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

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

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

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

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

Reanimated severed doll head, foul-mouthed and deafening, who wants her body back badly enough to threaten Carl's mother.

Tsarina Signet, the level-60 half-naiad summoner elite, arrives outside town seeking Carl with a warband of allies.

The crawlers' reinstated PR liaison, who chats in to warn about upcoming shows and new security protocols.

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

Crawler who, with Firas, recovered the flying house Twister from the changeling refugees.

The goat-turned-crawler, now level 55 and possibly the dungeon's highest, ranging ahead of the cart disarming traps.

Cretin rock-monster bodyguard given to Carl as collateral, carrier of the Zerzura spell and Donut's favorite.

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

Battle-scarred level-60 mongoliensis pack leader who commands forty velociraptors in the jungle outside Point Mongo.

Claimed by the Dark Hive and marked on the high elf side of the river, not far from Carl and Donut.

Ring of Divine Suffering

Frank Q's ring granting +5% stats and permanent stat points for killing marked targets, at the cost of a crippling no-heal debuff.

A young but enormous dinosaur whose attack destroys the ursine force and unlocks The Recital quest.

Cretin rock-monster mercenary assigned to Carl, holder of the level-15 Teleport to Stairwell spell.

A level-50 were-kin Light Recon Specialist, one of six tiny scarred warriors allied with Signet against a common enemy.

Prepotente's human mother, now a level 52 vampire Shepherd healer who keeps Carl alive after the bombing.

Talk show host, formerly the crawlers' manager's manager, whose program Carl and Donut appear on next.

Foul-mouthed Nullian attorney assigned as Carl's advocate, appearing as a hologram to negotiate with the Syndicate.

Signet's reclusive pure-blooded half-sister and the final target of Vengeance of the Daughter.

The Butcher's Masquerade

An end-of-floor party where hunter hands buy prizes, announced to the top fifty crawlers by Borant.

The Desperado Club

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

Areson the Wise

A level-45 ogre strongman elite in Signet's warband, mistaken at first for the late Apollon the Mighty.

Borant Corporation

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

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

Chee schoolteacher transfigured into a level 50 Bearded Sage Caterpillar, now mount to six were-castor warriors.

Vengeance of the Daughter

An in-dungeon production Mordecai expects will soon rope the crawlers into something, if it isn't cancelled.

Dmitri and Maxim Popov

The chiseled Bogatyr half of the Popov nodling, a grounded melee fighter wielding a flaming meteor hammer.

Ukrainian crawler sitting pissed off in the corner of the personal space, insisting she is not Firas's girlfriend.

The Hive's moderator for a CrawlCon panel on the state of the Crawl.

Club Vanquisher

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

Crawler whose signature ice magic gives its name to one of Donut's offensive bard songs.

Donut identifies Queen Imogen's intangible, invulnerable familiar as Ferdinand, whose altered memory and personality turn him into a lecherous enemy who attacks Mongo.

Crawler who, with Louis, recovered the flying house Twister from the changeling refugees.

The Naiad river palace, renamed by the revolution that took it, now the fortress Signet intends to storm.

Eight-foot humorless mushroom guards who protect the sixth floor's smaller settlements day and night.

Humid jungle floor of towns, trails and caravans where the crawlers wait out the hunter countdown.

Protected rooms with a Bopca inside, where crawlers rest, resupply, and enter their personal spaces.

The hunter organization Xindy belongs to, listed beneath her name on Carl's examine screen.

A quest to stop escalating dinosaur attacks on Point Mongo, rewarding a gold box and a free town upgrade.

Large bear-like humanoids whose surviving clerics turned a once-brutal society into a smug, rule-bound culture of enforced virtue.

Crawler whose team is gathering with Meadow Lark and others at a settlement south of Carl.

A rare, vengeful nature goddess whose desecrated shrine Carl accidentally destroys.

A talking tortoise in Signet's coalition who turns out to be excellent company for a bored Persian cat.

A snake-headed, four-armed crawler who cannot be magically tracked and turns whole towns against her hunters.

Donut's former owner, remembered for a car accident on the way home from a cat show.

Carl's new sonar-like spell that flashes his map and highlights every non-mob, non-crawler entity in the area.

Princess Imogen

Signet's half-sister, former Sorcerer General and now ruler of the high elves after King Finian's death.

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 Personal Space

The party's private refuge, reached through a pub door on the sixth floor and entered by port-a-potty in the jungle.

Goat people who own and operate the tunneling system, and possibly front for something much larger.

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

A huge crawler with a burning lava-rock body who crushes the weasel about to bite Carl's face and carries him to safety.

Granite-colored cretin mercenary paired with Chris, one of Carl's four collateral bodyguards.

The god Carl now serves, whose bubbling shrine demands a daily blood drop and five percent of looted gold.

Bard song that spawns multiple illusionary duplicates of every party member.

One of the boots on the ground when [[Team Meadow Lark]] hits a druid town looking for Eva.

The countdown timer until the hunters are turned loose on the ninth floor's crawlers.

The crawler who coordinates the community mapping effort, collating sightings into a shared floor map.

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

Donut's buffed attack spell, and the discovery that low-powered casts make invisible creatures visible.

Mushroom People

Fungal residents of the jungle town whose aggro Carl fears Donut's singing would set off.

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

The large ursine river settlement Donut now owns and has renamed after her pet raptor.

Production Trailer

The show's backstage space where Carl believes he can finally speak to Zev and Donut freely.

Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack

Cataclysm that wiped out most races of the floor and reshaped the survivors' societies.

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

Team Meadow Lark

Crawler team gathering with Bautista's group at a settlement south of Carl's position.

The Guild System

Dungeon feature reportedly opening on this floor, implemented differently every time the Syndicate has tried it.

The High Elf Castle

The high elves' magically sheltered seat, built inside an all-tree grove that can reflect attacks.

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

The Naiad Confederacy

River-dwelling naiad state born of a revolution that killed Signet's mother and seized her family's palace.

The Nebular Sin Patrol

Hunter group named on the carve-up map, personally claiming Prepotente and Miriam Dom near Point Mongo.

The 500-kilometer waterway bisecting the sixth floor, separating the high elf lands from the rest.

The Skull Empire

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

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.

Silent, thin-faced cretin who serves as Katia's regular bodyguard and is assigned to her as a mercenary.

Six Chee schoolboys transfigured into rodent were-creatures, now a hardened elite fighting force under Signet.

Noisemaking traps Carl sets at each of Point Mongo's gates, playing a different song per entrance.

Apollon the Mighty

The ogre strongman of the third floor, presumed dead, briefly resurrected in Carl's mind by a lookalike.

Arrow of Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea

An ordinary arrow dipped in a disease you cannot cure, only geld away or pass to somebody else.

Automaton Table

A level-five workshop table secretly left for Carl after Dr. Ratchet's convention demonstration.

Bianca Del Ciao

Miriam's hellspawn familiar, a demonic goat the size of a draft horse pulling Carl's cart.

The small keeper stationed inside a traditional-style saferoom, present at the town's pub-fronted Whataburger.

Clockwork Triplicate

Donut's spell for tripling a raised undead minion, used on a dead night weasel mid-ambush.

The twenty-second cookbook author who favors traps that force hunters and elites together, attacking naga profits rather than individuals.

Crawling Through the Ages

A CrawlCon panel scheduled roughly six hours after Carl's children's art-contest appearance.

Secondary-program champions who show as red-crossed dots on Ping, do not gain levels, and covet ninth-floor access.

Enchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whore

A crown that permanently placed Donut in the Blood Sultanate line of succession, trapping her on the ninth floor.

Carl's spell, stuck at level five, which Mordecai has him grinding in the Magic Workshop.

Frogger Cabinet

Arcade cabinet in Carl's safe room, promptly monopolized by three of the new cretin mercenaries.

Circus clown who killed the parasites controlling the performers and freed them, and is still with Signet.

The being whose stomp earned Carl a toe ring with Sticky Feet and a still-untested second ability.

Mulleted were-castor NPC, proud of his hair, full of village history, and blunt about Donut's singing.

A mushroom crawler and musician whom Elle teases after spotting a hat that resembles him.

The dead high-elf king who fathered Signet and whose decline prompted Imogen's purge of his half-elf children.

