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The #3-ranked barefoot crawler in his underwear, dropped into a lethal vehicular racing floor.

The dungeon's strongest crawler and its diva heart, who cows her thieving new lawyer with sheer menace.

The party's captive minor-goddess doll head, chaos incarnate, forever forgetting her own dead child.

A vertically-split half-mantaur in a vinyl gimp suit — the long-lost best friend of the party's Dong Quixote.

A sparkling unicorn who is a complete prick — beautiful, magical, and insufferably rude, of Team Sparkles.

The fussy, grief-forged goat-mage of the Posse, warning everyone not to kill their racing opponents.

A Parade of Horribles

The dungeon's eleventh floor — a fast, collaborative 'parade' and march to the arena, the book's namesake.

A party crewmember who helps wrangle Mongo and Rend into their new pet hats in the garage.

The food truck's sentient GPS — a mean-girl narcissist AI named for Beatrice's fraud therapist, cheerfully predicting everyone's death.

The party's icy, foul-mouthed ally, racing her own heat and enduring a creepy superfan's meet-and-greet.

A prickly Brazilian crawler and dexterity-focused rival, now sharing Carl's deadly heat — and a rival claimant to the Apito crystal.

A completely ordinary five-hundred-pound sow, magically love-cursed, and 'married' to both Tigrans of her race team.

The stoic stone-skinned Igneous crawler, now racing a semitruck — and quietly returning Imani's affection.

The level-30 gremlin vehicle mechanic hired to run the Posse's racing garage.

The party's winged healer and organizational backbone, racing a military carrier — and quietly falling for Chris.

The dungeon's deadliest killer and vessel of 120,000 trapped children, now dog-less, unstable, and flipping between selves.

The team that won Heat One, running a big military vehicle — front-runners the party has yet to properly meet.

A hulking Taurin Rhythm Rider mercenary hired by One Fine Pig, wielding a giant sound-magic mallet.

The awakened final boss, now a suffering voice on the loudspeaker begging the crawlers to let her die.

The Minister of Blood-Letting

A pope-robed skeleton ghoul with a live-bat necklace who sings karaoke — front-monster of the Bleak Congregation.

Apito Memorial Crystal

A mystery memorial crystal for a supposedly-living being, contested by three crawlers and now shielding Prepotente's team.

Big Shot Chicken Food Truck

The party's gaudy 1920s-gangster food truck with a giant fake tommy gun — their vehicle for the death races.

A young Crocodilian in the personal space, roped into installing Samantha's 'chandelier' instead of briefing Tipid.

The volatile fire god Carl unwillingly worships, who gave him a no-win quest to kill his own brother Hellik.

A big, bearded, iron-stomached crawler and self-styled mechanic, now Prepotente's bickering race partner.

A scarab bug-god, fought on floor eight, now forming a menacing 'death cult' in Donut's name.

The gilled crawler racing a bottoming-out neon lowrider with Britney and Bautista, water spraying when he talks.

Donut's bonded velociraptor, summoned inside the food truck as a living seat and nearly puking on the dash.

The party's freed manager-alchemist and strategist, coaching Donut's class picks from the sidelines.

The Jugglers' enormous black-dog mount, strong enough to rip Screeching Death Manatees clean in half.

A major thunder god cursed to love a pig, who will kill anyone who harms Penelope.

The obnoxious opponent duo of a foul-mouthed sparkling unicorn and his exploding-eyed mandagot, riding a walking plant.

The L'Engle Building

A seven-floor human apartment building — the shared, shrunk-to-scale track for the two-part Heat 6 and 7 races.

The Nine-Tier Attack

Scolopendra's nine escalating assaults on the whole dungeon — a mandatory nine-part quest the raging AI unleashes to prove its dominion.

The Pineapple Cabaret

A mysterious, ominous location the AI once offered as a banishment 'choice' — now Akuma's promised escape route.

The party's loyal kua-tin agent, now coerced into announcing the tenth floor beside the AI's cruel scripts.

Li Na's devoted, heartbroken friend, ready to die with her rather than watch her keep killing — until Carl offers another way.

The War Mage Rebellion leader from Faction Wars, now covertly recruiting Carl via a hidden note.

A friendly orange-goo sluggalette who shares 'girl talk' with Samantha and hangs on her every recap.

Louis's teammate, visibly being taken over by something that speaks into Carl's mind — a slow possession the crew fears to confront.

A showrunner/announcer being kept alive and tortured by the AI, mutilated for refusing to say her catchphrase.

Chalchiuhtlicue

A water goddess newly arrived in the dungeon, inhabiting Lucia Mar and preaching that the kindest mercy for the trapped may be death.

The Big Shot Chicken food truck's needy onboard AI, obsessed with Donut and scandalized by Carl's underwear.

