Carl

Reaches level 59 during the hunter raids^B5C61

A level notification arrives mid-fight and Carl waves it away without reading it; the new number is not stated^B5C35

55, after killing Akland^B5C23

54, up from 47 at the floor's start^B5C5

47^B5C1

47, up three levels from the Akula dive and Lusca kill^B4C28

44, up one from the Denise fight^B4C17

43, up two levels from the Wasteland assault, on the edge of 44^B4C12

41^B4C2

41^B3C34

35^B3C27

34^B3C24

32^B3C14

29^B3C11

27^B2C26

21^B2C22

19^B2C18

18^B2C11

15^B2C9

14^B2C7

13^B1C47

12^B1C45

11^B1C33

10^B1C27

9^B1C25

8^B1C18

7^B1C15

5^B1C10

3^B1C8

2^B1C5

1^B1C2

An Agent Provocateur, a permanent Compensated Anarchist specialty focused on sabotage and bomb-making^B5C1

A Compensated Anarchist, a rare Monk/Rogue hybrid requiring level 5 Explosives Handling and at least 500 billion views by floor 3^B2C2

A Primal, a blank-slate progenitor species, -1 to all base stats but every skill trainable to level 20^B2C2

Immune to poison, though not to paralysis, confirmed in Book 2, Chapter 13, learned the hard way back when Signet captured him and Donut^B2C13

Enemy of the Church:

A Diwata, a permanent tattoo that makes most of her adherents attack on sight and grants 50% damage against them^B5C36

6'3", about 230 pounds, naturally muscular and gym-maintained. Linebacker father, 5'10" mother.^B1C3

Builds himself a makeshift loincloth out of toilet paper in the green room bathroom rather than go on air in just his boxers^B2C26

Tattoos:

Examined up close for the first time: matching round, tribal-style sun tattoos on the backs of both hands, black with an orange glow, warm and faintly uncomfortable to the touch. Not quite identical: the rays on his right hand curl, the rays on his left are small triangles^B4C32

Two faintly glowing sun tattoos appear on the backs of his hands after worshipping Emberus, unexplained as the chapter ends^B4C31

Queen Imogen's High Elf castle, arriving for the Butcher's Masquerade^B5C65

Inside the Small Dryad Settlement's saferoom while traveling west toward Miriam and Prepotente^B5C45

The CrawlCon production facility, preparing for a signing with Dmitri and Maxim Popov^B5C40

Entering the guildhall at Prepotente Town Number Four before his final CrawlCon appearance^B5C39

Alucarda's guildhall saferoom after the hunters scattered^B5C35

Teleporting from the Valtay landing vessel back toward Alucarda^B5C34

The Valtay landing vessel green room, preparing to return to Alucarda^B5C33

Studio Three on the Valtay landing vessel, waiting for the CrawlCon panel^B5C32

A pressurized Valtay landing vessel in Earth's primary zone, held between CrawlCon appearances^B5C30

Reached the door of Alucarda's Aloe Mana saferoom, hand on the handle, before Zev's forced transfer pulled him away^B5C29

On Fort Freedom's north shore with Signet's assault force^B5C25

Point Mongo's personal space after Odette's show^B5C20

Odette's trailer, after a security checkpoint transfer^B5C17

Point Mongo's bridge, returning to a saferoom before Odette's show^B5C16

Tsarina Signet's jungle camp north of Point Mongo^B5C15

Walking north through the jungle with Signet's group^B5C14

Outside Point Mongo at the northern bridge, meeting Tsarina Signet and her allies^B5C13

The Large Ursine Settlement's local saferoom after the hunters are released^B5C10

Leaving the Small Bugbear Settlement personal space with Donut, heading south toward the river^B5C9

The personal space at a Small Bugbear Settlement, preparing bombs with Bomo^B5C8

The personal space at a Small Bugbear Settlement near Zockau^B5C7

Miriam Dom's cart, approaching a town after escaping Zockau^B5C6

The Selva outside Zockau, wounded and receiving help from arriving crawlers^B5C5

The Medium Dryad Settlement, issuing the command to teleport with Donut and Bomo to Zockau's stairwell as the chapter ends^B5C4

The Medium Dryad Settlement personal space after Chris carries him inside^B5C2

The sixth-floor specialization booth in the staging area^B5C1

Buries the winding box in the sand dune atop the bowl, then spends the day between there and Hump Town before ending the chapter walking into the stairwell down to floor 6 with Donut, Mongo, and Chris^B4C34

Rides the chariot back across the lacuna to Bubble #543's ruins, is welcomed outside Hump Town by a small cheering crowd, and ends the chapter inside the Desperado Club embracing Katia in a farewell hug^B4C33

Pushes the stairwell sheet to the All-Seeing Spleen saferoom, tips Xander a gold coin, then returns to the personal space to wait out the extraction plan^B4C32

Crash-lands in the land quadrant of an unnamed, unpopulated bubble beyond Bubble #543, a stairwell station glowing nearby^B4C31

Flying the drop bear through the dark space between bubbles, chasing Orthrus toward Emberus with Quan Ch closing in^B4C30

Fights through the sandstorm to the lightning towers above the necropolis, then regroups near the grounded Twister once Bubble #543 pops^B4C29

Still in the party's personal space as the world outside settles; prepares to head out to find a way to save Orthrus with under an hour left before the lightning storm^B4C28

Uses the completed Gate of the Feral Gods to escape the ocean floor for a spot just outside Pandinus, then collapses in the party's personal space with Katia and Tran^B4C27

Swallowed inside Lusca's mouth along with the wrecked Akula as the chapter ends, a ten-minute countdown running before she finishes feeding her babies^B4C26

Inside the flooded Akula with Tran and Vadim, ambushed by Quetzalcoatlus near the bridge as something even larger closes in on Katia outside^B4C25

Treks a quarter turn around the Land Quadrant to the pazuzu town of Pandinus after Cuttlefish Point's ban, and settles into the party's personal space there^B4C23

Buried alive in the collapsing sandcastle's basement, then swept underwater into the Water Quadrant's ocean when Gwen's team partially opens the drainage valve; badly injured but alive, hiding from an unidentified large creature moving through the debris and corpses^B4C22

Explores the transmuted glass interior of the sandcastle with Donut, Mongo, and Katia, down to the basement boss chamber^B4C21

Flies down to the Land Quadrant with Donut and Mongo aboard the grounded house's balloon, lands on the beach, and enters the sandcastle's electrified doorway with Katia the moment lightning opens it^B4C20

Back in Hump Town after five days detained by the Syndicate liaison Orren; reunites with Mordecai while Katia checks in remotely from the Land Quadrant^B4C19

Floor 5, Bubble #543's Air Quadrant, crossing an opening sandstorm to reach Hump Town^B4C1

Trainyard E, loading the last explosive satchels onto the Nightmare Express, then walking the employee line back up to station 36 and down its stairwell^B3C34

Tumbles into trainyard E through the cart's own portal alongside the first mantaur vessel, straight into a staged Death Challenge broadcast against Mimic Rex and the summoned war god Grull^B3C33

Fights past a pair of Krakaren province bosses to reach the noodle chamber, raises the spare cart to bait one boss into the abyss portal, then rides the cart with Donut, Katia, Zhang, Mongo, Li Jun, and Li Na to trainyard E's tunnel mouth, ending the chapter pulled through the cart's own portal by a dying mantaur's grip on his foot^B3C32

Spends most of the chapter at station 36, hauling the Def Leppard cart off the tracks, shrinking and rolling it through the hallway, and rigging it into a crane over the room's central circle before the self-destruct sequence hits^B3C31

Passes station 24 under a swarm of dog-sized baby krakarens, losing nobody, then holes up in the station 59 safe room, a Costa Rican restaurant called Soda^B3C29

Drives the Mindaro-line rescue cart down the tracks with Donut, Katia, and Mongo to find Bautista's missing group, plows through five fleeing crawlers near station 432 to teleport them clear, accidentally captures the station mimic outside station 433, then reaches Bautista's stranded crowd near the abyss's own portal and leads everyone through it to yard H^B3C28

Station 75's rail yard and the Vermillion track just outside it, launching the rescue carts, bombing the abandoned engine, then grinding DTs-stricken ghouls and monsters against a portal-blocked tunnel^B3C27

Back at the Downward Dog, then the looted repair station and armory, then the small rail yard just off the tracks with its carts and six portals^B3C26

Disengages the front engine, keeping it for his own party, and sends Li Jun up to the other engine; collects hats and keys from departing crawlers, then explores station 75's cavern, armory, repair shop, and the Downward Dog with Donut and Katia once the train leaves^B3C25

The Vermillion engine cab, caught between Hekla's attempt to smooth over the ambush and Donut's refusal to let it go, until Katia's own Rush attack kills Hekla by accident^B3C23

The Vermillion engine cab on Donut's side, riding from station 72 to station 101 as the train's cowcatcher run unfolds^B3C22

The Royal Court's personal space, greeting Hekla and Brynhild's Daughters; then the Nightmare Express's cab with Donut and Katia, riding the employee line toward station 60^B3C21

Senegal Production Systems' deluxe rental trailer, underwater, for the delayed Planet Beautiful taping^B3C20

Station 41's Desperado Club with Donut, working the dance floor for chat contacts under Bomo and The Sledge's watch before spotting Frank Q at the bar^B3C19

Reverses the Nightmare Express on a dedicated switching track and parks it at station 41, then heads up to the Everest saferoom before the party's delayed free hour runs out^B3C19

Grills Madison in the Nightmare's cab about the Kravyad and Doris's role in the outbreak, climbs up into station 24's hidden five-stairwell room with Katia, checks stations 36, 48, 50, and 58, then leaves Madison behind at the empty station 60 before heading for station 41's saferoom^B3C18

Pushes the Nightmare Express through the Station Repair portal into Station E's trainyard, escapes out its main gate past a burning substation, and stops the train again at the tunnel's station 24^B3C17

Station 283's transit station platform fighting off a babababoon swarm, then back down the tracks to the switching cavern to examine the Station Repair portal, then returning toward station 283^B3C16

The Nightmare Express's switching cavern, then Abyss Station and the Abyss chamber above it, then back into the cab to drive roughly two hours to station 283 and a saferoom mall food court; a planned trading stop at station 83 is never shown happening on the page^B3C15

Station 283's platform and a rejected short visit to the Desperado Club, then the tunnel ahead of the Nightmare Express, then hijacking the train itself all the way from its cowcatcher into the engine cab, riding it slowly onward toward station 436^B3C14

Station 149's wrecked platform and channel, looting Gore-Gore's corpse, then a saferoom pho shop nearby, then the Dismemberment Limited's monorail platform and its single open car^B3C12

The wrecked ochre line platform, surveying the derailed train, then the small transit station outside it where the fight against Gore-Gore breaks out^B3C11

The party's personal space, then hours grinding and training across several Iron Tangle lines, ending at a platform on the ochre line^B3C10

At the station-131 Desperado Club, its dance floor in the attack's aftermath, then its casino, entered for the first time^B3C9

The party's personal space kitchen, reading The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook late into the night before the recap airs^B3C8

Station 131's Desperado Club with Donut: the station-only entrance bar, then the members-only vestibule and dance hall^B3C8

Station #131's upper lobby and the party's personal space; a supply run to Ford's Fighting Supplies' row of shops and Arby's next door with Katia while Donut and Mordecai stay behind^B3C7

Banshee Station's off-platform tunnel system: a low, dripping cave network, a dead-end hallway littered with used vials, and a separate concrete-lined room mistaken for a boss room^B3C6

The Yellow Line's train cars 2 through 6, the Employee Break Room (car 5) and its attached Conductor's Quarters, the Reward Room (car 10), and finally the empty platform at station 116, Banshee Station^B3C5

The Enhanced Crafting Studio, then Limp Richard's Sundries, then the Yellow Line platform and a Yellow Line train car, all at station #83, floor 4^B3C4

Gets off the train at transfer station #83 on the Red Line, then up to the small shop-lined room above the platform, then into Nirula's, the safe room there^B3C2

Car 20 of a 20-car Red Line subway train on floor 4, the Iron Tangle, racing through a tunnel toward Sirin Station^B3C1

The green room aboard Odette's set for Dungeon Crawler After Hours, then the interview couch^B2C26

Remex's chamber as the soul crystal detonates, then a collapsing warehouse floor, then a sprint east through the settlement and ruins to the floor 4 stairwell, dissolving through the door as the chapter ends^B2C25

Remex's chamber above the swordsmen depot, then a sprint through the settlement's streets toward the Desperado Club once the evacuation quest hits, then back in the chamber a final time as the countdown runs out^B2C24

The street outside the collapsed municipal building, then the swordsmen depot warehouse and its second floor as the chapter ends^B2C23

The magistrate's blown-open quarters, then the krasue nest behind a heavy interior door, then the fireball-gutted bedroom as the building comes apart around him^B2C22

Waits out the day atop a roof next to the burned Apito Education Center, then the Silk Road and the One-Eyed Narwhal, then scaling a building's trellis to the magistrate's roof after dark^B2C21

The saferoom near the pool, then the ruins mopping up the last Shambling Berserkers, then the 201st Security Group's Apito Education Center on a poor residential street^B2C20

A rented Senegal-style production trailer floating on Earth's ocean, then the Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton studio set^B2C19

The magistrate's reception office in the morning, then west of town grinding mobs through an ambush that leaves him unconscious on a rooftop, before heading back for a saferoom shower ahead of the evening's interview^B2C18

The dark side-alley looting Vicente and GumGum's corpses, then back to The One-Eyed Narwhal for the rest of the night^B2C17

The Silk Road market inside the Desperado Club, then the streets of the skyfowl settlement at night heading for The One-Eyed Narwhal, then a dark side-alley off the main street chasing Mongo^B2C16

Inside the Desperado Club for the first time: the public front room, then the members-only room past Clarabelle's checkpoint^B2C15

Just outside the skyfowl settlement's gate at dusk, where GumGum is piling up more dead bodies^B2C14

The One-Eyed Narwhal, a small, run-down pub off the skyfowl settlement's main roads, deliberately picked to avoid crowds after a day of being pointed and gasped at^B2C14

Mordecai's chamber inside the skyfowl settlement's tutorial guild, collapsing exhausted into a classroom chair to open boxes and catch up before heading out to find a pub with an open room for the night^B2C13

The bottom floor of Signet's building, arriving to find Mongo alone holding off a swarm of Street Urchins drawn by the scavenged junk pile shielding Donut's sleeping body^B2C12

Passing Grimaldi's ruined circus grounds at dawn on the way out: the tents and every corpse marker are gone, and a staircase down to floor 4 has appeared in the middle of the park, hidden until now^B2C12

The skyfowl settlement, just outside Mordecai's tutorial guild door with Donut and Mongo, the Desperado Club's tower visible down a street they haven't explored yet^B2C12

Beside Grimaldi's roots in the big top's center ring at first, then down through the bleachers to Apollon's ice cream stand, then staggering back out the tunnel exit to face Signet as she finishes her own summon outside; still on the circus grounds when the chapter ends^B2C11

A street intersection near Signet's home for the Heather fight, then following Signet's summoned army through the circus's outer defenses and secondary tents up to the base of the big top, where the chapter ends^B2C9

The street outside Signet's building, examining a sleeping, transformed bear named Heather moments before Signet's nightly summon; Donut and Mongo left behind, barricaded in Signet's building^B2C8

Floor 3's road out toward the skyfowl settlement at first, then stunned, paralyzed, and knocked out fifteen hours by an unseen attack; wakes on a couch in a darkened room in Tsarina Signet's own building^B2C8

The street outside Grimaldi's Traveling Circus, fighting off six of the circus's own Mold Lions and talking with Tsarina Signet afterward, then back to The Belly-Rubbed Pug safe room to face Mordecai and watch the recap show^B2C7

Crouched at the crumbled-in entrance of a collapsed building near Grimaldi's Traveling Circus, a block and a half out, full dark now, surrounded as the circus's caged beasts are released around them^B2C6

