Mongo
Names: MongoMongo the MongoliensisMongyMungo
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 46 (46)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 46Princess Donut insists on choosing Mongo, a tiny pink-feathered, chicken-like dinosaur, over Carl's preferred brindle grub.
- Ch 46Mongo is level one, still hostile and unbonded, and repeatedly bites Princess Donut on the nose.
- Ch 47Mongo's hostility ends after Princess Donut teaches him to kill grubs, and he bonds with her when she saves him from a Brindled Vespa.
- Ch 47Once bonded, Mongo joins the party as Princess Donut's pet, with the title Royal Steed.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 4Mongo has grown noticeably larger after fighting lemurs and clowns.
- Ch 5Mongo reaches level three, nearly doubling in size and growing longer red-and-pink feathers and a bigger beak.
- Ch 6Mongo, Carl's little dinosaur, is briefly charmed by Signet until Donut's growl breaks the spell.
- Ch 7Mongo reaches level six after the lion fight, growing to the size of a turkey with long tail feathers.
- Ch 8Carl leaves Mongo to guard the sleeping Donut inside a makeshift shelter.
- Ch 12Mongo defends the sleeping Donut against Street Urchins until Carl returns, rising from level six to ten.
- Ch 14Fitted with the Fang Caps, Mongo's bites now crackle with electricity.
- Ch 18Mongo reaches level 12 killing Shambling Berserkers.
- Ch 21Mongo shares Donut's pounce ability; his clockwork copies leap a full storey onto the magistrate's roof carrying the swallowed letter.
- Ch 22Mongo's magical-capped bite destroys several krasue heads, waking the whole nest.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 4Mongo is Princess Donut's pet dinosaur, eager to charge into battle and kept in line by her commands.
- Ch 6Mongo is immune to the cornets' nausea attack and reaches level 14, growing larger.
- Ch 7Mongo reaches level 15, his full size, about pony height and 13 feet long, and gains an Earthquake jump attack.
- Ch 24Let out briefly in the gore-filled cab, Mongo goes wild eating body parts until Carl has Donut put him away.
- Ch 25Zev says dungeon-born pets like Mongo are considered Borant property, which outrages Donut.
- Ch 26Mongo, now level 23, kills the sleeping Growler Gary and bites off his arms so Carl can start the carts.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 13Mongo bites the head off the robot Donut toy after it insults him, and it catches fire.
- Ch 13New fang caps give level-29 Mongo 15% more movement speed and strength; Donut's Animal Wrangling rises to eight.
- Ch 16Mongo is badly wounded when the clockwork Mongos explode as Denise's anti-magic takes hold, and Donut cannot heal him.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 11Instead of fighting, Mongo mates with the raptor pack leader Kiwi in the jungle outside Point Mongo.
- Ch 12Mongo returns to Point Mongo exhausted after mating with Kiwi; Kiwi's pack is now friendly to Donut but still hostile to Carl.
- Ch 27Mongo dives into Claude's wound and eats his way through, finishing the boss and badly injuring Carl in the process.
- Ch 49When Donut summons Mongo, Kiwi and the other female raptors swarm him, and Kiwi again mates with him despite Donut's rules.
- Ch 51Mongo survives a lightning bolt from the queen's familiar because Donut leaps in front of it.
- Ch 68Mongo is a level-34 male mongoliensis who moonwalks across the stage during the pet show.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 8Mongo quickly wins over Sister Ines's group, and his approval eases Donut's suspicion of the two men.
- Ch 43Mongo went on a rampage through a barn of thousands of living turkeys, which had been overheated after being moved from Iowa.
- Ch 45Zombie turkeys have spread to the farm's pigs, so Donut put Mongo away to keep him from being bitten.
- Ch 74Mongo loses his right wing to Carl's fire; an upgraded potion should regrow it once Mordecai checks it.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 6Carl smashes the Revitalize Pet potion on Mongo, beginning to regrow his missing wing.
- Ch 35Mongo gets credit for killing Warlord D'Nadia, and the Prism's assets pass to the Princess Posse.
- Ch 84Mongo was nearly killed by Gustavo 3's quills and bites, left with a ripped-open throat and a sliver of health.