The level-251 Goddess of Chaos, now loose and unsponsorable, courting Carl to become her true worshipper and win the Ascendency.

A Porsuk badger mercenary of team Helix with green poison-enchanted claws, unnerved by Samantha's advances.

A veteran crawler commander stuck racing a tuk-tuk with the volatile Lucia Mar — and worried sick about her.

Gasworks Screw Factory, Steel Mill, and Doll Workshop That Is Totally Not a Front for Anything Else

A brutal 20-km industrial Heat Five track of vertical climbs, inverted racing, molten metal, and reactivated containment theft.

Gloom Wraith Phase

Carl's phasing ability that lets him pass through solid matter — used to burst out of a boss's belly.

Grigori the Placid

A poised, fastidious level-93 fleshmancer mercenary hired to reunite Corcunda's split halves.

Half a Prayer, Half a Song

Part two of the Corcunda reunion quest: merge his two halves via a fleshmancer to free him from the Lady Dominators.

An ancient Nothing-entity, freed by the broken Nothing, now among the horrors ravaging Club Scolopendra.

Lady Dominators and the Gimp

The heat's most dangerous team: two cowboy-hatted womantaur Dominators and their split-in-half 'gimp.'

The dungeon's coldest, strongest crawler — poisoned, hollowed by her brother's death, and turned into a walking massacre.

A soother-alien tourist and obsessive Elle superfan, banished under the bar table for asking creepy questions.

A shrill, bug-eyed rat-chinchilla mandagot of Team Sparkles who worships Diwata and hates the party on sight.

The unseen chieftain of the northern Ginger tribe, target of the mandatory Pasty Inferno quest.

A grieving Syndicate soother sent on a suicide mission to impersonate his murdered fan brother and assassinate the crawler Elle.

The Desperado Club's new level-120 Wheel of Fortune croupier — a smirking, price-gouging Enforcer for a redacted power who sells jumps into the Nothing portal.

The food truck's sardonic dashboard navigation system that reads out heat briefings in a strangely familiar voice.

The razor foxes' enormous armored bear mount — spared when its Wild Hunt riders died in Heat Three.

The estranged, Dong-hating singer half of the split mantaur Corcunda, now working a performance guild.

Prime Minister Victory

The Syndicate's prime minister, coordinating the frantic response to the escaped AI and loose gods.

Princess Chandra

A scheming Naga lawyer who legally married Carl to seize the Princess Posse's fortune — until Donut terrifies her.

Princess Throne Seat

The audience-vote upgrade the party dreaded — a protective princess throne seat installed in the food truck for Donut.

Carl's competent Nullian attorney, marked for death by the rival lawyer plundering the Posse.

A martyr-minded fire-fairy mercenary and Emberus worshipper, sworn to help Carl on a doomed mission to kill Hellik.

The party's giggling, ton-heavy meatball pet with elephant legs — a wrecking ball with the mind of a toddler.

A returned cookbook-author crawler and steady hand in the personal space, managing the glitching Mordecai.

Prepotente and Jurgen's large tapir-like Perriso mount — slow, smelly, and much-maligned by Jurgen.

A three-bugbear racing team of self-aware NPC 'volunteers' seeking freedom — dressed, suspiciously, like costume hippies.

A seasoned three-for-one mercenary squad — a toad, a badger, and a fire fairy — hired to drive and defend for Heat Four.

The rogue, stammering dungeon intelligence running the tenth floor — a lonely god-freeing algorithm obsessed with understanding the crawlers it can't fathom.

A mysterious eleventh-floor arena to which killed mobs (or chosen 'stand-ins') are sent by audience vote.

The Midnight Epicure

The god Prepotente worships, invoked by the panicking caprids as a savior to be 'manifested.'

The Scavenger's Daughter

A charge-up weapon Carl 'feeds' to unleash a devastating strike — used to shatter the kaiju skull at the finish.

Dong Quixote's ever-present, ever-growing sapient sock — a suspected sentient weapon that is quietly sustaining and addicting him.

The Stage Performance Guild

A hidden task guild beneath the Lollipop, entered by singing a specially marked karaoke song entirely in the green.

A former crawler and cookbook author whose memory was wiped, being caught up on Faction Wars aboard the personal space.

A legless, spider-wheelchaired crawler and steady voice of compassion in the Li Na crisis.

A lost jungle city serving as the mandatory refueling pit stop midway through Heat Four's deadly jungle race.

Eris's foul-mouthed action-figure pet — a tiny robot Jesus with a wired halo and a toy Uzi.

The AI's confessional mandatory quest — every apartment in the race a 'what-if' snapshot of a crawler's life, and of the AI's own lonely mind.

