THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Mongo

also known as Mongoliensis, Royal Steed

First seen: Book 1, Chapter 46

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

CompanionInjured

Level

Level-34 during Donut's pet-show presentationB5C70

33B5C11

33, up three, per Carl's own count after the Denise fightB4C17

26B3C31

23B3C26

15B3C7

14B3C6

13B2C21

12B2C18

11B2C14

10B2C12

6B2C7

4B2C6

3B2C5

1B1C46

Physical

Fully grown at last, pony-sized, reaching just below Carl's shoulders, about 13 feet from beak to tail tip with more than half of that length tail. The claws on his feet now dwarf the size of his whole body back when Carl and Donut first got him. Still fits inside the subway cars, though rowed-seating cars with center poles are going to be a tight squeeze from here onB3C7

Grows noticeably again with the level-up, rising to the height of Carl's chest; pony-sized now, up from dog-sized before the fightB2C21

Still awkward in his bigger body, needing several moments to get comfortable curled on his side by the fireplace like a dog. His beaked mouth still opens onto a full ring of sharp, ripping teeth, grown along with the rest of him; Donut decides they're now good enough to fit with a pair of Fang CapsB2C13

Doubled in size again mid-fight and stayed that way after healing: almost as tall as Carl's waist now, up from about turkey-sized before, covered in colorful feathers. Donut could probably ride him nowB2C12

A hand taller than Donut now, about the size of an actual turkey, with a longer tail that's sprouted a set of long feathers along its backB2C7

About the same size as Donut now, after killing five sentinel lemurs and pouncing solo on a sleeping one before Carl could finish it offB2C6

Nearly doubled in size. His pink-hued feathers have grown longer and thicker along his arms, mixed in now with a line of deep-red feathers; his tail has lengthened into something more dinosaur-like and less poultry; the skin around his eyes has taken on a bluish tone; and his beak has widened and grown large enough that a nose-chomp from him could do real damage nowB2C5

Noticeably larger by the end of the fight with Terror the Clown; no size or level givenB2C4

About seven inches tall, standing on two legs, looking like a raw, plucked chicken scattered with a few pink down feathers. Has two tiny, clawed forearms instead of wings, a long serpentine tail, and a beaked mouth that opens to show a row of small, sharp teethB1C46

Squawks at the virtual studio crowd on his introduction, then curls up exhausted on the floor in front of Donut, worn out despite being caged for most of the nightB2C26

Location

Ballroom A's pet-show stage with DonutB5C70

Backstage at the Ballroom A pet show, about to make his presentationB5C69

Inside his carrier throughout Beatrice's interview on Odette's showB5C19

Returns to Point Mongo after mating with Kiwi, then goes into his carrierB5C12

Refused entry to the Large Ursine Settlement under its dinosaur ban, then runs with Donut into its saferoomB5C10

Rides along on Carl's spare interdiction cart to trainyard E, then helps fight off a pair of mantaur guards at the employee line entrance, tearing one's arm apart and severing its claw outrightB3C32

Held back guarding a chokepoint at station 36 during the siege while Donut jumps to Carl's shoulder to help elsewhereB3C31

Rides the Mindaro-line rescue cart, then goes into his carrier for the walk through the abyss portal to yard H rather than risk needing a souvenir hat or key of his ownB3C28

Set free at station 75 after being cooped up, squawking angrily before getting distracted sniffing at the blood and gore covering the party; later found licking the saferoom floor clean after everyone showersB3C25

Released again onto station 41's platform once Donut climbs up from the trainB3C19

Station 283's transit station platform against the babababoon swarm, riding Donut and later leaping onto the Nightmare Express's engine to fight, then stored away for the trip to the switching cavern since he can't fit in the crowded cabB3C16

Station 283's platform, helping Katia clear the tracks of wreckage, then greets Carl jumping up and down at the platform on his returnB3C15

Station 149's wrecked platform, watching a pair of Donut's clockwork duplicates handle Gore-Gore's corpse, then a saferoom pho shop where Carl feeds him scrapsB3C12

The wrecked ochre line platform, then the small transit station outside it where the fight against Gore-Gore breaks outB3C11

The party's personal space, then hours grinding and training across several Iron Tangle lines, ending at a platform on the ochre lineB3C10

Yellow Line train cars 2 through 6, the Employee Break Room, the Reward Room, and finally the empty platform at station 116, Banshee StationB3C5

