Motif · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

The crawler count

The number on the first safe-room screen: 4,322,395 when Carl first sees it, under a million by the middle of the second floor. He tries not to look at it and always does.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 9 — The Polish McDonald's
• Chapter 31 — The first floor collapses
• Chapter 38 — The Rage Elemental
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard

Progression

4,322,395 on the first safe-room screen (ch. 9); 4,148,111 after a night's sleep (ch. 10); 3,594,517 dripping like a faucet (ch. 19); 2,552,085 before the Ball of Swine (ch. 26); 1,292,526 the second the first floor collapses, 700,000 of them in that second (ch. 31); 1,033,992 after the elemental (ch. 38); 990,303 — 'We'd gone below one million, and I hadn't noticed' (ch. 44). Carl tries to tune it out and reads every figure.