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A crawler with a shopping cart, now level 12, who enters the stairwell before the floor 5 collapse.

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A human crawler with a Prodromoi class, missing the lower half of his left leg after jumping through a portal as the fifth floor collapsed.

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A level-51 Moon Elf Artillery Specialist from the Dream, captured after Samantha retrieves him from an attack on Point Mongo.

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A past keeper of the Cookbook, its thirteenth edition, whose notes include a warning about the seventh floor's vampires.

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The historical figure the Necropolis of Anser is named for. Nothing more is known of him yet on the page.

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A level-45 ogre Elite traveling with Tsarina Signet.

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A Dream hunter killed by Areson the Wise near Signet's camp.

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A Bloodlust Sprite, Level 125, Assistant Manager of the Desperado Club's station-131 location. Comes out from the club's back offices once the fight on the dance floor ends, apologizes to Donut on management's behalf, refunds the hired-guard fee, and grants Carl and Donut standing complimentary security after Carl vouches for the two guards who failed to stop the attack.

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Katia Grim's game guide. Never appears on the page; per Katia, he talked her into picking the Doppelganger race and Monster Truck Driver class, choices she says she doesn't understand and Mordecai calls a difficult race her guide should have talked her out of. She calls her own game guide unhelpful.

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Carl's former girlfriend and Donut's original owner. Survived the initial collapse and is now a full-rights Syndicate citizen, appearing remotely on Odette's show from an undisclosed location.

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Miriam Dom's level-32 Hellspawn Familiar pet, formerly a regular goat.

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A Valtay Corporation Porter Bot assigned to assist Carl at a CrawlCon panel.

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The producer of Planet Beautiful, one of those stereotypical gray aliens, tired and irritated. Started the program alone, years ago, to tell the real story of cultures being erased; now answers to Titan and to an AI script consultant he isn't happy with either.

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A level-24 Human Spy in his early twenties, part of a five-man crawler team working the Necropolis of Anser's subterranean quadrant. Frazzled, with a persistent eye twitch and a hand that never stops trembling; the team's only rogue and their first line of defense in a quadrant full of traps.

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A level-31 Human crawler, class Legatus, named ninth on floor 5's newly-populated leaderboard with a 100,000 gold bounty. Not yet encountered by Carl and Donut.

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Carl and Donut's standing personal security, with a Teleport to Stairwell spell granted in the gate agreement.

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Commandant Kane's young daughter, level 5, found alone in the Wasteland's last surviving fragment, a house still held aloft by a single balloon, cheerfully making lemonade beside her father's freshly killed body. Per her own card, spoiled and sheltered enough that a case can be made she's the true power behind the Wasteland: rumor has it her father ordered the bombing of "the neutral changeling settlement" (the card's own wording, though context points to the Bactrians) after she threw a tantrum over the loss of her pet pig Sausage. Kept magically drugged and calm throughout the chapter by an unknown party, protected rather than harmed by her own murderous pet goose Denise.

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Beatrice's ex-boyfriend, the man on her lap in the Instagram photo that made Carl break up with her back on Earth. Named for the first time this chapter when Donut's fan box turns up a framed print of that same photo. Works construction part time and models part time, per the only line on his profile; his Instagram handle is Brad_the_Chad69, and every photo Carl has ever seen of him has the same duck-face grimace.

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A former Meadow Lark eldercare worker and crawler, killed with Henry while holding off Shade Gremlins during floor 3's collapse.

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An unaffiliated level-50 Yenk hunter captured near Point Mongo after its guards shoot him down.

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Full name given at last: level 27, human, class Pit Fighter, dark-haired, in a fur bikini with a spike-covered stick weapon. Was at Vadim's cosmetic surgery clinic for a consultation when the dungeon's collapse hit; the two of them are the last survivors of their original party. Flatly refuses to go back into the Water Quadrant's ocean.

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Ricky Joe's brother, one of Eunice's other children. Never appears on the page; Ricky Joe reports that a few nights ago Bubba Lane saw something fly off the temple's roof and thought it might be a krasue, though he guessed it was probably just the skyfowl lady who visits regularly. Also on record, per Ricky Joe, for telling their siblings women are stupid, which their mother slaps and pinches him for.

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Not human at all, it turns out: a krasue, human by day and one of the hanging, headless corpses by night. A former prostitute lured to the settlement by elves with a lying promise of work at the Desperado Club, then handed over to Remex, who twisted her into what she is now. Found by Carl and Donut mid-transformation in the aftermath of the blast, her legs already burned to charcoal by Carl's fireball. Begs them not to heal her, since healing would only return her to the curse, and gives up what she knows about Remex, Miss Quill, and the krasue before the collapsing building kills her; Donut delivers the mercy kill with a Magic Missile.

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An elf child who enters CrawlCon's juvenile art contest with a portrait of her mother.

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27-year-old former US Coast Guard, now designated Crawler #4,122. Narrator.

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Level 16 City Elf, a Wind Mage and one of the Apito Education Center's Temple Recruitment Wand Bearers alongside Salvatore. Barely distinguished on the page beyond his name, level, and class before dying with the rest of the 201st Security Group's local cell in Carl's boom jug.

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A Laminak Rev-Up Consultant Elite, one of two fairy-class managers running the Rev-Up moonshine business's bottling room on floor 2. Does the talking for the pair.

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Pterolykos, Song Bard, Level 66, host of The Prize Carousel, introduced with a run of over-the-top epithets including a former Crawler champion title. A winged, wolf-headed man about Carl's height in a checkered leisure suit, who teleports into the party's personal space to run Carl's Platinum fan box segment. Mordecai attacks him on sight, hard enough to have killed him if the chair had landed; badly rattled afterward, Chaco admits he did something to Mordecai hundreds of cycles ago under orders from Mordecai's own manager at the time, and asks Carl to pass along an apology.

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A level-50 Draconian hunter with the Striver class.

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A level-35 Human crawler, class Sacred Paladin, named tenth on floor 5's updated leaderboard, taking the spot Florin dropped from. Carl doesn't recognize the name and isn't sure he's seen him on the show before. Not yet encountered by Carl and Donut.

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Per Brandon's message to Carl, no longer Human race as of his group's own race and class selection; unlike Brandon, who stayed human, Chris chose something else, though the message doesn't say what.

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A mantis hive queen, former hunter, businesswoman, and amusement-park owner.

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Level-40 Crocodilian, a Non-Combatant NPC working the second door into the Desperado Club's members-only room. A thick-skinned, semi-aquatic race that tends toward muscle work for legitimate and not-so-legitimate outfits alike. An old acquaintance of Mordecai's, greeting him with a kiss on each cheek.

