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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.

The charisma-100 show-cat princess, who trades her Football Hooligan class for the spell-boosting Glass Cannon on the fifth floor.

The party's doppelganger super-tank and mapmaker, whose pathfinder skill guides the family to shelter through the fifth floor's sandstorm.

The lone woman-changeling prostitute of the tavern The Toe, left pouting in the corner after the whole party rejects her.

The flaming, screaming pterodactyl of the Necropolis's carvings — a fleshless being the changelings want Wynne to resurrect.

Chris Andrews 2

Brandon's changed, grief-warped brother — an Igneous rock-crawler who liberates the water quadrant and may seek out Carl.

Gate of the Feral Gods

The legendary artifact rumored buried in the necropolis — the fabled prize every faction in the bubble has hunted.

An overweight, balding level-22 Pest Exterminator crawler, drunk and coasting through the floor with his friend Firas.

The surface-dwelling wizard who holds the third Gate piece and threatens to throw the whole world into the void.

Donut's bonded velociraptor, pony-sized and electric-fanged, deployed on the fifth floor as a clockwork-copied minesweeper.

The party's freed changeling strategist, re-bodied on the fifth floor as a clipped-winged skyfowl cleric who can barely fly but brews potions better than ever.

Emberus's beloved lost dog, accidentally pulled into the Nothing when the god's son died — the object of his rampage.

Commandant Kane

The mean-tempered gnome leader of the Dreadnaught Wasteland, whose captive uncle Wynne keeps Hump Town safe from bombing.

A major blind fire-god, summoned from the Nothing by the Gate, who rampages the bubbles bellowing for his lost puppy Orthrus.

A brash, foul-mouthed 'proper lady' crawler in bubble 543's Land Quadrant, facing the Sandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage.

A 'Henrik' identity — a changeling infiltrator posing as a Dromedarian who drugs and tortures the hostage gnome Wynne.

A steady Obsidian Butterfly crawler stranded at sea with the Meadow Lark elders, scrambling to learn to sail before the rocks claim them.

The great ninth-floor city, home of the magical college and the theater district where the fictional Lika's plays are staged.

Leon the Commissar

The gnomish ambassador who periodically inspects the hostage collateral, casting a spell to prove it isn't a changeling.

The cold Bloom-aligned agent who has replaced Zev as the party's handler, brooking no backtalk.

A level-23 'Freelance Psychiatrist' crawler with a human head and torso on a tarantula's body — one of the two with Desperado access.

A banished lesser deity who tricked the mage into freeing her and now possesses the necropolis ghost, one flesh-touch from full, catastrophic resurrection.

A cowardly Half-Elf 'Imperial Security Trooper,' the highest-level crawler, who flees hard fights and steals others' kills.

A survivor of the fifth floor's water quadrant, now sheltering on land and refusing to go back into the sea's depths.

Veriluxx Donut Toy

A cheap, unsettling robot-cat toy of Donut herself — her first-ever merch, promptly decapitated by Mongo.

The party's beloved former kua-tin agent, returned from 'treatment' but demoted to social-media duty under Loita's control.

Shamus Chaindrive's great submarine, docked against the tomb — the water quadrant's 'castle,' now taken by Chris.

The frazzled, stuttering trap-disarming rogue whose survival keeps the whole subterranean-quadrant team alive.

Commandant Kane's spoiled, spellbound little daughter, cheerfully running a lemonade stand beside her father's corpse.

Britney Proskurina

A survivor of the fifth floor's water quadrant, sheltering on land and dreading the horrors of the deep.

Common cyborg buzzards armed with chainsaw undercarriages that plague the bubble's land and skies.

Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook

The secret, shape-shifting subversive tome Carl secretly authors, whose past editors warn it against the marketplace interface.

A salty, elderly Frost Maiden crawler stranded on a floating boat-island, teaching Donut old-timer slang and hoarding a fearsome new ice-storm spell.

Hekla's surviving fixer, a hostile high-level crawler still alive on the party's chat and hunting Hekla's abandoned former daughters.

