Theme · from book 1
The mobs are victims
The Hoarder begs in Spanish to be sent to Jesus; the Juicer is proud of Carl for fighting through the pain; the tuskling courtesans seem to have no memory of the ball; the goblin shamanka wants only to breed in peace deeper down. Mordecai warns it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here — only those who pay for the privilege.
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 2. Every boss on the first three floors is someone — a hoarder, a circus family, a bear who wants it over, a prostitute who asks to die mortal, a battery who was a crawler. Mordecai's book-1 warning that it will not always be so is still a promise about deeper floors.
Through book 1
Every boss on the first two floors is someone. Mordecai's warning that it will not always be so (B1 ch. 25) is a promise about later floors that book 1 cannot keep or break.
Through book 2
The bestiary
Every » This is a… card the system shows, 19 through book 2: the first line of each.
Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl (10)
- B1 ch. 2 — rendition of a Kua-Tin, the dominant species of the Borant System and principal owners of the Borant…
- B1 ch. 3 — Safe Zone
- B1 ch. 3 — Non-Combatant NPC
- B1 ch. 7 — Fleeting item!
- B1 ch. 7 — Unique* item!
- B1 ch. 9 — Non-Combatant NPC
- B1 ch. 30 — shaping tool. May only be used at a workbench. Assists in shaping materials into something else. You might…
- B1 ch. 35 — Non-Combatant NPC
- B1 ch. 36 — Dungeon Admin
- B1 ch. 46 — pet-class mob
Book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario (9)
- B2 ch. 1 — Non-Combatant NPC
- B2 ch. 2 — Monk subclass
- B2 ch. 6 — Elite
- B2 ch. 10 — Elite
- B2 ch. 13 — Fleeting item!
- B2 ch. 13 — comp chip, and it may not be sold or transferred. You may not redeem this chip directly for gold. This chip…
- B2 ch. 15 — Non-Combatant NPC
- B2 ch. 15 — non-combatant NPC
- B2 ch. 24 — Bereft Minion of Miss Quill
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 3/48 | Ch. 12, Ch. 24, Ch. 25 · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 0/26 | — · the book's own page |
By book
The mobs are victims in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
The Hoarder is a person who asks to be sent to Jesus (ch. 11); Mordecai says there is 'recycling' (ch. 12). Rory explains the mobs' hope of peace deeper down (ch. 15); the goblin boss room has babies (ch. 18); the Juicer is proud of Carl (ch. 24); the tusklings are unarmed aristocrats with no memory of the ball (ch. 27); the fairy screams that they were going to move to the third floor (ch. 33); the caged dingoes are wounded slaves (ch. 45). Carl's theory (ch. 35) is that real alien species are crossed with earth stereotypes to teach and to mock — 'Or Persian cats as princesses.' Mordecai's warning (ch. 25) is that it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here, only those who pay.
The mobs are victims in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Mordecai's promise that it would get less sympathetic is not kept on this floor. The lemurs, clowns and bear are a circus family kept alive by love (ch. 9, ch. 10); the NPCs are biological people with planted memories (ch. 3); GumGum is a prop and also a person (ch. 17); Burgundy asks to die mortal (ch. 22); Remex was a crawler (ch. 24). Heather's eyes: 'End it.' Carl's response is to stop killing bosses when he can talk to them instead.