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Level 30 Dromedarian doorman at Hump Town's gate, an eight-foot camel walking upright in robes and a headscarf. Talks like a gruff biker rather than the accent Carl expects from his look. Carries a spear and a homemade rocket launcher loaded with unarmed anti-air rockets. Collects Carl's toll into town: a single blitz stick, which he immediately smokes.

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Elle McGibbons's personal bodyguard at the station-131 Desperado Club, a rock monster of the same look as the cretins Carl and Donut hire, though never actually called a cretin by name. Stands behind Elle with his arms crossed, bored, until she shoves him aside to hug Carl and Donut.

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A human crawler who opens the Masquerade talent show with humor from his homeland.

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A level-50 Were-Kin Light Recon Specialist and survivor of the Chee.

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Glimpsed in person for the first time from a distance, aboard a small building lifted clear by a single balloon, alone with a young daughter, fleeing the gutted Wasteland's wreckage.

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A level-12 human Ranger with a Russian accent, one of the crawlers fleeing the settlement during the evacuation. Dies when the second precursor burst detonates his own quiver, arrows he'd forgotten were still on him after stowing his bow.

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The nineteenth-edition annotator of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. On his final night, he tried to kill two admins with bugbear paste hidden in his boots, but the targets were holograms and the ship's forcefield contained the blast; he died suffocating and freezing after the gravity failed, asking someone to avenge Qurux.

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The Nightmare Express's engineer, found dead alongside an unnamed war mage in the wrecked cab when Carl first broke in, named for the first time three chapters later when the mechanic Widget asks after him at Station E. Never seen alive. Carl tells Widget straight out that they killed him; Widget's own reaction is a bad joke about the name rather than any grief.

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A level-52 Dirigible Gnome Sniper Captain, named for the first time. Falls through Donut's own Hole spell once the ambush starts; not confirmed dead in the fall.

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Appears on the page for the first time via a recorded statement: a coarse-haired wild boar creature, leaner than his younger brother but exuding the same power, strength, and cruelty. Orders a pulse strike meant to execute Carl and Donut for advocating sedition; it kills the singer Manasa instead, hitting her trailer by mistake. A Valtay Corporation dreadnaught destroys his own yacht in retaliation minutes later; he wasn't aboard at the time, though Queen Consort Ugloo and the former Prince Maestro are rumored to have been.

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A frisbee-shaped robot running Carl and Donut's rented production trailer for their Danger Zone interview. Donut immediately renames her Donna. Runs the trailer's all-purpose cleaning machine, insists Carl and Mongo both use it before the panel, and relays that Carl will be sharing a table with royalty this time.

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A level-28 Tigran Swashbuckler stranded with other crawlers near the abyss portal.

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One half of the Nodling crawler paired with Maxim Popov. Now a Visionary, level 44, sharing fifth place on the sixth-floor leaderboard.

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A crawler Carl trades train theories with over his new chat network. Rides the Fulvous line, a subway she says only goes up and never circles back, which is how Carl first hears the Fulvous name.

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A talking cat, full crawler, and designated party leader of the Royal Court, with the stats to back all three.

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Substation B's manager, named by Madison as the one actually responsible for the ghoul outbreak: in charge of keeping the local Krakaren happy and handling what Madison calls excess citizen disposal, she pushed a cost-cutting scheme running an extra train on an existing line instead of building a dedicated conveyor line, which failed catastrophically. Never appears on the page; Madison speaks of her with open contempt.

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An older dwarf using a Valtay vessel studio for a CrawlCon demonstration.

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Author of the 22nd edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, per Mordecai a pretty famous crawler in his own season, a bune, and a skilled trap-builder who filled the cookbook's margins with borderline-insane rants against the nagas. Died on the eleventh or twelfth floor of his own season, Mordecai isn't sure which, when an elaborate trap of his own unnaturally backfired; the Syndicate later collected a large settlement from the Blood Sultanate on his behalf. Long dead by the time Carl finds his kerchief in a boss box.

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A former moon elf crawler whose Valtay contract kept him alive after his death.

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A talking tortoise in Tsarina Signet's camp.

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Level-30 skyfowl running the counter at Lucky's General Goods. Bristles when Mordecai warns Carl and Donut that skyfowl merchants cheat those without wings, insisting his people never cheat customers, then melts entirely the moment Donut compliments him.

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A level-50 mantis merchant and accountant from the Dark Hive, contracted to deliver collected gear to the Burrowers after the floor collapses.

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A soother who handles sales and photo logistics for Carl and the Popovs' CrawlCon signing.

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Mordecai's old friend and, per Mordecai, the only game guide he knows in this town. Never appears on the page; visited off-page overnight, he can't or won't look up a cure for the Water Lily curse, but does tell Mordecai the name of the program behind Tsarina Signet's own storyline.

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A Frost Maiden fairy who changes from Blizzardmancer to Tundra Princess during sixth-floor specialization.

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The level-40 Ursine mayor of the Large Ursine Settlement, killed after trying to enforce its ban on Mongo.

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A fire god, blind since plucking out his own eyes when his son died. Rampages through a neighboring, already-popped bubble searching for his son's lost dog, smashing an entire Lyrx Elf village and setting much of the world on fire, having apparently just been released from the Nothing by Carl's own party. Per Samantha, his great-niece (and, confusingly, also his cousin), he's vindictive over small slights: he once destroyed an entire country and buried it in lava because a drunk man urinated on a dropped torch.

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A level-30 Dromedarian woman Carl questions in the street after City Hall burns down. Warms up to him once Donut compliments her headscarf, and confirms the town's own collateral system: daily proof of collateral is expected by the gnomes each morning, and losing it means the same bombing that hit the Bactrian town.

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Mother of one of the seven plaintiffs suing Carl, shown in a photograph included in a Silver Summary Judgement box: a bald elf woman with smoldering blue eyes and bone-white skin, of the Dream faction. Never appears on the page; known only through the photo.

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A member of the Dream who, according to Akland, wants Louis found after Louis insulted Tagg's mother's honor.

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Level 30 Fathom Dwarf, heavily pregnant, mother to a street's worth of children including Ricky Joe. Comes out of nowhere to beat Salvatore half senseless with a rolling pin after his reflected-spell trick bloodies one of her kids, then gets frozen solid by an Icer elf's spell as the village guards close in on her, saved only when Carl draws their attention onto himself instead.

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Level 40, a Half Nagini, Half-Orc Nimblefoot Enforcer ranked ninth on the chapter's top-ten crawler leaderboard, with a 100,000-gold bounty.