Large Ursine Settlement

A large bear-folk town across the river from Zockau's main road, peculiar enough to warrant caution.

Donut's new spell that rips a piece of armor off an opponent and drops it to the ground.

Odette's production assistant, sticking her head in to count down the minutes while a family is torn open.

Silent messaging system Carl uses to give orders without anyone overhearing.

Platinum Asshole's Box

High-tier loot box Katia opened, yielding a Desperado Club gambling chip and a Find Crawler upgrade.

Platinum Fan Box

A high-tier fan gift box awarded to Carl as the reward for the Double-Billed achievement.

Potion of Charm Animal

A species-specific potion requiring rare plants and one liter of blood from the exact animal to be charmed.

Protective Shell

Carl's emergency barrier spell, which sparks when struck and lasts only seconds under attack.

Broadcast summary of the floor's events that crawlers watch between excursions for intelligence.

A smoke-producing device Carl throws to try to spot invisible movement in the eddies.

Standing Ovation

One of Princess Donut's new singer spells, cast by voice and requiring a melody she must choose herself.

System intelligence overseeing the dungeon, invoked by Quasar as a check on the liaison's eavesdropping.

Carl and Donut's third and final sponsor — and, suspiciously, sponsor to most of the top ten as well.

The Covered Bridge

Wide wooden covered bridge over the river, one of the few crossings left standing and Carl's chosen chokepoint.

The Creeping Apocalypse

Miriam's cure leaves fifty uncontrolled Odious Creepers and thousands of shambling undead, forcing every active crawler and hunter to destroy all fifty before sunset.

Galaxy-spanning elf faction whose hunters claim the territory around Point Mongo and whose sole crawler target is Louis.

The Nipple Rings

Four oversized rings looted from Hunter Iota, ranging from novelty jewelry to equipment worth wearing.

A rising internal current Carl senses in the back of his mind, quiet only when he is fully at rest.

Flying house recovered by Louis and Firas from the changeling refugees, now ferrying crawlers around the sixth floor.

The dungeon's ranked leaderboard of crawlers, unchanged from the previous floor after specialization.

Valtay Corporation

Worm-like corporate species running the current season, whose naked members Quasar considers the worst of a tricksy lot.

A level-66 Atoll Beastmaster explains that he hunts crawlers to pay for his noncitizen people's habitat and spends twenty-three of twenty-five scalps on survival gear.

A legendary teleportation spell granted to Sledge, notorious for the carnage it produces and beloved by every faction.

A member of Li Na and Li Jun's crawler team, working with Imani's group elsewhere on the floor.

A level-51 Moon Elf accountant and Dream artillery specialist captured after joining the hunt for money and simulated-war prestige.

A flower-scented dryad treehouse village whose protection spell hides map dots and whose mayor is Lucia Mar.

Back Alley Mouser

Daniel's catlike stuffed animal repurposed by Katia as the body of a fake Donut.

A giant crossbow Bonnie built from a garage door opener mechanism and bolted to the Twister's yard.

Turkey-sized dinosaurs that swarm the infected forest, many carrying vampirism without attacking their uninfected kind.

Throwable metal explosive ball Carl drew to finish the mayor, though he never got to throw it.

Carl's block-leveling barrel explosive: gunpowder, hobgoblin dynamite, delayed smoke curtains, and a dangerously unstable integrity meter.

Member of Miriam and Prepotente's group whom Carl avoids looking at and Donut keeps Mongo away from.

A target being hunted by Langley's team when the entire group is killed.

Bomber's Studio

Craftable safe-room upgrade for building explosives, which Carl insists on buying in its advanced form immediately.

An unaffiliated level-50 yenk hunter shot from the sky over the town and captured alive by Signet's warband.

The nominal inhabitants of the small settlement near Zockau, entirely absent from its streets at night.

Carl's Doomsday Scenario

A world-ending bomb frozen a microsecond from detonation inside a glowing glass reaper case.

The winged werewolf-like prize attendant reappears behind the Masquerade counter, reviving the unresolved conflict that once made Mordecai throw a chair at him.

A boss scaled to an entire nation rather than a room, and nobody on the floor is remotely prepared for one.

A galactic fan convention that has drafted Carl into three appearances, refunds guaranteed if he dies first.

CrawlCon Children's Art Contest

Carl's first convention appearance, where he must judge artwork submitted by children.

The sixteenth cookbook author whose rambling NPC advice urges competent, trustworthy companions and warns that fools kill.

The castrated yenk male who wrote the eleventh edition of the cookbook, recalled by Carl as his reference point for the species.

Cretin Bodyguards

Four bodyguards Carl's lawyer extracts from Borant, the first item settled in the negotiation.

Cretin Mercenaries

Four rock-monster bodyguards from the Desperado Club, handed to Carl as collateral for the gate.

Dark Hive Trade Representative

The sole male Dark Hive member left on the floor, isolated in Zockau with the faction's accumulated gear.

Tree-like people who populate the sixth floor's forest settlements alongside elves.

Enchanted Collar Charm of the Effete Bourgeoisie

A settlement-leadership charm bearing a gem for each town owned, paying taxes and granting stat bonuses.

Enchanted Venomous Elven Rock Chucker

A lightweight rapid-built Dream siege engine throwing three-hundred-kilogram loads and imbuing every projectile with Poison Cloud.

Extinction Sigil

A mark on Carl that makes lizard-class mobs deal 20% more damage to him.

Coming ninth-floor conflict the Syndicate expects Carl to disrupt with the returned Gate of the Feral Gods.

A level-ten explosive fire spell newly available to Donut once every twenty minutes through her obsidian bracelet.

A liaison is chosen both for devotion to dungeon continuity and principled opposition to the host nation's goals, but the independence can become corruption or fanaticism.

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.

Gehenna Bramble

An uncounterable expanding spell converts every plant it touches into a ten-meter wall whose thorns boil blood and explode victims.

Giant Caterpillar Mount

A waist-high, saddle-backed caterpillar that ambushed the yenk hunter in a tree and carries Signet's were-kin brothers.

Glamoured Fragment

A vampire-reanimated victim fragment that seeks enough of its original body to become a dangerous composite.

Gold Hunter-Killer Box

Loot box awarded for permanently killing hunters, granted only on the sixth floor.

Gold Junkie's Box

Gold loot box rewarded for first use of a Divine Suffering artifact, pointedly named.

Herman the Fleet

Third strongman brother, last known to be in Larracos, whose fate is still unknown to Signet.

Carl's thrown explosive, which he holds back during the ambush for fear of hitting nearby NPCs.

Hobgoblin Dynamite

Standard explosive sticks Carl carefully slices into twenty smaller pieces while prepping for the hunters.

Mordecai's potion-ball mixture coats vampires in light-aspected healing coagulant that burns like napalm.

An award marked by an upward-pointing red dagger above a crawler's name for killing a hunter.

Legal action the hunters brought over Carl and Donut's plan on the previous floor, proving they are watched.

A severed hunter's hand that functions as a prize ticket redeemable at the Butcher's Masquerade counter.

I Need My Personal Space

Katia's Apothecary beanie grants an indiscriminate violent knockback that affects enemies and party members alike.

I Take it All Back

A black potion removes every effect of Scolopendra's Transmutation spell and is explicitly reserved for Donut at the right moment.

Escorted transport running the jungle trail between ninth-floor settlements, safer than traveling on foot.

Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home

Carl's largest bomb yet: a five-foot wheeled thermobaric egg that also imbues Fear across its blast radius.

A crawler whose entire team is reported dead while pursuing Bogdon Ro.

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

The Ring of Divine Suffering's debuff: the marker cannot heal until their mark is dead.

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

The tracker who can find what magic cannot — the reason Eva is finally being cornered.

A child entrant whose shade-gnoll grandparent tries to bribe Carl into judging her favorably.

Jenn'ifer's retractable, doglike head symbiote reacts violently to the name of the breed her society opposes.

Small primates seen riding in the upper branches of the town's walking tree creatures at night.

Mordecai's Shopping List

Mordecai's literally five-page list of items for Carl to find, which Carl immediately delegated to a hireling.

The seat Carl and Donut intend to assault tomorrow night, and where Signet will be found again.

