Character · from book 1

Frank Q and Maggie My

A married couple — whom Carl takes for police by their bearing — who stumbled into the dungeon with their teenage daughter and were told by their guide that the only way to survive was to kill other crawlers. Frank has three skulls when Carl meets him; Maggie has five. Their daughter, Yvette, would not.

First appears: Book 1

Series arc

As of book 4. A threat, then a tragedy, then a promise, then a body. Book 1's murderous couple, the first people Carl set a trap for, then, on the same book's talk show, Frank's lost hand and Maggie's vow; book 3's Frank alone at a bar, one-handed, giving Carl the Ring of Divine Suffering and the truth about Yvette, then killed an hour later by Chris. Book 4 finishes them. Maggie chose the Infiltrator race and took Chris's body; she killed Frank herself; both Skull Empire princes sponsor her; she got a Celestial Grenade to summon the god of pain, Algos, on Carl; their game guide said the collapse dead can come back, and a caprid liaison offered help if she killed Carl — 'They have my other daughter, Carl.' 'I'm not angry anymore.' Pulled out of Chris's head, she bites into Carl's hand, is blown out of his neck by a healing potion, and is eaten by Mongo. What she was promised about the collapse dead outlives her.

Open threads

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

Thread	Opened	Status
The collapse dead in storage	B4 ch. 14	open — Maggie's other daughter held over her; Crawler Hoon's children; a Walk-On List for the living natives.
Maggie My's vow and her Find Crawler potion	B1 ch. 43	resolved · B4 ch. 34 — Maggie, an Infiltrator inside Chris, is pulled out through his skull and eaten by Mongo.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 1

Introduced as a threat (B1 ch. 20), revealed as a tragedy (B1 ch. 43), and left as a promise: Maggie's Find Crawler potion and 'I am going to watch you die. You and the fucking cat.' Zev rates the storyline tired; the book gives Maggie the last smile.

Through book 2

Not met; Mordecai prices Maggie's potion at millions (B2 ch. 2); still on Donut's list of enemies (B2 ch. 24).

Through book 3

Frank alone, a one-handed Night Elf drinking at station 101: Maggie left him, took her class alone and has the Find Crawler potion. His revenge is a gift — the Ring of Divine Suffering — and the truth about Yvette: she wore it, Maggie chose Carl as her mark, and when she could not heal her mother killed her (B3 ch. 19). Chris kills him in the club (B3 ch. 20). Maggie is still out there.

Through book 4

Maggie chose the Infiltrator race and took Chris; she killed Frank herself; her sponsors are both Skull Empire princes; she got a Celestial Grenade to summon Algos on Carl on arrival; their game guide said the collapse dead can come back, and a caprid liaison offered help if she killed Carl — 'They have my other daughter' (B4 ch. 14, B4 ch. 34). 'I'm not angry anymore.' Pulled out of Chris's head, she bites into Carl's hand, is blown out of his neck by a healing potion, and is eaten by Mongo (B4 ch. 34). Maggie's vow ends there.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl	8/48	Ch. 13, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 43, Ch. 44, Ch. 47 · the book's own page
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	5/26	Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 18, Ch. 23, Ch. 24 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	8/35	Ch. 7, Ch. 9, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 25, Ch. 27, Ch. 30 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	14/35	2, 10, 14–15, 17, 19–20, 25, 27, 29, 31–34 · the book's own page

By book

Frank Q and Maggie My in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl

Frank Q's name is over Rebecca W's corpse in ch. 13. In ch. 20 he steps out of a safe-room bathroom with a plausible ICE story and Maggie My steps out of stealth with a pistol; the system freezes them for shooting in a safe room and Carl leaves lit dynamite in a rat for them. The Maestro's footage (ch. 43) tells the truth: their guide told them the only way to survive was to kill crawlers; they ambushed a group as a family; their daughter Yvette never took part; Frank pulled the dynamite from the rat with Yvette behind him and lost a hand; Maggie strangled her wounded daughter — for the experience, Carl accuses, since the girl would have healed; 'You didn't get the whole story,' Maggie answers. Frank ends the book a hollow man who will not look up; Maggie ends it with a Legendary potion that will let her find any crawler by name, a vow to watch Carl and the cat die, and her first smile. Zev's assessment: it has potential, but nobody thinks they will live long enough.

Frank Q and Maggie My in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Mordecai tells Carl that Maggie should sell the Legendary Skill Potion if she has half a brain (ch. 2); Carl watches for skulls in the ruins (ch. 18) and Donut lists her among their enemies under the glass case (ch. 24). Not seen.

Frank Q and Maggie My in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Frank alone at the Desperado Club bar, which he has not left since getting off at station 101: a Night Elf Blood Assassin, level 17, one hand, a Seahawks beanie, blitz sticks. Maggie left him after the Maestro's show, took her class without him, blocked him, he thinks, and has the Find Crawler potion. His revenge is the Ring of Divine Suffering and the story that goes with it: he made Yvette wear it, Maggie chose Carl as her mark, and when the dynamite hurt her she could not heal, so her mother killed her. Customs Enforcement and Seattle PD, five years separated, a sheriff's parking lot at two in the morning (ch. 19). Chris kills him in the club and walks out (ch. 20).

Frank Q and Maggie My in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

What Maggie became

Maggie chose the Infiltrator race — a Scree, a brain parasite — and got into Chris at the end of the third floor; when the takeover finished she left Meadow Lark, hunted Carl, and killed her own husband at the Desperado's counter, possibly for the ring he had just given away (ch. 10, ch. 14). Her sponsors are Prince Maestro and Crown Prince Stalwart, both; she got a Celestial Grenade to summon Algos, the god of pain, on Carl on arrival; their game guide said the collapse dead can come back, and a caprid cleric, a liaison, offered help if she killed Carl: 'They have my other daughter' (ch. 14, ch. 34). 'I'm not angry anymore.'

The end

Petrified in the street, dropped into a flooded tomb, out again to kill a tomb raider, hidden in the sand with Chris's camouflage, she is called out, silenced by the AI mid-sentence, and throws the winding box — a decoy — as far as she can. Carl phases into Chris's head and pulls her out; she bites, burrows up his arm, and is blown out of his neck by the third floor's parasite cure into Mongo's mouth (ch. 34). The AI's quest text remembers her running over a Labrador with her Tahoe (ch. 29).