Connections
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- related toPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonkchose as her petbonded pet
- related toCarlCarl's pet dinosaur
- enemy ofRicky Joe
- member ofThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- enemy ofGrowler Garykilled him for his hands
- member ofMongoliensis
- enemy ofKiwithey fight
- partner ofKiwithey mate
- enemy ofFerdinand
- ally ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- member ofPrincess Posse
- friend ofSir Rendlegore
- friend ofHedy
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 46The pet reward room
After the boss fight, Carl and Princess Donut find a pet reward room; Donut begs for the Mongoliensis and Carl frees it with the key.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Mongo bonds with Princess Donut
After days of training, Princess Donut saves Mongo from a Brindled Vespa and he finally bonds with her, joining the party.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Descent to the third floor
With six hours left, Carl, Princess Donut and Mongo head down the stairs to Floor 3.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Odette's warnings and advice
After the show Odette warns Carl about the Valtay Corporation, reveals Mongo is a velociraptor and hints at a risky class choice.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Arrival on the third floor
Carl, Princess Donut and Mongo arrive on Floor 3 and find Mordecai transformed into a handsome Incubus, ready to guide race and class selection.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Carl presented to the third floor
Mordecai leads them out into a bustling village and formally presents Carl as the Level 13 Compensated Anarchist Primal.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Mordecai's Over City orientation
Mordecai explains the Over City, its owned NPCs and volcano backstory, then sends Carl and Princess Donut toward a medium village before heading to a pub.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Ambushed by circus lemurs
Knife-throwing lemurs and a giraffe attack, triggering the quest The Show Must Go On; Carl and Princess Donut kill a stilt clown while fleeing.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Opening the Earth boxes
While Mordecai sleeps it off, Carl and Princess Donut open Earth boxes and hobby potions, and Donut learns Clockwork Triplicate.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Scouting the circus
Carl decides to investigate the circus; they find three dead crawlers left as a trap and Princess Donut spots the circus tents.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Mortar attack at dusk
Fleeing the fortifying circus at nightfall, Carl, Princess Donut and Mongo are hit by magical mortars and fall into a buried basement.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Signet confronts Carl and Donut
The elite Signet tries to charm Carl, Donut and Mongo. Mordecai warns them by chat to flee, but Signet reveals it is too late: she has had the circus beasts' cages opened.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Battle with the Mold Lions
Surrounded by six Mold Lions, Carl uses Protective Shell and Donut's Confusing Fog, kills a lion barehanded, and Donut raises the dead as zombies until all the lions fall.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Race selection recap episode
Carl, Donut and Mordecai watch a special recap showing crawlers' race and class choices, including Hekla's, Carl's, Donut's and Lucia Mar's dramatic Lajabless transformation.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Signet abducts Carl and Donut
Signet stuns and knocks out Carl and Donut as they leave for the skyfowl settlement. Carl wakes fifteen hours later to find Donut under Signet's Water Lily spell, held hostage until he fulfils his promise.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Carl rescues Donut and Mongo
Carl races back to find Mongo badly wounded defending the sleeping Donut from Street Urchins drawn by his makeshift barricade. He heals them, and Donut wakes at dawn.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Arrival at the skyfowl settlement
Carl, Donut and Mongo reach the much larger skyfowl town, head for the Tutorial Guild, and spot The Desperado Club.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Opening rewards in Mordecai's chamber
At the skyfowl town's Tutorial Guild, Carl and Donut open boxes from the circus quest, including fan boxes, Fang Caps, a casino chip and a Scroll of Upgrade.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Night at The One-Eyed Narwhal
The party stays at The One-Eyed Narwhal and watches a recap featuring a goat lady's hellspawn familiar and Mongo defending Donut. Mordecai rebuffs the orc GumGum's plea, and Carl later fails to find her.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Grinding and the Dispenser
The party grinds brain boilers and, warned by Donut's Acute Ears, quickly kills the neighborhood boss the Dispenser.