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Program director of Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton, greeting Carl and Donut personally before the show goes live. A Forsoothed, entirely white and hairless, absurdly thin, with oversized black eyes and a bony ridge running from between his eyes over his head. Wears simple white clothes, glows all over, and drifts rather than walks. Airy, halting, alien voice; only three fingers per hand.

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A level-22 Hammersmith, thin and tall with an olive complexion, found drunk at the Spit and Swallow alongside Louis Santiago 2. Recognizes Carl by name but doesn't follow his own friend's jokes.

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A Lesser Demon, level 75, sealed inside the Nightmare Express's boiler as its living fire-stoker, billed on her own card as 'Fire(wo)man of the Nightmare Express' and a non-combatant NPC. Red-skinned, black-haired, styled like a 1950s pinup with a rockabilly up-do and two black horns; only her head fits through the firebox door. Talks Carl through driving the train after the original engineers turn up dead, in a brisk, matter-of-fact accent Carl reads as almost German.

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Level-30 human proprietor of The One-Eyed Narwhal, the pub Carl picks for the night. A large, bald man, twice as fat in person as the lewd sign out front depicting him. Thrilled to host actual royalty once he clocks Donut, and spends the evening drinking and chatting with Mordecai at the bar.

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A Dromedarian on Hump Town's patrol, taking care of an orphaned Changeling boy, Skarn, since the gnomes bombed the boy's home village. Never appears on the page; known only through Skarn's own secondhand, robotically-delivered quotes of his opinions, mostly about gnomes and money.

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A Crocodilian crawler and Shotgun Messenger who clears three castles alone and becomes free with help from Carl, Elle, and Katia on the fourth.

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A level-40 ursine lamplighter killed by Big Tina.

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Found alone and badly drunk at station 41's Desperado Club, a broken man rebuilt from the ground up: a purple-skinned, fanged Night Elf Blood Assassin now, his old Seahawks beanie sitting incongruously over long black hair, his missing right hand hidden by a flowing black jacket. Confesses the true story behind his family's collapse and hands Carl a cursed ring as the only revenge he says he has left.

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A shade gnoll security guard assigned to Carl's CrawlCon stay.

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A level-50 Wire-Haired Orc and Boring Ol' Fighter from the Skull Empire, captured at Fort Freedom.

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Tserendolgor's level-20 tummy acher pet, received as a CrawlCon gift.

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Named only, never appearing on the page: per Samantha, one of Slit's sisters in the same demon harem trapped in the Nothing, and the one Samantha warns is genuinely dangerous, unlike Slit.

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A Saccathian bounty hunter who joins Sadir's search for Gravy Boat on Earth.

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Per Orthrus's own item card, Emberus's favorite son and the puppy's original master. Murdered, with Orthrus swept into the Nothing the same day; the murder itself is unexplained on the page. Long dead by the time Carl's party encounters his father.

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Confirmed in person as the Mad Dune Mage: a level-43 Human Glass Mage from Larracos College of Magecraft, an unkempt, overweight man in his twenties found watching television in a bathrobe. Actually sought the Gate of the Feral Gods for controlled access to the Nothing, hoping to bargain with a banished god for power to make the fictional Lika real; the entity he summoned instead, Psamathe, tricked him. Now trapped in his own transmuted castle, guarded and consumed daily by a sand ooze that believes itself his wife, cursed with the knowledge of what he unleashed and too much of a coward to use the winding box to fix it himself.

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A human tank-class crawler active in the group chats, met by Carl only once before, during the previous floor's last fight; his own team's bubble popped early enough that the party never had to rescue him. Donut likes him for once mentioning he's allergic to dogs.

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A stone hawk presented by an unnamed Team Flamengo crawler at the Masquerade pet show.

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A level-42 Bugbear and council member of a hunter-damaged settlement on the road south from Zockau.

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The Bopca Protector running The Belly-Rubbed Pug, the first safe room Carl and Donut actually stop at on floor 3. Demands Mordecai 'sheath his sword immediately' the second he teleports in with his pants down, and delivers the chapter's own verdict on their manager once he passes out drunk on the floor.

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One of three dead crawlers, sisters or close family per Carl's own guess, found stripped of gear on floor 3 near an earlier lemur ambush site. Confirmed Level 8, killed by a Former Circus Lemur, via her own corpse's examine card. Whether her body was one of the two human corpses or the tree-like third among the group isn't stated.

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A Forsoothed alien, co-host of the Veriluxx New Toys Showcase commercial alongside Liddi. Dressed as a cowboy in a Styrofoam ten-gallon hat, a misspelled sheriff badge reading "Sherif," and cow-print chaps, meant to draw children's attention to the ad. Dour and humorless off-script, and quick to shut Carl down once he starts pushing on Veriluxx's parent company on camera.

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The level-25 Shade Gnoll bartender of the Downward Dog at station 75, found drunk and barely conscious when the party returns. Blocked from joining the fight when station 75 fell, he insists he isn't the coward the dying transit driver Jumping Jen-Jen called him. Turns out to be one of the game's rare indestructible NPCs, regenerating within minutes of death, which the party ultimately exploits to get one of the station's dormant repair carts running.

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A Level-5 Orc NPC Carl compares to an orcish, well-muscled version of Agatha, though not the same skin tone as the Maestro. Approaches Carl, Donut, and Mordecai at The One-Eyed Narwhal asking for help, gets turned away by Mordecai, and cries alone at her table. The next evening, found just outside the town gate piling up dead women's bodies found scattered through the alleys every morning, she gives Carl and Donut their next quest: find out who is killing them.

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A Bactrian playwright whose drama Session of Love is staged by ninth-floor NPCs.

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Seen face to face for the first time since a brief prior-floor fist bump: a solid, roughly 45-year-old woman standing about five feet tall, with a weathered double-V tribal forehead tattoo and simple arrowhead-tipped line tattoos on the backs of her hands and fingers, worn under a glowing metal skull cap. Carl reads her build as built on hard labor, guessing dock work, farming, or construction, and pegs her forehead tattoo as older than her time in the dungeon. Canadian and of First Nations origin, per Carl's own earlier conversations with her. No-nonsense and openly impatient with the delay Katia Grim's promise has cost her team.

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A level-50 Dreadnought merchant and unaffiliated hunter encountered in the Desperado Club's Hunting Grounds level.

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Speaks with Carl and Donut directly for the first time, as a fellow guest on Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton; Carl realizes partway through that she isn't a static hologram but actually her, live. Runs Brynhild's Daughters, scattered upon entering floor 3 but mostly regrouped, and recently took down an owlbear borough boss.

