Character · from book 1
Mongo
The pet Donut chooses from the kobolds' menagerie on the second floor — a seven-inch, pink-feathered 'Mongoliensis' that bites her nose and fights anything it sees. Bonded as her Royal Steed hours before the floor closes. Odette supplies the translation: velociraptor.
Race and class, since book 1: Mongoliensis
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 2. Donut's velociraptor: chosen as a pet reward in book 1 and, in eight days of book 2, grown from a seven-inch nose-chomper to a level-12 dinosaur almost as tall as Carl's waist that had held the pyramid alone all night. Poison fangs, a carrier, and a bond with Donut the word 'partner' was coined for.
Through book 1
Through book 2
From level 3 to 12 in eight days; from turkey-sized to almost as tall as Carl's waist; from a nose-chomper to the thing that held the pyramid alone all night (B2 ch. 12). Fangs that spark and poison, a carrier, a bond with Donut that survives a salamander, a dwarf's arm and a lavender rinse. Odette's warning is now a fact: he is no longer adorable when he bounces.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 3/48 | Ch. 46, Ch. 47, Ch. 48 · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 24/26 | 1–10, 12–23, 25–26 · the book's own page |
By book
Mongo in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Won from the kobolds' pet reward room in ch. 46 over Carl's preference for the brindle grub — a seven-inch raw-chicken dinosaur with pink feathers, red-tagged, hostile to everything and most of all to Donut's nose. The description says a Mongoliensis is never tamed, only respected, and that reaching level 15 is as likely as a West Virginia cheerleader reaching eighteen a virgin.
The bonding takes the rest of the floor (ch. 47): Mordecai explains that pet-class mobs stay level one until bonded; Donut teaches him to unzip a grub; dog commands work except 'stay'; his dot goes white after his first kills and orange — Royal Steed — when Donut decapitates a vespa to save him. The whole process, for whatever reason, is 'endlessly amusing to the general public'. In the epilogue Odette supplies the translation Carl had missed: velociraptor.
Mongo in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Level 3 and pink-feathered at the Pug (ch. 5); leaping twenty feet from a standstill (ch. 12); waist-high at level 10 (ch. 12) and level 12 by the elf fight (ch. 18). The floor's set piece for him is the night alone: left to guard an unconscious Donut inside a pyramid of junk, he holds off a swarm of street urchins until both of them are pincushions and his health is deep in the red — 'You saved Donut' (ch. 12). Fang Caps make his bite spark and poison (ch. 14); a pet carrier lets him rest and keeps him out of the Desperado Club (ch. 14); Clockwork Triplicate gives him clockwork friends who carry dynamite, spy scrolls and howls onto rooftops (ch. 14, ch. 21). He eats a salamander and a dwarf's arm, twice (ch. 20), bites krasue heads in a muted room (ch. 22), and, watching his own recap montage, bounces as a mastiff-sized dinosaur who grunts now instead of squeaking (ch. 14).