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Timid Icelandic doppelganger and reluctant tank, able to reshape her body and turn flesh into armor.

Barefoot ex-Coast Guardsman and bomb-happy Crawler #4,122, sixth on the leaderboard entering the train floor.

Charisma-obsessed talking show cat and galaxy-famous princess, seventh on the leaderboard and the party's heart.

Daniel Bautista

A steady fellow crawler and Carl's chat ally, a key node in the party's growing information network.

A buff Amazonian Shieldmaiden, second on the leaderboard, leader of the Daughters and Katia's old ally.

The dementia-freed elder survivor reborn as a foul-mouthed, icicle-slinging Frost Maiden, now a top-ten crawler.

Katia's friend from before the dungeon, a player-killer who entered with her and joined the Daughters.

A weary, German-accented Lesser Demon sealed inside the Nightmare Express's boiler, stoking its fire with her stillborn young.

A war god worshipped by ManTauRs — a near-immortal deity Carl's gauntlet can accidentally summon in the body of Prince Stalwart.

A human Street Monk crawler ranked ninth, fighting alongside his sister Li Na and their ally Zhang.

Li Jun's sister, an odd demon-like crawler who fights with chains.

A cold Bloom-party kua-tin rep — Hekla's former agent — maneuvering to seize control of Carl's account from Zev.

Donut's freed changeling manager, now a warty Grulke toad, who decodes the train floor as the party's strategist and alchemist.

Six ravenous mimic-monsters disguised as the Terminus stations, devouring every crawler who disembarks at 433.

The party's loyal little kua-tin PR agent, juggling their sponsorships, bookings, and image on the show.

Brandon's mute, race-changed brother — an Igneous rock-crawler whose new form warped him into a killing-obsessed loner hunting Carl.

Death Challenge

A live broadcast spectacle framing a cornered crawler's death as a monster-truck-rally betting match between rival killers.

Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook

A secret, self-hiding guide to dungeon sabotage disguised as a chicken cookbook — passed crawler to crawler across seasons.

The last surviving caretaker of Brandon's survivor group, now a winged Obsidian Butterfly healer holding the crew together.

Tentacled octopus-boss brewers who manufacture the race-specific sedatives keeping the whole floor's monsters addicted.

Krakaren Crotch Dumpling

Rice-sized level-1 Krakaren clones that burst by the thousands from stage-three DT monsters — the floor's true endgame swarm.

The dungeon's #1 crawler: a terrifying witch-child Lajabless with a million-gold bounty and packs of dogs.

A vapid Iron Tangle human-resources NPC the party rescues, whose thin false memories reveal the floor's fragile NPC scaffolding.

A human Shepherd crawler ranked fifth, traveling with the goat-crawler Prepotente.

Mordecais Special Brew

A potion brewed by Mordecai granting roughly thirty seconds of near-invulnerability — at the cost of a ten-hour potion lockout.

Night Wyrms Ring

A legendary crawler-killer's ring granting +5% stats and the Marked for Death skill — a fortune that destroys whoever wields it.

Fuzzy goblin-like dealer bosses who ration the mobs' addictive vials — and turn into giant goats when attacked.

A walking, talking goat-creature crawler ranked third, traveling with the goat-shepherd Miriam Dom.

Hardened Lesser-Demon stillborn corpses that burn hotter and longer than coal — the Nightmare Express's grim fuel.

Hekla's crawler team, allied with Carl's party by information-sharing and including Katia's old friends.

The Iron Tangle

The fourth floor: a vast, impossible subway/rail network where crawlers must ride killer trains to find hidden stairwells.

A Mango-line conductor dwarf, broken by the discovery that the daughter of his false memories was never real.

A human crawler fighting alongside the siblings Li Jun and Li Na.

A cackling old crawler pushing a flamingo-adorned shopping cart — level 8, still classless, and somehow untouchable, whom Carl pointedly refuses to let anyone stop.

The Oak Goddess whom the elf mothers turned to worship, abandoning the vulture goddess Nekhebit.

A tiny, tuxedoed, terrifyingly high-level Bloodlust Sprite who runs the Desperado Club's floor with cardiovascular magic.