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Confirmed a changeling on the page for the first time, spotted by Donut's sunglasses running hotter than the other camels while directing rescue efforts at the collapsed City Hall. Explains the collateral system to Carl in detail and dodges the question of what happened to the real Henrik outright, only asking if Carl truly wants to know. Admits the town's changelings are refugees the Bactrians once turned away, taken in only by the dromedarians, and hints there's more to their own reasons for propping up the collateral scheme than protecting a chance to resurrect Quetzalcoatlus.

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One of the residents from Brandon An's floor-3 group. Dies alongside Brandon holding a line against advancing Shade Gremlins as the third floor collapses, per Brandon's own final message to Carl.

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Areson's brother, who was in Larracos when its attack occurred; his fate is unknown.

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Author of the sixteenth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, whose essay on NPCs advises crawlers to choose capable companions.

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The level-25 Dirigible Gnome Aerostat Pilot flying the Vahana during Leon's ambassador run to collect Wynne. Named only once, in passing, as Carl works to memorize the balloon's flight controls over his shoulder.

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A mulleted Were-Castor and Chee survivor who accompanies Carl and Donut back to Point Mongo.

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A mushroom-like Masquerade talent-show contestant with an acoustic guitar.

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A gleener set designer and regular CrawlCon panelist.

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A Bush Elf registration-arena attendant who says he was once a human crawler and usually works at Club Vanquisher.

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Florin's dead girlfriend. Carl's identification of Queen Imogen as her is corrected by Katia the next chapter: the queen is Ifechi's twin sister, whom Florin had mentioned.

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A level-45 crocodilian, one of eight tuxedoed guards watching the Desperado Club's station-131 casino. Answers Carl's questions about a second staircase in the room, naming the city of Larracos and the ground rules keeping the floor's warring factions off each other's throats until the ninth floor.

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Reunited with Carl and Donut in person at the station-131 Desperado Club, her interface reading Crawler #12,329,440, Level 24, Race Obsidian Butterfly, Class Fire Spiritualist. Gaunt now, roughly half her old weight, with a white skull painted across her face and four translucent butterfly wings trailing behind her.

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The High Elf queen hosting the Butcher's Masquerade; not Ifechi after all, per Katia, but Ifechi's twin sister.

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A level-50 Coin Tinker and Crafter Alliance hunter who is ejected from a saferoom with an empty Blood Bar.

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Rides the last car of the group's improvised parade float with Elle McGibbons, hits on Donut in front of everyone, and stands up on the wheelchair to urinate against a hallway wall in plain view, right as Zev's voice screams at Carl and Donut to run.

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Named only in Morris Sp's own report from the flooded necropolis: wandering alone, possessed, after her group scattered, she walks straight into a crusher trap and is killed. Affiliation and relationship to the tomb raiders unstated.

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A hunter killed by one of Carl's traps on the road toward Point Mongo.

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A premium CrawlCon attendee and chapter president of Princess Posse Inner System number 43, accompanied by a symbiote named Maggie.

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A level-21 human Knife Sharpener, about 25 years old, identified only after Carl checks his corpse on the station-131 Desperado Club's dance floor. Stabs Donut in the back mid-dance with an enchanted dagger built for exactly that; her Cockroach skill survives what should have killed her, and he's found dead a moment later, killed by her in a moment the chapter never actually shows.

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A ten-year-old Dutch girl who briefly speaks through Lucia Mar.

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Turns out to be the town's real caretaker of its changeling children, wrangling dozens of orphaned kids, dromedarian and changeling alike, into Carl's personal space during the bombing scare and handing out juice boxes to calm them. Drops her usual ditzy act to reveal real depth: the changelings consider the sixth floor's Hunting Grounds their lost ancient home, forbidden from casually taking dromedarian form as a condition of the town taking them in, and she catches herself almost naming Henrik before covering the slip.

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One of station 75's gnoll transit security drivers, per Growler Gary's own account, remembered fondly enough that he kept her marrow juice cold for her. Called Gary a coward for staying inside the Downward Dog when the ghouls attacked, then died just outside its door, apparently believing it to the end; never appears on the page herself.

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Level 54 and in her large she-hulk form, Katia arrives with Louis to report that Gwen's group has two Odious Creepers cornered in a large bush elf village, where Eva's crew is also fighting.

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A human child who enters CrawlCon's juvenile art contest.

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The orange, lizard-humanoid host of the recap episode broadcast, named on the page for the first time here. Co-hosts a live special event broadcast of the Lusca fight alongside Magnificent Troy, a format Carl has never seen the show use before: real-time commentary running during a fight itself rather than after.

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A level-50 High Elf Stablemancer who handles the Masquerade's animal entries.

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King of the Skull Empire, father of the disgraced former Prince Maestro and of Crown Prince Stalwart. Named for the first time this chapter; responds to unrest over his sons' behavior by publicly disowning the Maestro and telling his own people to shut up. Never appears on the page.

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A human warrior crawler from Japan, met only through Carl's new chat network. Works out how to mass-send messages to an entire contact list at once, a discovery that immediately floods Carl's own interface with strangers asking for help and trying to trade.

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A level-24 Archer, stocky with greying blond hair and ice-blue eyes, about 45. Leads a party of six identically-classed Archers, a mix of humans and half-elves, former car salesmen from Helsinki caught together at lunch when the collapse hit. More serious about floor 5's problems than most crawlers Carl has met so far, despite his team's low levels.

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One of three dead crawlers, sisters or close family per Carl's own guess, found stripped of gear on floor 3 near an earlier lemur ambush site. No individually distinguishing detail beyond the group's shared description: appeared Asian, maybe Filipino, Level 8, killed by a Former Circus Lemur. Last name inferred from the text's own claim that all three shared one.

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Met in person: a level-44 Dirigible Gnome Negotiator, chief political officer aboard the dreadnaught Wasteland. A stickler for rules and procedure, unarmed, wearing an old olive uniform shirt; casts the same changeling-detection spell on anyone he inspects and holds deep, openly stated contempt for the town he's bombing.

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An associate producer for Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette. Human but not from Earth, absurdly thin with a squished, almost elf-like head. Delivers an on-air interview invitation the moment Carl and Donut reach floor 2.

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Volunteers with Zhang and his sister Li Na to help Carl retrieve a spare interdiction cart and fight past a pair of mantaur guards. Fights like a trained martial artist, flipping through the air, grabbing and throwing monsters, and shattering a mantaur's leg with a single charged strike. Carl realizes from an offhand comment that Li Jun has made some version of the game's top ten crawler ranking, though no exact number is given.