Still inside The Belly-Rubbed Pug with Mordecai passed out on the floor, opening boxes and drilling Donut's new spell; heads out into the ruined streets near the ambush site by the chapter's end, working toward Grimaldi's Traveling Circus a few streets over^B2C5

Floor 3's ruins, walking the road with Donut and Mongo when a circus-lemur ambush and a fight with Terror the Clown chase the party into The Belly-Rubbed Pug^B2C4

Walking floor 3's village with Donut and Mongo, out to its ruins gate, oriented by Mordecai on the Over City's rules and dangers^B2C3

Outside Mordecai's guildhall, presented to floor 3's bustling, sulfur-smelling settlement for the first time^B2C2

Mordecai's relocated guildhall on floor 3, walking Donut through her own race and class selection; his own turn starts as the chapter ends^B2C1

Spends the floor's last days training Mongo and grinding brindled vespas with Donut, then camps in the floor 2 stairwell chamber as the timer counts down before the descent to floor 3^B1C47

Explores the kobold fighting pits on floor 2 in full: first the main room of slagged kobold remains, then the arena reward room beyond it^B1C46

The kobold quadrant's boss chamber on floor 2, a former municipal dog pound; Ralph dead underfoot, the barn doors having opened partway through the fight to reveal the inner arena beyond^B1C45

Transported straight back to their floor 2 safe room the instant the Death Watch broadcast ends^B1C44

Floor 2's kobold quadrant, fighting through to a safe room deep in the back (a former industrial kitchen), then teleported off-floor to Senegal Production Systems' rental trailer for a new interview^B1C41

On floor 2, he builds the MOAB in the Big Shot Chicken safe room, tests the door with the Rage Elemental in the hallway outside, then chases it on the chopper to the round stairwell chamber before teleporting to a side hallway near Mordecai's guild room^B1C40

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, watching the recap episode while the Rage Elemental keeps battering the door outside^B1C39

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, having just slammed the door on a Rage Elemental^B1C38

Floor 2, fighting through grub-infested hallways toward a rendezvous with Brandon's group in the main hallway, then a side hallway bordering the kobold quadrant, near an unexplored safe room^B1C37

Mordecai's Tutorial Guild hall, floor 2, meeting Zev in person; the chapter ends as he opens the door back into the dungeon corridor to find a pile of grubs waiting^B1C36

Mordecai's Tutorial Guild hall, floor 2, opening boxes while waiting on a visitor Mordecai warns him not to upset^B1C35

Cornered with Donut behind a scrap-built shield in the filling room as his own bomb, thrown into the Rev-Up boss chamber, goes off; outcome not shown when the chapter ends^B1C34

Trapped in the room he and Donut walked in through, bars dropped behind him, as a many-mouthed tentacled creature forces its way in from the Rev-Up boss chamber^B1C33

A floor 2 quadrant near the down-stairwell, clearing the Rev-Up company's clurichauns room by room toward its bottling room and boss chamber^B1C32

Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, watching the next episode with Brandon's group as the floor 2 welcome broadcast plays^B1C31

Floor 2's first known safe room, a storm shelter, sorting through loot with Donut^B1C30

Backstage on the empty After Hours Set, audience and crew cleared out for a private word with Odette^B1C29

On the After Hours Set, mid-interview as the segment wraps up^B1C28

Aboard the After Hours Boat, pulled there the instant he pushes through floor 2's entrance door^B1C27

The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, the Ball of Swine wiped out, the stairwell's red forcefield still up^B1C26

A nearby training guild in the troglodyte quadrant, after hauling every piece of gym equipment he could carry out of the Juicer's boss room^B1C25

The troglodyte quadrant's gym boss room, just after killing the Juicer, kneeling over an injured Donut^B1C24

A new quadrant north of the elderly encampment, grinding troglodytes toward a neighborhood boss room shaped like a 24-hour gym, near a known Taco Bell safe room^B1C23

At a stranded eldercare group's encampment beside a round maze's drawbridge gate, floor 1, having just proposed a plan to team up against the borough boss guarding it^B1C22

Floor 1 tunnels far east of the rot stickers' neighborhood, on foot just outside a portcullis leading into the guarded spiral around the confirmed floor 2 stairwell, chopper stowed^B1C21

Fleeing on the newly-ridden chopper, putting distance between himself and Frank Q and Maggie My's stretch of the rot stickers' neighborhood^B1C20

A second safe room, deep in the neighborhood of the rot stickers, resting up before the next episode airs^B1C19

Fleeing north through unexplored floor 1 tunnels, away from the goblin workshop's ruins, with a line of white dots closing in on the minimap that he presumes are the goblins returning from the llama fight^B1C18

A side room several turns and walls away from the goblins' sealed boss room, pressed against a wall with Donut after shoving a rigged cart inside and slamming the door, waiting on a five-second fuse^B1C17

The goblins' abandoned engineers' workshop, alone with Donut after the whole clan mobilizes to attack the llamas, facing the door to a sealed boss room^B1C16

Back in the goblin neighborhood, in an engineers' workshop, bargaining for a vehicle^B1C15

Booth seating at the floor 1 safe room's fast food counter, watching the premiere with Donut and Tally^B1C14

Back out in the Hoarder's neighborhood, at the edge nearest Rebecca W's corpse, hunting the last of the red dots before heading to the safe room for the premiere^B1C13

A tutorial guild about a quarter mile from where they killed the Hoarder, with Mordecai freshly woken and hungover^B1C12

The sealed garbage room beyond the No entrar door, boss fight just finished^B1C11

The floor 1 tunnels outside the safe room, working toward a sealed door marked with an old health-department notice^B1C10

The floor 1 safe room, a converted fast food restaurant; rented a room for the price of nothing^B1C9

A safe room deep in the floor 1 warrens, next door to a probable Scatterer nest^B1C8

Inside the Tutorial Guild safe room with Mordecai^B1C3

The World Dungeon, floor 1 tunnels near the entrance stairs^B1C2

The ruins of his Seattle block, outside his flattened apartment building^B1C1

Reach Donut at the guildhall and execute the prepared plan against the hunters^B5C34

Hear Signet's proposal while managing the hunters and Point Mongo's dinosaur threat^B5C14

Phase four of the mass extraction begins the moment Katia walks into the Desperado Club to separate from the party^B4C33

Two new personal quests from Emberus: Find Out Who Killed My Son (identify Geyrun's killer; no time limit, but a smite if Carl ever tries to leave floor 18 with it still unsolved) and Kill Hellik (kill Emberus's twin brother before reaching floor 12 or receive a smite, reward a Celestial God Box if done)^B4C32

Both floor-5 quests resolve: Get Orthrus fails outright, Dumber of the Flunkies completes; no new group objective yet as Carl works through a full page of unread notifications^B4C31

New mandatory group quest, the Dumber of the Flunkies: keep Orthrus safe until he reaches Emberus, with a competing world quest, Get Orthrus, now offering every other floor-5 crawler a bounty to kill him first^B4C30

Mandatory group quest, Where the Red God Glows: get Orthrus through the lightning storm and clear of the sharks biting him, or Emberus turns the whole bubble into a kiln^B4C29

Get the whole party fed, rested, and boxes opened, then work out how to reach the Air Quadrant's own castle, spotted high overhead near the dome's ceiling^B4C1

Survive long enough for the party to punch a second mantaur into completing its own Grull summon and steal the god away to the abyss, after his own original plan (bait Grull at the mimic, then switch the portal back to the abyss for the second summon cleanly) falls apart the moment he lands in the middle of both threats at once, with no time to switch anything^B3C33

Plan changes on the spot once a pair of mantaur guards is beaten in a straight fight: deliberately finish inducing one's Grull summon, then shove the summoning vessel into the cart's own portal, tuned to trainyard E, on purpose, to deliver the god to Mimic Rex, the city boss occupying that yard^B3C32

Fight back to a spare interdiction cart left plugging the hole toward station 24, then haul it to trainyard E, re-gauge it onto the employee line facing the deeper levels, and signal Elle to bring the Nightmare down to meet it, all before a new wave of monsters catches up^B3C32

Switches the party's two interdiction carts onto a random colored line and rides to station 59 to hole up in the safe room, open Katia's boxes, and watch the recap before Mordecai's own return; the longer-term plan is to reunite with Imani, Elle, and Li Jun's teams holding station 36, while steering well clear of trainyard E and its newly captured station mimic^B3C29

Scraps the plan to send Bautista's roughly 600 stranded crawlers through the rescue cart's own portal to yard E once he learns a giant station mimic is waiting there; hands out souvenir hats instead and walks the whole group through the abyss's own massive portal to yard H, avoiding the fight entirely^B3C28

Ride the battered Vermillion car all the way to the end of the line, roughly a full day's trip through monster-infested track, to distribute souvenir hats to the 500-600 crawlers stranded at the abyss, after the interior gangways leading to stop 436 start collapsing and rule out the safer plan of returning there via the hijacked Nightmare Express^B3C25

Talks Zev into delaying the mandatory pet-and-beauty-pageant show six hours to buy the party time to eat, sleep, train, and shower, and to check the station 41 Desperado Club for any crawlers still willing to trade chat contact before the trip^B3C19

Gets the hijacked, unhooked Nightmare Express out of a ghoul-infested trainyard with Widget's help, then decides where to take a rescued NPC once her story about a headquarters called Yard A stops adding up^B3C17

Clears a mob swarm off the platform and train, then rules out two of the switching cavern's three routes: Recycle only reaches the Abyss, and Auxiliary Tracks would leave them stuck on whatever track the last train through used, leaving Station Repair as the only route still worth taking, though he doesn't commit to it yet^B3C16

Ate, slept, and reset buffs with the party at the saferoom food court, weighing whether to push the Nightmare Express through the Abyss's recycle portal, while a growing number of strangers on his chat network ask him for a way off the stalled tracks^B3C15

Reunite with Donut and Katia further up the line now that he's slowed the runaway Nightmare Express under control, then decide whether to keep riding it toward station 436 or take Fire Brandy's offered Station Repair route back to station 10's trainyard^B3C14

Keep Levi the 7th from being devoured by Fleshers for as long as the party stays aboard the Dismemberment Limited, per a new pass-or-fail quest; success promises a Silver Quest Box, failure turns every crawler on the train into a Flesher^B3C12

Work out how to get a party back to the start of an Iron Tangle line, now that the third rail and an engineer's own account both check out: either steal an engineer's key and jump ahead on a faster loop train past a stopped line's blockage, or risk the employee portal at stop 435 and whatever the Kravyad do to people who use it^B3C11

Split efforts with Imani and Elle to work out what the Iron Tangle's prime-numbered transfer stations mean, while he and Donut try to get their hands on one of the train engineers themselves^B3C9

Grind along the yellow line to station 131 with an 8 day, 18 hour collapse timer on the floor; resupply and rest, then meet Imani C at the Desperado Club after tonight's recap show. Ends the chapter down a manager for the next seven days after Mordecai's outburst, with only about a day and a half left on the floor once he's back^B3C7

Clear Banshee Station's off-platform tunnels for information on why the cornets keep boarding, then push the train onward past stations 127 to 131, the next stop with a likely Desperado Club, grinding along the way^B3C6

Clear the last of the Yellow Line ambushers, rig up quick car fortifications, and pump conductor Vernon for everything he knows about the line ahead, before a booby-trapped Reward Room prize turns the trip deadly^B3C5

Set up the shared crafting tables, restock and trade at Limp Richard's, and start mapping the Iron Tangle's rail lines by scouting the Yellow Line and the Nightmare Express^B3C4

Settle into a daily routine at the new personal space: wake, apply buffs, train one assigned skill an hour a day, then eventually crafting and grinding the tracks toward a stairwell, while charting what's known so far about the Iron Tangle's rail lines with Mordecai^B3C3

Get everyone's loot sorted, stats assigned, and a shared personal space set up before finally getting some sleep^B3C2

Survive the evacuation's remaining minutes and get everyone without Desperado Club access down the only escape route left, a stairwell to floor 4, before the settlement-wide blast goes off^B2C25

Survive the next seven minutes, reach the Desperado Club's second room, which isn't a saferoom but sits outside the coming blast radius, before the settlement-wide explosion The Fools Who Broke the Glass warns about actually goes off^B2C24

Get Remex's own story out of him and decide what to do with him, before the swordsmen guards wake up and trap them in the warehouse for the day^B2C24

Get into the warehouse across the street and confront whatever's living above the swordsmen depot, since killing Featherfall and Quill hasn't finished the quest; ringed the building with ten sticks of dynamite first in case talking doesn't work^B2C23

Get out of the collapsing building with whatever they can learn about who's actually behind the killings, now that the quest hasn't resolved and Burgundy has named Remex, not Featherfall or Quill, as the real threat^B2C22

Break into the magistrate's office before sunup, now that the town's guards attack on sight during the day; with about three days left before the floor collapses, there's no time left to look for another way down besides the staircase already found in Grimaldi's circus ruins^B2C21

Head to the Silk Road Market before the recap show's second half starts and the club's bots swarm them for autographs^B2C15

Look into GumGum's new quest, The Sex Workers Who Fell from the Heavens, without letting it swallow what had otherwise been a good day; Mordecai doesn't know about it yet^B2C14

Sleep at a pub with an open room, watch the recap show, and assign 12 banked stat points once he's seen what gear the night's boxes brought; go shopping in the morning, though pants are off the table now that Freeballing locks him to a single layer over the crotch. Visit the Desperado Club with Mordecai the following night^B2C13

Heal Mongo and wait out the rest of the night at Signet's building for Donut to wake at dawn, then push on toward the skyfowl settlement and its tutorial guild^B2C12

Talks Vengeance of the Daughter's own producers into a live deal through Zev, then deliberately infests himself with the same parasite controlling Grimaldi's performers to open a mental line to Grimaldi, and talks both Grimaldi and Signet down before his stolen autonomy runs out, ending the night's standoff without a fight. The Show Must Go On completes as a result, and his own part in the circus storyline is done as the chapter closes. Donut's health crashes below 20 percent in the same instant, sending him running^B2C11

Kill Heather solo once she wakes and Signet's summon is cast; done by the chapter's midpoint. Then help push Signet's army to the big top and go inside alone with a Big Top Ticket to break the three interior poles, one per ring, without setting foot in any of the three rings themselves, in order to bring down whatever protects Grimaldi in the center ring^B2C9

Forced to help Tsarina Signet's Blood Magic summon tonight in exchange for Donut's life, held hostage under Signet's Water Lily spell; ordered to kill Heather himself once she wakes and Signet's spell is cast. Chapter ends before the fight starts^B2C8

Get back to The Belly-Rubbed Pug safe room before full dark, per Mordecai's warning; derailed first by three dead crawlers' corpses, then a magical mortar barrage that drops them into a hidden sub-street basement, then a confrontation with the Elite Tsarina Signet, who signals the circus to release its caged beasts the moment they try to leave. Surrounded on every side as the chapter ends^B2C6

Open the party's earth boxes and Donut's gold pet box, then slip out to scout the edges of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus without engaging it directly, weighing a hobgoblin raid for better explosive supplies along the way. Picks up a possible second quest via a new achievement, on top of the still-unresolved Show Must Go On. Ends the chapter set on killing a second, sleeping lemur, examining three dead crawlers spotted nearby, and getting eyes on the circus itself^B2C5

Survive an ambush by Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's lemurs and Terror the Clown long enough to reach a safe room, sidetracked from the walk toward a bigger village; picks up the floor's first quest, The Show Must Go On, along the way, still unresolved as the chapter ends^B2C4

Grind east toward a bigger village with better shops, about a half day's travel, to open his and Donut's boxes at a safe room along the way^B2C3

Make money, per Mordecai: the one thing that's actually going to make a slow-building, planning-heavy class like Compensated Anarchist work^B2C2

Get Mongo bonded to Donut before floor 2's timer runs out, since Mordecai warns an unbonded pet can't come down the stairs with them^B1C47