Auto Buckler of the Peach Pit

A wrist bracer that snaps a small metallic buckler into place on command, enchanted with a chance to disarm attackers.

A benefit that doubles the effective mass of any living creature Katia strikes with her moving body.

Chaos-mob baboons with grotesque human faces, bred from a Florida drunk tank, that go berserk in withdrawal.

An explosive enchantment Carl casts onto his gauntlet to charge his strikes with energy.

Baseball-sized balls of dwarven robot scrap Carl mass-produces as xistera ammunition.

The idealistic gray-alien creator of Planet Beautiful, now punished by success as a corporation guts his passion project.

A crossbow-cast effect that strikes monster types which generate or birth additional monsters.

A tenacious undead ghoul spawned by a soul-crystal Ghoul Generator — one born for every non-undead mob that dies on the floor.

A highly addictive patchouli-scented drug stick that permanently raises Intelligence at an unspecified cost.

Bolt Throwers Workshop

A crafting bench Mordecai installs to eventually mass-produce explosive and magical crossbow bolts for Katia.

Bolt of Ophiotaurus

A crossbow bolt, one of only 100, that pauses a deity's invulnerability for fifteen seconds if shot into a god's eye.

A cretin rock-monster bodyguard of the Desperado Club, partner to The Sledge, who buys a shield spell to protect Carl and Donut.

Borant Corporation

The bankrupt kua-tin corporation running Earth's dungeon season, squeezing crawlers on an accelerated timer.

The warm maintenance-man crawler who shepherded elderly survivors — killed on the third floor, his last message a plea to reach his brother.

Carls Doomsday Scenario

An un-defusable, city-leveling bomb permanently stuck in Carl's inventory — infamous across the galaxy.

Cave Mudge Bonker

Squat, pig-bodied stone-age warrior mobs on the yellow line who charge with nail-studded clubs.

A winged, wolf-headed song-bard who hosts the Prize Carousel — and the target of Mordecai's murderous grudge.

Clockwork Triplicate

Donut's spell that conjures two clockwork duplicates of Mongo — expendable scouts, testers, and shock troops.

Club Vanquisher

The Desperado Club's counterpart nightclub, found at transfer stations ending in 9 and fronted by a ram-headed cleric.

Author of the cookbook's 17th edition, who noted that indestructible NPCs guard something important.

Author of the cookbook's 22nd edition, who added field notes on wringing secrets from indestructible NPCs.

Author of the cookbook's 6th edition, whose candid notes on the maddening inconsistency of portals guide Carl.

Katia's upgraded Rush: still a monster-truck charge, but now hitting everything in a wide cone and usable every five minutes.

The crawlers' non-saferoom nightclub — dance floor, casino, and bar where deals, drinks, and killings happen.

Dirigible Gnomes

The party's floor-five opponents — desert sky-castle gnomes whose Wasteland Fortress the crawlers must storm in the Air Quadrant.

Dirty Little Phased Bolt

An invisible assassin's crossbow bolt that secretly drains a victim to near-death and hides the killer's identity.

A silver-haired war mage aboard the Dismemberment Limited, building a skin-and-bone army one flayed rider at a time.

A crawler who died at station 24 broadcasting a final warning about the millions of Krakaren clones swarming there.

Knee-high demonic baby-monsters that swarm subway platforms in ravenous packs.

Dwarven Automaton

Dormant dwarven mining robots hidden in warehouse rooms — Carl scraps a pair for Katia's tons of tank-armor.

Dwarven Battery

Rechargeable brick-sized power cells (and their fabricator) that Carl uses to run the battery-powered interdiction carts.

Enchanted Mongoliensis Saddle

A garish fan-gifted saddle that turns Mongo into a rideable mount and buffs Donut's spell damage.

Enchanted Necklace of the Haute Bourgeoisie

A settlement-leadership necklace that pays Carl tax stipends and grants stat and skill gems for each town he controls.

Carl's map-and-secrets skill that surfaces hidden maps, control sigils, and the true text of the cookbook.

Escape Velocity

A train that runs directly to a cluster of stairwell stations — the shortcut off the floor Widget points the party toward.

The mythic curse that scattered the high elf court's cursed offspring into dozens of elf and fairy breeds across the universe.

