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Desperado Club

The Club

The crawlers' between-floors haunt, source of a bomber's guild exit deal poisoned by its contingent clause.

Story so far

The Desperado Club appears in the epilogue as a line item on a bad contract. Among the exit deals Quasar lays out for Carl after Faction Wars is a slot in the Desperado Club bomber's guild - an offer that would, on its face, suit the dungeon's most famous demolitions man.

The catch is the contingent exit clause, which Quasar says is almost as bad as the one Milk had, and he groups it with the rest of the offers as garbage. Carl turns it down along with everything else, and the club's guilds remain part of the world he is walking away from rather than into.

Role

The between-floors institution whose bomber's guild is one of Carl's rejected exits.

Relationships

Carl — Offered and refuses a slot in its bomber's guild
Quasar — Rates the club's offer as garbage because of its exit clause
Milk — Whose comparable clause is the benchmark for how bad it is

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 19 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 2
  • The crawl's safe-room nightclub for crawlers, and the room Carl lands in the moment the shelter lets him go.
Chapter 5
  • The crawlers' cross-floor social hub, home to the Cosmic Lounge and its eighteenth-floor transfer.
Chapter 7
  • The dungeon's multi-floor crawler bar, home to two hidden markets and possibly still in need of repair.
Chapter 12
  • The dungeon's crawler bar, reopened on the fourth ring of Larracos under new management with a hand-painted sign.
Chapter 13
  • The crawler club whose entrances are conspicuously absent from Shanty Town, though Ferdinand drinks at its bar.
Chapter 14
  • The rebuilt crawler haunt, now under Hamed's management and closed to every crawler in the dungeon.
Chapter 16
  • Establishment Ferdinand and Drick return to while the rest of the team disperses toward the base.
Chapter 22
  • The dungeon's crawler-only social hub, home to the drug den where Glory Bound cures were traditionally sought.
Chapter 30
  • Crawler haunt whose privacy shells are the reference point for the ear-protection bubble cast on Donut.
Chapter 36
  • Crawler nightclub whose demon massacre and subsequent reorganization destroyed Toyotomi and the sai guard corps.
Chapter 44
  • The crawler social hub Carl is involuntarily teleported into at the worst possible moment.
Chapter 48
  • The dungeon's club, where the strippers' hunted father has somehow become a manager.
Chapter 55
  • The crawlers' famous club, ruled out as the sultana's hiding place because it is far too crowded.
Chapter 61
  • Earlier crawler club whose bloody disaster Carl uses as the benchmark for how badly the Vanquisher raid is going.
Chapter 66
  • The crawler club now under new management, its dancers vanished and its closure imminent.
Chapter 80
  • The crawler safe-haven club where Rosetta worked as a merchant renting mercenaries after taking the deal.
Chapter 81
  • The crawler sanctuary Ferdinand cannot get back into while being chased through Larracos.
Chapter 94
  • The dungeon's great club, where three fleeing harem women were seen heading straight for the Cosmic Lounge.
Chapter 100
  • The crawlers' between-floors haunt, source of a bomber's guild exit deal poisoned by its contingent clause.
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