- Book 2 · Ch 14GumGum's quest
Outside the town wall Carl and Donut find GumGum piling dead women's bodies. She begs for help, triggering the quest The Sex Workers Who Fell from the Heavens.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Ambush in the alley
On the way back to the inn, Mongo charges into an alley where Krasue flee from Donut's light, GumGum lies dead, and a ranting elf who lured Mongo is killed by Carl and Donut.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Ambush at the abandoned pool
While grinding, the party is plunged into magical darkness and attacked by city elves and giant monsters. Carl kills the elves with hob-lobbers and dynamite, but is blasted onto a roof when the Divider's bloated corpse explodes; Donut and Mongo finish the fight.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Carl wakes amid the gore
Carl wakes on a rooftop healed by Donut, who with Mongo is picking off Shambling Berserkers in a street drenched with the Divider's gore. They finish the fight before heading to a saferoom for their interview.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Confrontation at the Apito Education Center
Carl and Donut confront nine city elves of the 201st, who reveal they tortured GumGum, call Donut the Oak Fell, and power up with Magical Fervor.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Street brawl at the temple
Eunice beats Salvatore, an Icer elf freezes her, guards move to kill her, and Carl punches a guard, turning the guards hostile. Mongo bites off Ricky Joe's arm.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Mic Drop destroys the 201st
Carl grabs Ricky Joe and drops a lit boom jug as Donut's Puddle Jumper teleports them to a rooftop; the elves burn and Salvatore is cleaved by a guard.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Baiting the killer with the letter
Carl and Donut stage a scripted conversation near the bugged Mysterious Letter, then send clockwork Mongos carrying it onto the magistrate's roof as decoys while krasue close in.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Discovery of the krasue nest
Inside the quarters, Carl and Donut find a muted room of hanging female corpses around Featherfall's mummified body. Mongo's attack wakes the krasue, and Carl's fireball destroys the room.
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 7Donut's saddle fan box
Donut's Platinum fan box contains a saddle for Mongo, which Carl fits despite Mongo's protests.
- 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 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 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 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 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 26Taking Gary's hands
With Katia unable to fool the sensor, Mongo kills the sleeping Gary and Carl takes his severed arms to start the carts.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Gary's sacrifice
After repeated killings, Carl explains the plan to Growler Gary, who agrees to die ten more times to help stop those who killed his friends.
- 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 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 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 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 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 7Escape from the burning town hall
A dromedarian rocket blasts the basement door; Carl counterattacks with explosives, summons a decoy toad, and Donut teleports the group out as the town hall burns and collapses.
- 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 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 15Arrival at the flying house
Carl and Donut climb down from the Nightmare II to Commandant Kane's flying house, where his young daughter greets them, saying her father is dead and offering lemonade.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Boss battle with Denise
The house begins falling on a three-minute timer as Denise the Feral Goose Mother starts a no-magic, no-physical-damage boss fight; Carl's lemonade gambit proves a trick.
- 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 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 34Death of Maggie My
Chris bursts from the sand and hurls the winding box; Carl, phased, pulls the Maggie worm from Chris's head, purges her from his own body, and Mongo eats her.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Carl's challenge to the hunters
At the stairwell, now the top-ranked crawler, Carl holds up the Ring of Divine Suffering and vows to kill every hunter on the sixth floor.
- 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 4Katia departs
Katia, Chris and their two mercenaries leave on a caravan to join other crawlers, leaving Donut sad.
- Book 5 · Ch 4Secret teleport
Pretending to hunt mushrooms, Carl has Donut put Mongo away and orders Bomo to teleport them to the stairwell in Zockau.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Masquerade announced
The system announces the Butcher's Masquerade party for the top 50 crawlers, and Donut fixates on its pet beauty contest for Mongo.
- Book 5 · Ch 10Crossing the bridge
Carl and Donut travel south through the empty jungle, planting mines, and cross the one bridge to the Large Ursine Settlement.
- Book 5 · Ch 10Death of Mayor Elmer
When Elmer bars Mongo, Donut pushes him down the riverbank; he dies on the rocks and a Naiad drags his body away, giving Donut the kill.
- Book 5 · Ch 10Branded troublemakers
The guards turn hostile and Carl and Donut flee into a saferoom to launch the clockwork Bomo bomb plan before the hunters are released.
- Book 5 · Ch 11Mongo meets Kiwi's pack
Mongo bolts out of town with Donut into a pack of forty raptors; Carl pulls Donut off, and Mongo and the pack leader Kiwi leap at each other.
- Book 5 · Ch 11Mongo and Kiwi mate
Mongo and Kiwi mate instead of fighting; Carl drags a protesting Donut back to town, leaving Mongo behind.
