Chapter 24 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 24 — The Juicer

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The First Floor · Previous: Chapter 23 — Painting over the signs · Next: Chapter 25 — No gods here · Floor: Floor 1 — The Tutorial · Series: the series

Opening

Like the door indicated, this was a high-ceilinged gym.

Summary

The Juicer: a troglodyte fused with a steroid bodybuilder, curling manhole-sized dumbbells in a gym boss room, throwing flaming weight plates. 'I need a spot, bro.' Confusing Fog lasts barely fifteen or twenty seconds; he punches through the Bashers, kills the other Virtuosos with one's head clamped on his fist, then swings a barbell like a mace.

The boss gets a hand round his throat and Donut saves him: claws, teeth, a neck vein opened like a spigot, and a backhand that puts her into the wall with a sliver of health and a broken leg. 'I’m proud of you, bro […] You fought through the pain.' Her death scene, when she is fine, invokes Ferdinand.

Characters

• The Juicer — Introduced and killed; another person, less lucid than the last.
• Princess Donut — Uses her claws for the first time; nearly dies; performs dying.
• Carl — Barbell, potions, learns the potion cooldown the hard way.
• Ferdinand — Named in Donut's fake death speech: 'Find Ferdinand, tell him I loved him.'

Locations

• The First Floor — The gym.

Motifs

• The mobs are victims — The Juicer's last words.
• 'There will always be clues' — The neck vein — named as the weakness in chapter 25.