Blue-tinged, fanged and horned river dwellers, banned outright from the Ursine settlement, that snatch corpses from the water.

Neighborhood Field Guide

Claude's dropped map marks naiad-occupied river areas and safer crossing zones.

Night Mushrooms

Special small mushrooms that only appear at night at the base of the town's trees.

Invisible six-legged pack predators that paralyze prey and swarm it, tamed only by ultra-high-charisma hunters.

An Elemental Collection Updates naga reporter who accuses Carl of sedition and is stabbed through the virtual signing table.

No Dinosaurs Rule

The Ursine town's emphatic final law barring all dinosaurs without exception, the trigger for the chapter's killing.

A two-headed crawler race shared by two people, chosen by Dmitri and Maxim Popov.

Fifty unprecedented sixth-floor plant-undead composites can absorb bodies, combine after dark, replicate, control vines, and attack with poison.

A changeling representative receives Carl's Zerzura evacuation plan and map but warns that Juice Box explicitly told the community not to trust him blindly.

Pet Beauty Contest

A pet pageant to be held at the Butcher's Masquerade, which Donut intends Mongo to win.

Poison Cloud Attack

The area attack Funeral Bell guards use to clear invisible intruders, forcing Carl's party to retreat.

Potion of Levitation

Potion that lifts the drinker into the air for two seconds per point of intelligence, weaker than flying potions.

A terrified level-28 ursine barmaid hiding with two cubs who explains Tina, Kiwi, and the forbidden recital.

A personal space upgrade that restores a crawler almost immediately, which Carl refused to buy.

Legendary past crawler whose glorious use of the Zerzura spell is still taught as a case study in exit deals.

Carl's level-five explosives workbench, still where most of his bomb-building actually happens.

Carl's mental notebook system, now split into separate pages and drafts for cookbook work.

Security Checkpoint

Featureless orbital chamber with a glass floor over Earth, where guests are scanned before reaching the trailer.

Sensation Entertainment, Incorporated

The production company behind Vengeance of the Daughter, whose producers stay unreachable while Carl bets his life on their agreement.

Shambling Berserker

A horrific composite formed when orphaned vampire-victim fragments merge instead of reconstructing their own bodies.

The system's in-menu store, currently stocking nothing useful but expected to improve within days.

Shrine of Emberus

Small bubbling shrine in Carl's safe room that boils in his presence and tallies his outstanding tithe.

Signet's Battle Squad

Signet's full summoned assault unit, manifested through a hunter sacrifice and led by a three-headed paper ogre.

Small Bugbear Settlement

A picked-over bugbear town near Zockau, guarded at night only by funeral bell mushrooms.

Small Dryad Settlement

An uncaptured Diwata-aligned town where Carl is branded a troublemaker moments before reaching its safe room.

Social Media Board

The crawler-facing comment feed where a viewer's remark sends Donut into a panic spiral.

A vast old tree chosen as Signet's assault rendezvous and struck by a brilliant blue lightning event before Carl arrives.

The Blood Sultanate

The naga royal house of the ninth floor, whose entire bloodline Donut must kill to descend.

The Bomber's Cookbook

Reference volume of species descriptions that let Carl identify Quasar as a Nullian on sight.

A peaceful race of carpenters wiped out by the High Elves, leaving survivors but, the system insists, no Chee.

The newly completed seventh floor is an engineering-heavy scenario whose announcement warns that early descenders will begin at a disadvantage.

The Ladies Love It

The largest and rowdiest of Zockau's regular pubs, next door to the Desperado, with a crude tattooed-mouth sign.

The Liana District

A jungle district on the elf side of the river, home to the changelings' hidden forest village.

The Memorial Crystal

A soul-crystal-like relic of the Guild of Suffering whose actual function has never been established.

The Princess Posse

Donut's offworld fan organization has roughly seven hundred chapters and executes initiatives she approves through filtered message boards.

The Royal Court of Princess Donut

Donut's retinue of NPC followers, named on their descriptions and given its own labeled personal space door.

The dense, dripping rainforest covering the sixth floor, where crawlers emerge from port-a-potty doors onto narrow trails.

Donut's light spell, waved off by Carl so the party can move through the dark town unseen.

The settlement's defenders, organized by Carl and Donut and posted at the town's edges.

Posted settlement laws enforced by immediate decapitation, listed floor-to-ceiling on the covered bridge into the Ursine town.

The party's existing skill-training room, the model for how the new Magic Workshop levels spells.

Carl's spell that deliberately sets off every trap in a wide radius at once.

A dog-soldier crawler known to Carl from earlier floors and selected as one of CrawlCon's few active attendees.

A deceased vampire hunter whose attack on Miriam infects his loyal mount and helps start the outbreak.

Shapeshifters descended from the surviving Chee, whose animal forms the system pointedly refuses to reveal.

A traditional-style saferoom disguised as a pub outside but containing a fast-food Whataburger within.

Carl’s ten-minute defensive spell, cast before he questions a potentially dangerous captive.

Level 61 Mantis Blood Tracker of the Dark Hive, Vrah's little sister, killed by Carl's missile volley over Zockau.

Hunter Pulse Rifle

A sponsor-supplied hunter rifle delivers powerful ranged energy fire and changes the risk profile of coordinated crawler raids.

A Petite Chronicle of the Crawl

Sydnee Iglacia's history book, publicly endorsed by Carl as an alternative to Circe's lecture.

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

Administrative Hold

System status locking an item in place; touching a held artifact destroys it outright.

Advanced Bomb Maker's Workshop

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

Advanced Bomber's Studio

Carl's new personal-space room for virtually simulating explosions and dissecting real bombs at a specialty bench.

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.

An unseen youth assistant who apparently advises Lucia inside the dungeon and urges her to keep killing.

Donut's song places a minor charm on an entire audience and focuses everyone's attention on a subject she selects.

The nine-month-old child Katia remembers holding—a memory Eva weaponizes through a Blitz Stick.

Apito is the goddess whose sacrament powers the Butcher's Masquerade and whose rules bind the queen, guests, peace seal, and promised immortality.

Donut's telekinetic shoving spell, used to push targets off ledges without revealing the caster.

The level-125 Bloodlust Sprite catches Carl on the forbidden floor and begins boiling his blood while demanding he open the guild door.

The fourth-floor crawler ballroom is a sealed opulent chamber with a giant stage, color-coded buffet, Scolopendra mosaic, inverted white tree, and Chaco's prize counter.

Ballroom Control Room

A secure third-floor chamber uses five soul crystals to control four protected ballrooms and the shared interactive overlay.

A Moon Elf construction spell converting land into poisonous bamboo for rapidly assembled mobile siege engines.

Donut's new mana-free class whose spells are cast by singing, and only work if sung in key.

A sarcastic Valtay porter bot assigned to orient Carl for the panel in Studio Three.

Blend into the Crowd

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

Addictive drugs show Katia increasingly brief false realities in which she reunites with Annie or corrects moments she cannot change.

A fifth-floor television storyline was designed to have Viscount Fog kill prime vampire Miriam and save the forest from an engineered undead apocalypse.

A slow bleeding debuff, usually applied by ranged weapons, that makes the victim trackable by scent.

Blood and Ink Elemental

An animated tattoo facsimile created from a dead person's remains and Signet's memories of them.

Bomber's Cookbook

Carl's explosives manual, which warns the studio's simulations are only ranges of possibility.

A young gnome tinkerer who bolted a homemade ballista onto the Twister before leaving with the changelings.

Carl buys a concealed-title eighth-floor lore boon from the prize counter, wagering that advance knowledge will outweigh more immediate equipment.

Book of Lore – Commonwealth of the Bahamas

Carl's eighth-floor boon contains illustrated statistics and extensive lore for monsters associated with the Bahamas.

Boots of Kiznet's Final Flight

A minor-boss item with an exceptionally long description encodes the fairytale and structural solution for the Great Race.

Borant System Government

The state behind the crawl, formally severed from the corporation that shares its name and left with nothing.

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

Off-world pirates who hunt surface survivors and sell them to the production — the trade that took Beatrice.

Bridge Demolition

Carl's request to destroy every bridge across the floor's river except one, leaving a single crossing.

Buttercup Divinity

A young elf whose polished animated portrait lovingly depicts her dead mother.

