Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
Names: Princess Donut the Queen Anne ChonkPrincess DonutDonutGC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne ChonkPrincessGrand Champion Best in Dungeon Princess DonutYour Royal HighnessYour HighnessHer Royal Majesty Princess DonutCrawler Princess DonutPrincess Donut the Level 13 Former Child Actor CatPrincess Money BagsPrincess Money PitCrawler Grand Champion Best in Dungeon Princess DonutPrincess Donut of the Blood Sultanatelassielittle DonutMayor DonutCrawler DonutCo-Warlord Princess Donutthe catWarlord DonutkittenWarlord Princess DonutThe Champion of NekhebitEpitome Tagg's Sexy MotherThe Champion of Nekhebit, Harbinger of Doom, Assassin of the Great and Feral Sekhmet, Princess DonutOak Fell Champion of Nekhebit
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 1Donut is Beatrice's prize-winning tortoiseshell Persian show cat, left in Carl's care until Beatrice returns.
- Ch 2Donut is Crawler #4,119, 'Princess Donut', race Cat, and sees the dungeon's interface just as Carl does.
- Ch 4Carl and Donut entered together, so the system automatically grouped them as a party of two.
- Ch 5Donut snatches the Enhanced Pet Biscuit from Carl's hand and transforms into a quivering blob of flesh.
- Ch 6After her transformation, Donut can speak, in a sultry, pompous female voice, and immediately criticises Carl's outfit.
- Ch 7Donut insists on her full title, 'GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk', accepting 'Princess Donut' for now.
- Ch 7Donut is now a regular crawler, not a pet, with a Charisma of 25 that affects NPCs and mobs but not crawlers.
- Ch 7Donut learns Magic Missile from a tome and treats Carl as her manservant.
- Ch 7Donut puts on the crown before Mordecai can finish warning her, because it is purple.
- Ch 7Donut declares Carl must help her reach the 18th level so she can resume her rightful place as liege.
- Ch 8Donut reveals that Carl had been looking at cat-friendly apartments, secretly planning to keep her rather than return her.
- Ch 8Donut suggests exploiting the system's apparent fondness for Carl's feet to make things easier on them.
- Ch 9Donut is determined to get on the show and wants a catchphrase and stylish kills.
- Ch 10Donut's Magic Missile can stun Scatterers and sometimes inflicts Sepsis, killing them shortly after.
- Ch 11Donut refuses to help the Hoarder and attacks immediately, and avoids melee even when Carl is being bitten.
- Ch 12Donut believes Beatrice is alive and expects to find her around the fifth or sixth floor; Carl doesn't contradict her.
- Ch 13Donut admits she's scared to fight with her claws in case something hits her back.
- Ch 13Donut learned much of her pop culture from the TV Carl and Beatrice left on while at work.
- Ch 14Donut is outraged they got no screen time and wants to hunt a city boss; Carl insists they focus on finding the stairs.
- Ch 15With 37 charisma, Donut can talk non-hostile, non-boss mobs into almost anything on the early floors, as Mordecai told her.
- Ch 15Donut names a goblin B.A., and charms two Goblin Shamankas into tearful confession, naming them Rory and Lorelai.
- Ch 16Donut has the goblins pad and paint her sidecar seat purple.
- Ch 16Donut tells the goblins the meth came from the llamas, deliberately starting a war between goblins and llamas.
- Ch 17Donut worries whether Rory and Lorelai will be angry about the attack on their chieftain.
- Ch 18Donut is unbothered by the dead goblin babies, blaming the goblins for keeping them in a boss room.
- Ch 18Donut's charisma reaches 39 at level 8, though Carl doubts it can calm the returning goblins.
- Ch 18Donut admits she likes it a lot when Carl blows things up.
- Ch 19Donut is enraged by her Desperado Pass tattoo, calling it a disqualifying mark that damages her as a show cat.
- Ch 23Donut has 18 strength, twice Carl's, but refuses to fight with her claws because it isn't ladylike.
- Ch 24Donut finally uses her claws, biting through the Juicer's neck vein to save Carl, and is nearly killed by his backhand.
- Ch 24Recovering, Donut melodramatically fakes dying and asks Carl to tell Ferdinand she loved him.
- Ch 25Donut's low constitution gives her long potion cooldowns and low health, so Mordecai advises against her melee attacks for now.
- Ch 27Donut proposes they keep their own party but protect the Meadow Lark group, fetching them when they find the next stairs.
- Ch 28Donut charms the audience, claiming cats have an elective monarchy, and promises viewers she and Carl will kill with style.
- Ch 29Odette admits Donut's cat treats were dosed to temporarily raise her wisdom and confidence for the interview.
- Ch 30Donut hates dogs, killing the dingoes in a frenzy, and can sense monsters moments before Carl's map shows them.
- Ch 31Donut is thrilled by her first followers; Carl warns that obsessing over the cameras could get them killed.
- Ch 33With charisma 43, Donut charms the two winged laminak managers but cannot turn the wingless clurichauns' dots white.
- Ch 34Thinking they may die, Donut tells Carl she loves him, though less than Miss Beatrice or Ferdinand.
- Ch 34Donut admits she lied about being fine alone and begs Carl not to sacrifice himself.
- Ch 36Donut bonds with Zev over Gossip Girl, defusing the tension.
- Ch 41Princess Donut briefly saw a 'Racial benefits' tab in her menu before it disappeared; Carl has nothing similar.
- Ch 44Princess Donut overheard Mordecai advise Carl to leave her when they reach the ninth floor.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 1Princess Donut instantly chooses to remain a cat, which keeps her form but grants new racial benefits.
- Ch 1Princess Donut has only 34 class choices, limited by her cat race, stats, Desperado pass and tiara.
- Ch 1Princess Donut pretends to pick Artist Alley Mogul but actually becomes a Former Child Actor, with Artist Alley Mogul as her third-floor specialty.
- Ch 2As a cat, Princess Donut gains Night Vision, Slash Attack, Cat-like Reflexes and 9 Lives, but her Constitution stays dangerously low.
- Ch 5Princess Donut's Earth box holds a Sea Breeze candle, a cat tree and a hobby potion that makes her a scutelliphile.
- Ch 5Princess Donut kills a lemur sentry by stealth, though her jingling charm nearly gives her away.
- Ch 6Donut refuses Signet's touch and tells her they want nothing to do with her quarrel.
- Ch 7Donut uses Second Chance to raise slain Mold Lions as undead minions and turns them on the other lions.
- Ch 11While Carl is at the circus, Donut's health drops below 20%.
- Ch 12Donut's Cockroach skill keeps her alive when her health hits zero.
- Ch 12Donut warns that the show's producers may try to kill them if they upstage Signet, the main character.
- Ch 12Donut is indignant that the nightclub won't admit Mongo and vows to see about it.
- Ch 14Donut is a master negotiator with shopkeepers and chose the Artist Alley Merchant class via Character Actor to boost selling prices.
- Ch 14Donut levels up to 16 after the Dispenser fight, while Mongo reaches level 11.
- Ch 15Donut gets drunk on a Dirty Shirley, Beatrice's favourite drink, and is sobered by Quint's Hair of the Dog potion.
- Ch 17Donut insists on finishing GumGum's quest because GumGum was probably killed because they took it.
- Ch 17Donut's fan box holds a framed photo of Beatrice in a bikini on her ex Brad's lap, the photo that made Carl break up with her.
- Ch 17Donut declares that she, Carl and Mongo will finish GumGum's quest, and Mordecai doesn't stop them.
- Ch 18Donut heals the unconscious Carl and, with Mongo, kills the Shambling Berserkers once the darkness lifts.
- Ch 18Donut proposes a new rule: no throwing explosives while blinded.
- Ch 19Asked whether she would leave Carl for Bea, Donut assumes they would all work together as before, leaving Carl uneasy.
- Ch 21The recap show falsely frames Donut's bar remarks as a challenge to Lucia Mar's dogs, Cici and Gustavo 3.
- Ch 21Donut suggests using the bugged letter to taunt and bait the killer; Carl and Donut stage a fake conversation to lure him to the office.
- Ch 23Donut plans to form a TV writing team with Zev, hoping good shows might wean audiences off real-life killing.
- Ch 23Donut refuses to stay outside, reminding Carl he promised she wouldn't die alone.
- Ch 24Donut lists their growing enemies: Lucia Mar, Maggie My and the Maestro's father.
- Ch 24Facing death, Donut confesses she isn't as dumb as she pretends and says, 'I know she's dead.'
- Ch 24Donut says she doesn't want to become an NPC.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 1Forced by her Character Actor skill to pick a new class, Donut becomes a Football Hooligan on Mordecai's advice.
- Ch 2Donut haggles the Bopca Wendita from 50,000 down to the system minimum of 37,500 gold for a personal space, training her Negotiation.
- Ch 2Donut gets a new tiara, the Enchanted Tiara of Mana Genita, and learns the spell Hole, which makes temporary holes in surfaces.
- Ch 2Donut's Charisma is 94, and Mordecai says reaching 100 will change a lot.
- Ch 5Princess Donut's suitcase is a trap that releases a swarm of Literal Fire Ants.
- Ch 7Princess Donut drinks two Superb Constitution Buff Potions, raising her base Constitution to eight.
- Ch 8Princess Donut is attacked on the Desperado Club dance floor and survives only because her Cockroach skill activates.
- Ch 8Princess Donut kills a human crawler who attacked her, earning a player-killer skull beside her name.
- Ch 9Princess Donut is deeply upset at having killed a real person and earning a skull, fearing people will no longer like her.
- Ch 10Princess Donut brushes off her first human kill with bravado in front of Katia.
- Ch 10Princess Donut tries to ride Mongo using the magic saddle, but he repeatedly bucks her off.
- Ch 14Princess Donut tells Carl he keeps forcing Katia to change without asking her; Carl admits she is right.
- Ch 14Princess Donut, terrified Carl had been killed, makes him promise never to do that to her again.
- Ch 15Donut reaches level 30, her charisma hits 100, and she gains the Love Vampire ability on Mordecai's earlier advice.
- Ch 16With buffs raising her spell points to 52, Donut can finally read the Minion Army tome, and does so without waiting for Mordecai.
- Ch 17Donut climbs the chain to the tower, works the turntable controls, and accidentally opens the yard gate, then Puddle Jumps back.
- Ch 18Katia saw Donut secretly discard a PVP Coupon bearing Carl's name, but Donut would have received one for every party member.
- Ch 18Donut had quietly sought Imani's advice about her PVP coupons, which Carl sees as a mature choice that still shifts their dynamic.
- Ch 20Donut tells Carl she discarded both PVP coupons, burying his under a track and throwing Katia's in the trash.
- Ch 22Through her sunglasses, Donut sees Hekla shoot Katia twice with invisible arrows mixed in with her regular bolts.
- Ch 23Donut, who idolised Hekla, is furious at her betrayal and offers Katia a place with them forever.
- Ch 24Donut raises Hekla's corpse with Second Chance and triples it with Clockwork Triplicate to drive off Eva and the daughters.
- Ch 28Donut resents giving away the valuable train hats because she wants to buy the social media board.
- Ch 31Donut spends her last Puddle Jump of the floor teleporting Carl and Katia back to safety.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 1Donut becomes a Glass Cannon on Mordecai's advice but, due to Character Actor's risk, misses its plus 15 constitution bonus.
- Ch 2Donut flatly refuses to swim after receiving a Scroll of Water Breathing; she also learns Wall of Fire.
- Ch 4Donut's earth hobby skill is Scutelliphily, which nobody Carl has asked can explain.
- Ch 7Donut's new sponsor is Veriluxx RealPet Companions; Loita says Donut drew the highest sponsorship bid in the series' history.
- Ch 8Donut receives another, bronze, box from Princess D'Nadia, and awaits a prototype from her new sponsor after the bombing.
- Ch 9Donut steals Skarn's Gnomish farseer telescope from his roof while Carl distracts him, and 'forgets' to leave payment.
- Ch 9Using her upgraded sunglasses, Donut notices two of the town's gate guards differ from the others.
- Ch 9Donut worries she contributed nothing to the fight and fears falling off the top ten, as Katia already has.
- Ch 11Donut poses as a famed healer, offering to cure Wynne with a potion that is really Mountain Dew, in exchange for passage aboard.
- Ch 12Donut casts Hole under the Vahana's basket, dropping Leon, Crixus and Hicks to their deaths, and reaches level 34, then 35.
- Ch 12Donut is worried by Zev's oddly formal manner after Zev's return.
- Ch 13Donut urges Carl to indulge the AI's wishes, since his stubbornness makes everything more dangerous.
- Ch 13Donut recalls Beatrice once made Carl sleep on the couch hoping a big fight would prompt a proposal.
- Ch 13Donut is thrilled to have her own merch, and must review the Veriluxx toy on a television program in a few days.
- Ch 14Donut casts Hole to drop Chris into a sealed chamber below the street, sparing Carl from killing his friend.
- Ch 15Donut names her robot doll Ivy on Zev's suggestion, still worried about Zev's well-being.
- Ch 15Princess Donut is frightened of heights after having already fallen from the sky once.
- Ch 16Carl and Princess Donut are hailed for taking the Commandant's throne room, liberating the Air Quadrant.
- Ch 17Carl promises a tearful Donut that they will see Zev again.
- Ch 22Donut drags the buried Carl free by biting his foot.
- Ch 22Donut is impaled by a glass shard and knocked unconscious in the flood but survives thanks to Carl's healing.
- Ch 23Donut cannot swim and panics in the water; Carl recalls once being badly scratched for giving her a bath on Earth.
- Ch 23A Pacifist's Box raises Donut's Dodge skill to 10, giving her a permanent Deflection buff that halves missile accuracy against her.
- Ch 25Donut is upset by a viewer, Shuruga36, who called her irredeemable and insulted Mongo; she reaches level 38 from the chum bombs.
- Ch 29From the flying house, Donut casts Heal Critter on Orthrus to keep the puppy's falling health topped up.
- Ch 31Donut is burned to 5% health by Emberus's heat during the fall, and Carl heals her with a scroll.
- Ch 31Donut, shaken after the fall, tells Carl she thinks he is genuinely crazy, then purrs as he holds her.
- Ch 32Donut's platinum quest box gives her Twinkle Toes, a spell that makes Mongo or other minions run very fast.
- Ch 34Donut, a level-39 Former Child Actor, ranks fourth on the top ten list.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 1Princess Donut chooses the Legendary Diva bard class for Floor 6, casting spells by singing, and avoided taking a permanent class on Mordecai's advice.
- Ch 2Princess Donut uses magic missiles to reveal and kill the invisible weasels, saving Carl while he is paralyzed.
- Ch 4Donut is badly tone-deaf, so her bard spells are weak until she finds an item with a Golden Throat enchantment.
- Ch 5Donut tries to cast the bard spell Entourage while riding Carl's shoulder but can't read the lyrics while he runs.
- Ch 6Donut earned her first Hunter Killer symbol, a red upward dagger, for a magic missile kill.
- Ch 7Donut tells Mordecai she won't abandon Carl despite his reckless plan, but Carl must share plans with her from now on.
- Ch 8Donut is determined to enter Mongo in the Butcher's Masquerade's pet beauty contest and wants to start training immediately.
- Ch 9Donut objects to using Bomo as a suicide bomber and proposes making a clockwork Bomo instead, which needs her in a saferoom.
- Ch 10Donut pushes Mayor Elmer down the riverbank with Astral Paw, killing him and gaining credit, so she will gain control of the town.
- Ch 11Donut is horrified that Mongo mated with Kiwi, blames Carl's influence, and vows to reinstate Point Mongo's no-dinosaur rule.
- Ch 12Donut has a panic attack after Mongo runs off, fearing that everyone leaves her: Katia left, and Carl takes ever-greater risks.
- Ch 12Donut hints she is pretending not to know something she learned from the social media board, and Zev interrupts as if to warn her off.
- Ch 16Donut's attempt to cast Standing Ovation by singing fails; Holger tells her she sings out of tune and needs lessons.
- Ch 18Donut overrules Carl and agrees to a reunion with Beatrice on Odette's show, asking Carl to trust her.
- Ch 19Donut tells Beatrice she knew Beatrice planned to give her away, and declares Carl is her person now.
- Ch 19Donut appears to have known the ownership change was coming, whispering "She did it" and "Viva la revolución."
- Ch 20Donut reveals she smuggled Valtay secret agents to Zev and the Borant Emancipation Front.
- Ch 23Donut tells Carl his growing anger and gruesome killing scares her; he promises to kill hunters cleanly from now on.
- Ch 27Donut's Fireball burns a hole into Claude's belly after Carl's Protective Shell launches the boss into the air.
- Ch 29Donut is convinced Signet wants to sleep with Carl, warns this always spells doom, and forbids Carl to be alone with her.
- Ch 30Zev says Donut fought Lucia Mar and is safe in the guildhall.
- Ch 33Donut reports that the mantis hunters and big-hatted aliens wait outside in the town.
- Ch 35Donut says her fight with Lucia will be shown in full on the upcoming recap episode.
- Ch 37Donut fights off Lucia and her dogs alone, using Entourage illusions, invisibility and Hole to escape a snare.
- Ch 39Donut reaches level 45 grinding poisonous whip crackers, while Carl stays at level 56.
