Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

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 vice principal's office
• Chapter 7 — Whataburger
• Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
• Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
• Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge
• Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
• Chapter 51 — The howdah
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament

Progression

Hunters' friends outside can watch and tell, so plans must be secret (ch. 4); a demographic the party is not trending in (ch. 6); private messages no longer sold (ch. 8); a social board and a warning to drop it (ch. 12); a fan event as an ambush and a revenue share (ch. 18); the official story of Bea and a scoop over a naga's program (ch. 19); CrawlCon, borrowed, Mordecai implies, from Earth's first sci-fi convention of 1938, with a refund clause (ch. 21); the panel circuit of rising stars and the about-to-be-tossed (ch. 31); a cocktail added in post and a man cut out (ch. 37); three hundred fans by lottery (ch. 40); cosplay boxers and sedition (ch. 41). At the end, trash talk to the cameras until the mute (ch. 77).