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A punitive system measure the Syndicate can apply to a crawler that kills them and everyone nearby.

Advanced Bomb Maker's Workshop

An entire crafting room unlocked by the Agent Provocateur specialty, allowing precisely tuned and specialized explosives.

Advanced Trap Maker's Workshop

A specialty crafting table granted by the Guerilla specialty, required to build the best magic-based traps.

Agent Provocateur

Carl's chosen Compensated Anarchist specialty, focused on sabotage, mass-casualty bombs, and explosives crafting.

A level 29 human Prodromoi who lost half a leg escaping the fifth floor, met by Carl at the front of the specialization line.

Blend into the Crowd

A Revolutionary benefit that makes guards forget who you are once you have been out of sight for a while.

Borant Corporation

The kua-tin corporation running the crawl, which wants Carl kept in the game despite the danger to its solvency.

A standing gold reward on a crawler's head, with Carl's sitting at three million as the sixth floor opens.

The forest's defeated commoner elves, physically near-identical to High Elves but marked by wrinkles, hunched backs, and resignation.

A concealment spell granted by the Guerilla specialty that works well but requires the caster to stay in place.

Leaderboard-topping human crawler hauled before the Syndicate over the Gate of the Feral Gods, then forced to pick a class specialty.

Character Actor

Donut's performance skill, now at level six and called a real asset by Mordecai.

Club Vanquisher

A club where the bush elf Ian normally works as an attendant when not pulled onto arena duty.

Compensated Anarchist

Carl's class, required to pick one of three permanent specialties on the sixth floor.

Die Kirschbomben

A pub just outside a medium dryad settlement on the sixth floor, chosen as the party's rally point.

Explosives Handling

Carl's bomb-handling skill, stalled out until the Agent Provocateur specialty granted a +2 boost.

Gate of the Feral Gods

A three-piece artifact that opens portals for feral gods, so broken it crashed the system when the AI first created it.

Donut's fifth-floor class, which let her carry buffed spells forward into her new Legendary Diva build.

The 30-hour head start crawlers get on the sixth floor before the hunters are released from Zockau.

A Compensated Anarchist specialty for jungle trap-makers and ranged killers, offered to Carl and declined.

HAZMAT Endorsement

The specialization endorsement Katia chose for her Monster Truck Driver class on the sixth floor.

The ruling class of elves, almost physically indistinguishable from the defeated Bush Elves beneath them.

A level 30 bush elf arena attendant and former human crawler who warns Carl about Zockau and Vrah.

Someone Carl made a promise to, one he believes he cannot keep without the Gate of the Feral Gods.

Carl's ally, hauled into the liaison's office for carrying the gate, who takes the HAZMAT endorsement for her Monster Truck Driver class.

The fifth-floor city Carl flooded, destroying the Dreadnought army and ending their participation in faction wars.

Donut's new floor-six bard class, whose songs cast spells and which comes with an entirely new spell system.

The timed destruction of each dungeon floor, giving crawlers 17 days on the Hunting Grounds.

An administrator killed by Carl, whose death was the occasion of his previous visit to Orren's office.

A crawler whose team was repeatedly censored by a caprid liaison working with the Skull Empire.

Princess Donut's pet dinosaur, frightened in the specialization line and delighted by her new songs.

Monster Truck Driver

Katia's class, which specializes on the sixth floor through endorsements rather than a name change.

The party's trainer, who advises Donut against a permanent class and pushes Carl toward the melee specialty he ignores.

Hooded Syndicate liaison with a gondii in a fishbowl head, who pressures Carl to surrender the Gate of the Feral Gods.

Platinum Venison Box

A reward box granted to Carl in the system messages that open the sixth floor.

Carl's cat partner, who picks the Legendary Diva class for the sixth floor and immediately books herself a singing gig.

Ajib's crawler class, which Carl gathers is some sort of dexterity-themed fighter.

Princess Donut's short-range teleport is the party's standard emergency repositioning and escape skill.

A Compensated Anarchist specialty for front-line street fighters, offering strength and unarmed combat, which Carl declines.

The sixth-floor rite in which every crawler enters a private booth and permanently picks one of three class specialties.

System by which outside parties bid to sponsor individual crawlers, with the final slots opened on the sixth floor.

The Desperado Club

The crawlers' between-floors club, where Orren's liaison office sits within earshot of the dance floor.

The Dreadnoughts

Large red-skinned humanoids who abandoned their stake in faction wars after Carl annihilated their entire army.

The sixth floor's signature event, in which registered hunters are unleashed to kill crawlers and take their gear.

Registered alien participants who pay to hunt crawlers for gear, starting this season at level 50.

The Hunting Grounds

The sixth floor, a jungle-swallowed version of the third floor where 360 hunters are released to kill crawlers for their gear.

The Skull Empire

A faction Carl believes was working with a caprid liaison to censor and cheat against Maggie My's crew.

The Staging Area

A football-stadium-sized arena where every crawler queues for class specialization before entering the sixth floor.

The governing body overseeing the crawl, whose council now unanimously regards Carl as a problem.

A species of parasitic worms called gondii, known to the universe as citizens of the Valtay, who host inside fluid-filled vessels.

Carl's hard-to-train melee skill, sitting at nine and offered a +2 boost by the Revolutionary specialty.

A mantis hunter and perennial regular who wears the severed heads of her thousands of kills upon her body.

The northern city of the sixth floor where all hunters are staged, holding at least one unguarded exit to the seventh floor.