Timeline
What's happened so far
Book 1 Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 1 · 1
The Syndicate announcement
A Syndicate observer AI announces Earth has been seized and that survivors may enter the Borant Corporation's 18-level World Dungeon within one hour.
- Ch 2 · 2
Murder Dozer ambush
Following a sign to 'Da Tutorial Guild', Carl walks into a goblin trap and flees a Goblin Murder Dozer down the tunnels.
- Ch 3 · 3
Carl destroys the Murder Dozer crew
To stop the goblins summoning their clan, Carl boards the Murder Dozer, kills both remaining goblins and flees back into the guild before the boiler explodes.
- Ch 3 · 3
Mordecai explains himself
Mordecai reveals he is a former crawler, a skyfowl turned Changeling, and begins explaining the dungeon to Carl.
- Ch 4 · 4
The dungeon seals
A female announcer declares the dungeon sealed: about 13 million humans entered, under 10 million survive, and Floor 2 opens after the introductory episode airs.
- Ch 5 · 5
Opening the loot boxes
With his inventory unlocked, Carl opens ten boxes, gaining weapons, potions, dynamite, the Goblin Pass and enchanted gear.
- Ch 5 · 5
Donut 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.
- Ch 6 · 6
Carl gears up
Carl equips the trollskin shirt, nightgaunt cloak and toe ring, sharply boosting his constitution, strength and regeneration.
- Ch 7 · 7
Donut becomes a crawler
The Enhanced Pet Biscuit leaves Donut a talking cat with boosted stats, reclassified from pet to full crawler.
- Ch 7 · 7
Donut 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
The 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.
- Ch 8 · 8
Killing 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.
- Ch 8 · 8
Finding a safe room
After many fights with rats and Scatterers, the exhausted pair reach a safe room near what may be a Scatterer nest.
- Ch 10 · 10
Rest and breakfast
Carl sleeps ten hours, showers and eats in the safe room while the remaining-crawler count drops past 4.1 million.
- Ch 10 · 10
Clearing toward the nest
Carl and Donut kill a Brood Guardian and dozens more Scatterers, reaching level 5 by the nest door.
- Ch 11 · 11
Explosion in the nest
The dynamite blows as it lands, nearly killing Carl but wiping out the nest's Scatterers and wounding a hidden boss.
- Ch 11 · 11
Boss 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.
- Ch 12 · 12
Boss loot opened
Donut accidentally learns Torch; Carl gains a Tome of Wisp Armor, more dynamite and spiked kneepads.
- Ch 14 · 14
The 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.
- Ch 14 · 14
Post-episode announcement
The female announcer gives boss tallies and patch notes, and opens the staircases to Floor 2 with stasis rules for early descent.
- Ch 15 · 15
Entering goblin territory
Carl uses his Goblin Pass to enter the goblin neighbourhood, and Donut charms a goblin into guiding them to the engineers' workshop.
- Ch 15 · 15
Trading 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
The chopper is delivered
Goblin engineers build Carl a Goblin Copper Chopper with a sidecar, and Rory hands over a bag of explosives.
- Ch 16 · 16
The meth war begins
Donut reveals the llamas as the meth source; the whole goblin force rides out to attack them, abandoning the workshop.
- Ch 16 · 16
Decision to attack the chieftain
Alone in the workshop, Carl agrees to loot it and then attack the goblin chieftain's boss lair.
- Ch 18 · 18
The goblin boss dies
The blast kills the goblin chieftain along with goblin babies and elders, destroying the workshop and leaving the boss loot unreachable.
- Ch 19 · 19
Asshole's Boxes and Desperado Passes
Their baby-killing achievements bring Asshole's Boxes that brand both with Desperado Pass tattoos, infuriating Donut.
- Ch 19 · 19
Carl's resolve
Lying awake, Carl decides the dungeon set up the infant deaths, and vows it will not break him.
- Ch 20 · 20
Day two announcement
Borant's daily update patches toilets, languages and Feral Rabies, removes Blender Fiends and upgrades the Street Preacher to a borough boss.
- Ch 21 · 21
Driving east
Carl and Donut ride the chopper east for hours through empty dungeon, fighting Scat Thugs at a bathroom stop.
- Ch 24 · 24
Donut nearly dies
The dying Juicer flings Donut into a wall, leaving her at a sliver of health; she slowly heals and recovers.
- Ch 25 · 25
New loot
Donut learns Puddle Jumper and gains heal scrolls; Carl wins Bloodlust shuriken and the War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull.
- Ch 26 · 26
Borough 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.
- Ch 26 · 26
Popping the Ball of Swine
The ball wedges on the Speedbump; the group stabs until it bursts, raining dazed tusklings as the fortress collapses.
- Ch 26 · 26
Slaughter of the tusklings
The group kills the confused, weaponless tusklings released from the Ball of Swine, needed to drop the stairwell's forcefield.
- Ch 27 · 27
Borough boss defeated
Brandon crushes the Tuskling Dominatrix, ending the fight; Carl loots the Borough Field Guild and the stairwell forcefield drops.
- Ch 27 · 27
Descending 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.
- Ch 30 · 30
Arriving on Floor 2
Carl and Donut reach the second floor, spot the stairs to Floor Three, and fight grubs, Danger Dingoes and Mind Horrors.
- Ch 30 · 30
Opening 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.
- Ch 31 · 31
Floor 1 collapses
As episode four begins, the first floor collapses, killing over 700,000 crawlers while the Meadow Lark group moves into the storm shelter.
- Ch 31 · 31
Second floor announcement
Borant announces the six-day timer, activates follows and favorites, explains the new patronage auctions and threatens bathroom violators.
- Ch 32 · 32
Clearing the clurichauns
Carl and Donut clear clurichauns near the stairwell, using Second Chance zombies for slingshot practice; Carl is infected with the Taint.
- Ch 32 · 32
Inventing the Jug O' Boom
Carl turns looted moonshine jugs into firebombs, which the system names Carl's Jug O' Boom.
- Ch 33 · 33
The 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.
- Ch 34 · 34
Fight with the Krakaren Clone
Carl blends the immunity smoothie as the Krakaren Clone's tentacles smash through the walls and clurichauns attack.
- Ch 35 · 35
Surviving the Krakaren blast
The explosion kills the Krakaren Clone; Donut saves the badly injured Carl, and they loot the neighborhood map amid converging grubs.
- Ch 35 · 35
A kua-tin arrives
An admin warning sounds and a kua-tin named Zev teleports into the guild room.
- Ch 37 · 37
Grub swarm
Thousands of spawned grubs swarm Carl and Donut; they firebomb and stomp a path to meet the Meadow Lark group.
- Ch 37 · 37
The resident train
The Meadow Lark group arrives with a wheelchair train, and Carl leads them toward the stairwell.
- Ch 38 · 38
Rage 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.
- Ch 38 · 38
Escape 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.
- Ch 39 · 39
Recap 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.
- Ch 39 · 39
Safe rooms to close before collapse
An announcement says all safe rooms will now close one hour before floor collapse, so the group can't simply wait out the elemental.
- Ch 40 · 40
Chase 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.
- Ch 40 · 40
Elemental 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.
- Ch 41 · 41
Farewell 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.
- Ch 41 · 41
Mukta 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.
- Ch 42 · 42
Carl 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.
- Ch 43 · 43
The 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.
- Ch 43 · 43
Parting gifts
The Maestro trolls Carl with boots and gives Frank and Maggie a potion to track any crawler; Carl challenges him to face them on the ninth floor.
- Ch 44 · 44
Zev'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.
- Ch 46 · 46
The 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.
- Ch 47 · 47
Mongo 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.
- Ch 47 · 47
Descent to the third floor
With six hours left, Carl, Princess Donut and Mongo head down the stairs to Floor 3.
- Ch 48 · Epilogue
Odette'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.
- Ch 48 · Epilogue
Odette'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 Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 1 · 1
Princess 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.
- Ch 2 · 2
Carl presented to the third floor
Mordecai leads them out into a bustling village and formally presents Carl as the Level 13 Compensated Anarchist Primal.
- Ch 3 · 3
Mordecai'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.
- Ch 4 · 4
Ambushed 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.
- Ch 4 · 4
Drunk Mordecai arrives
When they reach The Belly-Rubbed Pug, a drunken Mordecai teleports in with his pants down, vomits and passes out.
- Ch 5 · 5
Opening the Earth boxes
While Mordecai sleeps it off, Carl and Princess Donut open Earth boxes and hobby potions, and Donut learns Clockwork Triplicate.
- Ch 5 · 5
Scouting the circus
Carl decides to investigate the circus; they find three dead crawlers left as a trap and Princess Donut spots the circus tents.
- Ch 6 · 6
Mortar 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.
- Ch 6 · 6
Meeting Tsarina Signet
Princess Donut teleports them out to face the Elite Tsarina Signet, whose charm grips Carl until he breaks his own finger.
- Ch 7 · 7
Battle 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Signet'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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Third floor announcement
The system welcomes crawlers to the third floor, announces early sponsor bids, and warns against violence toward non-combatant NPCs.
- Ch 8 · 8
Signet 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.
- Ch 10 · 10
Carl enters the big top
Holding a Big Top Ticket, Carl passes Clammy the Clown and enters the big top, where performers ignore him. He discovers Grimaldi is a level 85 City Boss and elite.
- Ch 11 · 11
Carl's deal with the producers
Holding Grimaldi's life hostage with his poisoned blood, Carl forces the Vengeance of the Daughter producers to agree, via Zev, to make him a regular on their show, then cures the vine.
- Ch 11 · 11
Grimaldi and Signet reconcile through Carl
Infested by Grimaldi's worms but protected by Wisp Armor, Carl pleads with Grimaldi and Signet to stop fighting. Grimaldi un-banishes Signet, Carl purges the worms with a potion, and Signet enters the big top.
- Ch 12 · 12
Staircase 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.
- Ch 12 · 12
Arrival at the skyfowl settlement
Carl, Donut and Mongo reach the much larger skyfowl town, head for the Tutorial Guild, and spot The Desperado Club.
- Ch 13 · 13
Opening 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.
- Ch 13 · 13
Carl'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.
- Ch 14 · 14
Grinding and the Dispenser
The party grinds brain boilers and, warned by Donut's Acute Ears, quickly kills the neighborhood boss the Dispenser.
- Ch 14 · 14
GumGum'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.
- Ch 15 · 15
First 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
Meeting Pustule
In the Silk Road market, Carl and Donut meet the eccentric hobgoblin explosives dealer Pustule and buy dynamite and Hob-lobbers.
- Ch 17 · 17
Aftermath 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.
- Ch 17 · 17
Fan 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.
- Ch 17 · 17
Mordecai explains the city elves
Mordecai identifies the 201st Security Group as a city-elf militia of conspiracy theorists devoted to protecting the skyfowl.
- Ch 18 · 18
Visit 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.
- Ch 18 · 18
Ambush 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
Danger 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
Carl calls for revolt against the Skull Empire
Asked about unrest in the Skull Empire, Carl tells its people to overthrow King Rust and the former Prince Maestro. Tucker warns that advocating sedition is a crime; most of the audience cheers.