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Met and heard from directly for the first time, volunteering alongside her brother Li Jun and Zhang to help Carl retrieve a spare interdiction cart. Blunt, sharp, and unwilling to let a bad plan slide unchallenged, she talks Carl through a fix he immediately adopts and fights using a set of chains that can bind, burn, or knock a target unconscious. Level 30, of a race called Changbi and a class called Slave Driver.

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A Forsoothed alien, co-host of the Veriluxx New Toys Showcase commercial alongside Gravo, going by "Professor Liddi" on camera. Dressed in an ill-fitting, Superman-styled costume in Veriluxx's own colors, with a Hellraiser pin among the buttons on her chest. A genuine Donut fan with only two favorited feeds, hers and Lucia Mar's, and friendlier to Carl than Gravo until he starts needling her about Veriluxx's parent company.

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A Mole Man, Level 36, running Limp Richard's Sundries, the general store at transfer station #83 on floor 4's Red Line. Built along the lines of a mole standing upright, glasses included, and rarely seen without a book in hand. Tells the party they're the first crawlers he's seen come through.

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A shade gnoll child and the grandpup of a CrawlCon security officer.

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Meets the party in person for the first time, confirming her takeover as their sole representative in Zev's place. Resembles Zev but a little taller and thinner, wearing only a simple rebreather instead of a full diving suit and standing in her own puddle of brackish water, with a small blinking pin shaped like the Bloom's dahlia symbol on her chest. Tells Carl and Donut she has a job to do and means to do it right this time, brushing off Carl's open hostility without flinching.

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A level 7 Goblin Shamanka posted alongside Rory at the same workshop. Named on the spot by Donut; her actual name is never given.

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A level-22 Pest Exterminator, overweight and balding, found drunk at the Spit and Swallow with Firas M, a prostitute forced to cosplay as celebrities on his lap. Turns hostile toward Carl's recruiting pitch until Donut scares him straight.

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A holographic vocal coach in Donut's new special training room.

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A level-25 Human D-Bag Geek, part of a five-man crawler team working the Necropolis of Anser's subterranean quadrant. Furious at Carl for taking the catacomb map before his own team could reach it, he kills the chained hostage Wynne on the spot rather than let Carl have him, earning an achievement called Cockblock in the process.

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A Lajabless Black Inquisitor General, level 48 and second on the sixth-floor leaderboard.

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A human, level 10, Iron Tangle Human Resources Associate, pulled aboard the Nightmare Express outside Station E's burning substation building after a wolf ghoul nearly kills her. Suburban-soccer-mom presentation, a white business dress ruined with soot, hair torn loose from a bun that saved her life. Demands the crawlers' employee numbers even while being rescued, insists on being taken to a headquarters she calls Yard A, and can't keep her own story about ever having visited her apartment straight the longer Carl presses her.

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Jenn'ifer's symbiote, a talking tentacle that becomes furious when cocker spaniels are named.

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A serial player killer alongside Frank Q, confirmed by broadcast footage of their crawl, and the mother of their teenaged daughter Yvette, whom she chokes to death on camera after Yvette is only injured by one of Carl's own traps, rather than let her recover.

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Found dead at the center of a krasue nest inside his own quarters: a mummified, naked corpse lashed inside a bone dreamcatcher, wings featherless and spread wide. His own lootable-corpse tag reads Dark Cleric, Level 32, confirming Fitz's black-cleric claim, but per the dying Burgundy he'd been dead a long while before Carl and Donut ever showed up, his body kept as a dark fetish to protect the krasue's own bodies at night. Everything Carl had worked out about him actively running the operation turns out wrong; Miss Quill was the real power behind the office the whole time. The achievement text crediting Carl and Donut with killing this town's acting Magistrate never names anyone, and Carl works out afterward it was actually Quill's death being credited, not his.

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A big, meaty, pig-eyed orc of a race Carl doesn't recognize, distinct from the Maestro's own. Dressed in a sportscoat and tie, he co-hosts the special event broadcast of the Lusca fight alongside Kevin, delivering play-by-play commentary in the voice of a sports announcer.

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A famed singer, a guest on Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton, styled as a silver-and-black cobra-headed Naga though the real Manasa, who died long ago, isn't genuinely one; her body and career are kept running under a contract with the Valtay Corporation. Her latest single ranks eighth in the universe. Trades production trailers with Carl and Donut so they can use its cleaning facilities, then is killed when a pulse strike meant for their trailer hits hers instead.

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Carl and Beatrice's neighbor on Earth, before the dungeon; owner of Gravy Boat, the yellow tomcat Donut secretly called Ferdinand. Beatrice got into a screaming fight with her over the cat impregnating other cats in the neighborhood, though Carl was never clear on the reasons why Beatrice cared so much. Never appears on the page.

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The female Bopca proprietor of the Eegees saferoom in Point Mongo.

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A Laminak Rev-Up Consultant Elite, the second of two fairy-class managers running the Rev-Up moonshine business's bottling room on floor 2, introduced alongside Caroline.

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One half of the Nodling crawler paired with Dmitri Popov. A Bogatyr, level 44, sharing fifth place on the sixth-floor leaderboard.

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A crawler on Carl's chat network who replies to his broadcast about the Iron Tangle's stairwells and trains, reporting that her whole party sold off their souvenir train conductor hats.

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A floating, hovering black disk with a single blue light that greets Carl and Donut aboard Senegal Production Systems' rental trailer, speaking in a soothing female robotic voice. Introduces the trailer, the leasing show, and its host before rising into the ceiling.

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A floating, frisbee-shaped robot host aboard Senegal Production Systems' deluxe rental trailer, speaking in a soothing female voice similar to Mexx-55's but not identical. Explains the trailer's dual-layer zone system to Carl, then translates it into blunter terms when he doesn't follow the first explanation.

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A level-23 Banana Farmer wearing a banana costume, part of a five-man crawler team working the Necropolis of Anser's subterranean quadrant.

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A Vampire crawler and Shepherd healer who travels with Prepotente and Bianca.

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A mushroom guard at Point Mongo.

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Per her own husband Remex's account, told after her death: granddaughter of a skyfowl royal family, working her whole life toward completing The Final War, a three-generation heirloom spell meant to reclaim the Over City for the skyfowl. It was Featherfall's own idea, not hers, to resurrect her dead husband Remex as a soul capacitor to give himself the extra soul power to subjugate the settlement's swordsmen; Quill agreed to help him cast it, knowing full well it would trap Remex between life and death, then let Featherfall die in the spell's feedback rather than warn him, since his death put her fully in charge. Recruited the missing women through the elf temple and had them turned into krasue to guard her while she cast the spell's later, more dangerous stages. Confirmed dead in the blast Carl and Donut set for Featherfall; everything in this profile comes secondhand, through Remex.

