Chapter 14 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl
Chapter 14 — The premiere
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Opening
The premiere of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth was easily the most bizarre thing I’d ever wi
Summary
The premiere of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, watched on a fast-food screen with Tally in the booth. A four-eyed lizard commentator recaps last season (the Squim Conglomerate's Battle for the Planet Aryl), Earth is introduced as a nightmare of shanty towns and Godzilla clips, and forty minutes of people die. Tally explains that his own world was traded for its people; Borant, he says, at least gives a chance.
The show finds its stars — a girl of about thirteen with two rottweilers named Lucia Mar — and ignores the cat. The post-episode announcement adds patch notes, opens the stairs, and introduces the rule that descending early means stasis. Carl does the maths on 75,000 staircases under 200 million square miles.
Characters
- Tally — Watches with them; 'Squim saps the planet dry.'
- Lucia Mar — First seen on the premiere with Cici and Gustavo 3.
- Princess Donut — Outraged at getting no screen time.
- Carl — Wants an exit, not a city boss.
Locations
- Safe rooms — The McDonald's screens.
Motifs
- The show — The premiere in full; how aliens watch.
- Borant — The first daily announcement, patch notes and all.
- The crawler count — 4,006,002 at air time.