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Carl

Crawler #4,122 · Pork Boy · Royal Bodyguard · Compensated Anarchist

The #3 crawler and secret Dungeon Anarchist, arriving on the fifth floor's air quadrant with a doubled bounty on his head.

Story so far

Carl steps from the collapsed fourth floor onto the fifth — "The Bubbles" — and is immediately hit with an achievement, The Quarry Sees Another Spring, that hands him a Gold Venison Box and, less welcomely, permanently doubles every bounty against him (now 800,000 gold, x2) for having entered the stairwell inside the top ten. Blinded by a relentless sandstorm in the Necropolis of Anser's Air Quadrant, he leads Princess Donut and Katia Grim to Hump Town, a walled camel brothel-city, paying the gatekeeper Clay a Blitz Stick toll before being scammed and saddled with the quest Stay out of city hall. Reunited with Mordecai (now a clipped skyfowl cleric), he learns the brutal floor rules: all four of a bubble's castles — Land, Sea, Air, Subterranean — must fall before anyone's stairwell opens, and their own Air castle is a distant speck brushing the dome's ceiling, held by the Dirigible Gnomes.

Appearance

A big human, six-foot-three and roughly 230 pounds, twenty-seven, barefoot and in his underwear as always; forms a summoned gauntlet on his arm; carries banger spheres and the tools of a saboteur.

Role

Protagonist. A former Coast Guardsman turned the dungeon's #3 crawler and covert saboteur, guiding his family through the fifth floor while an entire galaxy hunts his doubled bounty.

Relationships

Princess Donut — His bonded partner and the party's heart; he shepherds her through the sandstorm and frets over her fragile new Glass Cannon class.
Mordecai — His NPC manager and strategist, freshly re-bodied as a skyfowl cleric, who lays out how badly the floor is stacked against them.
Katia Grim — His doppelganger tank and mapmaker, whose pathfinder skill scouts the way to Hump Town.
Mongo — Donut's velociraptor, whom he keeps ordering deployed as a minesweeper via clockwork copies.

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  • The #3 crawler and secret Dungeon Anarchist, arriving on the fifth floor's air quadrant with a doubled bounty on his head.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Compensated Anarchist LVL 41
Skills & spells
  • Protective Shield
  • summoned gauntlet
Notable gear
  • banger spheres
  • Carl's Doomsday Scenario (unstable bomb in inventory)
  • the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
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