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

A miserable deity in the Nothing, trapped as another god's hat and perpetually crying over the humiliation.

Carl's Masquerade Plan

Carl documents a secret six-objective castle operation: survive, finish Tina's recital, kill Eva and Lucia, save the changelings, seize the castle, and eliminate every hunter.

Carl's Replacement Sponsor

An unrevealed second-auction winner preparing to give Carl its first benefactor box at CrawlCon.

A crawl-connected individual shares the common name invoked by the enchanted stick, but her relationship to the object remains unknown.

Castle Stairwells

Bomo locates two open forest stairwells near the castle and one locked basement stairwell tied to Queen Imogen's boss status.

Dungeon castles function as ordinary fortified buildings, throne-centered governmental objectives, or complete conquerable village systems.

Celestial Peace Seal

Apito's seal traps guests in their ballroom, forbids violence, and banishes anyone responsible for breaking peace into the Nothing.

A demonic crawler race can perceive divine affiliation and, at close range, identify the specific god a target worships.

Character Actor

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

Charm Mongoliensis

The Plenty's one-use taming potion permanently charms the nearest eligible Mongoliensis for the remainder of the floor.

Child of Inpewt

Creatures crushed by a Zerzura town landing resurrect as powerful revenants that retain their former abilities and hunt every transferred resident and the caster.

A drunk level 50 Draconian Striver, unaffiliated hunter, marked and beaten to death by Carl purely as bait.

One of only five active crawlers attending CrawlCon and an occasional Top Ten presence.

Lucia's pony-sized Rottweiler is tricked by Donut's Entourage illusion and decapitated by a closing Hole spell.

The crocodilian bouncer resists Donut's bribe and blackmail but ultimately reveals a secret bathroom stair to the Hunting Grounds club level.

Claude Sludgington the Fourth

A level-65 Eryops Gigantis borough boss that occupied Fort Freedom until Samantha caused it to be teleported onto shore.

Donut's proposed clockwork duplicate of Bomo, built to carry the bomb so the real minion survives.

Club Scolopendra

The eighteenth-floor retreat where the Syndicate’s powerful celebrate while the dungeon AI slips its leash.

A crowdsourced map of the sixth floor built from gate coordinates and crawler sightings, coordinated by Imani.

A benefactor scroll spell intended to transfer Miriam's vampirism into Viscount Fog instead ricochets through counterspells and incapacitates Prepotente.

Compensated Anarchist

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

Constitution Piercing Ring

The smallest of Iota's rings grants ten Constitution and an additional five-percent Constitution bonus, making it ideal protection for Donut.

Containment Zone

A production-vessel suppression field that blocks crawler wetware without disabling every dungeon ability.

Author of the nineteenth edition of the cookbook, who died in orbit after a failed run at two admins.

Corpse Sorting Site

Big Tina's minions concentrate kills from across the forest into a town-scale reassembly facility.

A rare scroll removes the individual-recipient lock from sponsored equipment so someone else can use it.

Crawl Litigation Freeze

Courts halt almost every crawl-related case while assessing the primal AI's stability through the next floor transition.

CrawlCon Autograph Session

Carl and the Popov twins' final convention event serves roughly 330 selected fans plus press.

Crawler Allister

A thirteenth-edition Cookbook author who warns that dungeon vampires are strong, cunning, and best avoided.

A fifth-edition Cookbook author realizes too late that apparently life-saving sponsor gifts were steering her toward a memorable, profitable death.

Crawler Forkith

The 20th Edition cookbook annotator who mapped the Hunting Grounds' constants and warned against trusting older editions.

A sixth-edition Cookbook author warns that country-boss Treasure Maps deliberately turn exhausted survivors against one another over exposed magical loot.

Crawler Rosetta

A ninth-edition Cookbook author whose surviving advice is brutally simple: never trust mercenaries.

Crawler Volteeg

A seventh-edition Cookbook author leaves one despairing entry mourning a lost woman and questioning whether survival without her is worthwhile.

Creeper Herbicide

A sponsor-supplied recipe combines fine healing potion, blessed water, and weedkiller into a mist capable of killing Odious Creepers.

Cursed Light Walker

An inside-out vampiric condition makes Viscount Fog lose health away from light, killing him at sunset while he is paralyzed.

Edict's government-employed mantis family, vulnerable to financial ruin or political retaliation from his choices.

Deer in the Headlight

A paralysis status that locks a victim's legs in place for fifteen seconds while leaving arms free.

Desperado Club Gambling Chip

Club token Katia pulled from a Platinum Asshole's Box, good for a wager inside the Desperado Club.

Desperado Secret Stairwell

A latch hidden inside a toilet tank opens a metal service stair between corresponding women's bathrooms on club floors.

Signet's three-headed nodling memory manifests as a fully realized golem that attempts to strike Queen Imogen.

A three-headed nodling memorialized on Signet after dying to protect her from Imogen's agents.

Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited

Everly's sponsor uses helpful-looking gifts to preserve her just long enough for a deliberately memorable death.

Die Kirschbomben

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

Diwata Adherents

Diwata-worshipping mayors, dryads, guards, and tree monkeys now attack Carl on sight.

Diwata's Birth Spell

Diwata extends a five-minute manifestation indefinitely by transforming into an infected female mantis and continuously giving birth to level-20 nymphs.

Diwata's Death Mark

A huge pulsing red X made of antlers reveals that Diwata has entered the realm, knows Carl's location, and is actively hunting him.

The round-headed Visionary half of the Popov nodling, an enthusiastic Donut fan grieving an orange cat left behind.

Donut's Recital Costumes

The dinosaur chorus receives themed performance outfits, though several raptors resist them and moving pieces repeatedly fall off.

Donut's Sunglasses

Eyewear that lets Princess Donut see invisible creatures, uselessly far away when Carl is ambushed alone.

An achievement for being among the first five crawlers to receive double-billing, rewarding a Platinum Fan Box.

Coordinated destruction of about ten river bridges, meant to funnel non-flying hunters into predictable crossings.

An older dwarf using Carl's previous studio for a dungeon-AI-powered demonstration who warns Carl about the panel and return.

Dr. Ratchet's Guide to Building Automatons for Fun and Profit

A signed instructional paperback left with the gifted Automaton Table.

A scarred former eleventh-floor crawler whose Valtay-controlled body helps Carl turn the panel into tactical reconnaissance.

A disposable rooted barrier lasts about an hour and blocks physical attacks and explosions but not magic.

The crawlers' broken homeworld, seen whole from orbit for the first time — ocean-blue, cloudless, pulling away.

A level-50 Deep Mind mantis merchant who chooses death in battle to protect his family from Vrah and a ruinous contract.

A sandwich shop incongruously hidden inside a themed pub building, where Carl calms Donut down.

A nervous soother handler who manages autograph merchandise, payments, photos, and the fan line.

Elemental Collection Updates

The press outlet represented by hostile naga reporter Nihit.

Bespectacled Ursine mayor of the large river town who refused Mongo entry and died tumbling down a slope.

Empress D'Nadia

Donut's sponsor has become empress and joins the Masquerade as a remote celebrity judge, satisfying a production-role loophole for her buy-in.

Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward

A palm-sized ball-peen hammer is magically enchanted without an active effect and bears a hidden number seven on its handle.

Enchanted Obsidian Bracelet of the Raggle Rouser

Akland's thrice-upgraded black bangle, granting Donut major durability, fire resistance, and a level-ten Fireball.

Enchanted Silver Bracelet of the Ab-solar

Donut's purple-gemmed apotropaic bracelet protects against vampirism and lycanthropy and boosts magic against sapient undead.

Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams

A ten-inch enchanted metal rod is not a wand but promises a magical result when used correctly and carries a hidden number seven.

Bard song that heals the whole party and strips multiple debuffs at once.

Enemy of the Church Tattoo

A permanent apostate mark that turns Diwata's adherents hostile and gives Carl fifty-percent bonus damage against them.

Bald, strikingly beautiful mother of the Dream's leader, whose photograph Louis turned into an unforgivable joke.

A Dream authority using hunter artillery to search for Louis after the crawler insulted his mother's honor.