A thin, olive-skinned level-22 Hammersmith crawler, drinking away the floor at a Hump Town brothel with his friend Louis.

A crocodilian ex-mercenary with an unlimited-ammo shotgun, tricked by Lucia into killing his own partner and healer, Ifechi.

Guided Anti Air Rocket

Pineapple-shaped, magically guided rockets the Dromedarians fire from homemade mortars against airborne threats.

The second, red sun of the bubble — mythologized as Taranis's evil brother, whose eight-hour reign brings unbearable heat.

An especially insidious body-snatching parasite Mordecai names among the dungeon's hidden mimics.

A level-25 'D-Bag Geek' crawler from the subterranean quadrant who spears the hostage Wynne dead, failing Carl's quest.

A mountain-sized shark-octopus city boss and single mother who swallows prey whole to feed the hungry babies brooding in her mouth.

The relentless crawler-killer who took the Infiltrator race and hid inside Chris's body to hunt Carl — now the puppeteer wearing him.

A level-23 'Banana Farmer' crawler in a banana costume, part of the subterranean quadrant's ragtag party.

A Shepherd crawler (#7) whose brief but potent knockout spell sets up Prepotente's boss-killing debuff stacks.

Necropolis of Anser

A towering tomb capped by a domed 'bubble' world whose sand-blasted top forms the fifth floor's Air Quadrant.

Disturbing undead mole-rat mobs with near-human anatomy that infest the subterranean quadrant's starting village.

Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network

A mysterious, deep-pocketed anti-crawl pacifist charity that becomes Carl's surprise second sponsor.

The 2nd-edition cookbook author, revealed as the long-lived NFC CEO 'Dr. P. Hu' — Carl's secret deep-pocketed backer.

The mythic day, eleven days out, when Taranis is caught and the bubble tips into darkness, red heat, and doubled storms.

The party's portable, silent, tracked all-terrain buggy — named by Donut, built by Carl and Katia to race across the bowl.

Psamathe's near-unkillable familiar — a living floor of sand that married the mage and devours him daily out of jealous love.

Sandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage

Bubble 543's Land Quadrant castle — a four-walled fortress in the tomb-mountain, swarming with snakes, scorpion-punks, and chainsaw birds.

A level-3 changeling orphan boy in Hump Town who, for a gold coin, lets Carl spy on the gnome castle through his rooftop telescope.

The primary sun-god of the bubble's mythology, who strolls the sky for 22 hours pursued by his red brother Hellik.

The gnomes' ancient black-and-gold peace-envoy balloon, sent to parley over the hostage — and eyed by Carl as a way up.

A weary Asian Swashbuckler on Gwen's team whose metal-detecting ability finds the hidden ring that completes Carl's lightning-door rig.

The Dirigible Gnomes' flying dreadnaught fortress — the air quadrant's 'castle' — a repurposed peace-garden turned bomber, looming to destroy Hump Town.

The third and final piece of the Gate of the Feral Gods — the device needed to wind and activate the two watches, held by the sand-mage Ghazi.

A caged, tortured gnome hostage — a Flesh Mechanic who can briefly resurrect the dead, held to keep Hump Town from being bombed.

A punitive difficulty-escalation the System AI inflicts on Carl, briefly unleashed as an endless gerbil swarm.

The god of pain that Maggie's Celestial Grenade would have summoned to torturously slaughter Carl and the town.

All Seeing Spleen

A standard-pub saferoom in the 'Soulless Prophet' bubble, entered by a hatch and tended by the cyclops Xander.

Altitude Based Deployment Device

A garbage-can-sized gnome canister meant to air-deploy a live boss on a target — but this one's rusted mechanism fails.

The long-dead emperor whose colossal necropolis is the floor's central tomb, buried with his living court and wife.

Donut's telekinetic force-paw, a clawed utility spell that channels her deadly swipe at range as it levels.

The 17th-edition cookbook author who recorded Sinjin's god-caused death and its blunt lesson: stay away from gods.