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Elle and Imani's formal manager, known only secondhand to Carl and Donut.

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Princess Donut's bonded Mongoliensis pet and Royal Steed, now level 33.

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Carl and Donut's crawler manager, now appearing as a Pocket Kuma; his own examine text still reads Manager of Crawler Princess Donut.

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A level-23 Arachnid, half human and half tarantula, class Freelance Psychiatrist, part of a five-man crawler team working the Necropolis of Anser's subterranean quadrant. Holds Desperado Club access along with Bobby D.J., the only two of the five who do.

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A shade gnoll security guard assigned to Carl's CrawlCon stay.

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Carl's neighbor on the first floor of his apartment building.

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A Borant Administrator standing in for Zev, who's been put in a time out and is due back the next day. Overrides Zev's already-booked interview slot for a higher-paying show and shuts down Carl's objection outright.

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One of three dead crawlers, sisters or close family per Carl's own guess, found stripped of gear on floor 3 near an earlier lemur ambush site. Confirmed human by the text; wore two identical rings, each +2 to strength, looted off her fingers by Carl. Last name inferred from the text's own claim that all three shared one; not confirmed by an examine card the way Grace's was.

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A naga reporter for Elemental Collection Updates who accuses Carl and Odette of cheating.

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The Bopca running the J.CO Donuts and Coffee safe room at Mauve Line station 281, younger-looking than the other Bopca Carl's met so far. Pours Carl a black coffee and pulls up the crafting table menu on request.

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Once the cameras cut, sheds the crab-mantis getup entirely: it was armor and costume, not her body. Underneath is a human woman, approximately sixty, missing both legs from the stomach down, who gets around on a hovering disk when not in costume. A former crawler herself who once trained Mordecai, and still keeps watch over him from a distance. Motivated, by her own admission, mostly by money.

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A Syndicate Liaison who summons Carl and Donut to a small office behind the Desperado Club after Loita's death, a tall, grim-reaper-like figure in a dark hood that supernaturally hides his face, dark purple elongated hands, and a British-professor voice. Describes himself as an independent, non-AI fact-finder retained by the Syndicate to investigate cases where Borant's own AI and a kua-tin's reports disagree, not quite a sheriff, attorney, or judge. His hood slips at the end of the interview, revealing his face is actually a bowl of swirling dark liquid with a worm inside: a Valtay.

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A level-60 Curupira ranger who takes a memorial crystal from Queen Imogen's body after the battle.

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Goddess of peace in the same pantheon as Grull, named as his sister and arch enemy per Mordecai. Not seen on the page; known only through the potion bearing her name, Pawna's Tears, which visibly unsettles Mordecai when he holds it.

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A changeling who worked as a dromedarian bartender on the previous floor.

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A Grapple, Level 25, working as a Yellow Line porter out of the 10th car. Moon-faced, pale, and hairy in a way that reads like dying moss, dressed in a porter's uniform and hat. Tagged in-system as a non-combatant. Runs the line's Reward Room, handing out numbered prize suitcases to crawlers who give him the right number, and stays firmly on the far side of a half door while doing it.

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A crawler on Carl's chat network who replies to his broadcast about the Iron Tangle's stairwells and trains, apparently having seen him portrayed on the show as somewhat unhinged.

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A man called Dr. Hu who says an unnamed human crawler has already advanced his cause enough to justify further spending.

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A Caprid crawler, now classed as a Profane Vitiate, who travels with Miriam Dom and Bianca.

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No longer a princess: her father retired, and she now holds the title Empress D'Nadia, judging the Masquerade's talent show and pet contest.

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A Skull Empire princess named only through her own sponsorship notice, appearing as "Princess Formidable of the Skull Empire" on Katia Grim's interface. Never appears on the page; Carl privately suspects, without confirming, that she's the sister Zev once mentioned as next in line for the throne if Crown Prince Stalwart were ever disowned the way the former Prince Maestro already was.

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Tsarina Signet's mother, present only as an incomplete flesh golem made from Signet's memory after Signet falls into the Nothing.

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A terrified level-28 ursine barmaid hiding with her sons from Big Tina in Prepotente Town Number Four.

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Still a reanimated, severed Lika sex doll head in the party's training room, Psamathe claims Tsarina Signet is a distant relative by marriage who can restore her body. Carl agrees to bring her on the planned Naiad castle assault if she stops screaming.

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Level-30 Hobgoblin, proprietor of Hobgobs and Boom Sticks, the explosives booth at the Silk Road market inside the Desperado Club. Mordecai says she's a little odd but harmless, and that Carl and Donut will be seeing a lot of her. The first living hobgoblin Carl's met face to face: a large, muscular build, an open sore on her cheek weeping black and green ooze, and an unnervingly good ear for a woman who blows things up for a living.

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A Half-Elf crawler who changes from Imperial Security Trooper to Sergeant-at-Arms, level 48 and tenth on the sixth-floor leaderboard.

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A Nullian advocate assigned solely to represent Crawler #4,122, Carl.

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Seen for the first time, in a photograph included in a Silver Summary Judgement box: a young, beefy orc woman in an ornate dress and crown, taken at her own Age Day ceremony. Named as mother of Prince Stalwart, one of the seven plaintiffs suing Carl over the Gate of the Feral Gods; the photo doesn't address her own son's earlier on-air treatment of her death as settled fact.

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Confirmed dead: killed once the lightning tower's storm strike electrifies the flooded necropolis, per Carl's own theory built on the Wailing Shrieker's vulnerability to electric shock. Credited by the bubble notification as the guardian of Anser's tomb, her death liberating the Subterranean Quadrant, the last of Bubble #543's four.

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Level-75 non-combatant NPC, the Desperado Club's on-call pharmacist: a sharp-toothed, beady-eyed opossum head over a whirling, cyclone-like lower body, the classic build of a Half-Djinn. A former crawler himself and an old friend of Mordecai's from his early days on this world, sourced through a merchant-style inventory of potions, drugs, and pharmaceutical starter kits.

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The Bopca Protector running the Big Shot Chicken safe room. Stood behind the counter unnamed when Carl, Donut, and Brandon's group fled in last chapter; named now, grooming Donut with her own enchanted brush and fetching her custard on request.

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Alucarda's former mayor, said to have returned to the earth.

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An elderly resident from Brandon An's evacuated eldercare group, riding the parade float's last car with his walker. Thrown from the car when it lurches forward, then killed by a Rage Elemental alongside Yolanda Martinez moments later.

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Prudence's frightened ursine son, hiding with his family from Big Tina.