The Yellow Line platform and a Yellow Line train car, station #83, floor 4B3C4

Jumps onto the kitchen counter to explore, then piles onto Carl's legs in Donut's room for the party's first two-hour sleep; a bowl of raw meat is waiting for him at breakfast, courtesy of WenditaB3C3

Station #83's platform and Nirula's with the rest of the partyB3C2

Loose with the party on the Red Line train on floor 4, struggling to squeeze past the cars' vertical poles as he growsB3C1

The green room aboard Odette's set for Dungeon Crawler After Hours, out of his box for the first time in a whileB2C26

Stays caged through the whole evacuation, per Mordecai's warning that wild soul magic could turn a magical pet against its owner; pulled out of his carrier only once the group reaches the floor 4 doorB2C25

Kept in his carrier for the warehouse assault; too unreliable to trust loose while Carl and Donut both need to focusB2C23

Released into Featherfall's blown-open quarters, then muzzled by hand and sent biting into the krasue nest once the muted zone rules out Donut's TorchB2C22

Carried in his pet carrier to the Narwhal and back out again, then loosed in the alley for the Shadow Leaks fight and cloned twice as a decoy on the magistrate's roof while the original waits in the carrierB2C21

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 streetB2C20

The rented Danger Zone production trailer, stored in his pet carrier during the interview itselfB2C19

Kept in his pet carrier for the trip to the magistrate's office, then out grinding west of town with Carl and Donut, into the Shambling Berserker ambushB2C18

Let out of his pet carrier onto the street outside the Desperado Club, then suddenly screams in rage and bolts into a dark side-alley, beelining for a tall, smoking-handed elf once he's in sight of him. The elf later claims, unverified, to have used dark magic to lure him thereB2C16

Trekking through the skyfowl settlement and the surrounding wilderness with Carl and Donut all day: the pub for the night, general stores in the morning, then mob-hunting and the neighborhood boss fight, ending outside the town gate at GumGum's corpse pileB2C14

Mordecai's chamber inside the skyfowl settlement's tutorial guild, asleep by the fireplace the whole chapter, chomping at the air in his sleepB2C13

Trekking with Carl and Donut toward the skyfowl settlement, then inside it, much better behaved in a fight now though he still screams at the sight of monsters before Carl and Donut unleash himB2C12

The bottom floor of Signet's building, alone against a swarm of Street Urchins drawn by the junk pile shielding Donut, until Carl arrives; healed and asleep across Carl's lap for the rest of the nightB2C12

Captured off the page along with Donut, caged in Tsarina Signet's building; freed by Carl and left standing guard over Donut's sleeping body inside a makeshift shelterB2C8

Walking floor 3's road with Carl and Donut, training on stay-and-fetch commands, then caught up in the circus-lemur ambush and the fight against Terror the Clown before being carried into The Belly-Rubbed PugB2C4

Moved from Carl's lap to a seat on the bed with Donut resting a paw on his head; sleeps through nearly all of Carl's own race and class selection, then wakes stretching and yawning alongside herB2C2

Mordecai's relocated guildhall on floor 3, asleep in Carl's lap through Donut's whole selection processB2C1

Trains in the hallways near Mordecai's guildhall, then joins the fight against the floor's brindled vespas; bonds to Donut in the hallway just outside the floor 2 stair chamber and camps there with the party until the descent to floor 3B1C47

Caged in the kobold fighting pits' menagerie reward room on floor 2 at the start of the chapter; freed and carried off by Carl and Donut by its endB1C46

