Story so far
Of the two items left on the table after everything else was gone, the second was a bra with Carl's face printed on one cup and the words "Time to pay daddy tax!" on the other. Elle asked what the hell it was, then whipped it down and took it. Carl assumed Katia had won it on Dungeon Sidekicks long ago and left it there as a joke.
Moments later Elle asked whether anyone else had noticed it was, like, really, really hot — with Emberus's three-minute deadline running down and the volcano throwing red comets across the sky. Imani agreed it was time to leave.
Appearance
Present in the last scramble off the burning floor, quick enough to snatch the bra before anyone else reacts.
Role
Comic relief and clock-watcher in the final minute on the ninth floor.
Relationships
Carl — Takes the bra printed with his face.
Katia — Inherits the joke item Katia left behind.
Imani — Agrees with her that it is time to go.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 47 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
- 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.
Chapter 7
- Crawler safely holed up in her own saferoom opening boxes during the chapter 10 loot rush.
Chapter 9
- Crawler who nicknames Carl "Fabio" and is dispatched on a recon mission after preparing the headquarters.
Chapter 10
- Sardonic crawler who mocks the airship's provenance and, uncharacteristically wistful, doubts they will ever see the tenth floor.
Chapter 16
- Crawler whose drunken half-elf manager Mistress Tiatha attends the saferoom meeting in her stead.
Chapter 18
- Crawler scouting the naga border who finds the FUPA nickname hilarious.
Chapter 20
- Crawler scout who maps every artillery battery on both sides and uncovers why the Reavers wanted pet leveling accelerated.
Chapter 24
- Crawler on the Naga side who reports camo netting coming off tanks as the ceasefire collapses.
Chapter 25
- Posse squad leader in position deep in Naga territory, who risks being booted to move in on Carl's order.
Chapter 27
- Forward scout on the southern front reporting the high elves' massed artillery and suspecting the rocks are a diversion.
Chapter 28
- Crawler scouting behind enemy lines at the southern front, reporting Reaver trucks and invisible Madness mercenaries.
Chapter 29
- Aerial scout whose live reconnaissance supplies every enemy position on the southern assault map.
Chapter 30
- Airborne crawler assigned to knock out the enemy's anti-air batteries with Carl's missile launcher.
Chapter 32
- Hunts and destroys the enemy anti-air batteries to clear Party Planner's flight path, with mages on her trail.
Chapter 38
- Crawler stationed in the castle hallway, waiting for whatever comes through the Reaver door.
Chapter 40
- Crawler in the guildhall who ends the banner argument by offering to make Donut's banners wave.
Chapter 48
- Crawler jointly responsible with Imani for tracking the list of missing crawlers.
Chapter 49
- Crawler who sends Carl off to the warlord council with a humorless grin and a "have fun."
Chapter 53
- Elle's earlier reconnaissance into naga territory found no enemy troops, a mystery Carl finally solves this chapter.
Chapter 54
- Posse officer who delivers the frantic report that Prepotente has wrecked the assault timetable.
Chapter 55
- Co-leads group three's assault into the naga castle once the sluggalos have kicked off the rampage.
Chapter 56
- Crawler who leads the infiltration into the naga stronghold, reporting first contact with guards and no nagas yet.
Chapter 57
- Reports from inside the naga castle that she killed the guards and the big naga blocking the throne room.
Chapter 59
- Crawler occupying the Blood Sultanate throne room, whose six-hour hold will capture the naga castle.
Chapter 66
- Crawler whose team members are watching the visiting mages for spies and worm heads.
Chapter 67
- Elle argued hardest for giving Li Na the ring, and now holds the Gate of the Feral Gods for her plan.
Chapter 68
- Coalition crawler who accepted Rishi's surrender and praises Katia's timing as the battle clock starts.
Chapter 69
- General who opens the first feral god gate and will hunt the Madness alongside Carl.
Chapter 70
- The only crawler who objected to the volcano plan, since she will be sitting next door in Reaver territory when it goes off.
Chapter 71
- Gate-keeper on the ground in the Reavers' realm, unmasked by a location search and knocked unconscious before Carl arrives.
Chapter 72
- Elle wakes from being knocked out, having lost the Gate of the Feral Gods to a war mage, then goes through the portal.
Chapter 73
- General whose Subterfuge spell hides the infiltration team, and who tells Carl to stop running everyone else's war.
Chapter 74
- Crawler at Carl's side during the raid, calling in cheese cutter strikes and predicting exactly how the beacon would doom them.
Chapter 75
- Crawler at Carl's left flank, sharp-tongued observer of the enemy line and Louis's sworn naming-debate rival.
Chapter 76
- Crawler swept into Eris's ceremony and frozen in the giant pile of witnesses.
Chapter 81
- Absent from the field but present in Carl's head, bitching about the failed lava abatement plan.
Chapter 83
- Named by Li Na among the crawlers she means to save before Carl's chaos claims them too.
Chapter 88
- One of the three commanders messaging Carl while coordinating the castle assault below the massacre.
Chapter 89
- Fairy crawler who leads an ice-shooting flight against Larracos's towers and tells Donut she is a goddamn hero.
Chapter 90
- Crawler Akuma insists must be kept alive; she suggests they simply ask Britney about the presence.
Chapter 91
- Elle flies low above the transport, warning that Louis's stillness could be bait for a trap.
Chapter 92
- Nearly roasted by Jamal, then freezes a nuke-carrying sentry dog solid at the critical moment.
Chapter 93
- Elle summarizes Fang's escape in her usual crude terms and asks for new categories of mortal danger going forward.
Chapter 94
- Elle tries small talk with the silent floating Li Na, keeps Prepotente on topic, and is openly horrified by the newborns.
Chapter 96
- Blames Carl's pet sex doll for the apocalypse, then refuses to be excluded from Katia's last moments.
Chapter 98
- Stands watch over Katia in the tent and nearly cries at her goodbye.
Chapter 99
- Elle claims the daddy-tax bra off the table and is the first to point out how unbearably hot the floor has become.