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Dungeon Exit

Exiting the dungeon

The status line recording how a crawler left the crawl, and the choice Carl refuses at the tenth floor.

Story so far

Dungeon Exit is the entry in a former crawler's record that states how they got out. York's reads: took the deal at the end of the tenth floor. Everything that follows in his history - Game Guide, Guildhall Instructor in the Poetry guild, years of self-reflection, the tenth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, and finally a captaincy in the resistance - is what that one line bought him.

Carl is offered the same line and refuses to sign it. So does Princess Donut. Two of Quasar's three clients that day took their deals; neither was anyone in Carl's inner circle, and neither asked what they were leaving behind on The Eleventh Floor.

Role

The record of how a crawler leaves the dungeon, and the offer Carl and Donut both reject.

Relationships

York — His exit line records the deal he took at the tenth floor
Carl — Refuses to take any exit at all
Taking the Deal — The negotiation that produces the exit
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 21
  • Obituary line stating how a crawler left the dungeon; Everly's reads "crushed to death on the eighth floor."
Chapter 33
  • Record field describing how a crawler left the Crawl — for Milk, a deal on the tenth floor.
Chapter 54
  • The saferoom exit Carl must bolt for on arrival to reach his team in Shanty Town.
Chapter 80
  • The offer that lets a crawler leave the crawl alive, recorded permanently on their dossier.
Chapter 95
  • The way out that Tagg dangles for Louis and that Victory warns will not preserve golem organs.
Chapter 100
  • The status line recording how a crawler left the crawl, and the choice Carl refuses at the tenth floor.
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