Stop running from Frank Q and Maggie My and get ready for them instead; take out the local neighborhood boss for its map, since it should help counter Maggie's tracking ability^B1C44

Get through the rest of the Death Watch interview without giving the Maestro more ammunition, then confront Frank Q and Maggie My once they're revealed as the episode's other two guests^B1C43

Grind the kobold quadrant toward its back-side safe room for a nap before the next interview, hoping to reach at least level 13 by the time they hit the stairs. Cut short when Mukta moves the interview up several hours and transfers them early^B1C41

Kill the Rage Elemental without the dungeon crediting Carl and Donut for it, by tricking it into the stairwell hole rather than fighting it directly; achieved by the chapter's end. Immediately after, warns Brandon to get his group to the stairs while the way is still safe^B1C40

Deal with the Rage Elemental sooner than his Protective Shell cooldown allows. Abandons the wait-it-out plan after noticing a nearby grub pupa nest and remembering something Rory the shamanka once told him; enlists Brandon's help and starts clearing floor space as the chapter ends, with no specifics shown yet^B1C39

Survived the Krakaren Clone fight; now looting the aftermath, getting what answers he can out of Mordecai, and bracing for whoever's about to arrive^B1C35

Survive the Krakaren Clone fight, now that he's set off his own explosive as a last resort^B1C34

Survive whatever just broke through the boss room door, now that retreating isn't an option^B1C33

Probe the local mobs near the stairwell, clear what's manageable, scout the boss room, and make a judgment call before escorting Meadow Lark into the stairwell^B1C32

Get through the night in the safe room; help Brandon send his non-fighters down to floor 3 early once everyone's slept, then scout and clear the way ahead of them^B1C31

Work toward the stairwell to floor 3, spotted to the northeast, clearing the quadrant along the way and watching for safe rooms^B1C30

Clear a safe path to floor 2's nearest safe room and bring Brandon's stranded group down; paused mid-step by an unexpected pull onto a production boat and an interview invitation^B1C27

Finish off the last of the scattered tusklings and get the stairwell's forcefield to drop, so the group can lead the stranded residents down to floor 2^B1C26

Work out how to reach floor 2 now that Mordecai says facing the borough boss with just six crawlers is madness; his advice is to skip that fight and keep searching for one of the other, likely unguarded stairwells instead^B1C25

Get Donut up off her dramatics and loot the gym boss room now that the Juicer's dead^B1C24

Deface Brandon's trail signs to keep the vulnerable encampment hidden, then grind troglodytes north toward the Taco Bell for training before rejoining the group against the borough boss; just stepped into the neighborhood's own boss room^B1C23

Spend the rest of the day grinding levels and skills with Donut, then team up with Brandon An's four able-bodied fighters to storm the borough boss guarding the floor 2 stairwell and get the stranded residents down^B1C22

Work out how to reach the confirmed floor 2 stairwell without triggering the borough boss guarding the spiral around it^B1C21

Get clear of Frank Q and Maggie My before they can catch up, then keep pushing toward the next artery to resume the hunt for the floor 2 stairs^B1C20

Rest about six hours and watch episode two, then push about half a mile to the next artery, pull the chopper out of inventory, and head east hunting for stairs; two and a half days left on the clock^B1C19

Get clear before whoever's on the minimap catches up, find a safe room to sort through the new achievements, then take the chopper to hunt for the stairs down^B1C18

Blow up the goblin war chieftain's sealed boss room with a cart of rigged black powder barrels and Hobgoblin Pus, hoping for a notification and a star by their names; the trigger's just been pressed and the outcome isn't known yet^B1C17

Loot everything useful from the abandoned workshop, then go kill the goblin chieftain behind the sealed door for another boss box, despite his own reservations about the fight^B1C16

Find the floor 2 staircase before the collapse, three and a half days out. Overruled Donut's plan to hunt a city boss for screen time instead^B1C14

Hole up at the safe room for a couple of days, clear the suspected Scatterer nest next door for experience, and wait for the stairs down to floor 2 to appear. Also, still: pants^B1C9

Sleep off the Fatigued condition, set up a base, and do something spectacular within 29 hours, before the premiere airs. Also: pants^B1C8

Leave the guild and survive floor 1, now as bodyguard to a cat with a death-clause crown^B1C7

Finish the tutorial, open the boxes, and figure out how to be interesting enough on camera to survive^B1C4

Complete the tutorial, get the interface unlocked, and acquire literally any shoes and pants^B1C3

Reach the real Tutorial Guild and get through its door alive^B1C2

Get out of the cold before hypothermia does what the apocalypse couldn't^B1C1

The Recital:

Exterminate the dinosaur threat attacking Point Mongo, or find out what the dinosaurs want and give it to them^B5C11

The Vengeance of the Daughter:

Travel north to join Signet's assault on Fort Freedom^B5C24

Assault Fort Freedom and assassinate the Naiad Confederacy's leaders with Signet's group^B5C15

Charisma:

25^B3C2

25^B2C2

4^B1C4

Constitution:

Gains one point after killing Akland^B5C23

Raised 25% for 30 hours as a boon from Emberus for reuniting him with Orthrus; the resulting total isn't given^B4C32

37^B3C15

34^B3C2

Puts the other two of his twelve banked points into it the same night; the resulting total isn't given^B2C14

19^B2C2

14^B1C42

12^B1C19

10^B1C9

9^B1C6

5^B1C4

Dexterity:

Up one more from killing Bravvo with the Ring of Divine Suffering; again only the +1 is stated, no total^B5C14

Up one from the Ring of Divine Suffering's first marked kill; the chapter states only the +1, never a new total^B5C6

32, with equipment buffs but before daily buffs^B4C22

23^B3C2

11^B2C2

6^B1C25

5^B1C4

Intelligence:

Gains three Intelligence from killing Iota^B5C53

15^B3C2

5^B2C2

3^B1C4

Mana:

3 points, refilling about one per hour^B1C4

Strength:

Base Strength reaches 100^B5C36

80, enough to lift a half-ton chunk of dwarven automaton with no trouble^B4C22

54^B3C15

48^B3C9

41 +3 when his gauntlet is formed into fist mode^B3C2

30^B2C14

Assigns all three points banked from hitting level 14 into it overnight at the safe room; the resulting total isn't stated^B2C8

13^B2C2

9^B1C6

6^B1C4

Unspent Points:

24^B2C26

Ring Mark Killed:

Bravvo, the second hunter Carl killed after marking with the Ring of Divine Suffering^B5C14

Chin'Dua, the only hunter Carl marked with the Ring of Divine Suffering^B5C5

15Protective Shell: Item-based spell from his new boxers, no mana cost: throws up a static 4.5-meter sphere around the caster's right hand for 20 seconds that blocks a mob's physical presence and attacks, though not magic or non-corporeal threats. Doesn't move once cast.^B1C35

15Tripper: Automatically triggers, but doesn't disarm, all passage, motion, heat, and weight-based traps in a radius scaling with Intelligence^B4C28

10Fear: 10; can affect a wide area and has a 2% chance to paralyze targets^B5C8

3Fear: Costs three mana to cast; lowers a mob's dexterity by an increasing amount per level, or makes it flee outright. At level five it'll work on whole groups^B2C12

Fear: Costs three mana to cast; per its own warning message, has no effect on "scary-ass mobs" like Terror the Clown^B2C4

Fear: Costs three mana to cast; effect not otherwise described this chapter^B2C2

2Wisp Armor: Surrounds the caster in tendrils of light that negate 75% of incoming magic damage and grant temporary immunity to mind control^B4C27

1Wisp Armor: Costs 5 mana. Surrounds the caster in tendrils of light that negate 75% of incoming magic damage and grant temporary immunity to mind-control effects; base duration 5 minutes plus 1 minute per spell level^B2C11

1Bang Bro: Costs 5 mana. Temporarily enchants a currently-equipped item with both fire and electrical damage, inflicting Burn and Shock; lasts 5 minutes plus 1 minute per spell level, with a 5-minute cooldown. Can be cast on flesh, though Mordecai warns against it^B3C2

1Heal: Restores about 20% of health for 2 mana; hotlist slot one^B1C4

Ping: Sends an audible pulse outward that reveals the exact distance and position of every non-crawler, non-red-tagged mob it hits, including targets outside his own map range; the target itself hears the sound but can't tell where it came from^B4C32

11Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B3C27

9Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B2C20

9Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C41

7Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C35

5Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C19

Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C11

10Find Traps: Reached level 10 while searching Fort Freedom's slope^B5C28

Find Traps: Fires off a blunt warning notification before a dangerous action; his Pedicure Kit buff only extends the warning window for foot-triggered traps specifically, leaving him exposed to other trigger types^B3C6

Find Traps: Fires off a blunt warning notification before a dangerous action; no numeric level given^B3C5

10Iron Punch: Its tenth level adds the Breadbasket effect: a 10% chance per solid hit to stun the target for several seconds^B2C14

7Iron Punch: Lets him wear hand protection without losing his bare-knuckle bonus; +10% enhanced fist damage per level^B1C25

3Iron Punch: Lets him wear hand protection without losing his bare-knuckle bonus; +10% enhanced fist damage per level^B1C12

10Powerful Strike: Reached level 10 in the tier-four training room^B5C32

14Powerful Strike: Multiplies bare-handed damage by its level^B4C24

13Powerful Strike: Multiplies bare-handed damage by its level^B3C19

13Powerful Strike: Multiplies bare-handed damage by its level^B3C9

4Powerful Strike: Multiplies bare-handed damage by its level^B1C25

3Powerful Strike: Multiplies bare-handed damage by its level^B1C6

10Pugilism: Beating the shit out of opponents with closed fists; +25% bare-knuckle damage per level^B1C30

6Pugilism: Beating the shit out of opponents with closed fists; +25% bare-knuckle damage per level^B1C25

5Pugilism: Beating the shit out of opponents with closed fists; +25% bare-knuckle damage per level^B1C10

4Pugilism: Beating the shit out of opponents with closed fists; +25% bare-knuckle damage per level^B1C5

9Bare Knuckles: Not yet described^B3C10

8Bare Knuckles: Not yet described^B3C3

9Dangerous Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B2C20

9Dangerous Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C41

7Dangerous Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C35

5Dangerous Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C19

Dangerous Explosive Handling: Not yet described^B1C11

9Goblin Explosives: Not yet described^B1C41

7Goblin Explosives: Not yet described^B1C35

5Goblin Explosives: Not yet described^B1C19

Goblin Explosives: Not yet described^B1C11

9IED: Improvised bomb-building rather than just throwing what he's handed; each level adds 10% damage yield and halves the odds of a catastrophic, premature detonation^B1C41

7IED: Improvised bomb-building rather than just throwing what he's handed; each level adds 10% damage yield and halves the odds of a catastrophic, premature detonation^B1C35

3IED: Improvised bomb-building rather than just throwing what he's handed; each level adds 10% damage yield and halves the odds of a catastrophic, premature detonation^B1C19

9Incendiary Device Handling: Not yet fully described^B1C41

7Incendiary Device Handling: Not yet fully described^B1C35

5Incendiary Device Handling: Not yet fully described^B1C32

7Regeneration: Near-full recovery about two minutes after taking damage^B1C6

6Basic Electrical Repair: The day job, rated; his best pre-dungeon number^B1C4

6Foot Soldier: Increases kick damage^B1C25

5Foot Soldier: Increases kick damage^B1C10

Foot Soldier: Increases kick damage^B1C8

6Smush: Bare-foot kill pressure, +10% per level; the description audibly breathes^B1C25

5Smush: Bare-foot kill pressure, +10% per level; the description audibly breathes^B1C10

3Smush: Bare-foot kill pressure, +10% per level; the description audibly breathes^B1C8

6Unarmed Combat: Hand-to-hand, as rated by the dungeon on arrival^B2C2

6Unarmed Combat: Hand-to-hand, as rated by the dungeon on arrival^B1C25

5Unarmed Combat: Hand-to-hand, as rated by the dungeon on arrival^B1C10

3Unarmed Combat: Hand-to-hand, as rated by the dungeon on arrival^B1C4

5Backfire: Lets him pick up a trap and deconstruct it for reusable materials, the triggering mechanisms alone worth real money per Mordecai^B2C2

5Chopper Pilot: Not yet described^B1C21

5Detect Traps: Passive bonus to sensing traps^B4C28

5Escape Plan: Shows hidden doors more readily, can locate hidden maps he already has some idea where to look for, and lets him see control sigils invisible to everyone else in the party^B3C6

5Escape Plan: Shows hidden doors more readily, and can locate hidden maps, but only ones he already has some idea where to look for^B3C2

5Escape Plan: Shows hidden doors more readily, and can locate hidden maps, but only ones he already has some idea where to look for; it comes up empty searching the train car blind^B3C1

5Escape Plan: Shows hidden doors more readily; its real value is a hidden benefit, access to something called the Dungeon Locator^B2C2

5Find Trap: Reveals traps nearby^B2C2

5Slingshot: Ranged accuracy with a looted slingshot; a single hit can knock a brindled vespa out of the air, grounding it and stopping it from spitting acid^B1C47

3Slingshot: Ranged accuracy with a looted slingshot; barely any damage even at its cap^B1C32

5Talon Strike: Turns the side of a bare foot into a slashing weapon, multiplying kick damage by the skill's level for that many seconds; each kick has a 2% chance to trigger the instakill spell Eviscerate. Five-minute cooldown; level 15 makes it permanently active^B3C2

4Aiming: Not yet described^B1C33

Aiming: Not yet described^B1C32

4Swimming: Rated on arrival^B1C4

3Alchemy: Potion brewing; a gooey, okra-smelling weed mixed with rubbing alcohol makes a Hair of the Dog potion^B2C17

3Biplane Pilot: Piloting Louis's Gnomish Drop Bear biplane^B4C30

3Cesta Punta: Jai alai involves catching and hurling a ball, or anything else that fits, from a scoop-shaped basket called a xistera strapped to the hand and forearm^B2C17

3Cesta Punta: Not yet described; not even Carl knows what it actually is or does, though he wonders if it's a martial art^B2C5

3Infusion: Combining potions or reagents with existing items at a sapper's table^B4C18

2Hide in Shadows: Not yet described; Carl doubts it'll help much with Donut and Mongo in tow^B2C2

1Bomb Surgeon: Lets him cut a stick of dynamite into smaller, less potent charges, or strip parts from a smoke bomb; hands-on with it for the first time this chapter, he finds he can also feel a stick's blasting cap depth and sense how close it is to going off early, without reading its description^B2C5

1Bomb Surgeon: Lets him cut a stick of dynamite into smaller, less potent charges, or strip parts from a smoke bomb^B2C2

1Trap Engineer: Lets him imbue effects, like Fear, onto a ready-to-go trap module; at level 1, that only works at a Sapper's Table, which he doesn't have access to yet^B3C1

1Trap Engineer: Not yet described^B2C2

Determine Value: Another Skill Potion pushes it forward again, this time letting him see an item's rarity tier rather than its actual monetary value, which is still hidden; no numeric level given on the page^B3C7

3Determine Value: Doesn't yet show an item's actual worth, but lets him sort his inventory by value; sorting by value this chapter is what surfaces the three Valtay items in his new History tab^B1C47

2Determine Value: Doesn't yet show an item's actual worth, but lets him sort his inventory by value^B1C25

1Determine Value: Doesn't yet show an item's actual worth, but lets him sort his inventory by value^B1C19

Double Shot: Fires two full-power Magic Missiles at once, each capable of landing as its own headshot^B3C1

Identify and Analyze Subspace Portals: Flags any subspace portal in view with a purple glow and a tooltip reporting its type, whether it's two-way, whether he personally can pass through it, and whether the environment on the other side is compatible; can also pull a still image of what's on the other side^B3C13

Marked for Death: Marks a chosen full-health crawler; killing them grants a permanent stat point, but the wearer can't heal anything at all while a mark is set^B3C19

Queasy Resistance: Builds up naturally after repeated exposure to the cornets' nausea attack; stops the Queasy debuff from landing at all once earned^B3C6

