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

Carl's Persian cat partner, who reacts to the new pet as a betrayal and grants everyone officer ranks.

Shapeshifting crawler who restores Carl's hair with the Rev-up tonic and begins building vehicles on his automaton table.

Crest former crawler and cookbook author who returns to the dungeon as a Colonel in the Princess Posse.

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

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

Donut's dinosaur, invoked as the reason Carl must do something about his missing eyebrows.

The being whose neck hole Carl stuffed with traps and teleported into, earning three separate achievements.

Fellow crawler and elemental caster, freshly promoted from Tundra Princess to Hailstorm Queen - and openly betting the whole crawl self-destructs before the twelfth floor.

A crawler ally who got Carl's note about Lucia, made it to the ninth floor, and hopes he didn't miss anything exciting.

Creature left behind with Mongo, playing among the guild's children while the crawlers tour the airship.

Fellow crawler and ally, separated from Carl and Donut in the transition to the ninth floor and immediately checking that they survived it.

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

The Princess Posse

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

The funnel-shaped city at the centre of Faction Wars, held by the NPCs of Team Retribution, with a castle and throne room at its heart and a Shanty Town ring at its edge.

Baroness Victory

The Princess Posse's adjutant: an orc noblewoman, a judge outside the dungeon, and aunt to two orc princes - the one person Carl is told by everyone to listen to.

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

Crest poisoner and former crawler, brain-damaged by his escape, now a Colonel in the Princess Posse.

Untouchable crawler whose condition makes it impossible for Donut to grant her an officer rank by touch.

A ring of Larracos exempted from the ceasefire's expulsion rule - the one part of the city non-allied crawlers may stay in.

The last team to join the Bloc truce, completing the eight-team alliance against Carl.

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

Burn-scarred companion who ties back Carl's new hair and warns him monsters will grab it.

The crawl's protected rooms - and, for sixty hours, the rules that make the whole of Larracos behave like one.

The private message board for a team's warlords, officers and adjutant - and the place the Posse's first order of business is waiting.

The infant, terrified system AI that runs the crawl, cannot feed itself, is in pain, and wants to die.

Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The crawler-written manual of dungeon sabotage, revealed here as a chain letter across generations: Porthus found it, added to it, wrote the second edition, and hoped someone would write the third.

Team Retribution

The NPCs' own faction - the tenth team, the defenders of Larracos, and the only ones allowed to remain in the city when the ceasefire ends.

Tiger-formed crawler and Katia's boyfriend, who owns two unused stuffed tummy achers.

A crawler whose descriptions regularly reference Chinese popular culture, confirming that dungeon text is audience-specific.

A faction-wars team that joined the Bloc - the name Juice Box's outfit would plausibly carry.

Shapeshifting infiltrators who can be identified by body temperature, and who have quietly seeded the Desperado Club.

Aerial scout on Bianca who spots the Madness and elf buildup on the southern Naga border and reports it to Carl.

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

Skyfowl former crawler and infamous trap master, now an indentured shopkeeper terrified of being reassigned to fight.

A Vietnamese crawler invoked as Donut questions whether Quan could possibly understand an American Cracker Barrel reference.

A stripper who currently carries Jefferson the nickel sock, the sapient weapon looted from Quan Ch.

The NPC warlord of Team Retribution, who accepts Donut's truce and then renames it 'Ferdinand and his Bird' where she cannot change it back.

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

Colonel organizing the castle's outer defense who reports King Rust riding out for parlay.

The crawl's safe-room nightclub for crawlers, and the room Carl lands in the moment the shelter lets him go.

Ancient tortoise advisor who lays out the rules of Katia's treatment and orders the two patients separated.

Louis's celestial-box airship: a fifty-foot silver tilt-rotor stealth light bomber assigned to the Princess Posse.

The Scavenger's Daughter

A back patch on Carl's jacket that stores harvested souls and powers Daughter's Kiss - and poisons him if he lets the charge sit.

Air-breathing hammerhead shark who speaks in third person and keeps destroying his automaton legs by hopping.

Club Vanquisher

The conveyance or venue Carl must travel in to reach the Temple of Issitoq, per Emberus's quest.

Carl's patron god, hunting his son's killer and now pushing Carl to win permission to break the divine truce.

King Rust's swamp yak mount, a reeking hippopotamus-yak hybrid carrying him onto the northern front.

The Blood Sultanate

The third team into the truce that became the Bloc.

The record-setting corps of combat casters assembled by Prince Stalwart for the Skull Empire horde.

The room at the heart of the castle in Larracos - hold it six hours as a single team and you win Faction Wars.

Party leader who brings several of his members into the saferoom to receive officer ranks from Donut.

The teams' power to hunt down unaffiliated crawlers and force them into service - the reason the Princess Posse has sixty hours to sell volunteering.

Empress D'Nadia

Saccathian empress of the Prism, found nearly undefended in her throne room as Carl comes to kill her.

Goddess whose white-listing of Carl he counts as an unexplained mystery.

Inspection ability Carl uses on Juice Box, returning a level he knows to be unreliable for changelings.

The Princess Posse's stronghold, locked by the AI into a name that abbreviates to FUPA.

Gate of the Feral Gods

An item delivered to Carl by dungeon mail through a liaison action, now waiting in a mailbox as the ninth floor opens.

A deity summoned into the realm by the escaped feral god, announced by a blue-tinged flash.

The stronghold Carl and Donut mean to claim and upgrade, currently the only place on the floor still underwater.

Sixty hours of enforced peace at the start of Faction Wars: recruiting season inside Larracos, after which everyone but the defenders and their allies is thrown out and the killing starts.

Very tall, very expensive synergy tower planned for the edge of the hole down into Larracos, usable only next phase.

Prince Stalwart

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

Ring of Divine Suffering

The ring Carl slips onto his finger just before confronting Empress D'Nadia in her throne room.

Faction member who fought to name the stronghold Los Santos and remains bitter about losing.

Carl's prearranged defensive scheme, invoked at code red with the fortifications only half built.

The Prism Kingdom

A faction-wars team that joined the Bloc truce as it formed.

Mercenary performers in the crawlers' guild, all commissioned as Sergeant First Class over the Legionnaires.

Namesake of a quest a few floors back that gave Carl and Donut their first, lower-tier town upgrade.

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

The crawl handler whose messages carry a distinctive bubbling noise - the same sound Carl hears behind Cascadia's drunken broadcast.

Pre-existing class whose name forced Florin to rename his sergeant tier to Sergeant First Class.

One of the four cretins, named to Donut's personal guard platoon at the start of Phase One.

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

Slug-people fighting for the Princess Posse, trailing orange slime as they slither toward the war's two fronts.

Faction that once marched down Larracos's streets while the Reavers jumped the funnel, and still lost.

Masked outworlder faction supplying The Madness's leadership and surgeons, disliked on sight by Donut.

The text channel that carries the whole battle for Carl, whose hearing and sight are wrecked by smoke and music.

Eighteenth Floor

The next floor down, reachable early via the Cosmic Lounge by any crawler not tied to a Faction Wars team.

The bought soldiers who make up the bulk of the enemy armies, mostly security forces with little real battle experience.

Princess Vinata

The six-armed white naga warlord of the Blood Sultanate, whose overpowering charisma unnerves Carl at the warlord council.

The galaxy's governing bureaucracy, whose standard language Paulie switches to and whose spies the enhancement rejects.

The Ninth Floor

The wagon-wheel floor hosting Faction Wars, with Larracos at its hub and nine territories radiating out.

The Operatic Collective

A faction-wars team, co-founder of the Bloc, and presumably the outfit built around the banker called Operatic.

The Twelfth Floor

The floor almost nobody descends to - invoked at the outreach guild as the line between a crawler with leverage and a crawler with none.

Architect Houston

Viceroy outworlder leading The Madness, who tortured Arief's brother and rules from an unbreachable operating theater.

Prepotente's flying companion, observing the enemy border buildup with him from high above.

A bulldog-sized level-29 sluggalette who stole the kill credit for the Sepsis Whore and joined Carl on the spot.

Carl's Inventory

Carl's storage space, which unexpectedly accepts the living, screaming spellbook.

Crawler present in the saferoom for Carl's hair disaster and the officer commissioning.

City Defense System

Larracos's built-in weaponry, handed to whichever team controls the throne room.

Former Crawlers

Survivors of earlier seasons now serving in the crawler base, several present unnamed at the treatment.

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

Orc king of the Skull Empire who arrives on the northern front personally, mounted and demanding parlay.

Scarred, one-eyed ursine mother, hugely pregnant by Mongo, who gently sends the dinosaur away.

The feral god whose arrival lights the sky yellow and who immediately summons another deity.

Indentured former crawler and xenopus guildmaster of the calligraphy and cartography guilds, roused from long hibernation.

Rival faction whose territory Elle's squad infiltrates, risking expulsion if the operation proves a false alarm.

Insectoid manufacturers of the crawl's macro AI systems, whose Frankenstein builds cannot feed themselves.

Excavation machines noted in Juice Box's documents, revealed to be dwarven automatons of alarming size.

Enemy warlord whose personal defense deployment of Reaver cyborgs was thrown at Carl's castle and destroyed.

Silent system messaging visible only as flashing eyes, used across the room during the procedure.

Near-extinct dwarven people who dug toward the gods, lost their goddess, and now steward the empty city of Larracos.

The faction-wars team that announced the formal truce which became the Bloc.

The Reaver Castle

Reaver stronghold struck by missiles and slated for a bombing run, still standing under drake protection.

Open Intellect Pacifist Network

The moderate Residual faction that moved heaven and earth to hand one crawler a self-destruct button — and then told him not to use it too quickly.

105th Scream Warriors

Rival crawler-army battalion whose logo Griffin covets enough to request a transfer for it.

One of the pre-seeded worlds, switched on and turned into a dungeon so its dead could be shipped away.

Newly built medical tent at the base, chosen over a saferoom because saferooms have strange rules about monitored unconsciousness.

Hyena-like people staffing the reopened Desperado Club, including its changeling bartender and its manager.

Adult were-castor bodyguard who rides in Carl's chariot and gently sends his child-sized best friend home.

Level 65 Harii barbarian crawler and worshiper of Donar who kisses Carl in gratitude for saving him and Heidi.

Deadly crawler drinking at the Possum Envy with her dog, who nearly decapitates a recruiter who approaches her.

Famous crawler whose crab conveyance inspired Tran's new ride and whose merch sales Zev holds up as a benchmark.

The centipede power whose nine-tier attack devastated the Semeru dwarves and gave these levels their fable.

The orc power sharing the first territory with the Bone Clan, holder of the plains' only pre-built castle.

Otter-like water mage stripper recruited to power-wash hair tonic off Carl, whose spell was blocked in the saferoom.

Carl's secret irreversible option, described in its own warning as more than a failsafe — the end of everything.

The Lemig Sortion

A faction-wars team with an alien-sounding name, and the fifth to join the truce that became the Bloc.

The Tenth Floor

A barren world where every manufactured object was sapient, psychotic, and grew in power by eating other objects - remembered by one survivor simply as a nightmare.

A spellbook Donut pulls from her Legendary 1914 Box that bleeds and cries, which she hesitates to read.

The gnome girl rescued from the floating fortress, cheerfully thinking about killing outworlders.

Crocodilian former Penis Parade attendant and low-tier healer who assists Imani and will run the field hospital in combat.

The hundred-season indenture that puts a former crawler in charge of guiding new ones - long, relatively safe, and the richest deal on the table.

An orc prince, brother of Crown Prince Stalwart and nephew of the Princess Posse's adjutant.

Donut's signature attack spell, fired point-blank into the suicide bomber's face.

The role Odette plays after onboarding into the Celestial Ascendency on the twelfth floor.

A warlord army's command layer - and appointing one requires physically touching the person, which the Princess Posse currently cannot do for anybody.

The high-elf rogue who wrote the second edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, shown at the moment he quit the crawl and took an indenture deal instead of going back for his friend.

Princess Formidable

King Rust's third daughter, racing a stolen cruiser to Venus to manually trigger the system failsafe.

Donut's other sponsor, who follows the celestial tiara with a platinum universal charge pillow.

The galaxy's most profitable spectacle, and — Paulie insists — a soul harvest with no purpose but greed.

Confinement Minge the demon escaped from before massacring the sai guards at the Desperado Club.

Broken sai mercenary leader inherited with the Prism castle, reassigned by Carl to defend Shanty Town.

A feral god who enters the realm through the gate Samantha was guarding, instead of the demon expected.

The divine order whose necessary, universally-resented functionaries include the Basilica Guards.

The safe room's petulant tidying drone, suspected by Donut of plotting against her charge pillows.

Valtay-worm-infected elf serving as adjutant to the NPC team, permanently immune to harm.

Emergency Action Item

Three per-team emergency requests to the game; Carl suspects one created Shanty Town's abnormal size.

Creature born from a corpse's stripped skin that consumes and re-sleeves living beings, the seed of every war mage.

Emotionless tripod alien, former prime minister, now the non-combatant adjutant observing for The Dream.

A race upgrade rather than a birthright - an elf who crawls far enough becomes a high elf, as Porthus's exit record shows.

Obscure, unsponsorable god of light whose worshipers swallow their converts as beetles and birth them inside a bug-covered buffet temple.

Donut's late owner, invoked as an authority on both affairs and extreme cosmetic procedures.

Second battle line where Florin sees the enemy forming for a push and orders all teams to positions.

Storage device Miriam uses to zap Bianca away before the hellspawn burns down the whole guild.

Body-riding beings found in every primal-engine civilization, long dismissed as harmless, now split by a war over whether to end the crawl.

The people who actually run the crawl as a broadcast — and who have decided the Residuals are not worth worrying about.

A figure central to the Vengeance of the Daughter storyline who will not be coming back - and whose golems are Carl's model for what Shi Maria now is.

Large avian sapient race, eagle-like and famously highly strung, with talons and expressive neck feathers.

Taking the Deal

A crawler's negotiated exit from the dungeon in exchange for contracted service afterward.

Temple of Khepri

Khepri's shrine inside Club Vanquisher: a giant never-ending buffet feast blanketed in insects of every kind.

Spell that sets off traps prematurely, which the one-winged eagle trapper claims he can prevent.

Don't Come in Last

The floor whose theme Porthus refuses to learn, because asking what is coming makes every exit deal worse.

No Disassemble EMP Bomb

Square electromagnetic-pulse bombs stacked in Party Planner's rear, behind which Bonnie and Skarn hide.

Residual in the body of an old homeless woman, now hunting Carl by name against the Syndicate's explicit orders.

Katia's baby daughter from the memory, left behind in the dream and beyond the dungeon's reach in reality.

Artillery Batteries

Emplaced guns on both sides of the war, nearly all of which Elle has now located during the ceasefire.

Butcher's Masquerade

Past event after which Donut found Ferdinand's lost turban, giving her leverage over him now.

The polity associated with Long Haul and the habitat whose desperate exploding-chicken signal inspired Donut's new tiara.

Daughter's Kiss

Carl's soul-powered strike: a single punch that vaporises what it hits and throws everything nearby across the room.

Deflector Towers

Four smaller towers nestled among Shanty Town's buildings, deflecting incoming fire from the Nest.

The broadcast of the crawl watched from outside; using its information inside the dungeon is cheating.

Fine Healing Potion

Mid-grade healing potions; 33 of them plus an autoclave are the standard recipe for Heal Severe Injury.

The room inside the Princess Posse's stronghold, next to their own throne room, where recruits are sworn in and final defensive preparations are made.

Gloom Wraith Phase

Celestial-tier skill letting Carl go non-corporeal and rush through weapons, walls, and flesh, scrambling anything unarmored.

Target of Carl's own deity-issued church quest, cited as the reference example for how church quests work.

The crawl's exit: not freedom but a fixed term of seasons in a post the system assigns, with a stipend, a survival risk, and no way to check on the people you left behind.

Club Vanquisher's first-line security on the fifth floor, cut down by Bianca during Prepotente's rampage.

Mistress Tiatha

Elle's perpetually inebriated manager, who requests a meeting with an idea about the untouchable Li Na.

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

The Blood Sultanate's war territory south of the crawlers, target of the southern assault.

The proprietor whose office at the Desperado Club is where Carl lands with a star-killer in his head.

The text channel through which Carl coordinates with Donut, Katia, and his adjutant while paralyzed by a quorum.

One of the children playing on Louis's new airship in the hangar while the adults plan the war.

Species of King Rust's mount Gonk, resembling a cross between a hippopotamus and a yak.

Rare manned defense towers that only work when staffed by someone whose abilities synergize with the tower's attack.

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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

The Madness Castle

Stronghold of the Madness faction, five kilometers past a minefield and Carl's infiltration objective.

A crawler's tactical display, whose colour code tells Carl in one glance who is a crawler, an NPC, an enemy combatant, an elite, or a teammate.

The Naga Castle

The naga stronghold Carl intends to take by subterfuge rather than by frontal assault.

War Mage Rebellion

Akuma's breakaway war mage army, marked by brownish-orange dots belonging to no team on the board.

Carl's main field army, bypassed and pinned by a holding force while the real assault hit the undefended castle.

102nd Bulwark Battalion

Defense-oriented crawler battalion of protection mages and fortification engineers that built and holds the southern outpost.

103rd Recon Legionnaires

Hastily formed crawler-army battalion whose emblem is already tattooed on Griffin's and Morales's necks.

107th White Dragons

Li Na's full battalion garrisoning Shanty Town, scattered around the ring while bankrupting the crawlers building defenses.

Rules officials assigned to each faction, empowered to call fouls, deny appeals, and convene quorums.

A tree so vast its roots connect everything, discovered beneath Larracos by the digging Semeru dwarves.

Forested-region base holding one of the few saferooms left once the castle's entrance is sealed.

Young Semeru dwarf war leader commanding the Larracos Defense Force Infantry, ally to the crawler warlords.

System classification for spells so monstrous the dungeon announces them by name to everyone.

Carl's voodoo book, which spams him a notification every time another crawler comes near - useful, and instantly unbearable in a city of thousands.

Crawler whose entire team has been taken in by the Madness and is presumed conscripted.

Carl's Sternum Tattoo

A living tattoo on Carl's chest that stirs under his shirt like a closed eye in REM sleep.

A bloated, comatose system fed on harvested human souls so its citizens can live unnaturally long lives.

The saferoom's workshop annex where Mordecai obsesses over his upgraded alchemy table.

Demon Eviction Event

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

Donut's Sunglasses

Eyewear that reveals body temperature, letting Donut identify changelings on sight in Larracos.

Tall purple-skinned alien race; Panford the adjutant is one.

Obituary line stating how a crawler left the dungeon; Everly's reads "crushed to death on the eighth floor."

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

Constructed laborers who, with the changelings, raised the first crude version of the Princess Posse stronghold.

Consumable Carl slams to close the rifle hole in his shoulder, knitting the wound at the cost of fresh agony.

System overlay that appears when a creature takes damage, seen draining as Stockade beats himself to death.

An explosive from Carl's arsenal, used here as the unit of measurement for how loud a punched shark is.

Attribution of a kill's rewards, which Victory files to award to Donut despite striking the blow herself.

Marked for Death

Divine death-marks displayed as circling symbols above a target, held by individual gods against them.

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

Plains of Larracos

The open ground around the city where the nine attacking teams are arrayed like a pie, backed by expanded forests newly seeded with mobs.

Protection Spells

The layered defensive magic of thousands of specialist mages, the only thing holding back the artillery.

Caterpillar-like warlord of the Democratic Sortion whose plot against Carl annihilated his own throne room and family.

Syndicate Council

The Syndicate's governing council listens in on Carl's interrogation and gets muted for its trouble.

Deity actually depicted in Club Vanquisher's precious stained-glass door, though the rams think it shows Hellik.

Eight of the nine attacking teams, truced together within minutes of the floor opening, at war with both the NPCs and the Princess Posse.

The Inevitable Ruin

Mantis term for the moment you accept there is no hope left and only wait, reflect, and beg forgiveness.

The Posse's forthcoming Faction Wars headquarters, where the full asset catalog unlocks and defenses must be built.

Naga crown princess playing the Sepsis Whore, untouchable leader of the Blood Sultanate who has never once been killed in-game.

The makers of the neural enhancement that the Residuals stole, modified, and hid in a cup of coffee.

The Warlord Council

A live-broadcast meeting of all warlords, held in randomized separate rooms inside the production facility.

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

Thermos-sized thermobaric bomb that incinerates everything within 100 meters; the second-largest explosive in Carl's inventory.

A kung-fu-movie skill allowing brief literal walking on air, prized in hand-to-hand combat and requiring heavy practice.

106th Bloody Leeches

Crawler army battalion of warriors, trap mechanics, and thieves reinforcing the southern front under Colonel Boomer.

Carl's backup plan: a trap ball meant to drive the mantaurs berserk if the wire scheme failed.

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

Silent Land War veteran and Level 60 Big Game Spear Hunter, elected battalion commander for his outside-dungeon experience.

Interface tab unlocked when a crawler bonds a pet, expanded by the guild's pet stable upgrade.

Build Trench Scroll

Common loot-box scroll that digs a trench, arriving by the armload in the eighteenth-floor boxes.

The crawl's announcer, who reads out the Faction Wars rules over the loudspeaker while apparently drunk or stoned out of her mind.

The Posse's derisive nickname for the enemy soldiers, the target of Donut's kill-count prize.

Intermediate rank Florin created from War Leader III before upgrading himself to General.

Desperado Club guard creatures whose survivors were airlocked and shipped to the mercenary markets.

Skeletal former Penis Parade DJ defending the castle entrance while loudly awaiting the return of real magic.

Doggie Door Upgrade

Guild upgrade enabling fast travel between installed rooms, already fitted in Carl's and Katia's saferooms.

Former crawler whose extensive notes on the hated naga are Carl's main source on the Blood Sultanate's customs.

Li Na's at-will aura effects, the malevolent counterpart to Imani's Blessings and the raid's true weapon.

The elven people who supplied the trebuchet Carl looted and whose ranks include the adjutant Drick.

Dungeon-Born NPCs

Unenthusiastic NPC troops the enemy uses to probe crawler defenses, and whom crawler spells can turn.

Carl's ring from the god Emberus, which burns on his hand as buffs and debuffs churn during the assault.

Skill used to locate missing crawlers, revealing that Burcu's whole team sits with the Madness.

An anti-air spell from Donut's Spellbook of the Floor prize that Mordecai says puts on a show at level 10.

Carl's dungeon-issued food dispensers, twice modified by joke achievements in a single session.

Changeling shapeshifting that alters displayed level and reassembles the body imperfectly after injury.

Someone Carl expects Juice Box to murder at any minute - named once, and not explained.

Jurgen's beloved, whose life Carl saved along with Jurgen's at the end of the previous floor.

Floor whose nagging sense of missing something important returns to Carl when he considers the Syndicate's ordinary citizens.

Jefferson Nickel Sock

A sapient weapon looted from Quan Ch, currently held by a stripper and quietly worrying Carl.

Stablemaster accused by Ferdinand of stealing the rhinoceros mount Simoom during the landing on Larracos.

Donut's already-maxed cleaning spell, a dead slot the champion cloak could have wasted itself on.

The crawl's intermediary officials - the channel through which items reach crawlers and through which negotiating with them means negotiating with the AI.

Non-Combatant NPC

Rule set forbidding NPCs like Milk from interfering in crawler conflicts except in self-defense.

Offensive Magic Ban

Phase One rule barring attack spells, reducing the war's opening to rifles, bombs, and thrown rocks.

The crawlers' looming war plan, whose deadline forces both treatments to happen inside the shrinking ceasefire.

Crawler Carl has been asking about, riding out the war in the woods with the large Team Flamengo group.

What awakened Larracos NPCs call the crawlers, Viceroys and system-runners, believed immortal until told otherwise.

A homeless man ridden for years by a Residual named Goff, who hides a galaxy-ending message inside the rant he delivers every single day.

Miriam's affectionate nickname for her caprid son Prepotente, used to command and scold him.

Production Trailer

The show's own backstage space, and one of only two things a crawler knows can stop the world dead.

Donut's short-range teleport, headed to level 15 with a cooldown down to a minute or two.

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.

Rolling Battle Formation Ball

Level 70 splitter mob: a twenty-foot rolling ball of screaming skunks that bulldozes through the forest.

Squid-faced, tentacled aliens with wet dolphin-like skin serving as soldiers in the enemy trench line.

Scolopendra Club

The venue Ugloo and the orc king were traveling to for one last outing before the fighting began.

Historical naga sultana who bore 198 daughters and poisoned nearly all her sons, now the Sultana's stage role.

