Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

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 — I'm on a train
• Chapter 2 — Transfer station 83
• Chapter 3 — Messages from deceased Crawlers
• Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
• Chapter 7 — The Prize Carousel
• Chapter 8 — The Cookbook's first page
• Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
• Chapter 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
• Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
• Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
• Chapter 22 — The kebab plan
• Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
• Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the wheel

Progression

A recap that opens with the Polar Express and a sarin attack (ch. 3); Zev's audience verdict on Katia (ch. 6); the Prize Carousel and a vote bought to hurt Mordecai (ch. 7); Carl spliced laughing over a head (ch. 13); Planet Beautiful and its AI script (ch. 20); Katia's kill cut as rage, Growler Gary's as horror, the tribute of hats cut entirely (ch. 25, ch. 29); private chats sold (ch. 29); a Death Challenge as a betting event (ch. 33, epilogue); the fifth floor chosen by paid vote (epilogue). 'By now everybody knows all of this stuff is pure propaganda' (ch. 29).