Steady Hand: Not yet described^B1C32

Sticky Feet: Used in real combat for the first time, letting him walk upside down across the boss chamber's ceiling to reach the core unseen^B4C22

Swole: Future level-up Strength points count as two points instead of one^B5C36

8Frogger (1981 Cabinet): A basement childhood, immortalized at rank 8^B1C6

Party:

Picks Katia, Tran, and Vadim for a four-person dive into the Akula, leaving Britney, Gwen, and the rest of the group at the Death Stalker in Pandinus while Donut stays aboard the flying house overhead handling the depth charges^B4C25

The Royal Court of Princess Donut; he is not the leader^B1C7

Auto-grouped with Donut on entry; parties share experience and group chat^B1C4

Conjoined Personal Space of Team The Royal Court of Princess Donut:

The previously-locked doorway every safe room has held opens for the first time once the home achievement clears; a small room appears on the map, its name editable^B3C2

Guild:

The Royal Court of Princess Donut joins Safehome Yolanda^B5C21

Beatrice:

Says he is glad she is safe but ends their old drama as finished, asking Odette to send her away after Donut speaks^B5C19

Ex-girlfriend as of days before the transformation; fate unknown^B1C1

Donut:

Tries to protect her from the reunion with Beatrice, then accepts her decision to face it together after she asks him to trust her^B5C18

Promises he will not leave her behind on floor 9 or any other floor^B5C12

Lets her believe her unsellable souvenir hats will be collectibles on the next floor rather than admit a shop owner laughed him off trying to sell one; scratches her behind the ears once she admits risking herself and the cart for him^B3C34

Orders her to stay out of the trainyard once he learns crawlers who enter can't leave; she and Mongo come in anyway alongside Li Na, Li Jun, and the portal cart^B3C33

Teleported clear of a double boom-jug blast with Katia using Donut's last Puddle Jumper of the floor; both of them come away with acid burns Imani has to heal^B3C31

Jokes that selling the collected hats for millions would play on the show like Bea's cousin faking cancer for GoFundMe money; agrees she can sell them after all if a way to save the stranded crawlers without the hats turns up^B3C25

Rests a hand on her head trying to calm her shaking rage at Hekla, privately realizing something about why she's reacting so hard to it that he doesn't have time to examine^B3C23

Watches her call Hekla out by name and blast her in the face with a full-strength Magic Missile once the truth about the bolts is confirmed^B3C22

Sends her off to check the Bitches and Penis Parade rooms alone while he talks to Frank Q, then gets pulled away by her once she decides it's time to go^B3C19

Learns she hid a PVP Coupon bearing his name under a rail without telling him; decides to raise it with her privately rather than confront her in front of Katia^B3C18

Lets her climb the chain alone into Widget's tower to work the turntable rather than risk the climb himself, talking her through it over chat; fights alongside her clearing ghouls off the train and the back landing^B3C17

Wakes to find she's already read the Tome of Minion Army now that stacked buffs push her spell points high enough, and warns her not to cast the five-minute, freeze-in-place spell without his say-so; fights alongside her clearing the babababoon swarm off the platform and train^B3C16

Reunites with her at station 283 after about two hours apart; admires her new goggles and hears about her jump to level 30 and her new Love Vampire ability over corndogs at the saferoom food court^B3C15

Gets called out by her, mid-jog through the tunnel, for shoving the mass-backpack idea at Katia without ever asking if she wanted to change; concedes she's right and promises to ask next time. Later terrifies her by getting hit by the train's cowcatcher and dragged off out of sight for the better part of an hour^B3C14

Trades sponsor news with her and shuts down her suggestion of "the Donut Holes" as a fan name; warns her over chat not to say the Valtay Corporation's name out loud^B3C12

Rushes to her the instant the attack ends, has her shoulder up and cured of inebriation, and talks her down from her guilt over the kill; makes her loot the dead man's body afterward rather than leave the gear behind^B3C9

Lets her open her own fan box first; helps her try to fit her new saddle onto a furious, bucking Mongo, and picks his own Prize Carousel prize over her repeated lobbying for the enchanted chaps^B3C7

Pushes back on her and Zev's plan to make Katia Grim "more interesting," annoyed at being dragged into it mid-fight; gives up arguing once Donut starts coaching Katia's look regardless^B3C6

Warns her not to share too much information with other crawlers now that they have bounties on their heads, without fully explaining why; she looks ready to argue but drops it^B3C5

Gets called a terrible negotiator by her after the book trade; brushes it off, confident Limp Richard will be desperate for more reading material within days^B3C4

Sleeps in her room instead of his own at her insistence, with Mongo piled on too; sits frozen on the floor after reading Brandon's message until she and the others notice something's wrong^B3C3

Watches her haggle Wendita down over the personal space price, then tells her over party chat not to let the Bopca pay the difference herself, since it'll make Donut look like an ass; Donut relents and settles^B3C2

Talks through the loss of her Artist Alley Mogul dexterity and sales bonuses with her, then leads the retreat aft through the train once the blaring alarm trap signals the Dreks have broken through the fore gangway's first door^B3C1

Found by her sitting on the bathroom floor, hand to his chest, once the adrenaline of the last few hours catches up with him; she notices something's wrong but doesn't press, and the two agree to get through the interview and find a saferoom to rest^B2C26

Argues with her over keeping the Sepsis Crown on through the bursts until she gives in and removes it; teased by her over party chat, mid-flight, for still not having pants back on^B2C25

Apologizes for deciding to try trapping the soul crystal instead of running, without asking her first; she tells him there's nothing to apologize for. Waits out the countdown wrapped around her, bracing for the blast together^B2C24

Wanted her to wait outside alone while he went in solo; she refuses, reminding him of his promise that she wouldn't die alone, and he relents^B2C23

Runs the 'go long' play with her, sending her out of the muted zone to relight Torch while Carl and Mongo hold the room; regroups with her on the roof and again in the ruined bedroom once the fireball clears^B2C22

Coordinates the letter-as-bait plan with her, including a loudly overacted fake conversation about looting the magistrate's office for the listener's benefit^B2C21

Warns her over private party chat that he thinks they were set up, and lays out an unconfirmed theory that Borant benefits most from a Valtay/Skull Empire falling-out; Donut offers a simpler read, that they just got lucky, which he allows might also be true^B2C20

Talks through the Featherfall theory with her on the way out of the office, then wakes on a rooftop to find her covered in three inches of monster gore and himself freshly leveled and healed by her scroll^B2C18

Braces for her gold fan box prize to be something upsetting and gets exactly that, a framed print of the Bea-and-Brad photo; plays it off with a shrug and privately realizes the old hurt is actually gone^B2C17

Watches the recap show beside him and notices his own view count has finally caught up to hers, though neither of them is sure who actually crossed one quadrillion first. The next morning, keeps him out of the shop negotiations entirely and puts her Artist Alley Merchant specialty to work fleecing five different general stores^B2C14

Both open their boxes side by side; she needles him over his BigBoi Boxers' new Freeballing benefit and pitches leather chaps as his next look. Harrumphs, unspoken, at him pulling three levels ahead of her again^B2C13

Healed with a Heal Scroll the moment Carl reaches her, then watched over through the rest of the night; wakes with dawn confused and full of questions, oblivious to everything that happened while she slept, including what became of Mongo^B2C12

Her health crashes below 20 percent in the chapter's final line, per Mordecai's warning, just as Carl's own part in the circus storyline wraps up^B2C11

Finds her asleep and captive in Signet's building; tries to carry her out and stops the instant her health bar starts dropping, then builds a makeshift shelter around her and leaves Mongo on guard before following Signet out^B2C8

Snaps that Mongo's "not your child, Donut. He's a pet," then immediately regrets it once she looks like he's slapped her; quietly relieved when a dead lemur's real skull gives them both an excuse to change the subject. Agrees to her use of "partner" at the chapter's close^B2C5

Sleeps through nearly all of his own selection process, wakes up unimpressed that he still looks human, and jokes he smells the same once he explains Primal^B2C2

Talks through her class options with her at length, vetoes an instrument-based specialty out of self-preservation, and tells her over party chat to go through with the plan despite her own doubts^B2C1

Spends the day helping her train Mongo, chases her down the hall when she bolts after him solo, and watches the two of them play in the stairwell chamber with a heavy heart he keeps to himself^B1C47

Nearly overrules her pick of a pet, backs off under a thirty-second cage-closing countdown and her promise to never ask for anything again; catches the chosen Mongoliensis bare-handed while she feeds it^B1C46

Weathers her mock outrage over sacrificing one of her pet biscuits to test a theory, then finishes the stunned boss off underfoot at her prompting, quoting Beatrice's old 'Daddy tax' line back at her^B1C45

Listens to her chatter about Yvette's death and rewatches the recap show with her; shuts down her worry over Mordecai's warning to leave her behind on the ninth floor rather than talk about it^B1C44

Sits beside her through the taping, breaking her own let-Donut-do-the-talking plan the moment the game turns cruel^B1C42

Brushes a knot out of her fur for the first time since they arrived in the dungeon, then gets pulled with him into the forced transfer to the new interview trailer^B1C41

Rides the MOAB's rear seat launching bombs on his call, then casts Puddle Jumper on his count to teleport them both clear of the stairwell^B1C40

Reads her the descriptions of both their new scratch tickets and talks her out of scratching hers yet; agrees to get her custard through Qwist once she asks^B1C39

Butts her head against him and purrs mid-tirade at Zev, surprising him, then breaks the tension entirely afterward with an out-of-nowhere Gossip Girl comparison that makes him laugh^B1C36

Saves his life twice this chapter: dragging him out of the burning boss chamber by his cloak, then healing him with a scroll at what he guesses is the last possible second^B1C35

Hands her the immunity smoothie mid-fight, then tells her to go back to Brandon's group and let them watch over her if he doesn't survive his own detonation; she refuses^B1C34

Warns her that obsessing over her new followers and views is dangerous, worried it'll get them both killed; she denies obsessing at all^B1C31

Lets her carry the interview as agreed, then watches her soak up the crowd's adoration afterward with a private feeling of dread^B1C28

Asks her whether to stick with Brandon's group or go it alone; she sees through him instantly and talks him into a middle path that does both^B1C27

Nearly strangled to death by the Juicer until Donut's neck bite forces the boss to let go; stays at her side afterward, testing the healing potion cooldown on himself before he'll risk giving her one early^B1C24

Partner, after nearly leaving the party; she knew he'd been planning to keep her all along^B1C8

Fellow crawler now, and uncharacteristically loyal in a fight^B1C2

His ex's show cat, in his care under protest; he respects her tenacity, she considers him staff^B1C1

Mordecai:

Gets cursed out for ruining an hour of alchemy work when the disco ball's smoke rolls over his table^B4C18

Gets a full explainer on shapeshifter taxonomy, prompted by Juice Box, distinguishing changelings, doppelgangers, mimics, illusionists, and the Valtay from Intellect Hunters and Infiltrators^B4C5

Learns the saferoom system only protects a room if a crawler (or protected NPC) is actually inside it, which leaves most of the bombed Bactrian town's own NPCs undefended; separately gets shut down asking about "primary and secondary zones"^B4C4

Reunites with him already scouting Hump Town; gets talked through Donut's forced class pick and the floor's own basic shape over chat^B4C1

Pumps him for deity-summoning mechanics ahead of time under cover of a hypothetical question, getting the exact formula for how long an involuntarily-summoned god lasts, how big it grows, and how a captured summoning can be stolen by a second worshipper^B3C32

Told over chat that a nearby explosion was probably a ghoul generator's own soul crystal popping under stress, smaller and less stable than the one fused inside Carl's own Doomsday Scenario; floats a "glorious idea" tied to the captured Nightmare train that Mordecai refuses to hear out^B3C31

Ordered to strip off the Ring of Divine Suffering the moment Mordecai spots it, gets smacked upside the head when he argues back, and agrees only to sell the ring on the fifth floor rather than right away; catches him up afterward on the skulls, the map, and everything else missed during the time out^B3C30

Greets his sudden return, seven days into a time out that felt instantaneous to him, with a simple hello; gets blasted full in the face a moment later when Katia's stored-up blood erupts everywhere^B3C29

Watches him hurl a chair at Chaco's head hard enough to have killed him, then vanish into a system-imposed seven-day time out; overwhelmed with relief it wasn't worse, but furious at the timing since it eats most of the floor's remaining collapse timer^B3C7

Sets up three crafting tables in the new Enhanced Crafting Studio at his direction, gets warned that the Goo-Inator's shaping tool weakens whatever it's used on if pushed too far, and relays Bautista's newly-heard Azure Line route info for Mordecai's own growing map^B3C4

Listens to his full rundown of personal-space levels one through five; snaps "Fuck off, Mordecai" and storms into the Training Room without applying buffs first, ignoring the assigned Smush skill, right after reading Brandon An's death message^B3C3

Reunites with him at Nirula's, laughing out loud at his new toad-like Grulke form; catches up on the aftermath of the last quest, including the drop in remaining crawlers, then walks through opening boxes, distributing stat points, and spending coupons on their first personal space together^B3C2

Resumes contact once the party's back on their feet, welcoming them back, helping walk Donut through her new floor-4 class options, and confirming he's landed in a train station settlement of his own; thanks him for a heads-up about the new bounty on his head, and gets ribbed in return over cracking the leaderboard's top 10^B3C1

Orders everyone in the group chat to strip magical gear the instant the first burst hits; confirms he's safe in his room, reports the streets otherwise empty, and doesn't respond when Carl thanks him with a "Congratulations" on the way down to floor 4^B2C25

Gets the bereft minion explanation and an apology for the wasted dynamite, then repeated guidance once the evacuation quest hits: Protective Shell won't stop a magical blast, breaking the soul crystal probably won't cancel the explosion and might set it off early, and the Desperado Club's second room is the nearest way out of the blast radius^B2C24

Coached by him beforehand on liches in general and, more specifically, on why approaching a weakened Remex directly beats just blowing the building^B2C23

Queried twice over chat, once for a guess on whether headless krasue corpses are safe to hit physically (uncertain, turns out to work anyway), and once for why Donut's spells stopped working, which gets the muted-zone explanation^B2C22

Gets the doppelganger-versus-changeling explanation, the Juggernaut class breakdown, and the newsletter-based Borant/System AI theory; needled with 'stone cold, Mordecai' over the rings-off-her-corpse remark about Katia^B2C21

Agrees to Mordecai's new rule against discussing outside politics until after floor six, and learns, at least in part, why Mordecai wanted King Rust needled in the first place^B2C20

Gets his guess over party chat that an anti-charm spell is blocking Donut's charm on Miss Quill, prompting Carl's own "Plan B" of dropping a corpse on her desk instead^B2C18

Walks him through brewing a Hair of the Dog potion drunk, identifies the 201st Security Group off Vicente's uniform, and floats a lich as the likely author of the necroscript letter^B2C17

Takes 500 gold from Carl to visit the market's alchemist while Carl and Donut shop, and hands Carl a pile of herbs and vials afterward. Tells them to go straight to the inn once the recap show starts, then peels off to watch the bar's screen instead^B2C16

Walks him through the club's mechanics: bots versus real NPCs, the shared-instance main room, the off-limits side rooms. Explains the manager protection package that starts on floor four and the stipend incentive tied to Donut's survival, relieving Carl's unspoken worry that becoming her manager sabotaged his own path to freedom, but still won't say why he was originally so furious about the arrangement^B2C15

Walks Carl and Donut through how shops work the next morning: item descriptions come straight from the shopkeepers rather than the system, so exaggeration is allowed but outright lies aren't, and Donut's own Charisma should get her the honest version. Tells Carl to always leave negotiating to her and calls general stores "7-11s": convenience, not value, worth three times the going rate even with a discount. Insists on buying Mongo a pet carrier so he can finally rest properly at night, and lays out the day's plan: shop, grind mobs, find and kill exactly one neighborhood boss, no quests, no elites, back before dark, then the Desperado Club the following night, and only with an escort^B2C14