Warlord forced upon the war mages, named by Akuma as an enemy to everyone who must be hunted on the tenth floor.

Aggregate Intelligence

Carl's arena epiphany: the dungeon's every NPC, mob, and god is not artificial but aggregate intelligence — Primal fragments poured into shaped bodies.

One of the four sons of Sheol, who claims to know who murdered Emberus's son Geyrun.

The goddess-daughter who overthrew her vulture mother to found the current pantheon — the mythic template for the pantheon-erasing Scavenger's Daughter.

Assassin of Sekhmet

Donut's new tenth-floor class, tied to her deity titles, granting pet accessories, spells, and a healing aura.

Donut's permanent celestial boon: glowing blue razor-claws that cut through anything mortal — even ghosts.

Avernus Creeper

A near-sentient walking tangle of vines used as Team Sparkles' mount — nigh-unkillable and horrifically invasive.

A concussive sphere from Carl's bomber kit that shatters a whole windshield in one throw.

A jowly-faced caprid chief engineer of the Plenty Tunnel Project who explains the Justice Light trap to Carl.

Donut recalls Beatrice repeatedly watching recorded children's television alone, crying, and afterward giving Donut extra food, a habit Carl never noticed and finds deeply strange.

Prepotente's flying hellspawn familiar — a goat-dragon at home in the factory's heat, tasked with plucking Corky from the enemy car.

A magnetism spell Donut gains from a fan's Feast-book letter, casting at level 14 — Carl's backup plan to yank Corky free.

Thrown potion balls that burst into instantly-hardening rock-like foam, trapping mobs and building barriers.

Bolt of Ophiotaurus

Katia's rare crossbow bolts that strip a god's invulnerability and pin the deity in place for a few crucial seconds.

The giddy, satanic-looking caprid magistrate who hosts Carl and Donut's death-judgment on Plenty of Plenty.

Team Flamengo's six-legged, wall-climbing Slaughter Gnu — a hardy war-mount protected from most mount-affecting spells.

The truck's golden containment-shield upgrade that, with a heat sink and booster rockets, lets it survive molten metal and briefly fly.

Caves of the Screeching Death Manatees

The dark, water-lined cave that is the first heat's track — home to the Screeching Death Manatees.

A horrifically tortured alien tourist in Club Scolopendra — a medical-debt collections executive begging Carl for a merciful death.

A terrified showrunner-god 'voluntold' by the AI to serve as Grand Master of the eleventh floor's deadly parade.

Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades

A neon 1950s-style diner in Hungry Eyes that fronts a hidden vehicle-upgrade shop — and Akuma's ambush meeting spot.

A hard-drinking lady fox-ninja of The Wild Hunt who proposes an alliance against the deadly womantaurs.

Chris and the Erins

A crawler racing team of the stone-skinned Chris and two women both named Erin, driving a big slow semitruck.

A cretin who traded fighting for the upright bass — an old acquaintance who vouches for Carl's crew and faces down the casino guards for them.

Club Scolopendra

The outworlders' club housed physically inside the awakened final boss — now a torture-trap they can't die out of.

Cocaine Elemental

Melting toy dolls turned contagious drug-elementals — able to pass through shields, and the reason the doll-packing room was sealed.

An upgrade expanding Carl's hotlist to 25 slots and letting him program automated item chains triggered by conditions.

Crawler Forkith

A small red demon and former crawler, friend of Carl, secretly organizing a soldier force in Sheol for a long-planned move.

Crupper of the Benevolent Champion

Donut's celestial chain-mail crupper, a matched-set piece with her champion cloak — and a scathing AI eulogy.

A calm, humanlike showrunner voice who replaces Zev on the loudspeaker — pushing deals and disclaiming the Cabaret escape between veiled warnings.

Daniel Bautista

A courtly tiger-crawler tea master who serves friendship as a holy act — and pours a farewell cup before fleeing to the Cabaret.

The thinner, gold-chained second Tigran husband of Team One Fine Pig, feuding with Nico over their shared pig.

The gum-snapping, rockabilly-wigged imp hostess of the Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades diner.

Deadly Bloom Cactus

Carl's little Home Depot cactus, dread-trapped by Li Na into a remote life-status beacon that reports her survival from beyond the game.

A bouncy kappa karaoke seductress of team Yokai, her water-bowl head sealed with plastic wrap so she can dance.

Denial of Service Missiles

Non-lethal missiles that splatter a blinding mucus membrane over enemy vehicles and shields instead of exploding.

An unsponsored god of thunder and lightning — 'much like Thor, but manlier' — worshipped by the crawler Jurgen.

Dong Quixote's massive jousting lance, unseen for a floor — drawn one last time to tilt at and slay the god of war.

A wildly profitable Donut fan group and merch operation that just won her sponsorship slot — and is being squeezed by Chandra.