Eryops Gigantis

A territorial amphibian species that roots itself in underwater homes, gains extreme Constitution, and fires lightning from its eyes.

The negotiated terms by which a surviving crawler leaves the dungeon, brokered by his advocate.

Explosion Protection

Blanket immunity granted to all hunters after Carl's mass bombing, nullifying his entire explosives strategy.

Explosives Handling

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

Extermination Professional

Louis's specialized class, granting a small insta-kill chance against mobs at or below his level.

Trap add-ons that notify their owner whenever a trap is disabled or set off.

Fantasy Hunter Camp

Vrah's family simulation resort where wealthy participants pretend to hunt crawlers and compete for Faction Wars army slots.

One of two small religious ursine settlements newly captured by Carl and Donut.

Katia's crawler-locating skill, upgraded by loot from a Platinum Asshole's Box.

Carl raises Find Traps to level 10, causing hidden devices across the slope to become brightly obvious.

A level-40 ursine lamplighter whose remains confirm Big Tina caused the town massacre.

Safe-room appliance that dispenses any dialed-in meal, from Carl's breakfast sandwich onward.

Forsaken Aerialist

Prepotente's former class, which Carl wrongly assumed was some kind of acrobat specialization.

Tall gray alien race, the larger siblings of the Null, known for halting soothing speech.

A crawler who gave Carl the Ring of Divine Suffering.

A shade-gnoll guard who installs Carl's advanced facilities, relays the captain's favor, and escorts him to the panel.

Future Huntress

A young Skull Empire orc captured after the All-Tree ambush and sacrificed to summon Signet's battle squad.

A once-famous Bactrian dramatist who gets intoxicated, falls asleep, and has an unseen assistant cast perfect scores.

Saferoom pub just inside the Ursine settlement, a Spanish restaurant the party fled into after killing the mayor.

Tserendolgor enters a beloved level-20 pet-show contestant resembling an adorable, horrifying giant meatball.

Get Out of Jail

Miriam converts her copy of this expensive release spell into a spellbook so Donut can learn it and eventually awaken Prepotente.

Gideon narrowly survives a vampire owl-genie attack and confirms mixed-species infection.

A Brazilian crawler's stone hawk opens the pet show by displaying petrification that previously turned a hunter into an unlootable shattered statue.

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

A dungeon AI becomes increasingly autonomous, rejects outside orders, and gradually assumes control while usually preserving its own internal rules.

Level 42 bugbear council member repairing his wrecked town who threatened Carl, then offered to buy him a drink.

An item enchantment described as the dungeon's version of autotune, needed to make Donut's bard songs work.

Good Mana Refill

Potion that restores 200 mana gradually over two minutes rather than refilling spell points instantly.

Goodwill Ballroom

Paired diplomatic rooms let separated groups see, hear, and lightly touch one another without sharing a vulnerable physical location.

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

The title given to mayors of the biggest settlements, seized by a hunter who murders the named city's NPC leader.

The shade gnoll NPC of the fourth floor Carl was forced to kill a dozen times over.

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

A 500,000-gold document bought from a Bopca that lets a crawler found a guild.

Carl's bulk crafting supply, thrown by the sackful to coat and reveal an invisible attacker.

A featureless green bubble child who creates a remarkably lifelike lava-spitting llama sculpture.

Lucia's smaller Rottweiler fires lightning and spends the Donut fight gnawing on the indestructible Samantha.

A crawler whose team looted the gate coordinates that made the sixth-floor map possible.

Gwendolyn Duet dies in the pit battle after helping carry the crawler coalition through the previous floor.

HAZMAT Endorsement

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

Firas's class, which failed to specialize on the sixth floor despite his reaching level 35.

Haxor the Destroyer

An unaffiliated level-50 Dreadnought merchant encounters Carl outside the restroom and is silently killed before he can alert the club.

A god in the Nothing who wears the helpless beaver deity Capa as a hat.

God who is the brother and enemy of Emberus, and the target of a standing kill-quest of Carl's.

Hellspawn Familiar

A pet class created when an asshole pet under a soul protection spell dies and returns demon-fused.

Level-70 armored high elves escort Ferdinand with enchanted lances while scores of archers and mages conceal themselves in the surrounding woods.

Donut opens a temporary hole beneath herself to escape a snare, then closes it around Cici's neck.

Mordecai's potion balls use blessed Emberus-shrine water as a thrown anti-vampire weapon.

The Popov brothers' game guide recommended nodling for its extra life without explaining it would merge them.

A patched-up corner of the map that boiled its bathers alive and is now closing around Eva.

A hunter of the Dream, squeezed to death by an ogre and looted of the map that exposes the hunters' carve-up.

Hunter Casualty Windfall

Unprecedented hunter deaths destroy family and faction wealth while transferring much of the loss into Borant's hands.

Hunter Electric Body Armor

Sponsored armor absorbs heavy punishment through glowing electric protection but becomes brittle ceramic once overloaded.

An unseen hunter who blanketed the Zockau stairwell park with dozens of anti-crawler alarm traps.

Hunter Sponsorship

Families begin buying increasingly powerful, recipient-locked weapons and armor for hunters stranded by the AI.

Hunter-Killer Box

A loot box awarded for killing hunters, containing escalating gold and a severed hunter appendage.

Hunter-Triggered IEDs

Improvised explosives Carl built to detonate only for hunters, to be placed sparingly along the roads.

Hunter-Triggered Mines

Directional mines Carl planted along the road, keyed to detonate only when hunters pass over them.

Hunting License

A rules framework that grants offworld hunters limited claims and cooldowns when pursuing high-ranked crawlers.

A famous intoxicated Gleener set designer who judges beside Carl and helps guarantee Lix's victory.

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

Florin's dead girlfriend is reconstructed as Queen Imogen, turning the high-elf country boss into a personal psychological trap.

Katia clarifies that Queen Imogen represents the twin sister Florin once said Ifechi had, preserving the resemblance while adding uncertainty about identity.

A temporary post-vampirism condition halves power and blocks healing in direct sunlight but grants major strength, mana, and healing bonuses in moonlight.

Signet's blood-powered spell animates the people memorialized in her tattoos and can be cast through either three participants or a single self-sacrifice.

Achievement for planting an explosive on a well-traveled path and remotely killing the intended target.

Invisibility Potion

Carl's stockpiled consumable granting temporary invisibility, limited by a per-drinker potion sickness countdown.

A drunken Crafter Alliance accountant teleported from Zockau explains the AI's primal turn before accepting death under Carl's foot.

A hunter killed by one of Carl's roadside traps, whose severed hand became a trophy.

A premium fan and Princess Posse chapter president who carries a legal update for Donut.

A durable level-10 living-vine defense made of thousands of individually non-hostile plants.

A ten-year-old Dutch child briefly controls Lucia's body, asks for her mother, and convinces Florin that real children are trapped inside the crawler.

Kapitan Whiskers

Dmitri's newly adopted orange cat, left behind when the collapse began one day later.

A hostile young human contestant whose drawing mocks Carl and earns the lowest score.

The orange lizard newscaster who hosts the dungeon's recap broadcasts, whose name Carl learned underwater.

A level-50 high-elf Stablemancer cages the dangerous show animals but lets Donut move her dinosaurs into the unused hunter-side attendant room.

An ancestral king invoked by Samantha to explain her claimed blood relationship with Signet.

Ruler of the Skull Empire, named by Quasar as the most likely party to try bribing him against Carl.

Aquatic fish people who need water to breathe; Zev is one, and notably thinner than the rest.

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

Li Jun concealed his vampirism from nearly all allies until Miriam's death cured him.

The preserved head worn by Signet is recognized by Samantha as a familiar member of their tangled royal family.

An egg-shaped clamshell casing meant to hold a living creature, repurposed by Carl as a bomb shell.

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

Lucia's teleport trap spell can send a victim to a preset point or swap the victim with Lucia.

A holographic vocal instructor who guides Donut through throat exercises and praises her voice.

Lucia's Children

Multiple real children inhabit Lucia Mar's mind, with control switching instantaneously and an external dog able to override them remotely.

Expensive safe-room upgrade Carl buys alongside the advanced bomber's studio.

New safe-room addition where spells can be trained up, usable by only one crawler at a time.