Watches the recap show with them at the pub, explaining Carl's own escape from Signet's building is barely shown because the footage belongs to the Vengeance of the Daughter production, and recounting a badly mismanaged floor-4 season that spiraled into a spreading bacterial infection nobody wants repeated. Turns GumGum away outright when she approaches their table ("No. Fuck off. Not tonight."), then explains pub NPCs as an endless well of garbage quests, most without even a minimap star. Catches Carl sneaking out to check on her anyway and delivers a hard lesson: you can't save them all, the producers will always be baiting him with people like her, and his best bet is to get as strong and as deep as possible^B2C14

Catches him up on the recap show he missed and last night's patch notes (a broken Golem spell, a new collective-bidding sponsorship system left unexplained); tells him to hold off assigning his 12 banked stat points until he's seen his new gear, and not to visit the Desperado Club tonight since he needs rest first^B2C13

Walks him step by step through the potion recipe that cures Mongo (a whole cinnamon stick, a five-second wait, then a couple branches of thistle rot); separately explains that stairwells will increasingly only reveal themselves on the map once their gating quest is complete, as the newly found floor 4 staircase apparently did^B2C12

Warns him, right as the chapter ends, that Donut's health has dropped below 20 percent and to go to her immediately^B2C11

Talks him through the Heather fight (advice on black bears, worm claws left unexplained) and calls the win his first solo boss battle. Confirms Donut is still fine, saying he only gets a warning if her health drops to 20 percent and otherwise can't track her status. Reports his old contact Eklund couldn't look up a Water Lily cure but named Signet's storyline: Vengeance of the Daughter, confirming Carl's own hunch. Later finds the actual cure recipe, Satch Toad extract mixed with a standard healing potion, but doesn't have the ingredient in this town. Explains the Ink Marauder spell behind Signet's tattoo army and guesses her skill in it tops 15^B2C9

Learns he drugged Gordo and broke into his kitchen overnight to steal a regional newsletter warning of a major battle event in the area; handed a pocketful of stolen herbs for potions. Sends increasingly frantic messages during Carl's fifteen-hour blackout, relieved once Carl finally responds^B2C8

Gets chewed out for ignoring advice Mordecai never actually gave, being too drunk at the time; the two trade blame before Mordecai settles down and delivers a long lecture on what elites actually are and why the Signet quest is dangerous to interfere with^B2C7

Pings him mid-scout to ask about his head, surprised to find him already back in his own room, sober-sounding and confused about a hangover he doesn't seem to have; gets ordered to abandon the area and reach the safe room before full dark^B2C6

Tries to wake him early in the chapter and gets his tail rising ominously, cobra-style, for his trouble; decides against touching him again after that. Still snoring in his own vomit as the chapter ends^B2C5

Tries to ask him about the new quest tab over chat; gets a drunken non sequitur about their mother in reply, then a claim about incubi and alcohol tolerance that trails off mid-sentence. Finds him passed out drunk in a puddle of his own vomit on the safe room floor twenty minutes after leaving him sober^B2C4

Runs him through two hours of race options and a long class review, steers him toward Compensated Anarchist despite the grind it demands, then presents him to floor 3 as their newly bound Manager's first order of business^B2C2

Steers Donut's public performance toward Artist Alley Mogul while secretly green-lighting her real pick of Former Child Actor, a plan hatched with Odette; braces for a friendship-ending fallout if Mordecai ever learns he was behind it^B2C1

Gets the pet-bonding rules once Mongo's hostility finally breaks, then a full walkthrough of what happens the moment they take the stairs to floor 3: race choice, class choice, automatic stat distribution, and a warning that the AI's own class recommendations don't account for how a pick plays with the audience^B1C47

Applies his chapter 25 boss-room advice, 'there will always be clues,' on his own: feeds and frees the caged, injured danger dingoes instead of grinding them for easy experience, which turns the fight in their favor^B1C45

Pulled aside for a hushed, private rundown of the Bloom's rise to power and the pressure it's putting on Borant to end the season fast, plus a warning about how dangerous even a low-level admin like Zev really is^B1C36

Peppers him with questions about the collapse timer, broadcast rules, Damien, Agatha's edit, and the monster-design theory; gets partial answers to most and flat refusals on a few^B1C35

Sits down for a full post-boss debrief: fight critique, party tactics advice, the borough boss warning, and an oddly solemn moment about Grull not being a real god^B1C25

His guide and teacher, however reluctantly on both sides^B1C3

The rat behind the guild door, unhelpful right up until the last second^B1C2

Frank Q:

Learns of his death secondhand, via Donut, killed in a bar fight by a fellow crawler; says he isn't surprised^B3C20

Finds him alone and drunk at the bar, transformed into a Night Elf Blood Assassin; sits down to hear him out rather than fight, gets the true story behind Yvette's death and the ambush that cost him his hand, and walks away with the ring and an apology given rather than taken^B3C19

Confronts him on air once broadcast footage reveals the truth of his and Maggie My's crawl, including their daughter Yvette's death; tells him he's genuinely sorry about his kid, then declares their business finished^B1C43

Left frozen and Naughty-marked in the safe room with a booby-trapped rat corpse in his path; no notification has come to say whether it worked, so his fate is unknown^B1C21

First face-to-face meeting; sniffs out his cover story as a lie in real time and rigs a booby trap in his likely path rather than fight him directly^B1C20

Maggie My:

Tells her he regrets what happened with Yvette while trying to talk her down; extracts her Scree worm form from Chris's head minutes later, and after she nearly kills him first and gets forced out of his own neck with a double-healing potion, Mongo crunches her down for good^B4C34

Realizes mid-conversation that "Chris" is actually Maggie, controlling his body via an Infiltrator parasite; the party petrifies her repeatedly with Katia's bolts until Donut drops her and Chris both through a Hole into the flooded catacomb below^B4C14

Decides against running from her threat, reasoning her invisibility isn't as powerful as he'd first assumed and that taking the local neighborhood boss's map will make tracking her easier^B1C44

Confronts her on air over choking her own daughter to death; she lunges at him with a dagger that can't reach him through the trailer's barrier and threatens to hunt him and Donut down^B1C43

Same unknown fate as Frank, left frozen in the safe room near the rat trap, with no notification either way since^B1C21

Meets her for the first time as she tries to shoot him point-blank; the safe room's rules freeze her before the shot lands^B1C20

Agatha:

Stops Imani from intercepting her at the station 36 stairwell as she pushes her cart down a ramp that wasn't there a moment before, telling Imani only that they'll talk about it later^B3C34

Finds her alive at the stairwell after months believed missing or dead, offers to fix her cart's squeaky wheel, and gets brushed off with a cryptic warning instead; his own inventory History tab ties her cart to unexamined Valtay Corp tech gear he never mentions to her directly^B1C47

Tells the group he thinks her absence from the broadcast means she's dead, not mentioning what he and Donut already know from chapter 30: a kill tag proving she was alive and moving hours after the borough boss fight^B1C31

Finds her kill tag on a Brindle Grub corpse on floor 2, the first confirmation she's alive and moving on her own since chapter 27^B1C30

Returns her shopping cart the moment the fight ends; later worries she's headed down the ramp to floor 2 alone^B1C27

Doesn't interact with her directly; asks the group to try to get a couple of her spray cans for him^B1C22

Brandon An:

Receives his final message from the game's own deceased-crawlers folder; reads it, breaks down, and tells the others what happened. Can't reach Imani C or Chris Andrews 2 to check on them, since Brandon was the only one of the group added to his chat^B3C3

Gets a long message from him and writes back asking him to stay safe; passes along the same manager-benefit advice Odette once gave them, and asks if he knows what Donut's Scutelliphily or his own Cesta Punta actually are. Considers mentioning Agatha but decides against it, unwilling to put it in writing^B2C8

Says goodbye as Meadow Lark's 36 remaining residents descend on a cruder second cart system; asks him to loot whatever's left in the stairwell hole, then gets pulled into a hug instead of the offered handshake^B1C41

Builds the MOAB with him and Chris, loses the naming argument's spirit even while refusing to repaint it, and messages him afterward to get his group to the stairs immediately^B1C40

Locks eyes with him right after the new safe-room-closure rule is announced; both silently realize, at the same moment, that it's time to give up on staying with the group^B1C39

Hands Elle McGibbons off to him at the safe room door once they're all inside^B1C38

Reunites with him and the whole group at the parade float; hears about the Mind Horrors fight and Brandon's extra star, and gets thanked for helping the group at his own detriment^B1C37

Lays out the plan to clear a path to floor 2's nearest safe room and come back for the group; shakes his hand and thanks him sincerely before heading down^B1C27

Quietly asks him whether the group looted the entry-dead's bodies; Brandon is horrified until Carl explains he needs pants and shoes, then gives him directions without further judgment^B1C23

Meets him for the first time, hears out his group's situation, and proposes teaming up to take the borough boss down together^B1C22

Chris Andrews 2:

Adds him to the party for the trip down the next stairwell, promising to finish the coming fight in his dead brother's honor^B4C34

Confirmed still sealed in the flooded chamber with Maggie, per Katia; Langley's team keeps watch from above^B4C19

Approaches Carl in person for the first time since floor one, now a towering rock monster of red and black lava; Carl greets him warmly, relieved^B4C13

Overhears Odette start to say she hadn't warned "them" that Chris was something, cut off mid-sentence when Loita mutes her; tells Donut afterward there's obviously something going on with him and that they'll need to be careful until they figure out what^B3C35

Learns he's the one who killed Frank Q at the Desperado Club's bar; rereads Brandon An's old dying message to him about Chris while wondering whether it's connected^B3C20

Says goodbye as the group heads down to floor 3^B1C41

Meets him for the first time; asks Brandon about his silence and gets an explanation rather than an answer from Chris himself^B1C22

Imani C:

Coordinates the eight-bubble extraction plan with her over chat, relaying Donut's threat about Carl ripping off arms and reminding everyone not to linger near the open gate^B4C32

Works alongside her rigging the crane with her chain-making scrolls, picking up a repeating constitution buff every time her wings brush him; she organizes the chokepoint defenses once monsters start pouring up through the floor^B3C31

Messages her out of nowhere asking pointed questions about the stop-48 province boss and whether it's fixed to its chamber's ceiling, without explaining why; she can't say for certain^B3C30

Warns her the ground-shaking first explosion wasn't his own bomb, then apologizes once his own detonates and knocks her people off their feet too; she tells him not to do that again but confirms nobody was seriously hurt^B3C27

Told her team plans to hold station 36 against the wrath ghouls gathering there; agrees to meet them once the station 101 rescue is finished^B3C22

Sends her and Elle a quick update about Frank Q's death and asks whether they managed to get Chris to talk; gets no immediate reply, guessing they're asleep en route to a saferoom^B3C20

Hears her crew's harrowing fight into Trainyard D and their shelter in the Iron Tangle administrative building over chat; suggests they try the employee train tunnel on foot toward the nearest transfer station^B3C19

Checks the PVP coupon mechanic with her directly, confirming her own coupons wouldn't burn and that Elle never got a matching book off her own skull^B3C18

Gets a short follow-up warning from her, alongside Elle's message, that the monsters get much more powerful once they transform^B3C16

Blames Quan Ch for the growing wave of stranded crawlers, reporting chatter that he's farming train engineers by blowing up trains and stalling entire lines; agrees to look for a secret way out of the drug-tunnel robot room while she and Elle walk^B3C15

Sends a note along with Elle that neither of them can make the planned Desperado Club meetup^B3C14

Compares notes with her and Elle over Mordecai's train map, working out that the checked-off transfer stations are all prime numbers; splits the investigation with her, sending her team to check a station five stops down the line while he and Donut go after a train engineer^B3C9

Reunites with her in person for the first time since floor 3, hears the true story behind Chris and Brandon's falling-out, and is about to trade chat contacts and walk her and Elle through Mordecai's train station map when the attack on Donut cuts the meeting short^B3C8

Says goodbye; she's the last down the ramp, waving without a smile^B1C41

Volunteers to personally test her idea of just opening the safe room door to eject the Rage Elemental^B1C40

Sits down and matter-of-factly teaches him to use the Pedicure Kit of the Sylph after Donut laughs him off^B1C32

Meets her for the first time; privately guesses her high level and kill count came from having to kill her own former patients^B1C22

Yolanda Martinez 13:

Watches her die to the Rage Elemental's claws; admits he never got to know her well but recognizes the kind of person she was^B1C38

Meets her for the first time; she greets him warmly and shares what she's learned about the boss chamber's protected viewing doors^B1C22

Lexis:

Briefs him on the production trailer's rules and the studio set's, then walks them both onto the stage^B1C28

Meets her for the first time as she steps into the boat's lounge and extends Odette's on-air interview invitation^B1C27

Odette:

Needles her on air about having sponsored Hekla, inferred from her own "crab ranch" comment at their very first meeting; she deflects the topic back to her husband before finally admitting, once the cameras are off, that it was actually her^B3C35

Privately credits her earlier warning about Hekla with saving his own life, admitting to himself that his claim to Katia of having gotten good at spotting a setup wasn't true at all^B3C24

Told privately, once the cameras cut, that she lied earlier about the cost of the interview: she bought Carl and Donut's rights dirt cheap early on, they're still her highest-rated guests, and she thinks the leaderboard undersells them; her own contract is voided if Carl dies and Donut leaves to join Brynhild's Daughters. Also warned that Hekla, while not evil, is coldly practical and has grown fixated on getting Donut into her party permanently for access to Mordecai as a manager, working through Katia without Katia's own knowledge; separately warned to be careful with his War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull on floor 4, since it can summon Grull himself if used against one of his celebrants, and that King Rust has just spent heavily on an unusual deity sponsorship Odette suspects might be Grull, aimed at Carl^B2C26

Watches her strip off her on-air costume to reveal her real body, agrees to pass a message to Mordecai, and gets a rundown of warnings about race changes, loot, and trust before she sends him back into the dungeon^B1C29

Meets her for the first time on air; barely holds his composure looking at her, and lets her push him into saying his own catchphrase for the crowd^B1C28

Zev:

Copies her relayed politburo message into his own scratchpad in case it gets erased later, and tells her to pass along a defiant reply to Borant's leadership^B4C34

Told over chat that her role as social media manager has ended for good now that Carl owns the social media board outright; asks in vain to let her say goodbye to Donut in person^B4C17

Told bluntly the party wants nothing to do with Loita as a replacement representative; learns their private chats go public the next day and that something unspecified has gone wrong back home for Zev^B3C25

Told off, again, for keeping emotional conversations with Katia off the public chat; yells "Go fuck yourself, Zev" out loud in response, breaking the room's tension^B3C21

Delays their teleport to the Planet Beautiful taping on her own call, reporting his bar talk with Frank Q, his choice to keep wearing the ring, and Donut's own bordello performance as the world's top two trending feeds that hour^B3C20

Talks her into pushing the Planet Beautiful taping back six hours; she huffs about it but concedes once he points out it isn't a live show^B3C19

Told to find a saferoom soon for a booked show; tells her to go fuck herself when she threatens to teleport the party out regardless, and she laughs it off as a joke^B3C18

Booked alongside Donut onto a new show, Planet Beautiful, airing in two days; agrees to appear only once he confirms he won't be made to read anti-Earth propaganda^B3C13

Told bluntly that Katia Grim is boring viewers and needs to change or go; pushes back hard, calling the demand absurd, but doesn't stop Donut from acting on it anyway^B3C6

Presses her on how the assassins knew which trailer to hit and gets the rental-schedule explanation^B2C20

Asked point-blank who runs the production behind Vengeance of the Daughter; learns it's Sensation Entertainment, Incorporated, a private studio from one of the center systems whose contact is a species called a Sac that Zev won't explain further. Booked, with Donut, onto a new round-table show, Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton, airing the day after tomorrow^B2C12

Has her relay a live ultimatum straight to Vengeance of the Daughter's producers, securing a deal: if he and Donut survive tonight and he reaches the sixth floor, he'll complete only elite-themed Vengeance of the Daughter quests there. Makes her confirm out loud that the deal is official and that she has the power to sign for him^B2C11