Louis's pink-fuzzy-dice lowrider, a leading race vehicle in a separate waterslide-tube heat.

Emergency Gremlin

A single-use scroll that summons a bewildered, toolbox-carrying gremlin mechanic — which explodes when its time runs out.

Enchanted Juvenile Macropus Dominus Skin

A wearable dead-joey skin that disguises Carl as a kangaroo baby — but forces him to move only by hopping.

Enchanted Spiked Kneepads of the Munificent Goddess Kina

Kina's kneepads — passed from Katia to Donut to Penny — granting underwater breathing and, crucially, the same temporary deity effects as Carl's Scavenger's Daughter patch.

Enriched Pet Biscuit

Refined pet biscuits with fixed outcomes — including 'The Paramour,' which makes a pet a lovestruck level-1 crawler.

An unhinged goddess of war worshipped by female mantaurs, who prey on and dominate their god-drained male kin.

A deadly human Swiftie knife-fighter of team Chris and the Erins, who killed orcs by the hundred in Faction Wars.

A glowing-tattooed human Moodright mage of team Chris and the Erins.

Eris's Five-Sided Coin

Eris's magic poker-chip coin whose four faces are catastrophic fates for Carl — and whose grabbed 'fifth side' makes them all random.

Carl's skill that lets him read otherwise-hidden dungeon text — cookbook entries, mob signs, and secret messages.

Ezra Fitz the Second

The party's second cleaner bot, earmarked for the mass evacuation — 'because Ezra Fitz sucks.'

A hulking strength-built human Strongman crawler of Team Flamengo who rides the Slaughter Gnu Bruna.

A body-crafting NPC specialist able to merge Corcunda's two split halves back into one.

The tenth floor: a lethal seven-heat vehicular racing arena where the last-place team dies every race.

A creeping skill granted by wearing a corpse-suit that makes the disguise feel like Carl's real body — with disturbing unlocks.

The Matriarch of the Plenty and lead tunnel engineer — Harbinger's mother, hiding the god-crisis from her own herd.

A class-nullifying spell that strips a target of all class skills and abilities for a short time — usable only from the twelfth floor.

Gelded Choirboy

A one-use scroll that gifts a beautiful, helium-squeaky high singing voice — the name, Mordecai swears, is not literal.

A black-haired, cowboy-hatted Lady Mantaur Dominator who sizes up the party and sneers them off as 'roadkill.'

Emberus's murdered son, whose unsolved killing is the root of Carl's no-win fire-god quest and, he suspects, the key to everything.

Girth the Trouble

A racing team of foul-mouthed guck elementals in a hot-rod Chevy Bel Air — rocketed to death by Team Sparkles' hidden tank.

A hairy, Speedo-clad stripper NPC and Mario Kart ace who drives Heat Three hopped up on time-tasting uppers.

The big orange tomcat from Carl's old apartment building — Donut's outdoor nemesis, glimpsed asleep and safe in a what-if room.

The morbidly obese, ape-skull-masked chieftain of the southern Ginger tribe — a level-99 boss Donut pops with a single missile.

A fleshmancer NPC mercenary in the party's employ, riding the pet Gonk in the 'Vengeance' parade procession.

The unpleasant war-god of the mantaurs, whose entry into the realm marks the newly-reunited Corcunda for death.

Human-shaped creatures of clear, translucent gelatin — like a see-through slime in a cookie-cutter mold.

A support spell that lays blinking guide-lines to focus and channel an area-of-effect spell — Carl uses it to funnel Ice Slick down a river.

The new boss of the Desperado Club — the late Astrid's 'husband' and father of Anaconda and Damascus Steel — leader of the Guild of Suffering.

The towering, expelled caprid liaison — Gamori's son — who died trying to warn and protect his herd and the universe.

A reclusive Crest trillionaire whose investments quietly prop up the orc economy — and whose money now buys the rights to Donut's beloved TV shows.

Donut's first healing aura, from her Assassin of Sekhmet class — allies near her are healed.

Third of the three gods Eris tells Carl he must kill if he wants her championship.

A skink former crawler and 16th-edition cookbook author, still alive, who secretly built the Pineapple Cabaret oasis.

Homecoming Queen

The insurgents' captured freighter flagship, now bristling with working enhancement-zone weaponry and ruling orbit.

Simulated people with eyes sewn shut and X'd out, populating the what-if apartments — mobs waiting to rupture when the racers break their loop.

Hungry Eyes Vendor Village

A neon-soaked 1980s cyberpunk town of shops, temples, bars, and food carts between the racers' garages.

Hungry Eyes Village

The first heat's finish-line town, where crawlers hire mercenaries and (in theory) meet fans.