- Ch 39Carl concludes Donut knows exactly how lucky she was against Lucia but won't say it aloud.
- Ch 43Donut approved the anti-cocker-spaniel shirt and says about 700 Princess Posse chapters exist.
- Ch 43Donut flatly refuses to let anyone drain Mongo's blood, saying it would betray his trust.
- Ch 46Donut drains a liter of blood from a sedated Mongo outside the saferoom so Mordecai can brew a Charm Animal potion.
- Ch 46Donut's Fireball kills the dryad mayor and sets half the dryad town and nearby forest ablaze, claiming the town.
- Ch 46Donut's light spell reaches level 14 and sets the vampire boss's head on fire like sunlight.
- Ch 48Donut notices the dungeon AI now refers to itself as 'I' more often than before.
- Ch 49Donut only truly controls Kiwi, who in turn commands her own pack of raptors.
- Ch 51Acting as spotter for Carl's trebuchet, Donut gets credit for killing an Odious Creeper and reaches level 47.
- Ch 52Donut refuses to leave the floor early, insisting she is over Ferdinand and must focus on being Mongo's mother.
- Ch 55Carl bribes Donut with Pawna's Cries to wear a constitution-boosting nipple ring, claiming it is for her Magic Missile.
- Ch 56Donut is accepted into both the pet beauty contest and the talent show, planning to sing with Kiwi and Tina as backup dancers.
- Ch 58Donut blackmails Clarabelle over a 100-gold refund discrepancy into revealing a secret stairwell to the Hunting Grounds level.
- Ch 61Donut reaches level 50, but Carl's base stats are catching up, threatening her control of their party.
- Ch 68Donut ignores Carl's 'low key' instruction and stages a loud, choreographed pet-show act with music, smoke bombs and pyrotechnics.
- Ch 70Donut's tiara doubles her charisma to 276, enough to charm province boss Ferdinand, and she begins charming him.
- Ch 74Donut boosts Laundry Day to 15 with Carl's Pawna's Tears potion and strips Diwata away from Circe Took.
- Ch 75Donut asks why she can't feel the deaths properly; Carl tells her it's a protective mask she'll remove someday, and she finally cries.
- Ch 75Donut is a member of the Blood Sultanate's royal line of succession, complicating her faction wars role.
- Ch 76Donut is now the dungeon's top-ranked crawler and hastily picks the Viper Queen class, which shoots poison blobs.
- Ch 76As squad leader, Donut picks a Caribbean starting location for the eighth floor that is not the Bahamas, despite Carl's lore book.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 1Donut writes a fan club newsletter recapping the sixth and seventh floors for The Princess Posse fans.
- Ch 3Princess Donut chose Cuba as the starting region, believing the Bahamas book was a trap, and lost her number one leaderboard spot.
- Ch 3On Mordecai's advice, Princess Donut becomes a Master Telephone Psychic, gaining a bigger map and charm spells like Bad Attitude and Brain Freeze.
- Ch 4A skill potion raises Princess Donut's Love Vampire skill from three to six and lets it cast automatically in some situations.
- Ch 4Princess Donut learns Legionnaires of the Damned; Mordecai says combined with Laundry Day she can turn mobs' own armor against them.
- Ch 5Princess Donut is outraged that squads on this floor get flags designed for them rather than designing their own.
- Ch 6Princess Donut claims the Experience's magical red beret.
- Ch 7A broadcast clip showed Princess Donut telling Anaconda she would kill any cat girl she met, frightening Sister Ines's group.
- Ch 8Princess Donut is now a master telephone psychic, after being a legendary diva bard on the previous floor.
- Ch 9Princess Donut likes Paz and tolerates Anton but distrusts Sister Ines, sensing something weird about her.
- Ch 11Princess Donut, as squad leader, holds the deck; drawn cards float before her face until she shrinks them.
- Ch 13Princess Donut refuses to flag the stinking Asojano and now considers Sister Ines unstable and dangerous.
- Ch 13Princess Donut angrily opposes letting Tserendolgor's party join the guild; Imani suggests voting on new members.
- Ch 16Donut's autotuned song boosts the party's dexterity, but a botched rhyme cancels it and mutes her for five minutes.
- Ch 19Yemaya gives Donut The Thief, a mythical mystic card that lets her steal a card from someone else.
- Ch 22Donut sent Sister Ines threatening messages, and Sister Ines blocked her.
- Ch 23At the Faction Wars meeting, Donut introduces herself and Carl as co-warlords of the Princess Posse, the third team.
- Ch 24Donut now wears the Tiara of Mana Genita and plans to have her Flawless Jeweler's Gem installed in it.
- Ch 24Donut collects hundreds of hats, decorating their personal space and dressing Mongo in them.
- Ch 26Donut loves her new Hover skill, claiming she can fly like Wonder Woman, and keeps wasting uses.
- Ch 36Donut added the totem Jola to their deck and used the Combo and Glow-Up cards to permanently merge two problem cards into a new totem.
- Ch 37Donut proposed renaming Crown Prince Stalwart 'Captain Enormous'; the system rejected the item.
- Ch 39As squad leader, Donut alone enters the choosing chamber, picks Miami, and wins her first card fight against Robert the Human.
- Ch 40Donut wears Robert the Human's sailor hat, which shortens her card-draw countdown by two seconds.
- Ch 42Donut confides she fears losing Carl, dislikes leading the deck, and grieves that Katia is being lost while no one talks about it.
- Ch 44Donut used The Thief to steal one of Sharp-Elbows' Unk Tehi Temple Guard totems, which then fought its brother.
- Ch 44Donut rescued the badly wounded Carl with Puddle Jump just before the rest of the barn fell into the ocean.
- Ch 45Donut looted Sharp-Elbows' deck, gaining the reusable necro staff card, which holds one of her spells, and a unique Golden Combo card.
- Ch 45Donut offers to face the final key fight alone to spare Carl, because she has realized who the opponent is.
- Ch 46Donut tries to distract Carl and offers that he needn't go into the trailer, but agrees to wait outside.
- Ch 48Donut is enraged when the hydra heads repeatedly call her fat, and reveals Miss Beatrice got Sally fired.
- Ch 49Carl and Donut reject all four of the hydra's totems, but Alpha Male Carl and Leveled-Up Frank add themselves to Donut's deck anyway.
- Ch 52Princess Donut gets drunk and passes out at the Christmas party, her first time drinking since getting her player killer skull.
- Ch 55Princess Donut mocks Carl's motorcycle as a biker cliché, preferring the custom goblin copper chopper.
- Ch 57Princess Donut chooses to treat Sister Ines as an ally on Carl's instruction, risking giving her a ten-second head start.
- Ch 58Princess Donut blames herself for losing the key, fearing Imani will die because of her.
- Ch 60Princess Donut gets credit for killing Quan Ch, a top-10 crawler with over sixty player killer skulls, and receives both keys.
- Ch 62Princess Donut now bears a golden player killer skull from Quan's death.
- Ch 64Princess Donut refuses to go down the stairs without Carl, declaring that the Princess Posse leaves nobody behind.
- Ch 67Princess Donut casts Minion Army for the first time, enhanced by Imani and Samantha, turning some demons and birds against each other.
- Ch 69Princess Donut calls herself the reigning champion Persian cat in the galaxy and a warlord of the Princess Posse Faction Wars team.
- Ch 69Princess Donut uses Force Discard to clear Amayon's last card, which Ysalte was preventing him from playing.
- Ch 70Donut casts Why Are You Hitting Yourself on Amayon, making the giant demon punch himself in the face.
- Ch 74Donut rips Shi Maria's card after the battle, but the quest to bring Shi Maria to a city remains.
- Ch 74Donut receives her first celestial benefactor box, from the garbage truck company.
- Ch 74Donut doesn't want Katia to eat the flower and go away.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 4Donut accepts Team Retribution's truce offer without consulting Carl, letting the Princess Posse remain in Larracos.
- Ch 4Donut becomes a Deathbed Hellcat, a long-range sniper and assassin class.
- Ch 4Donut insists Carl fix his baldness and missing eyebrows, saying he looks both alert and angry.
- Ch 6Donut learns the Shield spell and prepares to put on the Cloak of the Benevolent Champion.
- Ch 6Donut puts on the Cloak of the Benevolent Champion, along with her new tiara and sunglasses.
- Ch 9Donut feels betrayed by Carl's new pet and wants to give the tummy acher away to someone without a pet.
- Ch 16Donut's garbage truck sponsorship was canceled due to a conflict of interest, with an auction planned for a new one.
- Ch 20Donut, Mongo, Griffin and Morales were Skanked; Donut obtained Fancy Boy's hat, which reeks.
- Ch 29Donut is fascinated by Boomer and nervous about the upcoming assault on the Naga territory.
- Ch 30Donut promises a prize to whichever soldier brings her the most dead enemies, believing in positive reinforcement.
- Ch 30Donut admits she is scared but says fear now feels numb and hits her more after a fight ends.
- Ch 35Donut begs Carl to throw away the Ring of Divine Suffering because it's changing him and scaring her.
- Ch 37Donut's Legendary 1914 box gave her a bleeding, crying spellbook called War Crime.
- Ch 38Donut spots invisible enemies with her glasses' heat setting and kills one with her spell Hole.
- Ch 40Carl worries Donut is maturing in battle yet growing more stubborn and snippy in private.
- Ch 47Donut advises the AI that actions matter more than words, and to stay out of it until it knows whether the 'prisoner' is good or bad.
- Ch 48Donut taunts War Chief Stalwart in chat, refusing to return Rust's body and claiming she turned his skin into a rug.
- Ch 50Donut dislikes being separated from Carl, which the plan to take the Naga castle requires through subterfuge.
- Ch 53Donut stalls the meeting by demanding a Princess Posse TV channel, then turns on Vinata once she connects Blood Hunter to Miriam Dom's death.
- Ch 66Donut's Tiara of a Thousand Lights now holds 35 of 99 skills and upgrades, including Perfect Night Vision.
- Ch 66Donut enters the Nest tower for the first time riding on the Sledge's shoulder; the plan depends on her.
- Ch 69Donut bought a deluxe wireless PA system for the towers that interfaces with her headset.
- Ch 70Rosetta hands command of the southern campaign against the Dream to Donut.
- Ch 71With her tiara and the Nest's height, Donut can snipe anything she can see with long-range spells like Magic Missile.
- Ch 76Donut committed an atrocity, sweeping Meatus and an unconscious Eris into her rolling ball of people.
- Ch 77Donut distracts Harpocrates by taunting him over the PA and blasting bass-heavy songs, starting a battle playlist.
- Ch 81Donut casts a tower-enhanced You're Not Done Yet, turning thousands of corpses into fleshers that swarm the ball.
- Ch 82Donut is suddenly trapped in the Nest tower by a net, as a crawler woman with a dog breaks in and kills its defenders.
- Ch 85Sniping from the Nest for hours, Donut rose from level 65 to 74, and her Magic Missile reached level 15.
- Ch 86Donut agrees to the tattoo after Carl calls it a badge of honor, on condition that he gets a matching one.
- Ch 87Donut can now choose to worship Wepwawet, and also Odette.
- Ch 87Donut feels responsible for Li Jun's death after his sister Li Na blamed her.
- Ch 87Donut reveals she secretly received a benefactor box and has a plan with Katia that Bautista must not hear about.
- Ch 88Casting War Crime, Donut commits a third Atrocity, gains a new class, is titled The Oak Fell and named Champion of Nekhebit.
- Ch 89After War Crime, Donut jumps to level 135; Mordecai calls her possibly the most powerful crawler in the game's history.
- Ch 89Donut's Oak Fell class and champion title come with deity spells and add to her original class.
- Ch 89As Nekhebit's champion, Donut needn't worship Nekhebit but may not worship anyone outside her court.
- Ch 92Donut's Brain Trust benefit makes her spells act a level higher, so her Magic Missile now evaporates targets.
- Ch 96Because of the Crown of the Sepsis Whore, Donut can't leave the floor until Katia is taken away.
- Ch 98Donut uses Laundry Day to rip Huanxin out of Eileithyia, then kills her with Katia's crossbow and Mordecai's bolt.
- Ch 98Eileithyia calls Donut champion of Nekhebit, harbinger of doom.
- Ch 99Donut vows that they will never break her, no matter how hard they try.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 2Donut declines all deals because Carl is declining, then tells Chandra she pities her and that the Princess Posse is everywhere.
- Ch 2Donut publicly 'not offers' fifty million credits for anyone to kill Chandra, plus five million to make her head into a hat.
- Ch 2Donut says she would cancel the bounty if Chandra stopped trying to steal from the Princess Posse.
- Ch 3Donut is back as party leader and number one on the leaderboard.
- Ch 3Donut picks the class Assassin of Sekhmet, tied to her deity titles, which gives accessories for every pet in the party.
- Ch 3Donut chooses a mechanical vehicle so it will never try to eat Mongo.
- Ch 6Donut, now level 135 and the number one crawler, lets the audience vote on the fate of her special guest kill.
- Ch 6Donut suspects Team Free Love are not real hippies and that something suspicious is going on.
- Ch 7After Team Sparkles insult her as 'fatty' and run over the trailer, Donut vows to set them on fire next race.
- Ch 8Donut must drive heat two because each heat needs a different driver, and she cannot reach the controls.
- Ch 9Mordecai's prophecy tells Donut a sacrifice might save her, the darkest decision ever made.
- Ch 10Donut's celestial godslayer box, from killing the god Meatus with War Crime, permanently empowers her paw, which rips a table in half.
- Ch 11Donut receives a permanent celestial boon: the claws on her right front paw glow blue and can cut anything in the mortal realm, even ghosts.
- Ch 11Donut's Claw skill jumps to level 17, making her one of the most powerful melee fighters in the game's history.
- Ch 13Donut complains to Zev about the bootleg makeup and insists she be consulted on all merchandise deals.
- Ch 18Donut's biscuit gave her the Enhanced Growth benefit, keeping her wholly a cat; Prepotente got Smarty-Pants and an upright form.
- Ch 18Donut forbids Prepotente from using the Paramour biscuit and promises to talk with him every day to answer his questions.
- Ch 27Donut has several older brothers sold off by the Queen Anne Cattery, including Charleston Chew, sent to Australia.
- Ch 30Donut says she cannot cast War Crime again until the twelfth floor.
- Ch 33Donut casts a mile-long, hundred-foot-tall Wall of Fire alongside the truck to hold back the sugar hermits.
- Ch 34Donut chains Temporary Macaroni, a spell from her Banquet book, to build a protective tunnel of giant dried pasta tubes.
- Ch 38Donut wonders whether their card friend Raul could be made permanent too, recalling Paz's card being ripped on the eighth floor.
- Ch 42Donut insults Osvaldo deliberately, saying it is easier to keep disliking him since only one team can survive.
- Ch 45Donut can combine Astral Paw with Bijanbi and cast both at once; she claims her dog tattoo bit her.
- Ch 46Donut coaxes Jamal down, telling him he is part of the family and they will help him.
- Ch 48Donut's charisma is now high enough that she can cast All Eyes on Me with spoken words instead of a song.
- Ch 48Donut distracts the Tigrans by giving Penelope rambling relationship advice while charming them with All Eyes on Me.
- Ch 50Donut despises hedgehogs; as a kitten she lost a Cutest in Show contest to a baby hedgehog named Jezebel.
- Ch 56Donut and Carl plan a karaoke duet to gain access to a guild; Prepotente will try singing 'In the Air Tonight'.
- Ch 57Donut says the prize lets them bring two people to the eleventh floor, and fears Carl means to harm her friend Prime Minister Victory.
- Ch 60Donut fails her performance when a paralyzed Dekoki falls on her during her last line.
- Ch 72Donut is refusing to speak to Carl because his plan has him leave the party on Floor 11.
- Ch 73Donut calls Carl's plan an elaborate suicide that pits immortals against each other, and resents that he doesn't trust her Cockroach skill.
- Ch 86Donut crushes the fleeing Russian crawlers' Cadillac with Astral Paw, gaining three player-killer skulls.
- Ch 88With Li Na gone, Carl considers Donut by far the strongest crawler in the dungeon.
- Ch 90Donut uses Dwight's looted keys to transfer the mounts Onikuma the bear and Old Shuck the dog to their garage for the parade.
- Ch 92Donut says Carl's wife tried to accept a deal on her behalf before fleeing on a notification.
- Ch 92Donut chooses the Elite Gurkha Warrior class, a melee warrior with a Perpetual Tank subclass that boosts pets and mercenaries.
- Ch 93Donut gains a legendary box for spotting the shadow mimic, and a Legendary Steed upgrade letting Mongo pull a cart.
- Ch 94Donut's Gurkha class gives mercenaries and pets Gurkha hats boosting melee skills, and Mongo kukri claw caps.
- Ch 94When Carl leaves the party, Donut's own title also disappears, and she can't add a new one.
- Ch 100Donut swaps places with Penny via Lucia's trap, then pins Emberus with Katia's Bolt of Ophiotaurus, making him vulnerable and immobile.