Katia's ex-husband, who left her for one of his students — a wound Eva cruelly throws in her face.

Festering Ghoul

Not-quite-undead mobs reborn from crawler-monster addicts who survive the DTs into a plodding, flesh-eating swarm.

A tracking skill that lists and locates nearby crawlers — and, at high levels, hunts down those off-map.

Living flaps of flayed skin that smother victims and reanimate their bones — the war mages' self-propagating army.

A shotgun-wielding Crocodilian crawler ranked fourth, now traveling with the healer Ifechi.

A ruined, one-handed crawler-killer who ambushed Carl on floor one and now, drunk and broken, gifts him the cursed ring as 'revenge.'

Ghoul Amalgamation

A room-filling province boss the festering ghouls form by fusing together at station 48 — a screaming mass of mouths.

Ghoul Generator

A soul-crystal-powered device that births a ghoul for every mob death on the floor — turning the DT plague into a perpetual monster engine.

A daughter's containment spell that encases a target — used to neutralize a Kravyad and slip the team through its portal.

A four-armed, blade-wristed ManTauR train engineer and berserker who becomes a neighborhood boss when he learns the party crashed his train.

An indestructible, self-pitying gnoll bartender whose severed left hands are needed to start the interdiction carts — killed over and over for the rescue.

Hellspawn Familiar

A horse-sized transformed goat wreathed in light-drinking phantom flame — the eerie familiar-mount of Prepotente and Miriam's crew.

A former crawler who authored the 16th edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and theorized the 'Worn Path Method.'

Donut's spell that opens a temporary hole in any surface — the party's key to reaching through walls and doors.

The locked-down employee line-train that ferries Iron Tangle staff to and from work — leaving its track free for the party.

The floor-four rule opening bounty hunting on the top-ten crawlers, turning fellow crawlers into threats.

An African human healer, sole survivor of his AK-armed squad, now ranked eighth and traveling with Florin.

Jabbering Jibber Jabber

Rhino-sized reanimated buffet-mouths — splitter minions of the Mimic Rex that devour anything and feed the energy back to their master.

Jaxbrin Amusements

The toy corporation that manufactures the Jaxbrin stuffed monster figures — and Bautista's new sponsor.

Jaxbrin Stuffed Figures

Collectible beanie-baby monster figures that are true summonings — rip the tag and the creature manifests to fight for you.

Seven-foot suited ghoul-janitors of the Tangle, insatiable but well-mannered flesh-eaters who leave you alone if you don't bleed.

Jumping Jen Jen

A gnoll interdiction-cart driver at station 75 who died calling Growler Gary a coward — the ache at the heart of his grief.

Blue, six-armed naga-like HR creatures that hypnotize Iron Tangle workers between shifts and eat troublemakers — and gate a lifebound escape portal.

The faction-war capital city reachable beneath the Desperado Club — the prize the alien armies will fight over on the ninth floor.

Left Fang Green Sultan

One of Eva's twin sabers, looted by Carl — inert alone, magical only when paired with its missing Right Fang.

Levi the Seventh

A pitiful, oft-reborn flesh-and-bone symbiote who drives the Dismemberment Limited and begs riders to save him from the Fleshers.

Odette's harried assistant, caught in the crossfire between the host and the barging Bloom censor.

A bespectacled, book-loving Mole Man shopkeeper at station 83 who trades Earth novels with Carl.

Donut's Charisma-100 skill that steals an enemy's heart, redirecting damage she'd take onto them until they die.

Frank's vengeful ex-wife and murder partner, a former detective who killed her own daughter and now hunts Carl alone.

Powerful minotaur-like neighborhood bosses of the train floor — the last dungeon faction to keep faith with the crawlers as the NPCs turn.

Map of the Stars

The Mimic Rex's city-boss loot — a map upgrade that reveals boss locations and descriptions across a wide area.

Marked for Death

A crawler-killer skill that marks a full-health crawler for a permanent stat gain on their death — but blocks all healing until they die.

The wry AI concierge of a deluxe undersea security trailer, who explains — in 'earth monkey speak' — why Borant's cheap crawl leaks system access.