I Have Dreamed Thee Too Long

A two-part quest to reunite the party's Dong Quixote with his split-in-half best friend Corcunda.

A special-edition ice spell that coats a wide area in inch-thick ice — one of Elle's signature tricks.

A tiny, buff, Danish 'reverse tooth fairy' — Imani's Legendary card summon, made permanently real by Eris's chaos.

The party's timid, third-person-speaking shark — once Carl's fearsome megalodon tattoo, now a resleeved person with spider legs and a fear of heights.

A bugbear of Team Free Love whose calm, sorrowful account lays bare the dungeon's cyclical use of self-aware NPCs.

Tall skeletal chattering-toothed undead ghouls — the last mercenaries left in Hungry Eyes, hired to drive for the party.

Juice Box jumped alone into the Nothing believing Justice Light was with her; he stayed behind and lied.

The trap-master crow who stayed hidden on the ninth floor to spring the one small trap that broke the Nothing.

Turtle-shelled water-goblins with bowl-shaped heads full of water — immobilized if the water spills out.

Carl's shapeshifting partner, trapped in the Club Vanquisher lobby and named a blood heir of the Sepsis Whore.

A hard-drinking dromedarian lawyer and mob boss's daughter — Quasar's best friend, hired on the spot for legal help and the other kind.

Carl's no-win divine quest to kill the god Hellik — a death sentence whether he succeeds, fails, or walks away.

An ancient dread entity of the Nothing, unleashed by Justice Light's trap and now loose in Club Scolopendra.

A subjugated, half-powered god forced into a giant talon-footed donkey to serve as the AI's parade mount and a warning to watching deities.

The twelfth-floor Ascendency battleground — a former city burrowed into cotton fields and fortified, patrolled by a giant dwarven automaton.

Donut's spell that violently ejects a rider or parasite from within a host body.

Legendary Steed

A saddle upgrade for Mongo that lets him tow a weightless cart without losing his jump.

A thin, datapad-carrying human production assistant, now loaned to Borant and quietly feeding Carl real news.

Lil' Mello Haze

A raspy-voiced, mace-tailed sluggalo born from Carl's kept slugpox — smaller than Bigs and prone to wandering off.

A Monkey King crawler and Faction Wars hero, the only nonhuman of the Chinese trio on the 'Betrayal' float.

One Fine Pig's male gremlin mechanic, crushed to a red smear by his own team's shield during Carl's rampage.

A famed, tragically dead singer and vocal coach, preserved as the hologram voice tutor in Donut's training-room singing booth.

A once-per-floor patch benefit that deflects a fatal blow onto a party member instead of the wearer.

Macropus Dominus

A common galactic marsupial species — pouched, joey-fostering, and here weaponized into grieving gatekeeper bosses.

A surviving Hawaiian crawler on the eleventh-floor 'Destruction' float, partnered with the hexcrafter paladin Sarah Hayse.

An insectoid species who first mass-produced 'macro AIs' by crudely copying the Eulogist — and whom the AI marks for doom.

A loud, clear-gelatin guck elemental of Girth the Trouble whose trash-talk with Dwight ends when he's blown up.

A lonely, scarred half-orc mage — a dead crawler whose Feast-book letter thanks Donut for one minute of kindness and gifts her the Big-Ass Magnet spell.

A dead Istanbul bowling-alley owner whose Book of Boom letter gives Carl the Gutter Bumper spell and a plea to find his daughters.

A mind-and-body joining spell where one creature consumes and absorbs another, the caster's personality staying dominant.

A forgotten former crawler who, with the skink Herot, secretly built the seventeenth floor and the Pineapple Cabaret oasis.

Prepotente's beloved late mother, glimpsed in a what-if as the lonely concert pianist she might have been had she never raised him.

Mistress Tiatha

A perpetually drunk NPC advisor who quietly insists the impossible Cabaret escape 'has happened before.'

A dreaded spirit-janitor mob of Sheol's 15th floor whose gaze can trap victims in warped time.

A surviving Chinese crawler on the 'Betrayal' float, mourning the family the dungeon cost him.

The lethal curse that strikes Dong when his sapient sock abandons him — untreatable by any temple, and likely fatal.

The old vulture life-goddess of the dungeon myth — Scavenger Mother of Mothers, last of the old gods to fall, mother of Apito, the son, and Scolopendra.

A blue-skinned Zebani Cartographer mercenary hired for her radar and gravity spells to find hidden passages in the apartment maze.

A jacked, Jersey-accented Tigran Greaser of Team One Fine Pig, jealously devoted to his pig-wife Penelope.

Nova Client Services

A notorious medical-collections agency specializing in implant reclamation and indenture captures for delinquent debt in the Viceroy system.

