THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

The Belly-Rubbed Pug

First seen: Book 2, Chapter 4

A renaissance-fair-style tavern down a dead-end alley, marked by a sign of a pug in a top hat and suit, the first safe room Carl and Donut actually stop at on floor 3 though not the first they pass. Unlike the free rest stops on floors 1 and 2, its five sleeping rooms and its food both cost gold, though not much. Run by a Bopca Protector named Gordo.

Safe Room

Appearance

A renaissance-fair-style pub, laid out like the other manned safe rooms with three television screens behind the bar. A sign out front shows a pug in a top hat and suit, naming the place The Belly-Rubbed Pug.B2C4

Mailbox:

A mailbox stands in a dark corner, where Donut collects a spellbook mailed to her through her Dungeon Book of the Floor Club membershipB2C5

Purpose

A rest stop for crawlers, but a paid one for the first time: five sleeping rooms at ten gold a night, plus food, both cheap but no longer free the way floor 1 and 2's safe rooms wereB2C4

Connections

Carl:

First-time guest, fleeing in from a lemur and clown ambush; heads straight for the counter to order a drinkB2C4

Floor 3:

The floor it's on, reached down a dead-end alley in the ruinsB2C4

Gordo:

Its Bopca Protector, tending bar when Carl and Donut arriveB2C4

Mordecai:

Teleports in blackout drunk moments after Carl and Donut arrive, mid-sentence to someone else entirely, and passes out on the floor after vomiting on himselfB2C4

History by chapter
Book 2
Chapter 4
  • RELATIONSHIP Mordecai: Teleports in blackout drunk moments after Carl and Donut arrive, mid-sentence to someone else entirely, and passes out on the floor after vomiting on himself
  • RELATIONSHIP Carl: First-time guest, fleeing in from a lemur and clown ambush; heads straight for the counter to order a drink
  • RELATIONSHIP Floor 3: The floor it's on, reached down a dead-end alley in the ruins
  • OBJECTIVE Purpose: A rest stop for crawlers, but a paid one for the first time: five sleeping rooms at ten gold a night, plus food, both cheap but no longer free the way floor 1 and 2's safe rooms were
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: A renaissance-fair-style pub, laid out like the other manned safe rooms with three television screens behind the bar. A sign out front shows a pug in a top hat and suit, naming the place The Belly-Rubbed Pug.
  • TAG Safe Room: The first safe room Carl and Donut actually stop at on floor 3, though village inns were already marked as safe rooms before this; at the end of a dead-end alley the party flees into ahead of a circus-lemur swarm
  • RELATIONSHIP Gordo: Its Bopca Protector, tending bar when Carl and Donut arrive
Chapter 5
  • PHYSICAL Mailbox: A mailbox stands in a dark corner, where Donut collects a spellbook mailed to her through her Dungeon Book of the Floor Club membership