History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 46
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: About seven inches tall, standing on two legs, looking like a raw, plucked chicken scattered with a few pink down feathers. Has two tiny, clawed forearms instead of wings, a long serpentine tail, and a beaked mouth that opens to show a row of small, sharp teeth
  • LOCATION Location: Caged in the kobold fighting pits' menagerie reward room on floor 2 at the start of the chapter; freed and carried off by Carl and Donut by its end
  • LEVEL Level: 1 (Per its own examine card; fully grown Mongoliensis reach level 15, described as about as likely as a specific cheerleader reaching her 18th birthday a virgin)
  • TAG Mob: A pet-class mob per its own examine card; not yet bonded to a crawler as the chapter ends
Chapter 47
  • TAG Mob: No longer a wild mob once bonded to Donut as her registered pet and Royal Steed
  • LOCATION Location: Trains in the hallways near Mordecai's guildhall, then joins the fight against the floor's brindled vespas; bonds to Donut in the hallway just outside the floor 2 stair chamber and camps there with the party until the descent to floor 3
  • TAG Companion: Donut's officially bonded pet as of this chapter, titled Royal Steed; still level one but finally able to gain experience
Book 2
Chapter 1
  • LOCATION Location: Mordecai's relocated guildhall on floor 3, asleep in Carl's lap through Donut's whole selection process
Chapter 2
  • LOCATION Location: Moved from Carl's lap to a seat on the bed with Donut resting a paw on his head; sleeps through nearly all of Carl's own race and class selection, then wakes stretching and yawning alongside her
Chapter 4
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Noticeably larger by the end of the fight with Terror the Clown; no size or level given
  • LOCATION Location: Walking floor 3's road with Carl and Donut, training on stay-and-fetch commands, then caught up in the circus-lemur ambush and the fight against Terror the Clown before being carried into The Belly-Rubbed Pug
Chapter 5
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Nearly doubled in size. His pink-hued feathers have grown longer and thicker along his arms, mixed in now with a line of deep-red feathers; his tail has lengthened into something more dinosaur-like and less poultry; the skin around his eyes has taken on a bluish tone; and his beak has widened and grown large enough that a nose-chomp from him could do real damage now
  • LEVEL Level: 3 (Up from 1 at B1C47; no on-page leveling shown for him in between. Donut calls him almost level four by the end of this chapter, not yet actually reached)
Chapter 6
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: About the same size as Donut now, after killing five sentinel lemurs and pouncing solo on a sleeping one before Carl could finish it off
  • LEVEL Level: 4 (Up from 3 at chapter 5, stated outright this chapter: 'the little dinosaur hit level four')
Chapter 7
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: A hand taller than Donut now, about the size of an actual turkey, with a longer tail that's sprouted a set of long feathers along its back
  • LEVEL Level: 6 (Up from 4 at chapter 6; latches onto the belly of the first Mold Lion Carl guts and rips it open, then pounces on the last one right after Donut's magic missile actually drops it, unaware she'd saved him)
Chapter 8
  • LOCATION Location: Captured off the page along with Donut, caged in Tsarina Signet's building; freed by Carl and left standing guard over Donut's sleeping body inside a makeshift shelter
Chapter 12
  • LEVEL Level: 10 (Up from 6, all at once, healed at death's door by a potion Carl brews on Mordecai's instructions after single-handedly holding off a swarm of Street Urchins to protect Donut)
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Doubled in size again mid-fight and stayed that way after healing: almost as tall as Carl's waist now, up from about turkey-sized before, covered in colorful feathers. Donut could probably ride him now
  • SKILL Jump Attack: Leaps twenty feet from a complete standstill, feet first, claws able to disembowel an enemy before it registers what's happening (First real description; no numeric level given. Carl notes Mongoliensis are pack hunters and is glad to only ever be facing one)
  • LOCATION Location: The bottom floor of Signet's building, alone against a swarm of Street Urchins drawn by the junk pile shielding Donut, until Carl arrives; healed and asleep across Carl's lap for the rest of the night
  • LOCATION Location: Trekking with Carl and Donut toward the skyfowl settlement, then inside it, much better behaved in a fight now though he still screams at the sight of monsters before Carl and Donut unleash him
Chapter 13
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Still awkward in his bigger body, needing several moments to get comfortable curled on his side by the fireplace like a dog. His beaked mouth still opens onto a full ring of sharp, ripping teeth, grown along with the rest of him; Donut decides they're now good enough to fit with a pair of Fang Caps