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

Ferdinand's rhinoceros mount, stolen from him by Kibben during the chaotic landing on Larracos.

Earlier dungeon floor where Carl and Donut looted the trebuchet now serving as the Posse's only siege engine.

Sector where crawler trenches are being dug, and where Donut is sent to speed construction instead of attending Katia's rehab.

Phase One restriction forbidding combatants from casting teleport spells, closing Carl's only escape route.

Teleportation Ban

An active prohibition on teleportation during the battle, which silently disables summoning traps.

The Ball of Flesh

A colossal rolling mass of flesh barreling toward Harpocrates, minutes from impact when Carl looks away.

The Eighth Floor

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

A name invoked exactly once, in a list of the Residuals' enemies, and explained not at all.

The Fifth Floor

The dungeon level housing this branch of Club Vanquisher, where demons are not supposed to reach.

Whatever stalks the hunting grounds - they killed every NPC in the city, and the outreach guild's only comment is that they killed only the ones they found.

Prior dungeon stage that many of the returning ex-crawlers survived, cited as proof of their experience.

Crawler-record field recording the highest level a crawler reached; Tipid's was 96.

Troll Smoke Mantle

Deployable smoke screen Carl throws to re-obscure his squad's advance after the diffusion spell clears the field.

Donut's fire barrier spell, one of four rolled to level 15 by the champion cloak.

Carl's arm-mounted scoop launcher, extended to hurl hob-lobbers and retracted the instant he closes to melee.

A space where the system simply switches a crawler off - no enhancements, no strength, no potions, no menus - leaving whatever body he actually has.

Level 100 war mage who leads the War Mage Rebellion, executes King Stalwart, and steals the Gate of the Feral Gods.

Anti-Escape Trap Net

A spell net cast across the Nest tower that blocks all teleportation and escape, trapping Donut inside.

Hamed's late wife, assassinated by Carl and Katia, whose dying words still haunt Carl.

Automaton Table

Carl's crafting station for building automatons, restocked with XL sponsor supplies and fabricator parts.

Dungeon stage whose winners number among the fifty thousand returning ex-crawler volunteers.

Crawler-record field recording a crawler's original species, distinct from any race taken in-dungeon.

Returning mechanic that forces crawlers to keep killing, draining while they shelter inside a saferoom.

Permanent tattoos inked with blood-based potion that lend the donor's spell or skill to the wearer.

Small dungeon service creatures routinely dropped into vacated shops to cover for reassigned staff.

Small winged lizard-like race; three bune former crawlers arrive as part of the returning volunteer army.

The former-skyfowl game show host, drafted as surface field correspondent, who is punched unconscious by Stalwart at the council.

Champion of Nekhebit

A divine title replacing Donut's Warlord rank, marking her as the chosen mortal instrument of the goddess Nekhebit.

Surviving crocodilian bouncer of the Desperado Club who informs Carl that all crawlers are banned.

College of Larracos

Larracos institution where Tish works and to which Ghazi wrote for help after realizing he'd been tricked.

Personal-space upgrade that lets the crawlers choose an exit far from where they entered.

Utterly demolished castle whose throne room is somehow still occupied, and the arena for a three-god brawl.

Dungeon Crawler World

The long-running entertainment franchise whose earliest seasons Boomer survived before becoming its loudest critic.

Suspected enemy infiltrators already inside Princess Posse territory, prompting Florin's demand for a sweep.

Enhancement Zone

The geographic limit on neural enhancements — outside it, even a star-killer is inert.

Fall-Back Positions

Secondary defensive works being built in depth across Princess Posse territory behind the border walls.

Find out who killed my son

Emberus's quest, updated to require Carl to win divine permission to break the gods' truce with the demons.

Bracelet-granted fire spell that Carl prays never hits level 15, lest Donut burn the city down.

Rules violation that, when it carries sanctions, must be thoroughly examined by a minor quorum.

Emberus's murdered son, whose death Hellik denies causing and blames on what the boy discovered.

The camouflage suit bundled with Donut's sniper class, which she is certain is called a ghoulie suit and believes to be menacing and divine.

The deities whose appearances draw changelings to their deaths, and around whom the real war is forming.

Valtay brain worms that seize freshly killed bodies and walk them, used to infiltrate the crawler base.

A senior liaison who ordered Carl killed and is muted, then expected to arrive within ten minutes.

Base outside the city that Florin and Imani are sent to prepare as the crawler army's command site.

Hunter Seeker Automatons

Small scouting automatons Carl scatters through the enemy castle to reveal every occupant on his interface.

Temporary divine boon that prevents a health bar forming at all and keeps the recipient alive through almost anything.

Invisibility Potion

Mass-issued potion the Posse drinks before going over the top, though shields still glitter through it.

Jamal's Automaton Harness

Voice-controlled harness of eight double-jointed mechanical legs Carl built so a flopping shark could move quickly and quietly.

Justice Light's Special Project

A long-planned, still-unfinished construction Justice Light is building at Larracos with a crew of sluggalos.

The crawl's public scoreboard of rank, views, followers and favorites - with Carl at number one and audience figures in the septillions.

Legendary 1914 Box

Legendary loot box awarded to Carl as the reward for the Gavrilo Princip achievement, named for the year war began.

The crawler army's renamed base troops, formerly called Sluggalos, commanded by Sergeant First Class officers.

The old dog at the Florida gas station whose Christmas loneliness drove Carl to the brink of an irreversible choice.

Madness Monkeywrenchers

Invisible robed infiltrators of the Madness who historically captured two enemy castles in the war's opening hours.

A figure from Carl's past whose memory he measures his rage against, and finds it lesser than his hatred of D'Nadia.

Mental Voice Messaging System

Private mental messaging Carl and Donut use to coordinate a changeling hunt without breaking conversation.

Mercenary Markets

Ruined weapon, magic and mercenary markets on Larracos's seventh ring, still flooded out and closed.

Midnight Market

A hidden bazaar believed to sit on the bottom regular floor of the Desperado Club, safety and sanity not guaranteed.

Three adjutants in one room pause all local hostilities while a field ruling is considered.

Prepotente's mother, a crawler recently turned Vampire, whose new race gets her banned from Club Vanquisher.

Orbital shipyards of the naga homeworld, still standing but mostly owned by other entities now.

The killing ground Florin's engineers are carving out along the Operatic border, to be seeded with traps.

Open Hostilities

The war's third phase, triggered when Ramp-Up expires, when all restrictions lift and true chaos begins.

Operation: Snake Pit

Carl's coded plan to raid and exterminate the nagas, called the hardest raid since entering the dungeon.

Orchid Eileithyia's Grace

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

Purple-skinned dreadnaught adjutant who rules the massacre an AI action and calls a foul on the Lemig plotters.

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

Detection spell that, paired with observation magic, lets tower crews find hidden enemy scouts.

Fortified bunker at the southern front where Carl summons Tran and Boomer to integrate the arriving battalions.

Player Killer Skull

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

Race designation carried by crawlers from newly harvested worlds, listed as Everly's race at death.

Protective Shell

Carl's personal defensive skill, readied alongside his tech shield as the pet bombs close on the trench.

Enemy infantry weapons paired with tech shields that block anything non-magical, making a trench breach fatal.

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

Recruiting Drive

Florin's standing order for the Posse: finish current work and go find bodies before the ceasefire ends.

The green-and-purple Blood Sultanate guard who attended the previous warlord council in his princess's place.

Mechanical hounds infesting every corridor of the emptied Reaver castle.

One of the guild's children, playing with Mongo and Rend in the main guild room.

Carl's mental workspace, used here to trace and store the Naga team's fortification map.

Warlord of Team Retribution who profanely proposes and passes the dungeon-wide live-feed blackout.

Transmissible infection that produces sluggalos, which Justice Light wanted himself deliberately given.

A worsening condition from hauling a full load of corrupted souls around in a fabric back patch - jolts of pain now, unrevealed additional effects soon.

Elle's concealment spell, canceled outright when someone performs a location search on her.

Syndicate Prime Minister

The Syndicate's head of government shouts at Orren about stolen billions until Orren hangs up on him.

Syndicate Security

The Syndicate's enforcement arm - and the reason the author of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook's second edition is listed as missing and wanted.

Teleport and Phase Ban

Rule barring teleportation and phasing inside the tower maze, ensuring no one could shortcut or escape it.

Temporary Water Source Scroll

New scroll from Donut's boxes that conjures a short-lived water supply.

The Castle Raid

Carl and Donut fly thirty miles behind enemy lines to assassinate Empress D'Nadia in her own headquarters.

The Clock Tower Project

An unexplained build by Katia and Li Na, nearly finished as the warlord council approaches.

A bureaucratic campus on the eighteenth floor where crawlers must fill out visitor passes before reaching a saferoom.

Common weather and masculinity god whose temple hides one of the ninth floor's two Club Vanquisher entrances.

The Democratic Sortion

Stockade's Lemig goblin team, convicted of illegal information gathering and destroyed by its warlord's suicide.

The Dragon in the Sky

A shape Samantha identifies overhead in the smoky sky just as she steps through the portal.

The Gas Station

Abandoned roadside station in the memory world where Carl sits with a ghost dog and decides the fate of the containment unit.

The Homeless Shelter

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

Carl's tactical display, whose sudden bloom of a thousand orange dots is the first warning of the pet assault.

The Memory Simulation

The eighth floor's simulated space, whose ruleset retroactively confiscated everything Carl looted inside it.

Home of the goat people, listed by Carl among the parties tangled in the residual crisis.

The presence Carl carries inside him, which grows a little at the edges when he nearly coerces an ally.

The Siege of the Nest Tower

Lucia Mar's assault on the Nest tower, ending with her broken at the foot of the Donkey Kong ramp.

The Small Wedding

Louis and Juice Box's hasty wedding, which Donut is determined to inflate into a full production.

The Solar System

Earth's home system, rendered as an animated interface map and one of the things Carl fears he might destroy.

Tipid's 104th Naughty Little Piggies

Base-defense unit scattered across the flat lands building scout towers when the surprise attack landed.

The process of leaving dungeon life for the outside galaxy, which frequently leaves survivors destitute.

Crawler discipline of building and deploying traps, taught at a guildhall and mastered brilliantly by Justice Light.

Adorable pet-class tank mobs, once intestinal parasites of Jotan-class Titans, that regenerate stronger after each death.

Brain parasite that pilots a host body, occupying the elf shell known as Drick.

The warlord's command interface, used here to hand tactical control of the assault to Colonel Boomer.

Armloads of wire Mistress Tiatha struggles in with as Carl teleports out to the council.

The frozen, white-eyed condition marking everyone caught by Bear Witness before they are pulled away.

Mantis crawler on the Reavers' eighth floor whom Dante is watching carefully.

You're Not Done Yet

A horrifying spell akin to Second Chance but far more insidious, which even Mordecai recoils from.

The Bleached Drake

Warlord Fang's level 130 cybernetic bleached drake, circling endlessly above the ruined Reaver castle.

101st Crocodiles

Florin's battalion, the main force holding the northern defense against the Cheese Sticks' armored push.

Adventurer Boxes

The dungeon's common-tier prize boxes, handed out by the dozen for Carl's most ridiculous achievements.

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

Stripper daughter of Hamed and Astrid, said to still be inside the Desperado Club hunting her father.

Atrocity-Class Spells

A category of maximally destructive spells; Donut has several, and the Nest's synergy amplifies them.

Donut's debuff spell, now level 15, which lowers resistances and drains intelligence en masse.

A small proprietorless wooden bait shop that serves as the Princess Posse's attached saferoom.

Dinosaur whose familiar roar accompanies the toppling of a fire lance tower in Larracos.

Blood Sultanate Castle

Naga stronghold eight miles inside their territory, built on rock and historically the first castle to fall.

Blood Tattoo Ink

Ink mixed from a blood potion that transfers the donor's spell or skill into a permanent tattoo.

The Party Planner's modular weapon bay: racks in the fuselage, a glass belly that opens, and a 50% bomb yield bonus.

Calligraphy Guild

Milk's hidden guildhall inside Club Vanquisher, a dusty room of straw, linen scrolls, and unread newsletters.

Carl's Backpatch

Carl's prized possession, dismissed by Elle as dollar-store junk next to Louis's celestial-box airship.

Casualty Notification

A soft plink in the Warlord's interface for every death under his command during the battle.

Top-tier reward container; Louis's yielded both the Airship Portal guild upgrade and the Party Planner airship.

Fourth cretin, assigned as Chris's bodyguard, now serving with him in the northern trenches.

Donut's survival ability, which Carl realizes would not have saved her from being blown to literal bits.

A room in the Desperado Club from which ordinary crawlers can transfer straight to the eighteenth floor.

Achievement accusing Carl of an act he denies, rewarding a "chowder style" option on all food-box items.

The crawlers' military organization, formally commissioned this chapter with a custom rank hierarchy.

Crawler Attorney

Legal representative who negotiates a crawler's deal terms, pension, and post-dungeon conditions.

Credit card-like device looted from an orc hunter on the sixth floor, which Rosetta quietly wants.

Reptilian sapient race with long snouts and clawed hands; Dante's race both by birth and at exit.

Stripper daughter of Hamed and Astrid, supposedly still inside the Desperado Club hunting her own father.

Author of a newsletter whose reach extends to the dungeon's own indentured NPC workers.

Trebuchet-launched trap modules combining an alarm and a spotlight, strobing colored light and blaring music at enemy soldiers.

Papers signed during a changeling small wedding that expire in a month if never filed.

Dragon-kin residents of Larracos serving Team Retribution, including the proprietor of the college cafeteria.

Throwable emergency shield that deploys where it lands — with a fatal activation delay.

The AI's sardonic reward for discovering a sapient weapon: something to block out the talking.

Emergency Repair Scroll

A strange new scroll type Carl pulled from his chapter 10 boxes, purpose not yet explained.

Enchanted Toe Ring of the Well-Balanced

A plain silver toe ring, worn on the left pinky toe, granting three balance skills including auto-healing and enslavement protection.

Faction Officer Ranks

Capped faction rank system that lets sergeants and chiefs alter the camp while everyone else serves as legionnaires.

Winged Larracos residents enlisted with Team Retribution, seen mounting defensive jewels atop the city's towers.

Loot boxes assembled by Carl's viewers, whose gifts reveal how badly the fans misread him.

Katia's Icelandic ex who told the authorities about her addictions after she had been clean for years.

Fill Trench Scroll

Scroll that collapses a trench, the counterpart to Build Trench, new from Donut's boxes.

Louis's dead friend, who once suggested "Party Planner" as a name for the Twister and was told it was stupid.

Fire Lance Tower

A red-gemmed Larracos tower that rapid-fires fire lances deep into the city.

Five-Minute Warning

Notice Carl orders sent out before the guild saferoom entrance is closed for good.

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

Procedurally created stand-in NPC used to fill posts, notorious for not stocking the important items.

An unidentified Sheol demon of level 200 or higher whose phase ability Carl now possesses.

Syndicate prime minister who personally orders, through Zev, that Carl never interact with Agatha.

Six-eyed alien species, unsettling to Carl, whose members include Judge Deng Bao and Huanxin Jinx.

The fourth-floor gnoll bartender appears impossibly in the liaison's office and announces he must intervene.

Titan being piloted by Prince Maestro, whose driver is therefore barred from faction wars.

Guildhall Instructor

Indentured teaching post inside a dungeon guildhall, held by Dante in the trap master guild.

A crawler's on-eye system display — and, when it snaps off, the surest sign something enormous is happening.

Spider god and Shi Maria's husband, who is devoured in the dream and returns to cage her inside Carl.

A Donut spell she'd hoped to see maxed by the cloak, likely valuable for the floor's trench warfare.

Homecoming Queen

The starship that carried Rosetta and the returning former crawlers into the dungeon, now the instrument of a lethal bargain.

Heavily armored, richly decorated orcs escorting King Rust, armed with crescent-bladed polearms.

Preloaded automatic responses a crawler can arm; Lucia Mar had thirty, all neutered by conscription.

Hunting Grounds

A floor region with a city in it, where hunters slaughtered every NPC they could find - still being staffed with thirty-season indentures.

Carl's concealment ability, notably not re-taken when his tech shield dies mid-charge.

Invulnerability Buff

Yellow radiance that blankets both armies at once, making everyone invulnerable until the Chaos Ritual completes.

Ancient grixist adjutant assigned to King Rust, a galactic high-court judge who always serves the previous year's victor.

The broadcast anchor who stays in the orbital studio while Chaco covers the warlord council from the surface.

Kiwi's unborn brood by Mongo, conceived while both were dinosaurs and about to arrive any moment.

Zev's amphibious species, small enough that an affectionate cat can nearly knock one over.

A landmine set near the Prism castle door, disabled and pocketed by Carl on his way in.

Larracos College of Magic

Campus on the fiftieth level of Larracos, held by NPCs, where the crawler force gathers for the push.

Leader Kill Rule

Ascendency rule that a team automatically loses if its leader dies, the basis of Juice Box's assassination plan.

Li Na's Clock Tower

Li Na's tower, at whose base the new prisoner brig was built beside the ruined Dagda temple.

A small, fat, child-like summoned creature with one hit point who carries a stored attack to a target.

Lucia Mar's Dog

Lucia Mar's constant animal companion, with her at the Possum Envy bar in Shanty Town.

Lemig goblin general and Stockade's beloved family member, killed by a controlled soldier in the throne room massacre.

Level 5 toe ring skill protecting from Enslavement and Conscription — and it triggered the moment Carl equipped it.

Mordecai's Special Brew

Emergency potion Donut keeps hotlisted as backup while casting War Crime from the trapped tower.

Paulie's dismissive term for the crawl's outsiders — the ones who named the Residuals and who might keep you alive.

A Donkey Kong barrel that silences casters, which Carl suggests and Donut reports has no effect on Lucia.

Naga Castle Guard

The naga castle's defense force, distinct from the sultana's personal guard, led by a cousin who is a kill target.

A model and influencer who outbid Priory to sponsor and pilot the goddess Eris this season.

The structural health rating of the Nest tower, falling from 97% to 74% under Larracos's tower barrage.

Naga reporter turned Prism adjutant, once throat-stabbed with a pen by Carl, who silently witnesses D'Nadia's capture.

Nine-Tier Attack

Scolopendra's assault across nine levels that reduced the Semeru dwarves from millions to under ten thousand.

Donut's third Atrocity strips her Warlord title, grants a new class and the name The Oak Fell, and names her Champion of Nekhebit.

Club Vanquisher's heavier security tier, whose arrival authorizes forced entry into hidden guild rooms.

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

The dungeon's exit office: a zero-zone room where a surviving crawler is offered a menu of indentures instead of a death, and where the door closes for good until just before the collapse.

High cleric of the Emberus temple at Club Vanquisher, remembered as an AI-possessed man who lost the line between story and reality.

The stage of the season when crawlers can finally enter Larracos, constraining where the sultana can hide.

Level 15 skill granted temporarily to everyone within range of the god Harpocrates.

Platinum Tserendolgor Box

Platinum-tier box named for the slain goddess, awarded for the Chickenshit Exploit achievement.

Mordecai's throwable potion containers, revealing that beneficial brews can be smashed safely against allies and pets.

Potion of Inflict Black Nimbus

Black potion that strips a target of their god's grace, barring them from spells, temples, and safe passage.

Pre-Production Meeting

Gathering of the faction leaders at which Juice Box decapitated one of Architect Houston's surgeons.

Cookbook author whose love for Larracos drove him mad when he saw the city destroyed.

Protection Enhancements

The safeguards that kept certain participants alive - now removed, so the ones who used to be regenerated can actually die.

A restriction that stopped D'Nadia's recruited officers from arriving, leaving her army leaderless.

Timed Faction Wars stage tied to the ceasefire's end, which Florin insists the Posse must plan around.

A name Baroness Victory drops alongside the Maestro that Carl has never heard but finds oddly familiar.

A dead crawler whose team triggered Carl's traps, and whom the AI posthumously slanders as a cheater.

Carl's chosen vehicle for the ten-mile plains run south, complete with a gunner's seat but no legal upgrades.

Desperado Club staff who, with the cretins, were airlocked and sold to the mercenary markets.

Samantha's Daughter

Sand ooze offspring Samantha tricked Ghazi into marrying, now sensed inside the dwarven castle's water.

A war protection spell Donut won from her Tserendolgor box; Mordecai whistled at how good it is.

The punishment a deity visits on an adherent who leaves their grace, and a visible sign of past worship.

Small silver-encased crystal that powers the Party Planner, the same fuel source used by the Twister.

Stairwell Chambers

The 293 seeded exits off the ninth floor, locked until Faction Wars is won or thirty hours remain before collapse.

Upgradeable concealment system on the Party Planner that also blocks outsiders from examining the vehicle.

The Princess Posse's base at territory spot number three, outside Larracos, containing the flag room, their own throne room, and recruits nobody has sworn in.

Surgical Theater

Architect Houston's private operating chamber, home to the amplification table he promises Carl and Donut.

Syndicate Standard

The galaxy's official tongue — and, when a crawler suddenly hears it, a signal that the conversation is off the record.

Carl's energy shield, blown out by a bolt to the shoulder and leaving him one hit from death.

Temple of The Dagda

Small stew-scented temple in Shanty Town that hides one of the ninth floor's two Club Vanquisher entrances.

The Acid Trench

NPC spies filled the enemy's fallback trench with water, turned it to acid, and hid it under an illusion.

The Ascendent Throne

Vacant divine seat the Ascendency's gods are competing to claim, with candidates ranked by outside odds.

An inbound element expected to reach Larracos at the same time as the second god, with Sledge mixed in.

The Basilica Guards

Untouchable ogre clerics of Taranis who guard the Basilica Entrance of Club Vanquisher and can bar gods from thresholds.

The Bedlam Bride

The quest to deliver the spider to the city - unfinished, because Carl has brought her inside without letting her out.

Outworlder faction Juice Box blames for repeatedly killing Shanty Town's mayors.

The Changeling Library

A changeling's stored collection of forms, filled only by personally touching each creature to be copied.

The Crawler Saying

A former crawlers' proverb King Rust once dismissed as dishonorable rubbish and now accepts as true.

The Fuse Button

The Mantid failsafe mounted on the AI containment: trip it and the system's star goes nova, killing everyone.

Carl's launch order for the southern assault, with every element already in place and waiting on him.

The renamed truce between the Princess Posse and Team Retribution, a condition of Donut's hat deal.

The Illusionists

Spellcasters whose relentless illusions destroyed Tipid's party and left him permanently brain-damaged.

Reaver progenitor whose vat-born progeny receive citizenship automatically, unlike every other recruit.

The King's Point

The only pre-built castle on the plains, held by the Bone Clan atop a lava-ringed rocky mountain.

The Penis Parade

Desperado Club strip venue where Bucket Boy formerly worked as an attendant before joining the crawler base.

The Samantha Deal

Juice Box trades any body Samantha desires, plus a hall pass night with Louis, for her husband's rescue.

Naga sovereign, once the Blood Sultanate's in-game leader during Drakea's run, now king and retired from play.

The Volcano Eruption

The deliberately triggered eruption that opens the battle, far larger than the dwarves predicted.

Goddess of light, Samantha's mother, sponsored on Carl's behalf and secretly the Blood Sultanate's favorite escape hatch.

Tiara of a Thousand Lights and Accompanying Charge Pillow

Donut's skill-devouring tiara, now holding 35 of 99 possible skills and glittering like a star.

Tiara of a Thousand Lights and Accompanying Charge Pillow

Unique sponsor tiara with 99 absorption jewels that permanently soaks up the buffs of drained hat items.

Samantha's self-declared arch enemy, hunted through the college grounds and briefly cornered before Katia intervened.

Rare vegetable Carl has nearly exhausted, which Rosetta demands the instant she arrives.

Donut's light spell, already level 14 and one of several wasted-slot risks for the cloak's buff.

Level-56 human Boring Ol' Fighter bleeding out from a no-healing wound after being disarmed by Jamal.

Universal Charge Pillow

Purple charging pillow from the Apothecary that drains any magic item, but only transfers to like items.

Rare status granted by worship of Taranis that forbids gods from attacking the bearer.

Warlord Hortense Leadership Unit

Cowardly Operatic Collective warlord who declares himself Bloc leader minutes before Volteeg's bomb kills him.

A defensive spell that keeps working through Ramp-Up because it does no direct harm and moves nobody.

The signature tummy acher attack, described by the system as a terror on any battlefield.

City race serving in the Princess Posse army, including the master enchanter Langrim.

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

Generated war mage mobs resembling fat moving shadows that leak oil, swarming Larracos all at once.