Gets her answer on his unspecified plan mid-battle: the producer won't speak with her directly, and the Syndicate AI referee will only allow help under very strict circumstances, meaning neither of them can help him right now. Cuts her off to focus on the fight, telling her to stay tuned^B2C9

Asks for her help with a loose plan he's formulated on the fly before following Signet out; she says it's impossible, he tells her to try anyway. Neither the plan nor her answer is shown on the page^B2C8

Checks in with her over chat; told the audience mostly approves of his and Donut's race and class picks, that no VIP crawlers are nearby, and that their next show appearance likely lands on floor 3's fourth night^B2C4

Chats over a brief feed outage right as Agatha reappears; she reports their floor 2 numbers are exceptionally good and signs off until after race and class selection on floor 3^B1C47

Returns for a post-show debriefing, explains her own suspension and reinstatement, the Skull Empire's political weight, and books their next appearance on Odette's show^B1C44

Her earlier warning echoes in his head as the Rage Elemental attacks, prompting his own bitter thought that helping this group was a mistake^B1C38

Interrupts him unannounced mid-conversation to praise a line for the cameras, then breaks off mid-sentence to scream at him and Donut to run for the safe room^B1C37

Meets her properly for the first time, Borant's Assistant Communications Representative, now assigned as his and Donut's PR agent. Loses his temper at her early on, then cools off once she explains she has no more choice in any of this than he does^B1C36

Named by Mordecai as someone due to arrive any minute who Carl shouldn't upset; a kua-tin appears just as the chapter ends^B1C35

Elle McGibbons:

Receives the reassembled Gate of the Feral Gods back from her once the changelings' portal into floor 6 closes^B4C33

Messages him in a panic, suspecting his own hand in Emberus's rampage through her already-popped bubble^B4C28

Checks in over chat; learns Meadow Lark has the Water Quadrant to themselves, probing an orc-run oil rig castle from a fish-person-rowed galley^B4C5

Checks in on her deity box loot mid-crisis, since Grull physically swiped at her too; she reports a new spellbook, Graupel, a costly, powerful ice storm spell she's wary to try^B4C2

Explains the plan to overload the floor's remaining soul crystals by sending the Nightmare Express into the abyss; turns down her suggestion to use his own doomsday device instead, saying he's saving it for something specific^B3C34

Watches her fly repeated close passes at Grull's head, pelting him with icicles and dodging a melting heat-ray breath attack by inches, faster and higher than Carl realized she could go^B3C33

Sent by Imani to take a team and check out a pair of distant explosions near station 12, in case the ghoul generators on either side are gone and the group needs to fall back^B3C31

Teases him over chat about the recap's exaggerated hyena footage and warns him off attacking a province boss, unaware he's chasing a different idea entirely^B3C30

Asks her to check with her manager for any secret way to kill a mimic; relays back that giant mimics can't be fought piecemeal, since severed pieces just grow legs and crawl back, unless more than half the mass comes off at once, and that she's talked a group out of attacking the station 48 province boss^B3C28

Has her personally check every person at the recap gathering for Eva, coming up empty; gets knocked off her feet along with everyone else near station 60 by the shockwave of Carl's own train bomb^B3C27

Hears about the province boss discovered at stop 48; lays out his own floor-wide tally of ghoul trouble by stop and agrees to meet her and Imani at station 36 with boom jugs once the rescue is done^B3C22

Listens to her complain for five straight minutes about how little experience she got for freezing and killing hundreds of Festering Ghouls at once outside Trainyard D^B3C19

Wakes to her message reporting a secret downward tunnel out of the robot rooms that doesn't open until the robots wake, crediting his hunch and needling him for blowing up two of the automatons; she's following the tunnel toward what sounds like another train track, far off, promising an update later^B3C16

Told over chat that her and Imani's train out of stop 275 on the Camel Line never arrived, stranding them; they plan to backtrack through a drug-tunnel portal to station 272 and hike onward from there^B3C15

Gets a chat report mid-derailment-setup about her team's fights and a borough boss they left alone; puts the conversation off, telling her it isn't a good time^B3C10

Watches her finish off the second attacker with an icicle through the eye, then talks train-line theories with her and Imani over Mordecai's map once the dust settles^B3C9

Finds her at the club's bar, buys her round after round, and gets pinched for a drink in return; catches up on Frost Maiden life and the manager benefit tip he once passed to Brandon coming back around^B3C8

Kneels to say a likely-final goodbye as she's wheeled toward the ramp, still mistaken for her husband Barry the whole time^B1C41

Carries her over his shoulder after gravity flips her into the ceiling, shields her body when he lands hard, and forces a health potion into her hand^B1C38

Walks alongside her train car while she reminisces about her husband Barry and flirts with him outright; he has no good response^B1C37

Rage Elemental:

Lures it on a chase down the hallway with the MOAB, then tricks it into charging into the stairwell hole, killing it outright with no experience awarded for the kill^B1C40

Mexx-55:

Addressed by an unfamiliar, gruff male voice speaking from her usual spot on the ceiling, threatening to drown him and Donut if he doesn't return to his seat^B1C42

Greeted by her aboard the new interview trailer; unimpressed by the show's name^B1C41

Mukta:

Negotiates with her, voice only, over whether talking back on air will have consequences, before agreeing to go back on the show^B1C42

Meets her for the first time as Zev's substitute; loses an argument over being forced onto Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem^B1C41

Li Jun:

Volunteers alongside Zhang and Li Na before Imani can even ask for help; fights hard enough at the mantaur guards that Carl realizes he's made some version of the top ten crawler ranking^B3C32

Reunites with him aboard the engine cab, fist-bumps him into his chat, and briefs him on the plan to detach at station 75 and continue on to station 36^B3C24

Spots him ninth on Odette's draft leaderboard and is glad to see him alive; hopes Zhang and the rest of his group made it through as well^B2C26

Whispers him an escape plan moments before the Maestro forces him back into a frozen ambush^B1C42

The Maestro:

Learns he's a prince of the Skull Empire, not just the Skull Clan, and that an anonymous viral video humiliating them both together has the Empire quietly furious and the Bloom quietly delighted^B1C44

Learns his floor-9 family history and Faction Wars boasting, gets trolled with a boxed pair of boots as a parting gift, and promises him a rematch on the ninth floor^B1C43

Walks off the set rather than watch him force two frozen crawlers to gamble on their own deaths, then goads him on air until he cuts the segment short^B1C42

Zhang:

Saved by his last-charge shrinking wand once the crane plan looks dead on arrival, too wide for station 36's hallway; walks Carl through exactly how the wand works before using it^B3C31

Whispers him the same escape plan^B1C42

Lucia Mar:

Watches recap footage of her killing Ifechi by reflecting Florin's own shotgun blasts back through her; decides afterward, with Donut and Katia both agreeing, that she needs to be put down, though she isn't confirmed to share their bubble^B4C4

Recognizes her instantly from Quint's secondhand description of last night's chaos, one goat leg and two rottweilers, though the two still haven't met face to face^B2C15

His appearance fee reaches parity with hers within an hour of the viral video trending, per Zev^B1C44

Mongo:

Sets him free at station 75 after he's been cooped up; has to smack his beak repeatedly to stop him licking the blood and gore off his own body^B3C25

Warns him off the exposed third rail on the platform track, worried he'll get zapped, squished, or both; Mongo grunts and turns away^B3C2

Snaps at him for barreling into Katia and for eating a dead Jikininki's corpse, worried he'll make himself sick again; credits him for the party-wide Mascot buff that lands mid-fight^B3C1

Kept in his carrier for the approach on the depot; can't be trusted to stay still once things get out of control, and this time both Carl and Donut need to focus^B2C23

Sent in to bite krasue heads off once Donut's Torch is unusable in the muted nest; has to be muzzled by hand on first entering the room to keep him from howling, then recalled once the krasue start waking up^B2C22

Chases him into the dark alley when he suddenly screams and bolts, and helps kill the elf who ambushes them there and claims, unverified, to have lured Mongo into a trap with dark magic; afterward watches Mongo shake the elf's severed head like a squeaky toy^B2C16

Watches him sleep off his exhaustion by the fireplace, still awkward in his bigger body; eyes him uneasily once Donut suggests fitting him with the new Fang Caps, remembering how often Mongo's snapped at both of them lately^B2C13

Nearly dies single-handedly holding off a swarm of Street Urchins drawn by Carl's own scavenged junk pile around Donut; cured with a potion Carl brews on Mordecai's real-time instructions, earning a new, unnamed crafting recipe and three unnamed achievements along the way, then curls across Carl's lap to sleep once the fight's over, too big for it now and hanging over both sides^B2C12

Frees him from Signet's cage and orders him to guard Donut's sleeping body inside the makeshift shelter, calling it the most important thing he's ever had to do^B2C8

Jokes that Donut may soon be riding him instead of the other way around, now that he's nearly doubled in size; otherwise mostly a bystander to Donut's collar fitting, spell practice, and rooftop kill^B2C5

Scares him into teleporting away just by standing too close to his cage, then spends the day helping train him before finally letting him join real fights against brindled vespas^B1C47

Wrestles him out of his cage bare-handed and holds him down while Donut feeds him, unconvinced this beat the brindle grub he wanted instead^B1C46

Gordo:

Watches him get needled awake by Donut demanding breakfast and a brushing, then learns secondhand that Mordecai drugged him overnight without his knowledge^B2C8

Orders a drink from him on arriving at The Belly-Rubbed Pug; admits to him, twice, that yes, the drunk incubus passed out on the floor really is their manager^B2C4

Tsarina Signet:

Meets her to keep the Vengeance of the Daughter Elite friendly after floor 3, despite her past attack on Donut^B5C13

Stumbles out of the tent infested and babbling; talks her down from attacking him by explaining he isn't family and can still hear Grimaldi, then argues Grimaldi protected her out of love and that both of them want the same thing. His own mouth ends up un-banishing her from the tent; she thanks him and walks back inside, uncertain they'll meet again^B2C11

Gets her promise, restated, that she'll free Donut if he dies inside the big top, and her warning that the summoned battle squad only holds for thirty minutes. Enters the tent alone using his Big Top Ticket^B2C10

Watches him kill Heather solo, then thanks him for freeing her and calls her family. Marches him alongside her summoned army into the circus, explaining the nightly stalemate at the big top's protected exterior and sending him inside alone with his own Big Top Ticket to break the three ring poles and reach Grimaldi^B2C9

Ambushed and knocked out by her the moment he tries to leave the area for good; wakes to find her holding Donut hostage under her Water Lily spell, and is forced to promise, again, to help her tonight, this time by killing Heather himself once she wakes^B2C8

Survives her Mold Lion summon unscratched, then talks her into explaining how her Blood Magic actually works; works out that he himself was meant to be the sacrifice, and that the charm was meant to get him killed defending her, not protect her. Agrees to meet her again the following night, after her nightly summon is already done^B2C7

Meets her outside the collapsed building; charmed by her ambient effect until he breaks it by fracturing his own finger on Mordecai's advice. Tries to end the conversation and leave, only to watch her signal the circus to release its caged beasts^B2C6

Heather:

Examines her sleeping, transformed body up close and finds it sickening; ordered by Signet to kill her himself once she wakes tonight^B2C8

Grimaldi:

Deliberately eats a parasite-laced worm cone to open a line into Grimaldi's mind, then pleads with him on Signet's behalf while fighting off the same infestation controlling his performers. The parasite hive, speaking of Grimaldi in the third person, warns it can't regenerate him like the others if he leaves; Grimaldi's own voice, distinct from the hive's and calling him 'son,' begs him instead to come back and stay^B2C11

Sees him directly for the first time, filling the center ring; tries the poison-blood trick Mordecai taught him against the vine's roots, outcome unresolved by the chapter's end^B2C10

Learns from Signet where he actually is: the center ring of the big top, behind protective magic that bars her and her army but not a ticket-holding crawler. Still not seen directly on the page^B2C9

Apollon the Mighty:

Approaches him for a cone of worm-filled 'Iced Cream,' this one announced as 'Compliments of Grimaldi,' and deliberately eats it whole, infesting himself on purpose^B2C11

Fitz:

Trades him free room and board for three Hair of the Dog potions; gets him fruit to test-fire the new xistera, then a name and description for the town magistrate once Donut asks the right question^B2C17

Rents them a room at The One-Eyed Narwhal for the night, awed to have actual royalty as a guest^B2C14

GumGum:

Examines her corpse and takes the two papers from her inventory; privately wrestles with treating her death as just another story beat versus a real, innocent death, and lands on the second^B2C17

Turned away by Mordecai the first night, then found crying alone at her table; Carl sneaks out to check on her, too late, she's already gone. Found again the next evening piling dead women's bodies outside the town gate; agrees to look into who's killing them despite Mordecai's warning not to get involved^B2C14

Clarabelle:

Notices Astrid's refund runs 100 gold short of what Clarabelle actually charged for the guards, and quietly files the discrepancy away rather than raising it^B3C9

Watches her wave Mordecai and them through the second door, recognized from the recap show and asked after Mongo, currently shut in his pet carrier^B2C15

Quint:

Trades three of his Rev-Up Moonshine bottles, through Mordecai, for a pharmacist's starter kit, a Hair of the Dog potion for Donut, and three free Blitz Sticks; learns from him, secondhand, about last night's playroom incident^B2C15

Pustule:

Buys a case of Hob-lobbers and two cases of goblin dynamite off her, and gets his Jug O' Boom appraised out loud: worth about 7,500 gold sold outright, and her build-cost critique of it (a cheaper accelerant would cut the cost 90%, at the price of a less potent effect)^B2C16

Vicente:

Examines his corpse, gets an assist credit on the kill, and loots his uniform to show Mordecai; the shirt is oddly close in cut to Carl's own old Coast Guard ODU^B2C17

Magistrate Featherfall:

Finds his real corpse mummified at the center of the krasue nest, already dead long before the blast; realizes his own chapter 18 and chapter 20 theories about Featherfall actively running things were wrong, and fireballs the corpse along with the surviving krasue^B2C22

Finds his office door magically locked and never meets him; comes away suspecting he's the killer himself, and later blames him, unconfirmed, for the Shambling Berserker ambush^B2C18

Miss Quill:

Confirmed killed in the blast by the CockBlock! achievement text, which also gives her level (30) and species; her own body is never recovered, presumably buried under the reception office's rubble^B2C22

Splats a corpse on her desk to force the issue when she won't hear the complaint otherwise; gets her to admit, unintentionally, that Featherfall only comes out at night^B2C18

Crown Prince Stalwart:

Ordered executed by him on live television, minutes after his frog-and-boiling-water speech, in a pulse strike that hits Manasa's trailer instead^B2C19

D-0NAH:

Cleans what's visible of his outfit after he refuses to get undressed for the trailer's all-purpose cleaner^B2C19

Evo:

Greeted personally before the show; briefed on the panel and gets his own Valtay/Intellect Hunter-adjacent guess about Manasa confirmed outright^B2C19

Gravy Boat:

Finally names him on air as Ferdinand's real identity, a stray tomcat owned by their old neighbor Marjory^B2C19

Hekla:

Presses her for why she targeted Katia specifically and gets no real answer before Katia's own Rush attack kills her by accident^B3C23

Discovers she shot Katia with assassin-grade invisible bolts designed to hide the kill; tries to keep the room from turning into a fight over chat rather than confront her himself^B3C22

Thanked in person for leveling up Katia; asked, in front of her whole team, to help rescue roughly a thousand crawlers trapped at station 101, an ask he can't easily refuse on camera. Preps an invisibility potion and Mordecai's Special Brew on his hotlist beforehand, privately suspecting she might let him get hurt if it helps her own team^B3C21

Glimpsed in the same screenshot, physically present in the party's own personal space rather than off recording her Planet Beautiful segment, peering into the training room^B3C20