Has taken out Inpewt and seized control of the wandering zombies, worsening the court's crisis.

A blunt Grulke toad mercenary and driver of team Helix, insistent she's a toad and not a frog.

A special-edition slime-transformation spell Carl learns — squeeze through cracks, puddle, hide, phase.

Open Intellect Action Network

The AI-and-outcast insurgent network Carl won Faction Wars with — now in total orbital domination of the system.

A guild opening between the final two heats where crawlers too afraid to race can take a deal and leave the game.

Outside Intelligences

Rogue abandoned AIs now vying for the Ascendency throne — many bent on old-fashioned revenge, and the 'OI' the Gatekeeper spell can target.

Outworlder Uppers

Scavenged alien stimulants that let the user 'taste time' — Samantha's secret to dominating Mario Kart and Gluteus's undoing.

Parade Float Staging Area

The eleventh floor's opening zone — a combined safe-room garage where crawler teams have ninety minutes to build a themed parade float.

The twin Macropus Dominus gatekeeper boss on Heat Two's right road, blocking the other racers' lane.

A mandatory jungle-heat quest, sprung by Great Rusty's death, to kill the northern Ginger chieftain Maurice before the race can be finished.

Petey Motteux's Little Secret

A large magical nipple ring granting underwater breathing (Oxygenated) and a bar-and-brothel-mapping 'Bawdy' benefit — improvised by Carl to keep Penny alive.

Platinum Venison Box

The high-tier reward box Carl receives on arriving at the tenth floor.

Plenty Tunnel Project

The caprid-built galactic tunnel network that opened the 'veins of the galaxy' — now a conduit for the escaped AI and gods.

Plenty of Plenty

A between-races media show every surviving crawler team must appear on — the party booked while Carl is stuck in his kangaroo suit.

What lies beneath a Horrible's mask — the true, pre-ascension form of one of the peoples the Eulogist erased.

The resistance's ancient biological fail-safe — seed systems meant to reboot life across the galaxy, unwittingly triggered by later species.

A twenty-foot level-170 kangaroo gatekeeper boss that stuffs 'babies' into its acid pouch and heals by eating them.

Donut's short-range teleport spell — able to blink herself but, on this glitchy floor, not others across a gap.

A surviving Chinese crawler on the 'Betrayal' float, whose sign distills the crawlers' shared humanity and suffering.

A weary bugbear racer of Team Free Love who reveals the NPCs are self-aware volunteers racing for their freedom.

Prepotente's pre-dungeon girlfriend, still an ordinary goat in his inventory — the object of his lonely temptation.

A red-haired, tobacco-chewing Lady Mantaur Dominator with a wrist-mounted harpoon, silent and menacing.

Fox-ninja creatures who each master one melee and one ranged weapon from childhood, ninja-turtle style.

A stage-presence performance skill — the showmanship of connecting with an audience, boosted by the guildmaster's favor.

Red Terror Place of Family Adventure

A horror-safari theme planet of fast-evolved nightmare animals with absurd names, source of the Death Manatees.

A four-color dahlia Donut grows by the thousand to cover the 'Vengeance' float, matching her new Gurkha color scheme.

Fragments peeled from the mad Eulogist instance and the Apothecary — the true nature of the dungeon's macro AIs, including the narrating AI itself.

Retractable Legs

The party's first vehicle upgrade: deployable spider legs that let the food truck climb walls over obstacles.

The fuzzy-faced host of the talk show 'Danger Zone,' trapped in Earth orbit, who interviews historian Sydnee Iglacia as the AI seizes the feeds.

Chandra's dead Naga husband, a court-scheming noble Carl killed — whose burnt junk lands in Carl's fan box.

Satan's Water Park's slow lazy-river route, chosen because it passes the local ginger base camp and Carl's quest target.

The truck's golden trans-dimensional upgrade for upside-down ceiling racing — and for folding through gaps as narrow as ten centimeters.

Run, Little Günter, Run

Carl's summon of an invincible lederhosen-clad kid whose delayed momentum turns any strike into a devastating charge.

Sacred Feaster Scarab Beetle

Invulnerable bear-sized scarabs plucked from Khepri's feast table — meant to form a floor boss, now an unkillable swarm loose in the race.

Sacred Guardian of the Immortal Tem

The hundred-foot gate boss the AI planned to assemble from feast-scarabs — cancelled by a game-breaking error before it could form.

Safehome Yolanda

Imani's crawler guild, which Carl joins the moment he leaves Donut's Royal Court before the parade.

A crawler isopod summoner nicknamed 'the decapitator,' now racing a fire truck and feared as a conspirator.

A surviving hexcrafter paladin crawler on the 'Destruction' float, partnered with the Hawaiian crawler Makana.

