Scolopendra
Names: ScolopendraSexy Scolopendra
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 7 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 8Scolopendra's poison cloud was a Nine Tier attack; Carl suspects Scolopendra is the monster at the bottom of the volcano.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 16Scolopendra's attack, a nine-tier multi-attack firing back spells cast at her, devastated the land; the were-castor survivors were mostly unaffected.
- Ch 64The ballroom ceiling mosaic shows Scolopendra dreaming; when she awakens she will supposedly destroy everything and free everyone.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 51A system message warns that Scolopendra stirs, which Epitome Tagg says has never happened before.
- Ch 52Scolopendra is the final dungeon boss, normally not due to wake until someone reaches the 18th floor.
- Ch 99Scolopendra awakens; guests at the Scolopendra Club are told to flee to the 16th floor.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 1The recap calls Scolopendra the big bad centipede at the bottom of the dungeon, now awake.
- Ch 3The dungeon boss Scolopendra is now awake, with a club full of guests physically inside it.
- Ch 84Scolopendra has awakened and releases the first of nine attacks against Scolopendra levels and levels with crawlers.
- Ch 97Carl's first stand-in choice in the arena is Scolopendra.
- Ch 98Scolopendra is the level 500 Dungeon boss, the final boss of the entire dungeon, summoned to Floor 11 at Carl's request.
- Ch 98If Scolopendra dies or is abandoned on a collapsing floor, all her remaining nine-tier attacks trigger at once.
- Ch 99Carl deduced from repeated hints in god descriptions that lightning is the key to defeating Scolopendra.
- Ch 100After Emberus's explosion, Scolopendra has a large hole and a health bar but remains in the green.
- Ch 101Carl throws a banger sphere combined with a Nothing Special enriched pet biscuit into Scolopendra's mouth, reducing her to a puddle of goo.
- Ch 102Scolopendra is declared defeated without dying; killing or abandoning her now would trigger her final attacks.
- Ch 102Instead of becoming a pet, Scolopendra emerges as a level 1 crawler and party member, a human-faced centipede.
Connections
- enemy ofGrimaldi
- family ofNekhebitNekhebit's centipede child
- family ofApitosiblings
- containsClub Scolopendrainside the centipede
- related toCarljoined his party as a level 1 crawler
Key moments
- Book 7 · Ch 51Scolopendra stirs
A system warning that Scolopendra stirs silences the room; nobody has seen it before.
- Book 7 · Ch 99Scolopendra awakens
With the Nothing draining into her lair, Scolopendra awakens and a planetwide message urges Scolopendra Club guests to flee to the 16th floor.
- 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 97Carl chooses Scolopendra
Realising every NPC and mob is a Primal fragment, Carl makes his first stand-in choice: Scolopendra.
- Book 8 · Ch 98Scolopendra enters the realm
Carl's choice summons Scolopendra, the level 500 Dungeon boss, alongside Krakaren Prime; the AI explains the consequences of killing or abandoning her.
- Book 8 · Ch 99Into Club Scolopendra
As Taranis and Emberus enter the realm, Carl carries Penny into Scolopendra's body and reaches Club Scolopendra, keeping her alive with a magic nipple ring.
- 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 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 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 103Sydnee Iglacia on Danger Zone
Historian Sydnee Iglacia tells Ripper Wonton that the Scolopendra myth's nine-tier attack is real history repeating itself, with the escaped Earth AI's seizure of the tunnels as tier one and the eleventh floor as tier two, A Parade of Horribles.