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A monster card that was just Carl, but with way better hair and a much cooler voice.

Demon prince out of Sheol who came to the world in an eviction event and ended up allied with a mad nun.

Card-bound figure fused with Uzi Jesus into Lazarus during the eighth floor's card duels.

Underwear-clad human mechanic turned the dungeon's most feared saboteur, now a warlord with a spider in his chest.

Celestial Attendant

A post on the twelfth floor serving a goddess — and Katia's one route out of the ninth.

Crown of the Sepsis Whore

The tiara two people wore, which will let only one of them leave the ninth floor.

The eighth-floor region where Carl and Donut got stuck and built their deck.

Demon Eviction Event

World event that dumped demons out of Sheol and into the dungeon, Amayon among them.

Goddess sponsored by a rich CEO, whose flower offers Katia three doors out of the ninth floor.

Rich participant out of the Dream who, thanks to Carl's vote, can now actually be killed.

The ninth floor: ten warlord-led teams, no protections for the rich, and everyone expecting a slaughter.

A pet meatball, bequeathed to Carl along with a flamethrower by a dying dog-girl crawler.

Banned-for-cheating sponsor who cloned herself, and whose punishment killed Donut's manager.

Psychotic changeling who murdered her way into a warlord's seat and is in love with Louis.

Estonian doppelganger tank whose only way off the ninth floor is a flower that might make her a servant of a goddess.

The fusion of two card-bound men, Uzi Jesus and Asojano, into a single monster card.

Well-liked crawler who put down a killer nun, got marked by a god, and is loved by a changeling warlord.

Tempest's schoolteacher, who assigned the crawl report and once taught Quasar himself.

The eighth floor's collectible-creature mechanic: gather cards, fight with them, watch the rules collapse.

Princess Donut's manager, whose life was wrecked by the railgunning that came with Huanxin Jinx's ban.

A cult-like faction that sponsors gods and unsettles even hardened lawyers.

Quasar's departed wife, invoked by Tempest as the definitive verdict on her uncle's character.

Alien species living far out at the galaxy's edge, whose lawyers, students and teachers watch the crawl from a safe distance.

Banker on the ninth floor whose money no longer keeps him alive.

Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace

An edible divine flower that presents three choices, one of them a twelfth-floor attendant's post.

Cuban ally who was turned into a monster card and used that state to kill a god.

Player Killer Skull

The system's public brand for killing another crawler — and the one Carl did not get.

Prince Stalwart

Orc prince among the ninth floor's wealthy, and now among the killable.

A tiara-wearing Persian show cat who talks, kills, and outranks nearly every crawler alive.

Sadistic card-master who stole Carl's stairwell key and got killed for it.

Carl's vulgar, vaping nullian attorney, who never gives anything away for free and knows he's a target.

A crab named Raul, one of the cards in Carl and Donut's eighth-floor deck.

The demonic realm from which Amayon and his kind are evicted into the crawl.

Spider demigod who refused to be discarded and wrote herself permanently into Carl's chest.

Cat-girl nun and serial killer who went mad, sided with a demon, and had to be put down.

Young nullian student trading plumbing work for a recap of Carl and Donut's eighth floor.

The elite outfit or world Epitome Tagg comes from, named as shorthand for money and privilege.

The Eighth Floor

The crawl's card-collecting floor — a filler level designed to milk the audience, which turned lethal anyway.

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The final monster card of the eighth floor, whose spider is now permanently inside Carl's chest.

The Homeless Shelter

An eighth-floor episode Tempest thinks belongs in the report and Quasar insists was a non-event.

Serpentine race running the ninth floor's system, notorious for changing the rules on you.

The Princess Posse

Carl and Donut's crowd-funded faction-wars team, one of ten contesting the ninth floor.

Well-liked dog-girl crawler who died on the eighth floor and left Carl her flamethrower and her meatball.

One of two card-bound men fused together into Lazarus on the eighth floor.

The ninth floor's command title — a seat the system can grant, and did, to stop a massacre.

Nebular-sponsored god who marked Louis for death and was killed by a card-bound Paz.