Showrunners
The dungeon's producers, who skipped the NPC audits that would have caught centuries-old changelings.
Story so far
The showrunners are named here as the parties who decided that expensive, deeper-level audits of NPCs were not necessary. Their reasoning was that Class A and Class B NPCs auto-recycle when killed, so the twenty-life recycling limit would enforce itself.
It did not. Juice Box has lived at least four hundred lives with her memories intact, and the Changelings retain their libraries and recollections across iterations. The same institutional shortcuts govern executions: the showrunners prefer to send Hardshells for cleanup rather than let The AI kill non-crawlers, since they want it focused on the crawl lest it go primal early. Every failure Justice Light exploits traces back to a decision made for cost or convenience.
Role
The dungeon's producers, whose cost-cutting and neglect created the exploitable cracks Justice Light intends to use.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- The people who actually run the crawl as a broadcast — and who have decided the Residuals are not worth worrying about.
- The people running the crawl as a broadcast - now replaced by a new set who don't care what the old storylines were about.
- Corporate productions that run each season of the dungeon, varying in budget and in how they treat staff.
- Producers of the dungeon broadcast whom Carl suspects of engineering the convenient availability of his cure.
- Producers of the crawl, one of whom Boomer threatened to kill on a Crawl Con panel.
- The dungeon's production leadership, whose demon quests Milk regards with open contempt.
- Producers of the crawl the residuals hope to spook into triggering the failsafe or abandoning future seasons.
- The dungeon's producers, who skipped the NPC audits that would have caught centuries-old changelings.