Stage Three Monster

Story so far

Stage three is the dreaded final stage of the DTs, and Carl gets his first look at it as the Vermillion rescue leaves station 101: mobs marked with blinking red exclamation points, transformed into bear-sized, skull-faced horrors sprouting thick tentacles from their backs. Unlike the thin parasitic tentacles of the third floor's mold lions, these tentacles are integral to the creature — grotesquely Krakaren-like — and they grasp at the train doors as the monsters leap after it. They pour onto the platform as the last crawlers flee, a new escalation of the floor's monster engine whose full endgame form is still unknown.

Appearance

A bear-sized, skull-faced mob transformed by the DTs, thick Krakaren-like tentacles erupting integrally from its back, a blinking red exclamation-point buff overhead.

Role

The final DT stage — a tentacled horror escalating the floor's ghoul threat.

Relationships

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

• Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2