Chapter 41 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 41 — People buckets

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The Second Floor · Previous: Chapter 40 — Bomb Chicken · Next: Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show · Floor: Floor 2 — The Second Floor · Series: the series

Opening

» Time to Level Collapse: 4 Days, 6 hours

Summary

The elemental is dead and the chopper with it; Carl and Donut spend the hour torching the pupae around the stairwell hole.

Meadow Lark arrives in people buckets; Elle McGibbons calls Carl Barry and says they should have had children; Imani goes down the ramp last, unsmiling. Then kobold riders on danger dingoes, a 'Racial benefits' tab that flashes in Donut's menu and vanishes, a safe room with mana toast ('It refills your mana. That’s it.'), and an Admin called Mukta who has overridden Zev and booked them on a better-paying show, now.

Characters

• The Rage Elemental — Dead before the chapter opens; Meadow Lark arrives forty minutes after the kill.
• Carl — Grease Monkey; the Sapper's Table and proximity triggers.
• Princess Donut — 'Dogs riding dogs'; a Racial benefits tab that flashes and vanishes.
• Elle McGibbons — 'We should have had children, Barry.'
• Brandon — Hugs him goodbye.
• Imani — Last down the ramp.
• Mukta — Introduced by chat: 'You seem to be under the impression that you have a say in this.'
• Zev — In a time out.
• Bea — Brushing Donut, the way Bea taught him.

Locations

• The Second Floor — The stairwell chamber; the kobold quadrant.

Motifs

• 'There will always be clues' — Rory's rule, used as a weapon in chapter 40; a trap achievement follows, which Carl puts down to the chain or the oil slick.
• The residents' train — People buckets.