Character · from book 1

Meadow Lark (party)

The party of night-staff and residents from the Meadow Lark eldercare facility in Wenatchee, Washington, camped at the borough boss's stairwell on the first floor when Carl and Donut find them: four able-bodied workers, Agatha and thirty-three elderly residents, with about thirty more in a Waffle House safe room nearby. The Royal Court of Princess Donut fights beside them without ever joining them.

First appears: Book 1

Series arc

As of book 3. Book 1's allied party and its moral test, reduced from 250 to a few dozen; scattered in book 2; and in book 3 twenty survivors, transformed, holding a stairwell station to the end. Elle and Imani are the party's second front. Brandon and Henry died on the third floor; Chris left, changed, and is alone.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
What Odette was about to say about Chris	B3 ch. 35	open — He killed Frank Q and walked out; 'It's not like I warned them that Chris…' — muted.
Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead	B1 ch. 41	resolved · B3 ch. 8 — Elle and Imani found at the Desperado Club, transformed; twenty of Meadow Lark left.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 1

The book's moral test and the series' first allied party. Fought beside, never joined. Reduced from 250 to 36 residents and three workers by the time they descend (B1 ch. 41). Zev files them as a completed storyline (B1 ch. 44); the book does not.

Through book 2

Scattered; one message; one resident on the leaderboard (B2 ch. 8, B2 ch. 26).

Through book 3

Twenty survivors, transformed and scattered across the floor; Elle and Imani are the party's second front, and the group holds a stairwell station to the end (B3 ch. 8, B3 ch. 31, B3 ch. 34). Brandon and Henry died on the third floor; Chris is alone.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl	9/48	22, 26–28, 32, 36, 39, 41, 44 · the book's own page
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	1/26	Ch. 26 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	8/35	Ch. 8, Ch. 10, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 25, Ch. 29 · the book's own page

By book

Meadow Lark (party) in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl

Meadow Lark is a party name in the interface and an eldercare facility in Wenatchee in the world: 250 residents evacuated by a fire Agatha set, about half pulled into the dungeon's warm ramp, thirty-eight at the borough boss's gate, the four workers and Agatha among them (ch. 22). The ones in the Waffle House safe room, which holds thirty, vote not to come out (ch. 22); twenty-four stay behind, singing, when the floor collapses (ch. 31). The Royal Court fights beside them without joining them: the Ball of Swine (ch. 26), the descent, the grub trap, the train (ch. 37), the Rage Elemental (ch. 38), the people buckets down the ramp (ch. 41). Zev calls it a storyline that plays great with most viewers and is 'dead weight' to twenty per cent of a focus group. Carl never settles whether keeping them alive was a kindness.

Meadow Lark (party) in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Scattered by the floor's random placement and heard from once (ch. 8); one of its residents makes the leaderboard (epilogue).

Meadow Lark (party) in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Twenty left, transformed — a Frost Maiden, a butterfly, a muscle man who throws frozen heads (ch. 8, ch. 13). They scout a Pooka den and a robot room (ch. 12, ch. 16), ride the conveyor into Yard D (ch. 19), hold station 36 with flamethrowers for the last two days (ch. 31), and wait at the open stairwell until Carl comes (ch. 34). Brandon and Henry died for the escape; Chris left with men who died and he did not; Agatha, who burned them out, goes down the ramp ahead of them again.