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Book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Year: 2021 · Floors: 4 — The Iron Tangle The book on its own: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Chapters

• Ch. 1 — I'm on a train
• Ch. 2 — Transfer station 83
• Ch. 3 — Messages from deceased Crawlers
• Ch. 4 — Limp Richard's books
• Ch. 5 — Vernon the conductor
• Ch. 6 — Banshee Station
• Ch. 7 — The Prize Carousel
• Ch. 8 — The Cookbook's first page
• Ch. 9 — The wheel of fortune
• Ch. 10 — Landmines on the ochre line
• Ch. 11 — Gore-Gore
• Ch. 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Ch. 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
• Ch. 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
• Ch. 15 — The Abyss
• Ch. 16 — Babababoons
• Ch. 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
• Ch. 18 — The PVP coupon
• Ch. 19 — Frank Q at the bar
• Ch. 20 — Planet Beautiful
• Ch. 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
• Ch. 22 — The kebab plan
• Ch. 23 — Rush
• Ch. 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
• Ch. 25 — Seven hundred hats
• Ch. 26 — Growler Gary
• Ch. 27 — Physical
• Ch. 28 — Plan C
• Ch. 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Ch. 30 — The Syndicate logo
• Ch. 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off
• Ch. 32 — Prepotente
• Ch. 33 — Death Challenge
• Ch. 34 — Tizquick and Brandy
• Ch. 35 — Epilogue: the wheel

Recurring cast present

Characters

• Carl — 35 chapters
• Katia Grim — 35 chapters
• Princess Donut — 35 chapters
• Mongo — 30 chapters
• Mordecai — 28 chapters
• Elle McGibbons — 26 chapters
• Imani — 26 chapters
• Daniel Bautista — 23 chapters
• Hekla — 23 chapters
• Odette — 13 chapters
• Li Jun and Zhang — 12 chapters
• Zev — 12 chapters
• Bea — 11 chapters
• Lucia Mar — 11 chapters
• Prince Maestro — 11 chapters
• Eva Sigrid — 9 chapters — first appearance
• The System AI — 9 chapters
• Frank Q and Maggie My — 8 chapters
• Jikininki — 8 chapters — first appearance
• Meadow Lark (party) — 8 chapters
• Chris — 7 chapters
• The Sledge — 7 chapters — first appearance
• Brandon — 6 chapters
• Li Na — 6 chapters
• Bomo — 5 chapters — first appearance
• Chaco — 5 chapters — first appearance
• Miriam Dom — 5 chapters
• Prepotente — 5 chapters
• Florin — 4 chapters
• Growler Gary — 4 chapters — first appearance
• Kimaris — 4 chapters
• Loita — 4 chapters — first appearance
• Princess D'nadia — 4 chapters
• Quan Ch — 4 chapters
• The Desperado Club cretins — 4 chapters — first appearance
• Clarabelle — 3 chapters
• Drakea — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Forkith — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Ifechi — 3 chapters
• Mistress Tiatha — 3 chapters
• Prince Stalwart — 3 chapters
• Princess Formidable — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Ringmaster Grimaldi — 3 chapters
• King Rust — 2 chapters
• The Popov brothers — 2 chapters — first appearance
• Agatha — 1 chapter
• Allister — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Astrid — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Azin — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Coolie — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Gwendolyn Duet — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Herot — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Lexis — 1 chapter
• Milk — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Porthus — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Ripper Wonton — 1 chapter
• Sinjin — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The Night Wyrm — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Tin — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Tserendolgor — 1 chapter — first appearance
• York — 1 chapter — first appearance

Locations

• The Dungeon — 23 chapters
• Safe rooms — 20 chapters
• The Royal Palace of Princess Donut — 19 chapters — first appearance
• The Desperado Club — 14 chapters
• Club Vanquisher — 8 chapters
• Production trailers — 6 chapters
• Sheol — 3 chapters
• The Hunting Grounds — 2 chapters
• The Nothing — 2 chapters — first appearance
• The Penis Parade — 2 chapters
• Larracos — 1 chapter — first appearance

Motifs

• The leaderboard — 15 chapters
• The show — 15 chapters
• Explosives — 14 chapters
• The Krakaren — 14 chapters
• The bestiary — 14 chapters
• Loot boxes — 13 chapters
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook — 13 chapters — first appearance
• The clock — 12 chapters
• Sponsorship — 10 chapters
• Warnings — 10 chapters
• The Syndicate — 9 chapters
• Borant — 7 chapters
• Quests — 7 chapters
• Race and class — 7 chapters
• The Entering notices — 7 chapters
• "Goddamnit, Donut" — 6 chapters
• Carl's bare feet — 6 chapters
• The Valtay Corporation — 6 chapters
• The gods — 6 chapters
• The xistera — 6 chapters
• The Skull Empire — 5 chapters
• The chat — 5 chapters
• "You're not going to break me" — 4 chapters
• Carl's family — 4 chapters
• The stuffed figures — 4 chapters
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario — 3 chapters
• Player-killer skulls — 3 chapters
• The Ring of Divine Suffering — 3 chapters — first appearance
• The crawler count — 3 chapters
• The war mages — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Waking the NPCs — 3 chapters
• Addiction — 2 chapters
• Faction Wars — 2 chapters
• The Blood Sultanate — 2 chapters
• The Celestial Ascendency — 2 chapters — first appearance
• The Bolt of Ophiotaurus — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The Princess Posse — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The hunters — 1 chapter
• The playbook — 1 chapter

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery — 2 chapters

The clock

The countdowns the system posts, in order.

• B3 ch. 1 — Time to level Collapse: 10 Days.
• B3 ch. 7 — Time to Level Collapse: 8 days and 18 hours.
• B3 ch. 12 — Time to next stop 19 minutes.
• B3 ch. 13 — Time to Level Collapse: 7 days, 12 hours
• B3 ch. 14 — Time to Level Collapse: 6 days, 23 hours
• B3 ch. 19 — Time to level collapse: 4 days, 20 hours.
• B3 ch. 21 — Time to Level Collapse: 4 Days, 9 Hours.
• B3 ch. 25 — Time to Level Collapse: 3 days, 3 hours
• B3 ch. 29 — Time to Level Collapse: One day and 16 hours.
• B3 ch. 32 — Time to Level Collapse: 17 Hours
• B3 ch. 32 — Time to the Opening of the Stairwells: 11 Hours
• B3 ch. 34 — Time to Level Collapse: Five Hours

Places entered

Every » Entering card, in order.

• B3 ch. 3 — The Royal Palace of Princess Donut
• B3 ch. 5 — Employee Break Room
• B3 ch. 14 — the Nightmare Express
• B3 ch. 15 — Abyss Station
• B3 ch. 15 — the Abyss
• B3 ch. 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
• B3 ch. 21 — The Royal Palace of Princess Donut
• B3 ch. 33 — Trainyard E

In the series

One floor and one puzzle: the Iron Tangle, whose trains only go up. The book where the party becomes a network — chat lists, shared maps, hats given away, a train driven backwards with a thousand people on it — see the arc of the story. It gives Carl the Cookbook, the series' hidden manual, and a personal space with tables; makes Katia the season's first bounty-claimer and a member for good; kills Hekla and dissolves her party; reveals the Maestro alive inside a god; and replaces Zev with Loita. 34 of the series' pages first appear here. Its NPCs — Vernon, Brandy, Tizquick, Madison, Growler Gary — are the fullest statement yet of the mobs are victims.