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A fellow crawler, level 3, shot dead in the chest by another crawler, Frank Q, who then looted her body of everything but an apple core.

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Confirmed dead: newscast footage shows him overwhelmed by the dynamite blast in the two seconds before the tempered final explosion. Odette's own show dubs him "Remex the Grand" and calls his story tragic and controversial, finally over. The Syndicate court rules the crawlers responsible for triggering the blast are owed their prize regardless, though Borant burns its once-per-season veto to block the payout anyway.

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Level 2 Juvenile Fathom Dwarf, one of Eunice's many children. Keeps a pet salamander named Benjamin on a stick to needle the 201st Security Group's city elves; punches Mongo in the face after Mongo eats Benjamin and loses his own arm below the elbow to a retaliatory bite. Carried clear of the blast radius by Carl during the Mic Drop escape, healed with a Healing Potion, and reunited with his severed arm once Mongo gives it back.

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Host of the round-table show Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton, first shown on the page this chapter. A Setonix, a species people mostly call Quokkas: pudgy, furry, brown, about four feet tall, huge-cheeked, big-eyed, and disgustingly cute. Per Evo, good-hearted but strongly opinionated, and willing to push back on a guest he disagrees with.

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An orcish crawler from some earlier season, known only through the lore text on a ring bearing his name. Led his season's top-ten list through a habit of swooping in at the last second to steal glory, loot, and experience from other crawlers, a playstyle the ring's own flavor text calls universally hated. Killed in his sleep by his own mother, back when crawlers could still be murdered inside a saferoom.

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The Iron Tangle's CFO, stationed at Station A, and Madison's ex-husband. Named repeatedly in her own dialogue: the man she credits with being impressed by her cost-cutting armband scheme, and the one she insists will come looking for her once she's abandoned at the fake station 60. Never appears on the page.

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A level 7 Goblin Shamanka guarding an engineers' workshop on floor 1. Named on the spot by Donut after breaking down in tears; her actual name is never given.

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Seen in person for the first time, among the children Carl herds into the party's personal space during the bombing scare: stuck without arms and with a visibly sunken head, walking with a limp, suffering an active debuff called Compression Sickness that neither Carl nor Mordecai has ever heard of. Explains, unstated on the page, why Flint expected her life to go the way he described back in chapter 2.

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One of Brynhild's Daughters, named only for the spell that got Hekla's team through substation H's employee portal: cast Glass Prison on the Kravyad guarding it, holding the creature still long enough for the whole group to slip past unharmed. Never described or given a line on the page.

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A Null bounty hunter who joins a crew hunting survivors on Earth to support his children.

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Level 16 City Elf, a Root Druid and one of the Apito Education Center's Temple Recruitment Wand Bearers, the outreach face of the 201st Security Group. Recognizes Carl and Donut on sight, having tortured their names out of GumGum, and names Donut the Oak Fell, Apito's own prophesied devourer of heaven, on the strength of her looted Enchanted Anklet of the Fallen Oak. Beaten half senseless mid-rant by a pregnant dwarf's rolling pin, then killed outright when a village guard's sword, meant for Carl, cleaves him in half instead.

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A Bopca Protector, proprietor of the Taco Bell safe room; charmed instantly by Donut's charisma.

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A bugbear treasure hunter, long dead by the time Carl's party reaches floor 5, known only through Ruckus's own boss card. Paranoid and greedy after being betrayed too many times, he trusted only constructs and automatons, and spent nearly twenty years hunting the Necropolis of Anser in his submarine before finding it. Docked against an underwater entrance to the tomb, he set Ruckus loose to kill off rival treasure seekers, including an early Dirigible Gnome colony and a mage, all after the same prize: the Gate of the Feral Gods.

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Caught hiding in the engine car's apartment once Hekla's ambush unravels. Owns a bakery back on Earth and just wants to go home. The two mage Daughters who fought alongside Hekla's party turn out to be her own biological daughters, ordered by Hekla to kill Carl first if the plan ever went wrong. With Hekla dead, Eva automatically becomes the party's leader, an outcome Silfa reports is already driving members away.

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A level-3 Changeling Juvenile, an orphaned boy of about eight raised by a Dromedarian named Flint after the Dirigible Gnomes bombed his home village. Answers his own door as a blank, featureless gray humanoid before clumsily shapeshifting into a human boy, a habit Flint taught him so strangers feel comfortable. Charges Carl a gold coin to use his rooftop telescope.

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A kua-tin associate who manages Dmitri and Maxim Popov's CrawlCon appearance.

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A feral minor demon, Level 200, examined directly on the page after a fight between two gods pops the bubble holding her prisoner. Per her own card, one of many demons swept into the Nothing during the original Ascendency despite never wanting a part in the royal drama that caused it; eons trapped there wore down her sanity and sense of self-worth, but not her devotion to an unnamed king or her jealousy of Samantha. Killed within minutes of reaching the world, torn apart by an unidentified, multi-armed god chasing the same target she was.

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A level-49 Changeling Principal, one of two disguised guards Carl's party finds playing cards behind a locked door in Hump Town's City Hall basement, posing as a Dromedarian. Already reverted to his true faceless form and passed out by the time Carl finds him; stunned and killed before he can wake or fight back. His severed glowing head goes into Carl's inventory for Mordecai to make into a potion.

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A saccathian crawl historian and author of A Petite Chronicle of the Crawl.

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A Bopca Protector, the gnome-like creature who cooks, cleans, and hands out rooms at the floor 1 safe room.

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A skyfowl proprietor at one of the unnamed general stores Carl and Donut sell off their extra gear to, considering a pile of spears looted back on floor 1. Donut talks him up to an extra five gold for the lot; he preens at her flattery.

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A level-45 Ursine Light Cleric who presses Point Mongo to restore its bans on naiads and dinosaurs.

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Confirmed alive after two books of rumor and 'believed dead' reports, resurfacing as the sponsor billed for Grull's Dungeon Crawler World debut in a staged Death Challenge against Carl. Claims on a pre-recorded clip that his brother, Crown Prince Stalwart, had already pulled him into the dungeon before the yacht he was rumored to be aboard was destroyed. Still introduced on air as Prince Maestro of the Skull Empire despite having been publicly stripped of his titles back at book 2, chapter 19.

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Carl and Donut's standing personal security, able to cast Magic Shells around party members.

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A Skull Empire hunter who died after his own Lightning scroll rebounded near an all-tree.

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A level-35 High Elf Footman who escorts Carl's caravan to Queen Imogen's castle.