Connections
- related toBeatriceBeatrice's show catPrincess was Beatrice's cat
- ally ofCarlparty members
- leadsThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- member ofThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- related toBlood Sultanatein the royal line of succession via the crown
- related toTallytreats her as royalty
- friend ofRory
- partner ofFerdinandDonut claims to love him
- friend ofZev
- member ofBlood Sultanatein the royal line of succession via the crown
- related toMongochose as her petbonded pet
- related toMordecaimanager
- family ofPrincess Chonkalotgrandmother
- enemy ofTucker
- enemy of201st Security Group
- enemy ofLucia Mar
- enemy ofMaggie My
- ally ofElle McGibbons
- related toPrincess D'nadiasponsor
- friend ofThe Sledge
- related toPrincess PosseDonut's fan base
- enemy ofHekla
- enemy ofTserendolgor
- related toVeriluxx RealPet Companionssponsor
- enemy ofLeon the Commissar
- related toZevsocial media manager
- related toLoitain charge of public appearances
- enemy ofQuan Ch
- ally ofMordecaiadvises her on class choice
- related toBardher class
- leadsLarge Ursine Settlement
- friend ofCarl
- related toThe ApothecaryDonut's third sponsor
- ally ofBorant Emancipation Front
- related toTserendolgorresents her for stealing experience
- related toKiwiKiwi is Princess Donut's charmed minion
- ally ofBritney ProskurinaDonut's plus-one
- related toFerdinandcharmed minion
- leadsPrincess Posseco-warlord
- ally ofPrepotente
- related toKatia Grimonly one may descend to the tenth floor
- ally ofZev
- friend ofKatia Grim
- enemy ofCrown Prince Stalwart
- related toLong Haul Biological Waste Management Solutionsnew sponsor
- enemy ofPrincess D'nadia
- createdLazarus-A-Bang-Bang
- related toJolaJola is a totem in Donut's deck
- ally ofShi Mariatotem
- related toGeraldoher Monk Seal totem
- member ofPrincess Posse
- related toBanjostolen totem fighting for her
- ally ofMongo
- related toSystem AIsought her relationship advice
- enemy ofThe Sultana
- enemy ofHarpocrates
- ally ofToyotomi
- related toRaulDonut's summonable card
- ally ofKatia Grim
- related toCourt of Nekhebitnamed Champion of Nekhebit
- ally ofLi Na
- friend ofZhang
- enemy ofHuanxin Jinx
- related toNekhebitchampion of
- related toPrincess Chandraher lawyer
- enemy ofPrincess Chandraher attorney, exploiting her
- related toHedygarage mechanic for Donut's party
- related toKhepriforming a death cult in her name
- enemy ofMiss Talulahkilled her
- enemy ofTeam Sparkles
- enemy ofMeatuskilled him
- friend ofPrepotente
- friend ofDaniel Bautista 2
- friend ofLouis Santiago 2
- family ofCharleston Chewbrother
- related toDorotaDonut's pet chair
- related toOnikumatook the mount for the parade
- related toOld Shucktook the mount for the parade
- related toTome of Gatekeeperowns
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The transformation
At 2:23 AM every building and interior on Earth is crushed, killing everyone indoors. Carl, outside retrieving Donut, survives as his apartment building collapses.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Carl runs for the entrance
Freezing and with nowhere to shelter, Carl carries Donut toward a warm, lit dungeon entrance that appeared in a former thrift store.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Entering the dungeon
Carl and Donut descend to Floor 1, are assigned crawler numbers and showered with achievements and loot boxes they can't yet open.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Murder Dozer ambush
Following a sign to 'Da Tutorial Guild', Carl walks into a goblin trap and flees a Goblin Murder Dozer down the tunnels.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Reaching Mordecai's guild
Carl kills a goblin barehanded; Donut slips inside, and Mordecai lets Carl into the Tutorial Guild just before the dozer arrives.
- Book 1 · Ch 3Mordecai explains himself
Mordecai reveals he is a former crawler, a skyfowl turned Changeling, and begins explaining the dungeon to Carl.
- Book 1 · Ch 4The tutorial begins
Mordecai grants Carl the Crawler Menu and walks him through the map, stats, ratings, health, skills, magic and party menus.
- Book 1 · Ch 5Donut eats the Enhanced Pet Biscuit
While Carl weighs selling it, Donut eats the Enhanced Pet Biscuit and begins a transformation that Mordecai says will take several minutes.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Donut speaks
Donut emerges from her transformation able to talk, and scolds Carl for wearing the cloak without pants.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Donut becomes a crawler
The Enhanced Pet Biscuit leaves Donut a talking cat with boosted stats, reclassified from pet to full crawler.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Donut dons the Sepsis crown
Donut opens her boxes, learns Magic Missile and equips the Enchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whore, binding her to the Blood Sultanate's succession.
- Book 1 · Ch 7The Royal Court is formed
Donut names the party The Royal Court of Princess Donut and makes Carl her Royal Bodyguard; Mordecai urges them to stick together.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Carl and Donut reconcile
Carl tries to leave the party; Donut apologises, admits fear and affection, and they continue east together.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Killing the Bad Llama
Donut provokes a lava-spitting Bad Llama with Magic Missile; Carl breaks his hand but kills it by punching its glowing throat.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Finding a safe room
After many fights with rats and Scatterers, the exhausted pair reach a safe room near what may be a Scatterer nest.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Arrival at the safe room
Carl and Donut reach a transplanted fast food restaurant safe room, learn only 4.3 million crawlers remain, and meet the caretaker Tally.
- Book 1 · Ch 9A plan to farm the nest
After Tally's meal, Carl proposes staying to clear the nearby Scatterer nest; Donut agrees but wants exciting kills to get on the show.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Rest and breakfast
Carl sleeps ten hours, showers and eats in the safe room while the remaining-crawler count drops past 4.1 million.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Clearing toward the nest
Carl and Donut kill a Brood Guardian and dozens more Scatterers, reaching level 5 by the nest door.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Dynamite into the nest
Angered by learning Bea cheated, Carl recklessly lights a stick of goblin dynamite, throws it into the nest and runs.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Explosion in the nest
The dynamite blows as it lands, nearly killing Carl but wiping out the nest's Scatterers and wounding a hidden boss.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Boss battle with the Hoarder
Locked in with the Hoarder, Carl and Donut fight her and her vomited Scatterers; Carl strangles and finally punches her to death.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Debrief with Mordecai
Carl and Donut visit a drunk Mordecai, who explains boss types and boss loot while they open their boxes.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Boss loot opened
Donut accidentally learns Torch; Carl gains a Tome of Wisp Armor, more dynamite and spiked kneepads.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Rebecca W's corpse
Carl and Donut find Rebecca W shot dead by fellow crawler Frank Q, who stripped her body of everything.
- Book 1 · Ch 13A plan to hunt
Carl decides to clear the neighbourhood's remaining mobs, watch the premiere, then hunt for both the stairs and Frank Q.
- Book 1 · Ch 14The premiere airs
Carl, Donut and Tally watch the premiere of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, which recaps last season and shows mass deaths and a few standout crawlers.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Entering goblin territory
Carl uses his Goblin Pass to enter the goblin neighbourhood, and Donut charms a goblin into guiding them to the engineers' workshop.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Donut charms the shamankas
Donut's charisma reduces two hostile Goblin Shamankas, Rory and Lorelai, to tears and devotion.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Trading for a vehicle
Carl trades two bags of meth and the location of more for a steam chopper with sidecar, fuel and Bomb Bard grenades.
- Book 1 · Ch 16The chopper is delivered
Goblin engineers build Carl a Goblin Copper Chopper with a sidecar, and Rory hands over a bag of explosives.
- Book 1 · Ch 16The meth war begins
Donut reveals the llamas as the meth source; the whole goblin force rides out to attack them, abandoning the workshop.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Decision to attack the chieftain
Alone in the workshop, Carl agrees to loot it and then attack the goblin chieftain's boss lair.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Looting the workshop
Carl and Donut strip the abandoned goblin workshop of nearly everything they can carry.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Cart bomb on the chieftain
Carl shoves a black-powder cart bomb into the chieftain's lair, flees with Donut and detonates it, just as Donut mentions babies inside.
- Book 1 · Ch 18The goblin boss dies
The blast kills the goblin chieftain along with goblin babies and elders, destroying the workshop and leaving the boss loot unreachable.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Fleeing the goblins
As the goblins return, Carl and Donut flee north into unexplored territory, planning to find a safe room and then the stairs.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Reaching a second safe room
After fighting through exploding rot stickers, Carl and Donut rest in a bus-station-style safe room six hours before episode two.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Asshole's Boxes and Desperado Passes
Their baby-killing achievements bring Asshole's Boxes that brand both with Desperado Pass tattoos, infuriating Donut.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Carl's resolve
Lying awake, Carl decides the dungeon set up the infant deaths, and vows it will not break him.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Meeting Frank Q
Donut finds Frank Q in the safe room bathroom. He tells a story of being an ICE agent whose partner died, but Carl realises he is lying.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Safe room ambush fails
Frank and the hidden Maggie My fire at Carl and Donut, but safe room rules freeze both attackers instantly, letting Carl and Donut flee.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Booby-trapped rat corpse
Fleeing, Carl hides a lit smoke bomb and unstable goblin dynamite in a rat corpse's inventory as a trap for Frank and Maggie.
- Book 1 · Ch 20First ride on the chopper
Carl and Donut drive the chopper for the first time, fleeing the neighborhood where Frank and Maggie attacked them.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Driving east
Carl and Donut ride the chopper east for hours through empty dungeon, fighting Scat Thugs at a bathroom stop.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Graffiti leads to the stairwell
Fresh spray-painted signs lead Carl and Donut to a gathering of crawlers near a stairwell inside a spiral guarded by a borough boss.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Meeting the eldercare group
Carl and Donut find Brandon, Chris, Yolanda, Imani and Agatha guarding 38 elderly crawlers outside the spiral maze.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Plan to storm the spiral
Carl decides to grind for a day, then return with Donut and the four caregivers to fight the borough boss and get the residents downstairs.
- Book 1 · Ch 23Grinding troglodytes
Carl and Donut spend hours killing troglodytes, honing their teamwork as they near level nine.
- Book 1 · Ch 23Entering the troglodyte boss room
Carl and Donut decide to fight the neighborhood boss and enter a gym-like boss room through automatic glass doors.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Battle with the Juicer
Carl and Donut fight the Juicer and his troglodytes in a gym boss room; Carl clubs him with weights before Donut tears open his neck vein.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Donut nearly dies
The dying Juicer flings Donut into a wall, leaving her at a sliver of health; she slowly heals and recovers.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Debrief with Mordecai
At the training guild, Mordecai reviews the Juicer fight, explains stat effects and teaches Carl to look for each monster's weakness.
- Book 1 · Ch 25New loot
Donut learns Puddle Jumper and gains heal scrolls; Carl wins Bloodlust shuriken and the War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Third episode at the Taco Bell
Carl and Donut watch episode three in the Taco Bell; they are snubbed again while other strong groups are camped by stairwells.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Borough boss battle begins
Carl, Donut, the four Meadow Lark staff and Agatha enter the spiral; it becomes a rave arena and the Ball of Swine charges them.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Popping the Ball of Swine
The ball wedges on the Speedbump; the group stabs until it bursts, raining dazed tusklings as the fortress collapses.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Slaughter of the tusklings
The group kills the confused, weaponless tusklings released from the Ball of Swine, needed to drop the stairwell's forcefield.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Descending to the second floor
Carl and Donut go down the ramp to clear a path for the Meadow Lark group, but the door teleports them to a production trailer on a boat.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Invited to Odette's show
Lexis tells Carl and Donut that Odette wants to interview them, and Donut is ecstatic.
- Book 1 · Ch 28Interview with Odette
Carl and Donut appear on Odette's talk show; Donut wows the audience, Carl is made to say 'Goddamnit, Donut', and clips of their fights are replayed.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Odette unmasks
After the taping, Odette removes her costume and privately advises Carl and Donut about fame, loot, races and Mordecai's indentureship.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Arriving on Floor 2
Carl and Donut reach the second floor, spot the stairs to Floor Three, and fight grubs, Danger Dingoes and Mind Horrors.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Opening boss rewards
In a storm-shelter safe room, Carl boosts Pugilism and gets a pedicure kit, while Donut receives the Second Chance spell by mail.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Appearance on the recap
Carl's group appears briefly on the recap's Ball of Swine footage, and Chris notices Agatha was edited out.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Clearing the clurichauns
Carl and Donut clear clurichauns near the stairwell, using Second Chance zombies for slingshot practice; Carl is infected with the Taint.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Inventing the Jug O' Boom
Carl turns looted moonshine jugs into firebombs, which the system names Carl's Jug O' Boom.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Scouting the filling room
Carl and Donut find the Rev-Up filling room guarded by laminak managers and plan an assault that preserves the moonshine.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Plan Pied Piper
Donut teleports into the filling room, charms the laminak and lures the clurichauns into a room Carl firebombs; the two fairies are killed.
- Book 1 · Ch 33The boss breaks out
As Carl discovers the immunity smoothie recipe, screaming tentacles burst from the boss chamber and the room is locked for a boss fight.
- Book 1 · Ch 34Fight with the Krakaren Clone
Carl blends the immunity smoothie as the Krakaren Clone's tentacles smash through the walls and clurichauns attack.
- Book 1 · Ch 34Zombie bomb
Badly hurt, Carl sends a firebomb-carrying zombie into the boss chamber and wraps himself around Donut, expecting to die in the blast.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Surviving the Krakaren blast
The explosion kills the Krakaren Clone; Donut saves the badly injured Carl, and they loot the neighborhood map amid converging grubs.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Visit to Mordecai the Bugaboo
At the guild, Mordecai rejects Odette, explains Damien, and Carl gains BigBoi Boxers before an admin is announced.
- Book 1 · Ch 35A kua-tin arrives
An admin warning sounds and a kua-tin named Zev teleports into the guild room.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Meeting Zev
Zev appears in the guild, cutting the cameras, and announces she is Carl and Donut's PR agent, booking a round-table show in about forty hours.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Carl's outburst
Carl rages at Zev; she replies that everyone is afraid and she is on their side, and Donut breaks the tension with Gossip Girl talk.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Grub swarm
Thousands of spawned grubs swarm Carl and Donut; they firebomb and stomp a path to meet the Meadow Lark group.
- Book 1 · Ch 37The resident train
The Meadow Lark group arrives with a wheelchair train, and Carl leads them toward the stairwell.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Jack breaks the bathroom rule
Jack urinates on the hallway wall, and Zev urgently warns Carl and Donut to run to the safe room.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Rage Elemental attack
Jack's urinating on the wall summons a Rage Elemental that kills Yolanda and Randall while the group races the residents toward a safe room.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Escape to Big Shot Chicken
Carl's Protective Shell buys time; he carries Mrs. McGibbons through reversed gravity and dives into the safe room as the elemental pounds at the door.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Recap of the elemental attack
The recap episode opens with Jack's fatal mistake and Yolanda's death, and ends with Carl's boom jug badly hurting the Rage Elemental.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Carl changes the plan
After the elemental wipes out the grubs and returns to the door, Carl remembers Rory's words and starts piling out items to build something.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Chase to the stairwell
Carl and Princess Donut lure the Rage Elemental on the chopper, carpet-bombing the halls and ensnaring it with Imani's chain on the way to the stairwell.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Elemental lured into the stairs
The elemental slides on oil into the stairwell hole as Puddle Jumper teleports Carl and Donut away; it vanishes, giving them no experience.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Farewell to Meadow Lark
Carl and Princess Donut torch the pupae and see Meadow Lark's survivors safely down the stairs, then head into the kobold quadrant.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Mukta forces an interview
With Zev in a time out, Mukta overrides her booking and sends Carl and Princess Donut to Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem despite Carl's refusal.
- Book 1 · Ch 42Carl defies Death Watch
Disgusted by the Death Watch game, Carl walks out until Mukta threatens him, then returns and demands the Maestro let him join the game.
- Book 1 · Ch 43The Maestro reveals his clan
Off-air, the Maestro boasts of the Skull Clan's Faction Wars record and warns that the Blood Sultanate crown dooms Princess Donut on the ninth floor.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Stairwell exploit patched
After the recap shows the elemental dissolving, Borant patches the stairwell rule and says guides can now explain race and class selection for Floor 3.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Zev's debriefing
Zev returns from suspension, explains the Maestro's royal family and the Skull Empire, and warns that a viral fan video has made it hostile to Carl.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Freeing the dingoes
Carl feeds the caged dingoes, turning them friendly; when the boss fight starts, they kill the kobolds and one swallows Ralph whole.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Ralph's defeat
Ralph bursts out of the dingo's head and lunges at Carl, who stuns him with a punch and stomps on him.
- 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 47Mordecai explains race and class selection
Mordecai explains race and class selection for Floor 3 and reveals his own class history and that his brother was a crawler.
- 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 interview
On Odette's show, Carl addresses the Pork Boy Snick and the Skull Empire, denying involvement while keeping his challenge to the Maestro open.
- 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 1Princess Donut becomes a Former Child Actor
Princess Donut stays a cat and, in a ruse planned with Carl, picks Former Child Actor, binding a furious Mordecai to them as manager.
- 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 4Drunk Mordecai arrives
When they reach The Belly-Rubbed Pug, a drunken Mordecai teleports in with his pants down, vomits and passes out.
- 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 6Meeting Tsarina Signet
Princess Donut teleports them out to face the Elite Tsarina Signet, whose charm grips Carl until he breaks his own finger.