Magical Herbicide Applicator

The Plenty gives Prepotente a magical hand-pump sprayer whose uniquely fine mist activates the anti-Creeper herbicide.

A short intelligence potion raising Carl by ten points for thirty seconds before imposing a five-minute mental crash.

Mantis Combat Weaknesses

Mantids process poison rapidly, have lightly armored necks, and are disrupted by loud noises despite common antidote protection.

Fast level-20 mantis offspring swarm stairwells and the changeling route in numbers large enough to overturn the underground infiltration.

Marked For Death

The Ring of Divine Suffering skill awards Carl seven Intelligence points from three marked Nebular deaths.

A female Bopca who runs the sandwich shop Eegees, where Carl brings the panicking Donut.

Mass Casualty Event

Achievement for detonating an IED in an urban population center causing over 250 non-mob casualties.

Medium Dryad Settlement

A bamboo-walled treehouse town on the sixth floor where Carl's party emerges, guarded by Funeral Bells.

Memorial Crystal: Apito

An apparently impossible memorial crystal for the still-active goddess Apito returns to Imogen and is recovered from her corpse by Osvaldo.

Mercenary hiring hall on the sixth floor of the Desperado Club, charging 1,500 gold per merc per day.

Hireable NPC fighters and healers who cost a fortune, can't be looted, and are nearly impossible to fire.

Mercenary Quarters

New room that materialized in Carl's safe room to house the four cretin bodyguards granted by the Syndicate.

Midnight Epicure Upgrade Patch

A medium goat-ward jacket patch protecting Carl from vampirism and lycanthropy while boosting undead damage.

A mushroom funeral bell guard whom Donut leaves with orders to protect Mordecai and spare the pink-feathered dinosaur.

Missile Launchers

Weapons Carl crafts for the town's defenses, one of which fires during the chapter's closing minutes.

Mistress Tiatha

A trainer excitedly awaiting a personal space of her own, one purchase away.

Feathered velociraptors, the jungle's fastest and most vicious pack predators, all of them female.

Monster Truck Driver

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

Two level-50 white stag mounts named Herschel and Hjort lead the high-elf procession.

A shade-gnoll mercenary who escorts Carl through the production vessel and stays to watch the panel while intoxicated.

A poker-table-sized box of programmable homing rockets that fire in timed groups at auto-selected hunter targets.

Native Species Agency

Syndicate agency whose sub-minister took a personal interest in Carl's artifact case.

A captured ursine town where Mordecai is currently attached and disappointed by the shops.

Inert ramen-like blocks that release enormous oxygen when vaporized, acting as an explosive amplifier.

Short gray alien race resembling Area-51 caricatures, rare in the galaxy and widely shut out of decent employment.

A rare parasitic plant likely commandeers Big Tina's abandoned glamoured fragments and rapidly turns them into Odious Creepers.

Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Intergalactic NFC

An intergalactic pacifist group sends Carl a Gold Benefactor Box while he and Donut debate leaving the floor.

A multi-use counter ring reflects magic back at its source; matching rings make Community Pool and its counters ping-pong catastrophically.

Osvaldo claims Apito's memorial crystal from Imogen's body and refuses Prepotente's demand to surrender it.

A benefactor embeds an Escape-Plan-only message warning of Circe's sponsorship and prescribing a secret four-person Magic Missile level-15 setup.

Party Escort Caravan

Because Donut's group brings pets and NPC attendants, high elves will escort them overland rather than teleporting them directly into the ballroom.

An ursine deity invoked by a shocked cleric and immediately subjected to Samantha's obscene theological slander.

A Gold Benefactor potion adds three levels to one skill or spell but must be consumed before the floor ends.

Penal Franchising

Licensed governments and corporations can buy criminal warrants and compel paid frontier labor for the sentence duration.

Killing an Emberus worshiper cancels Carl's Strength boon, doubles tithes, and threatens a divine smite for further protected kills.

Britney's specialized class, upgraded from Pit Fighter, whose actual benefits remain unknown to Carl.

Platinum Venison Box

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

PlayStation Two

Scavenged console and TV wired into a dwarven battery power strip in Carl's personal space for the cretins.

Plenty of Plenty

The program Miriam and Prepotente appear on most, notable for letting his goat siblings on set.

Each top-fifty crawler receives a transferable party invitation that remains valid only while its original holder survives and stays ranked.

Rare half-fairy bear creatures bred as High Elf court pets, ordered exterminated when they turned out to be intelligent.

The Rock Chucker's enhancement disperses any potion poured into its reservoir around the impact point.

Carl and Donut's coordinated move: both go invisible, Donut switches to infrared, and all talking moves to chat.

Prepotente Number Seven

A Prepotente-controlled dryad town used as the safe pickup point for the completed Charm Animal potion.

Prepotente Town Number Four

A shadowed Jericho-Bush-walled ursine town claimed by Prepotente and devastated by Big Tina.

Princess Chonkalot

Donut's grandmother, surviving as a badly drawn tattoo on the lower back of the woman who abandoned them.

Princess Lunette

Signet leaves behind a weightless flesh golem of her mother whose memory is absent but whose body may be restored through a Pulpmancer.

Princess Posse Inner System Number 43

One of Donut's organized fan chapters, wealthy enough to purchase premium access and fund litigation.

Princess of Hell

The title granted to a crawler who survives a floor while infected with vampirism makes the curse permanent.

Private Message Subscriptions

A discontinued paid service that let viewers listen in on crawlers' private messages.

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

Profane Vitiate

Prepotente's new class, replacing Forsaken Aerialist and making even less sense to Carl.

Donut's short-range teleport, which requires line of sight to the destination.

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

A one-armed half elf crawler, tenth on the leaderboard, newly specialized into Sergeant-at-Arms.

Quest Graveyard

An odd graveyard on the bugbear town's outskirts, tied to some quest and already entirely dug up.

Quest-Giving NPCs

Map dots shaped like white stars that mark NPCs offering quests, per Mordecai and the cookbook.

A previous-floor creature whose body yielded the gate coordinates used to map the sixth floor.

Alucarda's former mayor, reported by a dryad to have returned to the earth.

Radiant Star Upgrade Patch

A small jacket patch granting Dexterity and ranged-projectile damage bonuses.

Prudence's frightened cub who repeats the clerics' teaching that sinners deserve punishment.

Upcoming broadcast briefing expected to explain the newly opened guild system before the party spends its gold.

Remote Celebrity Judges

Three off-world judges appear inside the ballroom through a projection that gives them strange auras, light touch, scent, and remote service.

Remote Detonator

Carl's skill for marking placed explosives with triggers he can fire mentally from a hotlist.

Ren survives the battle with Garret and unknowingly wins Best in Show through the linked attendant-ballroom pet competition.

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

Royal Court Minion

A minion classification tied to the whole party, which blocks Donut from making clockwork copies.

Safehome Yolanda

A level-seven guild of sixty-three crawlers named for a dead woman and run by Imani.

Throwable boss-box explosives, each powerful enough to level a small town.

The sleeping giant centipede whose waking devastated a whole region with everything ever thrown at her.

Scolopendra's Transmutation

The realm-shattering spell transformed Hunting Grounds residents into their present dungeon forms and altered destinies across multiple layers.

Donut's old Earth Hobby skill is identified as the love and specialized knowledge of patches.

Donut's resurrection spell briefly animates severed heads mounted on Vrah so they attack their killer.

Secondary Program License

The rare license that lets a secondary program survive the sixth floor's collapse and send elites to the ninth.

Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited

The rental-trailer company removed from crawler appearances after the Valtay decide its facilities are insufficiently secure.

Sensation Entertainment

The production company holding Carl and Donut's media contract controls appearances, schedules, and the leverage surrounding their public show obligations.

Sergeant-at-Arms

Quan Ch's specialized class, upgraded from Imperial Security Trooper and mocked by Donut for its plural.

Session of Love

A minor classic stage drama written by G'valt and legally performed only by ninth-floor NPCs.

Seventh Floor Pole Position

A unique thirty-trophy Future Floor Boon gives an unspecified starting advantage in the Great Race and is purchased immediately by Prepotente.

Shade Gnoll Riot Forces

Real mercenary shade gnolls in plastic body armor who scan and frisk everyone entering the checkpoint.

