Story so far
Bautista does not appear at the interview, but his merchandising does. Studying Loita's dahlia pin, Carl recalls that he has already drawn out several symbols he has come across, including the one belonging to the toy company that makes Bautista's stuffed animals, alongside the mark of the Syndicate.
That catalogue is about to become a formal part of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, which currently lacks any record of symbology. Carl's reasoning is that symbols matter to the mudskippers, which means they matter to the crawl and to the floors ahead, and the last floor proved they need to pay attention to exactly that kind of detail.
Role
Fellow crawler whose sponsor's logo forms part of Carl's growing symbology record.
Relationships
Carl — Crawler cataloguing the logo of Bautista's toy sponsor.
Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 18
- An unseen crawler whose decisive earlier kill leaves the Divider's perforated corpse and an emptied neighborhood behind.
Chapter 23
- A grief-hollowed Tigran swashbuckler, the last of his family, who owes Carl a debt for avenging his slaughtered sisters and cousins.
Chapter 45
- Trapped at Terminus with 400 survivors, Bautista neutralizes the Kravyad's hypnosis — only to face a defenseless NPC threatening suicide to seal their only exit.
Chapter 46
- His attempt to paralyze the Kravyad kills it, sealing the portal — stranding 150 hatless survivors for a 50-km trek to the abyss.
Chapter 52
- From inside the pit Bautista plays telephone across three stranded groups until three usable lines emerge.
Chapter 53
- Bautista fights fifty men's worth of the way up to the Mindaro line, then watches it rain trains and monsters.
Chapter 54
- Level 28 and stranded at the end of the line, Bautista gets his rescue, briefs Carl on the mimic, and starts a tribute.
Chapter 55
- The tiger man's whole arsenal is a dead woman's beanie baby collection, and he has been pulling tags without knowing what he was doing.
Chapter 57
- He listens to the warning, gets out of 72, and ends up stuck between two armies anyway.
Chapter 58
- He and his people split three ways across stations 64, 65 and 66 and hold the stairs, because those stations have no trap doors.
Chapter 60
- Crawler leader who confirms the generator blast and thanks Carl's crew for opening the way to the stairwells.
Chapter 61
- Crawler whose sponsored stuffed animals gave Carl another corporate symbol to catalogue.