Motif · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The transformation
• Chapter 2 — The staircase
• Chapter 4 — The character sheet
• Chapter 5 — Inventory and the ratings panel
• Chapter 14 — The premiere
• Chapter 20 — Frank Q
• Chapter 28 — The green room
• Chapter 29 — Odette off air
• Chapter 33 — Plan Pied Piper
• Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat
• Chapter 36 — Zev
• Chapter 39 — The recap
• Chapter 40 — Bomb Chicken
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Odette's couch

Progression

The corporation's name is in the welcome text (ch. 2) and its voice is the daily announcement: patch notes, toilet bugs, the stasis rule (ch. 14), a language patch ('Sorry about that, New Zealand'), the Blender Fiends withdrawn (ch. 20), six days instead of ten and the Rage Elemental penalty (ch. 31), safe rooms closing early (ch. 39), the stairwell exploit patched (ch. 44). Its people are Zev and Mukta; its slur is mud skipper (ch. 29). Mordecai's whispered briefing (ch. 36) is the politics: the Bloom, the Party badges, a bankrupt kua-tin system that needs the season profitable and over, and 'the kua-tin government is working extra hard to get you killed.'