Hyena-headed people the dungeon reproduced as NPCs on the fourth floor, and who exist for real outside it.

Shamus Chaindrive

Bugbear submarine captain from the previous floor, whom Carl only ever met as a head in a jar.

Miriam Dom's class, apparently a type of healer, unchanged even after she became a vampire.

Defensive spell the party urgently wants a spellbook for, but cannot find in town.

A level-65 Northropi Vampire neighborhood boss, formerly Viscount Fog's loyal undead-hunting mount.

A Hunting Grounds market inside the Desperado Club lies tantalizingly close to Carl during his unauthorized infiltration.

A level-75 albino battle rhinoceros carries Queen Imogen's familiar in a magically shielded ceremonial howdah.

Miriam leaves more than forty Size Up scrolls in her inventory cache, and Carl discreetly takes two before turning the remainder over to Prepotente.

A ten-hand bard song provides escape utility below the power of Wings of the Pyxie but within Donut's current singing ability.

A lethal jungle mushroom that fires a spike through anyone careless enough to touch its cap.

The Popov twins' kua-tin outreach associate, subordinate to Zev and focused on moving fans quickly through the signing.

Small vicious wolverine-like burrowers used for controlled grinding until Mongo begins killing them too efficiently.

A feral demon summoned by Carl's group whose colossal foot flattened the Popov brothers on the recap.

A skill granted by Donut's collar charm that teleports a settlement's guards to the user's location.

A gentle buff from Miriam that makes everything hurt a little less and weakens debuffs by ten percent.

A familiar debuff from severe injury that makes everything hurt without touching any stat directly.

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

Spellbook of the Floor Club

Subscription-style perk that grants Donut an extra regular spell each floor.

Spider Reaper Bomb Patch

A finely embroidered medium jacket patch granting Constitution, explosive damage, handling skill, and merchant discounts.

Twenty rat-sized rolling spider automatons are programmed to seek distinct hunters and explode, assigning any kills to Donut.

Spider Stalkers

Carl's small automaton bombs stalk marked targets and form the backbone of the coordinated raids against sponsored hunters.

A performer in a main ballroom can physically use items placed on either attendant stage even though those objects remain floors away.

Constitution-gated skill that thickens Katia's flesh as her health drops.

Carl's adhesive explosive design is improved through combined advanced bomber and alchemy training.

A class-two production studio rendering a sold-out alien arena for Carl's Crawling Through the Ages panel.

Stuffed Slate Butterfly Figure

A common Jaxbrin beanie releases a harmless butterfly that flies to the nearest light source and drains its energy.

A programmable one-use trap that summons two floor-local guards or minions after a two-second delay.

The toe ring's untested second ability, which transfers Carl's Left to Fester debuff to any target he can name on his map.

Carl's permanent Strength-100 upgrade doubles every Strength point assigned through future level-ups.

A saccathian crawl historian who expects Carl's death to boost book sales and receives his impulsive cover endorsement.

An elderly ursine light cleric of Point Mongo who demands the old anti-naiad and anti-dinosaur rules be restored.

Apito's consort and father of Grull and Yarilo, whose rage helped destroy the original masquerade's peace.

Team Cichociemni

A dangerous non-Polish crawler team that killed its own leader and now operates with Eva Sigrid.

Teleport to Stairwell

Level-15 spell given to Bomo that lists every exit on the floor and teleports the party to a chosen stairwell.

Temple of Diwata

Alucarda's desecrated plant-filled temple contains dryad and Funeral Bell victims killed by Lucia.

Temple of Hellik

Red-diamond-marked shrine to Emberus's brother and enemy, sitting at the edge of the Ursine settlement's map.

Louis's Extermination Professional ability distributes a potion across a broad area and gains still more coverage when cast from the Twister.

The Aerosol Applicator

Prepotente's sponsor-supplied applicator disperses herbicide over a broad area and prompts Carl to seek an equivalent delivery system.

A cactus-branded pub in Alucarda that functions as a true safe room.

The Anti-Air Guns

Sponsored hunter groups deploy anti-targeting air-defense emplacements specifically against missiles, flying crawlers, Bianca, and the Twister.

The Apothecary's Donut Package

Five separate Apothecary boxes route a wand-recharge scroll, tiara, sheet music, enchanted hammer, and enchanted stick through different crawlers to Donut.

A small noncitizen alien people must purchase oxygen and habitat upkeep or accept indentured protection from another system.

The Ballroom Seal

Queen Imogen's arrival locks the party rooms, forbids entry and exit, and protects the interior from all outside influence or spells.

The Belching Termite

A pub adjoining a saferoom in one of Prepotente's towns becomes a chaotic staging area for the raptor pack and anti-Creeper weapons.

The Blast Chest

A portable container Carl uses to quarantine and inspect potentially dangerous hunter loot.

For the rest of the floor, kills fill a retroactive meter that grants at most ten hours inside safe areas and bars entry when empty.

The Borant Emancipation Front

A guerrilla movement inside Borant that has been quietly receiving smuggled Valtay agents from a housecat.

The royal mantis government has prepaid the Dark Hive for all hunt loot to be delivered directly to the ninth floor.

The Caprid Liaison

An unnamed caprid official previously appeared to cooperate with the Skull Empire against Carl's party and may exemplify Orren's warning about overzealous liaisons.

The Changeling Children

Recently evacuated changeling children shelter in the guild, where compression sickness leaves some deformed and cultural conflict erupts with Prudence's cubs.

The Changeling Hideout

The concealed changeling settlement lies in the projected path of Gehenna Bramble and will be consumed days before Zerzura becomes legal.

The Changelings

A group of NPC changelings rescued by Carl's group, now relocating to a hidden village in the Liana district.

The Children of Inpewt

Zerzura creates revenant Children of Inpewt from sacrificed or fallen changelings, attaching a lasting cost to the Great Race extraction plan.

The body above the showrunners tolerates a used dungeon AI going primal because it values production continuity and control over immediate safety.

The Crafter Alliance

A group of more than thirty subterranean hunter-crafters largely drinks in Zockau and brokers loot instead of pursuing crawlers.

A hunter group on the carve-up map, holding its own territory and claiming both Elle and Eva.

The Credit Chit

An undocumented offworld value token accidentally swept into Carl's inventory by Loot All.

The Dead Security Guards

All five elves in the castle security room are found dead before Samantha enters, proving an unknown infiltrator is already manipulating the ballroom controls.

An unseen dog remotely overrides Lucia's body in brief bursts and is the true target Florin says must be captured.

The Dreadnought Clan

A former faction-wars participant withdraws after Larracos floods and its war chief's wife is stung by a jellyfish.

The Dreadnoughts

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

The AI refuses a court order releasing the hunters, asserts authority to make its own rules, and appears to engineer Iota's random teleport for dramatic disclosure.

The Eighth Floor Portals

Round stairwell portals form a vertical bead-like column through the center of the Great Race and physically pull nearby crawlers toward the next floor.

An unnamed elite killed by Prepotente after both combatants spend nearly two days frozen.

The Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams

A sponsor-supplied baton passes through chemically treated glass and transmits the hammer strike that destroys the Great Race.

The Eyber Faction

A slug-like convention faction known for polished child-art entries and angry reactions when it does not win.

An unknown hunter group holding the forest where Louis, Katia and Elle happen to be camped.

The Forbidden Recital

A clandestine children's ballet interrupted by Tina's cleric father moments before her solo.

A hunter bloc whose designated territory is ignored when top-ten crawlers become fair game.

The Guild Common Area

A shared room behind a brand-new door, with a Bopca merchant and sixty-three crawlers' worth of neighbours.

The Guild of Suffering

A cult worshipping the demigod Night Wyrm, accessible to anyone marked by a divine suffering artifact.

The Halls of Ascendency

Divine realm the gods reside in, which Emberus returned to about a minute after appearing in the dungeon.

The Hand that Claws the Master

Achievement for permanently killing a non-crawler biological, awarded to Carl thirty-five times at once.

The High Elf Procession

More than a hundred high elves hunt Creepers within the Liana District while escorting their queen's invulnerable familiar.

The Hunter Territory Map

A colored-pencil map on a Canadian diner kids' menu dividing the hunting grounds between hunter groups and assigning claimed crawlers.