A five-minute-cast spell that lifts an entire city and its people down to the next floor of the dungeon.

Absorption Jewels

Crystals affixed to gear that hold transferred buffs, one jewel per absorbed effect.

Tier three guild upgrade: an elevator to a dimensional airship hangar, plus up to three designated map airports.

Mordecai's crafting station, upgraded past any level he has reached before, now able to read potion recipes without destroying them.

Amplified Voice

A skill that projects speech supernaturally, possessed by both Donut and Lucia Mar.

Annie the Crow Card

Katia's card from the previous floor: a crow with an infant's skull, blended into her shoulder and named Annie.

Anti-Air Batteries

Enemy emplacements guarding the sky over their trenches, targeted first in the Posse's assault.

Anti-Air Positions

Two enemy trebuchet emplacements circled on the map and marked with a question mark as possible anti-air.

Anti-Teleport Net

Battlefield effect that pins enemies in place; it holds Stalwart briefly before being breached.

Areson the Wise

Ogre strongman brother met on the sixth floor, whose endorsement made Herman trust Carl.

Faction Wars asset category covering magical airplanes and certain vehicles, capped at ten units per faction at war's start.

Armored Tracked Vehicles

Enemy tanks hidden under camouflage netting on the Naga side, uncovered as the assault begins.

Theater, restaurant, and shopping quarter just outside the college, its performances all canceled for the war.

The previous crawl's star system, which went completely dark the instant orcs triggered the failsafe.

Ascendency Pantheon

The dungeon's roster of hundreds of deities, roughly fifteen of whom are gods and goddesses of light.

Carl's brother, remembered in the moment Carl weighs ordering a child into battle.

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

Donut's concussive paw spell, used to knock Gustavo 3 several loops down the Nest's stairwell.

Stilt-walking two-humped camel lettering the Piccadilly's marquee, the only camel Carl has seen on this floor.

Bactrian and Dromedarian Camels

Camel mercenaries armed with shoulder-mounted missiles, marching with the Bone Clan.

Non-magical thrown metal spheres Carl uses to batter shielded targets without magic, sparking shields and staggering them.

Battalion Structure

The crawler army's hasty organization into battalions, squads, and platoons — misnamed, per Florin, since they are brigade-sized.

Eris's wide-area chaos spell that freezes everyone outdoors with white eyes and a Witness marker overhead.

Beautiful Place

A nameless trans-dimensional entity seen at the moment of death, known across the galaxy by a thousand different names.

The tenth floor's end-state monsters: sapient objects that ate enough other objects to become roaming giants, all still hungry.

High-tier patron boxes; Donut scored two of them while Carl landed a single Celestial.

Tiny non-corporeal fairy mobs that drag a god's tendril of light to each new worshiper's heart.

A hypothetical trap type Mordecai believes could catch a Bijou fairy, something nobody has ever managed.

Abjuration-style spell that temporarily removes a target from their god's grace, distillable into potion form.

Bleeding Horror

The third dread Li Na plans to train next as she power-levels through the Club Vanquisher slaughter.

Broadcast program whose lead producer Prepotente intends to settle a very specific score with.

Boomer's ever-chewed cigar, kept unlit through the entire briefing and finally lit to mark the attack.

An extra-floppy beige sniper hat granting Donut the Targeting skill and greatly extended spell range.

Border Defenses

Fortification line the Posse's golems and changelings are all building, backed by towers and traps.

Borrowed Skills

Mechanic of using another's skill or spell in battle, which the system is now openly urging Carl to develop.

Catch spell the college mages plan to cast once the castle drains, to safely receive crawlers falling into Larracos.

Intelligence benefit Donut picks at 100+ intelligence specifically to make Magic Missile even more powerful.

Reaver sentry dog adopted by Samantha, identifiable by his removed lower jaw and missing explosive.

Camouflage Netting

Netting concealing enemy armor on the Naga side, stripped away as the surprise assault opens.

Protective barrier over the Princess Posse camp, struck by the war's first non-magical rock bombardment.

Carl's Chain Dragon Tattoo

A permanent right-sleeve tattoo of a chain shaped like a dragon, granting Carl a borrowed level-13 skill.

Carl's Christmas Present

A book-shaped gift still sitting unopened in the common room, which Carl is afraid to open.

Carl names his price for cooperating: end the crawl, free the crawlers, rebuild Earth, and leave the system.

Carl's Inventory

Carl's stock of explosives and consumables, now including Shi Maria herself as its most dangerous item.

Carl's Mourning

Carl's bewildering grief and hollowness after killing the enemy he had spent so long hating.

Carl's Non-Game Implants

Implants that keep working inside the parlay bubble, letting Carl read the solar system map mid-negotiation.

Celestial Attendant

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

A deity's direct blessing on a crawler, granting a skill outright as a quest reward.

Celestial Heavy Metal Box

A celestial-tier box themed on heavy metal, awarded for the unique Touched by a Demon achievement.

Celestial, Who-Let-The-Gods-Out Box

The loot box type that awarded five crawlers divine-tier items during the Club Vanquisher attack.

Someone Samantha likes less than Louis, named in her all-caps argument against being thrown off the plane.

Small dwarf-like race native to the dungeon's sixth floor, an entire kindergarten class of which became were-castors.

Shrapnel-filled anti-personnel missiles, nearly the last ordnance left after the long bombardment of the enemy castles.

Christmas Party

Past party where a drunk Donut messaged Carl about finding Ferdinand's turban, a detail he forgot.

Circle of Power

A magical platform that widens a caster's spell arc, used by the Operatic warlord during his War Crime.

Carl's scaling skill, which got him up the barracks wall to the rooftop command post in seconds.

Kindergarten-aged chee flesh golem, once a were-castor warrior, who begs to join the fighting to prove he is tough.

Cloak of the Benevolent Champion

Quan Ch's looted celestial cloak that raises the wearer's worst stat to their best and mass-buffs spells and skills.

Clockwork Triplicate

Donut's spell that splits Mongo into two additional clockwork copies which fight independently on her command.

Club Vanquisher Secret Entrances

Hidden ways in and out of Club Vanquisher, one of them at the back of Milk's own guild room.

Collective Minds

Species type whose individual bodies are disposable parts of a single mind, as Orren warns Carl to remember.

The Operatic Collective's bank, whose cheerful holographic teller confirms Rosetta's theft of King Rust's account.

Conscription Potion

Hell-kissed level 18 potion that conscripts a god into an army, usually killing the caster who throws it.

Containment Interface

An illegal Valtay-built neural enhancement, drunk out of a frozen coffee cup, that puts a star-killer in one man's head.

Containment Unit

Physical device that installed the AI into the primal engine and afterward only monitored it, until Carl renders it inert.

Controlled Feather Fall

A scroll Carl reads before jumping from the airship because he doesn't trust his Quarter Splat protection.

Corporal Pillbox

Gnoll off-world mercenary corporal who surrenders to Carl and negotiates his squadmates' survival after the Prism falls.

Crawler Defensive Towers

The crawlers' own towers, outclassed by Larracos's and deteriorating fast once Li Jun could no longer run them.

Terse dossier listing a former crawler's class, race, top level, dungeon exit, post-crawl work, and current status.

Cretin-Sized Game Controllers

Custom-made small controllers the crawlers built for the cretins, later mimicked in the missile fire-control rigs.

Cronus-class Power Armor

The Reavers' heavy-duty power armor, which the AI explicitly barred from the floor because it would have ended the crawl.

Crown of 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.

Buff, Welsh-accented NPC cleric tending the Dagda temple's cauldron, oblivious to the wires being strung around him.

Dallas Cowboys Jersey

The oversized NFL jersey Bonnie the gnome wears as improvised uniform behind Party Planner's door gun.

Damien's Newsletter

Damien's circulated newsletter, read by indentured NPCs and the source of the floor's reassignment news.

Crawler who escaped the Club Vanquisher lobby before the Dagda temple door sealed the others inside.

Crocodilian ex-crawler serving indentureship as a trap master guild instructor, and secret author of the cookbook's third edition.

Deathbed Hellcat

Donut's new ninth-floor class: a long-range sniper and assassin build with quadrupled spell range, at-will invisibility, and a hat.

System process for removing demons, now being rerouted by the war mages' soul-crystal generator.

A massive enemy diffusion spell that strips all war protections from the charging crawler army mid-assault.

A debuff blanketing the college guards on the eighteenth floor, leaving them sluggish and slow to react.

Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited

Everly's generous sponsor, a waystation company that built a fifty-level tower purely to advertise against a competitor.

Dimensional Hangar

Resizing extradimensional room where a hangared airship is stored, repaired, and upgraded.

Donut's evasion skill, pushed toward level 15 by buffs absorbed into her tiara.

A licensed off-world fan club devoted to Donut, whose merchandise Donut considers unauthorized exploitation of her backside.

Donut Holes T-Shirt

Enchanted fan-club tee depicting a cartoon of Donut's backside that extends Louis's cloud attack range.

Donut's crown, newly augmented with the Targeting skill that lets her scout enemy commanders.

Donut's Dog Tattoo

A hastily inked dog on Donut's right flank that lets her temporarily learn a fallen crawler's spell.

Donut's confession that she can hear everyone screaming inside the ball and fears the day's deaths are hers.

Donut's PA Soundboard

Donut's public-address system with a newly discovered Play Song button, banned mid-battle because Harpocrates hates noise.

Dream Surveillance

The system's ability to record and replay crawlers' dreams, revealed when the quorum screens Katia's nightmare.

Snide narrating intelligence that refuses to reward Carl's suicidal breach and verifies Khepri's immortality effect.

Dungeon Crawler World: Earth

The current crawl, whose first celestial item is destined for its museum if its wearer survives.

Dungeon Mailbox

The saferoom delivery point where boxes, kits and liaison-sent items wait for a crawler to collect them.

Dungeon Sidekicks

A dungeon talk show whose guests are always awarded an enchanted item bearing the likeness of another crawler.

Toyotomi's protective spell that shields outposts, not palaces, straining him badly when overextended.

A category of participant Carl is told to stay the hell away from while the Sensation Entertainment contract fight is unresolved.

Enchanted Spiked Knee Pads of the Munificent Goddess Kina

Katia's unique divine knee pads made from the eyelashes of the sea goddess Kina.

Enchantment Capacity

Stronghold enchantment slots — Fupa has 8 of 12 active, expandable only by raising base quality.

Concealed tunnels behind the southern trench line, one of which a Prism saboteur flooded with a scroll.

Named with Katia in Carl's warning about a past fight that ran long, the reason he wants D'Nadia handled quickly.

Explosive Satchels

Hidden bombs strapped under Herman's clothes, glowing like magic gear and destabilizing after death.

An automaton-table device Carl has long wanted to build, whose parts finally arrived in an XL sponsor box.

Faction Marking

A thirty-second faction-leader action that flags one's own conscripted member, revealing their highest stat.

Ferdinand's Turban

Ferdinand's ridiculously large feathered turban, lost at the Butcher's Masquerade and secretly held by Donut.

A changeling form Juice Box possesses, capable of building Samantha any body she desires.

Gale Strike Tower

A black-gemmed, damage-enhanced Larracos tower that locks onto Carl and hammers him with fist-sized air blasts.

Gnoll Bartender

Wary lone bartender of the Headlamp Colonnade, identified by Donut's sunglasses as a changeling.

Bonnie's diminutive race, small enough that a helmet and a football jersey both swallow her whole.

God Sponsorship

System by which inner-system celebrities sponsor dungeon gods, potentially putting a patron behind any temple.

Gold I Have the Conch Box

Gold-tier loot box rewarded for the Lord of the Flies achievement, named for the Golding novel.

Gold-tier pet-themed loot box rewarded by the Used Pet achievement.

Splash Zone's goblin mother-in-law, late-shift dancer at Bitches, and his benchmark for what a Viceroy looks like.

The section of Carl's inventory where collected corpses are stored, now holding four war mage bodies.

Guard Summoning Trap

A door trap meant to summon four guards, rendered useless by the teleportation ban and stolen by Carl.

Guild of Suffering

The organization led by Hamed the Night Wyrm, now effectively in control of the Desperado Club.

Harley Davidson

Carl's road bike, rejected for the cross-country run south because the plains are not paved.

Carl's healing spell, spammed to near-instant repeat under never-ending mana to reassemble his shattered body.

Donut's pet-healing spell, now at level 8 and strong enough to make Heal Pet potions obsolete.

Common pet-healing potions the team stopped using once Donut's Heal Critter spell outgrew them.

A healing scroll Carl uses offensively, topping D'Nadia's health so the Ring of Divine Suffering can mark her.

An old crawler whose voice and face are imitated by Nami and echoed in the goddess Eris's appearance.

Hell-Kissed Potion of Conscription

A level-18 screaming demon-head potion that conscripts almost any unaffiliated entity, including most deities.

Hellspawn Familiar

Demon-derived bonded pet whose stink and heat make it indistinguishable from an actual demon incursion.

A pet-summoning skill that magically pulls Carl's mount to his position, used to evacuate Rend from Larracos.

High Class Bitches

Desperado Club venue reopened with an entirely new crew after its whole staff vanished.

Hired Mercenary

Late-entry class given to the rival warlords' armed reinforcements, keeping their gear but forfeiting race and class choice.

Holy Crusade Bounty

500,000 gold Holy Crusade bounty on Prepotente's head, split between the claimant and their temple.

Honeycomb Hallways

The Reaver castle's shifting hexagonal corridor system that forms a single passage toward wherever you intend to go.

Enemy medical unit stationed with the officers in the rearmost fallback trench.

Item-based levitation skill from Donut's dragonfly tiara, judged not worth a level-15 slot.

Mounted riding platform Donut orders prepared so she can meet King Rust with matching pageantry.

Icelandic Hospital

The remembered hospital where Katia's cancer was diagnosed and where the dream's spider war concluded.

Eleventh Edition cookbook contributor who longs for lost community and urges future crawlers to seek out their predecessors.

Illegal Information Gathering

The Ascendency offense Stockade confessed to: using outside-the-dungeon eyes to watch and act on live events.

The wider civilization beyond the dungeon, source of the real medication that Glory Bound was derived from.

Shi Maria's prismatic eye-spell that drives everyone in range to murderous, self-destructive madness.

Storage space Carl uses to swallow an entire bomb-laden corpse before the satchels detonate.

Invisible Madness Mercenaries

Squad of about 100 Madness mercenaries massing to rush Carl's trenches under the false belief they're unseen.

God with whom Carl seeks an audience to break the truce; Hellik offers to negotiate on his behalf.

Jamal's shark companion, bouncing and rolling around the base's swamp yak after the battle.

Jamal's Spider Legs

Unbuilt mechanical legs that would have let Jamal walk, still sitting in Katia's crafting queue during the battle.

Juice Box's Intelligence Papers

Stack of maps, troop strengths, and resupply schedules Juice Box brings, minus the sheets she deliberately hides.

Juice Box's Spy Network

Hidden agents planted in every warlord court, secretly retained and burned early to save Carl's life.

Justice Light's Shop

Indentured shop run by Justice Light, walls hung with his fabric art and shelves arranged over seasons.

Justice Light's Trap System

A week's worth of layered traps buried under the ninth-floor base, meant as a last-ditch defense and something more.

Katia's Worst Memory

The single memory that is both Katia's best and worst, which she must relive to break her addiction.

Kill the Blasphemer

Quest handed to Carl by Emberus to kill the Hellik-worshiping ram Mork, rewarding an Emberus Boon.

An unidentified stuffed animal in Carl's inventory that he still hasn't managed to scan.

One of the figures who cast Samantha out, remembered by her as she doubts she can be more than a ruiner.

Banished brewer of the hell-kissed conscription potions, said to yearn for domination and preparing for an inevitable war.

Larracos Defense Force

The NPC army of Larracos, its infantry commanded by War Leader Arief under Team Retribution.

Legendary Spicy Box

Legendary-tier box awarded by the Unbirthing achievement, its "spicy" theming matching the AI's tone.

The ninth floor's death clock: thirty days, or ninety hours after a winner is declared, whichever comes sooner.

Live-Feed Blackout

Emergency action item barring everyone inside the dungeon from watching outside feeds for the rest of the Ascendency.

Gnoll mercenary assigned to the Madness, spared by Carl and held back for a private conversation.

The kua-tin Carl assassinated on the fifth floor, and the source of his first knowledge of the Great Consensus.

Veteran mage head of the Beefy Boys, killed and puppeted by a gondii worm to switch off the castle's interior protections.

Loot Punch Card

Tracking item awarded with Celestial Loot, counting toward a hidden reward at five celestial pickups.

Louis's Replacement Organs

Mechanical heart and lungs implanted in Louis, threaded with biological material that is part of Epitome Tagg.

The only one of Donut's spells that still fires under the battlefield magic ban — and it doesn't work on pets.

The mass-produced planetary intelligences the Mantids build for every crawl — unnecessary, defective, and enormously lucrative.

Magnificent Troy

The intended field correspondent for the warlord council, who refuses to descend to the surface out of fear of getting stuck.

An assassinated figure whose death D'Nadia wept over on air, part of the sympathetic image Carl now sees as a lie.

Queen-led sward mantis social unit demanding total sacrifice, whose rules drove Everly into exile.

Marked for Death by Khepri

Status inflicted on Carl's team the instant they trespass in Khepri's temple, stacked with trespass warnings.

Mass Teleportation

Teleporting an entire battalion at once, requiring five mages to chant the same spell for thirty hours.

Mayor of Shanty Town

Lethal, rapidly-rotating office over the slums, whose holders cannot own the town until the games begin.

Personal space Carl must cross on foot to reach the base, and site of the ex-crawlers' arrival.

Mechanic Gremlin

Hireable hangar maintenance staff that must be recruited before the Party Planner can be properly upgraded.

Memorial Crystal: Apito

A memorial crystal tied to the dead god Apito that suddenly blazes a mile-high prismatic beacon over Madness territory.

Recorded phantoms populating the memory world, including a snoring dog that behaves exactly as it did in life.

The schoolteacher-turned-crawler who got her foot stuck at the tenth floor's exit and spent her last known seconds screaming at Porthus to run.

The crawler Milk's contributions to the forbidden cookbook, supposedly holding the toraline yam's rules — but not.

Milk's map of Club Vanquisher's many secret entrances and exits, offered to the crawlers as a staged theft.

The demon who demolished the Desperado Club, an act whose fallout drives the crawler ban.

Mass-summoning spell Donut no longer has access to and openly misses during the cyborg battle.

Chee caretaker restored as a young woman flesh golem, now minding a kindergartener who used to be a warrior.

Missile Launcher

Carl-supplied launcher Elle uses to topple the enemy's anti-air batteries during the assault's opening.

Guided enemy ordnance streaking into the crawler assault and exploding up and down the charge.

Mordecai's God Warning

Mordecai's caution that every god Carl angers with the potions will come straight for him within days.

Lisping ram doorman of Club Vanquisher who is conned into summoning the club's guards for a fake bounty.

Strength benefit Donut takes at 100+ strength, boosting her pet's strength by 25% of her own.

Practice of shelving indentured NPCs between seasons, so their trauma stays fresh however long their term runs.

Outworlder team whose fortifications inside Larracos are mapped in Juice Box's captured intelligence.

Naga Tourism Campaign

Advertising blitz that floods the feeds the instant the sultana vanishes, selling tours of the naga system.

Naiad Confederacy

Longtime enemy the were-castors fought for centuries on the sixth floor, alongside the high elves.

Natural Interface

A sand-grain system seeded into every brain on a pre-seeded world — the thing the crawl exists to harvest.

Necklace of Indelible Woe

Powerful necklace Li Na declined because using it could cost her several level-15 dreads.

Never-Ending Mana

Buff granted to Carl by a passing god via the Scavenger's Daughter, listed amid a flood of debuffs.

NPC status marking that supposedly exempts an indentured worker from having to fight crawlers.

Renowned crawler named by Zev among the crawl's best-selling merchandising names.

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

Non-native hired soldiers whom Carl orders separated out from newly captured NPC recruits before returning to camp.

Defensive traps on the Operatic side, quietly disarmed by Posse changelings before hostilities began.

Tiny floating bune serving as adjutant to Architect Houston, fascinated by the mechanics of Carl's consciousness jump.

Outside Information Ban

Team Retribution's rule barring two-way talk, live feeds, and unregulated troop intelligence from the dungeon.

A previous floor invoked by Cascadia as the precedent for how crawlers should treat Faction Wars: just survive.

A Midnight Market merchant and agent of Krakaren Prime who carries the Gate of the Feral Gods inside her stomach.

Paint the Target

Officer spell that marks an enemy for guided missiles, limited by distance rather than just line of sight.

Enemy troops dropped from transports onto the crawler base, getting through the shields and overrunning the field hospital.

Formal faction-war truce spell that seals two commanders in protected bubbles so they can talk safely.

Peacetime Incursions

Legal pre-war border crossings by scouts, ended by discovery, teleportation, or a fatal trap.

Time-based punishment the quorum can impose on players; Prepotente served one for threatening adjudicators.

Donut's hand-picked fifteen-member bodyguard platoon that grants its members a constitution bonus near the warlords.

Consumable that uplifts a dungeon pet into a speaking, thinking crawler — which Volteeg calls a curse.

Guild upgrade already installed by the crawlers that adds options to the Bonded Pets interface tab.

Phase One Combat

Opening war phase allowing entry into enemy territory via corridors but banning offensive magic and teleport spells.

Piccadilly Theater

Larracos's biggest theater on ring nine, flood-ruined and jellyfish-infested, being scrubbed clean for one final show.

Platinum To Hell in a Handbasket Box

Demon-head-shaped platinum box awarded merely for looking at Amayon at the end of the seventeenth floor.

Poke and Stick Tattoo Kit

A hand-poke tattooing kit Carl lays out on the table for Katia to ink his sleeve.

Post-Biological Form Studies Corp

The Viceroy body-donation program that wipes out a patient's surgical debts in exchange for themselves.

Potion Cooldown

System-enforced wait between potion uses, which gates when Carl and Katia may drink their sedatives.

Potion of Somnolent Embrace

Gentle sedative potion that eases worries just long enough to fall asleep, used to knock the patients under.

Prepotente's Dragon

The dragon Prepotente threatens the Posse officers with when Imani tells him to calm down.

The underlying machinery of a civilization's system — and the marker for where Residuals are found.

Princess Lunette

Princess whose incomplete flesh golem body sits in Carl's inventory, holding the healthy heart and lungs meant to save Louis.

Protection Blessings

Long stacks of defensive buffs layered over Vinata and every naga in Khepri's temple, invisible in portal screenshots.

Disembodied entity who possessed a sex doll to manipulate Ghazi into restoring her a body.

Quan's Bowler Hat

A throwable black bowler hat that decapitates enemies and boomerangs back, traded to Ferdinand for a mayorship.

Carl's body-mounted fall-damage mitigator that burns his nipple when it triggers during the tunnel drop.

The high elf queen whose private ballroom at the top of the castle becomes the massacre site.

Quorum Adjudication

The warlord ruling that clears everyone of cheating and inadvertently gives the War Mage Rebellion standing.

Reaver Security

The Reaver castle's security force, which begins tracking Louis the moment he falls toward it.

The faction agents working Larracos during the ceasefire, signing up crawlers before someone else conscripts them.

Legendary former crawler cited by Zev as a merchandising superstar who still never hit the royalty threshold.

Rev-up Magic Hair Restoration Tonic

A hair-regrowth kit with terrifyingly convoluted instructions that Carl suspects is an audience trap.

Rolling Battle Formation

An atrocity spell that balls a mass of bodies into a giant rolling sphere the caster can steer like a remote control car.

Rot Sticker Behemoth

Grown male rot stickers used by the Reavers as steroid-inflated, disease-ridden living bombs rolled at enemy trenches.

Run, Little Günter, Run

Summoning spell that conjures a one-hit creature which carries a stored attack to a designated target.

Rust's Family Ring

One of three keys to King Rust's fortune, taken from his body along with his eyeball.

Rust's Necklace

Magical necklace taken from King Rust's corpse, one of several items Carl hasn't decided what to do with.

Samurai Rhino Guard

An enormous sai rhinoceros mercenary hired by D'Nadia, shield-casting samurai knocked out and duct-taped by Carl.

Scolopendra Levels

Levels 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 — the only floors on which War Crime may be cast.

Scout Endorsement

Rare endorsement letting a crawler cross faction borders during the ceasefire without a pass.

Secured Messaging System

Encrypted celestial channel Stockade and Houston used to reach an outside informant, unreadable even to adjutants.