- 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 6Circus beasts released
The circus cages open and red dots appear on all sides of Carl and Donut's minimap; they are surrounded.
- 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 7Signet's failed sacrifice
Signet admits she meant Carl to be killed by the lions so his blood would power her Blood Magic. She invites them to hear her story and help her assault on the circus; Carl agrees to meet the next night.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Mordecai explains elites
Back at the Belly-Rubbed Pug, Mordecai scolds Carl and Donut and explains that elites are scripted characters in writer-driven storylines with heavy plot armor.
- 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 11Donut in danger
As Carl finishes the quest, Mordecai warns that Donut's health has dropped below 20%.
- 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 12Staircase revealed at the circus
The circus is gone after a bright light at dawn, revealing a hidden staircase to the fourth floor where Grimaldi had stood.
- 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 12Carl's moment of longing
Before entering the Tutorial Guild, Carl pauses to take in the large town and wishes the crawl were over, recalling Bea's words about him.
- 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 13Carl's boxers upgraded
Carl's Scroll of Upgrade hits his Enchanted BigBoi Boxers, granting big stat bonuses and Freeballing, which bars him from wearing the trousers he wanted.
- 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 14Shopping in the skyfowl town
Mordecai teaches Carl and Donut how shops work; Donut haggles their junk into about 50,000 gold, and they buy alchemy supplies and a pet carrier for Mongo.
- 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 15First visit to the Desperado Club
Mordecai takes Carl and Donut into the Desperado Club, past the bouncer Clarabelle, and explains how the members-only club works.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Deal with Quint
Mordecai's old friend Quint, a former crawler turned drug dealer, trades an alchemy starter kit for moonshine and tells of Lucia Mar's rampage in the club the night before.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Meeting Pustule
In the Silk Road market, Carl and Donut meet the eccentric hobgoblin explosives dealer Pustule and buy dynamite and Hob-lobbers.
- 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 17Aftermath in the alley
Carl and Donut find the dead elf Vicente wore a 201st Security Group uniform, and take a Gate Pass and Mysterious Letter from GumGum's corpse, resolving to continue her quest.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Fan boxes opened
At The One-Eyed Narwhal, Donut's fan box reveals a photo of Bea with her ex Brad, which no longer bothers Carl, and Carl's reveals a xistera that suits his Cesta Punta skill.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Mordecai explains the city elves
Mordecai identifies the 201st Security Group as a city-elf militia of conspiracy theorists devoted to protecting the skyfowl.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Investigating GumGum's death
Carl, Donut and Mordecai examine GumGum's Gate Pass from Magistrate Featherfall and a necroscript letter; Fitz reveals GumGum's past and that the magistrate is a black cleric who ignored the krasue.
- Book 2 · Ch 17A warning from the sky
That night a dead sex worker is dropped on the inn's roof; in the morning they find 'No, you won't' carved into her back, answering Carl's promise to Donut.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Visit to the magistrate's office
Carl and Donut reach the town hall but Miss Quill blocks them. Carl dumps a murdered woman's corpse on her desk; while she flees for towels, Carl finds Featherfall's door magically locked.
- 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 19Danger Zone panel appearance
Carl and Donut appear live on Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton alongside Hekla and alien panelists. Donut mocks the comedian Tucker, and Hekla asks them to help one of her Daughters.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Studio disruption
Mid-show, Manasa vanishes, the trailer bucks violently, the studio disappears and Carl's HUD comes back on as the sea roils outside.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Assassination attempt kills Manasa
A pulse fired from Prince Stalwart's yacht to execute Carl and Donut instead hits the trailer Manasa had swapped into, killing her. Stalwart's prerecorded statement claims the execution.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Danger Zone audience questions
Audience members question Hekla about leaving her husband, Carl about killing, and Donut about Ferdinand and whether she would leave Carl for Bea.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Aftermath of the assassination attempt
Back in the saferoom, Zev reports the Valtay destroyed the royal yacht, and Mordecai forbids Carl and Donut from mentioning any outside entities again.
- 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 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 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 21Lucia Mar feud manufactured
The recap show frames Donut as challenging Lucia Mar's dogs; Lucia threatens to kill Donut and Carl, and Mordecai expects a showdown on or after the sixth floor.
- 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 21Dynamite detonated
From a neighbouring rooftop, Carl triggers the Hobgoblin Pus detonator, setting off the dynamite hidden in Miss Quill's shelves.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Carl becomes magistrate
The dynamite blast kills Miss Quill and Magistrate Featherfall, making Carl magistrate of the settlement, but the quest remains open, implying they killed the wrong target.
- 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 22Burgundy's confession
The dying krasue Burgundy reveals that Miss Quill ran the city, Featherfall was a long-dead fetish, and Quill's undead husband Remex transforms women into krasue. Donut kills her at her request.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Meeting Daniel Bautista 2
After the municipal building collapses, crawler Daniel Bautista 2 confronts Carl over his ruined quest, learns his family was avenged, and pledges to help Carl.
- 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 24Remex tells the story
Remex reveals Miss Quill's plot to cast The Final War and reclaim the Over City for the skyfowl, completing the quest The Sex Workers Who Fell from the Heavens.
- 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 24Containing the soul gem
Instead of fleeing to the Desperado Club, Carl and Donut return and Carl encloses the cracking Soul Crystal in the Sheol Glass Reaper Case, hoping it holds.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Bracing for the blast
With seconds left on the countdown and the gem sealed in the glass case, Carl and Donut sit together, share confessions, and brace for the explosion.
- Book 2 · Ch 25The contained explosion
The soul gem explodes silently inside the Reaper Case, becoming Carl's Doomsday Scenario, which Carl stores in inventory. Remex becomes the source of a bigger explosion.
- 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 2 · Ch 26Leaderboard revealed
Odette reveals the draft top-ten leaderboard, with Carl and Donut sixth and seventh, and explains the numbers are bounties on each crawler.
- Book 3 · Ch 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 2Opening the quest loot
Carl opens his boxes, gaining the settlement necklace, Bang Bro and the AI's coupon box, while Donut haggles Wendita down on a personal space.
- 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 4Trading with Limp Richard
At Limp Richard's general store, the party buys a mallet, sells junk, eyes a Battery Fabricator, and Carl trades westerns for science fiction books.
- 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 5Suitcase prizes from the reward room
Carl and Princess Donut pick suitcases 1 and 8 from Pierre the Porter in the Yellow Line Reward Room.
- 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's new potions
Mordecai upgrades the alchemy table and gives the party his Special Brew, Constitution buff potions and throwable potion balls.
- 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 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 8Reunion with Elle at the Desperado Club
With hired bodyguards, Carl and Donut meet Elle, now a Frost Maiden, at the Desperado Club.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Donut attacked at the Desperado Club
While Carl talks with Imani and Elle, a human crawler attacks Princess Donut on the dance floor; she survives near death and kills him.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Aftermath of the attack on Donut
Elle kills the second attacker; Donut weeps over her first human kill; Astrid apologises and grants free security.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Planning with Imani and Elle
Over Mordecai's train map, Elle points out the prime-numbered transfer stations and they divide up the investigation.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Carl spins the Wheel of Fortune
Carl cashes his comp chip at Tito's wheel, narrowly avoids Nothing!, and wins a Scroll of Upgrade for his toe ring.
- 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 11Gore-Gore electrocuted
Gore-Gore dies on the electrified third rail; Donut pulls the shocked Carl from the track.
- 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 12Surprise Three kills Dismember
Donut opens a Hole in the barrier, Carl drags Dismember's head through, and Donut closes it, decapitating the war mage.
- 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 14Building a crawler network
At the Desperado Club Carl persuades about twenty crawlers to exchange chat details so they can share intelligence about the floor.
- 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 18Imani confirms the coupon book
Imani confirms player-killer skulls bring a coupon for every party member and that Donut discussed hers with her.
- 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 19Frank gives Carl the ring
In the Desperado Club a drunk Frank Q. explains Yvette's death and Maggie's vendetta, then gives Carl the Ring of Divine Suffering as revenge.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Recording Planet Beautiful
In an undersea rental trailer, Carl refuses a bigoted AI-written script and confronts producer Bin, settling on a video arcade script while Donut goes off script.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Frank killed by Chris
The Sledge reports Chris killed Frank in the Desperado Club; Donut then reassures Carl she discarded the PVP coupons.
- 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 21Carl comforts Tizquick
Passing through Station 60's NPC colony, Carl stops to comfort a grieving dwarf conductor whose family was false, while Hekla urges haste as stage-three mobs appear.
- 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 22News of the province boss
Elle and Imani report festering ghouls merging into a province boss at stop 48 and plan to hold station 36 against wrath ghouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 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 22Donut attacks Hekla
With the train stopped at station 101, Donut ignores Carl's plea for calm and blasts Hekla in the face with a Magic Missile.
- 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 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 24Reunion with Li Jun
Carl and Donut, covered in gore, greet Street Monk Li Jun among the rescued crawlers.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Collecting the hats
At station 75 Carl hands the rescue train to Li Jun and gathers 700 hats from crawlers to save those stranded at the Abyss.
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 31Madison's death reported
Fire Brandy tells Carl and Donut that dwarves and gremlins hanged Madison, and she took the body into her fire.
- 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 32Province boss sent to the abyss
Donut shoots the province boss across the noodle with a magic missile; it attacks and is teleported away by the portal on the raised Def Leppard cart.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Meeting Prepotente and Miriam Dom
The goat crawler Prepotente, whose kill was stolen, confronts Carl through the noodle until his shepherd Miriam Dom smacks him into line.
- 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 34Descent from Floor 4
The group returns to station 36 and heads down the stairwell; Agatha unexpectedly passes them, and Loita summons Carl and Donut to Odette's green room without explaining Zev's absence.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Loita replaces Zev
In the production trailer, Loita announces Zev's 'reeducation' and takes over as PR agent, clashing with Carl and later censoring Odette's interview.
- 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 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 6Guards revealed as changelings
The knocked-out guards revert into faceless changelings; Carl kills Changeling Principal Svern and orders Louis and Firas to kill the other.
- 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 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 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 9Water Quadrant liberated
An earthquake rumbles as a notice announces Chris Andrews 2 has taken the Bridge of the Akula; Carl realises Chris is in the bubble with them.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Henrik reveals how the collateral works
Charmed by Donut, the changeling Henrik explains the twinned-watch code proving Wynne alive and the gnome ambassador's inspections, giving Carl an idea.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Children sheltered in personal space
Carl leads about forty town children, plus Juice Box, from the Toe into the personal space ahead of the bombing.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Juice Box hints at the changelings' goal
In the personal space, Juice Box asks if it leads to the Hunting Grounds, the changelings' ancient home, then clams up when Carl mentions Quetzalcoatlus.
- 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 11Leon's inspection
Leon tests the group and Wynne for changelings, finds Wynne a ghoul but accepts Donut's cure story, then searches the fake Henrik's body.
- 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 14Donut drops Chris through the floor
As Carl prepares to kill the petrified Chris, Donut casts Hole and Chris falls into a sealed chamber in the subterranean quadrant below.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Ascent to the gnomish flying house
Carl and Donut use a salvaged biplane's emergency balloons to rise to the bubble's ceiling and skid across to Commandant Kane's flying house.
- 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 16Kane found dead
Inside the flying house Carl finds Commandant Kane killed by Denise and loots a Mysterious Watch and a letter from the Glass Wizard Ghazi.
- 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 16Denise killed in the garbage disposal
With one second left on the falling-house timer, Carl jams Denise's head into the garbage disposal and Donut turns it on, killing the boss and stopping the fall.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Air Quadrant liberated
Taking the Commandant's quarters liberates the Air Quadrant, and the house gently lands.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Looting the flying house
After the house lands, Carl takes the soul crystal from Bonnie, finds the sealed stairwell, and loots the house's contents including its electrical panel.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Zev reassigned
Loita threatens Donut and announces Zev is no longer their social media manager, leaving Donut unable to say goodbye.
- 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 18Loita's tirade
In an underwater production trailer, Loita rants that human culture is a contagion and reveals what was done to Zev's family to bring her back into line.
- Book 4 · Ch 18The Veriluxx commercial
Carl and Donut tape a toy commercial with soother hosts Gravo and Liddi, and Carl derails it by accusing Veritan Linkage of advocating slavery.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Death of Loita
Robot Donut explodes in the underwater trailer during the Veriluxx taping; the forcefield holds back the sea, so Loita can't be teleported out and dies in front of Carl and Donut.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Interrogation by Orren
After Loita's death, Carl and Donut are taken to an office in the Desperado Club where liaison Orren accuses Carl of assassinating her and demands his source.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Case closed
Orren closes the matter, bans third-party teleports for the floor, and reveals five days have passed.
- 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 20Return to the land quadrant
Louis and Firas fly the half-demolished house to pick up Carl and Donut and bring them down to the land quadrant, catching them up on events.
- 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 22Flushed into the sea
Tran opens the drainage valve, the water washes away the sandcastle and blasts Carl and Donut into the water quadrant, where Carl keeps them alive as a predator feeds nearby.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Escaping the sharks
Underwater, Donut animates a dead beluga with clockwork copies that explode against a shark, and Carl swims clear of the feeding frenzy, then kayaks to shore.
- 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 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 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 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 28Samantha explains Orthrus
Mordecai brings out Samantha, who reveals the released creature is Emberus's dog Orthrus from the Nothing, confirming Carl's group caused the crisis.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Keeping the puppy alive
Carl sends Donut, Louis and Firas up in the Twister so Donut can heal Orthrus with Heal Critter during the storm.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Bubble 543 pops
With all four quadrants freed, the bubble's top vanishes and the stairwells open, but Orthrus is still dying in the water.
- 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 30Orthrus attacked
An unknown flier hits Orthrus with a spell, crashing his health, and circles back to finish him as Carl turns to intercept.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Aerial fight with Quan Ch
Carl and Donut knock Quan Ch from the sky with a disco ball and hob-lobber, but Quan returns and knocks Orthrus unconscious.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Carl summons Emberus
Carl worships Emberus and throws the celestial grenade at Quan, summoning the god; the plane crashes into him and he reclaims Orthrus.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Quests resolve
Get Orthrus fails and The Dumber of the Flunkies completes, earning Carl's group a platinum quest box.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Carl joins the church of Emberus
Carl reads his new faith's rules and benefits, gains sun tattoos and a boon, and receives quests to find Geyrun's killer and kill Hellik.
- 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 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 34Borant's warning
Zev relays a failed Skull Empire lawsuit and a politburo message approving the plan but forbidding future sponsor-harming antics.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Slit attacks
Slit, a feral demon, attacks hunting Samantha; Carl uses his sponsor's gift to throw Samantha's head far into the Lacuna, drawing Slit away.
- 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 34Borant's fury
Zev relays that the sponsors are enraged as Larracos floods; Carl insists they approved the plan and descends with Donut and Chris.
- 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 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 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 3Planning purchases
Mordecai and Carl plan to buy an advanced bomber's studio and a magic studio for the space while waiting on the recap to learn about the guild system.
- 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 5Raid on Zockau
Carl and Donut teleport invisibly to Zockau, plant a missile launcher and bomb barrels among the hunters' pubs, and send Bomo to the Scuttlebutt saferoom.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Xindy and Chin'Dua killed
Carl marks Chin'Dua, spreads Left to Fester onto the flying hunter Xindy, kills her with homing missiles, then beats Chin'Dua to death.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Barrel bomb detonates
Carl and Donut dive into the Scuttlebutt just as a bomb barrel by the Desperado Club explodes.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Escape from Zockau
After the bombs level the block, Carl and Donut flee invisibly through trap-strewn streets while an invisible flying hunter, the town's Grand, shoots Carl with crossbow bolts.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Rescued at the border
Carl collapses with bleeding bolts in the jungle beyond Zockau, and a group of crawlers including Pony and his mother find him and Donut.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Carl recovers in Miriam's cart
Carl wakes from a coma in a cart pulled by Bianca as Miriam heals his bleed debuff and Donut scolds him for his plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Tallying the raid
Carl's notifications reveal 34 hunter kills, a mass casualty achievement and a warning about the Ring of Divine Suffering.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Zev's heads-up
Zev contacts Carl and Donut to say they will appear on Odette's show, and that their Vengeance of the Daughter contract still applies.
- Book 5 · Ch 6Trap squabble
Carl triggers every trap at the town entrance, Prepotente takes offence, and Miriam forces the two to apologize and hug before they enter town.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Parting with Miriam's group
Carl and Donut separate from Miriam and Prepotente in a looted bugbear town and head to their saferoom.
- 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 8Opening the hunter boxes
Carl opens his prize boxes, gaining a cult tattoo, 595,000 gold, 34 hunter hands redeemable at the Butcher's Masquerade, and a boost to his Fear spell.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Guild system announced
The system caps parties at 30 and launches guilds, which combine up to five parties' personal spaces for a hefty charter fee.
- 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 9Planning the Zockau bomb
Carl builds a huge wheeled bomb for Bomo to detonate in Zockau before the hunt begins; Donut proposes a clockwork Bomo instead.
- 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 10Vrah's threat
Opening the door to Zockau, Carl finds Vrah's note warning that the hunters are protected from explosions and vowing revenge for her sister; Carl cancels the bomb plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 11Donut takes Point Mongo
Donut renames the Ursine town Point Mongo, equips her leadership charm, and with Mordecai resets the guards while Carl arms them against the hunters.