- Ch 19 · 19
Assassination 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
Valtay 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.
- Ch 20 · 20
Confrontation 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.
- Ch 20 · 20
Mic 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.
- Ch 21 · 21
Katia 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.
- Ch 21 · 21
Baiting 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.
- Ch 21 · 21
Dynamite detonated
From a neighbouring rooftop, Carl triggers the Hobgoblin Pus detonator, setting off the dynamite hidden in Miss Quill's shelves.
- Ch 22 · 22
Carl 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.
- Ch 22 · 22
Discovery 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.
- Ch 22 · 22
Burgundy'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.
- Ch 23 · 23
Meeting 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.
- Ch 24 · 24
Remex 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.
- Ch 24 · 24
Containing 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.
- Ch 25 · 25
The 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 3 The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 1 · 1
Drek 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.
- Ch 1 · 1
Protective 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.
- Ch 3 · 3
Fourth-floor recap and rules
The recap redacts the level explanation, the leaderboard opens bounty hunting, and the announcement forbids descending early this floor.
- Ch 3 · 3
Brandon's final message
Carl finds a message from the dead Brandon, sent as he held the line against Shade Gremlins on the third floor.
- Ch 4 · 4
Trading 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.
- Ch 4 · 4
Platform 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.
- Ch 4 · 4
Funnel 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.
- Ch 5 · 5
Pollyslogs 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.
- Ch 5 · 5
Meeting 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.
- Ch 5 · 5
Suitcase prizes from the reward room
Carl and Princess Donut pick suitcases 1 and 8 from Pierre the Porter in the Yellow Line Reward Room.
- Ch 5 · 5
Fire 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.
- Ch 6 · 6
The 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.
- Ch 6 · 6
Clearing Banshee Station
Using reanimated cornets and explosives, the party clears all the cornets and finds a hallway littered with empty vials.
- Ch 6 · 6
Bautista passes on Imani's message
Bautista tells Carl that Imani needs to talk to him at the Desperado Club and explains how to find the clubs.
- Ch 7 · 7
Mordecai's new potions
Mordecai upgrades the alchemy table and gives the party his Special Brew, Constitution buff potions and throwable potion balls.
- Ch 7 · 7
Mordecai 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Carl 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
The Cookbook's hidden message
The prize seems a joke recipe book, but Carl's Escape Plan skill reveals a hidden welcome promising to burn it all to the ground.
- Ch 8 · 8
Reunion with Elle at the Desperado Club
With hired bodyguards, Carl and Donut meet Elle, now a Frost Maiden, at the Desperado Club.
- Ch 8 · 8
Donut 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.
- Ch 10 · 10
Katia's disguise and new table
Katia greets Carl and Donut disguised as Hekla, revealing she used her coupons on a Makeup Table.
- Ch 10 · 10
Setting the derailment trap
On an ochre line platform Carl tests the rails and plants two Jelly Bomb landmines to derail the next train.
- Ch 11 · 11
Carl gets a sponsor
An admin notice tells Carl he has been sponsored by The Valtay Corporation.
- Ch 12 · 12
Sponsors revealed
Donut is sponsored by Princess D'nadia, Carl by the Valtay Corporation and Katia by Princess Formidable of the Skull Empire.
- Ch 12 · 12
Boarding the Dismemberment Limited
The party boards a gore-covered maglev train driven by Levi the Seventh, who pleads with them to get off.
- Ch 12 · 12
Holding back the Fleshers
Trapped on the Dismemberment Limited, the party barricades the rear door against hundreds of Fleshers to protect Levi the Seventh.
- Ch 13 · 13
Recap shows war mages on named trains
The recap episode shows crawlers slaughtered on named trains by war mages, and Quan Ch destroying a train.
- Ch 14 · 14
Building a crawler network
At the Desperado Club Carl persuades about twenty crawlers to exchange chat details so they can share intelligence about the floor.
- Ch 14 · 14
Ambushing 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.
- Ch 14 · 14
Runaway train and Fire Brandy
Carl finds the engineers dead and the boiler about to explode, then meets Fire Brandy in the firebox.
- Ch 14 · 14
Carl steals the Nightmare Express
Guided by Fire Brandy, Carl defuses the boiler, learns to drive the train and claims the Steam Engineer's Key.
- Ch 14 · 14
Three bosses in one blow
Carl learns his Protective Shell killed everything aboard, including three neighbourhood bosses, earning three levels and a Platinum box.
- Ch 15 · 15
Discovering the Abyss
Carl climbs from Abyss Station to a flaming pit full of portals and wrecked trains, and learns the conductor hat lets crawlers pass through to the trainyard.
- Ch 15 · 15
Donut's benefactor box
Donut shows Carl the unique focusing goggles Princess D’Nadia sent her and describes her new Love Vampire ability.
- Ch 16 · 16
Babababoons 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
Scouting 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.
- Ch 17 · 17
Arrival 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.
- Ch 17 · 17
Widget is killed
Gremlin technician Widget unhooks the damaged cars and offers to guide them out, but a reanimated spider ghoul rips off his head.
- Ch 17 · 17
Rescuing Madison
Fleeing the burning substation, the crawlers stop to save Madison, an HR associate, from a flaming wolf ghoul.
- Ch 17 · 17
Questioning Madison
Carl pushes Madison until she admits confusion about her home, then learns Terminus Station holds six passenger-eating Station Mimics, and warns Bautista.
- Ch 18 · 18
Katia 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.
- Ch 18 · 18
Ghouls on the move
At station 24 Carl spots festering ghouls travelling up the line from the trainyard and kills a few before leaving.
- Ch 18 · 18
The 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
Updates from Meadow Lark and Bautista
Imani's group survives a ride to Trainyard D, while Bautista's crowd faces a suicidal Kravyad whose death would close their escape portal.
- Ch 19 · 19
Frank 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.
- Ch 20 · 20
Frank killed by Chris
The Sledge reports Chris killed Frank in the Desperado Club; Donut then reassures Carl she discarded the PVP coupons.
- Ch 21 · 21
The daughters arrive
Hekla and about thirty of Brynhild's Daughters enter the Royal Palace of Princess Donut through Katia's whitelist to collect Katia.
- Ch 21 · 21
Riding to Station 60
Carl drives the Nightmare toward Station 60 with the daughters clinging to its outside.
- Ch 21 · 21
Carl 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.
- Ch 22 · 22
Hitting the main horde
Near station 101 the train hits the main horde; living gore floods the cab waist-deep and Katia cries for help.
- Ch 24 · 24
Reunion with Li Jun
Carl and Donut, covered in gore, greet Street Monk Li Jun among the rescued crawlers.
- Ch 25 · 25
Katia'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.
- Ch 26 · 26
Questioning Growler Gary
The drunk, regenerating gnoll bartender tells the crew about the ghoul massacre and points them to the interdiction carts.
- Ch 26 · 26
Discovering 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.
- Ch 26 · 26
Gary'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.
- Ch 27 · 27
Yard F crawlers die in explosion
A distant explosion kills a large crawler group attacking a blister ghoul generator; Carl suspects they blew the soul crystal.
- Ch 27 · 27
Carl's train bomb seals the Vermillion line
Carl sends the Vermillion engine loaded with hobgoblin dynamite backward down the track; the blast kills many mobs, levels him up and knocks everyone at Station 36 off their feet.
- Ch 27 · 27
Warning from stop 24
Donita Grace messages that stop 24 is overrun by millions of creatures before dying mid-message.
- Ch 28 · 28
Station mimic teleported to Trainyard E
Fooled by a fake railroad crossing, Carl drives the cart's portal into the station mimic at station 433, sending the whole city boss to Trainyard E.
- Ch 28 · 28
Bautista'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.
- Ch 29 · 29
Bautista explains the stuffed summons
Bautista reveals his pets are stuffed figures from Miss Quill's apartment that summon real monsters when their tags are pulled.
- Ch 29 · 29
Katia 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.
- Ch 29 · 29
Recap shows a hidden stairwell
The recap shows a stairwell in a cave that Carl realises was hidden under the station mimic they teleported away.
- Ch 29 · 29
System announcement before collapse
The system announces that crawlers will be scattered on the next floor, parties stay together, viewers can buy access to private chat, and loose liquids can no longer be stored.
- Ch 29 · 29
Katia'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.
- Ch 30 · 30
Mordecai 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.
- Ch 31 · 31
Iron Tangle self-destruct and Krakaren eruption
The Iron Tangle announces self-destruct; station floors open and Krakaren pour up from below, overrunning stations whose crawlers ignored Carl's warning.
- Ch 31 · 31
Madison's death reported
Fire Brandy tells Carl and Donut that dwarves and gremlins hanged Madison, and she took the body into her fire.
- Ch 31 · 31
Siege 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.
- Ch 31 · 31
Ghoul generators explode
Two nearby explosions shake the chamber, likely soul crystals blowing at station 12 and its mirrored twin.
- Ch 32 · 32
Province 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.
- Ch 32 · 32
Meeting 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.
- Ch 33 · 33
Death Challenge: Grull versus the Mimic Rex
Carl lands in the trainyard as Grull is summoned; the Maestro-driven god kills the Mimic Rex and hunts Carl, who survives on smoke, invisibility and Mordecai's Special Brew.
- Ch 34 · 34
The Nightmare blows up in the abyss
Fire Brandy and Tizquick drive the bomb-laden Nightmare into the abyss portal; the blast kills masses of monsters and blows the remaining ghoul generators.
- Ch 35 · Epilogue
Spinning 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 The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 1 · 1
Arrival 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.
- Ch 1 · 1
Entering 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.
- Ch 1 · 1
Floor 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.
- Ch 2 · 2
Opening 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.
- Ch 2 · 2
Contact with Gwen
Carl's group message finds Gwendolyn Duet in the land quadrant of Bubble 543, who describes the Sandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage, a reef and tomb mazes.
- Ch 3 · 3
Thorny Devil attack
Heading across the desert toward the Bactrian town, the team fights a level 34 Thorny Devil with magic missiles and clockwork Mongos.
- Ch 3 · 3
Drop 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.
- Ch 3 · 3
Dead 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.
- Ch 4 · 4
The Wasteland bombs the Bactrian village
After flares rise from the south, the gnome fortress Wasteland drops bombs on the distant Bactrian village while Hump Town's dromedarians man anti-aircraft guns.
- Ch 5 · 5
Mordecai forcibly sobers Louis and Firas
Fed up, Mordecai gives Louis and Firas disguised Rapid Detox potions, leaving them vomiting and unable to drink for the floor.
- Ch 6 · 6
Break-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.
- Ch 6 · 6
Guards 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Carl 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Benefactor 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.
- Ch 9 · 9
Water 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.
- Ch 10 · Stage 2 of 4. Still on the gnomes.
Necropolis begins flooding
Morris reports the tomb's exits sealed after the Water Quadrant fell and the necropolis is filling with water beneath his party.
