Book 5 · as of this book

Book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Book 5 on its own, written as of this book alone: nothing here comes from a later book.

Series

• Dungeon Crawler Carl — series index
• This book in the series

Concepts (Parts)

• Part 1: The Hunt (15/15 chapters)
• Part 2: The Vengeance of the Daughter (14/14 chapters)
• Part 3: The Unhinged Child (26/26 chapters)
• Part 4: The Butchering (23/23 chapters)

Chapters

Part 1: The Hunt

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 2 — Night weasels
• Chapter 3 — Quasar
• Chapter 4 — Golden Throat
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 7 — Whataburger
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
• Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
• Chapter 11 — The Recital
• Chapter 12 — No matter what
• Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu

Part 2: The Vengeance of the Daughter

• Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
• Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
• Chapter 18 — Ten minutes, Odette
• Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
• Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
• Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
• Chapter 22 — Samantha, open wide
• Chapter 23 — Congratulations, Murderer
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
• Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink

Part 3: The Unhinged Child

• Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
• Chapter 31 — The juvenile quickdraw
• Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
• Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
• Chapter 36 — Swole
• Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge
• Chapter 38 — Edict
• Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
• Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
• Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
• Chapter 42 — Warrants
• Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 44 — The Recital
• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 46 — Sierra
• Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
• Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
• Chapter 49 — Kiwi
• Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
• Chapter 51 — The howdah
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
• Chapter 53 — Iota
• Chapter 54 — The blood bar
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline

Part 4: The Butchering

• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 57 — I Take it All Back
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
• Chapter 59 — The sheriffs of the wild west
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 61 — Marked for death
• Chapter 62 — A squirrel with antlers
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
• Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
• Chapter 68 — Off-worlders
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 70 — Anaconda
• Chapter 71 — Jill
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
• Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
• Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
• Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
• Chapter 77 — The mask
• Epilogue — Epilogue

Characters

• Agatha
• Ajib
• Akland
• Allister
• Areson the Wise
• Arwick
• Astrid
• Azin
• Bea
• Bianca
• Biff
• Big Tina
• Bogdon Ro
• Bomo
• Bonnie
• Brandon
• Bravvo
• Britney Proskurina
• Carl
• Cascadia
• Chaco
• Chin'Dua
• Chris
• Circe Took
• Clarabelle
• Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Cleiton
• Clint Smashgrab
• Coolie
• Daniel Bautista
• Diwata
• Dr. Ratchet
• Drakea
• Drick
• Edgar
• Edict
• Effex
• Eileithyia
• Elle McGibbons
• Elmer
• Emberus
• Epitome Tagg
• Eva Sigrid
• Everly
• Ferdinand
• Florin
• Forkith
• Frank Q and Maggie My
• Frito and Moxo
• Future Huntress
• G'valt
• Garret
• Gideon
• Goiter
• Growler Gary
• Gwendolyn Duet
• Haxor the Destroyer
• Hekla
• Hellik
• Herot
• Holger
• Horton
• Hurk
• Ian
• Ifechi
• Ikicha
• Imani
• Iota
• Jenn'ifer
• Juice Box
• Katia Grim
• Keith H.
• Kevin and Magnificent Troy
• Kibben
• King Rust
• Kiwi
• Langley
• Lexis
• Li Jun and Zhang
• Li Na
• Lix
• Loita
• Louis and Firas
• Lucia Mar
• Meadow Lark (party)
• Milk
• Miriam Dom
• Miss Nadine
• Mistress Tiatha
• Mongo
• Mordecai
• Nihit
• Odette
• Ontario
• Orren
• Osvaldo
• Pearson
• Porthus
• Prepotente
• Prince Maestro
• Prince Stalwart
• Princess D'nadia
• Princess Donut
• Princess Lunette
• Prudence
• Quan Ch
• Quasar
• Queen Imogen
• Ringmaster Grimaldi
• Ripper Wonton
• Ruby
• Samantha
• Scolopendra
• Sierra
• Skarn
• Skindle
• Sydnee Iglacia
• Tam
• The Apothecary's spokeswoman
• The Desperado Club cretins
• The Funeral Bells
• The Grand
• The head of security
• The Night Wyrm
• The Popov brothers
• The Sledge
• The System AI
• The Talent
• Theobold
• Tin
• Tran
• Tsarina Signet
• Tserendolgor
• Uptown Hal
• Viscount Fog
• Volteeg
• Vrah
• Xindy
• Zabit
• Zev

Locations

• Alucarda
• Club Vanquisher
• CrawlCon
• Ferdinand Peak and Nipton
• Fort Freedom
• Larracos
• Point Mongo
• Prepotente Number Seven
• Prepotente Town Number Four
• Production trailers
• Safe rooms
• Sheol
• Signet's camp
• The all-tree
• The Belching Termite
• The bugbear settlement
• The Desperado Club
• The dryad settlement
• The Dungeon
• The globe chamber
• The Great Race
• The high elf castle
• The hot springs
• The Hunting Grounds
• The Nothing
• The Over City
• The Penis Parade
• The production facility
• The river
• The Royal Palace of Princess Donut
• The Scuttlebutt
• The security checkpoint
• The Selva
• The staging area
• The stairwell town
• The Temple of Hellik
• The Twister
• The Valtay landing vessel
• The Y Not Lounge
• Zockau

Motifs

• 'Goddamnit, Donut'
• 'You're not going to break me'
• Addiction
• Borant
• Carl's bare feet
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Carl's family
• Charm
• Donut's show business
• Donut's songs
• Elites
• Explosives
• Faces of the dead
• Faction Wars
• Gehenna Bramble
• Loot boxes
• Lucia's voices
• Memorial crystals
• Mothers
• Pawna's Tears
• Player-killer skulls
• Primal engines
• Quests
• Race and class
• Samantha's body
• Seeds
• Signet's tattoos
• Sponsorship
• The Anarchist's Battle Rattle
• The bestiary
• The blood bar
• The Blood Sultanate
• The Butcher's Masquerade
• The Celestial Ascendency
• The Chains of Leadership
• The changelings
• The chat
• The Chee
• The clock
• The count
• The crawler count
• The Crown of the Sepsis Whore
• The death of Geyrun
• The Dream
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
• The Entering notices
• The Gate of the Feral Gods
• The gods
• The Great Consensus
• The Guild of Suffering
• The guild system
• The high elves
• The hunters
• The hunting trophies
• The kinder facility
• The Krakaren
• The lawsuits
• The leaderboard
• The mongoliensis
• The naiads
• The Nebulars
• The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network
• The patch jacket
• The Plenty
• The Princess Posse
• The Recital
• The Ring of Divine Suffering
• The river in Carl's head
• The show
• The Skull Empire
• The stuffed figures
• The Syndicate
• The tenth floor
• The Ursine
• The Valtay Corporation
• The vampire outbreak
• The Vengeance of the Daughter
• The Walk-On List
• The xistera
• Waking the NPCs
• Warnings
• Zerzura

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery
• Staying human
• The mobs are victims

More

• Achievements
• Cast
• The arc of the story
• Timeline