- Book 5 · Ch 12Mongo returns
Mongo stumbles back into town and collapses; Kiwi's pack watches from the jungle before leaving, and Donut reinstates the no-dinosaur rule.
- Book 5 · Ch 16Were-castors fight weasels
After Clint and Holger brawl with each other on the trail, invisible night weasels attack; the two were-castors, immune to paralysis, do most of the work killing them.
- Book 5 · Ch 27Claude teleported ashore
Recalling Samantha brings along the boss Claude Sludgington the Fourth, which had swallowed her and Holger; it appears beside Carl's group on the riverbank.
- Book 5 · Ch 27Claude killed
In a thirty-second fight, Carl's Protective Shell launches Claude skyward, Donut's Fireball opens his belly, and Mongo eats through him to kill the boss.
- Book 5 · Ch 39Massacre at Prepotente Town Number Four
Carl, Donut and Samantha arrive at a shadowed ursine town to find its streets covered in day-old bear corpses and pink feathers, all killed by Big Tina, with a few survivors hiding.
- Book 5 · Ch 43Charm Animal recipe
The Apothecary sends a long-sought Charm Animal recipe needing Mongo's blood; Mordecai is thrilled but Donut refuses.
- Book 5 · Ch 45The body-part pile
Leaving the pub, Carl and Donut find the streets swarming with reanimated body parts gathered into a pile by vampire dinosaurs; Carl bombards it with missiles as they flee.
- Book 5 · Ch 45Unwelcome in the dryad town
Carl is branded a troublemaker at a small dryad settlement and hides in the Y-Not Lounge saferoom as guards gather outside.
- Book 5 · Ch 46Mongo's blood and a burning town
Donut collects Mongo's blood for the Charm Animal potion, then fireballs the hostile dryad mayor, setting the town and forest on fire.
- Book 5 · Ch 46Boss battle with Sierra
While levitating to spot Miriam's signal, Carl is seized by Sierra, a vampire pterosaur boss; with Donut's light, holy water and a falling punch, Carl kills it by staking its heart.
- Book 5 · Ch 49Donut charms Kiwi
Princess Donut uses a Charm Mongoliensis potion on Kiwi, making the raptor pack leader her minion and bringing Kiwi's pack of velociraptors onto their side.
- Book 5 · Ch 51High elf procession confronts Carl and Donut
High elf guards and Queen Imogen's familiar steal a creeper kill, invite Carl and Donut to the Masquerade, then fire lightning at Mongo; Donut blocks it and nearly dies.
- Book 5 · Ch 52Big Tina arrives
Big Tina, an enormous allosaurus, arrives with the raptor pack and roars at Mongo; Kiwi restrains her daughter.
- Book 5 · Ch 54Big Tina accepts Mongo
Kiwi brokers a meeting between Big Tina and Mongo, and Tina turns non-hostile, prompting Carl to plan a dance recital.
- 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 67Pet show begins
The masquerade pet show runs, with Gimli and Prepotente's Bianca on stage, before Louis dramatically announces Mongo's appearance.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Mongo's pet show act
Donut and Louis stage an over-the-top pet show act for Mongo, with music, smoke bombs and a moonwalk, impressing even some hunters.
- Book 5 · Ch 72Donut's talent show performance
Donut charms Ferdinand into her minion, sings 'All Eyes on Me', and Big Tina dances with the velociraptors, transfixing the whole room.
- Book 5 · Ch 73Vrah dies
The velociraptors attack the hunters; Mongo and Kiwi maul Vrah, Samantha bites her, and Mongo finishes her off on Carl's order.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Circe Took dies
Carl gets Donut close to Diwata, who strips the god armor with Laundry Day; Circe Took is killed by her own children.
- Book 6 · Ch 9First Daughter's Kiss
Fighting a swarm of duendes fills Carl's essence bar, and he unleashes The Daughter's Kiss, vaporizing a duende with a shockwave.
- Book 6 · Ch 11Practice in the Mock Battle Arena
Carl and Donut test their incomplete deck on easy difficulty: Mongo kills a Teletubby-like monster, then Donut summons and buffs Geraldo against a Squonk that dissolves without fighting.
- Book 6 · Ch 12Locked in the ghommid cemetery
After scouting the cemetery, both teams enter; the gate locks, the compulsory quest Pueblo de los Olvidados begins, and Paz's presence draws a horde of unsettled ghommids.