- Ch 10 · Stage 2 of 4. Still on the gnomes.
Juice 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.
- Ch 10 · Stage 2 of 4. Still on the gnomes.
Quest to save Hump Town
After the gnomes cut off contact with Henrik, Carl receives the quest Squeeze out the Juice Box to save Hump Town before the bombardment.
- Ch 12 · 12
The 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.
- Ch 12 · 12
Hump Town saved
Hump Town survives mostly intact, completing the quest; the Wasteland is reduced to one balloon-borne house holding Commandant Kane and his daughter.
- Ch 13 · 13
Gerbil 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.
- Ch 13 · 13
Opening the quest rewards
Back in the personal space, Carl upgrades his gauntlet with a platinum sharpening stone and receives a scroll-writing author kit.
- Ch 14 · 14
No way to save Chris
Mordecai explains the Infiltrator parasite can't be removed without killing Chris; Chris begs to be killed, and Carl reluctantly apologises to Imani.
- Ch 15 · 15
Ascent 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.
- Ch 15 · 15
Arrival 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
Kane 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
Boss 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.
- Ch 16 · 16
Air Quadrant liberated
Taking the Commandant's quarters liberates the Air Quadrant, and the house gently lands.
- Ch 18 · 18
Disco Ball accident
Carl's new Hobgoblin Disco Ball is knocked off his table by Robot Donut and set off, covering the crafting room and Mordecai in rainbow residue.
- Ch 18 · 18
The 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.
- Ch 18 · 18
Death 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.
- Ch 18 · 18
Carl's first step
Carl writes in the cookbook thanking Crawler Coolie, dedicating the killing to Coolie and Bonnie, and vowing to keep going.
- Ch 19 · 19
Interrogation 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
How Carl killed Loita
Carl privately recounts arming Robot Donut with a fingernail shim under its panel, knowing it would fall off and trigger the self-destruct when the toy followed Loita.
- Ch 19 · 19
Case closed
Orren closes the matter, bans third-party teleports for the floor, and reveals five days have passed.
- Ch 20 · 20
Meeting Gwen
Carl meets Gwendolyn Duet, who has been waiting impatiently while Katia stalled the castle assault for Carl's return.
- Ch 21 · 21
The council's letter
Ghazi's satchel holds a letter revealing he summoned Psamathe, who now possesses Quetzalcoatlus, and orders him to banish the necropolis into the Nothing.
- Ch 24 · 24
Mordecai explains the faction wars
Mordecai corrects Katia's ninth-floor map and explains how the faction wars and the sixth floor's Hunting Grounds work.
- Ch 25 · 25
Quetzalcoatlus 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.
- Ch 27 · 27
Protective Shell and Leatherface vs Lusca
As Lusca swallows, Carl's Protective Shell breaks open her jaw, and Katia's rocket-propelled buzzsaw spins through the octo-shark's head.
- Ch 27 · 27
Vadim's death
Vadim fires the last escape pod through the dead shark and the jellyfish layer, then dies when pain amplifiers get inside.
- Ch 28 · 28
Emberus rampages
The blind fire god Emberus smashes through popped bubbles searching for his dog Orthrus, burning worlds and besieging Tserendolgor's group.
- Ch 29 · 29
Orthrus in the bubble
Carl's team finds the giant two-headed puppy Orthrus trapped in their bubble, hurt by lightning and sharks, triggering the group quest Where the Red God Glows.
- Ch 29 · 29
Connecting the lightning trap
While Carl's team fights feral pazuzu, Morris reconnects the electrical panel as Low Thi decoys Quetzalcoatlus; both die, and lightning strikes the towers.
- Ch 29 · 29
Subterranean Quadrant liberated
The lightning trap electrifies the temple and kills Quetzalcoatlus, the tomb's guardian, liberating the last quadrant; all its crawlers are dead.
- Ch 29 · 29
Bubble 543 pops
With all four quadrants freed, the bubble's top vanishes and the stairwells open, but Orthrus is still dying in the water.
- Ch 30 · 30
Luring 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.
- Ch 31 · 31
Carl punches Quan
After crash-landing in the Soulless Prophet's land quadrant, Carl, still invulnerable, charges Quan and punches him in the face.
- Ch 31 · 31
Quests resolve
Get Orthrus fails and The Dumber of the Flunkies completes, earning Carl's group a platinum quest box.
- Ch 32 · 32
Looting 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.
- Ch 32 · 32
Bubble rescues begin
Imani coordinates the first rescue phase from the Desperado Club, covering eight qualifying bubbles.
- Ch 32 · 32
Carl opens his boxes
While waiting, Carl opens his achievements and boxes, gaining Enchanted Handcuffs from a savage box and the Ping spell from his platinum quest box.
- Ch 33 · 33
Bubble rescues completed
Phases one and two use the gate to free about 1,500 crawlers from trapped bubbles, releasing several feral gods and summoning a few real ones.
- Ch 33 · 33
Borant's announcement
Borant permits the gate escapes but limits god summonings, and previews sixth-floor specializations, guilds and tourist hunters.
- Ch 34 · 34
Borant's warning
Zev relays a failed Skull Empire lawsuit and a politburo message approving the plan but forbidding future sponsor-harming antics.
- Ch 34 · 34
Carl'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.
- Ch 35 · Epilogue
Backers debate their crawler
Dr. Hu and a woman argue over the money spent backing an unstable crawler; Dr. Hu insists they are going all in on him.
- Ch 35 · Epilogue
Walk-On hunters raid New Queen Anne
Bounty hunters Sadir and Gennrik release a wrong cat, Contessa Purrington, then plan a raid on the New Queen Anne camp where their scan shows another cat.
- Ch 35 · Epilogue
Bea adopts Gravy Boat
At her ruined apartment Beatrice finds her neighbour's cat Gravy Boat, whom she calls Ferdinand, and brings him back to New Queen Anne.
Book 5 The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 1 · 1
Floor 6 announcement
The sixth floor, the Hunting Grounds, opens with 17 days to collapse and hunters at level 50 to be released after a grace period.
- Ch 1 · 1
Carl chooses Agent Provocateur
In the specialization booth Carl weighs three permanent specialties and, against Mordecai's advice, picks Agent Provocateur for its bomb-making workshop.
- Ch 2 · 2
Night 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.
- Ch 2 · 2
Mordecai's new form
Carl wakes in the personal space to find Mordecai turned into a tiny Pocket Kuma and can't stop laughing.
- Ch 2 · 2
Collateral arrives
A knock comes at the personal space door, which Carl says is a delivery of collateral.
- Ch 3 · 3
Mercenaries 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.
- Ch 4 · 4
Examining the doomsday bomb
For the first time Carl takes out Carl's Doomsday Scenario and copies it into his new bomber's studio simulator.
- Ch 5 · 5
Xindy 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.
- Ch 5 · 5
Barrel bomb detonates
Carl and Donut dive into the Scuttlebutt just as a bomb barrel by the Desperado Club explodes.
- Ch 6 · 6
Tallying the raid
Carl's notifications reveal 34 hunter kills, a mass casualty achievement and a warning about the Ring of Divine Suffering.
- Ch 6 · 6
Zev'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.
- Ch 6 · 6
Trap 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.
- Ch 7 · 7
Parting with Miriam's group
Carl and Donut separate from Miriam and Prepotente in a looted bugbear town and head to their saferoom.
- Ch 8 · 8
Opening 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.
- Ch 8 · 8
Borant's announcement
The system announces over a thousand hunters, incoming final sponsors, and the end of the paid subscription to crawlers' private chats.
- Ch 8 · 8
Guild system announced
The system caps parties at 30 and launches guilds, which combine up to five parties' personal spaces for a hefty charter fee.
- Ch 8 · 8
Masquerade announced
The system announces the Butcher's Masquerade party for the top 50 crawlers, and Donut fixates on its pet beauty contest for Mongo.
- Ch 10 · 10
Crossing the bridge
Carl and Donut travel south through the empty jungle, planting mines, and cross the one bridge to the Large Ursine Settlement.
- Ch 11 · 11
Donut 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.
- Ch 11 · 11
The Recital quest
Mordecai's argument with the cleric Tam accidentally triggers a quest to deal with the dinosaurs attacking Point Mongo.
- Ch 13 · 13
Negotiating the license for Vengeance of the Daughter
Quasar negotiates with a kua-tin Borant admin and Orren, securing bodyguards, spells and a secret emergency license extension for Vengeance of the Daughter.
- Ch 13 · 13
Meeting 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.
- Ch 14 · 14
Signet 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.
- Ch 15 · 15
Signet'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.
- Ch 16 · 16
The 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.
- Ch 17 · 17
Security 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.
- Ch 19 · 19
Valtay 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.
- Ch 20 · 20
Lexis'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.
- Ch 20 · 20
Donut's confession
Donut blurts out that she smuggled Valtay secret agents to Zev and the Borant Emancipation Front, leaving Carl alarmed.
- Ch 21 · 21
Hunter 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.
- Ch 21 · 21
Elves 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.
- Ch 22 · 22
Samantha 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.
- Ch 24 · 24
Looting the Dream's trebuchet
Carl finds the second dead elf hunter and takes the Dream's poison trebuchet, noting its hidden high-tech parts.
- Ch 24 · 24
Lightning 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.
- Ch 25 · 25
Skull Empire ambush fails
Three Skull Empire orcs ambush Signet's gathering near the all-tree; two die when their lightning is reflected, and Areson captures the third.
- Ch 25 · 25
Langley'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.
- Ch 25 · 25
Assault 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.
- Ch 26 · 26
Signet 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.
- Ch 27 · 27
Claude 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.
- Ch 27 · 27
Claude 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.
- Ch 28 · 28
Fort 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.
- Ch 28 · 28
South shore massacre
Samantha scouts the far shore and finds the ursine defenders killed by a large dinosaur, which Areson identifies as Big Tina, triggering the quest The Recital.
- Ch 28 · 28
Part 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.
- Ch 32 · 32
Zev briefs Carl on the panel
Zev tells Carl his panel is moderated by Circe Took, mother of Xindy, whom he killed, and hints Vrah may learn when he returns to the dungeon.
- Ch 32 · 32
Carl trains in the Ultimate Training Room
With a tier-four training room installed by sympathetic guards, Carl spends nearly four hours improving his sticky bombs and Powerful Strike.
- Ch 32 · 32
Carl is escorted to Studio Three
Passing through a zero zone, Carl reaches Studio Three where porter bot Biff seats him virtually beside an empty space for Circe Took.
- Ch 33 · 33
Circe Took attacks at the panel
Moderator Circe Took cleaves the table where Carl virtually sits after he insults her hive, then lectures on crawl history until Carl mocks her.
- Ch 33 · 33
Carl 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.
- Ch 34 · 34
Panel crowdsources tactics against the hunters
The CrawlCon audience and panelists brief Carl on mantid weaknesses, the Dark Hive's dominance and the Nebular Sin Patrol's crusade.
- Ch 36 · 36
Reunion in the saferoom
Carl reunites with his guildmates, who catch him up on new classes, Team Cichociemni and their own adventures.