- Book 5 · Ch 11The Recital quest
Mordecai's argument with the cleric Tam accidentally triggers a quest to deal with the dinosaurs attacking Point Mongo.
- 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 12Donut's panic attack
In a sandwich shop saferoom, Donut breaks down about being left behind; after Zev's pointed interruption, Carl promises never to leave her, even on the ninth floor.
- 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 13Meeting Tsarina Signet again
Carl's Ping reveals a waiting group of elites; Carl and Donut cross the bridge to meet Tsarina Signet, Areson the Wise, Clint Smashgrab's were-kin brothers and a giant caterpillar holding the captured hunter Bravvo.
- Book 5 · Ch 14Bravvo killed and looted
Carl kills the captured yenk hunter Bravvo and loots him before following Signet's group into the jungle toward Zockau.
- Book 5 · Ch 14Signet explains her mission
Walking through the jungle, Signet tells Carl and Donut about her family, the fate of the circus and the Chee, and says she is recruiting them to destroy the Confederacy and the High Elves.
- Book 5 · Ch 15The hunters' map
Carl loots a dead Dream hunter and finds a crayon map showing how hunter groups have divided the hunting grounds and claimed crawlers, including Louis as the Dream's sole target.
- Book 5 · Ch 15Signet's quest begins
At Signet's camp, Carl receives the quest The Vengeance of the Daughter: help Signet assault Fort Freedom and kill the Naiad Confederacy's leaders.
- 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 16The Apothecary sponsors the top ten
Arriving at Point Mongo, Carl and Donut each receive their third and final sponsor, the Apothecary, which has also sponsored most of the other top-ten crawlers.
- Book 5 · Ch 17Samantha demands to see Signet
Samantha screams through the saferoom until Carl agrees to take her to Signet during tomorrow's assault on the Naiad castle.
- Book 5 · Ch 17Security checkpoint in orbit
Before Odette's show, Carl and Donut are teleported to a checkpoint aboard a ship orbiting Earth, where Shade Gnoll Riot Forces mercenaries search them.
- Book 5 · Ch 17Odette reveals Beatrice is alive
In Odette's trailer, with Zev present in person, Odette tells Carl that his ex-girlfriend Beatrice is alive.
- Book 5 · Ch 18Odette explains Beatrice's rescue
Odette reveals she had Beatrice taken off Earth to keep bounty hunters from selling her to Borant, and asks permission to bring her on the show before a rival program breaks the story.
- Book 5 · Ch 18Donut agrees to the reunion
Despite Carl's fury and refusal, Donut decides they will go on Odette's show and do the reunion with Beatrice.
- Book 5 · Ch 19Beatrice on Odette's show
Beatrice appears as a guest on Odette's show; Carl and Donut stay cold on air, then off air Donut confronts Beatrice for planning to give her away and they say goodbye.
- Book 5 · Ch 20Lexis's warning
While surveillance is down during the hand-off to Valtay control, Lexis warns Carl and Donut that the Butcher's Masquerade is being set up to wipe out the top crawlers and that Queen Imogen is a hidden country boss.
- Book 5 · Ch 20Donut's confession
Donut blurts out that she smuggled Valtay secret agents to Zev and the Borant Emancipation Front, leaving Carl alarmed.
- 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 21Elves attack Point Mongo
After the party joins Safehome Yolanda and Katia leaves, high elves bombard Point Mongo with poison bombs, and Clint summons Carl and Donut to fight.
- Book 5 · Ch 22Samantha as a missile
To stop elves shelling Point Mongo with a poison catapult, Carl uses a potion-boosted Ping to locate them, then throws a missile-strapped Samantha, killing one elf.
- Book 5 · Ch 22Akland captured
Samantha drags back the unconscious second elf, Akland; healed and handcuffed, he begs for his life and explains the Dream's hunt for Louis before Carl marks him.
- Book 5 · Ch 23Akland's death
Carl kills Akland with the Ring of Divine Suffering equipped, loots him, and gives Donut his fire-casting obsidian bracelet.
- Book 5 · Ch 23Samantha grows stronger
Samantha rolls off to harass an ursine cleric, and Donut warns Carl that the head is getting stronger and faster.
- Book 5 · Ch 24Looting the Dream's trebuchet
Carl finds the second dead elf hunter and takes the Dream's poison trebuchet, noting its hidden high-tech parts.
- Book 5 · Ch 24Lightning at the all-tree
On the way to join Signet for the Fort Freedom assault, a lightning blast strikes near the all-tree; Donut's map shows two dead hunters among Signet's forces.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Samantha meets Signet
Samantha asks Signet to surrender her body so Samantha can take it; Signet declines and offers a vague promise of help later.
- 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 25Assault on Fort Freedom begins
Carl launches Samantha into the river as a distraction, an alarm sounds deep in the castle, and Signet's summoned paper monsters and assault team move on Fort Freedom.
- Book 5 · Ch 26Signet storms the castle
Signet's paper battle squad and allies cross the river and enter Fort Freedom while Samantha, stuck in a vent, relays fighting and blood in the water.
- Book 5 · Ch 26The assault turns into a trap
Lightning and explosions erupt from the castle, bodies of naiads, paper monsters and allies float up, and Samantha calls it a trap; Carl prepares to dive in.
- 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 28Fort Freedom retaken
Signet returns having taken Fort Freedom and defeated the confederacy, completing Part One of The Vengeance of the Daughter, though Clint, Miss Nadine and the south shore team died.
- Book 5 · Ch 28Part Two: kill Queen Imogen
Carl and Donut receive Part Two of The Vengeance of the Daughter: help Signet kill Queen Imogen at the high elves' party.
- Book 5 · Ch 29Miss Nadine's tattoo
Edgar tattoos Miss Nadine's remains onto Signet; the new tattoo appears as a young chee woman with a memory of child Clint, and the were-castors pay their respects.
- Book 5 · Ch 29Arrival at Alucarda
Rushing south to a saferoom before Carl's CrawlCon transfer, Carl and Donut reach Alucarda and learn Lucia Mar is its mayor just as Carl is transferred away.
- Book 5 · Ch 30Carl taken to CrawlCon
Carl is transferred through an orbital security checkpoint to a Valtay landing vessel on the ocean floor, where Zev tells him Donut fought Lucia Mar but is safe in the guildhall.
- Book 5 · Ch 33Carl gets a gift and a warning
Returning from the panel, Carl regains his interface, reads Donut's warning that Lucia awaits in the safe room, and finds Dr. Ratchet's Automaton Table and signed guide.
- 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 35Decoy tricks Lucia
Clockwork Sledges with a fake Donut trigger Lucia's teleport, sending her into Vrah's ambush; Lucia escapes.
- Book 5 · Ch 35Carl confronts Vrah
Langley's and Bogdon Ro's heads bite Vrah, Carl stabs her with a poisoned arrow, and his wheeled bomb kills the other mantises as Vrah flees.
- 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 37Recap shows Donut versus Lucia
The recap shows Lucia trapping Donut between her dogs; Donut escapes with illusions and Hole, kills Cici, and Lucia vows all must die.
- Book 5 · Ch 37Daily announcement
The AI notes 100 guilds have formed, announces a redesigned seventh floor and mandatory Butcher's Masquerade invites for the top 50.
- Book 5 · Ch 38Edict chooses death
Trapped between ruin, dishonor and Vrah's demand to mate, Edict deliberately attacks Carl a third time and is teleported naked to a mob nest before Vrah reaches him.
- 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 43Anti-vampire benefactor boxes
Carl's Plenty box and Donut's Apothecary box both grant protection against vampirism and lycanthropy, hinting at a coming fight with undead.
- 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 44Miriam Dom calls for rescue
Miriam reveals she is pinned by paralyzed Pony far east of town; despite Mordecai's suspicion of a vampire trap, Carl sews on his anti-vampire patch and sets out.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Prudence tells Big Tina's story
Hiding in the pub, ursine barmaid Prudence explains Big Tina was a girl whose ballet recital was crushed by her cleric father before Scolopendra transformed her.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Big Tina is a vampire
A bear claw crawls away as a glamoured minion of Big Tina, revealing the rampaging dinosaur is a vampire.
- 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 45Vampirism spreads across the floor
Other crawlers report vampire animals across the map while Carl and Donut race toward Miriam through a flooding storm.
- 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 47Miriam's story
Carl and Donut reach paralyzed Prepotente and exhausted Miriam; she explains Viscount Fog's hunt, the bounced Community Pool spell and the ring that marked her.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Death of Miriam Dom
Carl refuses to kill Miriam but guards her; at dawn he marks her with his own ring, and she turns to dust in the sunlight beside Prepotente.
- Book 5 · Ch 48The Creeping Apocalypse begins
Miriam's death cures the vampirism but leaves Big Tina's undead army uncontrolled; a world quest demands all fifty Odious Creepers die before sunset.
- Book 5 · Ch 48Prepotente wakes
Donut wakes Prepotente, who swallows his Ring of Divine Suffering and screams over Miriam's ashes as Kiwi and other dinosaurs close in.
- 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 49Prepotente's vow of vengeance
After opening his loot boxes in a temporary safe space and receiving a spray applicator and herbicide recipe, Prepotente takes healing potions from Carl and flies off on Bianca, vowing to kill everyone responsible for Miriam's death.
- Book 5 · Ch 51Trebuchet kills a creeper
Carl fires Mordecai's weedkiller from the trebuchet with Donut spotting from a treetop, killing an Odious Creeper; Donut gets the kill credit.
- 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 51Donut recognises Ferdinand
After waking, Donut tells Carl the queen's familiar is Ferdinand, brought down with changed memories, and fears she will have to fight him.
- 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 52Big Tina arrives
Big Tina, an enormous allosaurus, arrives with the raptor pack and roars at Mongo; Kiwi restrains her daughter.
- Book 5 · Ch 52Creeper quest fails
The Creeping Apocalypse fails; the AI imposes blood-bar saferoom rules and casts Gehenna Bramble from the creepers near Zockau, teleporting idle hunters out of saferooms.
- Book 5 · Ch 53Carl interrogates and kills Iota
Carl pins the maimed crafter hunter Iota, learns the dungeon AI overrode a court ruling and is going primal, then kills him.
- 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 55Signet's warning
Signet, Holger and Areson meet Carl and Donut to warn of the brambles and that the trees are summoning the god Diwata.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Nipple rings
Carl pierces himself with a Quarter Fall ring and persuades Donut to wear a constitution ring in exchange for the Pawna's Cries potion.
- 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 57Prepotente's delivery
Prepotente brings Donut a potion from his benefactor that reverses Scolopendra's Transmutation, the second benefactor gift meant for Donut sent via someone else.
- Book 5 · Ch 58Sneaking into the Hunting Grounds level
Donut pressures Clarabelle into revealing a secret stairwell; Carl and Donut descend to the club's Hunting Grounds level, where Carl kills the hunter Haxor.
- Book 5 · Ch 58Meeting the changelings
Carl gives Pearson a map and the plan to bring the changelings into the high elf castle for Zerzura, before Astrid stops them by boiling Carl's blood.
- Book 5 · Ch 59Summoned by Orren
After Astrid knocks Carl out, Orren tells Carl and Donut he is leaving until the ninth floor, warns them about rogue liaisons, and summons Quasar and a weeping fan.
- 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 62Puzzling gifts for Donut
Carl and Mordecai examine the Apothecary's gifts for Donut, including a seemingly useless hammer and stick marked with sevens, before leaving for the masquerade.
- 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 63Caravan to the castle
Theobold escorts Carl, Britney, Donut and the dinosaurs toward the high elf castle, explaining that the queen's protection covers all guests.
- 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 64Arrival at the castle
The changeling posing as Signet is turned away, the dinosaurs are caged and moved to the hunters' attendant room, and the crawlers pass security into Ballroom A.
- Book 5 · Ch 64The masquerade begins
Inside Ballroom A, Donut meets her sponsor Empress D'Nadia, Chaco runs the prize counter, Vrah charges toward Carl, and Carl signals Bomo, the Sledge and Britney to start the plan.
- 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 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 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 73Kiwi restored and Tina speaks
Donut turns Kiwi back into a bear with a hidden potion ball, and Big Tina recognises her mother and calls for her.
- Book 5 · Ch 74Cage fight boss battle
The AI pits crawlers, the last hunters, Queen Imogen and Diwata against each other as everyone falls into the castle's empty basement pit, surrounded by brambles.
- 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 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 Princess Posse joins Faction Wars
Carl and Donut's team enters faction wars, and Carl gives a broadcast speech attacking the sponsors before being muted.
- 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 76Prepotente breaks the seventh floor
From the pole position chamber, Prepotente cracks the glass with an enchanted stick and hammer, shattering the whole Great Race level and sucking every crawler into the stairwell portals.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Choosing an eighth-floor start
Donut, as squad leader, picks a Caribbean starting location that turns out not to be the Bahamas.
- 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 1Princess Posse newsletter recap
Donut's fan club newsletter recaps the sixth floor and Butcher's Masquerade: Signet's revenge, Vrah and Diwata's deaths, deaths of friends, and buying a Faction Wars spot.
- 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 3Donut becomes a Master Telephone Psychic
Advised by Mordecai, Princess Donut rejects Agony Urchin and picks Master Telephone Psychic, gaining an expanded map and new charm spells.
- Book 6 · Ch 4Reunion with Mordecai as a cyclops
Carl and Princess Donut enter the saferoom to find Mordecai transformed into a Hills Cyclops, Samantha returned, and Bomo the last bodyguard.
- Book 6 · Ch 4Donut opens her boxes
Princess Donut opens her prizes: a Cosmic buff potion raising dexterity, a Love Vampire upgrade, a fire-demon nipple ring, and a chained summoning spellbook.
- Book 6 · Ch 4Donut learns a summoning spell
Princess Donut applies the chained Tome of Legionnaires of the Damned, gaining a spell to animate armor with wailing spirits; then it is Carl's turn to open boxes.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Carl opens his celestial box
Carl opens his boxes, including a tattoo kit, an automaton kit, a reflecting shield and a Defiler nipple ring; the celestial box yields only a divine back patch.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Donut's flag outrage
Princess Donut bursts in furious that each squad's flags, meant to be planted in enemies on this floor, are designed for them; she shows Carl theirs and he laughs.
- Book 6 · Ch 6Entering Old Havana
Carl, Donut and Samantha leave the saferoom into a replay of Old Havana; ghostly tourists walk through them, stripping clothes, and Samantha is sent south as recon.
- 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 6Fight with the Experience
On the northern coast highway, a barking Experience charges Carl and Donut; Donut burns, mutes and turns it against itself with her new spell until it dies.
- Book 6 · Ch 6Meeting other crawlers
Three unknown crawlers, two human men and a cat girl, approach and wave, confirming Carl's team is not alone in the area.
- Book 6 · Ch 7Tense meeting with Sister Ines's group
Carl and Donut meet Paz, Anton and Sister Ines, who fear Donut over a broadcast threat and Carl's link to Prepotente; Sister Ines defuses the standoff and proposes working together.
- Book 6 · Ch 8Capturing Yago
The combined group fights the level 70 monk seal Yago; after he shields against ranged attacks, Carl and Paz bring him down and Carl stabs him with Team Sister Ines's flag, capturing him as a card.
- Book 6 · Ch 8A second monk seal appears
After Carl passes Yago's totem card to Sister Ines, another monk seal named Geraldo charges across the beach, and Carl proposes capturing it too.
- Book 6 · Ch 9New interview and meeting scheduled
Zev books Carl and Donut on Shadow Boxer after Odette's show is postponed, and announces a Faction Wars preproduction meeting for Floor 9.
- 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 9Saferoom at Cuba Libro
Both teams reach the saferoom coffee shop Cuba Libro and agree to meet after the recap to clear a nearby park and hunt stronger mobs.
- Book 6 · Ch 10Cascadia explains deck combat
After a largely redacted recap, Cascadia lays out the card and deck combat rules, adds saferoom practice arenas, and urges squads to kill each other for cards.
- Book 6 · Ch 10Samantha swallowed by Shi Maria
Samantha reports she was eaten by Shi Maria, a spider demi-goddess at the island's southern coast, and Carl plans to rescue her and possibly capture the monster.
- 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 13Asojano enters the saferoom
The Orisha Asojano walks into The Yellow Zone, revealed as the source of the town's corruption, and asks Paz to repair his shrine; Sister Ines breaks down, and he leaves, telling them to come at night.
- 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 14Harbinger as liaison
At the production trailer, Carl and Donut meet the caprid liaison Harbinger, and Quasar arrives by holo to object to his presence.
- Book 6 · Ch 14Shadow Boxer interviews
Rosetta Thagra interviews Donut about television; during a break Quasar briefs Carl on Faction Wars, then Rosetta begins Carl's interview about his dead mother.
- Book 6 · Ch 15Carl's interview about his past
Rosetta questions Carl about his mother's suicide, his father's abandonment and his time at the Anacortes Boys' Ranch, while slipping him a coded cookbook clue about milk and potatoes.
- Book 6 · Ch 16Gauntlet run to the temple
At night the group fights through glowing ghommids behind Asojano to the central temple, using Carl's stun bombs and Bomo's missiles; Carl flags the splitter Skylar Spinach at the door.
