Game Guide
The post-crawl job former crawlers take, held by York alongside teaching poetry before he joined the resistance.
Story so far
Working as a Game Guide is one of the standard destinations for a crawler who takes the deal and lives. York's status entry records exactly that path: after taking the deal at the end of the tenth floor, he worked as a Game Guide and as a Guildhall Instructor in the Poetry guild, then exited the dungeon and spent the following years in self-reflection and contemplation.
Those years produced the tenth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and an endless stream of bad verse - and, eventually, a captaincy in the resistance. The guide's chair is where the crawl parks the survivors it has hollowed out, and York is the proof of what can grow there.
Role
The standard post-crawl employment that shaped York's decades before the resistance.
Relationships
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
- 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.
- Indentured NPC role advising crawlers, one of the two jobs Dante worked inside his guildhall.
- Dungeon role Herot aspired to, which Carl imagines might be keeping him alive somewhere below.
- Contracted in-dungeon job explaining the game to crawlers, often taken by ex-crawlers post-deal.
- The dungeon's broadcast hosts, whose display system the warlord flag room interface resembles.
- The post-exit job Rosetta held, guiding others through the game she had barely survived.
- The AI mentor assigned to each crawler; Lucia Mar's kill record includes her own.
- Tipid's old job, and the last thing he remembers before waking with no idea who Carl is.
- The post-crawl job former crawlers take, held by York alongside teaching poetry before he joined the resistance.