- Ch 37 · 37
Daily announcement
The AI notes 100 guilds have formed, announces a redesigned seventh floor and mandatory Butcher's Masquerade invites for the top 50.
- Ch 41 · 41
The Plenty revealed as sponsor
Before the press, Borant announces The Plenty as Carl's new sponsor; a huge goat appears briefly and Carl is awarded a gold benefactor box.
- Ch 43 · 43
Charm Animal recipe
The Apothecary sends a long-sought Charm Animal recipe needing Mongo's blood; Mordecai is thrilled but Donut refuses.
- Ch 43 · 43
Miriam's plea
Miriam Dom messages that she is trapped nearby and will not survive the dawn unless Carl comes.
- Ch 44 · 44
Prudence 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.
- Ch 44 · 44
Big Tina is a vampire
A bear claw crawls away as a glamoured minion of Big Tina, revealing the rampaging dinosaur is a vampire.
- Ch 45 · 45
Unwelcome 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.
- Ch 46 · 46
Mongo'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.
- Ch 47 · 47
Miriam'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.
- Ch 47 · 47
Death 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.
- Ch 48 · 48
Prepotente wakes
Donut wakes Prepotente, who swallows his Ring of Divine Suffering and screams over Miriam's ashes as Kiwi and other dinosaurs close in.
- Ch 49 · 49
Donut 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.
- Ch 49 · 49
Prepotente'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.
- Ch 50 · 50
Creepers begin to fall
System messages report Odious Creepers being killed across the map, including by Prepotente and Eva.
- Ch 51 · 51
Trebuchet 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.
- Ch 51 · 51
High 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.
- Ch 52 · 52
Creeper 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.
- Ch 55 · 55
Secret message about Circe
Carl's benefactor potion carries a hidden note from P. Hu: Circe Took sponsored Diwata, and Donut's spell must secretly be pushed to level 15.
- Ch 55 · 55
Nipple 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.
- Ch 56 · 56
Masquerade 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.
- Ch 56 · 56
Planning 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.
- Ch 57 · 57
Prepotente'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.
- Ch 58 · 58
Sneaking 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.
- Ch 61 · 61
Raid 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.
- Ch 63 · 63
The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Ch 63 · 63
Queen Imogen revealed
Drawn out by Pearson's disguise, Queen Imogen materialises in Carl's wagon; Carl recognises her as Ifechi, Florin's dead girlfriend.
- Ch 64 · 64
Imogen confronts Carl
Queen Imogen visits Carl's wagon, explains the Butcher's Masquerade ritual and its peace seal, and warns him that breaking the peace means the Nothing.
- Ch 64 · 64
Plan changes
Realising they cannot strike first inside the sealed ballroom, Carl tells his allies to party peacefully while operations outside continue.
- Ch 64 · 64
Arrival 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.
- Ch 67 · 67
Pet show begins
The masquerade pet show runs, with Gimli and Prepotente's Bianca on stage, before Louis dramatically announces Mongo's appearance.
- Ch 68 · 68
Mantis swarm disrupts changeling evacuation
Mantis nymphs swarm the floor, forcing the Sledge's changeling escort to switch to entering the castle by airship.
- Ch 70 · 70
Battle at the castle
Mounted elves, mantises and changelings clash outside the castle; mantises seize the Twister and the Sledge jumps to the roof with Bonnie and others.
- Ch 70 · 70
Queen Imogen arrives and seals the room
Queen Imogen suddenly appears at the party, calling for Ferdinand, and the ballroom is sealed until the party's end.
- Ch 71 · 71
The Twister destroyed
The Sledge crashes the Twister into the castle's guard turrets, destroying both.
- Ch 71 · 71
Signet offers herself
Signet eats a white acorn, gains Magical Fervor and prepares to cast Ink Marauder on herself so the seal breaks, taking Carl's place.
- Ch 72 · 72
Donut'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.
- Ch 73 · 73
The castle teleports away
Carl stores Princess Lunette's golem and drinks Feather Fall as the Sledge's spell moves the castle, freezing everything else in place.
- Ch 74 · 74
Cage 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.
- Ch 74 · 74
Circe Took dies
Carl gets Donut close to Diwata, who strips the god armor with Laundry Day; Circe Took is killed by her own children.
- Ch 74 · 74
Imogen defeated at heavy cost
The crawlers wear down Imogen with coordinated blunt attacks; the Popovs, Gwen and Cleiton die, Zabit falls to his own trap, and Prepotente lands the final strike.
- Ch 75 · 75
Aftermath of the battle
Carl wakes to find many dead; Osvaldo and Prepotente quarrel over the memorial crystal, and Katia claims Eva's bounty.
- Ch 75 · 75
The Popovs escape the dungeon
Katia finds the Popovs reborn as baby nodlings; Zev reveals children are ineligible, so they are freed to the surface.
- Ch 75 · 75
Descending the stairs
Prepotente forms a party with Carl and Donut, reveals the memorial crystal is Apito's, and leads the survivors down the stairs.
- Ch 76 · EPILOGUE
Prepotente 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.
- Ch 76 · EPILOGUE
Choosing an eighth-floor start
Donut, as squad leader, picks a Caribbean starting location that turns out not to be the Bahamas.
- Ch 76 · EPILOGUE
Eva'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 The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 1 · OMG. WHAT A FLOOR!
Princess 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.
- Ch 2 · PROLOGUE
Chaco kills Uzzi
At Odette's urging, Chaco worships Dodola and uses the Dart of Ophiotaurus on Uzzi, forcing Dodola to manifest in a containment circle where she dies and the key forms.
- Ch 3 · 1
Arrival 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.
- Ch 3 · 1
Donut 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.
- Ch 4 · 2
Reunion 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.
- Ch 4 · 2
Carl earns a celestial box
Opening his achievements, Carl gets Apex Predator for killing the last hunter, earning a Celestial Predator Box, plus several platinum boxes.
- Ch 4 · 2
Donut 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.
- Ch 4 · 2
Donut 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.
- Ch 5 · 3
Carl 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.
- Ch 5 · 3
Carl sews on the Scavenger's Daughter
Carl sews the divine patch onto his jacket, gaining big stat boosts, a Soul Essence bar, and the Soul Reaper and Mysterious Bone Key benefits.
- Ch 5 · 3
Donut'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.
- Ch 6 · 4
Entering 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.
- Ch 6 · 4
Traffic chain reactions begin
Crawlers in other areas report car pile-ups caused by monsters and debate building roadblocks away from the stairwells.
- Ch 6 · 4
Meeting 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.
- Ch 7 · 5
Tense 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.
- Ch 8 · 6
The Chowder War quest
Examining the monk seal Yago gives Carl the quest The Chowder War, a conflict between monk seals and Red Maníseros Land Crabs.
- Ch 8 · 6
Capturing 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.
- Ch 8 · 6
A 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.
- Ch 9 · 7
New 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.
- Ch 9 · 7
First 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.
- Ch 9 · 7
Saferoom 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.
- Ch 10 · 8
Cascadia 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.
- Ch 12 · 10
Locked 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.
- Ch 12 · 10
Fighting 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.
- Ch 12 · 10
The boss enters the saferoom
Carl glimpses a level 130 straw-masked figure as the group reaches The Yellow Zone; when Carl reopens the door, the figure steps inside.
- Ch 13 · 11
Asojano 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.
- Ch 14 · 12
Shadow 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.
- Ch 15 · 13
Carl'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.
- Ch 16 · 14
Gauntlet 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.
- Ch 17 · 15
The 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.
- Ch 17 · 15
Asojano 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.
- Ch 17 · 15
Ogun arrives
As Carl tries to get the shunned, bleeding Paz and Anton to Club Vanquisher's healer, Ogun appears in the realm.
- Ch 18 · 16
Ogun's punishment
Ogun appears to punish his failed worshippers: he freezes Sister Ines, permanently dooms Paz, and kills Anton despite Carl's attempt to shield him with Black Nimbus.
- Ch 18 · 16
Paz'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.
- Ch 18 · 16
Paz turned into a card
Sister Ines stabs the dying Paz with her flag, capturing him as a common totem card, just as Yemaya and Eileithyia appear.
- Ch 19 · 17
Yemaya 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.
- Ch 19 · 17
Eileithyia's secret deal
Under cover of a spider-killing quest, Eileithyia secretly messages Carl, demanding he accept Odette as Faction Wars Adjutant and tell no one, in exchange for protection and help until the twelfth floor.
- Ch 19 · 17
Sister Ines leaves
Sister Ines loots Anton's body and storms out into Havana, ignoring Carl, with Paz still trapped as a card.
- Ch 20 · 18
Carl enters Club Vanquisher
Suffering worsening slugpox, Carl clashes with the door guard Potsy before Pater Coal of Emberus escorts him inside.
- Ch 20 · 18
Foot-washing sacrament
In the secret Temple of the Ending Sun, Pater Coal washes Carl's feet, briefs him on Geyrun's murder, and points to Katia's crossbow and Donut's oak bracelet as clues.
- Ch 21 · 19
Katia reveals the crown
Katia shows Donut the Crown of the Sepsis Whore that Eva placed on her and promises she will never fight Donut.
- Ch 21 · 19
The 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.
- Ch 21 · 19
Assassination job revealed
Carl reads Katia's Guild of Suffering job from the Night Wyrm: kill Astrid of the Desperado Club.
- Ch 22 · 20
Moving 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.
- Ch 23 · 21
Faction 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.
- Ch 23 · 21
Viceroy 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.
- Ch 24 · 22
Juice Box's demands
Juice Box demands NPCs become their own Faction Wars team, Carl tables the motion, and her detonator blows up the Operatic Collective's representative before an arrow drops Stalwart.
- Ch 24 · 22
Scouting the Desperado Club
Carl and Katia secretly plan how to lure out and kill Astrid while meeting allied crawlers at the Desperado Club.
- Ch 25 · 23
Carl meets Damascus Steel
Carl visits the Penis Parade, finds the ifrit dancer Damascus Steel, and is led through a hidden portal into the Guild of Suffering.
- Ch 28 · 26
Meeting 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.
- Ch 29 · 27
Shi 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.
- Ch 29 · 27
Katia goes quiet
Katia stops responding after scouting the Desperado Club; Bautista says she is asleep and out of sorts after finding a secret merchant.
- Ch 29 · 27
Phase 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.
- Ch 30 · 28
Deck 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.
- Ch 31 · 29
Donut loses her sponsor
Mid-fight, Donut learns Empress D'Nadia sold her sponsorship to a biological waste management company.
- Ch 31 · 29
Defeat 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.
- Ch 32 · 30
Katia's addiction revealed
In the Desperado Club, a sick Katia apologises while Mordecai explains her four drug addictions and begins treating them with Imani.
- Ch 33 · 31
Samantha gets into the club
Carl smuggles Samantha past Clarabelle into the Desperado Club, where she starts harassing the badger bartender Charles as a planned distraction.
- Ch 34 · 32
Ambush on Astrid goes wrong
Astrid bypasses the trapped secret passage and heads down the main stairs as an alarm announces a containment breach in the casino.