  • LOCATION Location: Mordecai's chamber inside the skyfowl settlement's tutorial guild, asleep by the fireplace the whole chapter, chomping at the air in his sleep
Chapter 14
  • LOCATION Location: Trekking through the skyfowl settlement and the surrounding wilderness with Carl and Donut all day: the pub for the night, general stores in the morning, then mob-hunting and the neighborhood boss fight, ending outside the town gate at GumGum's corpse pile
  • LEVEL Level: 11 (Up from 10, off the neighborhood boss kill)
Chapter 16
  • LOCATION Location: Let out of his pet carrier onto the street outside the Desperado Club, then suddenly screams in rage and bolts into a dark side-alley, beelining for a tall, smoking-handed elf once he's in sight of him. The elf later claims, unverified, to have used dark magic to lure him there
Chapter 18
  • LEVEL Level: 12 (Up from 11 at chapter 14, reached mid-fight against the Shambling Berserker ambush)
  • LOCATION Location: Kept in his pet carrier for the trip to the magistrate's office, then out grinding west of town with Carl and Donut, into the Shambling Berserker ambush
Chapter 19
  • LOCATION Location: The rented Danger Zone production trailer, stored in his pet carrier during the interview itself
Chapter 20
  • LOCATION Location: 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
Chapter 21
  • LOCATION Location: Carried in his pet carrier to the Narwhal and back out again, then loosed in the alley for the Shadow Leaks fight and cloned twice as a decoy on the magistrate's roof while the original waits in the carrier
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Grows noticeably again with the level-up, rising to the height of Carl's chest; pony-sized now, up from dog-sized before the fight
  • LEVEL Level: 13 (Up from 12 at chapter 18, off the unusually generous experience from a swarm of Shadow Leaks in the alley outside the magistrate's building)
Chapter 22
  • LOCATION Location: Released into Featherfall's blown-open quarters, then muzzled by hand and sent biting into the krasue nest once the muted zone rules out Donut's Torch
Chapter 23
  • LOCATION Location: Kept in his carrier for the warehouse assault; too unreliable to trust loose while Carl and Donut both need to focus
Chapter 25
  • LOCATION Location: Stays caged through the whole evacuation, per Mordecai's warning that wild soul magic could turn a magical pet against its owner; pulled out of his carrier only once the group reaches the floor 4 door
Chapter 26
  • LOCATION Location: The green room aboard Odette's set for Dungeon Crawler After Hours, out of his box for the first time in a while
  • PHYSICAL Behavior: Squawks at the virtual studio crowd on his introduction, then curls up exhausted on the floor in front of Donut, worn out despite being caged for most of the night
Book 3
Chapter 1
  • LOCATION Location: Loose with the party on the Red Line train on floor 4, struggling to squeeze past the cars' vertical poles as he grows
Chapter 2
  • LOCATION Location: Station #83's platform and Nirula's with the rest of the party
Chapter 3
  • LOCATION Location: Jumps onto the kitchen counter to explore, then piles onto Carl's legs in Donut's room for the party's first two-hour sleep; a bowl of raw meat is waiting for him at breakfast, courtesy of Wendita
Chapter 4
  • LOCATION Location: The Yellow Line platform and a Yellow Line train car, station #83, floor 4
Chapter 5
  • LOCATION Location: Yellow Line train cars 2 through 6, the Employee Break Room, the Reward Room, and finally the empty platform at station 116, Banshee Station
Chapter 6
  • LEVEL Level: 14 (Up from 13 at book 2, chapter 21; grows about six inches taller and a foot longer on the jump, one level short of "fully grown" per Mordecai's earlier level-15 cap)
Chapter 7
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Fully grown at last, pony-sized, reaching just below Carl's shoulders, about 13 feet from beak to tail tip with more than half of that length tail. The claws on his feet now dwarf the size of his whole body back when Carl and Donut first got him. Still fits inside the subway cars, though rowed-seating cars with center poles are going to be a tight squeeze from here on
  • SKILL Earthquake: A jump attack where each leaping strike carries a small chance to trigger an earthquake on landing that knocks nearby enemies off their feet (Spotted on his pet menu by Donut right after he hits level 15; no numeric level given)
  • LEVEL Level: 15 (Up from 14 at chapter 6, hit mid-fight against a swarm of Zlurpies on the train toward station 131; the level his own examine card back at book 1, chapter 46 called "fully grown," rating the odds of him ever reaching it as vanishingly small. Keeps leveling after this without any further growth)
Chapter 10
  • LOCATION Location: The party's personal space, then hours grinding and training across several Iron Tangle lines, ending at a platform on the ochre line
