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Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

the cookbook

Carl's crawler-written manual, credited with keeping the team alive and about to gain a symbology section.

Story so far

Carl names the cookbook, alongside Mordecai and the post-interview chats with Odette, as one of the three things that have done the most to keep the team alive, which makes Loita's new censorship regime especially dangerous now that the Odette pipeline is being closed off.

Studying Loita's dahlia pin, Carl notes that the cookbook sorely lacks any record of faction symbols. He has already sketched the Syndicate's sigil and several others onto his scratchpad, including the mark of the toy company that makes Daniel Bautista's stuffed animals, and he resolves to fix the omission. Symbology matters to the mudskippers, therefore it matters to the crawl and to the floors ahead; the fourth floor proved they need to pay attention to that kind of thing.

Appearance

A crawler-authored reference volume Carl carries in his inventory, paired with a scratchpad he sketches faction symbols onto.

Role

The team's core reference text, now being expanded to catalogue faction symbology.

Relationships

Carl — Owner and contributor, adding a symbols section.
Syndicate — Faction whose sigil he has already recorded.
Bloom — Faction whose dahlia pin he memorizes for inclusion.
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 33
  • A unique, secretly-magical book disguised as a joke recipe collection — a hidden guide to burning the dungeon down.
Chapter 34
  • A secret, code-embedded crawler's manual of chaos — 24 editions of potions, explosives, traps, and dungeon shortcuts, passed hand to hand across seasons.
Chapter 52
  • A half-remembered passage about indestructible NPCs turns a drunk bartender into the key to five hundred lives.
Chapter 53
  • Carl reads the portals chapter in a bathroom break, then adds his own notes on portal brands for the next edition.
Chapter 54
  • Carl checks the monster section for a way to kill a mimic and finds a footnote written by people who never met one this big.
Chapter 56
  • Donut calls it a stupid joke prize, and that lie is the only thing keeping it secret.
Chapter 58
  • Its thin, contemptuous section on deities is the reason Carl already knows the answers he asks Mordecai for.
Chapter 60
  • Crawler-written manual of dungeon secrets to which Carl adds his own vow in the 25th edition.
Chapter 61
  • Carl's crawler-written manual, credited with keeping the team alive and about to gain a symbology section.
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