Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The crawler's underground manual, whose tenth edition was written by York during his years outside the dungeon.
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook is the crawl's most valuable contraband text, passed between crawlers as a manual for surviving and sabotaging the dungeon. The epilogue attributes a specific edition to a specific hand: York's status entry names him the author of the tenth edition.
He wrote it after taking the deal at the end of the tenth floor, in the years he spent as a Game Guide and as a Guildhall Instructor in the Poetry guild, and then in self-reflection and contemplation - the same emptiness that produced his terrible poems produced the book many crawlers have leaned on since.
Appearance
A crawler's manual circulated in successive editions, each written by a different former crawler.
Role
The crawl's inherited survival manual, its tenth edition authored by York.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 27 recorded facts, by chapter
- 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.
- Secret crawler-written guide whose past owners recognize each other by the choices they make afterward.
- Crawler-written guidebook whose sixteenth edition, by Herot, made awakening NPCs its life's work.
- Illicit crawler handbook whose Fourth Edition was written by the ex-crawler poisoner Tipid.
- Legendary crawler-authored manual whose past editions' authors now walk into Carl's guild in the flesh.
- Edition-spanning guide written by past crawlers, whose 11th Edition carries Ikicha's plea to seek out the survivors.
- Crawler-written guidebook whose fifth edition Everly authored, and in which she left her furious last entry.
- Scroll of crawler-authored trap designs whose marginal notes across editions form a conversation between the dead.
- The dungeon's snarky in-world guidebook, here delivering the lore and moral indictment of the rot sticker pet bombs.
- The crawler-authored guide whose editions carry annotated tactical notes, quoted at this chapter's head.
- The infamous crawler manual whose sixth edition was written by Milk, the indentured xenopus cartographer.
- Legendary crawler trap-and-bomb manual whose eighth edition was written by Justice Light.
- Chain-letter grimoire passed between crawlers via hidden words, whose seventh edition Volteeg authored.
- The crawler-annotated guidebook whose 22nd-edition naga warning by Drakea opens and haunts this chapter.
- The forbidden crawler-written book Carl cannot discuss even in chat, supposedly the key to the toraline yam's secrets.
- Carl's in-world manual; this chapter is a note he writes for the 25th edition explaining divine worship mechanics.
- Annotated crawler manual whose 13th Edition note on protection spells and immortality opens the chapter.
- The crawler crafting manual Carl now edits, whose sixth edition his sister Milk wrote.
- The crawlers' trap and exploit manual; Justice Light authored its eighth edition.
- Carl's in-world manual, whose 25th edition carries his note laying out Operation Ruin.
- The crawler survival manual passed down through editions; Rosetta authored the ninth.
- The AI's snide bestiary, whose zarogoth entry is an extended roast of edgelord teenagers.
- Carl's ongoing guide, whose 25th-edition note opens the chapter with his dread over the War Crime plan.
- Donut's book of Voodoo, which Rosetta believes could share skills and spells using Edgar's new ink.
- Carl's book of recipes, cited by Donut as containing goblin chicken and used by Milk to pivot to the Book of Voodoo.
- Carl's trap manual, checked and dismissed as the source of his inexplicable knowledge of the Inevitable Ruin.
- The crawler's underground manual, whose tenth edition was written by York during his years outside the dungeon.