The Air Quadrant's second town, home to the rival Bactrian camels, mirror-built against the far wall about three miles across the dunes.

A rival camel faction locked with the Dromedarians and Dirigible Gnomes in the Air Quadrant's three-way stalemate.

A combat spell Carl readies against incoming mobs, held in reserve to size up a new enemy first.

Carl's rollable explosive charge, tossed down the tomb ramp to probe the subterranean quadrant's traps.

A stoic Swashbuckler crawler who single-handedly cleared all four of his bubble's castles, though most of his bubble died doing it.

Carl's ex and Princess Donut's original owner, revealed alive in a Seattle survivor camp — broken, hunted, and captured by Odette's agent for 'a much better use.'

Belt of Buoyancy

A simple belt that keeps Donut from sinking in water — which she loudly insists she'll never need again.

Giant harmless blue jellyfish drifting over the Akula — dangerous only if you blunder into their fifteen-foot bulk.

A potent drug-stick from the Desperado Club pharmacy, valuable enough to buy entry to Hump Town — and get Carl scammed.

Blood Sultanate

A poor ninth-floor faction cited as bringing barely twenty outsider troops to the faction wars.

A human Legatus who appears on the fifth-floor top-ten leaderboard, unknown to Carl.

A rock-creature 'cretin' bodyguard who stands guard with the Sledge at the party's Desperado booth.

The man Bea cheated with, stranded with her on Earth — a delusional 'I am a king' who missed the dungeon and dies reaching for a hunter's gun.

A dolphin-like water-quadrant creature; Donut animates one's corpse as exploding clockwork bait against the sharks.

A hot, bright, near-unquenchable flammable gel Carl crafts from moonshine and Mordecai's paste — perfect for burning an ooze.

Celestial Ascendency

The 12th-floor abode of the pantheon — a realm of bizarre gods that the fifth-floor deity storyline unexpectedly reaches toward.

Celestial Grenade

A rare grenade that summons a god to a location for sixty seconds — Maggie's Skull Empire-funded weapon against Carl.

Changeling Principal

A rare, cultish sect of collection-obsessed changelings driven to touch and hoard every rare creature-form — secretly running Hump Town's guard.

A human Sacred Paladin, the newcomer at the bottom of the fifth-floor top-ten leaderboard.

Lucia Mar's rottweiler, mutated to nearly twice normal size — a hulking attack-dog at her side.

The gruff, biker-voiced Dromedarian gatekeeper of Hump Town who scams Carl out of a blitz stick as an entry toll.

Clockwork Triplicate

Donut's spell that conjures two clockwork automaton copies of a pet to range ahead as scouts.

Cloud of Exhaust

Louis's enhanced, legendary-tier spell: a cloud that knocks out whole groups of mobs and amplifies damage against them when they wake.

Club Vanquisher

Pandinus's answer to the Desperado Club — recently trashed when Prepotente loosed his hellspawn goat, now closed for cleansing.

The achievement Low Thi earns for ruining Carl's quest by killing Wynne — proof, he jokes, that Carl really is Carl.

Coffee Shop Author Kit

An enchanted paper-and-quill scroll-crafting set whose magical sheet links to a new scratchpad tab.

Concierge Shark

Jet-black, red-eyed tiger sharks — the water quadrant's blood-drawn 'janitor' mobs that eat anything and everything.

A doomed former crawler whose cookbook marginalia — chronicling his failed orbital suicide bombing — hands Carl the blueprint to kill Loita.

The Wasteland's black-bearded gnome Sniper Captain, dropped to his death when Carl hijacks the envoy balloon.

Katia's concussive area ability, kept 'cocked and loaded' to splatter a threat at a moment's notice.

A murderous, magic-nullifying goose boss — secretly Anser's granddaughter, mind destroyed by the Nothing.

The crawlers' members-only safe-room lounge and hub, where deals are struck and information traded across the floor.

