Borant Corporation
Cash-starved Borant allegedly buys a used Mantis amusement-park AI under the table, causing the crawl's dangerous early primal turn.
Story so far
Hunter Iota repeats a rumor that Borant lacked the funds for a proper crawl intelligence and secretly purchased a retired amusement-park AI from the Mantises. Such systems should not be reused for live crawls, especially after prior instability.
The AI now rejects court authority and begins going primal far earlier than normal. Borant or whichever entity holds the credit chit still stands to earn extraordinary revenue, giving the governing council little incentive to shut the season down.
Role
Borant's alleged cost-cutting explains the AI's provenance and the industry's willingness to tolerate its autonomy.
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
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
- The kua-tin corporation running the crawl, which wants Carl kept in the game despite the danger to its solvency.
- The dungeon's operator, dangling a ninth-floor extension that Sensation has accepted but refuses to sign.
- The kua-tin corporation that wanted to buy Beatrice and boss-ify her, now extorted into playing her rescuer.
- The corporation running the crawl, cut loose from its government and sold out from under itself in a single night.
- Bought out but not dethroned: Borant still runs the game while its new 51% owner circles.
- A kua-tin corporation insisting, at length, that the civil war back home changes absolutely nothing.
- Cash-starved Borant allegedly buys a used Mantis amusement-park AI under the table, causing the crawl's dangerous early primal turn.