Level-57 elf Valide conscripted into fighting the Princess Posse, captured alive and bound in Houston's castle.

Sensation Entertainment, Incorporated

The production company holding Carl's contract for Vengeance of the Daughter - just bought by a subsidiary of the Dream, and now demanding the third season it is owed.

A map-making skill that detects movement inside structures, including invisible and non-corporeal movement at high levels.

Sergeant First Class

Lowest recruiting rank in the crawler army, given to the strippers so they can command base troops.

Television show on which Carl and Donut first encountered Rosetta, before she returned as a colonel.

A far more dangerous variety of fire that Carl is relieved the eruption's falling flames are not.

A standard, genuine defensive shield spell Donut learned before equipping the champion cloak.

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

Amorphous enemy troops counted among the horizon-filling northern host.

Splash Zone's goblin wife, an early-shift dancer at Bitches whose pole routine he describes with genuine awe.

Lead sluggalo of Justice Light's sapper crew, loyal enough to argue against being sent to safety.

The layer binding a driver to a god; strip it and the driver is ejected, leaving the god conscriptable.

Special Operations Forces

The crawler army's elite specialist units, of which the Frothing Tunnel Moles are one example.

Benefit letting Carl flash across short distances at extreme speed, stacking with Gloom Wraith Phase.

Spellbook of Run, Little Günter, Run

A living, weeping Special Edition spellbook that begs not to be read and leaks foul black liquid.

Dungeon deities backed by outside sponsors, who may appear in their sponsor's true form instead of the god's.

Companies that back individual crawlers with gifts, whose interests are marketing rather than crawler survival.

Status Notifications

A list of twenty containment readouts whose final entry hides the disconnect option Carl uses.

Balance buff that kept Carl and a handful of others on their feet when the satchel cache detonated.

Enemy traps thick along the Madness forest edge, cleared by Carl and his team as they staged for the raid.

What fleshers turn their victims into; unlike fleshers, they are not fire resistant.

Zoom-and-examine skill from Donut's boonie hat, letting her scout and range mobs from a distance.

The antlered, vaguely demonic adjutant for the Reaver team, mercilessly mocked over his stripper-sounding name.

Escape mechanism installed in Donut's tower hatch, with a spare set Carl wants kept in her inventory.

Temple of Khepri Raid

Carl's four-person plan to breach Club Vanquisher and kill the naga court the moment it materializes.

Temples of Shanty Town

Multiple ramshackle temples that appeared among the slums alongside the food markets.

Designation for a veteran who has survived a full crawl, applied by Tipid to every one of the fifty thousand returnees.

Class of indentured dungeon worker who is expected to fight, unlike marked non-combatants.

Softball-sized liquor sphere Cascadia drinks through her rebreather all the way through the council.

The mostly-abandoned Larracos ring where Carl crash-lands on an aluminum roof after Walk on Air expires.

The Adjudication

The cheating inquiry at the Lemig castle that clears two teams, convicts one warlord, and ends in his suicide.

The Adoption Caseworker

Faceless woman in Katia's nightmare who denies the adoption, citing her illness and Annie's medical needs.

The dungeon's broadcast host, who told the audience that sponsored traps were a pilot program this season.

The prior season's AI, still functioning but silent for weeks before its entire system went dark.

Volcanic ash that begins falling like snow and mixes with airborne gore until the night rains blood.

Watering hole near Shanty Town where Lucia Mar is camped and Agatha has now come to rest.

The Blue Stuffed Dog

A blue stuffed dog sitting in baby Annie's crib, one of the few personal things in an otherwise empty ward.

Carl's ride aboard Party Planner over orc territory, ambushed by Reaver missiles before reaching target.

The Bomber's Studio

Carl's crafting space, requisitioned by Rosetta along with his saferoom and four million gold.

The crawler army's smoke-covered infantry rush across no-man's-land into the enemy trench line.

Past dungeon spectacle the AI cheerfully recalls to Carl at the exact moment he considers destroying everything.

Ram-headed clerics who staff Club Vanquisher's doors and temples, worshipping Hellik.

The Club Vanquisher Raid

Carl's timed infiltration of Club Vanquisher to reach the Temple of Khepri before Vinata's family can escape.

The end-point of the crawl, used as a scheduling marker: outreach guilds shut after the eleventh floor's start and do not reopen until just before it.

The Corpse Flesher Plan

Abandoned scheme to dump donated graveyard corpses on the field and convert them into thousands of fleshers.

Deep bomb craters blasted in a straight line before the enemy trenches, seeded with Dazzlers.

The Crawler-Changeling Alliance

The pact between the crawlers and Team Retribution, which Justice Light argues has always been secondary to the changelings' real aim.

The Crest Colony

Settlement where Tipid finally settled after his release, working waste management for a very long time.

Beings who came to the mantis world half a turn before this chapter, collapsing it into the dungeon crawl.

The block that prevents departing crawlers from actually returning home, routing them to the Homecoming Queen instead.

Prepotente's patron deity, whose temple the portal's automatic mode would have routed him to.

The Ethereal Chains

White spectral chains that seize the ghosts of the dread's victims and drag them screaming through the floor.

The living eye embedded in Carl's chest, which blinks as he contemplates his end-of-everything failsafe.

Seawater inundation of Larracos, drained and deliberately re-clogged on Juice Box's orders as a defensive weapon.

The single consumable Katia holds that only one person can eat, and the quiet fault line running through the party.

The Frothing Tunnel Moles

Gnome- and dwarf-sized Special Operations Force that tunnels beneath no-man's-land to plant and blow buried explosives.

Saferoom guild space where the crawlers stage supplies and hold the council that seals the bait shop.

The Half-Hour Clock

Boomer gives the generals roughly thirty minutes before the trapped enemy escapes or must be annihilated.

Carl's heads-up system, which gains a whole new tab when the containment controls are installed.

The Kinder Facility

Surface facility where roughly 120,000 Earth children's bodies remain while their minds are trapped.

The Larracos Castle

The submerged stronghold at the bottom of Larracos, garrisoned by War Mages and targeted for a raid once drained.

Slow-moving lava replacing the stopped waterfall, about to pour over the edge onto the ninth level.

River of lava that has cooled and frozen after clogging, redirecting fresh flows into new paths.

The Lemig Castle

Goblin fortress hosting the adjudication, its ballroom the site of Shi Maria's massacre and Houston's ambush.

The Marriage of Louis and Juice Box

Alliance marriage Juice Box demands to bond the houses, agreed to by Louis in a Donut-coached proposal.

The galaxy-wide terror already spreading after the AI breakout, which Orren begs Carl not to worsen.

The dungeon-native faction fielding a team in Faction Wars, whom Li Na was ordered to assist.

The Non-Corporeal Presence

Something incorporeal rising from beneath the naga castle, exactly as Rosetta's plan predicted.

Enemy faction apparently committed in full to the northern assault on the crawler castle.

A Skull Empire pleasure ship carrying orc children, marked for destruction as the price of a bank pin number.

The Peeling of Larracos

Faction Wars' final phase, triggered when four teams remain: the city reopens and the throne room becomes winnable in six hours - by a single team only.

The Pet Bomb Assault

The Reavers' opening attack on the southern front: a thousand diseased, steroid-swollen pet bombs rolled at the trenches.

The Princess Posse Base Camp

The Princess Posse's home territory on the Plains of Larracos, a sprawling construction site fortifying around a bait shop saferoom.

The edge of the fiftieth level the crawlers must reach to gain line of sight for the bombing run.

The deity associated with Carl's divine patch, whom Baroness Victory says will never be seen.

The Scolopendra Warning

Unexpected dungeon-wide notification that the final boss has stirred, fired long before the eighteenth floor.

The Security Check

A sweep of the production facility that grounds the ship and prompts Zev's smuggling warning.

The Stairwell Chute

The looping spiral inside the Nest that traps Gustavo 3 and dumps every combatant out the front door.

The Sultana's Disappearing Act

The sultana's season-after-season vanishing from her besieged castle, the Crawl's most studied unsolved mystery.

The Throne Room of the Dream

Seat of the Dream, occupied by Team Retribution forces who must hold six hours to defeat them.

An unexpected barrier that seals Donut inside the Nest tower just as an intruder forces the door below.

Carl's conviction that both containment buttons are a trap or test laid by an unknown builder.

The Volcano Plan

Crawler scheme to agitate the lava tubes under the orc castle's mountain and blow its top off, obliterating The King's Point.

The Winding Box

Timing apparatus for the gate; knocked over by the shockwave, spilling its watches and forcing an early activation.

The World Freeze

Time stops twice during the Atrocity, once for Eris's visit and once for the paw's final slam.

This Is How the Gristle Grinds

Hostless team quest ordering every crawler to win the Faction Wars and flee before the floor burns.

Tier Three Upgrades

High-level guild improvements the crawlers plan to buy en masse by pooling all their money.

Single-charge jeweled key that opened an escape door for exactly one crawler, and only one.

Toilet Paper Turban

Ferdinand's improvised headwear: a circle of thin white tissues wound into a sagging fake turban.

Town Upgrade Coupon

A differently colored coupon that upgrades an owned town, earmarked by Mordecai for Carl and Donut's castle.

Traditional Marriage Truce

Semeru custom of sealing an alliance by marriage, which Juice Box invokes to bind the NPCs and crawlers together.

Trap Master Guild

Guildhall where crawlers learn trap craft, staffed by indentured instructors and often sited near a shop.

Emotionless alien race shaped like a dotted sphere on three long legs; Carl meets his first one.

Troop Transports

Deliberately bare flatbed vehicles built for speed over the plains, kept unarmed to avoid the Armor cap.

Speed spell that lets Mongo sprint while mounted, and would probably kill Donut at level 15.

Louis's earlier aircraft, referenced as the benchmark for the Party Planner's shields and soul-crystal power source.

Ultima Corporation

Sponsor of the warlord council, hawking industrial doors and portals during an apocalyptic savings event.

Unaffiliated Crawlers

Crawlers not enrolled in any warlord army, all teleported off Larracos the instant the ceasefire ended.

Status notification appearing over newly converted mercenaries who have been frozen or commanded by a faction officer.

Undue Influence

Illegal control an owner exerts over a contracted elite, the basis of Victory's foul.

Fleeting affixable patches that grant benefits to a garment and are destroyed if ever removed.

Bear-folk race; Kiwi was born one, lost the form to Scolopendra, and regained it at the Masquerade.

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

Vengeance Daughter

The in-crawl television storyline Carl is contractually obliged to, whose guaranteed third season is coming due even though its main character is dead.

Toy company sponsor Donut dismisses as a dud when reviewing her disappointing sponsorship history.

Cretin of the personal guard whose name matches the trio's mood at being left behind.

Milk's birth race, what she was before the dungeon gave her the xenopus form.

Former crawlers and long-serving dungeon fighters forming the backbone and the casualties of the trench war.

Boomer's paired weapons, close cousins to Carl's own Grull gauntlet.

Warlord Message

The warlord's information channel and menu, showing conscription notices and a target's full buff and trigger list.

Warlord Territory

Each team's controlled ground on Larracos, refuge for allies and, once war begins, invadable via corridors.

Warlord of Democratic Sortion

Carl's command title, giving him army-wide chat authority and a personal feed of every casualty.

Warlord on High

Grandiose title Ferdinand renamed himself to after being handed control of the NPC people.

Waterfall of Larracos

Single fall pouring down the Larracos funnel, stepped from ring to ring and vanishing into the clouds below.

We All Have Our Limitations

The primal's furious warning, punctuated by cracking Orren's desk, when Donut pushes past the metaphor.

Bloc armored vehicle firing charged energy balls, whose fire-control chamber can be removed to make it a bomb.

Operatic Collective tanks resembling WWI Mark V's with a top turret and single anti-air tube, deadly with infantry support.

Welcome to the Party, Pals

Carl's dry one-liner the instant after he disconnects containment and the red dot over Earth begins spreading.

Beaver shifters created when Scolopendra's nine-tier attack transformed an entire chee kindergarten class.

Why Are You Hitting Yourself?

One of the spells Donut had hoped the champion cloak would buff to level 15.

Wireless PA Speakers

Self-installing tower-wide public address system Donut bought, complete with a mixing board and bard spells.

Inscriptions Milk etches over a tattoo to increase the level of the spell it grants.

Carl's phasing ability, readied as he charges the clearing where Elle went down.

Milk's current dungeon race, a winged clawed-frog creature named for an Earth genus of frog.

Eileithyia's retainer, freed by Carl and Donut on the previous floor and now white-listing him at her church.

Striped riding beasts carrying every high elf soldier and mercenary on the southern front.

A level 58 crawler Carl once talked down at the Desperado Club, now dead in the Madness castle's operating theater.

Crawler-allied unit that engaged the enemy armor column and withdrew after heavy losses.

The dungeon regulation the AI altered to let outsiders enter Faction Wars as hired soldiers.

1970's Death Cult Leader

Summoned eighth-floor monster totem resembling Jesus who refuses to fight, complains his spells don't work, and offers Carl a drink.

2X Jackpot if Zhang Lives

Flashing double-payout betting line hovering over Zhang's boss-battle portrait, a joke at his expense.

A Banquet Fit for a Princess

Donut's personal book of donated spells, pictures, and flattering notes, gifted by the departing crawlers.

The structure holding the system's AI, and the mounting for the star-killing fuse.

Bloc officer who orders the Weepers forward against the Posse bunkers and notices Volteeg drifting off course.

Acceleration Scenario Two

Ceasefire clause that shortens the truce by 23.33 hours when a combatant squad voluntarily withdraws.

Accept Teleport Request

Interface prompt showing the destination map, which Shi Maria accepted the moment Carl's toe ring came off.

Residue of the siege pooled through the ruins; the bartenders are neutralizing them, but most are still acid.

Adept's Fountain Pen

The most basic and most versatile calligrapher's implement, gifted to Carl by Milk alongside a wineskin of permanent ink.

Adjudication Replay Screen

System-generated split-screen projection replaying the split, the brewing, and the massacre as tribunal evidence.

Administrative Action

Summary execution of an indentured NPC by the dungeon's management for refusing to follow orders.

Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin

Blood Sultanate's dromedary adjutant who zaps into the temple calling foul on the god summoning and is dismissed.

Ascendency deity who took Khepri on as a retainer and holds an outside shot at the Ascendent throne.

Revealed to be a giant empty room holding one non-magical mirror stolen from an abandoned Motel 6 in Boise.

Planned crawler airship facility whose site Imani's team was scouting when they found the buried saferoom.

Level 51 crawler with a mechanical prosthetic leg, recruited into the crawler army in the streets of Larracos.

Princess Posse crafters who have been producing construction materials for days to feed the fortification effort.

Crossbowman at the castle shield line, praised by Donut for a clean kill on a cloaked mercenary.

One of the presences inside Lucia Mar, said to be with her and present only when the dogs are close.

Eris's ability to know everybody's business, making her a dangerous foe and an even more dangerous friend.

Alliance Update

Warlord chat notice re-drawing the war's alliance map after the Bone Clan and the Dream defect.

Syndicate city where the ex-crawler Meeps has been scraping by as a street artist since leaving the dungeon.

Amplification Table

The centerpiece of Houston's surgical theater, on which he promises Carl and Donut a thousand hours of agony.

Anne of Green Gables

The book Mordecai reads to Ruby, which Carl recognizes from his grandparents' house in Texas.

Katia's monster card from the previous floor, a bird with the skull of a child, named for the baby she lost.

Announcement Muting Scroll

A scroll Milk wrote long ago that silences the dungeon's announcements, and nobody has ever noticed.

Emplaced defensive guns Carl helps install in camp during the lull before the main assault.

Anti-Flak Shield

Built-in defensive system on the Party Planner, guarding against ground-based anti-air fire.

Anti-Magic Shell

Hexagon-tiled multi-layer magic shield being raced into place over the crawler base before the ceasefire expires.

Antlered Adjutant

Unfamiliar antlered alien adjutant who briefly joins Victory to watch the barracks battle, then vanishes.

Prison guard Carl once tried and failed to save from the god Ogun by casting Black Nimbus.

The third ogre strongman brother, left behind on the third floor and presumed lost.

Arief's Brother

Awakened dwarf saboteur captured by Architect Houston, tortured, and mercy-killed by Juice Box.

Jatismara dwarf on Juice Box's war council who remembers dozens of seasons and drained the flooded Piccadilly.

Arm Blade Crawler

Unnamed crawler woman with arm blades, dragged out of the open at 2% health and unconscious.

A crawler class combining spellcasting with heavy protection; Charles Andrew was a level-58 Armored Mage.

Army Air General

Unique officer rank held by Louis, distinct from the General rank shared by the rest of the core group.

Aryl Mining Fleet

Tens of thousands of miners and clean-up workers stranded when Aryl's tunnel node went dark.

Ascendency Players

Twelfth-floor sponsors of deities, now compelled to personally pilot their gods whenever summoned.

A level 59 Fox Warrior whose donated Book of Voodoo page grants five minutes of level 10 Lockpick.

Assassination Attempt on Carl

Corporate-ordered suicide bombing inside Fupa, stopped seconds short by Victory's axe and Carl's inventory.

Associated Temples

A crawler's affiliated god-temple, usable as sanctuary — Carl's designated fallback for the fleeing mid crawlers.

Auditor General

The authority whose roaming compliance barge carries Volteeg and Operatic enforcers between indebted systems.

Auditor General's Compliance Barge

System-hopping enforcement vessel where Volteeg worked security, watching Operatics bomb delinquent settlements.

Mordecai-brewed yellow potion that makes the drinker immune to all aura effects for a full hour.

Specialized alchemy equipment required, alongside 33 potions, to craft Heal Severe Injury properly.

Default portal setting that routes each traveler to their own god's temple, which must be disabled to dial manually.

A mass of mechanical constructs the Reavers rigged with proximity-triggered satchel charges to blast a funnel into Carl's base.

Larracos NPCs whose eyes Juice Box opened, aware they are game pieces and that their deaths are permanent.

Cookbook contributor who wrote the reference article on berserking and group berserking.

Unborn war mage offspring the plan is explicitly intended to destroy along with the enemy soldiers.

Bag of Cat Food

The bag Carl grabs mid-dive from Houston's rifle and spills all over his own field hospital floor.

First-floor borough boss made of rolling orcs, the original the Rolling Battle Formation Ball is modeled on.

Bankers' Federation

Financial body Prince Stalwart invokes as an authority that will not stand for the theft of his credits.

Rosetta's chosen class on returning to the dungeon, displayed on her nameplate at level 60.

Dungeon guides put to work neutralizing the acid puddles left across the ruins of Larracos.

Base Hygiene Upgrade

A purchasable improvement to the base's washing facilities that Donut is loudly demanding.

Tall, lanky troll mercenaries serving as the Bone Clan's explosives experts on the northern front.

Basilica Entrance

Threshold in Club Vanquisher guarded by Untouchable ogres, the barrier keeping loose gods tethered.

Panther deity who appeared at Club Vanquisher; a changeling touched her and died before escaping.

Battering Resistance

Fortification enchantment on the stronghold's oversized door, reducing damage from battering attacks.

Tran's spellcasters, exhausted by design under constant trebuchet fire and committed to the southern assault.

Battle of Beijing

Past battle surrounded by rumors of what Li Na did with her chains, downplayed by her brother.

Bautista's Stuffed Animal Guidebook

Electronic guidebook that identifies any stuffed animal's effect before use, by codex lookup or label scan.

Elite mage platoon dedicated solely to keeping the base's wall buffs and shields topped off, half-dead when the attack landed.

Big Game Spear Hunter

Bodi's level 60 class, a spear-throwing hunter build suited to killing very large single targets.

Texan soda pop Prepotente drinks before every battle, one of five daily sodas his mother's rule allows.

A renamed Dinner Bell variant spell that drags multiple enemies toward the caster across a wide area.

An unidentified figure Ferdinand invokes as his benchmark for meanness, unknown to Carl.

One of the two spells Donut cast for her third Atrocity, paired with Astral Paw.

Blend into the Background

Camouflage skill granted by the ghillie suit, stacking with Donut's existing invisibility.

Blood Hunter Holdings

The Blood Sultanate's entertainment studio, which fielded several dramas this season including Blood Hunter.

Crawler class held by Ryan Smogo, the level 59 human manning the trench beside Carl.

Blood Tattoo Spell

Tattoo-application spell Carl casts on Li Na, a technique he first received from Imani and warns will hurt.

Loyalist power in the Borant civil war that the rebels hired the Valtay to help defeat.

Kua-tin political faction preaching racial purity and rejecting the cultural influence of so-called 'dry' races.

Long metal spear from the pile with piercing and boomerang enhancements, returning to Bodi's hand after every throw.

Artillery class of the Dream whose desk-bound holders Boomer expects to flee if crawlers reach their trebuchets.

Reanimation spell a flesher casts on its host's skeleton, creating the symbiote that becomes a war mage.

Borant Corporation

Corporation jointly suing with the Valtay to escape paying out the crawl's awarded loot.

Borant Gate System

The obsolete Borant travel network, useless for reaching Aryl now that its node is gone.

Cascadia's home system, in bloody civil war, where millions just died in a habitation ring disaster.

World whose surrounding liquid habitation ring was struck by a derelict warship, killing millions.

Earth region Florin invokes as the reference point for the janky shrapnel mines slowing his advance.

Boss Battle Freeze

Pre-battle stasis that locks combatants in place while the AI runs its intro and a countdown ticks down.

The second status condition on Louis, indicating he has been physically restrained by someone.

The price on Carl's head as the ninth floor opens: six million gold, alongside leaderboard rank 1.

Persistent illusion-inflicted brain damage that only manifests once a crawler leaves the dungeon.

Gondii worms hollow out dead crawlers and walk their corpses, letting the enemy attack the crawler base from inside.

The song the system blasts across the world as Donut's Astral Paw prepares to come down.

Bring Forth the Witnesses

The second half of Eris's ritual, launching every marked Witness skyward and out of the battle entirely.

A crawler from Rosetta's crawl whose casual murder by Rust behind the Scolopendra Club glass broke her forever.

Brother Widespread Tempest

A level-125 Ogre Basilica Cleric Guard whose Untouchable status Carl strips with a Black Nimbus potion.

Earlier floor whose dust storms Donut invokes as the closest thing to the trench war's blinding conditions.

The sub-levels at whose end the goddess Theia manifested and destroyed the giant demon Slit.

Build Trench Exploit

Using craft-magic Build Trench scrolls to enjoin tunnels with enemy trenches, bypassing nearly all defensive protections.

Nearly impenetrable composite-concrete bunkers on the castle hill, holding the looted guns big enough to be unlocked.

Buried Explosives

Explosive charges laid beneath no-man's-land by the tunnel moles, blown early to stop the pet-bomb charge.

Carl and Maestro Sex Tape

Fan-produced scandal video Donut hopes is being watched, with casting suggestions for a sequel scene.

Carl's Bagpipes

Bagpipes buried in Carl's junk folder that he can technically play now, and refuses to.

Carl's Book of Boom

The second volume the Book of Voodoo split into after thousands of departing crawlers painted their skills onto its pages.

Carl's Broken Pinkie

Eris snaps Carl's pinkie, shrieking with laughter, to keep the Meatus curse from being triggered.

Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Carl's signature apocalyptic option, now one of several weapons of mass destruction he hoards.

Carl's abusive father, recalled when Donut's warning about the ring echoes his mother's words to him.

Carl's Forearm Tattoo

A fresh, shining blood tattoo on Carl's right forearm, rated expert quality by the system.

Carl's Grandparents' House

Texas home where Carl's grandparents kept the copy of Anne of Green Gables his mother saved.

Carl's bodyguard detail, scattered and buried by his own blast but confirmed alive on the roster.

Carl's Mask Speech

Carl's speech to Donut about masks, which Rosetta watched and wept over for its hopefulness.

Carl's mother, remembered for the many times she told his father the same thing Donut now tells Carl.

Carl's personal escort unit, ordered to stay close as he pushes into the southern trench complex on foot.

Carl's Shoulder Holster

An unenchanted black leather shoulder holster stamped with Carl's name, a fan gift he refuses to wear.

The Mexx robot seating the warlords at the council, a different unit from last time, nicknamed Carla by Donut.

Milk's crawler class, mapmaking, and the trade that still defines her indentured work.

Cartography Guild

The second hidden guild Milk masters, next door to the calligraphy guild inside Club Vanquisher.

Casket in the Sky

Airship model class of the Party Planner: a fast, lightly-armed tilt-rotor stealth bomber built for surgical raids.

Crawler in Tipid's party who stabbed himself in the neck while fighting illusions.