- Book 6 · Ch 16Plan to kill Asojano
Carl assigns Donut, Bomo and Sister Ines to fight Asojano with him while Paz and Anton rebuild Ogun's shrine; boss music starts as Anton picks up a piece.
- 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 17Boss fight with Asojano
Anton throws away Ogun's shrine piece; Donut's Phantasm swarm attacks Asojano while Bomo rebuilds Yemaya's shrine and the gods compete for the crawlers' loyalty.
- Book 6 · Ch 17Asojano captured and Yemaya restored
Carl flags the dying Asojano and catches SlugPox, while possessed daggers carry the Sun of Reawakening to Yemaya's shrine; the quest completes and Yemaya re-ascends.
- Book 6 · Ch 18Paz's confession
Dying, Paz warns Carl that Sister Ines is a convent poisoner whose racial skill compels loyalty; Carl chooses to part ways rather than kill her.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Yemaya and Eileithyia appear
Two goddesses appear in Yemaya's temple; Yemaya gives Donut and Sister Ines cards and teleports Bomo to his friend The Sledge in Larracos on the ninth floor, stranding Carl's group without his spell.
- 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 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 22Mordecai's secret attendants
Carl and Donut catch Mordecai in makeup and learn he secretly hired Ruby and other changelings as room attendants using their money.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Zev's secure briefing
In a secure sponsor conversation, Zev explains the adjutant role and urges Carl and Donut not to choose Odette, for Mordecai's sake.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Faction Wars preproduction meeting
Carl and Donut attend a meeting run by Cascadia with the other warlords, where Donut provokes Crown Prince Stalwart and they meet Rishi of the Blood Sultanate.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Viceroy beheaded at the meeting
The Madness's viceroy is decapitated and Juice Box, in Epitome Noflex's form, takes his seat, enraging Tagg and Stalwart; Cascadia says the AI won't let them intervene.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Florin's totem card
Florin hands Donut a powerful unique totem card he cannot control.
- Book 6 · Ch 24HeyZoos joins the squad
Carl and Donut take Florin's unique HeyZoos card, giving them four of six totems, before planning to rescue Samantha.
- Book 6 · Ch 26Crab migration
Near the southern coast, Carl and Donut find hundreds of giant land crabs migrating to attack the monk seals and plan to trap the lone meditating crab Raul.
- Book 6 · Ch 26Donut's new tiara
Carl pays to install Donut's citrine gem into a new tiara, which grants her a Hover skill she delights in.
- Book 6 · Ch 27Raul flagged
Using a Hole spell, phase potions and debuffs, Carl and Donut trap and flag the meditating crab Raul into a card.
- Book 6 · Ch 27Preparing for Shi Maria
While the crab migration passes, Carl studies Shi Maria in the Bahamas book and chats with Samantha, who calls the spider her best friend.
- Book 6 · Ch 28Meeting the Bedlam Bride
Samantha leads Shi Maria to Carl and Donut; the spider admits she can't animate Princess Lunette's body yet and breaks down when Samantha threatens her mother.
- Book 6 · Ch 28Bargain with Shi Maria
Carl approaches the spider and offers to escort her deeper if she helps; Shi Maria speaks for the first time and agrees, wanting to reach Larracos.
- 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 29Phase two rules announced
Cascadia explains phase two and three: squads must fetch a key, and keyless squads may ambush keyholders at their stairwells, setting up crawler-on-crawler fights.
- Book 6 · Ch 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 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 31Donut loses her sponsor
Mid-fight, Donut learns Empress D'Nadia sold her sponsorship to a biological waste management company.
- Book 6 · Ch 31Hours of deck practice
Practising in the mock arena, Carl and Donut learn their totems' quirks: Shi Maria dominates, while Uzi Jesus and Asojano resist orders.
- Book 6 · Ch 31Defeat by Der Schachmeister
In their first deck-versus-deck practice, Der Schachmeister locks and burns Donut's cards and his wolf strikes her, failing the simulation.
- 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 36Hiring the Penis Parade
Through Rosemarie, Carl spends his Meat Shields coupon to hire the Penis Parade dancers as mercenaries for the Faction Wars, and they move into the guild barracks.
- Book 6 · Ch 37Carl and Donut on Odette's show
On Odette's show, Carl and Donut defend the Desperado incident and learn that Empress D'Nadia tried to have them deleted via emergency action items.
- Book 6 · Ch 38Odette announces she will play Nekhebit
Odette reveals she has sponsored the re-ascended vulture goddess Nekhebit and will enter the dungeon for the Celestial Ascendency.
- 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 40First token fights
Carl and Donut begin collecting tokens, killing a Babababoon on the road toward the mound.
- 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 42Carl and Donut rest
Back at the guild, a frightened Donut opens up to Carl about the dangers of the card game and losing Katia, and they nap together.
- Book 6 · Ch 42Book of Voodoo distributed
Nearly every crawler receives a Gold Prepotente Box containing the Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo, a messaging book with ominous hints.
- Book 6 · Ch 42Climbing the mound
In daylight, Carl climbs the muddy, eroding mound with Donut on his shoulder toward the next token fight.
- Book 6 · Ch 43Jola kills the Visitor
Atop the mound, Donut summons Jola the Yule Cat, who kills the Nightgaunt deckmaster, the Visitor, before it plays a card.
- 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 44Double deck fight in the turkey barn
Carl and Donut fight Tom and Sharp-Elbows at once as the turkeys turn hostile and dead ones rise as zombies; Shi Maria is snared back into the deck.
- 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 45Donut prepares Carl for his father
After Carl wakes, Donut tries to take the final key fight alone, then admits she knows the boss is Carl's father; Carl resolves to face him together.
- Book 6 · Ch 46Carl reaches his father's trailer
Crossing a floating chunk of Iowa above the ocean, Carl and Donut find his father's motorcycle and a token-operated fight machine at a trailer spliced in from an earlier time.
- 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 48The AI hijacks the keyholder fight
As the trailer burns, the AI locks out the production team, replaces Carl's father as boss with a nine-headed Reminiscence Hydra of familiar faces, and rants about mantis-made macro AIs.
- 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 49Carl learns Bea hid his brother
After the fight, Donut reveals Bea ran Carl's Facebook, got Sally fired, and knew about Asher, which makes Carl angry at Bea for the first time.
- Book 6 · Ch 49Looting the keymaster's deck
Carl and Donut claim the Champion Pack and discard the hydra's totems, but Alpha Male Carl and Leveled-Up Frank force themselves into Donut's deck.
- 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 51Carl rides out alone
Telling Donut he needs air, Carl leaves the Christmas party and rides his father's motorcycle toward Homestead.
- 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 54Imani trapped near Quan Ch
Imani reveals she is in Cuba at Sister Ines's church, having fled into a saferoom from Quan Ch; Carl and Donut head to her.
- 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 56Samantha's recon
Thrown toward the coast, Samantha reports a giant snake covered in zombie seals and crabs, with surviving seals singing and Sister Ines riding its head.
- Book 6 · Ch 56Demon Eviction begins in Cuba
The Chowder War quest fails and a new quest begins as Cuba experiences a Demon Eviction event, letting demons possess zombies and drag victims to Sheol.
- 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 57The mass summon
Carl's summon, amplified by Samantha, drops Sister Ines, Madre de Aguas and thousands of creatures around him, breaking her charm spell and freeing dozens of full-power demons.
- Book 6 · Ch 57Live-announced boss battle
Kevin and Magnificent Troy live-announce an eight-way Survival Royale battle, replaying how the zombie outbreak and Demon Eviction disrupted Sister Ines's plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 57Allegiances chosen
Donut picks Sister Ines as an ally while Carl pleads with the raving nun to do the same; Quan Ch is revealed to be present as the battle starts.
- Book 6 · Ch 58Quan steals the keys
Quan ambushes the eight-way battle, uses Peekaboo and Force Play to make Sister Ines flee, then swaps hands with Donut and forces her Flee, taking both keys.
- Book 6 · Ch 58Race to stop Quan
Teleported into swampy woods, Carl warns Imani and Tserendolgor's squad to delay the slug-infected Quan at the exits while he forms a new plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 60The failing door
Donut receives both keys for killing Quan, but the capitol building's exit door is damaged and will collapse in five minutes.
- Book 6 · Ch 61The exit collapses
With Donut holding the only usable key and the Capitol door crumbling, Carl and Ren realize no option saves everyone; the Capitol exit is destroyed.
- Book 6 · Ch 61Ren's sacrifice
Refusing to fight Carl and Donut, Ren gives Carl her gear, cards and her reset pet Garret, confesses to Donut, and prepares to die with Khulan on her own terms.
- Book 6 · Ch 62Regrouping in Havana
Carl throws Samantha to retrieve Donut, and the three sneak through zombie-filled Havana toward the church where Imani waits.
- Book 6 · Ch 62Sister Ines's ultimatum
Sister Ines, now controlling demons including Amayon, demands Carl come to the FOSCA building or she'll destroy the church holding the last exit.
- 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 64Where the Sidewalk Ends quest
A regional quest confirms Amayon's two-hour soul portal over Cuba, offering options to do nothing, free him into a World quest, or kill him.
- Book 6 · Ch 64Donut stays with Carl
Carl tells Donut he must kill Sister Ines and free Amayon; Donut refuses to leave without him.
- 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 66Ysalte and the Nebulars
Mordecai identifies Ysalte as the deadly Vinegar Bitch and reveals that the Nebulars sponsor both her and Sister Ines, explaining the cult's genocidal aims.
- 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 67Assault on the demon horde
Donut casts Minion Army while the sluggalos charge early; Elle's supercharged Graupel then obliterates the demons outside the FOSCA building.
- Book 6 · Ch 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 69Refill the world with souls
The battle freezes for a quest update requiring the world be refilled with souls before Amayon can be powered up; Carl prepares to leap toward Samantha.
- Book 6 · Ch 70Carl takes the deck
Donut plays Midnight Express, making Carl the deckmaster on the beach; he summons Raul the crab and Alpha Male Carl.
- Book 6 · Ch 72Carl combined with Shi Maria
Shi Maria kills Alpha Carl before the Golden Combo resolves, so the card fuses Carl with Shi Maria instead.
- 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 6 · Ch 74Emergency action item
Carl's emergency action item sends pending Faction Wars votes to viewers, who remove sponsor protections and add an NPC Home Team.
- Book 6 · Ch 74The heavens open over Cuba
The portal strips the world clean, sucking Carl, Donut and Imani into the sky; Carl swears vengeance for everyone lost.
- Book 6 · Ch 74Arrival at Faction Wars
The quests Hell Comes to Crawler Town and The Missing Piece complete, and the crawlers are welcomed to Faction Wars.
- Book 6 · Ch 75Aboard the Homecoming Queen
Tipid and Rosetta, Crest working with Doctor Hu, watch Carl and Donut escape the eighth floor and discuss the AI and the failsafe.
- Book 7 · Ch 4Arrival in Larracos
Carl and Donut land in a drained alley of Larracos as the ninth floor, Faction Wars, begins with a 60-hour ceasefire.
- Book 7 · Ch 4The Bloc declares war
Eight teams form the Bloc and declare war on the Princess Posse and Team Retribution; Donut accepts a truce with Team Retribution.
- Book 7 · Ch 4Carl purges soul poisoning
Suffering Soul Poisoning, Carl uses Daughter's Kiss to vaporise a dead concierge shark and disperse the stored soul energy.
- Book 7 · Ch 4Donut's new class
Donut reveals she picked the Deathbed Hellcat class and urges Carl to a saferoom so she can collect her accessories and open her boxes.
- Book 7 · Ch 5Opening achievements
In a Larracos saferoom, Carl opens over fifty achievements from the last floor, including two celestial boxes and several unsettling AI messages.
- Book 7 · Ch 6Donut opens her boxes
Donut receives new spellbooks, the Tiara of a Thousand Lights from Long Haul, and a second charge pillow from the Apothecary.
- Book 7 · Ch 6Planning the champion's cloak
Mordecai and Carl plan for Donut to take MySpace Photo before donning Quan's cloak, massively boosting her Constitution.
- Book 7 · Ch 6Donut becomes champion
Donut drinks MySpace Photo and dons the champion's cloak, which boosts Bad Attitude and three more spells toward level 15.
- Book 7 · Ch 7Carl opens his boxes
Carl opens his prizes, gaining a toe ring, a Midnight Market patch and, from his celestial box, the skill Gloom Wraith Phase.
- 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 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 9Army officers appointed
Donut touches each ally to make them officers; Florin, Imani and Elle head out to prepare the Posse headquarters.
- Book 7 · Ch 10Tour of the Party Planner hangar
Louis takes the group up the new airship elevator to the hangar, where they examine his stealth light bomber Party Planner and discuss Faction Wars armor rules.
- Book 7 · Ch 11Donut discovers the Donut Holes shirt
Donut finds Louis wearing an enchanted Donut Holes fan club t-shirt depicting her backside and is outraged; Zev explains the merch is licensed and Donut earns nothing from it.
- Book 7 · Ch 11Meeting War Leader Arief
Leaving the college, the group meets War Leader Arief, a Semeru dwarf officer, who says the NPCs want to discuss tactics and that Juice Box wants to seal the truce by marrying Louis.
- Book 7 · Ch 12Descent through Larracos
Arief leads Carl's group down through the rings of Larracos, recruiting crawlers on the way and explaining the city, the NPCs' memories of past seasons and their raids on enemy camps.
- Book 7 · Ch 12Arrival at the Desperado Club
At the reopened Desperado Club, Donut spots a changeling bartender, and the gnoll manager Hunger Hammy greets Louis by kissing him furiously.
- Book 7 · Ch 13War council with Juice Box
In a hidden room at the Desperado Club, Juice Box shares maps and plans, explains Shanty Town and reveals Ferdinand controls her team's systems with Drick as adjutant.
- Book 7 · Ch 13Louis and Juice Box agree to marry
Coached by Donut in chat, Louis declares that he and Juice Box should marry right away and tells her he loves her.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Crawlers banned from the Desperado Club
Clarabelle tells Carl's group that the new manager, Hamed the Night Wyrm, has banned all crawlers from the Desperado Club.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Trade for Shanty Town
Carl gives Ferdinand a temporary bowler hat in exchange for the mayorship of Shanty Town, and the alliance is renamed The Good Guys.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Louis and Juice Box marry
Louis and Juice Box hold a small changeling wedding in the entrance bar, whispering private vows; the Confirmation will follow in a month. Florin then summons Carl to headquarters as recruits flood in.
- Book 7 · Ch 16Former crawlers arrive as reinforcements
In the Meadowlark saferoom, Carl meets cookbook authors Tipid and Rosetta, who reveal that over 50,000 former crawlers have joined the Princess Posse.
- Book 7 · Ch 17Carl arrives at base camp
Carl arrives at the Princess Posse Base Camp, where thousands of former crawlers building the stronghold greet him with a thundering war chant started by Penn.
- Book 7 · Ch 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 18Herman's suicide bombing foiled
Herman the Fleet, covered in explosives and compelled by Sensation Entertainment, nearly kills Carl's group until Baroness Victory axes him and Carl stows the body in his inventory.
- Book 7 · Ch 19Victory's war briefing
Baroness Victory explains the four phases of combat and the Ramp-Up rules, and reveals about 100,000 enemies massing on the northern border.
- Book 7 · Ch 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 20Skunk spray unleashed
Donut knocks out Fancy Boy, freeing the fleeing skunks to spray all at once, and Carl escapes the cloud using Gloom Wraith Phase.
- 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 26Carl disconnects the containment
On Christmas morning, at a gas station beside a ghost dog, Carl explores the Containment Interface, decides against blowing the fuse, and presses Disconnect Containment, disabling the failsafe.
- 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 27Carl heads to the southern front
Carl ejects Samantha from Party Planner via Louis, sends the eager kids and Jamal back, and leads his Personal Guard toward the naga border.
- Book 7 · Ch 28Rot sticker assault on the southern trenches
The Reavers unleash about 1,000 diseased rot sticker behemoths against the Posse's southern trenches; mages raise an earthwork and the Moles blow it up, but Gurgles-infected soldiers die in the trench.
- Book 7 · Ch 29Planning the southern assault on the Nagas
Carl, Tran and Colonel Boomer review Elle's scouting of the enemy trenches, trebuchets, cavalry, tanks and invisible Madness troops before attacking the Naga territory toward the Blood Sultanate castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 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 32Enemy front trench captured
After Carl blasts the trench and briefly blacks out, the Princess Posse captures the first trench while fleeing enemies fall into an acid-filled middle trench; Boomer takes command.
- 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 34Carl steps back from the edge
Consumed by hatred over Tsarina Signet, Carl wants to kill D'Nadia himself, but Donut talks him down and he lets her and Mongo finish it.
- 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 35Carl becomes party leader
Carl's base stats overtake Donut's, making him Party Leader; Donut feigns outrage and urges him to give up the Ring of Divine Suffering.
- Book 7 · Ch 36Abandoning the Prism castle
Carl traps the castle and leaves Lockjaw in the throne room to provoke conflict between the Madness and the Dream, then heads off to hunt the blobs.
- Book 7 · Ch 37Assault on the Posse castle
Enemy flyers drop paratroopers, saboteurs destroy the anti-air battery and hangar, Reavers enter via a saferoom door, and worm-controlled mages kill defenders from within.