- Book 6 · Ch 12Fighting to the saferoom
Overwhelmed by ghommids, Carl is frozen and drained by an owl spirit before Mongo and Sister Ines save him, and Donut teleports the group toward the saferoom.
- Book 6 · Ch 22Moving south through Havana
Carl, Donut and Mongo leave the ghommid village and travel south through Havana to a saferoom before their Faction Wars planning meeting.
- Book 6 · Ch 29Shi Maria becomes a card
Carl turns Shi Maria into a card and, travelling north with Donut, Mongo and Samantha, gains new cards from La Ciguapa and tests his Scavenger Daughter.
- Book 6 · Ch 30Deck practice in the mall
In a 1980s mall simulation, Shi Maria kills Uzi Jesus after he shoots her, then destroys Rude-Dolph's puppet reindeer with her fifth eye and rips Rude-Dolph in two.
- Book 6 · Ch 39Donut's first card battle
Alone in the choosing chamber, Donut selects Miami and fights Robert the Human; Mongo kills him instantly after Geraldo is summoned.
- Book 6 · Ch 40Arrival in the Florida Keys
Carl joins Donut in Monroe County after a selection glitch; the key location from Iowa has been dumped as a huge earth mound nearby.
- Book 6 · Ch 41Lazarus-A-Bang-Bang's debut
Fighting a Reef Explorer and his Swordfish Interlopers for the sixth token, Donut summons Lazarus-A-Bang-Bang, whose bazooka wipes out the swordfish with beetles.
- Book 6 · Ch 43The turkey barn ambush
Mongo rampages through a barn of turkeys until a hidden turkey deckmaster knocks him out and starts a double card fight with a spiked ogre.
- Book 6 · Ch 44Escape from the falling barn
With Carl dangling over the cliff and passing out, Donut Puddle Jumps them away as the barn collapses into the ocean.
- Book 6 · Ch 46Carl enters the trailer alone
After looting the yard and activating a 42-minute countdown, Carl leaves Donut and Mongo outside and goes into the trailer by himself.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Keyholder fight unlocked
When the timer ends, Carl rejoins Donut and Mongo outside and decides to burn the trailer before facing the keyholder.
- Book 6 · Ch 48Battle with the Reminiscence Hydra begins
Judge Lucian strips their invisibility, Carl blows off one head, Donut summons Jola, and the hydra's totem Alpha Male Carl destroys both clockwork Mongos.
- Book 6 · Ch 48The Reminiscence Hydra is defeated
Carl removes and cauterizes the fire head, letting the moonshine fire hurt the hydra; Shi Maria bites off heads, and the burning hydra dies, giving Carl and Donut the win.
- Book 6 · Ch 50Saferoom Christmas party
Back in the saferoom, Louis's Christmas party is in full swing; Carl objects, but after Louis's angry plea Carl joins in by offering turkeys to roast.
- Book 6 · Ch 55Pinpointed on the road
Riding east toward Imani with Donut on Mongo and Samantha on the handlebars, Carl's location is revealed by an unknown caster's Eye in the Sky scroll.
- Book 6 · Ch 56Forcing a battle with Sister Ines
Carl and Donut prepare traps and spells while Samantha bites Sister Ines, letting Carl pull the nun in for a card battle.
- 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 7 · Ch 9Carl bonds a tummy acher
Carl reveals Ren's reborn tummy acher; Mongo swallows and spits him out, and the pet bonds with Carl after eating chowder.
- Book 7 · Ch 17Tina escapes
As Carl and Tipid open the stronghold's huge door, Tina the allosaurus bursts out to greet Mongo.
- Book 7 · Ch 18Mongo meets pregnant Kiwi
Tina greets Mongo as 'Papa', and Kiwi, now an ursine and heavily pregnant, hugs Mongo before taking Tina back inside.
- Book 7 · Ch 20Hunting the Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Carl's mixed squad hunts a mob incursion at the edge of their territory; Carl breaks the rolling ball apart with hob-lobbers and Rend feeds on the dazed skunks.
- Book 7 · Ch 20Aftermath of the skunk spray
Carl escapes via Gloom Wraith Phase, Bodi paralyzes the skunks, Rend feeds and levels up, and Jamal eats Fancy Boy, while Donut, Mongo and the elves are Skanked.