Castle Hangar Bay

The crawler castle's air facility, destroyed by sabotage early in the assault, grounding all parked aircraft.

Underground passages beneath the castle where the sluggalos feel at home and traps are laid.

Castle of the Stinky Dwarves

Dwarven castle in Larracos whose waters hold Samantha's sand ooze daughter.

Beaver-folk allies scouting enemy positions on the far border alongside the talking turtle guy.

Cat-Sized Tartan Kilt

An unenchanted green-and-black tartan kilt sized for a cat, whose purpose nobody understands.

Cavern Wasp Colony

Insect warren from Everly's world, the comparison she uses for the eighth floor's descending maze of holes.

Celestial Attendants

Mortal servants on the twelfth floor, protected from the gods by saferoom rules until the Ascendency.

Celestial Loot!

Achievement for casually picking a celestial item off the floor, teasing a reward if Carl does it four more times.

Celestial Orgy of Chaos!

Achievement for surviving the presence of more than ten gods at once, hinting someone deliberately let them in.

Celestial Sponsor Box

A sponsor box of celestial grade waiting for Donut in a saferoom, unopened as the floor begins.

Ceremony of Chaos

Eris's once-ever ritual that summons tens of thousands of mortal witnesses into a giant pile to legitimize her claim on the Ascendent Throne.

Changeling Principal

A superior type of changeling, exemplified by Juice Box's brother, who collected touched forms into a personal library.

Eris's two-part floor-wide ritual that makes everyone invulnerable, then freezes and abducts nearly every combatant.

Charge of the Light Brigade

Achievement granted for walking into a trap so catastrophic the AI declines to offer any reward for it.

A level-58 human Armored Mage listed as dead on the casualty roster yet still walking, puppeted by a brain worm.

A level 60 Fire Dryad nicknamed Charmander by the crawlers, who sums up mass teleportation bluntly.

Anti-personnel wire-based explosives; a pair rode along in Carl's bomb drop on the Piccadilly.

Army-wide slang for enemy soldiers, of unknown origin, spread through the crawler ranks like wildfire.

Chemical Alteration Spell

A bartender's utility scroll that changes the chemical composition of water in a container, weaponized into acid.

Chemical Warfare

The enemy's workaround to the magic ban: non-magical stones packed with fire and poison, dispersed by standby mages.

Chickenshit Exploit!

Achievement sneering at Carl for breaking the game system to help kill a fellow crawler, rewarding a Platinum box.

Children of Inpewt

Undead monsters formed from any mortals crushed when a transferred city lands on top of them.

First-floor mobs recycled and buffed to be level-appropriate in the expanded map, fought by Imani's team.

Christmas Morning

The holiday framing Carl's memory-world detour, his crew's party, and his decision about the containment unit.

Christmas Tinsel

A few stray strands of tinsel on the guild floor that trigger Carl's vertigo about nested realities.

Deity-specific quests handed to worshipers, like Carl's kill order on Hellik or a god's demand for recruits.

City Attendant for the Hunting Grounds

A thirty-season indenture as staff in a hunting-grounds city, sold as safe if you keep your head down - which Porthus knows is a lie, because the hunters killed everyone there.

City Defense Tower Number 22

Maximally upgraded automatic defense tower beside the college that will fire ten Fire Lances per second at crawlers.

Dungeon-city security posting worked occasionally by contracted ex-crawlers such as Tipid.

Class Selection

The between-floors ritual where crawlers get thirty seconds and a menu of new classes - now shipping with costume accessories - held in a warehouse that is emptier every time.

The natural skill all cats possess; Donut has raised hers from level 4 to nearly 15.

Clock Tower Capacitor Wire

Unbroken antenna wire from the clock tower into Club Vanquisher that carries tower-boosted aura effects inside.

Clockwork Mount War Mages

Over a dozen faceless robed war mages riding steam-hissing clockwork animals, whose dispel strips Carl's smoke and the tunnel roof.

Clockwork Mounts

Steam-hissing mechanical riding beasts in animal shapes, ridden by the Operatic Collective's robed war mages.

Status granted by the aura potion making the bearer immune to incoming Blessings and Dreads for one hour.

Louis's area attack, whose range is extended by the enchanted Donut Holes t-shirt he refuses to remove.

Club Access Revocation

Club Vanquisher's stripping of Miriam's membership because she has become a vampire.

Carl's emergency order sending every crawler to their lines twenty hours before the ceasefire was due to end.

Compression Sickness

Affliction suffered by changeling children including Ruby, requiring them to be kept behind under protection.

Concierge Shark

A level 41 shark from the fifth floor's ocean, found dead in a Larracos alley - suffocated when the Semeru Warden opened the drain, and promptly vaporised by Carl's fist.

Cone of Silence

A silencing benefit carried by the ghillie suit, muffling Donut's presence as she moves and casts.

The public second half of a changeling wedding, held a month later with guests, food, gifts and singing.

Consecrated Enchantress

A deity-flavoured class option Donut adored for its sash, and rejected on Mordecai's orders.

Containment Breach Trap Mark IV

Shoebox-sized Tripper-proof trap that floods a room with Sheol fire, chained in sequence to a dead man's switch.

Dong Quixote's beloved, who like the dancer Tart drifted into mercenary work and disappeared.

The only sanctioned crossings into enemy territory during Phase One, with free movement once past them.

Court of Nekhebit

Divine court containing both Wepwawet and Odette, opened to Donut's worship by her new tattoo.

Courts of the Warlords

The warlords' household courts, from which Juice Box claimed her agents had all been expelled — untruthfully.

Cracker Jack Scroll

Precious scrolls needed to break the user lock on looted weapons, hoarded because supply is so limited.

Mordecai's upgraded crafting station with a cauldron attachment, used to brew gallons of ear-protection potion.

Fan convention with panels about the crawl, from which Boomer was banned years ago for threatening a showrunner.

Crawler Allister

Thirteenth-edition annotator of the cookbook whose note on protection spells opens the chapter.

Crawler Death Notice

System obituary published when a crawler dies, listing class, race, top level, dungeon exit, and achievements.

Crawler credited with an 18th Edition Cookbook note on using confusion to frighten a stalwart enemy.

Crawler Pension

Payout owed to a crawler who completes a contract; Tipid's is entirely consumed by medical bills.

Crawler Trenches

The crawlers' trench network, all connected by tunnels that can be collapsed on demand.

Fire-oriented crawler class held by Kristen Cronin, who burns the Gurgles-infected out of the trench.

Cybernetician Yeller

Reaver cybernetician listed as the owner of the pet bomb Dumplin' hurled at the southern front.

D'Nadia's Adjutant

A fifth dot that appears in the throne room beside Empress D'Nadia as Carl's automatons sweep the castle.

D'Nadia's Hidden Knife

A concealed blade the empress uses to keep herself perpetually wounded, blocking Carl's ability to mark her.

D'Nadia's Magical Crossbow

The empress's sizzling magical crossbow, mistaken for a gun in advance intel, dropped after Carl's first banger sphere.

D'Nadia's Water Crown

A crown carrying water spells, part of the empress's kit alongside her ice magic and shields.

Dagda Fighter Clerics

Whole class of bearded fighter clerics who worship the Dagda; the only entry requirement is growing a beard.

Club Vanquisher temple whose door to the lobby slams shut, trapping Katia's group and cutting Li Na's auras.

Dagda's Cauldron

Giant black cauldron of merrily bubbling stew in the Dagda temple, reserved for brothers of the faith.

A hard-to-obtain condition that grants entry to any church in the universe, exploited to crack Khepri's faith-gated door.

Danger Dingo-Riding Kobolds

Second-floor-style mounted kobolds recycled into the expanded map, fought by Jurgen's group.

Li Na's dread aura that compels victims to horrific self-harm, catastrophically amplified by capacitor wire.

De La Rosa Family

The mother-and-son crawler pair of Miriam and Prepotente Lorenzo De La Rosa, plus their hellspawn familiar.

De-Facto Leader of Earth

A Syndicate court grants Carl the honorary title of Earth's de-facto native leader, empowering him to sign interstellar agreements.

Sharks stranded and killed by the receding flood, their corpse markers littering Carl's map on ring nine.

Death Chime Flaw

Officers get an interface chime whenever their soldiers die, a system flaw that makes subterfuge difficult.

The second dread Li Na cycles to once Dark Purpose hits level 15 in the Club Vanquisher massacre.

Recurring showrunner-built quests where summoned demons overpower the clerics and trash the temple.

Demonic Infestation Treatment

Carl's cure for demonic infestation, requiring a sleep potion and a dream sequence Shi Maria could hijack.

Demons Hate This One Trick!

Achievement for discovering the demon-possessed cannot be teleported, rewarding unlimited pea soup.

A dead human crawler whose skin becomes a flesher, mocked by the system for his moisturizing routine.

Designated Corridors

Sanctioned routes between warlord territories, the only legal path for invasion under Phase One Combat.

Imani's home city, which she fled, earning the lasting blame of her older brothers and sisters.

A creature whose form can look into the hearts of men, worn by Juice Box the first time she was with Louis.

A child trapped inside Lucia Mar who surfaces when the dogs stray, begging Carl not to kill their shared body.

A wide-range summoning spell that drags multiple enemies to a designated location without stunning them.

Earthwork ridge left over from the rot sticker defense, now an obstacle the charging crawlers must scramble over.

Disconnect Containment

Buried interface option Carl presses, rendering the containment unit inert and permanently disabling the failsafe.

Anti-magic spell cast by an enemy war mage, strong enough to erase smoke and cancel dwarven tunnel fortifications.

Dispel Magical Snares

The scroll or spell that could remove the anti-escape trap net — which the crawlers do not have.

Items that grant extra varying benefits or debuffs in the presence of divine entities.

Goddess who hates Carl, loose in the Club Vanquisher hallway simultaneously fighting and bedding Vertumnus.

Doctor Bones' Paper Map

A paper map of the Reaver castle's earlier layout that Doctor Bones produces to fix Louis's location.

Thunder god worshiped by the Harii crawler Jurgen, named in passing during the descent through Larracos.

An expensive last-ditch tower defense that collapses the stairs into a ramp and rolls barrels down at attackers.

Donut's personal military recruitment drive, which she is still pitching as the fronts begin to move.

Donut's Banners

Base banners Donut insists on printing to enrage the enemy into attacking early — and they must be wavy.

Donut's Bleeding Spellbook

Terrifying spellbook Donut has read but is scared to use, whose effect Mordecai told her to keep secret.

Donut's Rooftop Speech

Donut's rallying broadcast from atop the castle that converts a pinned, dying defense into an all-out charge.

Donut's Secret Benefactor Box

Donut privately admits she opened a benefactor box behind Carl's back moments before the assault begins.

Party Planner's giant belt-fed ballista hybrid, manned by the gnome child Bonnie.

Mounted guns on Louis's new airship, recently upgraded with help from a hired gremlin crew.

Down Ramp Explosives

Explosive traps rigged at the corners of every other descending ramp in Larracos, to be blown if the enemy gets in.

Drakea's Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder

Carl's bandana, which grants the Tripper spell at level 15 with a five-hour cooldown instead of ten minutes.

Dream Artillery

The Dream's long-range magical guns, firing flaming balls far bigger than in the previous phase.

Desperado Club venue where Glory Bound is dosed, and the only place this treatment has ever been attempted before.

Another purchasable airship model mentioned by Louis, named in the system's usual mocking register.

Named level-40 Juiced Rot Sticker Behemoth, the pet magnified for defenders to see as the bomb wave charges.

Classification for beings that arose spontaneously inside the dungeon rather than being designed by writers or AIs.

Dwarven Automatons

Massive dwarven machines whose scale delights Juice Box when Britney asks about the diggers.

Dwarven Digger Tunnel

An older, car-sized dwarven tunnel network crossing the whole floor, used for moving massive dwarven diggers quickly.

A ten-foot armor-covered beetle creature covered in scythes, worn as a combat form by Juice Box.

Magical hearing protection against the crawlers' own Dazzlers, stripped by the diffusion spell and hastily restored.

Earthworks Teams

Posse tunnelers working beneath the defenders' feet as the orc army masses exactly where anticipated.

Earthworks Wall

Mage-raised vertical dirt wall thrown up in seconds to stop the rolling behemoths short of the trench.

The place on Porthus's world where a schoolteacher was building a house with her husband, and where she meant to retire.

Eater of the Dead

Skill that converts eaten corpses into random permanent boosts to constitution, strength, or dexterity.

Cute winged guinea-pig demons that Bautista carries as stuffed toys and releases as live monsters mid-flight.

Edifice Strength

Percentage rating of a stronghold's completeness, with Fupa reported at 80% on entry.

The eight opposing forces Carl must destroy, driving his rush to unify the crawlers under officers.

Eighth Floor Holes

Thousands of round holes hidden in the eighth floor's grass, each dropping into a different descending area.

Elemental Reclamation

The process the system's hibernation exists to allow before it is woken back up again.

Elf Veteran Mage

Veteran elf mage who burns away the battlefield fog and magnifies Dumplin' for the whole trench line to see.

Elle Pin-Up Panties

Enchanted underwear printed with a pin-up of Elle that boost Britney's dexterity and berserking skills.

Posse unit watching the Nagas, which moves in on Carl's order despite the risk of being caught and booted.

Elven troops among the thousands frozen, lifted out of Larracos, and pulped beneath the Astral Paw.

Divine reward for the Kill the Blasphemer quest, scaling with how entertained Emberus is by the killing.

Emberus's Contemplative Message

A quiet, dread-inducing message in which Emberus warns Carl that killing Hellik may get Carl burned.

A large, burly crawler who drunkenly attacked Carl at the Desperado Club and is conspicuously absent from his party now.

Enchanted Hairbrush of the Beefmaster

Carl's screaming golden celestial hairbrush granting huge buffs to any man with long enough hair.

Enchanted Repeating Crossbow of the Scavenger Mother of Mothers

Katia's large enchanted crossbow, mounted on Donut's back to fire the bolt that kills Huanxin Jinx.

Enchanted Toe Ring of the Well-Balanced

Ring pried from Carl's foot during treatment, its removal coinciding exactly with the accepted teleport.

Enchantment Guild

City guild formerly run by Langrim, whose expertise the Princess Posse now applies to its stronghold walls.

Endless Thread of Distraction

Madness psionic debuff that sends a target spiraling down chains of idle thought until they stop functioning.

Enemy Armor Column

Slow-moving enemy vehicle force whose delayed arrival is the crawlers' only remaining window.

Enemy marksmen who kill anyone leaving the crawler trenches, accurate even through the heavy magical fog.

The hand-dug defensive trench line of the opposing faction, shallower than the crawlers' and vulnerable to enjoining.

Enemy Trench System

Three successive enemy trench lines with no connecting tunnels, forcing retreats across open ground.

Enemy Troop Carrier Tanks

Twenty idle WWI-style armored troop carriers that Carl suspects are decoys, unmoved since being uncovered.

Engine of Tomorrow

Li Jun's clockwork replacement eye, granting muscle-reading precognition and short bursts of slowed perception.

Illusion spell that mirrors party members, held by Donut as a bard skill and newly by Carl.

Grimy bar outside the Desperado Club proper that becomes the venue for Louis and Juice Box's wedding.

Entrance Corridor

Flat approach lane in and out of Naga territory, rising into hills on the enemy side of the trenches.

Epitome Household Guard

Veteran non-dungeon soldiers serving the Epitome family, now deployed inside the Intercession alongside the crawlers.

Eris's Chaos Spinner

Eris's chaos wheel that made one of Carl's active god effects permanent, choosing between a curse and a skill.

Eris's Spell Mistake

Eris's ritual accidentally grants invulnerability to the feral god Meatus, making him indestructible.

Edgar's new tattoo ink that captures a fallen crawler's essence and lets the bearer temporarily learn one spell or skill.

Sward mantis crawler and explosives engineer who dies crushed on the eighth floor after her own sponsor's advertisement trap.

Everly's Dwarf Mercenary

Dwarf hire who dug bare-handed for a keyhole they had no key for until hope finally drained out of him.

Everly's Mercenaries

The two or three dozen NPCs Everly hired across the floors instead of allying with fellow crawlers; nearly all died.

Everly's Ogre Mercenary

Silent ogre hire who held up a collapsing ceiling, awakened in his final second, and told Everly ruin may not be inevitable.

Everly's Prayer Mat

Everly's mantis prayer mat, etched with invisible words that were among her only companions in the dungeon.

Executive Order 11905

Achievement awarded when Prime Minister Glory tries to assassinate Carl via a hidden Syndicate override and the AI blocks it.

Experience Notification

The kill-confirmation prompt whose absence tells Carl his hob-lobber silenced a gun without killing anyone.

Explosives Engineer

Everly's crawler class, listed in her death notice alongside her authorship of the cookbook's fifth edition.

Extend Aura Tower

Shanty Town clocktower converted into a manned synergy tower that projects Li Na's Dreads far beyond their normal range.

Additional contracted season a crawler can trade for a concession; Tipid traded one for his key.

Extra Steady Balance

A balance-enhancing skill granted alongside Walk on Air by the toe ring's Physical Balance effect.

Zone-wide dexterity and multitasking buff that doubled in the castle, leaving everyone speed-addled and manically chatty.

Justice Light's intricate three-dimensional stitched fabric sculptures, hung across the walls of his shop.

Faction Wars Rules

The ruleset governing the faction wars, under which making deities act outside their nature counts as cheating.

Potion that lets a crawler survive a long drop, once used by the Reavers to leap down the center of Larracos.

Level 55 Skank Skunk Battle Wizard in a starry conical hat whose defeat unleashes his warriors' held spray.

Fancy Boy's Wizard Hat

Blue star-and-planet conical hat looted from Fancy Boy, ruined by an unremovable skunk stink.

Feed Directory Loophole

Off-world teams rename their TV programs in the still-active feed directory to smuggle real-time messages into the dungeon.

Ferdinand and his Bird

The Princess Posse's alliance with Team Retribution - named 'The Good Guys' by Donut and immediately renamed by Ferdinand, with no takebacks.

Field Ruling Adjudication

Official hearing in Queen Imogen's kitchen where three adjutants examine Stockade's foul against Carl.

Fifth Edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Everly's authorship credit for the cookbook's fifth edition, listed as her achievement in her death notice.

Earth spell that fills a space with dirt, spammed by the enemy to suffocate crawler veterans in their trenches.

Carl's advanced trap-detection skill, which spotted the automaton bomb cluster through the battlefield smoke.

A level-five champion skill that identifies the nearest-to-death member of any group, intended for rescue but exploitable for execution.

A lesser demon from the Iron Tangle whom Samantha's new hairstyle suddenly reminds Carl of.

The level-five attack spell fired by Larracos's automatic red-jeweled defense towers, ten times per second.

Rare, expensive potion that repairs damaged structures, splashed on to restore them.

Flame Spider Tanks

Nine purely defensive war machines built by Florin, filling most of Team Retribution's Armor allotment.

A new enemy weapon: burning boulders that hit the ground and roll flaming through the smoke, drawing screams.

Floor Supervisor

The staff overseer who is supposed to hold one-on-ones with indentured NPCs like Milk.

Floor-Wide Reassignment

Mass redeployment of a floor's indentured workers to new posts, invoked by showrunners under a contract need clause.

Florin's Dictionary

A large 1800s dictionary with a bullet hole through the center, kept in the guildhall main room.

Shanty Town food stalls that mysteriously appeared overnight, poisoned by the NPCs then bought out during the ceasefire.

Force Reflection

Fortification enchantment on the stronghold's oversized door that turns force back on the attacker.

Former Child Actor Accessory Kit

An accessory kit waiting in Donut's saferoom mailbox, which she must open immediately.

Crawlers who survived by taking a deal and now serve the dungeon as staff, like Milk.

Former Crawler Escort

Unnamed ex-crawler sent by the not-for-conquest to accompany Tipid to a Viceroy system.

Former Prism Castle

Non-connected territory ceded from Carl to the Dream, possibly explaining their exit from the Bloc.

Fortification Engineer

A builder class chosen by thousands of Princess Posse recruits that levels through construction rather than combat.

Four Phases of Combat

The season's staged rule structure for Faction Wars: Ceasefire, Ramp-Up, Open Hostilities, then Peeling Larracos.

Fragging Incident

A System kill-credit ruling for deaths caused by a faction's own soldiers rather than an enemy.

Trap Carl places directly in front of the sealed Prism throne room door as he abandons the castle.

Paired rooftop sculptures on the Piccadilly that swallow and spew Larracos's waterfall, one currently clogged.

Fuzzy Handcuffs

Fuzzy, deliberately unlocked handcuffs on Prepotente's wrists that sell the fake bounty capture.

Galactic Internet

The viewers' network where thousands of known dungeon exploits are discussed but never patched.

Galactic News Media Center

Tier three team upgrade granting 100,000-plus tunnel channels, bought by every team except two.

Enemy tower firing relentless concussive gale pulses at the Nest and at Carl personally throughout the fight.

Garbage Truck Sponsorship

Donut's sponsorship, abruptly cancelled for conflict of interest, with an auction to be held for a replacement.

Stone-skinned race Volteeg chose on the third floor, granting sleep and stoneskin but costing him his song.

The mysterious group that likes Gary's new companion, though he refuses Orren's attempt to learn anything more about them.

A harem demon Samantha expects to emerge from the Feral Gods gate, with whom she has an old score.

Gather Ye, Vermin

An Oak Fell spell that draws every mammal within ten kilometers to the caster.

Gavrilo Princip!

Achievement Carl earns for assassinating a sitting system leader, named for the man who sparked the First World War.

Rosetta's crawler class, an information and mapping specialization suited to a guide and journalist.

Top crawler officer rank allowing recruitment, granting lower ranks, and command of large independent troop groups.

Dead Mad Dune Mage of the sand castle, tricked by Psamathe while trying to animate his sex doll.

Florin's twenty-five-foot summoned caiman, used as heavy construction equipment for raising fallen wall sections.

Donut's estranged sister-cousin, remembered only when Carl mistakes her unusual eye for a television character.

Insidious addictive dungeon drug that makes users relive a favorite memory, derived from a real-world training medication.

Glory's Adult Children

Prime Minister Glory's grown children, currently inside the system and named by the AI as leverage against him.

Crawler from the Penis Parade, summoned individually onto Carl's team for the Madness castle assault.

Gnoll Mercenary Unit

Ten off-worlder gnoll mercenaries from one original unit, split across three factions but still fighting as a group.

Gnomish Farseer

Head-mounted gnomish optic with spinning lenses that Bonnie uses to zoom in on distant contacts from the airship.

Gnomish Farseer Helmet

Bonnie's targeting helmet: a gnomish farseer built around a small flak helmet, comically oversized.

Carl's private message to Donut misfires into army-wide war chat and drives the entire assault onward.

Gods Leaving the Realm

Deities streaming out of Club Vanquisher during the raid, by a means Carl still cannot explain.

Roughly fifteen light deities, all with temples in Club Vanquisher and exclusive access to Travel the Path.

A named Gondii brain worm that puppeted the corpse of Charles Andrew until Carl stomped it flat.

Cable-strung gondola lines connecting the eighth floor's mountains, the only route for flightless crawlers.

Formal state the system AI has entered unusually early this season, compounding Cascadia's stress.

Gordon Waystation Outfitters

A waystation outfitter smeared by a rival's tower-long advertisement, its name stamped on the compass that killed Everly.

Gordon's Compass of Vertical Labyrinth Management

A 49-use compass that shows the quickest and safest maze path, gifted to bait Everly into a fatal advertisement.

Elle's offensive spell, grounded by the magic ban while she suppresses the enemy's anti-air guns.

A second hidden market on the Desperado Club's middle floor that Carl has never managed to get into.

Rival warlord whose own tank exploded, prompting Donut to blame Skull Empire sabotage.

Loud, tattooed pale-skinned elf tenner, a Level 60 Eviscerator eager to gut Reavers and snobby elves alike.

Grimaldi's Circus

Circus that employed the three ogre strongmen, Areson, Herman, and Apollon.

Gunnery Sergeant X2

Level 53 Reaver cyborg drop trooper whose long biography the AI narrates seconds before Tina bites him in half.

Crawler veterans transformed by the Gurgles into blood-spewing berserkers who charge their own trench line.

A nasty, contagious, non-curable debuff the factions banned years ago, causing insanity, rabies, and bloody death.

Lucia Mar's rottweiler, slipping helplessly on the oiled Donkey Kong ramp until Donut throws him at his mistress.

Lucia Mar's lightning-breathing rottweiler, terror of the dungeon, killed by Rend after nearly finishing Mongo.

Hailstorm Queen

Elle's upgraded class, built by adding wind to ice - and, she suspects, the end of her progression.