Speaks with her directly for the first time; agrees, via Donut, to help a scattered member of her team level up, and trades a genuine moment with her once the broadcast chaos dies down^B2C19

Tucker:

Dislikes him on sight; gets threatened with a sedition charge over his frog-and-boiling-water speech, then watches him go quiet once the pulse strike hits Manasa's trailer^B2C19

Eunice:

Punches a village guard as hard as he can to pull both guards' attention off her while she's frozen solid, getting branded a troublemaker for it^B2C20

Ricky Joe:

Carries him under one arm down the rope, accidentally dropping him the last ten feet; brushes off the boy's wailing since his health barely moved^B2C21

Scoops him up under one arm during the Mic Drop escape after Mongo bites his arm off, then pours a Healing Potion into him to stop the bleeding^B2C20

Salvatore:

Gets called an apostate and learns his own name was tortured out of GumGum before her death; Carl and Donut agree to run Mold Lion against him and the others, but a dwarven mother's rolling pin interrupts before Carl moves, and the fight ends with Mic Drop instead^B2C20

Village Guard Swordsman:

Punches one as hard as he can; it leaves a dent in the armor but doesn't stagger the guard, and both guards turn hostile on him afterward^B2C20

Katia Grim:

Learns she's splitting off her own operations starting next floor to gather and protect Hekla's former followers from Eva; hands her the Left Fang of the Green Sultan to return to its rightful owner and shares one last long goodbye hug as Phase four begins^B4C33

Shows her Ghazi's letter and decides the Land Quadrant has to fall before the party risks the flooded, trapped Necropolis catacombs^B4C17

Tells her the Bolt of Ophiotaurus wasn't wasted by sitting unused against Grull, reading Princess Formidable's gift as a message aimed at her own brother rather than a weapon meant to actually kill a god; promises they'll get to use it eventually^B3C34

Watches her shapeshift into a convincing double of him, right down to his heart-covered boxers, to lure Grull away toward a derailed train^B3C33

Fights beside her at a breached chokepoint: she activates Crowd Blast to smash into a packed hallway junction while he throws a boom jug down each fork, then Donut puddle jumps all three of them clear before the twin fireballs land^B3C31

Looks over her expanding train map with her and Mordecai, unable to follow most of her folded-paper logic, but comes away convinced her mirrored-line theory explains why there are only six Station Mimics^B3C30

Reads her Bolt of Ophiotaurus gift from Princess Formidable as a sign the princess isn't especially fond of her own brother; gets soaked along with everyone else when a new liquids patch forces out all the blood she'd been storing since her time on the train's front, and privately starts thinking through whether the same trick could be exploited later^B3C29

Asked what color the Mindaro line is and gets a chartreuse guess and an art-history digression for his trouble; warns her to get ready once the five fleeing crawlers appear on the track near station 432^B3C28

Works alongside her stripping an auxiliary cart's engine for parts, relying on her Gear Head knowledge; she raises the plan's derailment risk and the danger of scooping stranded crawlers up along with wrecked trains and mobs^B3C26

Realizes without anyone saying it out loud that she's now and forever part of the team once she tracks blood through their shared personal space; trades embarrassing childhood stories with her and Donut in the moment that follows^B3C25

Helps design her cowcatcher build, feels her heartbeat for the first time through her metal plating, and pulls two invisible bolts out of her shoulder by hand once Donut spots them, saving her life by ordering her to drop her mass form^B3C22

Objects, privately and out loud, to Hekla's plan to strap her to the front of a train; backs down once Katia reveals it was her own idea and insists she stay in his own party for the mission instead of transferring to Hekla's^B3C21

Glimpsed only through a remote screenshot of the party's own personal space, pointing at something for Hekla inside the training room, surrounded by roughly thirty unfamiliar women^B3C20

Takes her up into station 24's hidden room alone; learns about her trained third eye and the PVP Coupon she recovered from Donut, and promises not to tell Donut that Katia was the one who found it^B3C18

Fights beside her spearing ghouls off the train's exterior through the broken windows during the escape^B3C17

Fights beside her spiked She-Hulk form against the babababoon swarm; checks in after and hears her describe successfully moving metal inside her own body to hurt an attacker more than it hurt her^B3C16

Finds her waiting on the platform, half-transformed and freshly done clearing track debris; confirms with her that she still hasn't gotten anything from her sponsor^B3C15

Left alone on the station platform with Mongo's carrier while Carl and Donut make their trackside attempt; teases him beforehand with Hekla's old warning that he'd get her killed^B3C14

Builds her the Ugly Ass Backpack at his new Armorer's Table, then talks her through backing into it, tying the straps, and reshaping herself around a ton and a quarter of loaded scrap metal until it equips as a single armored mass^B3C13

Comforts her after Gore-Gore's blade permanently costs her the fingers on one hand, healed back only by reshaping flesh from elsewhere on her own body; tells her she's still herself no matter what gets cut away. Privately resolves the party needs to get her sheathed in far more armor^B3C12

Hands off Ji-Hoon's looted greaves, shoulder pads, and helmet with Donut; privately dreads Mordecai's reaction once he learns she spent both her table-upgrade coupons on her own Makeup Table instead of his alchemy table^B3C10

Leaves her behind at the personal space to buy the craft table Mordecai once told her about, rather than push her into a club she has no pass for; suggests she try for Club Vanquisher access instead^B3C8

Introduces her to Arby's and curly fries at station 131; trades travel stories, learning she spent a student summer in Moscow and takes regular trips to Paris and Amsterdam, while she asks about his own travels for the first time^B3C7

Defends her over party chat when Zev calls her boring, telling Donut she's an art history professor overwhelmed like the rest of them and can't just be expected to change on demand; tells her afterward to just be herself, advice she visibly doesn't know what to do with^B3C6

Leaves her behind with Vernon to gather everything he knows about the rail lines for Mordecai's map, while he and Donut go check out the Reward Room^B3C5

Asks if she's okay after she takes a bonker's club glancing off her arm during the Yellow Line ambush; satisfied once she says it only stung^B3C4

Reacts to her arm bracer reshaping into a shield with a flat "That's really weird"; asks Mordecai to confirm what her Doppelganger race can and can't do with equipped gear once he sees it in action^B3C2

Sends her in first through each gangway door for her higher Constitution, apologizes as Mongo knocks her flat doing it, and holds her back from guarding a second door alone rather than split the party^B3C1

Sees her genuine, undisguised face for the first time in the green room: short black hair, mid-thirties, pale, with light, wide-set eyes set at an odd angle^B2C26

Runs with her and Donut to the floor 4 stairwell; her Rush skill fires on its own during the fourth burst, sending her through a wall into Carl and breaking his arm, healed again within moments. Tells her to press the backup detonator on the depot's ringed dynamite as they open the floor 4 door^B2C25

Wants to go back for her once the evacuation quest hits and she can't reach a saferoom; she refuses over chat and tells them to keep running^B2C24

Hands her the master detonator as a backup dead man's switch and tells her to press it, no questions, if he and Donut die or if he says so^B2C23

Examines her properties, sizes up her stats and abilities, and gives her a broken mirror shard looted back on floor 1 so she can see her own face to practice sculpting it^B2C21

Burgundy:

Recognizes her from chapter 18 once her head reattaches and her dot flips from krasue red to human white; questions her about Featherfall, Quill, and the krasue instead of healing her, per her own plea, while the building comes down around them^B2C22

Remex:

Learns from Odette that Remex, now dubbed "Remex the Grand" by her own show, really did die in the blast, and that the chain reaction that should have followed was tempered rather than stopped outright^B2C26

Considers finishing him off on the way out but decides against it, guessing it would likely be a bad idea; leaves him behind, still convulsing, with a red twenty-minute timer over him that hasn't started counting down^B2C25

Coaxes his full story out of him gently rather than attacking, gets his account of the resurrection and Quill's plans, and offers him the choice of being killed or left alone once he's done talking; Remex says it doesn't matter either way^B2C24

Learns of him for the first time from the dying Burgundy: Miss Quill's husband, the magistrate before Featherfall, holed up across the street and one floor up, neither alive nor dead^B2C22

Daniel Bautista 2:

Learns the truth behind his secret pets: Jaxbrin Amusements figures looted from Miss Quill's apartment, one of which he hands over as a gift; warns him back that his level-21 friend (not the level-28 crew member good with the sling) is falling too far behind the rest of the group^B3C29

Reunites with him near the abyss portal, hears his warning that the station mimic ahead is magic resistant and immune to bashing weapons, and scraps the cart-portal plan once he sees just how big it's grown; hands out souvenir hats so the whole group can walk through the abyss portal instead^B3C28

Confirms the first cart really is tuned to the Sinopia line, loses a friendly bet with him over the alarm trap's song, then sends him toward yard Q via the employee line and warns him the trains are coming; learns in passing that Bautista keeps secret pets^B3C27

Coordinates with him over chat for roughly two hours to work out three colored lines that can reach the three separated groups stranded at the abyss; tells him he still has something unpleasant to do before they can start^B3C26

Gets his report that the station 435 Kravyad died anyway during an attempted paralysis and every train has stopped; tells him to send hat-holders through the abyss toward station 436 and floats a long-shot trapdoor plan for the rest^B3C20

Gets his live report that the Kravyad was an NPC exactly as Madison described, now in a suicide standoff after Bautista neutralized her hypnotize spell; learns less than half his group still has its souvenir hat, their only other way out through the abyss portals^B3C19

His warning about Terminus Station arrives too late; redirects him toward the Kravyad boss and employee portal at station 435 once Bautista reports the station itself fighting like a city boss, and warns him not to kill the Kravyad outright^B3C18

Messages him not to get off at station 433, Terminus Station, the moment Madison explains it's a trap^B3C17

Relays that a contact of his at the Desperado Club knows Imani C, who wants to talk to Carl about a Brandon and a Chris; also warns that some crawlers at the club have been discussing hunting the leaderboard for its bounty. Carl finally relabels his chat marker from "Daniel" to "Bautista" after repeatedly forgetting his first name^B3C6

Meets him again at the floor 4 stairwell, leading his own group down first after confirming it's the right spot; Carl claps him on the shoulder before he goes^B2C25

Confronted over the stolen quest; admits fault, learns the man lost most of his family to the circus lemurs they killed, and trades chat contact with him as a debt owed^B2C23

Mrs. McGibbons:

Recognizes her tenth spot on the draft leaderboard with disbelief: wheelchair-bound and dementia-suffering back on Earth, now level 13 after starting floor 3 at level one^B2C26

Quan Ch:

Loots three rings off his severed hand; Ripe and Loaded's glory-stealing bent lines up with his known reputation, which Carl connects to a memory of Quan botching a province-boss snipe at the end of floor 4, though the wiki's own book-3 record has him actually landing that kill^B4C32

Fights him hand to hand after a wasted sneak attack, punches him in the face and knocks his teeth loose against a rock, rips his entire arm off at the shoulder, and watches him flee into a stairwell station; sends a threat back through Tran^B4C31

Spots him angling toward Orthrus for the bounty kill and broadcasts a warning to whoever has him in their own chat, having no way to message him directly^B4C30

Watches newscast footage of him surviving the blast and cashing in a rare double-upgraded achievement for the only Celestial box actually opened; laughs at the unfairness of it, which only makes Donut angrier^B2C26

Limp Richard:

Trades five already-read Louis L'Amour westerns for five of his sci-fi and horror books, correcting his assumption that Andre Norton was a man along the way; promises to trade more of his read books next visit, if there is one^B3C4

Tells him the party will be back later to shop, once they've slept; the first crawlers Limp Richard says he's seen at station 83^B3C2

Pierre:

Gets handed suitcase number one after asking for it directly; watches Pierre refuse to hand over Katia Grim's own chosen suitcase since she isn't there in person to claim it^B3C5

Vernon:

Spends close to an hour getting him talking about the loop he can't explain, the locked-off engineer, and what's ahead on the line, only for him to burn to death when Donut's own Reward Room suitcase turns out to be trapped^B3C5

Chaco:

Grills him over his history with Mordecai once the danger passes; gets no real answer beyond a bare admission of guilt and a request to pass along an apology, then has to pick a Prize Carousel prize with ten minutes on the clock and no examine-card details to go on^B3C7

Astrid:

Accepts her apology and the refunded guard fee on Donut's behalf, then talks her down from punishing Bomo and The Sledge, securing them as standing complimentary security instead; privately clocks that the refund is only 400 gold against the 500 actually paid to Clarabelle^B3C9

Bomo:

Casts a translucent shield spell over the whole party out of his own pocket, proud of the purchase; kept glued to Carl's own side at the bar, on Carl's request, once Frank Q turns out to be more dangerous than he looks^B3C19

Vouches for him and The Sledge with Astrid rather than let them take the blame, reasoning he trusts them more now than he would a pair of replacement guards^B3C9

The Sledge:

Casts a blue magic protection spell over the party, stacking with Bomo's own shield to make them practically invulnerable inside the club; told to watch Donut closely in case the woman hunting her turns up^B3C19

Learns from Bomo that he paid for a protective spell out of his own money to cast over the whole party on their short Desperado Club visit, the first time he's done so^B3C14

Vouches for him and Bomo with Astrid rather than let them take the blame, reasoning he trusts them more now than he would a pair of replacement guards^B3C9

Gore-Gore:

Questions him at length about the end of the line once the crash draws him out, then fights and kills him once he comes back out enraged; finishes him with a Talon Strike drop kick that sends him onto the live third rail^B3C11

Valtay Corporation:

Named as his sponsor for the first time in an admin notice right after the Gore-Gore fight; told his feed will now occasionally carry their ads^B3C11

Dismember:

Stalls him with a fake three-count while Donut lines up a Hole spell, then pulls his head through it by the hair for the kill^B3C12

Levi the 7th:

Ignores his pleading to get off the train, then organizes the barricade that keeps him alive through the ride^B3C12

Daniel Bautista:

Sends word he can't make the planned Desperado Club meetup, nearing the end of the line on his own train^B3C14

Fire Brandy:

Tries to talk her and Tizquick into leaving the train before it's sent into the abyss; they refuse, choosing to die with it instead. She tells him she understands what the party is doing and that they shouldn't be enemies over it; he agrees^B3C34

Visits her with Donut, collects several hundred sheol bricks off her, and learns from her, in the same conversation, that Tizquick confided in her about his daughter and that a mob hanged Madison at station 60 (the two pieces of news, not stated to be connected); asks her to take care of her babies in case they don't see each other again^B3C31

Told the party's plans for the stop; content to idle in the boiler while they're away^B3C19

Overhears her trading motherhood stories with Donut and Katia on the ride back; asks whether the train could simply be driven out through the yard on the other side of Station Repair and gets no clear answer^B3C16

Talked through the Nightmare Express's throttle, whistle, and two separate braking systems by her once he breaks into the cab; follows her instructions to vent the overpressuring boiler before it can detonate^B3C14

Madison:

Presses her for a real description of the Kravyad and the employee portal's rules, gets Doris blamed for the whole outbreak, and leaves her behind at the empty station 60 once she refuses to keep traveling^B3C18

Lets her aboard after Donut kills the ghoul attacking her, then presses her story about Yard A and her apartment until it falls apart; gets her account of the Kravyad, the six Station Mimics, and what Terminus Station actually is in return^B3C17

Widget:

Takes his help getting the train off the dead-end track and out of the yard; admits to killing CrackJack when Widget asks after him, and watches him get torn apart by a revived ghoul moments later^B3C17

Bin:

Refuses to read Bin's offensive, poorly-researched beauty-pageant script outright, holding him to the no-anti-Earth-propaganda condition set back at chapter 13; ends up hearing Bin's own frustration with Titan and picks a video game history segment as a replacement^B3C20

Mexx-6000:

Greeted by the trailer's host robot, who explains why his interface hasn't shut off and translates the explanation into blunter terms once he says he doesn't understand it^B3C20

Eva Sigrid:

Examines her properties on meeting her face to face; reads her as Hekla's enforcer and warns Donut privately not to trust her^B3C21

Tizquick:

