Character · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Mongo

The pet Donut chooses from the kobolds' menagerie on the second floor — a seven-inch, pink-feathered 'Mongoliensis' that bites her nose and fights anything it sees. Bonded as her Royal Steed hours before the floor closes. Odette supplies the translation: velociraptor.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 46 — The dungeon groans
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Odette's couch

Arc

Won from the kobolds' pet reward room in ch. 46 over Carl's preference for the brindle grub — a seven-inch raw-chicken dinosaur with pink feathers, red-tagged, hostile to everything and most of all to Donut's nose. The description says a Mongoliensis is never tamed, only respected, and that reaching level 15 is as likely as a West Virginia cheerleader reaching eighteen a virgin.

The bonding takes the rest of the floor (ch. 47): Mordecai explains that pet-class mobs stay level one until bonded; Donut teaches him to unzip a grub; dog commands work except 'stay'; his dot goes white after his first kills and orange — Royal Steed — when Donut decapitates a vespa to save him. The whole process, for whatever reason, is 'endlessly amusing to the general public'. In the epilogue Odette supplies the translation Carl had missed: velociraptor.