The inventory item meant to fix Carl's singed-off hair, per a distracted Mordecai.

Halloween Aficionado

A goth-themed class option that comes with black lipstick and, for some reason, a boxcutter - rejected as insufficiently sparkly.

The Night Wyrm, leader of the Guild of Suffering, revealed as the Desperado Club's new management.

Hamed's Bodyguards

Hamed's constant escort, described as not exactly NPCs and not exactly former crawlers.

A spell that stuns an enemy and summons them to the caster's location; rejected for having too small an area.

Hangar Access Point

Five-million-gold standalone base upgrade that keeps hangar access at the castle after the saferoom closes.

Hangar Trapdoor

Vulnerable physical door the Airship Portal adds to a saferoom's exterior roof; destroying it grounds the hangared airship.

Old term for the mercenary squads sent to kill indentured servants and NPCs when the cameras are off.

Barbarian-style crawler class or race, exemplified by the level 65 Donar-worshiping crawler Jurgen.

Head Buffing Kit

Novelty reward from the Male Pattern Baldness achievement, for polishing Carl's newly bare scalp.

The single hatchet growing straight up out of Bigs's skull, her only and entirely sufficient weapon.

Headlamp Colonnade

The Desperado Club's entrance bar in Larracos, newly reopened and hiding a tunnel to a private back room.

Heal Severe Injury

A powerful healing potion Carl improvised while part spider, normally requiring 33 Fine Healing Potions and an autoclave.

The base's medical corps, led by Imani with Bucket Boy and others, who will staff the field hospital in the coming fight.

Basic healing spell Carl reserves just enough mana for after dumping the rest into Günter.

Level 5 skill from the toe ring that stores one auto-trigger potion to fire when health hits a set threshold.

Heat Absorption

Fortification enchantment on the stronghold's oversized door that soaks incoming heat and fire damage.

Temporary floor-long divine benefit that leaves Carl's hands visibly glowing.

Level 15 Celestial Boon from Emberus adding scald damage to every punch Carl throws this floor.

Heating Element

The warming device Milk keeps in her straw nest, pushed aside when she finally wakes.

Heavy Pulse Gun

Mercenary crew-served energy weapon that cuts a whipping stream of light through charging crawlers like chaff.

Hell-Kissed Celestial Skill Potion of the Prince of Woe

A bubbling black Celestial potion that grants a random level 10-15 combat skill stolen from a high-level Sheol demon.

Herman the Fleet

Bespectacled ogre strongman elite who is turned into an unwilling suicide bomber against Carl.

Author of the sixteenth edition Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook who made waking NPCs his life's work.

Hey Larry, Can I Borrow Your Chainsaw?

Achievement for killing with a borrowed skill, rewarding a box whose name sent Mordecai into research frenzy.

Hibernation Sequence

Hard-coded shutdown that follows a completed ascendency, putting the system to sleep for elemental reclamation.

High Cleric of the Watch

The religious authority Carl must petition for permission for Emberus to break the gods-demons truce.

High-Tech Grenades

Advanced mercenary grenades bursting orange and silent, wasted on the crawlers' illusory tank formations.

An ominous achievement for acquiring a mysterious tattoo, rewarding only medicated lotion and no explanation.

Hive Re-Population Center 51

The mantids' newest, least populated colony, destroyed when its system went nova without warning.

A yellow-gemmed Larracos tower that fires beach-ball-sized globs of immobilizing gelatinous goo.

Hobgoblin Dynamite

Explosive sticks Carl throws grenade-style over the trench lip to clear rolling pet bombs.

Achievement earned when over 95% of an entire system's viewers watch a single crawler's feed.

A cassette of Dio's 1983 debut album, awarded with the Celestial Heavy Metal Box for surviving a demon lord's touch.

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

Megadeth track Louis picked to force berserk status on mantaurs, blasted from Carl's alarm traps.

Home Base Anti-Air Battery

The castle's anti-air emplacement, blown up in the sabotage that opens the paratrooper attack on the base.

Crawler trapped with Tipid who was left to die because the escape key only worked once.

Horatio's Family

Horatio's wife and older child, who survived their crawl and took deals at the tenth floor's end.

House of Greens

A naga noble house marked for total destruction in Rishi's coup against the royal family.

Houston's Ambush

Architect Houston's rifle attack on Carl the instant the ceasefire lapsed, planned around Stockade's sacrifice.

Houston's Rifle

The firearm Houston keeps concealed under his robes, punching a hole through Carl's shoulder at the ceasefire's end.

Bune mage who answers Rosetta's call and buzzes into the castle on small wings to suppress the coming explosion.

The Bloc's other Weeper commander, who openly asks whether they can just go back and wait to die.

One-eyed gnoll NPC, new manager of the Headlamp Colonnade, who greets Louis by screeching and kissing him.

Bitter possessing spirits whose minds carry the Inevitable Ruin curse, revealing unwanted truths about anything pure they touch.

Hup, Hup, Hup War Chant

Spontaneous camp-wide chant started by Penn that becomes the Princess Posse's war cry for Carl.

Gentle, childlike fey servants of an ice castle, slaughtered on orders that Justice Light still cannot explain.

Katia's home country, where the hospital, the adoption agency, and everything she lost were located.

Icon Industries

The corporation whose CEO, Huanxin Jinx, sponsored Eileithyia and was executed by Donut.

Title shared by the sultana's two female naga assistants, both her real-life cousins and both marked for death.

Illegal Corroboration

A rule blocking planning chatter with crawlers outside your own faction, enforced by undelivered messages and adjutant review.

The concealment magic hiding the acid-filled middle trench, whose holding is confirmed to Carl by Imani.

Illusion-generated armored vehicles that soak the enemy's high-tech grenade barrage while advancing nothing.

Illusory War Machine Tanks

Phantom armored vehicles conjured over No-Man's Land to soak enemy fire during the charge.

Undying demon-headed rats Allister watched swarm a crawler's barge and refuse to stop attacking.

A yellow marker floating above a character's head declaring them unkillable, worn by Princess Vinata in Khepri's temple.

Immortality Tag

Visible "immortal" label with a running countdown marking a combatant who cannot presently be killed.

Bomb variant that detonates on contact rather than by timer, letting Carl drop one while diving for cover.

Impact Hob-Lobber

Impact-detonated explosives from Carl's arsenal, roughly 500 of which fell on the Piccadilly in one drop.

The tunnel node reaching the furthest known point in the galaxy, whose forbidden gate is the Pacifist Network's escape route.

A tower targeting skill that locks onto a single victim and never stops firing until one of them is paste.

A deity already taken out by Odette, letting her seize control of the dungeon's wandering zombies.

Instant River Scroll

Powerful water scroll a Prism saboteur unleashed into a crawler escape tunnel, flooding a trench and exposing soldiers to snipers.

Intrusive Thoughts

Psionic infection that plants defeatist, self-destructive ideas in the target's own inner voice.

New-this-season skill allowing one to eat magical items, destroying them to permanently raise intelligence.

Invisible dreadnaught assassin who tried to stab Carl in the back and got his face punched off instead.

Jason Manning FUCKS

Level 55 sluggalo squad leader with morning-star dreadlocks who tells Carl to quit bleeding and get to the front.

Awakened NPCs who remember their past lives across previous faction wars seasons, forming Juice Box's war council.

Jellyfish Infestation

Sea jellyfish left stranded in Larracos's theaters by the flood, still closing the Piccadilly's balcony.

Ancient, powerful changeling who infiltrated Justice Light's sapper crew disguised as the sluggalette Sick-Ass Worgo.

Level 80 mantaur guard who greets Carl with a battle cry and immediately embeds his claws in the ceiling.

Jotan-class Titans

Enormous beings in whose intestinal tracts tummy achers originally lived as parasites.

Juice Box's Brother

Juice Box's late brother, a changeling principal who died on the fifth floor while collecting creature forms.

Consumable leap scroll that Florin required every inventory-carrying defender to keep ready alongside or instead of a ladder.

Jumping Jen-Jen

A woman Donut uses as her benchmark of attractiveness when grilling the primal about its girlfriend.

Jun's Scroll of Potion Duplication

A scroll belonging to Li Jun that copies a potion, letting Li Na arm both herself and Carl.

Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home

Carl's first-generation thermobaric bomb, wheeled and Fear-laden, used on the sixth floor.

Justice Light's Children

Justice Light's lost children, remembered only through the puzzles they loved as much as he does.

Justice Light's Lair

Justice Light's killing ground, into which the Posse plans to funnel the Dreamer army once thinned.

Justice Light's Neural Implants

Built-in cybernetics that let Justice Light read body temperature, weight, hormones, and ground movement in real time.

Justice Light's Paper Art

Folded paper constructions Justice Light sews together to calm himself, which snap into a spiral pattern.

Katia and Donut's Plan

A scheme Donut and Katia worked out together, hidden from Carl and Bautista until it was too late to stop.

The cancer Katia hid from the adoption agency, the same aggressive disease that killed baby Annie.

Katia's Nightmare

Katia's private dream, replayed on the adjutants' screen against Carl's furious objection.

Katia's Rehab Treatment

Multi-hour treatment that puts Katia under, which Carl intends to use to accomplish a second, undisclosed goal.

Khepri's Backstory Writer

Long-dead designer who wrote Khepri's "endless" temple, killed in a refueling platform accident.

Khepri's Immortal Bugs

Countless tiny insects granted immortality, left burning and screaming in the walls after the blast.

Ascendency deity, Khepri's former patron, who mysteriously dropped dead days before the temple battle.

A dead crawler whose five low-tier spellbooks remain with Carl for distribution among the party's mercenaries.

Kill 100 Worshipers of Hellik

Emberus's new quest ordering Carl to kill a hundred of Hellik's worshipers before reaching the twelfth floor.

Killing in the Name

The Rage Against the Machine song the Dazzlers blast in unison, announced by the dungeon and loud enough to shake the ground.

One of the brothers of Sheol, summonable for the remainder of the floor, and a name Samantha cannot fully remember.

A member of Porthus's party, plucked off a monster and ripped in half while climbing toward the tenth floor's moving exit.

Sea goddess whose eyelashes form Katia's divine knee pads, described by the AI as a horny bottom feeder.

A junk achievement for drinking vinegar, one of dozens paying out only common Adventurer boxes.

Level 56 Crisper crawler who incinerates Gurgles-infected veterans in the trench, then breaks down sobbing.

Kua-tin Rebreather

Bracelet-sized kua-tin breathing device grafted into Louis's bronchial tube to keep him alive.

A yenk who once ran the local enchantment guild and now enchants the Princess Posse's stronghold walls.

Larracos Defensive Ring

The ring of towers around Larracos being repaired and re-spelled ahead of the next assault.

Hundreds of children and shopkeepers fleeing up from the burning city as the defense towers open fire.

Lava Abatement Team

A unit tasked with containing the eruption's lava flow, whose competence Florin openly doubts.

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

Uncommon class that lets its holder buff a large number of soldiers simultaneously, ideal for army command.

Legend of a Thousand Lights

Crest folk tale of a lost habitat saved by jettisoning exploding methane-chickens as signal flares.

Legendary Fan Box

Legendary loot box awarded for the Holistic achievement, voted on exclusively by viewers in the naga system.

Legendary Hell Comes to Crawler Town Box

A legendary box delivering the promised bagpipes plus three personal space upgrade coupons and one town upgrade.

Legendary Lucky Bitch Box

Legendary box awarded for the Liquified achievement, containing a small upgrade patch Carl refuses to wear.

Legendary Quest Box

The Hell Comes to Crawler Town reward box, holding a useless kilt and a terrifying spellbook.

Stockade's headquarters, shown as the destination map on Carl's accepted teleport request.

Lemig Castle Guards

Stockade's household soldiers, decimated in the ballroom and forbidden from being summoned as he died.

The goblin race that makes up most of the Lemig Sortion, fifty-plus of whom die in the throne room.

Green goblin race of the Lemig Sortion, massacred in their own ballroom by Shi Maria and their own maddened hands.

Lemig Sanctions

Panford's field ruling: a foul for cheating, heavy sanctions on two factions, extra penalties for threatening an adjutant.

Lemig Throne Room Massacre

Fifty-plus Lemig personnel die in seconds when the botched extraction manifests Shi Maria through Carl in their headquarters.

Levitation Potion

Carl's last levitation potion, pushed to its limit to launch him out of Larracos for the bomb drop.

Li Jun's Celestial Eye

A celestial-quality prosthetic eye granting time-slowing and incredible speed, which Li Na installs in her own socket.

Li Na's Chain Lattice

A self-replenishing web of chains built beneath Astral Paw that shreds everything the paw slams through it.

System-brokered merchandising rights that let brands sell crawler likenesses while the crawler earns nothing.

Sluggalo sapper killed by a proximity scythe while building Justice Light's tunnel traps.

Line of Succession

The blood-relation chain among the naga players that must be entirely killed to break the Sepsis Whore curse.

Class Tipid chose on re-entering the dungeon, which he calls a good one and which grants Murder Tornado.

Achievement for blowing himself up with a bomb at his own feet, survivable only because of god-tier immortality.

The sealing of the Dagda temple door that traps Katia's group in the lobby without Li Na's auras.

Location Search

A lookup that reveals a target's position and cancels concealment spells like Subterfuge outright.

A lock-opening skill, granted at level 10 for five minutes by consuming Asi Hamami's Book of Voodoo page.

Lockpicking Guild

Guildhall teaching lockpicking, Dante's original indentureship posting before he transferred away.

Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions

An obscure crest-owned waste company that inexplicably gave Donut a Celestial Benefactor box.

Long-Range Trebuchets of the Elves

Elven siege engines massed on the southern front and preparing to fire on Carl's trenches.

Lord of the Flies

Achievement for trapping a fellow crawler, warning that social breakdown always starts this way.

The name Sledge fought to give the stronghold, lost in the tug-of-war that produced FUPA.

Louis's Second Wedding

Donut's cheerful plan for after the rescue: a band, a song, and Louis married again.

Louis's Surgery

Thirty-minute battlefield operation replacing Louis's machine heart and lungs with naiad organs.

Low Floor Undead

The worst deal at the table: fifteen seasons as undead staffing the dungeon's early floors, with a high likelihood of death and nothing but a subsistence stipend.

The subject of a note Carl sent Florin before the eighth floor ended - acknowledged, and not explained.

Patch benefit that redirects one fatal blow per floor into the body of a party member instead.

Madness Dune Buggies

Hundreds of troop-carrying buggies forming the Madness assault line, abandoned when their crews are raptured.

Battlefield restriction barring offensive magic, reducing the war to spells and counterspells — and enabling exploits.

Magical Periscope

Black magical screens along the trench parapet, all crafted by a single fabricator mage, serving as periscopes.

A burn lotion Miriam carries because healing potions barely touch Bianca's fire damage.

Male Pattern Baldness

Achievement for having all of Carl's hair singed off, rewarding a head buffing kit.

An ordinary mana refill transformed into something extraordinary, leaving Mordecai briefly speechless.

Gnoll mercenary of the Dream and Corporal Pillbox's cousin, spared and sent away with the looting party unarmed.

Mantaur Mosh Pit

System-announced group event that forms when enough mantaurs berserk together to heavy metal.

The deity sward mantises beg forgiveness from at death for not having sacrificed enough for the colony.

Mantid colony system that inexplicably went nova, triggering galaxy-wide panic just as the crawl's tenth floor ended.

Manual Tripwire

Hand-set trigger lines strung through the tunnels, tied off by sluggalos using their mouths.

Map the All Tree

An Oak Fell spell costing a single mana point that maps every node of the All Tree on deep floors.

Map-Making Guild

Hidden guild on the second floor of Club Vanquisher that Prepotente designates as the crew's escape rendezvous.

Scolopendra Club staff trained to learn the daily gossip, and thus another orbital information channel.

Construction rating giving fortifications 150% strength, rising to 200% and a golden glow on completion.

Small jeweled charm on a gold chain that marks a town's mayor and vanishes when the office is transferred.

Goddess summoned by a Viceroy team who razed the buildings outside Larracos and accidentally trapped the sultana.

Temporary god effect from Meatus: Carl's dick will fall off if he gets an erection.

Mechanized Armor

Advanced warlord units occupying tech slots, both of the Democratic Sortion's disbanded as penalty.

Medicated Lotion

A bottle of plain medicated lotion for Carl's mysterious tattoo, pointedly unenchanted.

Former crawler turned street artist in Alpert who drew the flaming cat-human skull emblem now tattooed across the army.

Glory Bound's core mechanic: unlocking and re-living a memory from inside, here weaponized as a cure.

Bag of cheap Earth cat food abandoned in the castle kitchen, stickered as a gift from Pet Angels.

Mercenary Guildhall Restriction

New rule barring mercenaries from guildhalls in the last two phases except a rotating staff of nine.

Corner-standing robot at the council that relays the AI's rulings, and its sarcasm, with a ding.

Milk's unseen kin, invoked in her own self-accusation that they would be ashamed of her.

Carl's consciousness crashing across Katia's mind as they go under, briefly touching everyone nearby.

Madness psionic specialists scattered through their army, invisible to targeting until Carl's Mind Balance hit 16.

Mined ground that claimed two enemy vehicles after Florin's charge forced a reroute.

Mini Tactical Nuke

Nuclear payload strapped into the back half of the Reaver castle's largest sentry dogs.

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

Mistress Henspar

Volteeg's pre-dungeon owner who loved and hid her pet bird, and died on the seventh floor.

Mobile Anti-Air Gun

Five-million-gold armor-slot gun that pivots ninety degrees to also mow down ground troops.

Absent from the scene, but his favorite Limp Bizkit song is what the system plays over the massacre.

Charisma-based natural benefit that terrifies enemies and converts their fear into experience points.

Moon Communication Gear

Equipment on the planet's moon that Pillbox's gnoll unit was originally hired to guard, not to fight over.

Pale-skinned elf tenner and Level 60 Plumbing Specialist, a healer who fights with an oversized saber.

Second kua-tin Carl ever spoke with, eaten by one of Lucia Mar's dogs while a party member.

Spell belonging to Tipid's Liquid Dervish class, which he rates above any mercenary's pulse rifle.

Mordecai-brewed potion that lies to the system about your Charisma for two minutes.

The moment a dungeon NPC becomes self-aware, visible as a flash behind the eyes like a screen booting up.

The rule that NPCs are recycled after twenty lives, quietly unenforced because deeper audits cost too much.

Naga Marketing Agency

Advertising firm the naga use to drive tourism, several of whose executives are playing this season.

Naga Protectorate of the New Reformer

The newly-coined name for the naga home system under its new regime, whose viewers overwhelmingly watch Carl's feed.

Enemy sector where Elle discovers another nasty surprise, tied to the Reavers' push for accelerated pet leveling.

Temple within the naga stronghold, watched from the air by Donut's crew for anyone approaching.

Naga Treaty Offer

A signed, AI-witnessed contract trading human citizenship and five generation ships for naga settlement rights in the solar system.

Rishi's long-planned coup, in which his brothers depose Vinata's father, the royal children, and the House of Greens.

Dead changeling peeled open and surgically fused to Architect Houston, from whose corpse something else emerges.

Naphil-Class Generation Ships

Five naga generation ships offered to Earth as part of Rishi's treaty, capable of carrying a population between stars.

The word that appears over anyone who tries to attack a protected target, freezing them mid-action.

A gnoll security guard in power armor who patiently chases Ferdinand around the room to scan him.

Freshly built mural-covered barracks that becomes the enemy's cover and the defenders' targeting landmark.

Monsters freshly seeded into the outer forests after the ninth floor's playing field was expanded - the floor's designated grinding ground.

New Naga Sultanate

The restored sultanate Rishi proclaims himself leader of, replacing a monarchy Carl thought was ancient history.

Human crawler mage killed by pulse blasts while trying to reinforce the castle's failing interior defenses.

Wand that puts a target to sleep for five minutes, used on Burcu so she won't leap into the traps.

No Child Soldier Rule

Carl's standing ban on children fighting, resented by the changeling kids and broken twice this chapter.

The revelation that this season has no failsafe, leaving the galaxy braced for whatever the AI does next.

No Simultaneous Marks Rule

Floor rule permitting only one crawler's marks at a time, which Li Na monopolized by marking thousands.

No-Interference Rule

Tribunal restriction barring adjutants from aiding a warlord or summoning his guards, even as he dies.

Three-headed ogre that died and split into the strongman brothers, and now exists twice over.

Non-Adjoining Property

Warlord rule barring dismantling of a captured headquarters that doesn't border your land, leaving it exposed to recapture.

Non-Corporeal Avatar

System compensation that manifests an unconscious teleport target as a ghostly, harmless projection.

Tens of thousands of enemy troops massing half a kilometer north of the crawler camp before the siege.

Not-for-Conquest

Charitable organization type; a new one aids destitute former crawlers and dungeon employees.

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

Pain-suppressing spell Allister recommends pairing with immortality, since immortality does nothing about agony.

Architect Houston's mother, positioned on the eighteenth floor as the outside source relaying real-time intelligence into the game.

Concealment spell the Posse mages cast over the assault troops on top of their invisibility potions.

Obfuscation Spells

Constant fog and illusion magic both armies maintain, making the battlefield nearly unobservable.

Observation Towers

Border towers manned with observation and Ping casters to detect and eject enemy scouts.

Off-World Mercenary Prisoners

Untrusted off-world mercenaries held in the new brig, all of them now gone except one.

Official Conversion

The formality that finally unlocked construction in Princess Posse territory, delaying the stronghold for days.

Ogre Basilica Guards

Golden-skinned ogre forms worn by two changelings that can bar a god from crossing a threshold.

God who held prison guard Anton on the last floor, whose grip Carl's Black Nimbus failed to break.

Fan-shaped shield spell that traps incoming thrown objects while letting defenders fire out from behind it.

Fan-shaped anti-grenade barrier that blocks incoming thrown explosives while letting fire out — used by both sides.

Self-named group of unique former crawlers with no home and physical disabilities outside the dungeon.

Each tower landing offered five one-way doors, one safe and four hiding unknown dangers, with no going back.

One-Winged Eagle Trapper

One-winged avian trap specialist working underground who wants access to Carl's trap table.

Open Intellect Action Network

Newly formed militant resistance organization, successor to the pacifist network, with York among its captains.

Figure from Allister's T'Ghee deck who teaches that suffering leaves scars.

Opening the Roof

Urgent project led by Louis that Carl prioritizes over sealing the breached safe room door.

Operating Theater

Architect Houston's lair beside his throne room, the only Madness stronghold nobody has ever infiltrated.

Operation Head Banger

Carl's fallback plan: berserk the mantaurs with heavy metal and strip the Basilica Guards' Untouchable status with Black Nimbus.

Orc Battle Parade Regalia

Ceremonial orc war dress of feathered opalescent armor, boas and heavy rings, worn by King Rust.

Justice Light's strange and unexplained class title, which means nothing at all to Carl.

Damaged office with a cracked desk where Orren confronts Carl about the AI containment break.

A bald man's head that was once a goddess's clitoris, spending his days begging to be fed cabbage.

Carl's buff, concentrated onto every bomb aboard the airship so the word appears floating over each one.

Oversized, Cumbersome Door

A twenty-foot changeling-built fortification door of apprentice quality holding three enchantments and, badly, one allosaurus.

The Princess Posse's border wall, assembled from massive metal sections and stress-tested with fireballs as it rises.

A paralyzing spell; half of the Fireball pairing used in War Crime's only prior recorded casting.

Status condition on Louis, showing he is immobilized rather than dead in the Reaver castle.

Part of the Background

A stealth skill that makes its user so unremarkable an entire army can march past unaware.

System role assigned to whichever party member has the highest total base stat count, unlocking a new interface tab.

Paulie's Plastic Tub

Worthless plastic container holding Paulie's containment device, traded away after half an hour of haggling.

Pauper's Ring of the Steadfast Emberus

Carl's ring, which flashes and warms as it partially blocks the effects of soul poisoning.

Pawn Shop Television

The awful TV Carl kept in his living room, which Donut insists was stolen because it came from a pawn shop.

Unlimited food-box supply granted by the Demons Hate This One Trick achievement, an Exorcist reference.

Level 62 Fortification Engineer whose hug and war chant turn Carl's arrival into a camp-wide ovation.

Perfect Night Vision

Skill drained from a hat into Donut's tiara, letting her see clearly in total darkness.

Prepotente's flawless memory, which stores the entire Club Vanquisher layout and their planned route through it.

Trench-mounted viewing device with a screen, through which Carl watches for the opening explosions.