Dirigible Gnomes

The fifth floor's Phase One enemy, gnomes holding the Air castle high against the dome that the crawlers must storm to descend.

A rare blue energy-bolt spell that blows holes in things, with splash damage and a stun — but short range.

Dolores Doesnt Splat

A brutal fall-survival potion that turns a lethal drop into five meteor-like ground-slams — 100% health, zero dignity.

A famous dead bune trap-master and 22nd-edition cookbook author whose 'unnatural' backfiring death helped bankrupt the nagas.

Drakeas Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder

A relic bandana of the dead author Drakea — grants the trap-triggering Tripper spell and, crucially, the Remote Detonator benefit.

A once-brutal nomadic camel race, now lethargic weed-smoking brothel-keepers holed up in Hump Town amid a three-way standoff.

A self-regenerating 50-meter roll of the universe's greatest duct tape, a fan-box prize Carl puts straight to work.

Cat-sized, fast-moving desert mobs that swarm outside Hump Town during the scorching twin-sun hours.

Earth Hobby Potion

A potion granting Matrix-like on-demand mastery of an Earth hobby — Katia's is engineering/mechanics; Donut's is the mysterious 'scutelliphily.'

Enchanted Anarchists Battle Rattle

Carl's new sleeveless canvas patch-jacket — modest armor with near-unlimited upgrade slots that scale his stats with every patch.

Enchanted Gnome Farseerer

A gnomish targeting telescope, salvaged from the dunes, that lets its user inspect distant objects in full detail.

Enchanted Handcuffs

Red-velvet novelty handcuffs from Carl's first savage box — magically reinforced, keyless, with an optional safe word.

Enchanted Toe Ring of the Leprous Bandit

A near-legendary toe ring granting Carl wall-walking Sticky Feet and debuff-passing Super Spreader powers.

Enchanted Xistera Extension Slot

A unique NFC-made xistera attachment for hurling decapitated doll heads vast distances — used to fling Samantha at the demon Slit.

Extinction Event

The achievement for wiping out an entire non-unique species with one attack — the Wall Monitors, in Carl's case.

Extinction Sigil Tattoo

A tiny lizard-foot tattoo under Carl's eye marking him a species-killer — friend to lizards' enemies, hated by lizards.

The ninth floor's grand war: nine factions ringing Larracos build armies of 15,000 and clash for bragging rights once the crawlers arrive.

The mad, banished elder gods who roamed the heavens before the pantheon — imprisoned in the Nothing and driven insane.

A level-45 neighborhood boss goose — meant to be air-deployed on the party, but delivered dead, splattered by its own broken egg.

A half-feral orange stray — Bea's neighbor's tomcat who lusted after Princess Donut — captured by hunters for Borant's walk-on bounty.

Finger Sized Flesh Weasels

A horrifying subterranean trap-creature: finger-sized weasels shot into a victim's body to devour them from the inside out.

The cynical Dromedarian patrol-camel raising the changeling orphan Skarn, quoted secondhand for his bitter anti-gnome sayings.

Former Daughters

The abandoned young-women crawlers of the dead traitor Hekla's circle, whom Katia tries to reach and protect.

Free Wynne from His Bondage

The quest to free the caged gnome Wynne for easy access to the Wasteland — failed when Low Thi kills him.

Frenzied Gerbil

Level-11 suicide rodents that burrow through flesh — and the fixation of the AI's cruel tantrum against Carl.

Slit's more dangerous demon-harem sister — the one Samantha warns Carl to truly fear, still trapped in the Nothing.

Sadir's saccathian bounty-hunter partner, hunting Earth natives for fun and the Prism's buy-in — shot dead by Odette's agent.

Emberus's murdered son and Orthrus's master — the death that broke the fire-god and set the whole tragedy in motion.

A chat-active human tank crawler who warns Carl of gods brawling across the lacuna before descending.

Donut's fifth-floor Character Actor class: enormous spell power at the cost of a forbidden Constitution and a fragile body.

Gnomish Dreadnaught

The gnomes' bomb-hauling airship, whose gravity-bomb accuracy the FarSeerer telescope was built to boost.