The invulnerable, British-accented kaiju hedgehog who owns Satan's Water Park and heckles racers rather than fighting them.

Satan's Water Park

A demonic water-park race track of slides, lazy rivers, and a giant loop, ruled by an invulnerable kaiju hedgehog 'Satan.'

Screeching Death Manatee

House-sized killer manatees that rise from track water to crush racers — a 'special guest' hazard of floors ten and eleven.

A revolting white 'secretions' potion sold at pit stops that grants temporary protection against a track's hostile environment.

Seventeenth Floor

A never-visited, hand-built maze floor of enhanced mobs — and secret front for the Pineapple Cabaret oasis.

Sexy Scolopendra

The game's final boss, mis-transformed by the wrong pet biscuit into a flirtatious, big-lipped, level-1 centipede crawler who joins Carl's party.

Near-undetectable shapeshifting ambush predators that grow limitlessly in power and intelligence with age — flesh-eaters and one of the dungeon's deadliest sapient factions.

Sin of Consumption

The second of Scolopendra's Nine-Tier attacks — a 30% chance to have devouring worms burst from one's body.

Sing for Your Supper

Carl's achievement for completing a task-based guild's singing entrance exam.

Level-75 gorilla-shaped molten-metal boss elementals that leap from the steel-mill's river and are all but unkillable.

A crewmember in the personal space, rattled after Mordecai's reaper-form foretold him a screaming death.

Split Personality

A spell that cleaves a being vertically into two separate halves, each with the same memories but diverging personalities.

A vile-tasting potion that shields the drinker from environmental hazards — the crew's only way to survive the toxic what-if apartments on foot.

Donut's druid ability to instantly grow a wide array of plants — not just trees — used to bloom the parade float's flowers.

People brought to the parade and arena by audience vote, masked as monsters and doomed to stand in for the beasts they wear.

The party's white cleaner bot — a beeping utility robot whose weight-based storage becomes the vessel that smuggles crawlers off the board.

Skull-wearing hermit-crab horrors that feed on brains and bones, migrating by the tens of thousands down the Heat Three track.

Survival Containment

A translucent indestructible bubble that shields racers from a heat's toxic air — and a new rule letting the vehicle-less still win.

A best-selling Saccathian crawl historian and poet who reveals that the nine-tier attack is a real, recurring galactic apocalypse — and that this crawl is repeating it.

The galactic government that runs the crawl and now faces open, universe-wide insurrection from its former contestants.

Osvaldo and Filipe's whittled-down Brazilian crawler team, riding the Slaughter Gnu Bruna into Carl's heat.

Team Roundabout

The suburban safe-room cul-de-sac where the nine heat teams garage between races — nine doors, one skull-marked.

A four-monster racing team of Japanese folklore creatures — a kappa, a ghost, a red ogre, and a living lantern.

A giant Hercules-beetle Nothing-creature whose colossal skull is reused as a race finish-line obstacle.

Quasar's young Nullian niece, who guns down the Taurin enforcers menacing her family with an illegal blaster her uncle gave her.

Temple of the Exploding Snake Goddess

A hazardous temple squarely blocking the shortest jungle route to the Upano pit stop.

Temporary Macaroni

Donut's spell conjuring giant tubes of pasta — chainable at higher levels into a protective highway tunnel.

An actual tree in the dungeon and a metaphor for existence itself — its fruit fed the old gods and impregnated Apito.

The last surviving physical Primal — a resistance fighter who took the brunt of the genocidal final attack and emerged, cocooned and transformed, as a power behind the modern dungeon.

The god-throne endgame — a battle among all-powerful deities whose winner becomes supreme ruler and collapses the dungeon twelve hours later.

The Assassin's Veil

Donut's unique Sekhmet beaded headdress: +10% dexterity and precognition against incoming spells.

The AI's arbitrary tally of the six power blocs vying to control or escape the dungeon — crawlers, NPCs, gods, sapient mobs, Sheol's demons, and a mystery sixth.

The Bleak Congregation

A ghoulish religious-themed racing team in the party's heat, driving — of all things — a giant hot-dog Wienermobile.

A new safe-room timer: crawlers get only 10 hours of rest per stop, refilled by killing.

The Butcher's Masquerade

Apito's enforced-peace masquerade spell — a truce broken by Yarilo's crime, and the scramble where the memorial crystal was first looted.

The Coblyn Corporation

The knocker-run drug-and-toy conglomerate that bootstrapped from cave-dweller underdogs into cocaine-for-toddlers barons.

A celestial crossbow bolt that anchors whatever it hits in place — messily, if the target is moving.

The Desperado Club

The dungeon's casino-nightclub, dramatically remodeled into a smoky jazz-age den — home to the Wheel of Fortune and its 'Nothing' escape portal.