- Book 7 · Ch 38Defending the castle entrance
Pinned behind shields at the castle's only entrance, Carl, Donut and the defenders pick off invisible Monkeywrenchers while worm-controlled Lonnie disables the castle's protections from the enemy lines.
- 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 40King Rust arrives with the northern army
A massive enemy army masses outside the Posse castle, and Donut discovers the orc leader is King Rust himself, not Prince Stalwart.
- Book 7 · Ch 40Closing the saferoom entrance
In the guildhall, the leaders decide to collapse the bait shop entrance, while Donut spends the last money on a hangar, anti-air gun and banners.
- Book 7 · Ch 40Rust requests a parlay
King Rust rides up alone asking for an official parlay, and Donut calls for Kibben to ready the howdah.
- Book 7 · Ch 41Riding out to parlay
Donut rides Ferdinand's rhino Simoom in a howdah to match King Rust's mount, and she and Carl head out under a parlay shield to meet him.
- Book 7 · Ch 42Parlay with King Rust
A grieving King Rust reveals that Princess Formidable is flying to trigger the system failsafe, and agrees to withdraw his army if Carl pleads with her for Earth.
- Book 7 · Ch 42Carl's secret about the failsafe
Carl tells Donut privately that the failsafe won't go off, because he is the one who turned it off, and plans to strike the retreating army.
- Book 7 · Ch 44Looting King Rust
Amid the enemy charge, Rosetta uses King Rust's corpse to authorise a bank transfer while Carl takes the body into his inventory; robed war mages on clockwork mounts approach.
- Book 7 · Ch 44Rescue through the dwarven tunnel
When a dispel clears the smoke, the ground opens and the group falls into a Semeru dwarf tunnel, where the dwarves fight off war mages who fall in.
- Book 7 · Ch 47The AI asks Donut for relationship advice
The AI summons Donut and, through a metaphor about girlfriends and an imprisoned ex, seeks advice; Donut urges caution, and the AI declares the game will go on.
- Book 7 · Ch 47Growler Gary released
The AI departs Gary's body; the confused, drunk, level-175 gnoll asks for Rory and teleports away.
- Book 7 · Ch 48The Bloc splinters
Carl loses the former Prism castle to the Dream, and both the Bone Clan and the Dream leave the Bloc, reshaping the alliances.
- Book 7 · Ch 48Donut trash-talks Stalwart
Donut mocks the new orc king in warlord chat, refusing to return his father's body and goading him about his father's disappointment.
- Book 7 · Ch 50Arrival at the production facility
Carl, Donut and a panicked Ferdinand arrive at the production facility and are security-scanned by gnoll guards before the warlord council.
- Book 7 · Ch 50The Aryl system goes dark
Zev reveals that triggering the failsafe caused the Aryl system and its tunnel node to go dark, an unprecedented event.
- Book 7 · Ch 51The warlord council assembles
The warlords gather at the production facility; Carl meets the imposing naga warlord Princess Vinata, whom his team plans to kill.
- Book 7 · Ch 51Stalwart punches Chaco
Donut and Ferdinand laugh at Stalwart's crown; when Chaco calls a viewer vote on it, Stalwart knocks him out.
- Book 7 · Ch 53Houston explains Juice Box's form
Architect Houston explains the many-named creature Juice Box impersonated, which Tagg dismisses as superstition.
- Book 7 · Ch 53Blood Hunter revelation
Odette reveals the Blood Sultanate made Blood Hunter; Carl realizes their troops are already dead and bursts out laughing, while Donut vows vengeance on Vinata.
- 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 55Rosetta's theory of the vanishing sultana
In a flashback, Rosetta argues from past seasons that Vinata escapes into Club Vanquisher through a temple outside Larracos.
- 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 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 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 66Carl's doubts before Operation Ruin
Watching his army prepare and Donut enter the Nest, Carl dreads the losses the coming all-out attack will bring.
- Book 7 · Ch 70Meatus smashes Harpocrates into the Dream castle
Meatus knocks Harpocrates into the Dream castle, dropping its shields; the elves begin fleeing and Donut takes over the southern campaign.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Tagg flees
Edgar spots Epitome Tagg fleeing the Dream castle; Donut has Sledge fire missiles at him while he is marked.
- 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 76Donut's Rolling Battle Formation
To move the huge pile of frozen witnesses away from the god fight, Donut casts Rolling Battle Formation, forming a giant steerable ball that also swallows Meatus and Eris.
- Book 7 · Ch 77Donut taunts Harpocrates
Donut blasts music and insults over her PA to keep Harpocrates from breaking her rolling ball while a digger approaches.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun draws off Harpocrates
As Harpocrates marks Donut for death, Li Jun lures the god away with a speaker so Donut can finish moving the ball, and sends Li Na a goodbye.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun dies
Carl receives a message from the deceased Li Jun thanking him for more time with his sister and best friend.
- Book 7 · Ch 81Donut unleashes the fleshers
As her rolling ball reaches the field of corpses, Donut casts You're Not Done Yet, creating thousands of fleshers that swarm into the ball seeking enemies.
- Book 7 · Ch 81Carl stops the ball breaking
Fearing the war mages will conscript Eris or Meatus, Carl and Li Na tell Donut to stop, and Carl heals the battle formation before retreating to a saferoom.
- Book 7 · Ch 81The ball is sent toward Larracos
Carl has Donut steer the intact ball toward Larracos and orders everyone free to defend the city, while the adjutants theorise about Agatha's aims.
- Book 7 · Ch 82The Nest tower is attacked
Donut is trapped in the Nest by a net while a crawler woman with a dog enters the tower; Toyotomi, Sergeant Bret S and Bomo die trying to stop her.
- Book 7 · Ch 83Lucia is conscripted
Lucia climbs the Nest against Donkey Kong barrels; Donut summons Raul, who sends Lucia tumbling and seizes her, and Carl smashes the conscription potion on her.
- 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 86Rosetta reveals the War Crime plan
Rosetta explains Donut will cast War Crime combining Bijanbi and Wall of Fire to pull enemies out of the ball into a ring of fire, with fleshers as the finisher.
- Book 7 · Ch 86Edgar tattoos Donut
After Carl offers her a way out, Donut agrees to a tattoo on her right flank granting Bijanbi; Edgar reveals the design is a dog.
- Book 7 · Ch 87Donut receives the Bijanbi tattoo
Edgar finishes Donut's dog tattoo granting Bijanbi, Milk boosts it with Words of Power, then gives Carl ink and a pen before leaving with Rosetta and Edgar.
- Book 7 · Ch 87Trapped by Lucia's second net
Carl and Donut find a second net keeping them in the Nest; as the ball breaks, Carl tells Donut to cast War Crime without fire and sends Dong to grab the trigger.
- Book 7 · Ch 88Donut casts War Crime
Donut's War Crime pulls thousands of enemy soldiers and Meatus into a giant Astral Paw; she slams it repeatedly through Li Na's lattice of chains until everyone trapped is dead.
- Book 7 · Ch 88Teleport ban lifted
All restrictions on teleportation are lifted after Eris leaves, freeing Carl and Donut from the net.
- Book 7 · Ch 89Aftermath of War Crime
Meatus is destroyed and Harpocrates leaves vowing revenge; Shanty Town is drenched in gore under falling ash as Donut reaches level 135 with new deity spells.
- 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 90Akuma's warning
In warlord chat Akuma asks Carl and Donut to kill Agatha, saying the War Mages got the Scavenger's Daughter, then leaves the realm, ending the War Mage Rebellion.
- 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 92Louis rescued from the Reaver castle
Juice Box possesses Louis and teleports him out as explosive robot dogs attack; Carl pockets a frozen nuke dog and detonates No Disassembles, blowing up the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 93Tagg revealed as a cyborg
Carl deduces Epitome Tagg is a cyborg like Fang who grafted himself into Louis's mechanical organs, as Tagg threatens to kill Louis if removed.
- 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 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 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 7 · Ch 97Larracos is sent to the Ascendency
The Sledge casts Zerzura, transferring Larracos and Shanty Town with their NPCs to the 12th floor while mercenaries and outworlders vanish from the dungeon.
- Book 7 · Ch 97The crawlers' farewell gift
Milk reveals departing crawlers have painted their skills into books for Carl and Donut, then they shower the city with flowers and streamers.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Victory becomes Prime Minister
Victory reveals she is now acting Syndicate Prime Minister; Carl privately resolves he would still kill her if necessary.
- 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.
- Book 7 · Ch 99The crew leaves the 9th floor
Samantha is recalled from Emberus, and the remaining crawlers say goodbyes and enter the stairwell as Emberus destroys the floor.
- Book 7 · Ch 100Carl declines all deals
In the Outreach Guild, Quasar outlines poor exit deals and the 10th floor's racing format; Carl and Donut both decline, and Quasar reveals Donut's lawyer is Carl's new wife.
- Book 8 · Ch 2Chandra's legal takeover
From the warship Ventilator, Chandra marries Carl under Widow's Rights, takes conservatorship of Donut's assets, becomes Donut's attorney and sends assassins after Quasar.
- Book 8 · Ch 2Donut confronts Chandra
In her deal meeting, Donut declines all deals, reads Chandra's filings and warns that the Princess Posse will destroy her and her paperwork.
- Book 8 · Ch 2Donut's bounty on Chandra
Donut announces a thinly veiled bounty on Chandra to watching reporters; Chandra's hired Taurin killers immediately ask where she is, and Donut humiliates her.
- Book 8 · Ch 3Arrival in the tenth-floor garage
Carl and Donut arrive in a garage on the tenth floor with five minutes before the first heat; Donut rushes to pick a new class, choosing Assassin of Sekhmet.
- Book 8 · Ch 3Donut picks a mechanic
Two gremlin applicants, Hedy and Waldrip Chris, brawl for the garage manager job; Donut chooses a mechanical vehicle, Hedy gets the job and Waldrip Chris explodes.
- Book 8 · Ch 4Spinning for a vehicle
The vehicle wheel lands on a box truck, which materializes as a gaudy Big Shot Chicken food truck; Carl takes the wheel as the first heat begins.
- 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 5Manatee attack at the cave
At the cave entrance, a minivan burns on its side while a huge manatee kills a ladybug racer, whose rider explodes.
- Book 8 · Ch 6Donut kills Miss Talulah
Donut one-shots the level 90 manatee Miss Talulah, then chooses to let the audience vote on the special guest creature's fate.
- Book 8 · Ch 6Helping Team Free Love
Carl puts out the fire in Team Free Love's crashed van; the bugbears explain the NPC racers race for freedom and remember their past lives, and Carl offers to tow them to the finish.
- 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 7Towing Team Free Love to the finish
Carl tows the bugbears' van through the caves to the finish line near Hungry Eyes Village, finishing seventh with Team Free Love eighth.
- Book 8 · Ch 7Audience votes on Otto
Donut is told the audience voted for Otto to be the manatee stand-in in the arena; Elle endures a meet-and-greet with an obsessive superfan.
- Book 8 · Ch 8Choosing the first upgrade
Back in the garage, Hedy offers mobility upgrades for the food truck; Carl chooses retractable spider legs and plans a driving rig for Donut.
- Book 8 · Ch 9Mordecai's prophecies
In the safe room, Mordecai's glitching Moon Reaper form unveils a flaming eye and delivers ominous prophecies to Carl and Donut, then reveals he is really a shadow mimic.
- Book 8 · Ch 9Carl learns Oozy Form
A slimy spell book from Donut's box turns out to be Oozy Form; Donut refuses it, so Carl learns it as a travel and escape spell.
- Book 8 · Ch 10Donut opens her boxes
Donut receives Sekhmet pet hats for Mongo and Rend, the Danforth bolts, a celestial crupper and many Emergency Gremlin scrolls.
- Book 8 · Ch 10Donut's paw is empowered
The celestial godslayer box replays Donut's killing of Meatus and leaves no item; instead her paw glows painfully and her claws tear the kitchen table in half.
- Book 8 · Ch 11Donut's glowing claws
Donut's godslayer boon gives her radiant claws and Claw skill 17; Rosetta fits claw caps so she can retract them safely.
- Book 8 · Ch 11The crupper's description
Donut equips the Crupper of the Benevolent Champion, whose description recounts the mercenaries her War Crime killed, upsetting her; she raises Puddle Jumper to 16.
- Book 8 · Ch 12Carl opens his achievements
Carl reviews mocking achievements, restocks bombs, and gets a Hotlist Expansion potion and a quadruped baby carrier.
- Book 8 · Ch 12Rishi's junk floods the safe room
Carl's legendary fan box spews Rishi's burned household junk until it fills the safe room to the ceiling, to Donut's disgust.
- 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 14Meeting The Wild Hunt
In the team cul-de-sac, three Razor Fox ninjas perform a flipping routine that casts Size Up; their leader Chiyome then drinks beer with Carl, Donut and Radoslav and proposes an alliance against the leading teams.
- Book 8 · Ch 15The womantaurs size up the competition
Genesis and Rapture of the Lady Dominators visit the cul-de-sac, sneer at Carl and Donut, and leave for the Hairpin bar.
- Book 8 · Ch 15Corcunda quest triggered
Carl and Donut realize the half-mantaur gimp is Dong Quixote's lost friend Corcunda; talking about it triggers a quest to reunite them and restore Corcunda's other half.
- Book 8 · Ch 16Into Hungry Eyes
Carl and Donut pass through the portal into the neon town, noting a banned Club Vanquisher, an illegal-mods shop and the Hairpin, heading to the Lollipop karaoke bar.
- Book 8 · Ch 16Jurgen's mystery meat
Outside the Lollipop, Prepotente and Jurgen argue over their Perriso mount Sweety and Jurgen's street food until Jurgen vomits.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Crawler gathering at the Lollipop
Carl and Donut join the other crawlers at the Lollipop karaoke bar and compare vehicles, results and upgrades from heat one.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Meeting Linus
Elle's superfan Linus hides under the table as her daily tourist companion, wearing unflattering fan merch of her.
- Book 8 · Ch 18Prepotente asks about the Paramour biscuit
Prepotente shows Carl and Donut an Enriched Pet Biscuit that would make his former girlfriend Ragazzaccia a humanoid crawler hopelessly in love with him. Donut firmly tells him never to use it and offers to be his daily adviser.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Preparing the truck for the race
Minutes before the race, Carl and Donut prepare their truck with nervous new driver Bucket Boy and the rude GPS Dr. Metcalf, which reveals a 10 km left-path course in a hailstorm with a gatekeeper monster midway.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Zhang reports Li Na's killings
Zhang messages that Li Na killed five teams and her heat's replacements include two crawler teams, including Tran's; Li Na sits unresponsive while Zhang drives.
- Book 8 · Ch 20Hail starts the race
As the light is about to turn green, house-sized hail destroys the awning over the starting grid; Carl shatters his own windshield with a banger sphere as planned.
- Book 8 · Ch 20Team Sparkles destroys Girth the Trouble
After a shouting match, Team Sparkles fires a hidden tank cannon into Masterplan's Chevy Bel Air, eliminating Girth the Trouble before Donut can take her shot.
- Book 8 · Ch 21Reaching the gatekeeper boss
Carl's truck crawls through the hailstorm to a hilltop where One Fine Pig and the Lady Dominators have stopped; Carl and Donut walk over and see the boss waiting in the road below.
- Book 8 · Ch 22Truce at the kangaroo bosses
Racers on both roads face twin level 170 kangaroo-like gatekeepers, Prison Pocket and Party Foul; the womantaurs propose a temporary truce while Nico threatens Donut over Penelope.
- Book 8 · Ch 23Killing Prison Pocket
Using gremlin bait, Little Günter's delayed mallet strike and a joey-skin costume, Carl gets inside the kangaroo boss's pouch and blows it up from within.
- Book 8 · Ch 24Aftermath of Heat Two
Carl's team limps back to the garage after finishing last; Carl is stuck in the kangaroo costume and learns other crawler teams lost allies.
- Book 8 · Ch 24Bucket Boy mentions Corcunda
Bucket Boy blurts out to Dong that he saw Corcunda and Pontiff, something Donut had just remembered they should have warned him not to say.
- Book 8 · Ch 26Corcunda quest part two
The AI reveals Corcunda was split in two by a spell and tasks Carl and Donut to reunite the halves with a fleshmancer; the reward is two stand-ins summoned to the 11th-floor arena.
- Book 8 · Ch 26The sock suspicion
Imani heals Dong and privately concludes his collapse came from separation from his sapient sock, which may be sustaining him.
- Book 8 · Ch 27Opening loot between races
Carl and Donut open boxes in the safe room; Carl gains the Fursona skill, a Fursuiter temporary class and a hotlist expansion with Contingency.
- 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 28Rosetta and Tipid return with leads
Rosetta and Tipid report a likely fleshmancer and a lead on the hidden performance guild, and bring two Jikininki ghoul mercenaries.
- Book 8 · Ch 29Lexis briefs Carl and Donut
Pulled to a greenroom on the ocean floor for Plenty of Plenty, Carl and Donut learn from Lexis that OIAN has seized the ships in orbit and that something strange protects Katia's facility.
- Book 8 · Ch 30Judged on Plenty of Plenty
Carl and Donut are sentenced to death, appeal, and are judged by a circle of caprids, several of whom deem them worthy and ask questions.