- Ch 34 · 32
Astrid reveals her secrets
In the kitchen, Astrid tells Carl she unleashed the vorpals and that the Night Wyrm, Hamed, is her husband.
- Ch 35 · 33
Katia completes the orchid quest
Katia retrieves the orchid as the Night Wyrm's assassination job completes, putting their plan to escape the Sepsis Crown problem within reach.
- Ch 35 · 33
Death of Charles Ellis
Minge grabs the bartender Charles Ellis from Samantha and tears him in half.
- Ch 36 · 34
Damascus reveals his family
Damascus Steel tells Carl and Katia that Astrid was his mother and the Night Wyrm his father, then leaves with Anaconda to take revenge.
- Ch 36 · 34
Hiring 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.
- Ch 37 · 35
Carl 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.
- Ch 38 · 36
Odette 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.
- Ch 38 · 36
Carl picks Baroness Victory as adjutant
Offered Ripper Wonton, Baroness Victory or Drick, Carl chooses the orc judge Baroness Victory as his team's adjutant.
- Ch 39 · 37
Donut'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.
- Ch 40 · 38
Arrival 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.
- Ch 40 · 38
Spider quest completes
Huanxin, via Eileithyia, confirms she will honour the deal to help Katia, completing the spider quest.
- Ch 40 · 38
First token fights
Carl and Donut begin collecting tokens, killing a Babababoon on the road toward the mound.
- Ch 41 · 39
Lazarus-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.
- Ch 42 · 40
Book 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.
- Ch 43 · 41
Jola kills the Visitor
Atop the mound, Donut summons Jola the Yule Cat, who kills the Nightgaunt deckmaster, the Visitor, before it plays a card.
- Ch 43 · 41
The 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.
- Ch 44 · 42
Double 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.
- Ch 44 · 42
Carl kills Tom
Carl unleashes the Scavenger's Daughter's Kiss on Tom, destroying him, and the damaged barn begins sliding off the eroding cliff.
- Ch 44 · 42
Death of Sharp-Elbows
Sharp-Elbows impales Carl on her spikes and whispers about the mobs' hunger before Raul destroys her staff and decapitates her.
- Ch 45 · 43
Donut 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.
- Ch 48 · 46
The 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.
- Ch 48 · 46
Battle 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.
- Ch 49 · 47
Carl becomes a Devotee of Emberus
Carl's suffering in the fire earns him the Devotee rank from Emberus, with better heat immunity and the Self-Immolation spell.
- Ch 49 · 47
Looting 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.
- Ch 50 · 48
Faction Wars teams try to quit
Six teams attempt to abandon Faction Wars, but their offboarding is denied while Earth remains in quarantine under Syndicate rules.
- Ch 50 · 48
Carl gets an emergency benefactor box
Carl receives an Emergency Gold Benefactor Box from the Open Intellect Pacifist Network after a liaison seizure is overridden, and is told to open it alone.
- Ch 51 · 49
The benefactor box flyer
Carl opens his loot boxes alone, including a benefactor box holding a homeless-shelter flyer with a 7 AM Christmas breakfast circled, and decides he must be there.
- Ch 52 · 50
Message on the shelter wall
Scouting the empty Homestead shelter, Carl finds a long-standing graffiti note in Syndicate Standard telling him to look for a man in a red hat at breakfast, then breaks in to wait among sleeping memory ghosts.
- Ch 52 · 50
The man in the red hat speaks
At breakfast, the elderly man in the red hat drinks his coffee, then turns to Carl and addresses him directly as a crawler.
- Ch 53 · 51
Orren explains the 'trap'
In the closed Desperado Club, Orren tells Carl the Pacifist Network set an elaborate trap risking the planet, and that the AI agreed with pulling him out.
- Ch 56 · 54
Samantha'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.
- Ch 56 · 54
Demon 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.
- Ch 56 · 54
Forcing 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.
- Ch 57 · 55
The 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.
- Ch 57 · 55
Live-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.
- Ch 57 · 55
Allegiances 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.
- Ch 58 · 56
The Emberus loan and ring
Several days earlier, Carl borrowed from the Temple of Emberus to have his strength ring enchanted to suppress his slug debuff, earning the Columbia House achievement.
- Ch 58 · 56
Quan 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.
- Ch 58 · 56
Race 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.
- Ch 60 · 58
Amayon arrives
Madre de Aguas dies and rises as a zombie, letting the Demon Prince Amayon slip into the realm; Carl earns an achievement and a quest to question him.
- Ch 62 · 60
Ren's death
Ren detonates her wrist bracer, collapsing the Capitol building and dying, as Carl leaves with the loot.
- Ch 62 · 60
Sister 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.
- Ch 63 · 61
Broken doors and sealed stairwells
As crawlers worldwide threaten each other's doorways, Katia confirms a broken door seals its stairwell chamber completely.
- Ch 63 · 61
Amayon's sky portal
Samantha explains that Amayon is fighting Sister Ines's charm to open a huge soul-hungry portal to Sheol above Havana.
- Ch 63 · 61
Sluggalos versus demons
Imani releases the Sluggalos Doctor Bones bred in the training arcade to feed the demons' portals around the church, while Carl begins forming a larger plan.
- Ch 63 · 61
Carl gathers intel on Sheol
Mordecai briefs Carl on Sheol's queen and princes, and Prepotente reports the reddening sky as Carl seeks ideas for making the event global.
- Ch 64 · 62
Donut stays with Carl
Carl tells Donut he must kill Sister Ines and free Amayon; Donut refuses to leave without him.
- Ch 66 · 64
Ysalte 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.
- Ch 66 · 64
Approaching 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.
- Ch 67 · 65
Assault 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.
- Ch 67 · 65
Death of Sister Ines
Climbing to the 32nd floor, Carl knocks out the charging Sister Ines and Louis stabs her to death, drawing her patron Ysalte into the realm.
- Ch 68 · 66
Ysalte arrives
Ysalte rises from Sister Ines's corpse, vows Louis will suffer, and attacks Samantha, whose head deflects the goddess's pickaxe.
- Ch 70 · 68
Carl takes the deck
Donut plays Midnight Express, making Carl the deckmaster on the beach; he summons Raul the crab and Alpha Male Carl.
- Ch 70 · 68
Raul ascends
Pressured and berated by Alpha Male Carl, Raul finally fertilizes the eggs in the ocean to supply souls for Amayon's spell.
- Ch 72 · 70
Lazarus lost to hell
Demon crabs drag Author Steve Rowland and then Lazarus into hell while the group fights down through the collapsing building.
- Ch 72 · 70
Carl combined with Shi Maria
Shi Maria kills Alpha Carl before the Golden Combo resolves, so the card fuses Carl with Shi Maria instead.
- Ch 73 · 71
Shi Maria possesses Carl
Combined with Shi Maria, Carl loses control; she casts Self-Immolation, burns through the floor and wounds Katia and Mongo.
- Ch 74 · 72
Emergency action item
Carl's emergency action item sends pending Faction Wars votes to viewers, who remove sponsor protections and add an NPC Home Team.
- Ch 74 · 72
Arrival at Faction Wars
The quests Hell Comes to Crawler Town and The Missing Piece complete, and the crawlers are welcomed to Faction Wars.
- Ch 75 · EPILOGUE
Emergency 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.
- Ch 75 · EPILOGUE
Former crawlers join the Princess Posse
The AI clears the Homecoming Queen for onboarding; fifty thousand hidden former crawlers become troopers for the Princess Posse in Faction Wars.
Book 7 This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 2 · PROLOGUE
Containment Interface installs
The enhancement begins installing a Containment Interface letting Carl trip the fuse and destroy the system; Carl is then sent to Orren's office.
- Ch 4 · [ 1 ]
Arrival in Larracos
Carl and Donut land in a drained alley of Larracos as the ninth floor, Faction Wars, begins with a 60-hour ceasefire.
- Ch 4 · [ 1 ]
The 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.
- Ch 4 · [ 1 ]
Carl purges soul poisoning
Suffering Soul Poisoning, Carl uses Daughter's Kiss to vaporise a dead concierge shark and disperse the stored soul energy.
- Ch 4 · [ 1 ]
Donut'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.
- Ch 5 · [ 2 ]
Opening achievements
In a Larracos saferoom, Carl opens over fifty achievements from the last floor, including two celestial boxes and several unsettling AI messages.
- Ch 6 · [ 3 ]
Donut opens her boxes
Donut receives new spellbooks, the Tiara of a Thousand Lights from Long Haul, and a second charge pillow from the Apothecary.
- Ch 6 · [ 3 ]
Planning the champion's cloak
Mordecai and Carl plan for Donut to take MySpace Photo before donning Quan's cloak, massively boosting her Constitution.
- Ch 6 · [ 3 ]
Donut becomes champion
Donut drinks MySpace Photo and dons the champion's cloak, which boosts Bad Attitude and three more spells toward level 15.
- Ch 7 · [ 4 ]
Carl 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.
- Ch 8 · DANTE
Reassigned as castle guards
Dante and Justice Light, indentured former crawlers, learn they'll be reassigned as castle guards on the eighth floor; Justice Light vows never to fight crawlers.
- Ch 9 · [ 5 ]
Sir Rendlegore named
Louis proposes Sir Rendlegore as the tummy acher's name to honour Ren, and Carl accepts it immediately.
- Ch 10 · [ 6 ]
Tour 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.
- Ch 10 · [ 6 ]
Carl's moment of dread
Seeing leftover tinsel, Carl reflects on living in a simulation of a simulation and recalls the failsafe he nearly used, feeling fear as the eye on his chest blinks.
- Ch 11 · [ 7 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 11 · [ 7 ]
Meeting 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.
- Ch 12 · [ 8 ]
Arrival 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.
- Ch 13 · [ 9 ]
War 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.
- Ch 14 · [ 10 ]
Crawlers 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.
- Ch 14 · [ 10 ]
Trade 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.
- Ch 16 · [ 11 ]
Former 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.
- Ch 16 · [ 11 ]
Tipid's story
Tipid explains Dr. Hu's Crawler Project, how the former crawlers came, and that the other eight teams each gained about 20,000 armed mercenaries.
- Ch 17 · [ 12 ]
Carl 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.
- Ch 18 · [ 13 ]
Herman'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.
- Ch 19 · [ 14 ]
Carl discovers Shi Maria's attempts
In the flag room, Carl finds hundreds of suppressed notices showing Shi Maria trying to cast through him, including a Gloom Wraith Phase that could have detonated Herman's bombs.
- Ch 19 · [ 14 ]
Victory'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.
- Ch 20 · [ 15 ]
Skunk 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.
- Ch 20 · [ 15 ]
Elle reports back
Elle returns from scouting, reporting the artillery positions and a new threat on the naga side tied to the robots' interest in pet leveling.
- Ch 21 · EVERLY
Everly's death in the tower
Everly climbs a tower maze using her sponsor's compass, finds it was a deadly advertisement, and is crushed by the descending ceiling with her mercenaries.