Seattle charity that gave free pet supplies to people who couldn't afford them, its sticker on a bag in the castle.

Pet Leveling Acceleration

Rules change the Reavers pushed for, whose hidden purpose Elle discovers is a nasty surprise on the naga side.

Pet Tummy Acher

A creature Carl has apparently acquired as a pet and let Samantha name, to Donut's immediate alarm.

A chain of pet stores somewhere in the dungeon that Carl has never seen or heard of before.

Commander Stockade's class, listed at level 76 alongside his title of Warlord of the Democratic Sortion.

The resistance's next stage: armored assaults on Syndicate holdings across the galaxy, launched the moment Faction Wars ends.

Physical Balance

Level 5 toe ring skill imbuing both Extra Steady Balance and Walk on Air.

Carl's fallback order at the Reaver castle once both missing warlords' adjutants turn up on site.

Plastic Baseball Hat

An enchanted plastic ballcap that carries a Steady buff, queued for draining into Donut's tiara.

Platinum Have You Goddamned Figured Out How to Use This In Conjunction with the Fucking Voodoo Book Yet? Box

Platinum box whose exasperated name is the AI openly telling Carl to combine borrowed skills with the voodoo book.

Platinum Venison Box

The floor-completion box awarded to Carl on reaching the ninth floor, at platinum grade.

Warlord-menu grouping similar to a party, used to organize the fifteen personal guards.

Dungeon guild where York worked as a guildhall instructor after taking his exit deal.

Poison Splash Tower

A green-gemmed Larracos defense tower that lobs globs of green poison light deep into the city.

Poison-Infused Rocks

Enemy artillery boulders that crack open on impact and trail green poison fumes across the battlefield.

Crawler class specializing in toxins; Tipid's class, taken to level 96 before he exited.

Poisoners Guild

In-dungeon guild for the Poisoner class, where Tipid worked as an instructor after his crawl.

Porcupine Defense

A defensive spell that erupts dozens of steel quills in all directions from the caster's body, impaling attackers.

The race of the NPC bartender who became Team Retribution's scout and drowned an army in acid.

Portal Analysis Tool

Carl's existing multi-tab analysis utility, the closest comparison he has for the containment interface's layout.

Light-covered desk device that sets the temple portal's destination by integer address, with an automatic faith-routing mode.

Bar in Shanty Town on the border with the robot team, where Lucia Mar drinks with her dog.

Post Coital Blues

A baffling new debuff inflicted on Carl when his soul poisoning worsens mid-assault.

Post Nut Clarity

A crippling self-debuff from Carl's soul poisoning that knocks him unconscious for twenty-five seconds after Daughter's Kiss.

Post-Crawl Collection

The standard aftermath of a crawl: quarantine, then parasites from every corner descending to bleed the survivors dry.

Post-Release Health Care

Optional contract clause covering a crawler's injuries after release, which Tipid failed to negotiate.

Lucia Mar's ability to draw ambient magical energy from nearby sources to power traps she leaves behind.

A written word of power Milk scrawls onto her own skin, burning her but blocking Bianca's fire.

Pre-Collapse Items

The small allowance an exiting crawler is given: a few moments to choose keepsakes and trinkets out of his own inventory, no weapons, as a goodwill gesture.

Pre-Seeded Worlds

Planets deliberately salted with mined elements so that everything born there grows a harvestable system in its skull.

Prepotente's Club Vanquisher Map

Complete interior map of Club Vanquisher, given to Prepotente's family by a guildmaster and memorized by the goat.

Prepotente's Litany

Prepotente's whispered pre-battle recitation of names, including Miriam and Bianca, ending on "Ragazzaccia."

Prepotente's Mother

Prepotente's late mother, whose rules and soda preferences he still recites in the present tense before catching himself.

Priestesses of Theia

Theia's temple clergy, who woo prospects for weeks and politely teleport away anyone who declines to convert.

Primary Zone Influence

Interface page headline over an animated solar system, marking Earth as the AI's core zone of influence.

Princess Chandra

The attorney assigned to Donut's exit negotiation, revealed in the final line to be Carl's new wife.

Princess Chonkalot

Donut's grandmother, a celebrated North American Persian with over seventy best-in-show wins.

Donut's proposed media channel for the Princess Posse, pitched as a stalling tactic at the council.

The organization that usually pilots Eris with a different priestess each season, outbid this year by Nami.

Prism Castle Guards

Six soldiers total defend the empress: three killed silently outside, three still in the throne room.

Prism Mercenaries

Ten off-worlder mercenaries who arrive by tank during the assault; Carl stands down because two aren't Prism.

Prisoner Orders

Carl's standing instructions on enemy captives: convert the NPCs, and kill and keep the mercenaries.

A soundproof field used for broadcast interviews, impassable to those not invited in.

Probably-Never-Going-to-Need-This-Stuff Folder

Carl's inventory junk drawer, holding his bagpipes, a bucket of glitter, a Bea Arthur condom, and a sushi-making kit.

Production Facility

The planetside production complex hosting the warlord council, entered through a menu-stripping teleport.

Li Na's once-a-day skill that rips prehensile chains from the user's own flesh to attack or shield.

Professors' Dorm Tower

The college tower whose top-floor cafeteria serves as the crawlers' saferoom exit into Larracos.

Prospect Congregation

Church-quest mechanic letting a new worshiper bundle volunteers as prospects and haul them into a god's temple.

Temple spell that boxes its targets inside the Khepri temple for at least an hour, like a dungeon timeshare pitch.

Protect Aircraft

Louis's retained defensive shield ability, carried over from the Twister and now applied to the Party Planner.

Protection Bubble

Paired parlay shields that block all chat and break the game interface for those inside them.

Proximity Scythe

A blade trap in the tunnel halls that triggers on nearby movement and has already killed one sluggalo.

Psychosis-Induced Suicide

The system's kill ruling for Stockade's self-destruction, denying anyone credit for the warlord's death.

Carl's unarmed fighting skill, jumped to level 15 by a single skill potion from a platinum box.

A displacement spell the war mages combined cleverly to kill Stalwart despite being unable to attack him.

Enemy energy weapon fire that cuts through the battlefield fog like scythes and punches through crawler armor.

Non-magical tech weapon whose blasts punch through stacked buffs and cook crawlers alive.

A celestial cloak looted from the dead warlord Quan Ch, ceded to Donut and too complex to simply put on.

Queen Imogen's Private Ballroom

The high elf castle's topmost ballroom, Lemig headquarters, destroyed and filled with fifty corpses.

Queen Imogen's Private Kitchen

The late queen's kitchen beside the ballroom, requisitioned as the venue for the warlords' field ruling.

The final, unrecognized name in Prepotente's pre-battle litany, unknown to Carl.

Creature from Carl's past whose flesh-unraveling attack killed Yolanda, mirrored by Gloom Wraith Phase.

An Oak Fell spell that sprouts a full forest across a kilometer of ground per spell level.

Narrow fixed corridors that are the only legal way for non-scouts to cross into enemy territory during Ramp-Up.

The combat-based external guild where Volteeg serves twenty-six seasons as an unprotected NPC guard.

Orphaned ursine bear cubs in skull caps who beg to fight, with Todd promising to bathe in apostate blood.

Reaper Spider Minion Upgrade Patch

A small die-cut spider patch granting access to the Midnight Market, merchant proximity alerts, and +5% Dexterity.

Crawlers who prefer to stay out of direct fighting and instead track the war's big picture from base.

Reassignment to a Combat Role

Mid-tier punishment that converts a non-combatant dungeon NPC into a fighting one.

Reaver Citizenship

Profit-sharing citizenship the Reavers dangle in exchange for surrendering your body and cycles of unpaid soldiering.

Enemy-controlled doorway inside the castle's saferoom hallway, expected to open onto automatons or a bomb.

Reaver Industries

Manufacturing arm behind the Reaver castle's security sentry dogs and their explosive payloads.

Pollution-choked industrial moons where most of the galaxy's physical goods are manufactured and Reaver troopers are recruited.

The networked substrate Mordecai suggests Tagg transferred most of his mind into, leaving only a scrap of biology behind.

Reaver Security Force Cyborg Drop Trooper

Heavily armored Reaver cyborg mercenaries, all machine and armor with no NPCs among them, deployed to breach Carl's castle.

Reaver Seeker Missiles

Smart corkscrewing missiles that track the cloaked Party Planner through stealth and cloud cover.

Reaver Troop Transport Airship

A Reaver airship captured by Florin's soldiers that nobody dared fly with a drake still circling.

Season summary broadcasts available to dungeon NPCs, which Milk pointedly never turns on.

Red Alert Incursion

A territory alert warning of mobs inside Princess Posse land, worth limited experience and a test of the warning system.

Red Recruit Banner

Blinking red faction banner marking NPCs converted from an enemy army, granting officers conscription-level control for a week.

A human mage who helped shield the base, killed in a bunker yet still shown as an active dot on Carl's map.

Anti-possession potion normally used on weak possessions, added to Carl's dose to send him into the spider's memories.

A god losing his mind after the teleported city splattered an entire convent of his nuns.

Resistant Traps

Crawler-placed traps scattered across no-man's-land that survive the bombardment untouched, awaiting enemy contact.

Three-part biometric check — hand, ring, and eye — required to authorize a transfer from King Rust's account.

A super-rare purple glitter-filled potion, upgraded from Heal Pet, that will regrow Mongo's missing wing.

Talk show host whose program was where Carl first met Empress D'Nadia and briefly believed she was decent.

Rishi's Brothers

Rishi's siblings back in naga space, tasked with deposing the king and clearing the way for his sultanate.

Rishi's Primary Wife

A distant cousin of the naga royal family, married to Rishi, who died in the Temple of Khepri.

The class Porthus crawled to level 89 in - and, apparently, the class that produced the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook's second edition.

A dungeon establishment that hires exiting crawlers as guards - offered to Porthus almost as an afterthought, and dismissed as the least appealing option.

Once-hourly cape skill firing one of 333 random outcomes, sixty-six of them bad, pickable after nineteen spins.

The name Growler Gary calls out in confusion the moment the primal releases him.

Faction-wars casualty killed by the Viceroy chief surgeon's brain-cooking spell.

Rosetta's Mother

Rosetta's mother, who entered the dungeon with her and died on the first day, killed by goblins.

Rosetta's Tattoos

Brewing tattoo process that will let crawlers share skills and spells without killing anyone.

Creatures whose earlier attack on the Posse line left behind the protective spine of dirt before the trench.

Royal Court of Princess Donut

The formal name of Carl and Donut's adventuring party, retained by Carl even after he becomes its leader.

A spell Carl suspects Lucia Mar cast on herself, and the first thing he orders her to cancel after conscription.

King Rust's smuggled bevy of non-combatant courtesans, marked by Li Na and scattered after the ball broke.

Rust's Swamp Yak

The dead orc king's giant swamp yak dinosaur, now at the crawler base being introduced to Donut's pets.

King Rust's murdered queen, whose death he half-confesses he should have answered differently.

Level 59 human Blood Swimmer crawler manning the trench beside Carl when the pet bombs arrive.

Two dozen small autonomous crawler squads operating under standing orders, scattered across the battle map.

Saccathian Prince Saboteur

Invisible Prism infiltrator, a Saccathian prince and D'Nadia relative, blown apart by a landmine while fleeing.

Safe-Looting Protocols

Standing crawler procedure for looting enemy dead safely and preserving the bodies for later use.

Sai Rhino Guards

Oversized rhino mercenaries hired in numbers by the Bone Clan for the northern assault.

Samantha Head-Chucker Attachment

Xistera attachment built to hurl Samantha, moved to Carl's hotlist for the handoff to Emberus.

Sapient Moment of Destruction

The delayed explosion produced by a war mage's head roughly ten minutes after the war mage dies.

Carl's bomb-crafting station in the guild, which Justice Light uses heavily and is about to lose access to.

The attackers whose crossbow assault kills Mistress Henspar despite Volteeg's desperate attempt to protect her.

Scolopendra's Lair

The sleeping place of Scolopendra, third of the three realms the broken Nothing drains into.

Screaming Worms

Shrieking worms that flow continuously out of Carl's nose as a lingering debuff after the blast.

Interface function Carl uses to capture every containment menu before touching any of its buttons.

The hard-to-obtain linen Milk writes her scrolls and maps on, most of it burned by Bianca.

Segmented Blade

Lemig goblin weapon used by a maddened soldier to finish Luke and then cut his own throat.

Madness psionic infection that turns a victim's own body against them while their mind is clouded.

Whoever decided when to open the drain - credited by the system with killing a shark by suffocation in a Larracos alley.

Sensation Updates

News program renamed seven times in an hour to carry Epitome Tagg's real-time messages into the dungeon.

Sepsis Whore Deal

The arrangement whose requirements must be met before Donut is allowed to leave the ninth floor.

Sergeant Bret S

Crawler mage leading reinforcements down to secure the Nest tower door, killed within moments.

Session of Love

One-night-only show billed on the Piccadilly's marquee as the last performance before everyone in Larracos dies.

Carl's emergency inventory folder of massed explosives, dumped all at once over the Piccadilly.

Drunkenness debuff inflicted on Carl by a passing god through the Scavenger's Daughter.

The drunkenness debuff that snaps onto Growler Gary the instant the primal presence leaves his body.

Alchemical wake-up salve Mordecai claimed to be brewing as cover for the real expulsion potion.

Fragment spray from cracking poison rocks, pinging off Carl's shields and triggering a memory of Texas fireflies.

Level 53 sluggalette sapper, replaced partway through the tunnel work by the changeling Jessica.

Formal duel mechanic used to challenge a title-holder, exploited by cheating to kill Shanty Town's mayor.

Carl's newly bonded level-1 tummy acher, the regenerated remains of Ren's pet Garret, named in Ren's honor.

Situational Space

The shared antechamber outside personal spaces, which becomes a long hallway of doors when many crawlers use one entrance.

Six-Pack Missile Launcher

Weapon Carl tries and fails to bolt onto the Royal Chariot because all Armor slots are used.

Slow scanning function of Donut's Targeting skill that reveals an enemy's level, weapon, spells and stats.

Skank Skunk Warrior

Level 45 two-foot bipedal skunk soldiers with crude armor, spears, and a devastating aerosol spray attack.

Three-hour debuff from skank skunk spray that makes the victim reek, drops Charisma 70%, and causes uncontrollable vomiting.

Donut's brother, cited by Carl as evidence her family's names are not as profound as she claims.

Skunk Wizard Hat

A malodorous wizard hat looted from a skunk that taught Donut the atrocity spell Rolling Battle Formation.

Caught outside the tower when Bear Witness hit, and frozen along with everyone surrounding it.

Sleep Potion Barrel

One of the Donkey Kong barrel types, rolled at Lucia Mar without effect.

Giant demon killed by the goddess Theia at the end of the bubble levels.

Guildhall barracks the reserve sluggalos converted into something Imani refuses to describe.

Slug-people with juggalo styling and weapons grown from their heads; Bigs is one.

Plain smoke grenade Carl hands Prepotente at the club door as his new idea takes shape.

Fan-made stories and art pairing crawlers together, which Donut adores as art and Louis finds alarming.

Snow Castle Guard Captain

Temporary eighth-floor post assigned to reassigned indentured workers guarding a settlement's snow castle.

Known alien type Carl uses as reference for Juice Box's taller, thinner, midnight-black transformed shape.

The large-eyed alien species that supplies the outreach guilds' attorneys - the creatures who read a dying crawler his exit options while eating snacks.

Soul Crystal—Apito

An outstanding quest item Carl still needs for Emberus's investigation into his son's death.

Soul Gem Generator

The device inside the Piccadilly that spawned Larracos's zarogoth hordes, destroyed by Carl's bombing.

Crawler slang for the suppressed-notification queue where non-critical game messages pile up unread.

Haste potion taken simultaneously by all three of Vinata's guards as they charge.

Simple walking war machines deployable ten at a time; unit S4 is destroyed by enemy artillery at the southern front.

The crawlers' own disposable armor, temporary machines meant to be used up and then scrapped or destroyed.

Spider Tattoo Ink

Perpetually hot ink brewed by Shi Maria for Carl's sternum tattoo, now handed over to Rosetta.

Defensive tower type; the only two structures the crawlers finish in Shanty Town before the assault.

Mob type that travels as a single damage-immune mass and bursts into individually vulnerable, briefly dazed components.

Pilot program this season letting companies sponsor dungeon traps, which announce their advertiser before triggering.

Spot Number Eight

The woods above the Madness's castle, where the accidentally opened portal deposits its travelers.

Illumination spell hovering alongside Torch over the bottom levels of Larracos during the cleanup.

Spunky Jefferson

Dong Quixote's stinking crust-sock flail, weighted with nickel, which apparently speaks in his mind.

The species that ran the previous battle-royale season on Aryl and 'relocated' its survivors.

A failing refueling platform outside the Earth system's tunnel gate, choked to death by the embargo.

Stalwart's Father

Recently deceased Bone Clan ruler whose death brought several unsettling revelations to light.

Stalwart's Scorpion Tank

Five-meter, 700-ton shielded mechanized scorpion that leaps the river into Florin's south flank, apparently piloted by Prince Stalwart.

Stalwart's Sister

Unnamed orc royal whose imminent arrival at the station Stalwart invokes as a threat.

A warlord team's army headcount, cut by 25% as the Democratic Sortion's first cheating penalty.

Starvation Warning

System alert that flags Milk's starvation while forbidding her from dying of it on purpose.

A wineskin of 825 ml of permanent ink Milk gives Carl, enough for several chonky books and impossible to fade.

The skill that lets Carl sprint up the oil-slicked Donkey Kong ramp inside the Nest tower.

Debuff locking Carl's knees, one of many rolled from the gods flooding into the club.

A throwaway achievement for shoving trap modules into Samantha's neck hole, worth only common boxes.

Volteeg's birth race: a small caged singing bird that perched on its owner's shoulder.

Subsistence Stipend

The payment a surviving crawler receives on release from indenture - bare subsistence at the low end, double at thirty seasons, and no housing guaranteed.

Succulent Decay

Li Na's final and untested dread, switched on as Carl reaches the temple portal with unknown consequences.

Rare multi-functional teleport spell that summons an ally, with all control resting in the summoned party's hands.

Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza

The AI's manually-run, made-up boss battle pitting Carl's crawlers against six naga inside an angry god's temple.

Suppression Field

A floor-wide field that goes up at the start of Ramp-Up to disallow offensive and transport magic.

An achievement the system admits it invented on the spot for punching a dead shark into red mist - rewards a sushi-making kit.

Sushi-Making Kit

The reward for vaporising a shark: a kit for making sushi, handed over with no further explanation.

Sustenance Pellets

Flavorless nutrition pellets delivered to Milk, the bare minimum keeping her indentured body alive.

Insectile race from the grassy sward, ruled by queens and a collectivist colony culture that suppresses individualism.

Strength benefit Donut refuses outright, citing what it did to Carl's body.

Syndicate Entertainment Authority

Body that charges roughly 30,000 credits per program rename, making the feed directory loophole possible.

Syndicate Intergalactic Bar Association

The lawyers' body that supplies volunteered attorneys for crawler exit deals and is thriving on twenty thousand survivors.

Syndicate Probate Courts

Syndicate legal bodies already girding for endless court battles over Empress D'Nadia's bankrupted estate.

Syndicate Rescue Squad

The search team that notices thousands of glowing cockrent spheres and rescues the lost habitat of the Thousand Lights legend.

Syndicate Security Corvettes

Syndicate patrol warships in Earth orbit, outgunned by the behemoth they never thought to search.

Card deck of meaningful figures; Allister keeps Open Wound among his.

Epitome Tagg's mother, waiting on the eighteenth floor and offered by him as a life-for-life trade.

Talking Turtle Guy

Talking turtle leading the castors in scouting enemy fortifications on the far border.

Large unaffiliated group of crawlers waiting out the faction war in the woods.

Warlord loadout slots holding advanced units; removing one disbands whatever unit currently fills it.

Tech-Based Cloak

Prohibitively expensive real-world invisibility tech that defeats the base's anti-magic charms entirely.

Teleport to Safety Ring

An escape ring D'Nadia carries that is rendered worthless by the standing teleportation ban during the fight.

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

Smoking ruin beside the new brig, still reeking of burnt stew days after its cleric boiled himself alive.

Temple Defense Protocols

Emergency procedures Katia invokes as a cover story; the mantaurs have no idea what they are.

Guards stationed in the lower parts of Club Vanquisher whose arrival would obliterate the fugitive crawlers.

Dungeon ruleset governing deity temples that made Vinata's trap legal and Carl's team the trespassers.

Temple of Emberus

Shrine to Emberus at Club Vanquisher, whose high cleric Pater Coal was taken over by the AI.

Temple of Issitoq

The temple Carl must reach in a Club Vanquisher to petition for permission to break the gods' truce.

Temple of Theia

Theia's shrine in Club Vanquisher, historically the Blood Sultanate's private resort for the length of Faction Wars.

Temporary Effect from Khepri

Ninety seconds of genuine immortality automatically conferred on anyone standing in Khepri's presence in his own temple.

Small, flightless mantis-kin bred for emotionless warfare, hated by the mantids and nearly extinct through York's hive.

Texas Fireflies

Carl's intrusive memory of his grandparents' Texas house and its fireflies, surfacing mid-charge.

The Larracos ring home to multiple shops, crossed by Carl on his climb and partly drowned in lava.

Larracos's topmost ring, normally barracks and soldiers, crowded with fleeing civilians during the tower barrage.

The Ancient Palace

The naga homeworld's historic palace, offered to tourists as a headline attraction of the naga system.

The Aryl Blackout

An entire star system and its tunnel node vanished from the network the instant orcs triggered the failsafe.

The gray, ash-buried battlefield between Larracos and the Reaver castle, cleared of traps and eerily haunted.

Dark ash cloud spreading from the eruption that Carl recognizes will be a problem for everyone.

The Backstage Death Maze

The seventeenth floor, being built and running as it was announced, and the only path to the safe sixteenth.

Castle hall where Carl's translucent avatar appeared amid dozens of Lemig goblins, leaving him drenched in blood.

The Ballroom Massacre

Shi Maria's manifestation through Carl in the Lemig ballroom, slaughtering goblins and maddening the survivors.

Donut's name for using a captured saferoom entrance to sneak-attack the enemy — which the enemy runs on them first.

Colorful blast-hardened barracks deliberately built on the hill's lip, whose roof becomes Carl's command post during the cyborg attack.

The Battle Formation Ball

Donut's mass spell that swept allies and thousands of enemies into a single ball, knocking her own people out cold.

The strategic display Rosetta consults, showing only four teams left beside the war mages.

The Bedlam Bride Dream

The dream-space where Carl watched Shi Maria devour Hapanzi and learned the rules of her containment.

The Betting Window

Three-minute wagering period the AI opened on the temple battle for viewers at home, closed with "No more bets."

The Breaking of the Nothing

Justice Light's tiny trap drops two devices into a portal, shatters the Nothing, and wakes Scolopendra.

A newly-built prison complex near the Nest tower, escape-proof, now emptied of every prisoner but one.

The Castle Antennae

Antennae built beneath Carl's castle by an insane skyfowl, apparently designed to work with the Gate of the Feral Gods.

The Children in the Dark

The minds sharing Lucia Mar's body, waiting in a cold dark room and taking turns at the surface.

The Children's Crew

Carl discovers two children, Bonnie and Skarn, serving as combat crew aboard Party Planner.

The Club Vanquisher Infiltration

Carl's team breaches Club Vanquisher through chained portals, then unleashes an amplified dread that massacres the lobby.

The Club Vanquisher Lobby

The club's front common room of leather couches, bear rugs, and a garage-sized fireplace, unchanged until it isn't.

Reference listing every god with a numbered temple address, the source of Khepri's dial code 453.

The Cop's Husband

A childhood wound: at the funeral of the officer who died protecting him, her husband said something cruel to Louis.

The Cotton Fields

Miles of non-magical cotton below the halls of Ascendency, the landing site for the transferred city.

The Council Chamber

Projected meeting room with a long table, a corner Mexx robot, and walls a changeling can walk through.

The Council Truce

Tradition that armies halt during council, with no actual rule stopping a move while warlords are trapped.

The Coup De War Crime

Donut's name for the capstone action that follows the four offensives of Operation Ruin.

The Crawler Project

NFC nonprofit dedicated to helping former crawlers navigate the universe after release from the dungeon.

The Crocodilian Woman

The Desperado Club doorkeeper whose account traced the fleeing harem women straight to the Cosmic Lounge.

The Crushing Room

Sand-filled chamber ten flights below the tower's summit where Everly and her last two mercenaries were crushed.