Gnomish Drop Bear

An early gnome fast-attack biplane, koala-faced and underpowered, that drops living-boss 'eggs' rather than bombs.

Gnomish Knock Knock

The gnomes' famously unstable thermobaric fuel-air bomb, a refrigerator-sized horror that implodes lungs and melts skin.

Gold Venison Box

The reward box for surviving into the top ten — 'just money,' and a doubled bounty as the catch.

Elle's fearsome 50-mana ice-storm war spell, drawn from a Legendary Deity's Box and too dangerous to test lightly.

A dour soother host of the Veriluxx toy infomercial, absurdly costumed as a cowboy sheriff with a misspelled badge.

The bull-headed war god Carl outlasted on the fourth floor, now offered to him as a worshippable deity — and openly mocked.

Lucia Mar's regular-sized rottweiler, who breathes lightning from his jaws.

The achievement for causing 100+ casualties from more than 100 kilometers away — Carl's signature portal sniping.

A budget fall-survival potion: you live, but land at 5% health — a poor cousin to a real Featherfall.

Helsinki Archers

Six older Finnish car-dealership salesmen crawlers who all took the identical Archer class — a liability turned asset.

The gnome balloon pilot of the Vahana, dropped with the others when Carl hijacks the envoy craft.

Carl's fused throwable grenade, coming in full and quarter strengths — increasingly, dangerously powerful.

Hobgoblin Disco Ball

An invisibility-infused smoke curtain that fills a room with pulsing, blinding technicolor smoke — even the thrower goes blind.

Donut's utility spell that carves a temporary hole through matter — a lockpick, door-breacher, and (in older use) a lethal blade.

A walled Dromedarian brothel-city in the Air Quadrant, its sail-awnings furling against sandstorms, its economy built entirely on prostitution.

A timid, selfless healer with a leech-flinging staff, murdered by Lucia Mar's reflected spell while shielding everyone but herself.

The rare achievement for being physically attacked by a deity and surviving — and drawing every other god's attention.

Carl's crafting skill for soaking smoke curtains in potions to make novel magical tossables — unstable until leveled.

Jellyfish Salve

A boss-box salve (5 uses) that removes the agonizing pain of a Pain Amplifier Jelly's sting.

A skyfowl 8th-edition cookbook author whose entry warns — from his own costly mistake — against needlessly killing NPC shopkeepers.

Juvenile Octo Shark

Lusca's thousands of lamprey-tentacle young, brooded in her mouth and turned cannibal by Carl's bloodlust potion.

The orange-lizard recap-show host, now live-commentating boss battles as a stadium announcer with his orc partner.

The dark void that houses the fifth floor's bubble-worlds — an egg-carton lattice of sunken domes over a hidden floor beneath the planet's surface.

The stocky, grey-blonde leader of six Helsinki car-salesmen crawlers who all foolishly took the exact same Archer class.

Larracos College of Magecraft

The twelve-scholar magical council of Larracos that diagnosed Ghazi's disaster and ordered him to banish the necropolis into the void.

Ifechi's original crawler team of armed soldiers, wiped out to a person by a house-sized jelly boss.

Ifechi's unique staff that summons swarms of blood-draining leeches — deadly to mobs and edible for buffs.

Left Fang of the Green Sultan

Half of Eva Sigrid's twin-saber weapon, dropped and now entrusted to Katia to return to its rightful owner.

Odette's ruthless, efficient Earth-side operative who captures Beatrice and the cat, kills one hunter, and frames another.

A soother host of the Veriluxx infomercial and a genuine Donut superfan, gamely rolling with Carl's on-air sabotage.

A half-naiad stage-play heroine embodied in a soul-trapped companion doll, whose whispered pleas lured the mage into dooming his castle.

A gnomish clamshell projectile that holds a living creature in stasis and releases it — a frenzied gerbil — on impact.

Loitas Rebreather

The small water-breathing device Carl loots from the dead Loita — usable only by a knee-high, gilled creature.