- Book 7 · Ch 30The Princess Posse goes over the top
On Donut's order, over two thousand members of the Princess Posse drink invisibility potions and charge across No Man's Land into enemy fire, with Carl, Donut, Mongo and Imani among them.
- Book 7 · Ch 31Charge across No Man's Land
Carl, Donut, Mongo and Imani run through fog, artillery and pulse fire; an enemy diffusion spell strips their protections, and Carl silences a heavy gun with a hob-lobber.
- Book 7 · Ch 31Breaching the trenches with Build Trench
On Boomer's signal, the attackers drop into the bomb craters and use Build Trench scrolls to dig channels that join the enemy trenches; Carl then attacks a stunned Saccathian soldier with Daughter's Kiss.
- Book 7 · Ch 32Raid on the Prism headquarters
Louis flies Carl, Donut, Mongo and Rend thirty miles to the Prism castle, where they kill the guards, steal the traps and enter to confront Empress D'Nadia.
- Book 7 · Ch 34Defeating Empress D'Nadia
In the Prism throne room, Carl and Donut strip D'Nadia's shields with bangers and Clockwork Mongos, heal her and mark her with the Ring of Divine Suffering.
- Book 7 · Ch 35The Prism falls
Mongo kills Warlord D'Nadia; the Prism is defeated and its assets, including eight gnoll mercenaries, go to the Princess Posse, while Carl spares their two friends from rival teams.
- Book 7 · Ch 38Donut unleashes Tina
Kiwi refuses to let Tina fight; Carl relents, but Donut orders Tina out, rallies the troops from the castle roof, and leads a charge on the paratroopers.
- Book 7 · Ch 39Destroying the Reaver beachhead
Tina charges the cyborg paratroopers while summoned card monsters join the fight; Carl detonates their bomb automatons with Tripper, and the defenders finish them off.
- Book 7 · Ch 84Battle with Gustavo 3
Mongo, Raul and clockwork Mongos tumble out of the Nest with Carl and Gustavo 3; the dog nearly kills Mongo until Rend's Wrecking Ball kills it.
- Book 7 · Ch 85Carl reunites with Donut atop the Nest
Carl climbs the Nest to reunite with Donut, whose trapping net finally fails; Rosetta, Milk and Edgar arrive to tattoo Donut with a spell for the War Crime plan.
- 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 7 · Ch 96Louis's transplant and Tagg's death
Mordecai, Edgar, Juice Box and others transplant Princess Lunette's organs into Louis while Donut taunts Tagg; Tagg dies and the Dream are defeated.
- Book 8 · Ch 5First heat begins
Carl drives the food truck into the first heat in darkness, lit by Donut's Torch spell, tallying NPC opponents including a unicorn in a tumbleweed.
- Book 8 · Ch 7Team Sparkles runs them over
Team Sparkles insults Donut, then their Avernus Creeper bolts at the food truck's horn and crawls over the trailer and van before racing off.
- Book 8 · Ch 13Back to the garage
After starting cleanup of the junk-filled safe room, Carl and Donut return to the garage where gremlins repair the truck and Donut gives Mongo his new hat.
- Book 8 · Ch 28Rend resurrects
Rend rises from his sixth death bigger and stronger with his memories intact, but gains a new weakness to potatoes; Carl puts him in his carrier.
- Book 8 · Ch 59Preparing the karaoke duet
Carl and Donut prepare to sing 'Take on Me' to gain guild entry, with potions, a scroll, Mongo watching and a packed bar.
- Book 8 · Ch 60Brawl at the Lollipop
Dwight's attack sparks a bar-wide fight and a fire; Imani knocks Dwight out, Mongo and Dong join in, and Louis and Britney put out the flames.
- 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 89Mitch dies
Pinned by Donut's missiles, Mitch reveals the mimics wanted crawlers for the Cabaret, then lunges; Carl's Eye freezes him and Donut kills him.
- Book 8 · Ch 97Carl's farewell to Donut
At the arena door, Carl hugs Donut, tells her he loves her and sends her and the pets to the RV; Tipid is replaced by sluggalo drivers.
- Book 8 · Ch 102The wrong pet biscuit
Donut confesses an inventory mistake: she gave Carl the wrong pet biscuit, and Scolopendra emerges not as a pet but as a level 1 crawler who joins the party.