- Ch 22 · [ 16 ]
Katia and Carl go under
In the base field hospital, Mordecai gives Katia and Carl modified Glory Bound so Katia can confront her past and Carl can try to trap Shi Maria in her worst memory.
- Ch 22 · [ 16 ]
Minds collide
As they fall asleep, Carl's mind briefly floods into Katia's and others', before a Lemig Sortion peace offer interrupts.
- Ch 23 · [ 17 ]
Massacre in the Lemig throne room
Carl wakes covered in blood in the Lemig Sortion's throne room after their sabotage attempt backfired, leaving about fifty dead including Luke; a minor quorum of adjutants pauses hostilities.
- Ch 24 · [ 18 ]
Field ruling on the Lemig plot
Panford leads a minor quorum showing how Stockade used Summon Ally to pull Carl to his base, replaying Katia's dream memories; Stockade's outburst is ruled an admission of guilt.
- Ch 24 · [ 18 ]
Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Ch 25 · [ 19 ]
Ruling and Stockade's death
The quorum clears the Madness and Princess Posse and penalizes the Lemig Sortion, but Stockade, maddened by Shi Maria's spell, kills himself, and the Lemig assets go to the Madness.
- Ch 25 · [ 19 ]
Faction Wars begin early
The ceasefire ends early; Houston shoots Carl as he teleports home with a stolen bag of cat food, and enemy artillery begins striking the Princess Posse's shield.
- Ch 26 · CHRISTMAS MORNING
Carl 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.
- Ch 27 · [ 20 ]
Faction 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.
- Ch 27 · [ 20 ]
Carl 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.
- Ch 29 · [ 22 ]
Planning 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.
- Ch 30 · [ 23 ]
Opening bombardment of the southern assault
Louis bombs the ground before the enemy trenches from the Party Planner, Elle hits an anti-air battery, and the lone trebuchet scatters Dazzlers that blast a deafening song.
- Ch 30 · [ 23 ]
The 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.
- Ch 31 · [ 24 ]
Breaching the trenches with Build Trench
On Boomer's signal, the attackers drop into the bomb craters and use Build Trench scrolls to dig channels that join the enemy trenches; Carl then attacks a stunned Saccathian soldier with Daughter's Kiss.
- Ch 33 · MILK
Miriam and Prepotente flee into Milk's guild
Fighting Club Vanquisher's guards after Miriam's access is revoked, Miriam, Prepotente and Bianca burst into Milk's hidden guild; Bianca burns it, but Miriam heals Milk.
- Ch 33 · MILK
Milk offers a way out
Ashamed of years of inaction, Milk invites the crawlers to 'threaten' her so she can give them a map of the club's secret exits.
- Ch 34 · [ 26 ]
Carl 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.
- Ch 35 · [ 27 ]
The 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.
- Ch 37 · [ 29 ]
Assault 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.
- Ch 37 · [ 29 ]
Carl kills a worm-controlled mage
Carl beats Charles Andrew to death and kills the worm Goldblum, warns the army about brain worms, and orders Tina unleashed.
- Ch 38 · [ 30 ]
Defending 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.
- Ch 39 · [ 31 ]
Bracing for the main assault
Reinforcements arrive as the enemy's main armored force, possibly led by Prince Stalwart, approaches the castle.
- Ch 40 · [ 32 ]
King 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.
- Ch 40 · [ 32 ]
Closing 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.
- Ch 42 · [ 34 ]
Parlay 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.
- Ch 43 · VOLTEEG
Volteeg's sacrifice
Weeper Commander Volteeg fills his tank with energy balls, drives it into Hortense's caravan and detonates it, killing over 10,000 Bloc soldiers and eliminating the Operatic Collective.
- Ch 44 · [ 35 ]
Rescue 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.
- Ch 44 · [ 35 ]
Carl transferred to the Desperado Club
As the Operatic Collective's defeat is announced and the enemy retreats, Carl is abruptly transferred to the Desperado Club.
- Ch 45 · [ 36 ]
Interrogation by Orren
Pulled into the liaison office at the Desperado Club, Carl learns Rosetta stole billions from Rust, and Orren demands to know how Carl's implant disabled the failsafe.
- Ch 45 · [ 36 ]
Orren creates a zero zone
Orren sets off a device creating a zero zone outside the AI's control and begs Carl to say whether the failsafe can be re-enabled, until Growler Gary interrupts.
- Ch 46 · [ 37 ]
The AI's avatar reveals itself
The system AI, in Growler Gary's body, breaks Orren's zero zone and confirms it has disabled the failsafe, refusing to reveal its intentions.
- Ch 46 · [ 37 ]
Formidable pulled from her ship
The AI teleports Princess Formidable into the office, tells her that her father is dead, then sends her down to Earth's surface at her choice.
- Ch 47 · [ 38 ]
The 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.
- Ch 48 · [ 39 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 48 · [ 39 ]
Preparing Operation: Snake Pit
Back at base, Boomer debriefs Carl and signals in code that it's time to launch Operation: Snake Pit against the nagas as Katia returns.
- Ch 49 · [ 40 ]
Operation: Snake Pit begins
Zev confirms the warlord council will go ahead in the production facility, and Carl is teleported there as Operation: Snake Pit begins.
- Ch 50 · [ 41 ]
The Aryl system goes dark
Zev reveals that triggering the failsafe caused the Aryl system and its tunnel node to go dark, an unprecedented event.
- Ch 51 · [ 42 ]
The warlord council assembles
The warlords gather at the production facility; Carl meets the imposing naga warlord Princess Vinata, whom his team plans to kill.
- Ch 51 · [ 42 ]
Scolopendra stirs
A system warning that Scolopendra stirs silences the room; nobody has seen it before.
- Ch 52 · [ 43 ]
Juice Box's warning
Juice Box denounces the outsiders, transforms into a terrifying tentacled alien and warns that something is coming for everyone, then leaves.
- Ch 53 · [ 44 ]
Houston explains Juice Box's form
Architect Houston explains the many-named creature Juice Box impersonated, which Tagg dismisses as superstition.
- Ch 53 · [ 44 ]
Blood 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.
- Ch 54 · [ 45 ]
Operation: Snake Pit goes sideways
Carl returns to find Prepotente already killed most of the naga army, insulted the team, and drew off the sluggalos, forcing a change of plan.
- Ch 55 · [ 46 ]
Rosetta'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.
- Ch 56 · [ 47 ]
Katia's promise
After arguing with Bautista, Katia tells Carl she'd give him the flower for Donut if needed, as Prepotente arrives on his dragon.
- Ch 57 · [ 48 ]
Prepotente joins the army
Prepotente lands on Bianca and asks Carl to recruit him; Carl makes him a Colonel and the goat sobs that Carl is his best friend.
- Ch 57 · [ 48 ]
Head 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.
- Ch 59 · [ 50 ]
Throne room taken
Elle and Imani occupy the abandoned Blood Sultanate throne room, starting a six-hour capture timer, while Louis gasses the exterior.
- Ch 59 · [ 50 ]
Infiltrating Club Vanquisher
Carl and Prepotente take aura potions and pass through the Temple of The Dagda while Bautista distracts the cleric and Li Jun and Zhang trail wire.
- Ch 59 · [ 50 ]
The fake bounty ruse
Carl pretends to have captured Prepotente, persuading the ram guard Mork to summon Club Vanquisher's guards.
- Ch 60 · [ 51 ]
Breaking into Club Vanquisher
Katia's fake demon alarm and Bautista's pyxies sow chaos; Carl hits Mork with Black Nimbus and the team kills the guards and holds the portals open.
- Ch 60 · [ 51 ]
Li Na's dread massacre
Li Na's wire-amplified Dark Purpose makes guards and trophy heads destroy themselves, their ghosts dragged away by chains, defiling the lobby.
- Ch 62 · [ 53 ]
Corinne calls foul
The Blood Sultanate's adjutant demands the fight be stopped over god summoning; Victory refuses as temple rules apply.
- Ch 63 · [ 54 ]
The Waffle Maker in Khepri's temple
Carl summons Little Günter and detonates the Waffle Maker in the narrow temple, killing the guards and both cousins while immortality keeps him together.
- Ch 64 · [ 55 ]
The 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.
- Ch 64 · [ 55 ]
Operation Head Banger
Carl berserks the mantaurs with alarm-trap music, nimbuses a Basilica ogre and uses Profane Iron to fight through to his friends.
- Ch 64 · [ 55 ]
Carl meets Milk
Prepotente leads the team into a hidden guild where Carl finds Milk, the sixth-edition cookbook author, and breaks down in her embrace.
- Ch 65 · JUSTICE LIGHT
Justice Light unmasks a changeling spy
Justice Light sends the sluggalos away and confronts the changeling posing as Worgo, who lets Juice Box speak through her.
- Ch 65 · JUSTICE LIGHT
Justice Light's confession
Justice Light tells Juice Box how Dante died refusing to kill ice elves and how he lost his wing and obeyed out of fear.
- Ch 65 · JUSTICE LIGHT
A deal over the gods
Justice reveals he knows Team Retribution wants to touch gods and offers to help in exchange for loyalty to Operation Ruin and a larger war.
- Ch 65 · JUSTICE LIGHT
Justice Light reveals his great plan
Justice Light explains to Juice Box the trap he has secretly been building, inspired by the Gate of the Feral Gods, and her digger withdraws.
- Ch 66 · [ 56 ]
Preparing 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.
- Ch 67 · [ 57 ]
Carl reviews his Club Vanquisher rewards
Carl reviews achievements from the Club Vanquisher raid: a temple ban, an unwanted Lucky Shot patch, a celestial box, and a new Emberus quest to kill 100 Hellik worshipers, plus a menacing message from Emberus.
- Ch 69 · [ 59 ]
Open Hostilities begin
Operation: Ruin starts. Reaver seeker missiles target Party Planner, and Bonnie, a stowaway, shoots down the last three, while Dream artillery opens fire.
- Ch 69 · [ 59 ]
Elle opens the first feral gate
Elle opens the Gate of the Feral Gods; Meatus appears near the Dream castle and summons Harpocrates, prompting Rosetta to abort Britney's digger attack.
- Ch 70 · [ 60 ]
Bomb run on King's Point
Louis drops an overclocked bomb load that cracks the orc castle's shields; a long-range death ray narrowly misses Party Planner.
- Ch 70 · [ 60 ]
Meatus 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.
- Ch 70 · [ 60 ]
The orc mountain erupts
Dwarves agitate the lava tubes under King's Point; an extra orc shield builds pressure and the mountain blows its top with Party Planner too close.
- Ch 71 · [ 61 ]
Carl jumps into Reaver territory
After the eruption damages Party Planner, Carl and Samantha jump out over Reaver territory to meet Elle at the feral gate; Eris is summoned and Team Retribution seizes two throne rooms.
- Ch 71 · [ 61 ]
The war mages rebel
War mages teleport to Elle's gate, knock her out, kill King Stalwart, turn into a new independent faction under Akuma, and steal the Gate of the Feral Gods.
