Book 1 · as of this book

Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl

Book 1 on its own, written as of this book alone: nothing here comes from a later book.

Series

• Dungeon Crawler Carl — series index
• This book in the series

Concepts (Parts)

• Part 1: The First Floor (27/27 chapters)
• Part 2: The Second Floor (21/21 chapters)

Chapters

Part 1: The First Floor

• Chapter 1 — The transformation
• Chapter 2 — The staircase
• Chapter 3 — Da Tutorial Guild
• Chapter 4 — The character sheet
• Chapter 5 — Inventory and the ratings panel
• Chapter 6 — Donut talks
• Chapter 7 — The Royal Court
• Chapter 8 — Rats and Scatterers
• Chapter 9 — The Polish McDonald's
• Chapter 10 — 4,148,111
• Chapter 11 — The Hoarder
• Chapter 12 — Six tiers of bosses
• Chapter 13 — Rebecca W
• Chapter 14 — The premiere
• Chapter 15 — Mapping the first floor
• Chapter 16 — The Goblin Copper Chopper
• Chapter 17 — Building the bomb
• Chapter 18 — The blast
• Chapter 19 — You Monster!
• Chapter 20 — Frank Q
• Chapter 21 — Bitchmeat!
• Chapter 22 — The encampment
• Chapter 23 — Painting over the signs
• Chapter 24 — The Juicer
• Chapter 25 — No gods here
• Chapter 26 — Six and a half hours
• Chapter 27 — After the arena

Part 2: The Second Floor

• Chapter 28 — The green room
• Chapter 29 — Odette off air
• Chapter 30 — Floor two
• Chapter 31 — The first floor collapses
• Chapter 32 — The pedicure kit
• Chapter 33 — Plan Pied Piper
• Chapter 34 — The Krakaren Clone
• Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat
• Chapter 36 — Zev
• Chapter 37 — The janitors
• Chapter 38 — The Rage Elemental
• Chapter 39 — The recap
• Chapter 40 — Bomb Chicken
• Chapter 41 — People buckets
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 43 — The Maestro explains himself
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 45 — The kobold boss chamber
• Chapter 46 — The dungeon groans
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Odette's couch

Characters

• Agatha
• Bea
• Brandon
• Carl
• Chris
• Elle McGibbons
• Ferdinand
• Frank Q and Maggie My
• Hekla
• Imani
• Jack
• King Rust
• Lexis
• Li Jun and Zhang
• Li Na
• Lucia Mar
• Meadow Lark (party)
• Mistress Tiatha
• Mongo
• Mordecai
• Mrs. Parsons
• Mukta
• Odette
• Prince Maestro
• Prince Stalwart
• Princess Donut
• Ralph
• Randall
• Rebecca W
• Rory and Lorelai
• Tally
• The Ball of Swine
• The Hoarder
• The Juicer
• The Rage Elemental
• The System AI
• Yolanda Martinez
• Yvette
• Zev

Locations

• Club Vanquisher
• Production trailers
• Safe rooms
• The Desperado Club
• The Dungeon
• The First Floor
• The goblin workshop
• The Over City
• The Seattle apartment
• The Second Floor
• The spiral
• Tutorial guilds

Motifs

• 'Goddamnit, Donut'
• 'There will always be clues'
• 'You're not going to break me'
• Borant
• Brindle grubs
• Carl's bare feet
• Carl's family
• Carl's inventory
• Donut's charm
• Elites
• Explosives
• Faction Wars
• Loot boxes
• Player-killer skulls
• Quests
• Sponsorship
• The bestiary
• The Blood Sultanate
• The chat
• The clock
• The crawler count
• The Crown of the Sepsis Whore
• The Entering notices
• The gods
• The Krakaren
• The leaderboard
• The residents' train
• The show
• The Skull Empire
• The Syndicate
• The tenth floor
• The Valtay Corporation
• Warnings

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery
• Staying human
• The mobs are victims

References

• Albert II
• Gossip Girl
• The A-Team and MacGyver
• The Black Death and the great gerbil
• The US Coast Guard

More

• Achievements
• Cast
• The arc of the story
• Timeline