The dungeon's #1 crawler — a beautiful, insane child-turned-woman who murders a healer on-camera with a broken reflect-spell.

Donut's signature attack spell, already strong and made far stronger and cheaper by her new Glass Cannon class.

Magnificent Troy

A meaty, pig-eyed orc sports announcer who provides gleeful color commentary — complete with football-style diagrams — on the crawlers' boss fights.

Mairmei Mushroom

A rare psychedelic alchemy mushroom the changelings use to drug and mind-control their gnome hostage.

Marketplace Interface

The party's new eBay-like buy/sell interface, run under Donut's charisma-boosted account — and how the factions arm their armies.

Mordecais Special Brew

A Mordecai-crafted potion that fully heals its target and grants roughly thirty seconds of near-invulnerability — thrown to save the puppy.

Mysterious Pocket Watch

The bronze pocket watch looted from Kane — one of the Gate of the Feral Gods' three pieces, useless without a winding box.

The catacomb plans of the Necropolis, revealing a subterranean maze that dwarfs the Iron Tangle — auto-installed to Carl's party map.

A tent-and-timber survivor camp of uncollected humans in ruined Seattle, ignored by the aliens — where Beatrice is found and captured.

Fist-sized suicide mobs that swarm from the dunes at night, latching on and exploding like the first floor's rot stickers.

A salvaged gnomish Drop Bear biplane Carl repurposes and renames to fly up and board Commandant Kane's floating house.

The recap-show host revealed as a covert power-broker running Earth-side operatives — who has Beatrice captured alive for a secret 'much better use.'

A hooded Syndicate liaison — a Valtay worm behind a swirling-dark face — who investigates Loita's death, deduces Carl's method exactly, yet is overruled and forced to let him go.

A pazuzu town on the land quadrant, its scorpion-folk decked out in Mad Max post-apocalyptic gear, that takes the party in after the flood.

The goddess of peace, Grull's sister and arch-enemy, whose legendary Tears potion falls into Carl's hands.

A legendary potion that adds +5 to any single skill of the drinker's choosing — Carl's most valuable loot to date.

The land quadrant's winged scorpion-demon mobs — feral and deadly at night, driven mad by exposure to the Nothing.

The party's named scouting maneuver — a magical peephole in a door to eye a boss room before committing to a fight.

Petrify Rock Bolt

Specialized crossbow bolts that petrify a rock-class creature for 60 seconds — Katia's tool to freeze the Maggie-possessed Chris.

An audible artillery-scanning spell that reveals the range and location of all nearby NPCs and mobs — the terror-weapon of the Dream's gunnery elves.

Platinum Sharpening Stone

A short-shelf-life whetstone that permanently buffs a spiked weapon's damage and stats — Carl uses it on his gauntlet.

Nodling brothers, an Illusionist and a Bogatyr, ranked #6 on the fifth-floor leaderboard.

Potion of Bloodlust

A berserking potion that doubles strength and speed but strips memory and control — Mordecai forbids it after it once killed half a party.

Potion of Dinosaur Repellent

A joke consumable that makes a pack of attacking dinosaurs eat you last — for a full 30 hours.

A brilliant, unhinged goat-mage who kills bosses by stacking debuffs — now #3 and stranded on a cave-bubble spider nest.

The 14th-edition cookbook author and best source on the ninth floor — broken to incoherence by watching the beautiful city of Larracos destroyed.

The Skull Empire prince and showrunner-enemy revealed to have been controlling the war god Grull against Carl.

Prince Stalwart

The Skull Empire crown prince and Maggie's second sponsor, co-funding the god-summoning hit on Carl.

Princess Formidable

Katia's benefactor — Prince Stalwart's sister — who spends a fortune arming Katia to counter the Skull Empire's hit on Carl.

Protective Shield

Carl's spell that raises a shimmering forcefield wall, likened to the barriers guarding the Necropolis's subterranean quadrant.

