Character · from book 2

Florin

The crocodilian crawler with the mag-fed shotgun that never runs out of shells — a Shotgun Messenger, fourth on the leaderboard, seen only on the recap show.

Race and class, since book 2: Crocodilian · Shotgun Messenger

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

As of book 5. The crocodilian from the fourth floor whose girlfriend Lucia Mar killed through his own gun: brooding in book 5 — Katia says he is 'doing a good Carl impersonation' — he claims Lucia for himself on the planning notes, refuses the stairs when the queen arrives wearing Ifechi's twin's face, and then finds a child inside Lucia and calls for her protection. A shotgun beat in the ballroom, 'Heave!' in the pit, and sobs when the queen dies as he did when Ifechi did.

Open threads

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

Thread	Opened	Status
The children inside Lucia Mar	B5 ch. 71	open — Jill, ten, Dutch; 'multiple people in there'; a man named Alexandro; the dog as controller. 'It's complicated, Carl.'
Katia's own party	B4 ch. 33	resolved · B5 ch. 21 — She leaves the party for Imani's guild, Safehome Yolanda, with Elle, Bautista, Florin, Gwen, Tran, Louis and Firas; the Royal Court of Princess Donut joins the guild too.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

Shotgun, crocodile head, fourth on the leaderboard (B2 ch. 26).

Through book 3

Florin is fourth on the leaderboard at the top of the floor and sixth by its middle, travelling with Ifechi the Physicker (B3 ch. 3, B3 ch. 25). Odette alludes to a 'hilarious but ultimately tragic' fight between the two of them and Lucia Mar (B3 ch. 35).

Through book 4

Ifechi's lover, who shot her through Lucia Mar's Rubber spell and wears a golden kill mark for it (B4 ch. 4); sits down in the wheel room and does not spin; emerges into a dead bubble, takes three castles alone, and is the last rescue of phase one (B4 ch. 20, B4 ch. 33). 'There is something left to fight for.' He joins Katia's party.

Through book 5

Brooding like Carl (B5 ch. 11); the queen wears his dead girlfriend's twin and he refuses the stairs (B5 ch. 65); he sees that something is wrong with Lucia and finds a child inside her (B5 ch. 67, B5 ch. 71); a shotgun beat, 'Heave!', and sobs when the queen dies (B5 ch. 75, B5 ch. 76, B5 ch. 77).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	2/26	Ch. 14, Ch. 26 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	4/35	Ch. 3, Ch. 8, Ch. 25, Ch. 35 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	4/35	Ch. 4, Ch. 17, Ch. 20, Ch. 33 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	18/78	11, 21, 36, 52, 60–62, 64–67, 70–73, 75–77 · the book's own page

By book

Florin in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The crocodilian with the endless shotgun (ch. 14); fourth on the leaderboard as a Shotgun Messenger (epilogue).

Florin in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Fourth, then sixth, travelling with Ifechi (ch. 3); Clarabelle's kind (ch. 8); part of 'that hilarious but ultimately tragic fight' with Lucia Mar Odette mentions and does not explain (epilogue).

Florin in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Ife

A 'private security' man with an Australian accent and a modified Mossberg who ate his lover's leeches for tripled buffs; the recap shows the reunion and the death — Ifechi's protection spell cast on him and a stranger and not herself, Lucia's Rubber on her head, his volleys into Lucia and the dogs reflected into her skull, his last into his own temple, a golden kill mark for it (ch. 4). He sits down in the wheel room with her staff across his lap and does not spin (ch. 4).

Out

He emerges to a bubble where everyone else is dead (ch. 20), takes three castles alone, and is the last rescue of the first phase, having got club access because he 'killed' Ifechi (ch. 33). He tells Carl the story Elle told him and why he is still alive — 'There is something left to fight for' — offers a backup gun, and walks straight down the stairs. He joins Katia's party. Off the board by the end.

Florin in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Brooding, 'a good Carl impersonation' (ch. 11); a crocodilian face with blood on it after a raid (ch. 62). He claims Lucia Mar for himself on the planning notes (ch. 64), and then the queen arrives wearing his dead girlfriend's face, and he refuses the stairs: 'I don't see your cat going down the stairs' (ch. 65). He marches on Lucia and stops, seeing something wrong (ch. 67), and later holds a sobbing ten-year-old inside her and calls for her protection (ch. 71). He knows the twin from Ifechi (ch. 73), keeps a shotgun beat in the ballroom with Lucia behind him (ch. 75), calls 'Heave!' in the pit (ch. 76), and sobs when the queen dies as he did when Ifechi did (ch. 77).