Chapter 33 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 33 — Plan Pied Piper

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The Second Floor · Previous: Chapter 32 — The pedicure kit · Next: Chapter 34 — The Krakaren Clone · Floor: Floor 2 — The Second Floor · Series: the series

Opening

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Summary

Plan Pied Piper. Donut Puddle-Jumps into the filling room between two laminak fairies — winged, so her butterfly charm makes them hers — and leads forty clurichauns out on a break to see a 'dingo attack.' Carl, waiting round the corner with two jugs, incinerates the lot; Donut catches Caroline out of the air and breaks her neck, and the other fairy screams 'Not fair! We were going to move down to the third floor' and puts a magic missile through Carl's chest before she is slingshotted down.

Level 11. The laminak corpses go into inventory as alchemy material; a smoothie bicycle and a recipe card sit in a dusty corner; the boss door reads 'Live, Laugh, Love' and advertises a pox party. Carl decides to leave this one alone. Fifteen-foot tentacles covered in screaming human mouths burst out of the door: 'Wait, Bosses Can Leave Their Rooms?'

Characters

• Princess Donut — 'My first solo mission.'
• Carl — Feels like an asshole using her charm to kill; hit by the fairy's missile.
• The Krakaren — Emerges before the chapter ends.

Locations

• The Second Floor — The filling room and the community-centre boss door.

Motifs

• Donut's charm — It only turns the winged ones white; the plan adapts.
• The mobs are victims — 'We were going to move down to the third floor.'
• 'You're not going to break me' — Whispered, now a mantra.