- Book 8 · Ch 30Carl goes off script on live
Orren and Victory beg Carl to ask the Plenty about tunnel integrity; instead he publicly asks whether people know escaped gods endanger them.
- Book 8 · Ch 31Caprid stampede
Carl's revelation sends the caprid panel into panic; they stampede out of the studio, leaving Gamori, who judges Carl too dangerous for the herd.
- Book 8 · Ch 31Harbinger is killed by the AI
Harbinger teleports in, rebukes his mother Gamori, and raises a pulse rifle at Carl; the AI explodes him, drenching everyone in gore.
- Book 8 · Ch 32Heat three begins with a drugged driver
Back from the studio, Carl lines up for heat three with Gluteus Maxx driving, then discovers Gluteus is high on outworlder uppers just before the start.
- Book 8 · Ch 32Sugar Hermit migration
Tens of thousands of skull-wearing Sugar Hermits flood the steep track toward the kaiju skull at the finish as the shielded racers wait to launch.
- Book 8 · Ch 33Luca Di's banquet entry
In Donut's book, Luca Di thanks her for saving him and his mother, which let them reconcile before his mother died.
- Book 8 · Ch 33Heat three launch
Gluteus floors it down the steep track; Carl deploys the ghoul cages and slimes Team Sparkles and One Fine Pig with Denial of Service missiles.
- Book 8 · Ch 33Holding off the skull waves
As twin waves of sugar hermits flood the road, the ghouls hurl Biscuit Packs and Donut casts a massive Wall of Fire.
- Book 8 · Ch 34Three-way crash at the finish
With Gluteus unconscious, Carl kicks through Tem's skull as Dwight's cannon flips the truck; three vehicles tumble over the line together.
- Book 8 · Ch 34Royal Court wins heat three
The results put the Royal Court first, Sparkles second and the Dominators third, with Free Love and One Fine Pig behind.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Aftermath of heat three
Carl and Donut limp back to the garage, learn the next race is a deadly jungle trail in seven hours, and begin rebuilding the truck with Hedy.
- Book 8 · Ch 36Team Helix hired
Rosetta and Tipid bring Team Helix, three mercenaries who can drive and protect; Quemada demands triple pay after seeing the Emberus shrine, and Carl accepts.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Jacobus made permanent
After Eris leaves, Imani's Reverse Tooth Fairy card Jacobus becomes permanently summoned through Carl's Scavenger's Daughter effect.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Carl tells the group about Eris
Carl explains Eris's visit and coin in chat; friends react, and Carl proposes talking to the war mages before sharing a half-formed plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 39Finding Akuma
The group enters Chicken and Waffles, finds Akuma's murdered upgrade imp and note, and Carl opens a trapped secret door to reveal Akuma.
- Book 8 · Ch 39Elle's revenge on Akuma
Donut mutes Akuma and Elle shatters one of his frozen testicles, then sets terms for his interrogation under Imani's anti-magic shield.
- Book 8 · Ch 40Carl punches Akuma
Akuma admits he wanted Carl to kill two teams so he'd face friends and be forced to help; Carl breaks his nose.
- Book 8 · Ch 41Planning around Akuma's offer
After leaving Akuma, Carl sets plans to verify his claims and find routes to the Pineapple Cabaret while Donut explains it all in chat.
- Book 8 · Ch 41Tipid finds the guild entrance
Tipid sings karaoke at the Lollipop and a gauge appears, confirming the hidden performance guild requires a perfect song to enter.
- Book 8 · Ch 42Rules for the jungle race
Zev announces survival containment bubbles, mandatory two-hour pit stops, survival after losing a vehicle, and garage keys for winners.
- Book 8 · Ch 42Team Flamengo joins the heat
The replacement team is crawlers Osvaldo and Filipe on Bruna the Slaughter Gnu; Carl's plea for restraint is rebuffed and Donut antagonizes Osvaldo.
- Book 8 · Ch 43Route planned for the race
Before the race begins, Dr. Metcalf plots a route through the jungle to the pit stop at Upano, skirting the Temple of the Exploding Snake Goddess and a cannibal village.
- Book 8 · Ch 44Race begins in the acid rain
The race starts; teams split onto different jungle paths, and only the Lady Dominators take the same route as Carl's truck before the Wienermobile cuts in front.
- Book 8 · Ch 45Cannibal ambush
Thousands of ginger cannibals hurl themselves at the truck's shield; Donut's Astral Paw sweeps away the warriors on a skull-laden arch.
- Book 8 · Ch 45Great Rusty slain
Great Rusty's soul attack knocks out Olga; Donut kills him with a magic missile, and Finley drives through the village.
- Book 8 · Ch 46Arrival at Upano pit stop
Carl's truck reaches the pit stop at the Lost City of Upano in fourth place, where Hedy inspects the truck and explains garage doors must stay open.
- Book 8 · Ch 46Jamal rescued from the ceiling
Jamal confesses his fear of heights and of dying, and Donut talks him down from the garage ceiling.
- Book 8 · Ch 47Carl regains his composure
Pulled away by Imani and Donut, Carl grieves the mercenaries, has Donut collect the corpses, and overhears the Tigrans' plans for Penelope.
- Book 8 · Ch 48Donut distracts One Fine Pig
Donut uses All Eyes on Me through a spoken speech to Penelope, charming the Tigrans Nico and Dario while Carl secretly plants Tigran-only disintegration traps around their truck.
- Book 8 · Ch 48Passing the Minister of Blood-Letting
Heading into town, the group passes the Minister of Blood-Letting's skeletal creatures carrying a bucket of foul white liquid.
- Book 8 · Ch 49Race tracks rerolled at the pit stop
Zev reveals that each heat rolls a new track for the second half; Carl and Donut get Satan's Water Park while Elle and Imani get the eternal slum.
- Book 8 · Ch 50Corpse driver at the starting line
Carl and Donut line up at Satan's Water Park with the resurrected, headless Olga at the wheel, planning to catch up via the River of Sloth.
- Book 8 · Ch 51Descending the water park tubes
With a clockwork Olga at the wheel, Carl and Donut fight through gingers and zipper shrews, then use spider legs to skirt the trapdoor trap; Olga falls through it.
- Book 8 · Ch 52Freezing the River of Sloth
Carl and Donut freeze the river with Gutter Bumper and Ice Slick, shred the gingers with dragged weapons and summoned shrews, and kill Maurice, completing Pasty Inferno.
- Book 8 · Ch 52Lucienne dies at the finish line
Charmed by Summon Ye, Vermin, Lucienne clings to Carl's truck hood and is crushed through it by the finish-line barrier.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Heat Four finish
Carl's team wins the heat; Lucienne's remains are cleared, the Lady Dominators and Osvaldo's team follow, and Dwight is left stranded behind.
- Book 8 · Ch 56Researching Chalchiuhtlicue
Rosetta, Mordecai and Prepotente share what they know about the goddess Donut nicknames Chachi.
- Book 8 · Ch 56Retrieving Penelope
Carl opens One Fine Pig's abandoned garage with his key and finds Penelope, who happily follows him out.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 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 60Carl's karaoke debut
Carl sings 'Take on Me' through the chaos and gains access to the Stage Performance Guild, while Donut fails at the final line.
- Book 8 · Ch 62Failed garage raid on Corky
Before Carl's group can break in, Genesis and Rapture drive Corky out to the race; Porky learns Dong is involved and is furious.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na sent out of the dungeon
Zhang sucks Li Na into an XL pet carrier, the cleaner bot Suckira stores it, and Donut sells Suckira at the shop terminal so Herot can take her to the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 65Mees Koning 2's letter to Donut
A dead crawler's entry in Donut's book thanks her for a brief kindness during Faction Wars and grants the Big-Ass Magnet spell.
- Book 8 · Ch 65The factory race begins
Carl drives the truck to the factory starting line with Donut, Dong, Porky and Grigori, plans to tail the Lady Dominators, and the race starts.
- Book 8 · Ch 66Racing through the factory
Carl tails the Lady Dominators' GTO through the factory, rocket-jumping a gap between conveyor belts over vats of molten metal amid crashing rivals.
- Book 8 · Ch 67Corky rescued from the wrecked GTO
After the Lady Dominators' car falls into a trap hole, Donut teleports down and retrieves the unconscious Corky while cocaine-elemental dolls swarm.
- Book 8 · Ch 68Corky and Porky fused into Corcunda
Inside the upside-down truck, Grigori's spell and Dong's grip join the two half-mantaurs into one being named Corcunda.
- Book 8 · Ch 69Grull attacks in the factory
Grull crashes through the factory wall, wrecks the truck with an axe blow, and Donut ejects the Maestro from his chest with Laundry Day.
- Book 8 · Ch 69Dong and Corcunda's last charge
To make Grull leave, Corcunda and Dong charge the god with a magnetised lance, smashing through the slag elementals; Grull calls it a good death and vanishes.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Aftermath of heat five
Carl's team mourns Dong; allies check in, and Osvaldo reveals Dwight won by going over the factory instead of through it.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Cactus signal from Li Na
Mordecai reports a single flower on the cactus, meaning Li Na made it to the Pineapple Cabaret and it is safe.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Guild meeting in the pet stables
Carl outlines the plan for the last two heats and Floor 11, including leaving the party to deal with Hellik, while Donut and Imani object.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Rosetta explains the Scavenger myth
Rosetta recounts the myth of Nekhebit, her children, and the Scavenger's Daughter, a being able to erase the pantheon and take gods' powers.
- Book 8 · Ch 73Examining the Memorial Crystal
In the god-proof stables, Prepotente lets Carl inspect Apito's Memorial Crystal and explains his quest from the Midnight Epicure.
- Book 8 · Ch 73Samantha's secret plan
Samantha bursts in having ditched Grigori, and when Donut describes Carl's plan, Samantha says hers is just like it.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 75Linus unmasked
Elle's tribute to her husband turns into exposing Linus as an impostor assassin; he admits Imani and Louis were his targets and faces expulsion from the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 76Cabaret escape completed
227 crawlers are sent to the Pineapple Cabaret, and the Garden of Deliverance is set up to track whether each has died or escaped.
- Book 8 · Ch 76Heat six starting line
Shrunk to Lego size, the racers start inside apartment 712 of the L'Engle Building; a last-minute rule requires seven rings, one per floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 77Racing through the what-if apartments
Carl's team clears gates one and two in apartments depicting crawlers' alternate lives, including Tran's parents' home, using Hole spells to drop between floors.
- Book 8 · Ch 77Ad Infinitum quest
The System AI freezes the race to explain the apartments as its predictive models, reveals Minus's identity and targets, and hints at an overlooked flaw in heat seven.
- Book 8 · Ch 78Archie's what-if apartment
Passing through Archie Mu's apartment for gate four, the team watches his wife Mackenzie become aware and tear at her stitched eyes.
- Book 8 · Ch 78Imani's family apartment erupts
In apartment 310, Imani's family shells become aware and burst into invulnerable scarab beetles as Carl's team clears gate five.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Escorting Imani and Elle out of 310
Carl's team waits for Imani and Elle to clear their gate amid the beetles, then all drop through a Hole to the second floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Marjory's apartment
Clearing gate six in apartment 231, Carl and Donut overhear Marjory's what-if life and piece together her history with Bill.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Team Free Love killed
To go help Prepotente without risking last place, Carl detonates a bomb hidden in the bugbears' beer, eliminating Team Free Love.
- Book 8 · Ch 81Damien's announcement
Damien opens the Outreach Guild, disowns the Pineapple Cabaret exploit, and reveals that Floor 11 begins with building a parade float.
- Book 8 · Ch 82Britney's telepathic warning
Leaving the Desperado Club, Britney evades Carl's concern and speaks directly into his mind, telling him he just needs to survive.
- Book 8 · Ch 83Final heat lineups revealed
At the starting blocks of the final race heat, Carl sees that the heats now pit allied crawlers against each other: Chris with Imani and Elle, and Louis and Britney with Florin and Lucia Mar.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Carl's fury at the heat lineups
Carl screams at the ceiling, blaming the showrunners for setting allies against each other. Chris says he should have taken a deal, and Imani refuses to accept that.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Scolopendra's first attack
The AI launches the Nine-Tier Attack quest. A wheel lands on the Beast of Burden Sin, Transformation. Donut, Jamal and Samantha are spared, but Carl is hit and transformed into a four-legged creature.
- Book 8 · Ch 85Contingency three
Realising Pontiff's exit means a way out exists, Carl, now a dachshund, tells all crawlers facing allies to use contingency three, and the crawlers turn on the NPC racers.
- Book 8 · Ch 85Crawlers slaughter the NPC racers
When the light turns green, Dr. Metcalf's hole punch and potions kill Dwight's vine and GPS, and Donut decapitates Dwight, eliminating Team Sparkles. Across the lobby other crawlers kill their NPC opponents.
- Book 8 · Ch 85Carl blows the ceiling
With Osvaldo poised on Bruna waiting to make his move, Carl warns the others and detonates the ceiling.
- Book 8 · Ch 86Osvaldo's dash for the portal
Carl blows a path to the roof; Osvaldo launches toward the Floor 11 portals, leaving Bruna to die, but Carl and Donut shield and save Bruna and Osvaldo is stunned by the portal wall.
- Book 8 · Ch 86Donut destroys the Russian Cadillac
As others retreat to use the Pineapple Cabaret holding plan, the Russian crawlers make a run for the exit; after allies drop its shield, Donut crushes the car with Astral Paw.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Crawlers gather at the Hairpin
About thirty crawlers wait outside the Hairpin; seeing Carl as a dachshund, they all collapse laughing before he proposes robbing a casino.
- Book 8 · Ch 88Entering the Desperado Club
The crawlers enter the remodelled Desperado Club; Clay-ton, now in the band, backs Chris and the guards stand aside.
- Book 8 · Ch 88The trap springs
Donut spots something wrong with her magic-flow glasses, and Mitch signals his men; the table tries to eat Donut.
- 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 90Louis enters the Nothing portal
After the mimic fight, Imani reopens the wheel portal; Louis says goodbye and jumps in, and Carl swears to free those sent away.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Leaving the cursed floor
Back at Hungry Eyes, Donut collects two more mounts, comforts the giant dream-Imani, and the truck heads for the stairwell.
- Book 8 · Ch 92Arrival on Floor 11
Carl refuses a deal from Quasar, and lands in the parade staging garage to find only 23 crawlers left; Donut chooses a new class.
- Book 8 · Ch 92Chaco announces the parade
Chaco, made parade Grand Master, explains the 90-minute float build, judging and arena; garages merge and Carl and Donut join Prepotente and Jurgen under the theme Vengeance.
- Book 8 · Ch 93Preparing for the parade
Carl examines Donut's Gatekeeper spell book and sews on the Lucky Shot patch, while Donut opens boxes and rushes everyone to decorate.
- Book 8 · Ch 94Building the Vengeance procession
The team decorates five vehicles and three giant mounts with dahlias and Gurkha gear, assigning drivers and riders for the parade.
- Book 8 · Ch 94Carl leaves the party
Just before the parade, Carl leaves the Royal Court of Princess Donut and joins Safehome Yolanda, keeping most crafting tables on Donut's side.
- Book 8 · Ch 95The parade lines up
The processions line up on the yellow-brick road among silent masked crowds; Carl examines a child spectator and the AI reveals the Horribles are lost memories of Primals.
- Book 8 · Ch 96Approaching the judging stand
As the processions reach the arena, a huge tentacled tree looms inside and Prepotente prepares the Vengeance presentation.
- Book 8 · Ch 96Prepotente sings
At the judging stand, Prepotente abandons the plan and sings "In the Air Tonight", stunning everyone.
- Book 8 · Ch 96Carl's vengeance speech
Carl reveals an Unwashed effigy, heals Chaco under Grigori's gaze, and vows vengeance on the galaxy; sluggalos drop from the airship and slaughter the masked elites in the stands.
- Book 8 · Ch 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 98Plan C begins
Carl straps the sapient pig Penny to his chest, messages Emberus to meet in Club Scolopendra, and holds a gun to Penny's head to draw out Taranis.
- Book 8 · Ch 99Second of nine attacks
Scolopendra's Sin of Consumption kills many, including Cerni Pinta and Sweety; Carl and Penny are spared, and Taranis battles Krakaren Prime outside.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Trapping Emberus
Donut swaps in for Penny and pins Emberus with Katia's bolt; Emberus's fire is redirected to Penny, and Donut teleports herself and Carl to the arena.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Taranis kills Emberus
Enraged at the attack on Penny, Taranis destroys his brother Emberus; the blast wrecks vehicles across the arena, though the crawlers survive.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Eris enters
As Carl mounts his motorcycle with Donut refusing to leave him, the world freezes and Eris enters the realm.
- Book 8 · Ch 101Scolopendra turned to goo
Amid Eris's inventory swap, Donut finds the biscuit-loaded banger sphere and Carl hurls it into Scolopendra's mouth, turning the Dungeon boss into a puddle.
- Book 8 · Ch 101Taranis departs
Taranis returns Penny, banishes Khepri, spares Carl and Donut, and leaves with Samantha and Krakaren Prime, ending the battle.
- Book 8 · Ch 102The arena battle ends
The gods and monsters are gone and the crawlers are declared winners even though neither boss died. Hedy and several crawlers are dead, nineteen crawlers remain, and the 18th-floor exit opens.
- 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.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.