Chapter 36 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 36 — Zev

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The Second Floor · Previous: Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat · Next: Chapter 37 — The janitors · Floor: Floor 2 — The Second Floor · Series: the series

Opening

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Summary

Zev: two feet tall, a kua-tin in a water-filled glass helmet and a 1950s space suit, Borant's Assistant Communications Representative, here to inform them they have been assigned a PR agent: her. Odette has first refusal on every floor; one more show per floor is mandatory. Carl's temper, rare and cold, goes: 'You have already taken everything from us. Do not ask us to give more than what we have.'

Zev's answer — her family will be wiped out if she says the wrong thing to a Party boss; everyone here is afraid; 'we are all parts of the same, inexorable machine' — is broken by Donut comparing it to Chuck and Blair, and the fish and the cat become friends over Gossip Girl. Mordecai, unheard: the Bloom, ultra-nationalists, a bankrupt system, and Borant forced to end the game as fast as it can. Then the guild door opens on a waist-high pile of grubs.

Characters

• Zev — Introduced; the speech; the friendship.
• Carl — Loses his temper at an Admin and gets away with it.
• Princess Donut — 'Season five, the car accident?'
• Mordecai — The politics, whispered.

Locations

• Tutorial guilds — Cameras off while a kua-tin is present.

Motifs

• Borant — The Party, the badges, the bankruptcy.
• Entertainment as machinery — 'We are all parts of the same, inexorable machine.'
• Gossip Girl — The bridge between Donut and Zev.