Place · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Safe rooms

Restaurants, bus stations and storm shelters lifted whole from the surface and set into the maze, where no violence is possible, food is served by surly Bopca Protectors, and three screens count down the collapse, the next episode, and the living. Mobs that attack inside one are teleported out — a rule that cuts both ways.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Inventory and the ratings panel
• Chapter 8 — Rats and Scatterers
• Chapter 9 — The Polish McDonald's
• Chapter 10 — 4,148,111
• Chapter 12 — Six tiers of bosses
• Chapter 13 — Rebecca W
• Chapter 14 — The premiere
• Chapter 18 — The blast
• Chapter 19 — You Monster!
• Chapter 20 — Frank Q
• Chapter 22 — The encampment
• Chapter 26 — Six and a half hours
• 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 32 — The pedicure kit
• Chapter 36 — Zev
• Chapter 37 — The janitors
• Chapter 38 — The Rage Elemental
• Chapter 39 — The recap
• Chapter 40 — Bomb Chicken
• Chapter 41 — People buckets
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 43 — The Maestro explains himself
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion

Arc

Seven in the book: Tally's Polish McDonald's (ch. 9), the bus-station room with experience cookies (ch. 19), an Alabama Waffle House the residents will not leave and a Peruvian Taco Bell (ch. 22, ch. 26), a French storm shelter with a mailbox (ch. 30), Big Shot Chicken under siege (ch. 38–ch. 40), and an industrial kitchen with a rude toaster (ch. 41). Their rules do the plot's work: no violence, so Frank and Maggie freeze (ch. 20); mobs teleport out when they attack, so the elemental can be baited through the door (ch. 40); explosives are inert inside, so the MOAB can be built (ch. 40). From ch. 39 they close an hour before collapse.