The Desperado Club
Management segregates crawlers, hunters, and native NPCs by dungeon level after Carl strands and provokes patrons across the Hunting Grounds and Larracos branches.
Story so far
Crawler entrances now route only to the familiar top floor. Hunters are banned from moving upward and remain on the Hunting Grounds floor, while native sixth-floor NPCs with valid credentials enter that same local level and cannot travel between club layers. Managers attached to crawlers also route to the top.
Hunters trapped after Carl's Zockau raid cannot leave until the mantis mayor approves reconstruction of the entrance bar. Seven have died inside. The flooded Larracos branch remains blocked by recurring drain clogs and sharks, preventing faction weapons brokers from reaching the Hunting Grounds market.
Blood Bars do not drain once a patron enters, but must be full at the door. With crawler-owned towns excluding hunters from many entrances, smaller settlements and the club become temporary shelter as brambles advance. A concealed bathroom stair can bypass management's routing between the top and Hunting Grounds levels.
Appearance
A multi-level extradimensional nightclub whose differently themed floors correspond to dungeon strata.
Role
The club is a segregated sanctuary, hidden transit route, changeling contact point, and hunter bottleneck.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Dungeon Crawler CarlBook 1
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
- The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookBook 3
- The Gate of the Feral GodsBook 4
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- The crawlers' between-floors club, where Orren's liaison office sits within earshot of the dance floor.
- Cross-floor club whose entrances riddle the dungeon, currently full of hunters waiting on the dance floor.
- The crawlers' usual bar and shopping hub, absent from this floor and with scrambled ninth-floor access.
- The interdimensional crawler club, whose Zockau entrance Carl collapses, sealing the hunters trapped inside away from the city.
- Crawler club accessible from every large town, though Carl couldn't spot its entrance in the Ursine settlement.
- One of two clubs on Carl's list of things he has not gotten around to yet.
- A famous dungeon set co-designed by Hurk and used as currency in Carl's bargain over the art contest.
- Management segregates crawlers, hunters, and native NPCs by dungeon level after Carl strands and provokes patrons across the Hunting Grounds and Larracos branches.