-edition cookbook author, and breaks down in her embrace.
- Book 7 · Ch 66Preparing for Operation Ruin
In the lull after the Blood Sultanate's fall, the Posse secretly prepares Operation Ruin and completes the Nest tower in Shanty Town.
- Book 7 · Ch 66Forced interview
The AI forces Carl and Katia into a live interview with Victory, Drick and Kevin about their celestial loot while Louis is distraught.
- Book 7 · Ch 66Celestial loot interview
On a live broadcast, the AI reads out Katia's divine knee pads and Carl's screaming celestial hairbrush while Victory explains divine item rules.
- 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 79Carl enters Katia's dream
Days earlier, a dream-potion experiment goes wrong and Carl shares Katia's dream of the Icelandic children's hospital where her adoption of baby Annie was denied.
- Book 7 · Ch 79Shi Maria breaks into the dream
Katia's and Carl's dreams collide as a screaming Shi Maria bursts in, denying she killed someone.
- 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 90Setting out to rescue Louis
As cleanup proceeds in Larracos, Carl, Donut and others prepare to raid the Reaver castle to rescue Louis while Prepotente joins Li Na's hunt.
- Book 7 · Ch 91Raid on the Reaver castle begins
Carl's group travels to the bombed Reaver castle to rescue Louis; spotting invisible Fopsy among the adjutants, Carl suspects a trap and switches to plan B, sending Juice Box in.
- Book 7 · Ch 96Katia eats the orchid
Carl urges Katia to eat the Orchid of Eileithyia at once; she says she loves them all and falls unconscious before Donut can say goodbye.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Donut kills Huanxin Jinx
When Eileithyia arrives for Katia, Donut traps and kills her sponsor Huanxin Jinx using Laundry Day, Katia's crossbow and Mordecai's ash-tipped bolt.
- 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.