A convoluted five-minute mass-charm spell that flips a fraction of intelligent enemies to your side.

Mistress Tiatha

Elle and Imani's manager — a boozy, blitz-stick-smoking NPC who treats the job like spring break.

Donut's bonded velociraptor pet, growing pony-sized and lethal, whose kills buff the whole party.

A jealous, forgotten vulture goddess whose curse on abandoning worshippers spawned the Fae Diaspora of elf and fairy breeds.

Nightmare Express

A jet-black, coal-fired steam train hauling caged giant monsters in a figure-eight loop to the Abyss — hijacked by Carl.

The red-and-white fast-food saferoom at transfer station 83, first safe haven on the train floor.

The party's crab-bodied interview host — who admits SHE personally sponsored Hekla, spars with the Bloom censor, and half-warns of danger around Chris.

A gold-skull ticket that lavishly rewards killing the named party-member on its back — a wedge the System hands out to poison trust.

A slow-spoken quarter-giant Grapple porter who runs the yellow line's suitcase reward room.

Planet Beautiful

A surprise-hit broadcast where crawlers narrate their planet's culture — now a ratings powerhouse built on garbage AI-written scripts.

Big, acid-fingered fish-monsters from kua-tin myth that lurk on platforms and rage when barricaded out.

Twin Nodling brothers — an Illusionist and a Bogatyr — sharing a single top-ten leaderboard slot on the train floor.

The Skull Empire prince who faked his own death — revealed alive as the sponsor driving the war god Grull against Carl.

Princess Dnadia

An outspoken tentacle-faced princess of the Prism Kingdom who becomes Donut's doting sponsor.

Princess Formidable

A Skull Empire princess and Katia's enigmatic sponsor, possibly newly elevated in the orc line of succession.

Princess Donut's rapidly growing galactic fanbase, whose favored name is winning out over the rival 'Donut Holes.'

D'nadia's one-of-a-kind gift goggles that turn Donut's Magic Missile into a focused, quadruple laser.

A small but powerful alien realm led by the outspoken Princess D'nadia — Donut's sponsoring power.

Protective Shell

Carl's once-a-day dome shield that stays fixed in space — devastating aboard a moving train.

A half-elf crawler with a Celestial flight-and-lightning jacket, rocketing up the leaderboard by blowing up trains — and stranding everyone.

Rapid Response Cart

A battery-powered hobgoblin repair cart with a tunnel-filling debris-scoop portal that hurls everything on a track to the trainyard or the abyss.

A ninja-star-throwing fox mob whose DT-stage-three form becomes an unrecognizable, tentacled, clone-bearing horror.

Skinless, eyeless rabbit-monsters that vomit-inducing sonic attacks — and are secretly drug addicts.

The Iron Tangle's CFO and Madison's ex-husband, an unseen executive she insists will always come to save her.

Katia's once-a-day battering-ram charge — unpredictable in distance and aim — that accidentally kills Hekla.

A member of Brynhild's Daughters whose Glass Prison spell lets the team bypass a Kravyad's portal.

The reward box a first-time party player-killer receives — containing only a booklet of betrayal PVP coupons.

Scavenger Mother Crossbow

Hekla's unique repeating crossbow, a female-only weapon that scales with the women in a party — looted by Katia after killing her.

Seize the Day Toothpaste

A five-use enchanted toothpaste that triples (or quadruples) Carl's damage against boss monsters for 30 hours.

Senegal Production Systems

The company that operates the deluxe undersea security trailers used for off-planet celebrity productions.

A hyena-like gnoll variant; one runs the drunken tavern at the overrun station 75.

Shade Gnoll Riot Baton

A telescoping enchanted truncheon that auto-casts Cone of Knockback when swung into a crowd of ten or more mobs.

Shade Gnoll Riot Shield

A tall, absurdly light riot shield stenciled 'Get Back' that upgrades Rush into the devastating Crowd Blast cone attack.

A single-charge wand that shrinks non-living objects down to button-size for five minutes without reducing their weight.

A Wisteria Fairy 'Holistic Healer' of the Daughters who withholds heals from Katia by protocol, then flees the fight entirely.

The orc empire led by King Rust — hunters of Carl, now sponsoring Katia through Princess Formidable amid a succession shake-up.