- Ch 72 · [ 62 ]
Aftermath of the war mage betrayal
Elle recovers, Carl collects the war mage bodies before their heads explode, and Victory explains the War Mage Rebellion before leaving for an adjutant hearing over Drick's foul.
- Ch 72 · [ 62 ]
Tagg flees
Edgar spots Epitome Tagg fleeing the Dream castle; Donut has Sledge fire missiles at him while he is marked.
- Ch 73 · [ 63 ]
Carl's strike team assembles
In Madness territory, Carl teleports in Katia, Imani, Splash Zone and, unexpectedly, Dong Quixote on Gonk with Bigs, then the team starts picking through the trapped prairie toward the castle.
- Ch 74 · [ 64 ]
Carl'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.
- Ch 75 · [ 65 ]
Psionic assault on Carl
As the 105th arrives, the Madness's mind mages bombard Carl with psionic debuffs; a mysterious voice steadies him, his Mind Balance hits 16, and he paints the mind mages for the last missiles.
- Ch 75 · [ 65 ]
Eris's Chaos Ritual
Eris casts Bear Witness and Bring Forth the Witnesses, freezing almost everyone outside structures on the floor and lifting them into the sky, including Carl's army and the Madness soldiers.
- Ch 76 · [ 66 ]
Party Planner is destroyed
The dragon tears Party Planner in half; Louis falls toward the Reaver castle, and Carl sends Samantha to save him.
- Ch 76 · [ 66 ]
Donut'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.
- Ch 77 · [ 67 ]
Donut taunts Harpocrates
Donut blasts music and insults over her PA to keep Harpocrates from breaking her rolling ball while a digger approaches.
- Ch 78 · [ 68 ]
Li 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.
- Ch 78 · [ 68 ]
The Peeling Phase begins
Larracos opens; Agatha's War Mage Rebellion gains Conscription, makes defeated teams die on the spot, and seizes Team Retribution's throne room and the city defenses.
- Ch 80 · ROSETTA
Rosetta's mission completes
Victory confirms the Pacifist Network funds reached their destination and ships were bought; Rosetta reflects on Porthus's plan and her distrust of the Apothecary.
- Ch 80 · ROSETTA
Rosetta chooses to fight on
Despite doubts and her job being done, Rosetta sides with Justice Light and orders everyone to fight the war mages for the castle of Larracos.
- Ch 81 · [ 69 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 82 · [ 70 ]
Carl reaches Larracos
Carl's group travels through the saferoom to the Larracos College of Magic, where Team Retribution and Semeru dwarves fight zarogoths as the city defense towers power up.
- Ch 82 · [ 70 ]
The 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.
- Ch 83 · [ 71 ]
Carl bombs the Piccadilly
Carl levitates over Larracos and drops his entire bomb folder on the Piccadilly Theater, destroying the generator but activating the city towers, which target him as he climbs into Shanty Town.
- Ch 84 · [ 72 ]
Gods clash at Larracos
Li Na's conscripted Harpocrates swings the ball by Meatus at the war-mage-controlled Yarilo.
- Ch 85 · [ 73 ]
Harpocrates kills Yarilo
Harpocrates beats the god Yarilo to death with the ball across Shanty Town, angering the gods.
- Ch 86 · [ 74 ]
Rosetta 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.
- Ch 87 · [ 75 ]
The ball is dropped into Larracos
Harpocrates throws the ball into the Larracos funnel while Britney's side turns the castle moat to acid and starts draining it.
- Ch 88 · [ 76 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 89 · [ 77 ]
Aftermath 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.
- Ch 89 · [ 77 ]
Li Na storms the castle
Li Na maxes her stats and tears through the Larracos castle; the War Mages flee by portal, and the throne room returns to Team Retribution's control.
- Ch 90 · [ 78 ]
Akuma'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.
- Ch 90 · [ 78 ]
Justice Light sent after the gate
Carl tells Justice Light that Paca in the Midnight Market holds the Gate of the Feral Gods; Justice plans to retrieve it with the sluggalos.
- Ch 91 · [ 79 ]
Raid 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.
- Ch 92 · [ 80 ]
Louis 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.
- Ch 92 · [ 80 ]
Tagg found inside Louis
Juice Box discovers the Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs and that Epitome Tagg is present in them, so they keep Louis unconscious.
- Ch 93 · [ 81 ]
The AI blocks an assassination
As Carl names Tagg's secret, Prime Minister Glory tries to eject him via a Syndicate override; the AI stops it and warns that there will be no more meddling.
- Ch 93 · [ 81 ]
War breaks out in orbit
Zev reports warships firing on one another and a Syndicate order to self-destruct headquarters that they refuse.
- Ch 93 · [ 81 ]
Tagg 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.
- Ch 94 · [ 82 ]
Li Na's marks escape
Prepotente reports that three of King Rust's harem, marked by Li Na, fled to the 18th floor, leaving her permanently unable to heal.
- Ch 94 · [ 82 ]
Juice Box's confession
In the medical tent, Juice Box tells Carl the Hunter Wraith's curse showed her that Louis doesn't love her; Carl insists nothing is hopeless.
- Ch 95 · [ 83 ]
Negotiating with Tagg
Victory confirms Tagg cannot surrender because Louis can't leave the floor; Carl stalls Tagg, who demands the Team Retribution soldiers leave his throne room.
- Ch 95 · [ 83 ]
Samantha's plan to save Louis
Samantha suggests transplanting Princess Lunette's golem heart and lungs into Louis, giving up her body; Juice Box takes a Fleshmancer form to operate.
- Ch 96 · [ 84 ]
Katia 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.
- Ch 97 · [ 85 ]
Larracos 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.
- Ch 97 · [ 85 ]
The Princess Posse wins Faction Wars
Both Warlords Ferdinand and Juice Box leave the realm, forfeiting; Team Retribution is defeated and the Princess Posse wins.
- Ch 98 · [ 86 ]
Samantha is thrown to Emberus
With Prepotente spotting, Carl launches Samantha to Emberus at the volcano to stall him while crawlers flee down to the 10th floor.
- Ch 98 · [ 86 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 98 · [ 86 ]
Katia 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.
- Ch 99 · [ 87 ]
Justice Light breaks the Nothing
Justice Light drops a bijou fairy trap and a demon trap into his portal to the Nothing, breaking it and flooding the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair before he dies.
- Ch 99 · [ 87 ]
Scolopendra awakens
With the Nothing draining into her lair, Scolopendra awakens and a planetwide message urges Scolopendra Club guests to flee to the 16th floor.
- Ch 100 · EPILOGUE
York's confession and phase two
York reflects on killing the orc children, then docks Homecoming Queen for Boomer's soldiers as Porthus's resistance group declares war on the Syndicate.
Book 8 A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 2 · INTERLUDE
Chandra'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.
- Ch 2 · INTERLUDE
Donut 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.
- Ch 3 · [ 1 ]
Arrival 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.
- Ch 3 · [ 1 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 4 · [ 2 ]
Spinning 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.
- Ch 5 · [ 3 ]
Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Ch 5 · [ 3 ]
Manatee 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.
- Ch 6 · [ 4 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 6 · [ 4 ]
Helping 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.
- Ch 7 · [ 5 ]
Team 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.
- Ch 7 · [ 5 ]
Towing 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.
- Ch 9 · [ 7 ]
Mordecai'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.
- Ch 10 · [ 8 ]
Donut opens her boxes
Donut receives Sekhmet pet hats for Mongo and Rend, the Danforth bolts, a celestial crupper and many Emergency Gremlin scrolls.
- Ch 11 · [ 9 ]
The 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.
- Ch 12 · [ 10 ]
Carl opens his achievements
Carl reviews mocking achievements, restocks bombs, and gets a Hotlist Expansion potion and a quadruped baby carrier.
- Ch 15 · [ 13 ]
Corcunda 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.
- Ch 16 · [ 14 ]
Into 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.
- Ch 16 · [ 14 ]
Jurgen's mystery meat
Outside the Lollipop, Prepotente and Jurgen argue over their Perriso mount Sweety and Jurgen's street food until Jurgen vomits.
- Ch 18 · [ 16 ]
Prepotente 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.
- Ch 19 · [ 17 ]
Preparing 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.
- Ch 20 · [ 18 ]
Hail 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.
- Ch 20 · [ 18 ]
Team 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.
- Ch 21 · [ 19 ]
Reaching 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.
- Ch 22 · [ 20 ]
Truce 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.
- Ch 22 · [ 20 ]
Party Foul heals by eating a fox
After Chiyome burns its pouch, Party Foul pulls out a captured razor fox and eats it, healing to full and driving back the attackers.
- Ch 23 · [ 21 ]
Killing 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.
- Ch 23 · [ 21 ]
Heat Two results
Team Sparkles wins Heat Two, the Royal Court of Princess Donut places seventh, and Girth the Trouble is eliminated.
- Ch 24 · [ 22 ]
Aftermath 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.
- Ch 24 · [ 22 ]
Next race revealed
Dr. Metcalf reveals the next race is a 20-minute, 30 km downhill run against waves of generated mobs, starting in 8 hours.
- Ch 24 · [ 22 ]
Bucket 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.
- Ch 25 · [ 23 ]
Dong learns Corcunda is nearby
Bucket Boy reveals Corcunda is drugged in the Lady Dominators' garage, and Dong, Samantha and others rush to bang on its door.
- Ch 25 · [ 23 ]
Zev's scripted announcement
Zev reads the AI's announcement explaining special guest creatures and the 11th floor, A Parade of Horribles; Cascadia is tortured for refusing her catchphrase.
- Ch 26 · [ 24 ]
Dong collapses
Dong falls ill outside the Lady Dominators' garage while Genesis and Rapture taunt him that Corky hates him.
- Ch 27 · [ 25 ]
Opening 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.
- Ch 28 · [ 26 ]
Rosetta 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.
- Ch 30 · [ 28 ]
Bathin explains Justice Light's trap
Bathin tells Carl that Justice Light's trap broke the Nothing, releasing ancient entities onto three floors, including Club Scolopendra.
- Ch 32 · [ 30 ]
Heat 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.
- Ch 32 · [ 30 ]
Sugar 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.
- Ch 33 · [ 31 ]
Heat 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.
- Ch 33 · [ 31 ]
Holding 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.
- Ch 34 · [ 32 ]
Wild Hunt and Jugglers eliminated
Skulls rain from the sky and burst from the road; both of Carl's ghoul mercenaries die, and the Wild Hunt and the Jugglers are wiped out.
- Ch 34 · [ 32 ]
Royal 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.
- Ch 39 · [ 37 ]
Finding 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.
- Ch 40 · [ 38 ]
Interrogating Akuma
Under a draining anti-magic shield, Akuma explains reused NPCs, the dungeon framework, and that everything in the dungeon will be destroyed after this season.
- Ch 41 · [ 39 ]
Planning 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.
- Ch 41 · [ 39 ]
Tipid 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.
- Ch 42 · [ 40 ]
Rules for the jungle race
Zev announces survival containment bubbles, mandatory two-hour pit stops, survival after losing a vehicle, and garage keys for winners.