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Never seen on the page: a handwritten postscript signed with her name is found beneath the college council's own letter to Ghazi. Furious and heartbroken, she reveals Ghazi abandoned her to chase a fictional woman, that she stayed with him regardless until he left, and that his failure means Scolopendra will never be defeated. Donut reads her as the real, wronged party in Ghazi's obsession with Lika.

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A huge, bald, one-toothed human NPC running the Wheel of Fortune game at the Desperado Club's station-131 casino, listed as its Croupier. Also the game's own stated penalty: a serrated knife stays planted in the table, ready for anyone who lands on the wrong spot. Walks Carl through the odds before spinning his comp chip into a win.

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A dwarf NPC, conductor for the Iron Tangle's Mango line, found weeping alone in the hallway past station 60. Just realized the daughter he remembered raising was never real. Carl stops to sit with him for a moment on the way through, the only one of the group who does.

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Prudence's ursine son, hiding with his family from Big Tina.

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A level-28 Human Swashbuckler, the same class as Daniel Bautista 2, part of Gwendolyn Duet's Land Quadrant team. A tired-looking man with a metal-detecting ability; Gwen sends him to test whether the sandcastle's spare electrical cable reaches the necropolis wall's drainage wheel.

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An Elite leading forest allies against the Naiad Confederacy and High Elves, seeking to reclaim her mother's crown or establish a proper government.

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Ranked number 38 by the Masquerade caravan, riding in the fifth wagon with her plus-one; Carl's group has taken to calling her Ren because nobody can pronounce her name.

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A stand-up comedian and fellow panelist on Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton, a stuffy middle-aged human Carl dislikes on sight. Opens the show needling the panel over letting a pet sit at the table, then loses a lengthy back-and-forth with Donut in front of a hostile studio audience. Sympathetic to the Kua-Tin's side of the Valtay/Borant debt dispute.

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A level-26 Human Weather Engineer, part of the same five-man subterranean crawler team as Low Thi. Recognizes Carl on sight when the group finds him beside Wynne's body.

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A former game guide who later became the host of Uptown Hal Talks Tactics.

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Full name and details given at last: level 28, a Kuhli, a spotted gecko-like race, class Gut Rearranger, a healer-rogue hybrid, covered head to toe in dagger sheaths. A cosmetic surgeon in the real world, formerly of Ukraine, with a reputation for botched surgeries and, per gossip, roughly fifty children of his own. Volunteers to guide Carl's team back into the Akula despite Britney's refusal, claiming he knows where the pump controls are.

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A dwarf, Level 32, the Yellow Line's train conductor, posted in car 5's Employee Break Room in a wrinkled uniform, drinking at the bar. Runs the train and technically oversees its staff, though the engineer ignores him, the janitors try to eat him, and the porters keep to themselves, leaving him mostly just riding it out with a bottle. Falls over himself once he clocks Donut as royalty, and turns out to be a deep well of information about the line once flattered into talking.

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A cretin rock creature, the party's third regular Desperado Club bodyguard, added to their usual pair, Bomo and the Sledge, once Katia Grim's own Desperado Pass lets the group book a bigger regular presence at the club.

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The city elf who ambushed Carl, Donut, and Mongo in a dark alley last chapter, identified only now that Carl and Donut loot his corpse: Level 16, almost 1,500 gold on him, a Meat Hooks scroll (the spell that drew Mongo into the trap), and a black military-style uniform naming his gang, the 201st Security Group. Killed instantly by Carl's kick and Donut's magic missile before he could finish ranting about 'the final battle,' so the loot answers what he was, but not who he was or what he actually meant. His own Lootable Corpse tag misspells his name 'Vincente'; his nameplate patch and the narration both spell it 'Vicente'.

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A deceased hunter of vampires and undead who trained Sierra as his mount.

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A crawler whose only Cookbook note mourns an unnamed woman.

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A mantis hunter and regular participant in the sixth-floor hunt, identified by Ian as the hunter who killed his brother.

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A shaggy female Bopca Protector running Nirula's, the safe room at transfer station #83 on floor 4. Sells Donut a conjoined personal space after a long haggling session, ending up in tears at being called a friend and told she can visit any time.

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A Grease Gremlin, level 19, Iron Tangle Steam Engine Train Technician, goblin-shaped but small enough to match Zev, covered in black bristly hair and dragging a wrench three times his own length off a toolbelt. Rappels down a chain-basket from his watchtower to the stalled Nightmare Express at Station E, mid-ghoul-outbreak, and offers to work the yard's turntable to get the crawlers out. Talks in a thick, barely parseable dialect. Killed by a reanimated ghoul mid-goodbye, ripped apart in less than a second.

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A level-50 Dirigible Gnome Flesh Mechanic, a healer able to temporarily bring the long dead back to life, held hostage in chains beneath Hump Town's City Hall as the Dromedarians' guarantee of peace with the gnomes. Great and favored uncle of Commandant Kane of the Dreadnaught Wasteland. Sickly, scabbed, and starved from repeated drugging by his changeling captor Henrik, who poses as different visitors to trick him into casting a spell that would give flesh to Quetzalcoatlus. Begs to be killed rather than dosed again, and is killed on the spot by the crawler Low Thi the moment Carl finds him.

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A human-sized cyclops NPC, proprietor of the All-Seeing Spleen saferoom pub. Dressed in rags with a homeless look, surprised to see Carl and Donut still around after the rumbling outside. Down to canned soup and crackers, every other supply wiped out.

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A level-61 mantis hunter of the Dark Hive and Vrah's younger sister.

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A former Meadow Lark eldercare CNA and crawler, killed by the Rage Elemental summoned by Jack's violation.

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The teenaged daughter of Frank Q and Maggie My, shown only in broadcast footage of their crawl. Wept through the tutorial guide's kill-or-be-killed briefing, cried for her parents to stop during their ambushes, and refused an order to shoot a wounded man for the experience. Dies on-camera when her own mother chokes her to death after she's caught in Carl's booby-trapped rat corpse's blast.

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A hunter who owns the Night Weasel Scout Tootsie.

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Checks in after the Wasteland assault demoted to "just your social media manager," no longer reachable by Donut or Carl except when she opens the chat herself; Administrator Loita now handles all public appearances in her place. Still relays audience notes (Carl's being too harsh with other crawlers, Donut needs to show off her new spells and use Mongo more) with the same upbeat, faintly menacing corporate cheer as ever.

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Now level 28, a bald, still-human Chinese man wearing glowing black and gold segmented armor. Class is an Earth Mover, which Li Jun describes as a mage-tank combo. Runs from the safe room to help Carl's crane plan at station 36 once Li Jun tells him what's being attempted, bringing a one-charge shrinking wand that saves the whole operation.

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