Two hulking, monosyllabic cretin rock-monster bodyguards, Bomo and The Sledge, who become the party's loyal guards.

Stage Three Monster

The terrifying third and final stage of the DTs — mobs transformed into tentacled, Krakaren-like horrors.

A sprawling industrial repair station and small-cart yard, overrun and turned to a battlefield graveyard of gnolls, hobgoblins, and ghouls.

Steam Engineers Key

A looted key granting access to all 400 steam-trains of the Tangle — and, equipped, safe passage through the abyss gate.

A mile-wide underground repair trainyard, one of many, now overrun by a critical mass of festering ghouls.

A foot-slashing melee skill from Carl's leadership necklace, with a rare chance to trigger the instakill Eviscerate.

Terminus Station

Station 433, the final transit station on the line, where Bautista's fleeing crawlers are headed.

A mile-wide flaming pit ringed by thousands of portals where spent trains are dumped — and the secret to backtracking the floor.

The ultranationalist kua-tin party — marked by a dahlia-shaped pin — now seizing control of the crawl's PR and censoring the crawlers' intel.

The Downward Dog

A grimy gnoll-run tavern at station 75 — a non-saferoom bar with a personal-space entrance but no rentable rooms or box-opening.

A three-stage withdrawal affliction that seizes mobs when their train stops coming, making them stronger and mindless.

An extinct predator-race who ran six waystation traps near the galactic center — the historical basis for the floor's station mimics.

A goat-like caprid race who invented the galaxy's real-time tunneling comms system — smeared by Borant's floor as the Krakaren's puppets.

The Prize Carousel

A cheesy game-show segment where a fan-box winner picks one of nine prizes — the vehicle for the cookbook's arrival.

The Royal Palace of Princess Donut

The party's hangar-sized level-five conjoined personal space, complete with training room, crafting studio, and Mordecai's quarters.

The galaxy-spanning governing body over the dungeon corporations, whose courts and rules quietly bind even the AI.

The Worn Path Method

Herot's cookbook theory that quests get easier when a crawler deliberately breaks NPCs out of their thin false reality.

The production giant that once left Planet Beautiful alone but now pressures its creator to cheapen and sensationalize it.

Train Conductors Souvenir Hat

A worthless toddler-sized souvenir cap from the floor's start that turns out to be a free ticket through the abyss portals.

A German-Shepherd-race Dog Soldier crawler manning a flamethrower at station 36 — and Donut's newest instant enemy.

Ultima Corp Dungeonwerx

The manufacturer of the Iron Tangle's subspace portals and portal selectors, from light-duty doorways to heavy-duty cleanup scoops.

Valtay Corporation

A predatory brain-parasite megacorp invading Borant's system — and, ominously, Carl's new sponsor.

Valtay Neural Enhancer

A brain-altering pill from the Valtay that grants Carl the ability to identify, analyze, and see through subspace portals.

Vermillion Line

A powered, wreckage-free 'Terminus Direct' rail line that runs its whole length in a day — the route to the trapped thousand at station 101.

A weary, drink-sodden dwarf train conductor whose looping memory and magic gold coins reveal the trains' secrets — killed by a trap.

A consumable Bautista uses to neutralize a spellcaster's magic — its purple variant cancels the Kravyad's hypnosis.

Monsters congregating near an inter-line gangway, an obstacle Bautista's group must fight through to climb toward escape.

A shaggy female Bopca innkeeper at station 83, charmed by Donut into a fire-sale on a personal space.

A tiny, foul-mouthed Grease Gremlin train mechanic who helps the party escape Substation E — and is beheaded for it.

A defensive spell Carl casts on himself for protection during the train-cab brawl with the Daughters.

A powerful ghoul born at the end of DT stage two, now massing at station 36 for some ominous purpose.

Wrestling Belt of the Great Gorgo

A WWE-style championship belt Katia wins for momentum-kills, granting +5% Strength/Constitution and the Avalanche benefit.

The supposed ghoul-free headquarters trainyard the NPCs speak of — which Carl suspects may not really exist.

Frank and Maggie's teenaged daughter, a gentle runaway forced into their killing and murdered by her own mother.