The Instacot 60

The second-best bed on the market: sixty seconds of sleep, Great Rest, and a fifteen percent stat bonus.

The Kapok District

Region of the Hunting Grounds populated mainly by Ursine, Bush Elves and bugbears, split by a wide river.

A collective mind creeping across the universe, whose dungeon caricature is an octopus and whose real shape nobody knows.

The Left Fang of the Green Sultan

Eva's old sword, recovered and wielded by Katia to remove Eva's escape-ring hand.

The Mantises sue to save Vrah and are rumored to have secretly sold Borant a used amusement-park AI already prone to early primal behavior.

The Midnight Epicure

The Plenty's named jacket patch grants Carl anti-vampire protections and references a Caprid fable about a nocturnal gourmand.

The Mongoliensis Pack

Thirty-six female velociraptors follow Kiwi into alliance with Donut, though only their leader is magically controlled.

A demigod outside the regular pantheon, worshipped by the Guild of Suffering and tied to divine suffering artifacts.

The Night Wyrm's Nasty Little Web of Suffering

A green-tinted spiderweb sigil tattooed on Carl's elbow that grants access to the Guild of Suffering.

The infernal realm opens beneath Signet and claims her for self-violence while leaving her blood and animated tattoo magic behind.

The celestial seal forbids effective violence among party guests and makes breaking the Masquerade's protection carry an infernal personal cost.

The Pole Position Chamber

Carl, Donut, and Prepotente start the seventh floor in the lowest glass chamber, giving them first access to the race chute and proximity to the level's structural origin.

The Prism Kingdom

Princess D'Nadia's realm, purchaser of one of the ninth floor's newly claimed Faction Wars slots.

The Prize Counter

A holographic carousel exchanges crawler scalps or hunter hands for potions, upgrades, spellbooks, future-floor boons, equipment, and Imogen's Memorial Crystal.

The Queen's Guards

Imogen's black-clad personal guards gather against Signet but retreat because striking an invited guest would break the celestial seal.

The Royal Chariot

Carl assembles the modular chariot as a missile platform and high-speed escape vehicle in the storm.

The Safe Space Wand

Prepotente's rare wand creates a tiny three-minute safe zone, which he uses to open his loot boxes despite having only one charge afterward.

The Scuttlebutt

The smallest pub on Zockau's bar row and the only true saferoom among the seven, which saves Carl and Donut from their own bombs.

The Secret Cat Tunnels

A concealed network of cat-sized passages links the High Elf Castle's private spaces and provides a covert route to the third-floor security room.

The Security Room

The third-floor control chamber is the coalition's target for disabling the ballroom's inventory and magic restrictions.

The Shrink Wand

A ten-charge prize-counter wand like one Zhang carried before.

The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels

A Donut-inspired fan organization suing to prevent the Syndicate from preserving cocker spaniels after Earth's loss.

The Staging Area

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

The castle is a breathing white-oak megastructure carved with acorns, backed against a rocky bluff and defended by four narrow magical towers.

A wealthy Skull Empire hunter whose lightning ambush is reflected by the All-Tree and kills him.

The Talent Competition

The Masquerade's required performance phase begins amid the castle battle, with Donut assigned the dangerous closing act.

An eyepatched badger AI who analyzes Carl's weapon concept and teaches an improved sticky-bomb module.

The Treasure Map

A persistent country-boss drop reveals the location and quality of all nearby magical gear, often provoking survivors to kill one another.

The Unlabeled Churches

Row of unmarked houses of worship deep inside the Ursine town, none of them dedicated to Emberus.

The Vampire Infestation

Big Tina spreads Miriam's curse to dinosaurs and wildlife across hundreds of kilometers while assembling corpse minions.

The Warrant System

A criminal sentencing scheme combining a credit-valued warrant with a sentence clock that runs from conviction.

The Watches and Winding Box

Goods Orren laid out for Carl during the interrogation, cleared away at Quasar's insistence.

The Water-Breathing Ring

A ring that gives Carl functional gills while making him slimy and slightly less charismatic.

Carl's long-range throwing scoop, repurposed to launch and recall Samantha as a guided counter-artillery projectile.

A patronizing level-35 high-elf footman briefs Carl and Britney on castle screening, attendant access, ballroom restrictions, and Queen Imogen's protections.

A mobile bramble-like forest mob harvested by Carl's party for flowers on Mordecai's supply list.

Every ninth-floor faction receives a seed that must be placed in a visible structure and creates the conquerable seat of its army's dominion.

Titan Entertainment

The outfit whose red lanyard turns Carl into a convention exhibit.

Prudence's observant cub correctly identifies Mongo and later corrects Donut's dinosaur taxonomy.

Hunter Zabit's level-25 night weasel scout, doused in gunpowder and crushed by Chris.

The remaining yam-like vegetable once used to separate Maggie from Chris must be preserved for an unspecified future need.

Outside visitors forbidden in theory from talking to those inside the dungeon, a rule everyone knows is ignored.

Tran survives the cage fight after losing both legs, but Carl's healing scroll closes his wounds without regrowing the limbs.

Transfiguration

Imogen's shape-warping spell — a village-killer that leaves its survivors permanently changed and oddly immune.

Ambulatory tree beings that stride through the night town carrying monkeys in their branches.

Donut's speed buff that lets Mongo outrun a dune buggy, to the dinosaur's screeching delight.

Ultimate Training Room

A twelfth-floor-grade training facility combining combat, magic, explosives, crafting, and workshop instruction with advanced AI trainers.

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

Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill and Undead Repellant

Mordecai's improvised herbicide kills Odious Creepers and repels undead, becoming the coalition's working weapon against the Creeping Apocalypse.

Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill and Undead Repellant, Extra-Strength Edition

Mordecai reverse-engineers the sponsor's herbicide into four moonshine jugs of anti-plant, anti-undead liquid, each sufficient for two to four Creepers.

Upgrade patches attach to Carl's enchanted jacket and add specialized powers through Donut's increasingly important hobby skill.

A former game guide and tactical broadcaster who covertly explains the logic of Carl's converging enemies and warns that every mantis must die.

Dead crawler who locked himself in an escape pod and was killed by jellyfish, recalled by a bugbear's accent.

Miriam Dom's new race, granting flight but requiring frequent fresh blood to survive.

Miriam reveals that fifth-floor vampirism forms a progenitor hierarchy: killing the prime within a month cures all descendants, while surviving a floor makes a crawler's infection permanent.

Loot box that yielded roughly 300,000 gold, funding Carl's new safe-room upgrades.

Donut impulsively selects Viper Queen without Mordecai's advice, gaining poison-projectile abilities while accepting an apparent health reduction.

A closet-sized personal-space training room that improves Donut's singing and gives substance to voice-created illusions.

Death threat knifed to Carl's saferoom door revealing hunters are now immune to explosions and the guards worship Emberus.

Vrah's dead sister, on whose grave she intends to mount Carl's head so she can feast on him in the afterlife.

Cart-mounted explosive Bomo built for remote delivery into the street, shelved when hunters gained explosion immunity.

Withering Spirit

An almost indestructible one-hit-point spirit normally dismissed as harmless because it cannot meaningfully act.

Worn Path Method

Herot teaches that a controlled mind can be derailed by exposing one precise seam in its false narrative and letting its own momentum do the rest.

A beach-themed true safe room whose Diwata-worshipping patrons repeatedly attack Carl and are ejected.

Named team combo where Donut shoves a target off an edge with Astral Paw and a follow-up finishes it below.

A god of lust whose assault broke the original masquerade's peace and earned banishment to the Nothing.

Humanoid aliens with ridged foreheads and bony exoskeletons whose exiled males become bounty hunters and mercenaries.

A dead friend whose name is now stamped on a guild of sixty-three crawlers.

You Crossed a Line You Didn't Even Know Was There

Achievement for first use of an artifact of Divine Suffering, with an ominous hint about side effects.

Youth Assistant

Youth Assistants are unauthorized off-book handlers associated with Lucia Mar, a role Mordecai says should not exist in the dungeon.

Youth Assistants

Caretakers assigned to underage entrants who are removed from the crawl until it ends.

A vessel containment region that suppresses all enhancements, including Carl's normally automatic gauntlet.