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Osvaldo

Osvaldo the Curupira

The fastest crawler in the dungeon, whose stubborn refusal of every deal ends with his death at Britney's hands one gate short of escape.

Story so far

Osvaldo, the small red-haired Curupira crawler and the fastest racer in the dungeon (dexterity 285 buffed, with Deflector, Launch, Super Speedster, and Puddle Jump), meets the end his stubbornness makes inevitable. Refusing Carl's final desperate pleas — even declining to worship or deal, glad only that they 'worked together when we could' — he stakes everything on his speed in the rigged final heat. His teammate Filipe L has quietly taken a deal, leaving him alone atop Bruna.

When Carl blows the L'Engle Building open to the roof portals with his poleaxe charges, Osvaldo triggers his Launch spell and rockets for the exit faster than the eye can follow — but the containment rules bar him from crossing outside his mount until Bruna is dead, and he hits the portal wall at speed and is stunned. In that frozen instant Britney — now moving just as fast, powered by the Ysalte memorial crystal — leaps up, kills him, and lands atop his corpse, claiming his bounty. Carl mourns him as another frightened soul who 'had a way out and refused to take it,' unable to hate him.

His mount Bruna is saved by the crew's shields and gremlins.

Appearance

A small, barely-five-foot crawler still mostly human-looking, with vivid unnaturally red hair, a sharp resentful face, and something odd about his feet hidden in oversized boots.

Role

The dungeon's fastest crawler, killed by Britney one gate short of the escape his pride would never trade for a deal.

Relationships

Britney — The possessed crawler who matches his speed and kills him as he lies stunned at the portal.
Carl — Rebuffs his final pleas; Carl cannot bring himself to hate him even in death.
Filipe L — His teammate, who took a deal and escaped, leaving Osvaldo to race alone.
Bruna — His mount, spared by the crew's shields and emergency gremlins after his death.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 42
  • A prickly Brazilian crawler and dexterity-focused rival, now sharing Carl's deadly heat — and a rival claimant to the Apito crystal.
Chapter 76
  • The stubborn Curupira rival who refuses every deal, betting his survival on not finishing last — and plotting the elevator-shaft drop.
Chapter 82
  • Osvaldo flatly refuses Carl's overtures and any deal, even as his own teammate Filipe secretly takes one — locking Osvaldo's Team Flamengo into the final heat against Carl and Team Sparkles.
Chapter 85
  • Osvaldo refuses Carl's last plea and survives the opening slaughter, layering himself in shields and stripping his gnu Bruna's — a deadly game of timing with the fastest crawler in the dungeon against Carl's ceiling-drop.
Chapter 86
  • The fastest crawler in the dungeon, whose stubborn refusal of every deal ends with his death at Britney's hands one gate short of escape.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Curupira crawler LVL 72
dexterity
285 (buffed)
Skills & spells
  • Launch (15)
  • Super Speedster
  • Deflector
  • Puddle Jump (8)
  • Jump (15)
Notable gear
  • large concealing boots
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