Firas's escape spell, the getaway half of his and Louis's spray-and-flee survival strategy.

The lost home planet of the doomed crawler Coolie, glimpsed only in his dying orbital vigil.

The changeling racial skill for on-demand shapeshifting into borrowed races — with their powers — rather than a slow ten-minute change.

Mordecai's white, frothy potion that instantly clears alcohol and most drugs — and makes further drinking violently sickening.

Ring of Divine Suffering

One of the most coveted treasure-hunter prizes, which Carl holds and dangles as bait to draw every hunter to him on the next floor.

Ring of Water Breathing

A glowing blue ring that lets the wearer breathe underwater indefinitely — at the cost of gills, slimy skin, and charisma.

An infamous, universally-hated orc glory-stealer crawler — top of his season's leaderboard until his own mother knifed him in his sleep.

Rockards Ring of Sniping

An amber-stoned ring that reveals wounded and gear-wearing targets on the map — the tool behind Quan Ch's glory-stealing, now Carl's.

Lucia Mar's broken damage-reflect spell, which bounces incoming damage onto a chosen target — with a hidden vulnerability.

A deformed, armless changeling child afflicted with mysterious 'Compression Sickness,' sheltered among the town's kids.

A house-sized steampunk cyborg hawk borough boss with a giant multi-buzzsaw weapon, killed by Carl's missiles.

A null bounty hunter tracking Earth's natives for the Walk-On List — captured and framed after his partner is killed by Odette's agent.

Sage Beetle Ichor

A potion additive that hides a potion's description and lets it bypass anti-potion protections — at the cost of spoiling within an hour.

Bonnie's beloved dead pet pig — the Bactrian settlement's hostage collateral whose loss triggered the changeling town's bombing.

A looming threat the Larracos college needed the Gate artifact to defeat — now, per Tish, doomed to victory by Ghazi's failure.

Hostile mobs infesting the fifth floor's Land Quadrant, farmed by Katia during Carl's five-day absence.

Scroll of Meat Hooks

A single-use scroll that emits a pet-luring stench, drawing all carnivorous pet-class mobs to the caster — used to lead the giant puppy out of the bubble.

Scroll of Water Breathing

The floor's ubiquitous common scroll granting brief underwater breathing — a not-subtle hint of a water-heavy level.

Donut's resurrection spell, so amplified by her Glass Cannon class that she can briefly reanimate high-level corpses as puppets.

Shamus Chaindrive

The long-dead, paranoid bugbear treasure hunter who sank a submarine into the tomb hunting the Gate of the Feral Gods.

An older fairy healer and former baker, once used as bait against Carl — killed with her two daughters after rejoining Eva's party.

A dead 15th-edition cookbook author whose entries warn, through his own doom, to stay away from the game's gods.

A hulking rock-creature 'cretin' hired as the party's Desperado Club bodyguard, oddly fond of Donut's chatter.

A level-200 feral minor demon of Samantha's harem enemies, summoned from the Nothing to hunt her — killed by Samantha's own mother-god.

Tall, giant-eyed aliens among the universe's most common species, filling roles from toy-show hosts to lending-fund enforcers.

A clamshell-mounted purple gem that powers the flying house's balloon — recharged by killing, and dangerously explosive at higher grades.

Carl's low-power distraction charge — a hob-lobber's wick and fuse that showers stinging sparks with little noise.

Spit and Swallow

A dark, incense-hazed Hump Town brothel-bar (logo: a bird skewered on a stick) where two washout crawlers drink the floor away.

Squeeze Out the Juice Box

The system quest challenging Carl to save Hump Town from the gnomes' imminent bombardment within 75 minutes.

Squim Conglomerate

Katia's new sponsor — the planet-mining corporation that ran last season's battle-royale crawl.

Stay Out of City Hall

The obvious reverse-psychology quest sprung when Clay warns the party to keep out of Hump Town's Dromedarian-only City Hall.

A toe-ring ability letting Carl walk upside down on ceilings for a short burst — his key to the ooze fight.

