Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The show

Dungeon Crawler World: Earth is television first and a dungeon second. Views, followers and favorites appear in the interface after the first collapse and climb into the trillions; recap episodes air on the safe-room screens; loot is tailored to what plays well; Donut wants on that show and Carl learns that being expensive is a kind of armour.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The jury room
• Chapter 2 — Race and class
• Chapter 4 — Knives from a window
• Chapter 5 — Boxes at the Pug
• Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
• Chapter 8 — Water Lily
• Chapter 13 — Mordecai's room
• Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
• Chapter 16 — The Silk Road
• Chapter 17 — GumGum
• Chapter 18 — Miss Quill
• Chapter 19 — Danger Zone
• Chapter 23 — Ten sticks of dynamite
• Chapter 24 — Remex
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Progression

Views from 371 trillion (ch. 4) to a quadrillion (ch. 13) to numbers that leap when a tenner's story is told (ch. 24). A scripted serial inside the crawl (ch. 7); a deal that makes Carl a regular on it (ch. 11); a fan box; a round-table that ends in an assassination (ch. 19); a feud the recap invents (ch. 21); a leaderboard with bounties (epilogue). Ripper: 'It’s their entertainment assets. They just murdered her.'