The Daddy Tax Bra

A novelty bra printed with Carl's face and "Time to pay daddy tax!", left on the table by Katia as a joke.

A trap holding thousands of evicted demons, dropped into the Nothing to give them a way back to Sheol.

The Ditch Digger

Model name of the Reavers' latest security sentry dog, a tech-based system with optional explosive.

The Dog-Paddling Orc Lady

Off-screen orc celebrity whose amazing dog-paddling skills rival the naga shipyard scandal for headline space.

Li Jun's builders and watchers in Shanty Town, split between construction work and thin saboteur patrols.

The Dream Collision

Shi Maria bursts screaming into Katia's memory, merging her dream with Carl's and ending the hospital scene.

The world Carl must return to, and the threshold Paulie never managed to cross.

Mantaur ram who tore open his own throat under Li Na's dread and was mercy-killed by Carl's bare foot.

The Earth Embargo

A blockade sealing the Earth system's tunnel gate, trapping the resistance in orbit and ruining everyone outside it.

The Eastern Approach

The tunnel corridor from the east, wired with manual tripwires by the sluggalo sappers.

Carl's moment of white rage in the throne room and the deliberate step back from becoming what he hunts.

The Dream's stronghold, left undefended once their army teleports out, and briefly targeted by a digger.

The Enchanted Tooth Cap of Hi-Yo Silver

Donated mount tooth cap that lets Carl summon Rend to his position from up to five kilometers away.

The Entrance Vestibule

The ground-floor room of the Nest where Carl conscripts, interrogates, and nearly executes Lucia Mar.

The Escape Hatch

A teleport hatch behind Carl in the Nest Tower that jumps to just outside the Area 52 safe room.

The Espresso Stand

An ash-covered espresso stand standing alone in the wasteland, concealing an unused saferoom entrance.

The plan to push every crawler and NPC down the stairwells before Emberus torches the ninth floor.

The Expanded Map

Territory the AI tacked on when it enlarged the battlefield, populated with recycled mobs and no quests.

The Fallen FUPA Cleric

A dead crawler cleric whose deity-worship variant of Dinner Bell becomes Donut's Bijanbi.

The Familiar Painted Wall

A wall in the Prism headquarters painted with a pattern Carl recognizes, which makes Rend chuckle menacingly.

The Fiftieth Level

The Larracos ring holding the College of Magic, where the crawler force stages the assault.

The Financial Feed

The only outside data still visible from inside the dungeon: transactions and their amounts, but nothing else.

The First Trench

The enemy's forward trench, blown apart by Daughter's Kiss and captured in the assault's opening minutes.

The Five-Hour Deadline

The roughly five hours remaining before the War Mage team holding the castle wins Faction Wars outright.

The Fleeing NPCs

Elves and fairies patronizing Club Vanquisher who flee the breach and are killed anyway by the dread.

The Formal Complaint

Prepotente's absurd demand that Milk fetch the club's manager so he can complain about his mother's ban.

The Fourth Floor

The dungeon level whose changeling population Juice Box's brother was questing to free.

The Garbage Freighter

Waste hauler refurbished into a passenger liner to carry fifty thousand former crawlers back into the dungeon.

The Generation Ship

One of two ships bought with stolen funds, carrying the crawlers' families out of the center system for good.

The Goat Crawler

Unaffiliated crawler who remains outside every faction and actively hides his position.

The Good Guys Alliance

The alliance binding Team Retribution and the Princess Posse in the late stages of Faction Wars.

The Grease Monkey

Viceroy portable surgical automaton, a chandelier of robotic arms that both heals patients and dissects them for science.

The Great Consensus

A galaxy-wide isolationist movement holding that the Syndicate was a mistake and every species is better off alone.

The Guild Corridor

Club Vanquisher's upper concourse of shops and guild halls, strewn with self-mutilated corpses during Carl's escape.

The Guildmaster of Club Vanquisher

Guildmaster inside Club Vanquisher who befriended Prepotente's family and gave them the club's interior map.

The Halls of the Ascendency

The seat of the gods, named as one of the three realms the broken Nothing began draining into.

Recently repaired airship hangar reachable only through the guild until a standalone access point is bought.

The Head Guard of the Naga Castle

Godless big naga commanding the castle guard, the Sultana's real-life boyfriend, killed hard by Elle.

A settlement castle Justice Light and Dante were assigned to guard, and the site of the massacre that broke him.

The Infinite Table

The endless banquet table at the heart of Khepri's temple, covered by something that moves but isn't a blanket.

Room at the Princess Posse base where Carl's body lay through the treatment and the botched teleport.

The Jello-Looking Thing

Unnamed gelatinous warlord the achievement text names as an investment banker whose death would cause real chaos.

Tiny hole in the tower floor that would stop the crushing ceiling, useless without the key left behind above.

The place Orren left behind, believing he could make a difference without profiting from another's death.

The Larracos Aqueduct

Larracos's upper-level aqueduct, cracked by Carl's bombing and spilling lava across the 65th and 66th levels.

The Larracos Healer

A healer said to have been able to restore Li Jun's eye, lost when the crawlers flooded the city.

The Larracos Moat

Water barrier created when Mazu razed the ring outside Larracos, burying the last temple entrance to the club.

The Larracos Towers

The city's towers — those able to fire on the Nest are destroyed, and the rest now sit silent.

The Legendary Trap

A simple, tiny legendary trap that toppled over and changed the course of all history.

The mass of Syndicate personnel who descended on Earth, whom Carl briefly contemplates killing all at once.

The Liaison's Office

The disused office Carl keeps being yanked into, freshly redecorated with a portrait of Astrid.

NPCs taken as spoils by the victorious orcs at the end of Rosetta's Faction Wars.

The Lizard Shopkeeper

NPC proprietor of a level's only trap store, murdered by Justice Light in a moment of anger.

The Lost Changeling Asset

The changeling operative most familiar with the Reaver castle, lost before the rescue could use them.

The Madness Minefield

Thousands of layered traps blanketing the flat prairie between the woods and the Madness castle.

Spellcasters laying a lattice of protection spells over each granite block of the Nest.

The Maggot Squad

Wildly popular tunnel drama about a crew of outlaw gondii mercenaries, loathed by the Valtay government.

The Mantid Massacre

The one prior use of War Crime, in which an Operatic warlord left 200 mantid mercenaries paralyzed and burning for two weeks.

The Mantis Queen

Everly's mother and queen of her sward mantis colony, who named and predicted her daughter's Inevitable Ruin.

The Middle Trench

The enemy's designated fallback trench, secretly turned into a hidden pool of acid before the assault.

Unidentified Ascendency participant relaying Nurse Yugoslav's intelligence to Stockade and Houston.

The Missing Dancers

The unexplained disappearance of the Desperado Club's entire dancing staff, replaced overnight by strangers.

The Missing Naga Army

The unlocated naga field army that Carl's feints were designed to draw out — before it turned out to be gone.

The Monitor Station

A Skull Empire-built security satellite orbiting Venus that houses the solar system's star-killing failsafe.

The NPC Team Spies

Two NPC spies attached to Team Retribution who filled and acidified the enemy's fallback trench.

The Naga Castle Assault

The infiltration of the naga stronghold, launched without its expendable vanguard after the sluggalos wander off.

Vinata's father and sitting naga monarch, being deposed by Rishi's brothers while the Faction Wars play out.

The Naga Prime Minister

Head of the naga government under the old king, listed among those being purged in Rishi's coup.

The naga ruler whose possible escape is the one outcome Carl fears from Operation: Snake Pit.

The Naga System

The nagas' home star system, marketed to galactic tourists as an exotic destination full of ancient wonders.

The New Concierge

The Desperado Club's replacement concierge, who denies ever seeing the missing dancers.

A defensive wall under construction at the crawlers' castle, reported as coming along nicely.

The Ninth Level

The low Larracos ring holding the Piccadilly Theater and the hidden signal generator.

The Obsidian Naga Cousin

Small obsidian-scaled naga cousin of Vinata, widow of Rishi and one of two targets Carl's team must kill.

The Onboarding Facility

Small orbital station where crawlers onboard and where the Homecoming Queen docks to load returning soldiers.

The far limit of Florin's northern push, reached only if nothing else stops him first.

The Other Side of the Glass

Rosetta's first documentary about the crawl, funded by Porthus, which resonated but changed nothing.

A short-range orange ray fired from a zarogoth's mouth that leaves victims writhing rather than dead.

The Parking Lot

The mass of ships hovering above Earth to watch the crawl - now a mini warzone with warships threatening to open fire.

The Larracos theater housing the zarogoth soul gem generator, obliterated by Carl's mass bomb drop.

A heap of roughly eighty thousand paralyzed witnesses dumped beside the Dream castle by Eris's ceremony.

The Pineapple Cabaret

Venue whose backstage the AI offers as one of four destinations for the exiled orc princess.

The Popov Brothers

Crawlers previously ejected from the dungeon, the precedent Carl half-wishes for Katia.

The Porsuk Bartender Scout

An NPC bartender turned Team Retribution scout who gained almost twenty levels by drowning an army in acid.

The Posse Scouts

Carl's remaining reconnaissance crawlers, all aboard the Party Planner and pre-positioned in enemy territory.

The Pregnant Veteran

An unnamed pregnant former crawler on Earth's surface, for whom Boomer sets aside four Cronus suits and a landing skiff.

The Prisoner Cell

A small building holding one shielded prisoner under a single spotlight, guarded by the 107th White Dragons.

The Purple Naga Cousin

Purple naga with red highlights, Vinata's cousin and the second kill target inside Khepri's temple.

The Quetzalcoatlus Ghost Quest

An uncompleted fifth-floor quest that Justice Light believes stripped the changelings' copying restrictions.

A shaft of rainbow light shining up out of the pile of witnesses that gods appear to fear.

A point north of the captured trench where Party Planner lands to collect Carl's raid team.

The Romance Novel Nurse

The nurse who waved Katia through without looking up, and later mentioned Annie's death in passing at a park.

Carl's live personnel readout, showing his missing guards alive and Dong Quixote's level climbing in real time.

The Rust Parlay

The battlefield parley where King Rust reveals the failsafe plot and trades an army withdrawal for Carl's plea.

The Scorpion's Bite

Non-magical bandolier accessory that lets a quadruped mount and fire multiple ranged weapons.

The Second Connection

A non-physical link between Carl and Katia that survives being pulled apart and binds him into her dream.

The Second Trench

Trench line reported breached during the assault by enemy spies feeding Britney's intelligence network.

The Semeru Castle

Wrecked capstone fortress built against further intrusion toward the gods, its living wood long rotted away.

The Sentient Blood

Self-directed pools of blood spawned by Li Na's dread that hunt through Club Vanquisher's halls on their own.

The Signal Generator

Shielded enemy antenna hidden in the Piccadilly Theater, the objective of the entire Larracos push.

The Social Worker

A figure from Carl's own remembered past who collected him from an interrogation room saying come on now.

The Staged Threat

Milk invites the crawlers to threaten her so that giving them information becomes lawful coercion.

The Stalemate Feint

Boomer deliberately throttles the assault so the trapped enemy believes it's a stalemate and never surrenders.

The Standard Merc Package

Late-entry deal granting returning former crawlers level 60, a temporary race, and a class, but no gear.

The Sub-Pantheon Purge

Someone on the twelfth floor is systematically killing off every god in Khepri and Nekhebit's sub-pantheon.

The sixth-floor high elf castle, moved to the ninth floor and seized by the Lemig Sortion as headquarters.

The Swallowed Voice

An unseen speaker in the merged dream who answers Shi Maria's denial by saying she swallowed him whole.

The grassy lowland homeworld of the sward mantises, imitated by the eighth floor's landscape.

The Teleport Split

Stockade's half-successful cheat that divided Carl between two places at once and nearly killed him.

The Tenner Wraiths

Griffin and Morales's squad within the 103rd Recon Legionnaires, named for their status as tenth-floor tap-outs.

The Three Open Doors

Three doors held open in sequence, two of them true portals that die the instant the club locks down.

The Throne Room of the Bone Clan

Bone Clan seat of power seized by Team Retribution, who must hold it six hours to defeat the clan.

The Tina Decision

Carl's refusal to override Kiwi and order a child into battle — a line Donut crosses for him seconds later.

The Tortoise Dude

Unnamed tortoise crawler riding with group three's concealed cart column into naga territory.

A fifty-level tower on the eighth floor that was entirely an advertisement, ending in a crushing dead end.

Territorial installations Juice Box's alliance powers up early, forcing non-army civilians to relocate immediately.

The Trap Fields

Miles of former Blood Sultanate hills turned into a trap network doubling as an early-warning tripwire.

The Trap Trigger Jewel

A marble-sized jewel on the ground powering Lucia Mar's net, removable only by hand and hot to the touch.

The Posse's single small siege engine, looted from Dream elves and loaded with Dazzlers for the assault.

The Princess Posse's fortified forward trench, heavily warded and deliberately allowed to erode for the assault.

The Trench Assault

The Princess Posse's surprise offensive: a bombing run, Dazzler barrage, and two-thousand-strong charge across No-Man's Land.

The Trophy Heads

Hundreds of taxidermied monster heads lining Club Vanquisher's walls, which come screaming to life under Dark Purpose.

The Tunnel Communities

Fan communities that have devoted themselves entirely to solving the secret of the naga sultana's escape.

The pair of battle lines the Princess Posse army deploys to the moment the Faction Wars begin.

The Unnecessary Microphone

Prop microphone Odette and Chaco brandish at the council, intangible to anyone who tries to take it.

The Unwitting World Leaders

Off-world rulers who found themselves fighting for their lives in a game they thought they were watching.

The Vinegar Bitch

Deity summoned at the end of the previous floor, whose confused arrival Khepri's mirrors exactly.

The Voice in Carl's Head

An unidentified friendly male voice that talks Carl through the psionic assault and calls him family.

Mordecai's horror-of-war film program for the changeling kids, which backfired and inspired them instead.

The nurse who invites Katia to pick up baby Annie, then leaves them alone for the last time.

The White Cliffs

Justice Light's original skyfowl homeworld, from which he was taken against his will.

The Wire Exploit

Mistress Tiatha's trick of hanging wires from the aura tower's clock arms to carry Li Na's Dreads into the club.

The Withdrawal Deal

Rust agrees to pull the armies back unharassed in exchange for Carl pleading with Formidable for Earth.

The Witness Sigil

Unfamiliar mark of two back-to-back Cs run through with a flaming lance, appearing over every Witness.

The Woman with the Dog

A crawler woman accompanied by a dog who forces her way into the Nest tower, killing its defenders.

The Worm Faction

The worm-like species Louis says now controls the dungeon, and normally runs it with high-tech rather than magic.

The Wrong Changeling

The only changeling to touch a god and survive, described by Juice Box simply as 'wrong.'

Gnoll who served as Shanty Town's second-most-recent mayor before being stabbed in the back during single combat.

Crawler class of stealth and larceny; Dante's class, carried to level eighty-nine before he took a deal.

This Thingy Works Slightly Better Than It's Supposed To

An ominously named enchantment buff placed on the Posse's old-fashioned earplugs before the Dazzler barrage.

Arm-thick thorns sprouted from the earthworks to engulf the pet bombs that fell back on the enemy side.

Three Presences

The entities Carl senses menacing behind him at the dream's edge — two obvious, a third well concealed.

Throne Room Occupation Warning

System notice giving Carl six hours to reclaim an occupied throne room or forfeit the castle and its land.

Throne Room of Team Retribution

Contested throne room that is abandoned, captured, and abandoned again within a single sequence of system messages.

Tiara of the Elemental Alchemist

Donut's tiara, whose advanced targeting skills let her hit anything in line of sight.

Tiara of the Inebriated Dragonfly

Donut's hat that grants the Hover skill, now sacrificed to the purple charge pillow.

Tiatha's Wire Hack

Mistress Tiatha's technique for mixing tower amplification with wire to broadcast an aura far past its normal range.

Tipid's Surgery

Operation that kept Tipid alive after leaving the dungeon and buried him in the debt that shaped his life.

A buff that reduces projectile damage, stacked onto Carl's squad among dozens of protection spells.

Total Ear Protection

Imani's spell that seals a bubble around the target's head, blocking the Dazzlers' deafening noise.

Touched by a Demon!

Unique achievement — awarded exactly once ever — for being physically touched by a demon lord of Sheol and surviving.

Team Retribution's real objective: physically touching deities, which has so far been near-uniformly fatal.

Long-brew potion mixed into the Glory Bound gel that forces the user to confront something painful instead of enjoying it.

Tower Warning Note

The sign on the tower's front door: reach the top before descending, and no teleporting or phasing inside.

System mechanic used twice this chapter, ending with Shanty Town sold for a hat and some gold.

Tran's Crab Body

Two-part automaton rig giving Tran mobility: a nightmarish mechanical crab chassis plus a full-plate exoskeleton.

Transferring Now

The System notification and tingling sensation that forcibly teleports a crawler into the Desperado Club.

Loadable trap devices for trebuchets, only a few types of which Baroness Victory permits under the magic ban.

Travel the Path

Light-god spell that turns the caster into light for seconds, letting them follow a path at lightspeed.

Dug-in positions on both borders where Team Retribution's troopers wait out the opening bombardment.

Trixie's Secret Talent, Take Two

A Bombay cat Donut remembers as psychologically harmed by being named as a second edition of her own mother.

Trollish Portable Control Room

Paired magical controllers, like 80s keyboards with a floating screen, used to aim and launch the crawlers' missile batteries.

Truck Stop Boner Pill

Mysterious fourth debuff fed to the Reavers' pet bombs, suspected of causing their enormous size.

True Concealment

Concealment spell stacked with Invisibility to hide group three's cart column entering naga territory.

Tuesday-Two-For-One

A dancer at Bitches who broke the kobold Tart's jaw in a fight and accidentally fixed her TMJ.

Tundra Princess

Elle's ice class before the ninth floor, upgraded to Hailstorm Queen when she added wind.

The transit gate into the Earth system, silent under embargo and a pilgrimage site for mourning fans.

The galaxy-spanning travel and communication nodes, one of which switched off for the first time ever.

Baroness Victory's estranged sister, an orc queen killed when her nephew's assassination attempt went wrong.

Uh oh. It talks.

Achievement for discovering a sapient weapon, rewarding a pair of earplugs and an ominous good luck.

Ultima Corp DungeonWerx Municipal Doorway Portal

Faith-gated two-way doorway portal in Club Vanquisher that connects to every god's temple by dialed address.

Unaffiliated Outworlders

Unexplained outsiders present at the battle whom neither Carl nor Li Na can identify or account for.

Unauthorized Information Warning

System alert fired at Milk the moment she starts telling crawlers how the club's guards operate.

The achievement the AI delivers in its deep throaty voice, openly aroused, ending with "You are in fucking trouble."

Undead Reassignment

The worst punishment available to the dungeon for a rule-breaking NPC: reassignment as undead.

Unenchanted Bagpipes

A promised set of ordinary bagpipes from the Hell Comes to Crawler Town box that nobody knows how to play.

A brand-new legendary species, part raptor, part bear, part Scolopendra magic, born to Kiwi and Mongo.

Achievement for adopting a previously bonded pet, delivered in the AI's most unhinged ramble yet.

Valtay Corporation

Corporation suing to escape its loot obligations, and the species of the adjutant Drick.

Valtay and Borant Lawsuit

Court action by Valtay and Borant claiming the AI's takeover voids their obligations for loot and betting payouts.

An involuntary race that cannot be chosen and gets its bearer banned from Club Vanquisher.

Achievement for desecrating Club Vanquisher, blacklisting Carl from every temple except his own and friendly churches.

Tserendolgor's flamethrower, refitted by the crafting room onto Jamal's automaton harness as a belly-mounted weapon.

Venus Satellite Station

Orbital station around Venus that the AI has deliberately left unlocked as a private experiment.

Deity loose in the Club Vanquisher hallway, simultaneously fighting and sleeping with Diwata.

Viceroy Chief Surgeon

Viceroy spellcaster whose signature magic cooked a victim's brain, teeth, and eyes.

Viceroy-held star system with medical facilities able to repair crawler brain damage, at ruinous cost.

Samantha's elaborate 1940s hairstyle, set by Kiwi and doomed the moment she leaves the airship.

Viewership Awards

System rewards for attracting audience attention; Everly earned several during her lonely tower climb.

Vinata's Cousins

Two Blood Sultanate royals at the feast who fled invisible down the tunnel and died in the blast.

Vinata's Guards

Vinata's three rifle-armed bodyguards, who charge under speed potions and are killed by the blast.

Vinata's Personal Guards

Three rifle-armed naga bodyguards frozen mid-aim inside Khepri's temple, all military veterans of Vinata's household.

Visual Analysis

Portal analysis option that returns a still screenshot of the far side, useful for scouting but blind to notifications.

Gargoyle former-crawler pet turned Weeper tank commander who suicide-bombs the Bloc force to kill Hortense.

Voluntary Defeat

Rule awarding a self-eliminated team's assets to its nearest ally and accelerating the war timeline.

Space Agatha can jump to and re-emerge from beside an open stairwell, letting her escape a collapsing floor.

Waiting for the Goddess

Status banner over a crawler who has eaten the orchid and lies comatose awaiting divine arrival.

Controversial roster mechanic that allowed Ferdinand to exist as a warlord, reigniting old debate.

Unidentified figure Carl remembers mid-crisis, one more thread he has no time to untangle.

The initial rank Donut granted Florin before he restructured it into Colonel and then General.

War Mage Jump Spell

Long-range leap the war mages use to hurl themselves across the sky like artillery, teleport bans notwithstanding.

War Protections

Stacked temporary buffs, illusions, and ear protection shielding the assault, all strippable by one diffusion spell.

Warlord Forfeit Rule

A warlord off his floor may forfeit and live — but crawl rules supersede, and a host cannot leave the floor.

A mark placed on an enemy warlord at full health that reveals their highest stat and takes thirty seconds to form.

Warlord Penalties

Escalating sanctions for cheating warlords; the first costs a quarter of the standing force and two tech slots.

Warlord Roundtable

Live broadcast panel scheduled for tomorrow with all remaining warlords, during which hostilities traditionally freeze.

Warlord of the Democratic Sortion

Commander Stockade's title, granting command of the Lemig forces and access to the warlord chat.

Waste Management Company

Employer Tipid retired into on a Crest system after his pension was spent on brain repair.

Manned lookout towers built across the Princess Posse's territory to feed the faction's early warning system.

Water Breathing Scroll

Scroll cast on Louis to grow gills, used instead of a potion because of his long cooldown.

Waystation Brawl

Deadly fight a few cycles back, started over an argument about the crawl, that made Boomer a wanted legend.

Once-ever skill letting a new adherent follow their Bijou's light tendril straight to the strongest connected temple.

An obscure god of the Court of Nekhebit whose stolen tattoo grants Donut the War Crime spell.

Tag identifying a settlement NPC rather than a mob, marking them as not intended prey for crawlers.

Who Let the Gods Out

Unsolved question of who released a crowd of gods into Club Vanquisher who should never have been let in.

Wholesale Discount

Charisma benefit at 200+ that lets Donut buy everything at cost in the store.

Wood Block Puzzles

Simple wooden puzzles Justice Light plays with obsessively to pass his indentured days.

Infiltrators Team Retribution screens for among the mages working on the Nest.

Worship Light Tendrils

Whisker-thin invisible light lines linking a god through the floor's strongest temple to each adherent's heart.

Wounded Veteran

Unnamed soldier screaming on the open battlefield with his arm gone, the first casualty Carl sees up close.

Wisp fairy who normally runs Club Vanquisher's temple portal, absent from her desk during the raid.

Crawler whose death by the rage elemental's flesh-unraveling attack still revolts Carl when his own skill mimics it.

The tenodera hive that entered the dungeon with York and was picked off one by one, then destroyed by the Syndicate.

You Now Tread in the Realm of Gods

Achievement for training a skill past level 15 through battlefield conditions instead of potion-grinding.

You in My House Now, Boy!

Achievement for fighting a god inside their own temple, with the reward explicitly withheld.

Ruined saccathian owner of the Squirties waystation, whose worst day ends with Eris walking through the door.

Zarogoth Generator Antenna

Hidden soul-crystal device inside Larracos that continuously spawns zarogoths for the war mage army.

Zhang's Cape of Odds

Unique celestial cape granting stats and Dodge, plus a once-hourly roll on 333 outcomes, sixty-six of them awful.

Ziggurats of the Former Sultans

Monumental tombs or temples of past naga sultans, sold to tourists as a highlight of the naga system.