Bottle-cap-sized crafting items that add the 'Guided' homing status to any projectile, trap, or powered weapon.

A level-49 Changeling Principal posing as a Dromedarian guard, killed by Carl and harvested for his glowing brain.

The bipolar dungeon intelligence that narrates the crawl and is obsessively, dangerously infatuated with Carl.

Carl's stomping strike skill, used to crush and re-stun the changeling guard Svern.

An ultranationalist kua-tin movement preaching 'system strength' and the extermination of 'dry' alien cultures like humanity's.

The fifth floor: 1,172 self-contained snow-globe worlds, each split into four quadrants whose castles must all fall to open the stairs.

The Death Stalker

A bare-bones tavern in Pandinus — a few tables, a bar, and an inexplicable twenty-flavor gelato cart run by a scorpion pazuzu.

The Hunting Grounds

The dungeon's sixth floor — the one place outsiders can truly die, where level-30 'hunters' grind gear to sell to the ninth-floor factions.

The void between worlds where the pantheon banished the feral gods — a maddening 'inbetween' that warps those who linger.

The Quarry Sees Another Spring

The achievement for entering a floor's stairwell while ranked top ten — reward money, penalty a permanently doubled bounty.

The galactic governing body overseeing the dungeon franchise, adjudicating disputes through liaisons and weighing punitive measures against Borant.

A simple Dromedarian tavern-inn in Hump Town, smelling like a petting zoo, where the party shelters to hear the floor's rules.

A grizzly-sized, spike-covered desert lizard — common, fast, dumb, and angry — with a deadly reverse-harem queen.

The mage's real colleague and would-be love, who followed him, warned him, and was abandoned for a fictional woman.

Toraline Root Vegetable

A rare, foul-tasting lava-grown tuber gifted by the pacifist NFC sponsor, its purpose a mystery.

A ripped cleric's-journal page looted from Henrik that reveals the ghost Quetzalcoatlus is a Wailing Shrieker — and how to beat her.

A German-shepherd-like 'dog soldier' crawler whose bubble Emberus is melting because he mistakes her for his dog Orthrus.

A level-26 human Weather Engineer among the subterranean-quadrant crawlers, who recognizes Carl.

Body-snatching brain-worms — the Gondii — who reanimate the freshly dead and run their bodies for centuries off stolen memories.

Valtay Neural Enhancer

A permanent brain-upgrade pill from the Valtay that adds a live airspeed-and-altitude readout to Carl's interface.

Veriluxx Realpet Companions

Princess Donut's new corporate sponsor, whose record-breaking bid comes with a mysterious product-sample infomercial deal.

Veritan Linkage

A mostly-Soother lending fund that advocates enslaving those who can't pay their taxes — the shadow behind Veriluxx's cheap toys.

The party's newly-hired third rock-creature bodyguard, added after Katia earns the Desperado Pass.

The illegal, season-long practice of hiring trackers to sneak onto Earth and kidnap desired 'native' survivors for use in the dungeon.

The lizard creatures of the fourth floor's abyss, wiped out entirely when Carl's train blew through the portal.

A 15-mana escape spell conjuring a spreading wall of flame — powerful but prone to burning out of control.

Wasteland Castle

The Dirigible Gnomes' airborne fortress — a torn-off slab of land the size of three football fields, kept aloft by five colossal balloons.

A squad of heavily-armed level-48 Dromedarian soldiers who patrol out from Hump Town against the Air Quadrant's threats.

Weird Shit Alley

A disreputable side street in Hump Town holding the town's only true safe-room tavern, which the crawlers avoid.

Withering Spirit

A soul split and badly reunited into an object-bound half-life — undead, near-powerless, hard to kill, often used as quest-giver NPCs.

The homeless-looking human-sized cyclops who tends the All-Seeing Spleen saferoom, reduced to serving only Jimbo monkey soup and crackers.

The banished god of Lust the mage meant to summon — impersonated by Psamathe, who exploited his name to deceive Ghazi.