Race
Human
32 characters with this race in the books read so far.
| Name | Kind | Class | Level | First seen | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice | npc | — | B1 ch. 1 | Carl's ex-girlfriend and Donut's owner, whom he broke up with by phone days before; she is away in the Bahamas when the dungeon takes the planet. | |
| Mrs. Parsons | npc | — | B1 ch. 1 | The downstairs neighbour who leans out of her window to complain the moment before the buildings are crushed. | |
| Carl | crawler | Compensated Anarchist | 34 | B1 ch. 2 | Risen to third place after the trainyard and Nightmare Express runs. |
| The Hoarder | boss | — | 7 | B1 ch. 11 | The first neighborhood boss Carl and Donut fight, a human woman remade into a fifteen-foot boss in a lair of garbage; Carl guesses she was in her own house when the dungeon came. |
| Crawler Rebecca W | corpse | — | 3 | B1 ch. 13 | A crawler killed by Frank Q; her looted corpse is the first evidence Carl gets that crawlers are hunting crawlers. |
| Lucia Mar | crawler | Black Inquisitor General | 35 | B1 ch. 14 | Still first on the leaderboard after the mid-floor interviews, now level 35. |
| Frank Q | crawler | Blood Assassin | 17 | B1 ch. 20 | Carl's old enemy, now a one-handed drunk at the Desperado Club bar, who explains what Maggie did and why she is hunting Carl. |
| Maggie My | crawler | — | 9 | B1 ch. 20 | Frank Q's partner in the killings, who stays hidden while Frank talks and then steps out of the bathroom hallway to fire at Carl's head in the safe room. |
| Agatha | crawler | — | 8 | B1 ch. 22 | The old woman with the shopping cart, still human and still classless, who walks past the assembled crawlers to the stairwell. |
| Brandon An | crawler | — | 6 | B1 ch. 22 | The maintenance man leading the Meadow Lark party and refusing to abandon the residents. |
| Chris Andrews 2 | crawler | — | 6 | B1 ch. 22 | Brandon's brother, who split off from the Meadow Lark crew on the third floor and, Imani tells Carl, is now looking for him. |
| Imani C | crawler | Fire Spiritualist | 24 | B1 ch. 22 | The last of the Meadow Lark night staff, still looking after the twenty surviving residents, now winged and skull-faced, who meets him at the Desperado Club and shares intelligence about the floor. |
| Yolanda Martinez 13 | crawler | — | 5 | B1 ch. 22 | A CNA in the Meadow Lark party who fights with a bow; she shoots Jack to stop him and is killed by the rage elemental. |
| Lexis | npc | — | B1 ch. 27 | The associate producer, human but not from Earth, who preps Carl and Donut in the production trailer. | |
| Odette | npc | — | B1 ch. 29 | The legless human talk-show host, from a world other than Earth, who interviews Carl and Donut in her crab-taur costume. | |
| Elle McGibbons | crawler | Blizzardmancer | 17 | B1 ch. 31 | Mrs. McGibbons, a resident of the Meadow Lark eldercare home whose night staff Carl met on the first floor, ranked tenth, now a floating ice-caster who meets Carl at the Desperado Club. |
| Jack | crawler | — | B1 ch. 31 | An eldercare resident with a walker whose refusal to use a bathroom summons the rage elemental. | |
| Randall | crawler | — | B1 ch. 38 | Another of the elderly residents, thrown from the train and killed by the rage elemental. | |
| Li Jun | crawler | Street Monk | 25 | B1 ch. 42 | A monk-class crawler ranked ninth, travelling with his friend Zhang and his sister Li Na. |
| Li Na | crawler | Slave Driver | 30 | B1 ch. 42 | Li Jun's sister, who fights with chains and becomes the sharpest critic of Carl's plans during the rescue. |
| Zhang | crawler | Earth Mover | 28 | B1 ch. 42 | Li Jun's best friend, a mage-tank who helps drive the portal cart during the rescue. |
| Yvette | crawler | — | B1 ch. 43 | Frank Q and Maggie My's teenage daughter, made to travel with their killings and refusing to take part. | |
| Nica | corpse | — | 8 | B2 ch. 6 | A second Bautista woman found dead beside Grace, from whom Carl loots two strength rings. |
| Fitz | npc | — | 30 | B2 ch. 14 | The human barkeep of the One-Eyed Narwhal, the inn the party uses as a base in the skyfowl village. |
| Burgundy | npc | — | B2 ch. 18 | A human clerk in the magistrate's building who passes the party on the stairs, later found to be a krasue by night, who names Miss Quill and Remex before Donut kills her. | |
| Tucker | npc | — | B2 ch. 19 | The human stand-up comedian on the Danger Zone panel whom Donut spends the show demolishing. | |
| Katia Grim | crawler | Monster Truck Driver | 37 | B2 ch. 21 | Carl and Donut's third party member, who reaches the top ten this floor and works on her shapeshifting throughout the book. |
| Ifechi | crawler | Physicker | 29 | B2 ch. 26 | Tenth on the second leaderboard, still travelling with Florin. |
| Miriam Dom | crawler | Shepherd | 30 | B2 ch. 26 | Seventh on the second leaderboard. |
| Ji-Hoon | crawler | Knife Sharpener | 21 | B3 ch. 9 | The crawler who tries to knife Donut on the Desperado Club dance floor after a woman stuns her guards and is killed by her, giving her a player-killer skull. |
| Tito | npc | Desperado Club Wheel of Fortune Croupier | B3 ch. 9 | The huge one-toothed croupier who runs the Wheel of Fortune where Carl spends his comp chip. | |
| Madison | npc | Iron Tangle Human Resources Associate | 10 | B3 ch. 17 | The human resources NPC the party rescues from the burning trainyard building; she reports on what is at the end of the line. |