Chapter 11
  • LOCATION Location: The wrecked ochre line platform, then the small transit station outside it where the fight against Gore-Gore breaks out
Chapter 12
  • LOCATION Location: Station 149's wrecked platform, watching a pair of Donut's clockwork duplicates handle Gore-Gore's corpse, then a saferoom pho shop where Carl feeds him scraps
Chapter 15
  • STAT Speed: Fast enough hauling debris off the tracks that Donut singles it out in her own message to Carl; exact figures not given
  • LOCATION Location: Station 283's platform, helping Katia clear the tracks of wreckage, then greets Carl jumping up and down at the platform on his return
Chapter 16
  • LOCATION Location: Station 283's transit station platform against the babababoon swarm, riding Donut and later leaping onto the Nightmare Express's engine to fight, then stored away for the trip to the switching cavern since he can't fit in the crowded cab
Chapter 19
  • LOCATION Location: Released again onto station 41's platform once Donut climbs up from the train
Chapter 25
  • LOCATION Location: Set free at station 75 after being cooped up, squawking angrily before getting distracted sniffing at the blood and gore covering the party; later found licking the saferoom floor clean after everyone showers
Chapter 26
  • LEVEL Level: 23 (Still described as woefully behind the rest of the party)
Chapter 28
  • LOCATION Location: Rides the Mindaro-line rescue cart, then goes into his carrier for the walk through the abyss portal to yard H rather than risk needing a souvenir hat or key of his own
Chapter 31
  • LOCATION Location: Held back guarding a chokepoint at station 36 during the siege while Donut jumps to Carl's shoulder to help elsewhere
  • LEVEL Level: 26 (Up from 23 at book 3, chapter 26, per Mordecai's own insistence on using him as much as possible against the Krakaren before the floor ends)
Chapter 32
  • LOCATION Location: Rides along on Carl's spare interdiction cart to trainyard E, then helps fight off a pair of mantaur guards at the employee line entrance, tearing one's arm apart and severing its claw outright
Book 4
Chapter 1
  • TAG Companion: Released into floor 5's opening sandstorm squawking with dismay; Donut casts Clockwork Triplicate on him to send two automaton duplicates ranging ahead as early warning against mobs and dunes
Chapter 3
  • TAG Companion: Two fresh clockwork duplicates both get crunched and explode fighting a Thorny Devil, unable to dent its armor; the real Mongo howls in outrage but is held back from joining the fight himself
Chapter 4
  • TAG Companion: Still can't be fed from the party's new food synthesizer, so Donut buys his food separately; gets a pet biscuit this chapter
Chapter 5
  • TAG Companion: Practically ready to defect for the Toe's dromedarian barkeep, who feeds him treats and pats his head
Chapter 8
  • TAG Companion: Gets his own feather boa from the Penis Parade, freed from his carrier long enough to snap at it and scatter feathers everywhere
Chapter 12
  • TAG Companion: Released from his carrier aboard the hijacked Vahana so Donut can make two clockwork duplicates of him to attack a pursuing balloon; cries in fear at the height and has to be forced back into his carrier before Carl's own missile barrage
Chapter 13
  • TAG Companion: Fights alongside two clockwork duplicates against Hump Town's gerbil swarm, then bites the head off Donut's new toy replica after it insults him
Chapter 15
  • TAG Companion: Destroys two more delivered robot Donuts almost instantly, then a supposedly sturdier fourth after it taunts Carl
Chapter 16
  • TAG Injured: Hurt by two of his own clockwork duplicates exploding prematurely upstairs, then nipped hard by Denise after attacking her against orders, losing flesh and feathers; needs bandages to stop the bleeding until Donut's healing works again
Chapter 17
  • LEVEL Level: 33, up three, per Carl's own count after the Denise fight
Chapter 20
  • TAG Companion: Screeches joyfully and dances in the water main's spray while the sand turns to mud under his feet, then bounces around Katia Grim on the beach as if he hasn't seen her in a month
Chapter 22
  • TAG Companion: Put away in his carrier before the boss fight on Carl's orders, kept safely out of the sand; two clockwork duplicates are sent down the stairs into the ooze instead
Book 5
Chapter 10
  • LOCATION Location: Refused entry to the Large Ursine Settlement under its dinosaur ban, then runs with Donut into its saferoom
Chapter 11
  • LEVEL Level: 33 (First on-page confirmation; the other Mongos range from levels 30 to 45)
Chapter 12
  • LOCATION Location: Returns to Point Mongo after mating with Kiwi, then goes into his carrier
Chapter 19
  • LOCATION Location: Inside his carrier throughout Beatrice's interview on Odette's show
Chapter 69
  • LOCATION Location: Backstage at the Ballroom A pet show, about to make his presentation
Chapter 70
  • LOCATION Location: Ballroom A's pet-show stage with Donut
  • LEVEL Level: Level-34 during Donut's pet-show presentation

Kills