Valtay Corporation
Names: Valtay CorporationValtay Corp.ValtayGondiiValtay wormworm headBrain wormsValtay worms
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 47 (47)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 48Valtay is a powerful parasitic corporate government whose fleet waits outside the Borant system to collect a debt; it will run the next season.
- Ch 48Valtay parasites can use human hosts but prefer aquatic ones like the kua-tin, and favour advanced technology.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 19The Valtay Corporation is trying to collect its debt from Borant and potentially take over the crawl season.
- Ch 19In retaliation, a Valtay dreadnaught destroys Prince Stalwart's yacht; Queen Consort Ugloo and the former Prince Maestro are rumoured aboard.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 11The Valtay Corporation becomes Carl's first sponsor, and his viewers will now see its advertisements.
- Ch 12The Valtay Corporation, Carl's sponsor, is trying to invade the Borant system; Carl fears Borant may now want him dead.
- Ch 13The Valtay Corporation sends Carl a Bronze Benefactor Box containing a neural enhancer pill.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 5Mordecai says the Valtay are Gondii, brain worms that reanimate recently dead bodies, read their memories and keep them running for centuries.
- Ch 34The Valtay Corporation helped Borant defeat a Skull Empire injunction, arguing Carl's Skull Empire stock moved the case to another court.
- Ch 35Sadir considers the Valtay the cruelest; a Valtay season's use of a crawler's collected children led to such use being banned.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 19A Syndicate court ruling grants the Valtay Corporation 51% ownership of the Borant Corporation.
- Ch 19The Valtay Corporation is removed as Carl's sponsor because of a conflict of interest from the regency change.
- Ch 20Lexis warns the Valtay want to choose their own top ten and will try to wipe out the current top crawlers at the masquerade.
- Ch 20The Valtay hold 51% of Borant Corporation, but the collection action on the whole system remains in limbo.
- Ch 30The Valtay have replaced rental trailers with their own landing vessel on the ocean floor under constant security surveillance, after an escape attempt.
- Ch 41The Valtay now own 51% of the Borant Corporation, forcing Carl to give up his first sponsor.
- Ch 59The Valtay have taken control of the Borant Corporation.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 75The Valtay plan sends over 150,000 mercenaries into Faction Wars to kill all crawlers quickly, especially Carl and Donut.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 37Enemy brain worms take over freshly killed Posse mages, who keep fighting and killing allies from inside the defenses.
- Ch 38Gondii worms take over dead bodies, gaining memories gradually; they can repair, overclock and hop between hosts.
- Ch 38The Valtay charter requires gondii to take only willing hosts, but outlaw mercenary gondii exist.
- Ch 39The system AI says it rejected the Valtay's updated plans for the 11th floor to limit sci-fi intrusions.
Connections
- createdTrans Tunnel 7C Orator Relay
- createdValtay Perso-Shield Platinum Edition
- createdMag 3040 Valtay Corp Pulse Pistol
- related toManasabody run by a Valtay parasite under contract
- enemy ofSkull Clanformer allies; Valtay destroys the royal yacht
- related toCarlsponsor
- enemy ofBorant Corporation
- related toInfiltratordistant cousins
- related toOrrenis a Valtay
- ally ofBorant Corporationassisted in court despite being at odds
- has memberOrren
- related toBorant Corporationowns 51% of Borant Corporation
- related toSenegal Production Systems, Unlimitedkicked them off system
- related toBiffValtay Corporation porter bot
- related toDrickcontrolled by a Valtay worm under contract
- has memberGoldblum
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 47Agatha's hidden tech
Carl's inventory history reveals Valtay tech once in Agatha's cart; moments later Agatha appears and heads down the stairs.
- 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 19Valtay retaliation
A Valtay dreadnaught in Earth orbit destroys Prince Stalwart's royal yacht; Queen Consort Ugloo and the former Prince Maestro are rumoured to have been aboard.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Carl gets a sponsor
An admin notice tells Carl he has been sponsored by The Valtay Corporation.
- 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 13Carl takes the Valtay pill
Carl opens his Valtay benefactor box, takes the neural enhancer and discovers he can see through doorways.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Benefactor boxes arrive
Walking back to the saferoom as a storm arrives, Carl receives benefactor boxes from the Valtay Corporation and The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Carl opens his benefactor boxes
In front of Mordecai, Carl takes a Valtay enhancer that adds altitude and speed gauges, and gets a useless rare tuber from the pacifist network.
- Book 5 · Ch 19Valtay takes control of Borant
A planet-wide notice announces a Syndicate court has made the Borant Corporation independent of the Borant System Government, executing a ruling that gives the Valtay Corporation 51% ownership.
- 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 56Masquerade announcement
The system announces the Great Race floor and details the Butcher's Masquerade: plus-one tokens, contests, hunters in a parallel ballroom, and no violence inside.
- Book 6 · Ch 75Emergency Syndicate Council session
Princess Formidable demands the failsafe be pulled; the council mutes her and backs the Valtay plan to flood Faction Wars with mercenaries.