Chapter 23 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 23 — Painting over the signs

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The First Floor · Previous: Chapter 22 — The encampment · Next: Chapter 24 — The Juicer · Floor: Floor 1 — The Tutorial · Series: the series

Opening

“So, what’s this grand idea of yours?

Summary

Carl has no plan — 'I have no fucking clue' — but he has a suspicion, and he spends the walk out spraying over Brandon's signs so that no one comes to farm the elderly for experience. 'It's only sharks and minnows.' 'So which one are we?' He cannot answer.

Troglodytes: pygmies that leap, Bashers, tongue-lashing Virtuosos, a grind that shows the two of them finally fighting as a unit. Donut's strength is 18 to his 9 and she will not use her claws because it is not ladylike. At a gym with an 'Open 24 Hours' sign he lights his second-to-last cigarette and goes in.

Characters

• Carl — Covers the signs; grinds troglodytes; goes into the gym.
• Princess Donut — Magic Missile at 5, six-power headshots, no claws; the first mention of Ferdinand.
• Ferdinand — Donut, asked who he is: 'Nobody you'd know.'

Locations

• The First Floor — The troglodyte quadrant next to the Taco Bell.

Motifs

• Staying human — The defaced signs.