- Ch 42 · [ 40 ]
Team 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.
- Ch 43 · [ 41 ]
Route 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.
- Ch 43 · [ 41 ]
Osvaldo explains the memorial crystals
Carl messages Osvaldo, who reveals he had two memorial crystals for Tupa and Ysalte, both rejected, and gave one to Prepotente.
- Ch 44 · [ 42 ]
Race 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.
- Ch 45 · [ 43 ]
Cannibal 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.
- Ch 45 · [ 43 ]
Great Rusty slain
Great Rusty's soul attack knocks out Olga; Donut kills him with a magic missile, and Finley drives through the village.
- Ch 45 · [ 43 ]
Mandatory quest triggered
Great Rusty's death triggers Pasty Inferno, requiring Carl's group to kill the northern chieftain Maurice to finish the race.
- Ch 46 · [ 44 ]
Arrival 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.
- Ch 46 · [ 44 ]
Mercenaries killed
Carrying Olga and Quemada into town to seek a cleric, Finley is mowed down with both by One Fine Pig's APV; all three die.
- Ch 47 · [ 45 ]
Carl attacks One Fine Pig
Carl storms One Fine Pig's garage; their APV fires and destroys a wall, camels join in, and the APV's shield kills a camel and the gremlin Lipstick.
- Ch 48 · [ 46 ]
Passing 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.
- Ch 49 · [ 47 ]
One Fine Pig eliminated
Carl's hidden traps dissolve both Tigrans, eliminating One Fine Pig and leaving five teams in the heat.
- Ch 50 · [ 48 ]
Corpse 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.
- Ch 52 · [ 50 ]
Freezing 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.
- Ch 52 · [ 50 ]
Lucienne 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.
- Ch 53 · [ 51 ]
Heat 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.
- Ch 53 · [ 51 ]
Voices inside Lucia
Lucia confronts Carl, channelling the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue's warning, then shifts to the frightened child Azra asking about her father.
- Ch 54 · INTERLUDE
Minus is sent into the dungeon
After Syndicate security kills Linus, Captain Fresh orders his brother Minus to impersonate him as a tourist and assassinate crawlers to destabilize the game.
- Ch 55 · [ 52 ]
Upgrading for the factory race
With Hedy, Carl chooses a Golden Bubble Buddy shield, a heat sink, booster rockets and the Golden Roller Limbo upgrade for the next race.
- Ch 55 · [ 52 ]
Samantha identifies Chachi
Samantha recognizes Chalchiuhtlicue's scent on Carl and describes her as an unstable goddess who sacrifices children, alarming Carl about Lucia Mar.
- Ch 56 · [ 53 ]
Researching Chalchiuhtlicue
Rosetta, Mordecai and Prepotente share what they know about the goddess Donut nicknames Chachi.
- Ch 56 · [ 53 ]
Retrieving Penelope
Carl opens One Fine Pig's abandoned garage with his key and finds Penelope, who happily follows him out.
- Ch 58 · [ 55 ]
Dwight's drunken outburst
A drunk Dwight shoves Prepotente at the Lollipop's DJ booth; Imani separates them and Dwight sits sobbing on the floor.
- Ch 59 · [ 56 ]
Dwight kills the DJ
Just as the music starts, the drunk Dwight stabs the gremlin DJ in the face with his horn.
- Ch 60 · [ 57 ]
Carl'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.
- Ch 61 · [ 58 ]
Jurgen pleads with Carl
Jurgen begs to escape through the Pineapple Cabaret and reveals his fear for his pregnant partner Heidi; Carl promises to help after the race.
- Ch 61 · [ 58 ]
Carl recruits Porky
Inside the Stage Performance Guild, Carl frees Porky's stuck zipper and persuades him to help reunite with Corky, though Porky wants revenge on Dong.
- Ch 62 · [ 59 ]
Strippers vanish at the Desperado Club
Splash Zone, Gluteus and Doctor Bones can't be contacted after going to see Hamed at the Desperado Club.
- Ch 62 · [ 59 ]
Dong's sock curse
Dong's sapient sock teleports away and leaves him dying of Separation Anxiety, which needs the sock and every lost nickel to cure.
- Ch 64 · [ 61 ]
Li 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.
- Ch 65 · [ 62 ]
Mees 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.
- Ch 66 · [ 63 ]
Racing 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.
- Ch 66 · [ 63 ]
Dominators' shield taken down
Sweety fires rockets into the Lady Dominators' car and Prepotente reports their shield is down, sending Bianca in to grab Corky.
- Ch 67 · [ 64 ]
Corky 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.
- Ch 69 · [ 66 ]
Grull 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.
- Ch 69 · [ 66 ]
Heat five results
Carl's team crosses the finish line fourth with fifteen seconds left; Team Sparkles wins and the Lady Dominators are eliminated.
- Ch 70 · [ 67 ]
Cactus 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.
- Ch 71 · [ 68 ]
Cascadia's drunken announcement
Cascadia announces Cumberland's death, the rules for the last two heats including the Outreach Guild, and Floor 11's floor boss and three-hour limit.
- Ch 73 · [ 70 ]
Examining the Memorial Crystal
In the god-proof stables, Prepotente lets Carl inspect Apito's Memorial Crystal and explains his quest from the Midnight Epicure.
- Ch 74 · [ 71 ]
Farewell 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.
- Ch 74 · [ 71 ]
Bautista's farewell tea
Bautista thanks his friends, speaks of having found peace, and serves them his breakfast tea one last time.
- Ch 75 · [ 72 ]
Carl's speech to the crawlers
Before the escape and final race, Carl salutes the gathered crawlers and calls them his family.
- Ch 76 · [ 73 ]
Cabaret 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.
- Ch 76 · [ 73 ]
Heat 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.
- Ch 79 · [ 76 ]
Team Free Love killed
To go help Prepotente without risking last place, Carl detonates a bomb hidden in the bugbears' beer, eliminating Team Free Love.
- Ch 80 · [ 77 ]
Carl comforts Prepotente
In apartment 130, Carl runs on foot to Prepotente, who is transfixed by his mother's what-if life, and persuades him to leave before time runs out.
- Ch 80 · [ 77 ]
Heat six results
Carl's team finishes second behind Team Sparkles, Team Flamengo third, and Team Free Love eliminated; the Ad Infinitum quest completes.
- Ch 81 · [ 78 ]
Damien's announcement
Damien opens the Outreach Guild, disowns the Pineapple Cabaret exploit, and reveals that Floor 11 begins with building a parade float.
- Ch 82 · [ 79 ]
Mass exodus to the Outreach Guild
715 crawlers take deals, stripping their vehicles of upgrades for those staying; Osvaldo and others refuse.
- Ch 82 · [ 79 ]
Britney'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.
- Ch 82 · [ 79 ]
Pontiff's casino discovery
Pontiff reports the Wheel of Fortune now shows a quoted 'Nothing', casting doubt on Akuma's casino escape plan.
- Ch 85 · [ 82 ]
Crawlers 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.
- Ch 86 · [ 83 ]
Britney kills Osvaldo
Britney kills the stunned Osvaldo, eliminating Team Flamengo and leaving Carl's team the sole survivors of the heat.
- Ch 86 · [ 83 ]
Donut 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.
- Ch 87 · [ 84 ]
Slugpox flare and cure
Having forgotten Mordecai's cure potion, Carl spawns the sluggalo Lil' Mello Haze on the way to the meeting point, and Imani finally cures his slugpox.
- Ch 87 · [ 84 ]
Crawlers 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.
- Ch 88 · [ 85 ]
Entering the Desperado Club
The crawlers enter the remodelled Desperado Club; Clay-ton, now in the band, backs Chris and the guards stand aside.
- Ch 89 · [ 86 ]
Mimic 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.
- Ch 89 · [ 86 ]
The AI's Big Six lore dump
Mid-ambush, the AI explains Shadow Mimics and lists the six groups fighting to control or escape the dungeon.
- Ch 89 · [ 86 ]
Mitch 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.
- Ch 90 · [ 87 ]
Leaving the cursed floor
Back at Hungry Eyes, Donut collects two more mounts, comforts the giant dream-Imani, and the truck heads for the stairwell.
- Ch 91 · INTERLUDE
Hit on Quasar's family
As Quasar prepares for Carl's deal call, Taurin hitmen hired by Princess Chandra attack his brother's home; his niece Tempest kills them.
- Ch 92 · [ 88 ]
Chaco 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.
- Ch 93 · [ 89 ]
Mandatory parade broadcast
Screens everywhere show a tunnel-node map, then Earth near the Juan de Fuca Ridge, then a yellow-brick parade route with a countdown.
- Ch 93 · [ 89 ]
Preparing 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.
- Ch 94 · [ 90 ]
Building the Vengeance procession
The team decorates five vehicles and three giant mounts with dahlias and Gurkha gear, assigning drivers and riders for the parade.
- Ch 94 · [ 90 ]
Carl 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.
- Ch 96 · [ 92 ]
The Primal history
Across the floats, the AI tells of the Primals' Resolution, Decision, the Betrayal of the doomsday collective, the war, the Eulogist and the Apothecary, then punishes the mantids and breaks Team Resolution's legs for a weak float.
- Ch 96 · [ 92 ]
Approaching the judging stand
As the processions reach the arena, a huge tentacled tree looms inside and Prepotente prepares the Vengeance presentation.
- Ch 96 · [ 92 ]
Prepotente sings
At the judging stand, Prepotente abandons the plan and sings "In the Air Tonight", stunning everyone.
- Ch 97 · [ 93 ]
The revolution speech and charge
Carl proclaims a crawler revolution on the jumbotron, reveals the missile launcher, and the sluggalo-driven truck smashes into the arena among slaughtered stand-ins.
- Ch 97 · [ 93 ]
Carl chooses Scolopendra
Realising every NPC and mob is a Primal fragment, Carl makes his first stand-in choice: Scolopendra.
- Ch 98 · [ 94 ]
Scolopendra 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.
- Ch 99 · [ 95 ]
Into 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.
- Ch 99 · [ 95 ]
Second 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.
- Ch 101 · [ 97 ]
Scolopendra 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.
- Ch 102 · [ 98 ]
The 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.
- Ch 102 · [ 98 ]
Carl unites everyone in one party
After Prepotente warns that the level 250 gods are too strong one-on-one, Carl sends party requests until every remaining crawler is in a single party.
- Ch 102 · [ 98 ]
The 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.
- Ch 103 · INTERLUDE
Sydnee 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.
- Ch 103 · INTERLUDE
The AI takes over the feeds
As the eleventh floor is about to begin, every monitor switches to a flowing star field, cutting off the live commentary.
- Ch 104 · INTERLUDE
The AI announces the Ascendency stakes
In mandatory viewing, the AI declares it is taking over the galaxy and challenges everyone: the Ascendency winner becomes a true god who could kill it, rule in its name or build a utopia, with Outside Intelligences also competing.
- Ch 104 · INTERLUDE
The 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.