Hears him volunteer to stay behind and personally detonate the train just before it hits the bottom of the pit^B3C34

Stops to kneel beside him in the hallway past station 60 once Hekla steps over him without a glance; the only one of the group who does^B3C21

Mistress Tiatha:

Learns from Elle that she's Elle and Imani's own manager, unhelpful and mostly drunk, save for a suggestion to blow up the trouble spots the way Carl himself would^B3C22

Eva:

Blocks a saber swing from her with his armored gauntlet and kicks her back into a real hit before Hekla calls a halt; takes a magic missile and an electrical bolt from the two mage Daughters in the same exchange^B3C23

Silfa:

Catches her by hand after Donut pins her, then talks through Hekla's whole plan with her point by point until she confirms enough of it to be believed; lets her go afterward with a message of apology for her two daughters^B3C24

Growler Gary:

Believes his story about the invisible wall and asks for his help; ends up killing him repeatedly to harvest his regenerating left hand as a cart key, but only after explaining the whole plan to him honestly and promising him alcohol once it's done^B3C26

Li Na:

Finds her already amputating the second mantaur down to his head and torso, healing him after every cut so he stays alive and easy to control; punches him herself to restart his summon on her own say-so^B3C33

Meets and speaks with her properly for the first time; she demands the full plan before committing to a fight, in case he dies partway through, and her idea to bait the province boss into the portal works exactly as intended. She refuses his high five outright, warning it would cost him control of his bladder and bowels^B3C32

Miriam Dom:

Marks her at dawn so he can stand guard over Prepotente while sunlight kills her^B5C47

Meets her in person for the first time across the noodle, watches her scold and kiss Prepotente like a misbehaving pet, and doesn't get the chance to ask any of his many questions before she and Prepotente leave to find another boss^B3C32

Prepotente:

Fist-bumps him after arriving at town, and they agree to keep each other apprised before getting in each other's way^B5C7

Trades insults with him across the noodle after Carl's portal accidentally interrupts a two-hour kill Prepotente had been setting up on the same province boss; learns Prepotente was slow-killing it to trigger a chain reaction of soul crystals that would have let crawlers advance to the next floor^B3C32

Grull:

Still one of only two gods listed on his worship tab; passed over in favor of Emberus without much deliberation^B4C31

Hunted across the trainyard, stepped on and flattened at least twice, and taunted at length about his planet being forgotten; survives by hiding, running, and letting Katia and Elle draw the god away before the party banishes him^B3C33

Mimic Rex:

Nearly caught by her tongue seconds after landing in the trainyard; she's cleaved in half by Grull before she can corner him a second time^B3C33

Loita:

Rushes in after the toy's explosion kills her, denies any wrongdoing to her face, and feels no remorse^B4C18

Refuses outright to put away the novel he's reading, telling her to fuck off; stares her down over Zev's disappearance and gets nothing but a promise she'll do her job right this time, answering with a flat "Ditto"^B3C35

Told over chat that Odette is waiting and that Loita herself will join the party in the green room to discuss a new arrangement; gets no answer when Donut asks where Zev is^B3C34

Floor 5:

Privately dreads a Nightgaunt matchup, since his own cloak's description warns Nightgaunts would be enraged by the sight of it; relieved when the wheel lands on the Dirigible Gnomes instead, then unsettled all over again once the quadrant turns out to be Air^B3C35

Clay:

Pays him a blitz stick as Hump Town's toll; only realizes after the fact that Clay let him assume the town was something other than a brothel until the joke landed^B4C1

Gwendolyn Duet:

Sees her face to face for the first time since a brief prior-floor fist bump; examines her stats and guesses at her pre-dungeon life from her build and scars^B4C20

First crawler to answer his call for anyone else sharing Bubble #543; trades intel on their respective quadrants over chat^B4C2

Skarn:

Pays him a gold coin to use his rooftop telescope on the Wasteland Fortress, and another question later about the mystery in Hump Town's City Hall^B4C2

Firas M:

Reunites with him in front of Hump Town, now level 30, and gets caught up on days of missed news^B4C20

Finds him and Louis Santiago 2 drunk at the Spit and Swallow, both already recognizing him by name; talks them into a floor-wide planning meeting^B4C3

Langley:

Talks his six-Archer team into holding off on the City Hall quest to train instead while the party scouts the Bactrian town^B4C3

Louis Santiago 2:

Reunites with him, now also level 30, before the balloon descends to the Land Quadrant^B4C20

Learns he and Firas are both Americans, not Middle Eastern or Spanish as assumed; nearly loses patience with the pair's drunkenness before Mordecai steps in^B4C5

Svern:

Finds the disguised changeling guard already reverted to true form and passed out; stuns and kills him with three Talon Strike stomps before he can wake or fight back; takes the glowing severed head for Mordecai to make into a potion^B4C6

Wynne:

Finds him chained beneath City Hall too late; a rival crawler, Low Thi, kills him before Carl can free him, failing the new quest seconds after getting it^B4C6

The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network:

Named as his second sponsor; commanded a bidding war that ran to the final possible microsecond, per Loita^B4C7

The Tomb Raiders:

Meets Morris Sp and Bobby D.J. at the Desperado Club to trade information and transcribe a map; suggests they find a minion-summoning spell like Donut's Clockwork Triplicate to take pressure off their own sole trap-detector^B4C7

Gate of the Feral Gods:

Learns of it for the first time off Ruckus's own boss card; Mordecai has never heard of it either^B4C9

Ruckus:

Kills it with his modified missiles after Katia drives the Chariot straight at the diving boss^B4C9

Henrik:

Finds his corpse among six dead changeling principals in the Akula's bridge, killed by Quetzalcoatlus per his own corpse card, and loots his body^B4C26

Signals him by accident testing Kane's watch, confirming he's still alive and currently shifted into an underwater form^B4C17

Questions him at collapsed City Hall, with Donut's charm helping soften him into explaining the collateral watch code^B4C10

Ruby:

Notices her Compression Sickness debuff while herding evacuated children into the personal space; neither he nor Mordecai has heard of it before^B4C10

Leon:

Negotiates passage aboard the Vahana for himself, Donut, and Wynne, backed by Donut's con and a hand-carved fake pocket watch; Louis and Firas stay behind on ground support^B4C11

Commandant Kane:

Finds him already dead, torn apart by his own pet goose, and loots his corpse for gold, a watch, and a letter^B4C16

Glimpses him at a distance for the first time, aboard the Wasteland's last retreating fragment, alongside a young daughter^B4C12

Juice Box:

Admits the ninth-floor plan was a decoy, sends her to Larracos instead with a repeated promise to keep trying to save her people, and learns as she leaves that she's secretly engaged to Louis^B4C34

Learns from her the Gate of the Feral Gods' real structure (two pocket watches and a winding box, held by Henrik, Commandant Kane, and the Mad Dune Mage) and what it actually does: opens a portal at a cost of releasing a feral god on the side where it was opened^B4C15

Nightmare II:

Sends Louis and Firas to drag it back to the grounded house's garage after it drifts down on its own^B4C17

Fuels it a quarter full from his own gasoline canisters, repaints it, and pilots it to the Wasteland's still-airborne house^B4C15

Denise:

Kills her by forcing her head into the kitchen's garbage disposal with seconds left on the house's own collapse timer^B4C16

Bonnie:

Takes charge of getting her and the house safely grounded, assigns Donut to look after her, and later carries her old bed and family photo to her new room at Juice Box's house^B4C17

Gravo:

Needles him on camera about Veritan Linkage's alleged ties to slavery and trackers hidden in the toys, halting the taping^B4C18

Liddi:

Trades banter with her before Gravo cuts the segment short; she's a genuine Donut fan^B4C18

Orren:

Questioned over Loita's death; refuses a confession and a Legendary box in exchange for naming the cookbook as his source, and the matter is closed for lack of proof^B4C19

Ghazi:

Punches him unconscious, steals the winding box, and interrogates him about the sand ooze and his own history with Lika and Tish^B4C21

Mrs. Ghazi:

Burns her core with burn gel from the ceiling above, defeating her the instant the boss chamber's roof collapses and buries him^B4C22

Ghazi's Letter to Tish:

Reads the full letter Katia loots off Ghazi's corpse, learning the Gate of the Feral Gods' real mechanics straight from Ghazi's own hand^B4C23

Psamathe:

Nicknames her Samantha, interrogates her about the sand ooze and her missing body, refuses to let her join the party, then agrees to hire her as a saferoom-bound NPC trainer instead^B4C24

Lusca:

Watches her close in on the Akula through the bridge's own porthole as the special event boss battle begins; swallowed alongside the sub whole once the world unfreezes^B4C26

Vadim:

Warns him off blowing the sealed escape hatch open himself, offering to blow it from outside instead; Vadim launches anyway moments later and is killed almost immediately by something that gets into the pod with him, mentioning the pain amplifier by name in his last message^B4C27

Tserendolgor:

Reads her panicked message describing Emberus mistaking her for his own lost dog and pounding on her bubble's wall^B4C28

Emberus:

Sends Carl a personal message thanking him for reuniting him with Orthrus, grants the Constitution boon, and lays out his adherent rules, worship benefits, and two personal quests^B4C32

Picks him over Grull as his new patron god in a moment of desperation, then uses the celestial grenade to summon him bodily and survive an unrecoverable crash^B4C31

Florin:

Reunites with him outside Hump Town; hears his account of clearing three castles alone, his golden player-kill mark, and his plans to join Katia's new party, and is offered a favor in return^B4C33

Quasar:

His newly assigned attorney, who warns him not to touch liaison-held items without counsel and negotiates the gate agreement^B5C3

Vrah:

Injures her with a poisoned arrow after she attacks him in Alucarda, forcing her to flee^B5C35

Receives her threat that the Hive is hunting him after she blocks his bomb plan in town^B5C10

Kiwi:

Faces her pack outside Point Mongo and withdraws rather than force a fight^B5C11

The Dream:

Learns the Dream has claimed Louis as a target and says the group must be killed^B5C15

Samantha:

Agrees to take her to the Naiad castle assault if she stops screaming, while keeping her alleged family link to Signet at arm's length^B5C17

Claude Sludgington the Fourth:

Killed the Fort Freedom borough boss after recalling Samantha to his position dragged the whole creature that had swallowed her onto the shore^B5C27

Circe Took:

Publicly promises to kill her remaining hunter daughters after she threatens him over Xindy^B5C33

Learns she will moderate his panel after he killed her daughter Xindy during a hunt^B5C32

Nihit:

Learns that Nihit seeks assault charges after being healed^B5C42

Stabs him with a magical signing pen after Nihit accuses him of cheating^B5C41

The Plenty:

His new sponsor after Valtay's ownership forces him to give up the previous one^B5C41

The Princess Posse:

Becomes its co-warlord for Faction Wars^B5C77

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Drakea's Enchanted Kerchief of Disorder:

Grants +5 Detect Traps, a once-every-five-hours level-15 Tripper spell, and the Remote Detonator benefit^B4C28

Apothecary's Beanie:

Wears Katia's benefactor-box beanie to cast I Need My Personal Space^B5C76

Enchanted Necklace of the Haute Bourgeoisie:

+5 Dexterity and the Talon Strike skill at level 5; pays a 432-gold tax every ten days as long as he still holds that settlement's jewel. Worn under his shirt, heavier against his skin than he expects^B3C2

CrawlCon Badge:

Worn for his first virtual CrawlCon event^B5C30

Nightgaunt Cloak:

+4 constitution, poison and ice resistance, anti-piercing^B1C6

Leather Jacket:

Burned through with a large hole in the left arm from acid mist during the chokepoint fight; his only non-magical clothing item, left damaged while his magical gear comes through unharmed^B3C31

Right sleeve melted away fighting the same green slime that dissolved his glove; the rest of it's still holding up^B1C15

Worn out into the snow; already shrugged off one panicked cat chomp^B1C1

Trollskin Shirt:

Regeneration 7 and immunity to melee debuffs^B1C6

Upgrade Patch. Medium.:

Being sewn onto the bottom left of the jacket front by Katia as the chapter ends; grants Constitution, explosive damage, Dangerous Explosives Handling, and a merchant discount once worn^B5C36

Upgrade Patch. Small.:

Affixed to the vest; grants 5% Dexterity and 5% ranged-projectile damage^B5C36

Fingerless Gloves:

Right glove dissolved off his hand fighting a green slime; the left is all that's left of the pair^B1C15

Common, but his fists are the real weapon anyway^B1C6

Broken Leash:

Still wrapped around his right fist since the Hoarder fight; came through the slime unscathed and gleaming^B1C15

Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull:

Right-handed wrist bracer; +3 strength in fist mode only, +1 dexterity, +2 skill levels to Iron Punch, +1 skill level to Powerful Strike, 2% chance to stun on a hit. Transforms into a spiked orcish-steel gauntlet when his hand closes into a fist^B1C45

Right-handed wrist bracer; +3 strength in fist mode only, +1 dexterity, +2 skill levels to Iron Punch, +1 skill level to Powerful Strike, 2% chance to stun on a hit. Transforms into a spiked orcish-steel gauntlet when his hand closes into a fist^B1C25

Boxers:

His only pants-adjacent garment; the dungeon will have opinions^B1C1

Spiked Kneepads:

10% damage reflect on all worn armor, cancels momentum-based attacks; eight-inch retractable spikes that only pop out when needed^B1C12

Enchanted BigBoi Boxers:

Adds +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence, and 3 more Constitution (5 total), plus a new Freeballing benefit: +100% damage on all attacks originating below the waist and 20% faster training for skills that do too, but only a single layer of clothing may cover the crotch while worn, which rules out the pants he was planning to buy tomorrow^B2C13

White, covered in little red hearts; +2 Constitution and a level 15 Protective Shell spell^B1C35

Pink Crocs:

Barely fit, worn out the window into the cold^B1C1

Toad Cudgel:

Carried over the poker, reluctantly; his fists out-damage both^B1C6

Xistera:

Strapped to his right wrist and forearm; retracts into a bracer under his gauntlet with a pull-ring when not extended^B2C17

Enchanted Auto Buckler of the Peach Pit:

Forms a metallic buckler on command, by hotlist or by shaking the wrist that wears it; carries a Shatter enchantment with a small chance to disarm an attacker on a landed hit^B3C29

Toe Ring of the Splatter Skunk:

Right index toe; strength bonus up from +3 to +10, Powerful Strike bonus up from +3 to +5^B3C9

Right index toe; +3 strength, Powerful Strike 3^B1C6

Silver Ring:

+1 constitution^B1C9

Ring of Constitution:

+2 constitution, stacking with the Silver Ring's +1^B1C19

Strength Rings:

×2 Worn immediately for a total of four rings between this pair, the Silver Ring, and the Ring of Constitution^B2C6

Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering:

Puts it back on as the Masquerade seal breaks^B5C74

Takes it from inventory and puts it on while deciding what to do with Bravvo^B5C13

+5% to all stats and the Marked for Death skill; slipped onto his left index finger as the chapter ends^B3C19

Enchanted Toe Ring of the Leprous Bandit:

Worn on his left pinky toe^B4C2

Quan Ch's Ring of Strength:

A plain plus-two ring of strength, his fifth ring^B4C32

Rockard's Ring of Sniping:

Grants the Ripe and Loaded benefits, marking low-health and magically-geared creatures on his map; his sixth ring, inferred from the strength ring's own stated fifth^B4C32

Ring of Water Breathing:

Worn to breathe underwater while preparing to enter Fort Freedom^B5C26

Magical Nipple Ring:

Pierces his left nipple with the ring that grants Quarter Fall^B5C55

Goblin Pass:

A forearm brand grants free passage through goblin territory, but fairy-class enemies hit 20% harder^B1C6

Branded onto his left inner forearm, and through the jacket; what it grants is not yet clear^B1C5

Desperado Pass:

On his neck, where he can't even see it, but it burned going on^B1C19

Extinction Sigil Tattoo:

A small lizard-foot mark under his left eye, barely noticeable^B4C2