Character · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Odette

Host of Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette, the most-tunnelled private program in the galaxy. On camera a crab-taur in a mantis helmet; off camera a legless human woman on a floating disc who was once a crawler, once Mordecai's trainer, and now makes money from Carl and Donut staying alive.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 27 — After the arena
• Chapter 28 — The green room
• Chapter 29 — Odette off air
• Chapter 30 — Floor two
• Chapter 31 — The first floor collapses
• Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat
• Chapter 36 — Zev
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Odette's couch

Arc

Two Odettes. On air (ch. 28) she is a naked crab-taur in a praying-mantis helmet with breasts on the desk, host of the most-tunnelled private program in the galaxy, who makes Carl say his catchphrase and gives Donut a stage. Off air (ch. 29) she pulls the helmet off: sixty, human, legless, floating, a crawler who reached the thirteenth-floor stairwell and took a deal, Mordecai's trainer, and a woman who drugs the cat treats for a better interview and says so.

Her advice is the best in the book and she charges for it in attention: loot is not random, so stop complaining about pants; Donut must stay a cute cat; never trust anyone whose motivations aren't clear — hers being money. In the epilogue she supplies the Valtay warning, the class advice (pathfinding, let Donut go first, ignore the AI on race), the word 'velociraptor', and a last suggestion she does not name, a class hidden among Donut's choices that will make someone very angry. Mordecai would rather eat his children than work for her; she admits she pushed him too hard.