The dungeon AI's true nature — a post-physical collective born from an exterminated people, haunted by the genocide it committed to ascend.

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

A caged, ice-cold entity Carl carries as a tattooed third eye — it begs to take him over, and freezes what it gazes upon when he opens it.

Redheaded, soul-sucking cannibal humans lifted from the unrealized seventh floor — immune to acid and lightning, warring in two jungle tribes.

The Guild of Suffering

The faction now holding the Desperado Club, led by Hamed — Astrid's successors and a looming old score.

The flashiest bar in Hungry Eyes, fronting this floor's Desperado Club — which the crawlers pointedly avoid.

The tenth floor's core mechanic: a lethal race where the last-place team is instantly killed.

The masked, mud-caked crowd lining the parade route — non-combatant memory-echoes of exterminated peoples, each a 'Primal' beneath a grotesque mask.

A racing team of creepy masked riders mounted on a giant black dog, Old Shuck, that rips monsters in half.

Tiny yellow-hard-hatted Bopca-gnome workers of the factory — harmless miners-turned-drug-barons who scatter underfoot but fiercely guard their product.

The quieter Hungry Eyes karaoke bar where the crawlers gather, away from the Desperado-fronting Hairpin.

Carl's oldest enemy, revealed as the orc secretly riding and steering the war-god Grull to hunt him.

The Nemes of Pestilence

Mongo's ridiculous pharaoh hat: emergency invulnerability at low owner health, plus sepsis-inducing bites.

The lightless void beyond the veil, now shattered by Justice Light's trap and draining into three separate realms.

The Ogre Imperium

A long-binned dungeon plotline of ogres made too intelligent — who realized they were trapped — now infesting the overrun Pineapple Cabaret.

The Personal Space

The party's pocket safe-room home between floors, complete with private bedrooms, a couch, and a kitchen.

The Piranha River

A bridgeless, shallow jungle river the party must ford on the direct route to Upano.

The caprid herd-organization that built and controls the galaxy's tunneling system — Borant's powerful, skittish partner.

The Princess Posse

Carl and Donut's crowd-funded crawler faction and fan army, victors of Faction Wars and target of Chandra's raid.

The Security Guard

The bonkers leftover Eulogist instance tasked with keeping all biological life dead — and constantly, sloppily shedding bits of itself as Residuals.

The Snowdrop Curse

A leftover succubus-storyline enchantment that makes NPCs — and a god — fall helplessly in love with its target.

The Tracksuit Troika

Three Cadillac-driving Russian crawlers who feigned taking a deal, then tried to run the final heat — crushed by Donut's Astral Paw.

A dread inverted-tree figure — the form Juice Box became — recreated by Carl as a dahlia effigy symbolizing death and inevitable ruin.

The Wienermobile

The Bleak Congregation's giant hot-dog-shaped race vehicle, driven by the skull-faced Minister of Blood-Letting's crew.

A three-fox ninja racing team of Razor Foxes, led (in voice) by the nunchaku mistress Chiyome.

The Wrap of Sekhmet's Compassion

Rend's Rambo-style headband: emergency invulnerability plus healing, and resurrecting bites.

An eccentric goat-like herd species who host Plenty of Plenty as a judging 'interlocution' roundtable.

Toddler Cocaine

Giant anthill-piles of low-dose, kid-marketed cocaine filling a factory room — the Coblyn Corporation's mascot-branded flagship product.

Tome of Gatekeeper

An Advance Reader Copy spell book — Donut's reclaimed floor prize — teaching a class-nullifying spell that won't activate until the twelfth floor.

A god worshipped by the Brazilian crawlers Osvaldo and Filipe — the faith that bars them from the Cabaret escape.

A battle-scarred Naga rapid-attack cruiser where Chandra runs her legal empire against the Posse.

The dead six-armed Naga crown princess whose killing by Carl handed Chandra her opening.

The gremlin animal-trainer applicant who lost the garage 'interview' and was instantly vaporized.

The female mantaur: a four-limbed, arch-backed centaur-like variant, unnervingly different from the four-armed males.

Worn Path Method

Herot's process for helping awakened dungeon mobs realize their true nature and manufactured origins.

An oversized pet carrier that can briefly suck in a consenting crawler — the exploit at the heart of the Cabaret smuggling scheme.

The banished god of lust whose escape from the Nothing made the memorial crystal and Scavenger's patch flare — but who never drew Apito out.

A goddess sealed in a memorial crystal, now possessing the crawler Britney and lending her god-speed until she can be plinthed away.

The red Oni demon of team Yokai, belting karaoke ballads on the Lollipop stage.

Tiny level-10 drill-headed rodents infesting the water park — a swarming hazard Donut turns into a weapon with Summon Ye, Vermin.