Character · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

The Ball of Swine

Level 15 Borough Boss: thirty tuskling knights and courtesans fused by war magic into a rolling sphere of flesh that guards the stairwell to floor two. Popped like a balloon by the Speedbump, then slaughtered in their tuxedos and gowns.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 26 — Six and a half hours
• Chapter 27 — After the arena
• Chapter 31 — The first floor collapses
• Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat
• Chapter 37 — The janitors
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion

Arc

Thirty tuskling aristocrats fused by war magic into a rolling sphere guarding the first floor's stairwell (ch. 21–ch. 26). The book's central set piece: the spiral with its rising walls, the redoubt, the pop, and then the slaughter of confused, unarmed pig-people in evening dress who seem to have no memory of the ball (ch. 26–ch. 27). The Borough Field Guide it drops labels quadrants on the map. The Maestro is a bigger, darker cousin of the same species (ch. 42).