Character · from book 3
Gwendolyn Duet
A voice in the chat at the end of the fourth floor; on the fifth, the only crawler in bubble 543 who answers Carl's message: a level-27 Boring Ol' Fighter with a Club Vanquisher ring in the land quadrant, about forty-five, First Nations, tattooed, a spear, a punched-in nose, a body built on hard labour, who, Katia says, speaks every thought aloud the moment she thinks it and then says it again. Katia's partner for five days, always fighting with her, and a member of her new party.
Race and class, since book 4: Human · Boring Ol' Fighter
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
Through book 5
Her team's loot from the tomb gives Katia the floor's map (B5 ch. 9); she wants to murder Louis and Firas (B5 ch. 11); she corners two Creepers in a bush-elf village (B5 ch. 50) and takes a grapefruit-sized hole through the gut on a raid (B5 ch. 60). She dies in the castle pit among elves and bugs, Cleiton beside her (B5 ch. 76). 'She was mean, but I liked her' (B5 ch. 77).
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 3
A voice in the chat during the eruption at the stairwell stations, on Carl's side: 'The bomber guy warned all of you dumbasses' (B3 ch. 31).
Through book 4
The land quadrant's crawler, met in person: a First Nations Canadian with a spear, tattoos and a punched-in nose, a Boring Ol' Fighter who breaches four walls, finds the drain, and calls Carl 'bomber guy' (B4 ch. 2, B4 ch. 20). She and Katia fight like pack hunters and argue like enemies; she opens the valve on Carl's word, breaks the glass spell by sending Tran into a chamber, loots Anser's crypt, and joins Katia's party (B4 ch. 22, B4 ch. 24, B4 ch. 33).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 1/35 | Ch. 31 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 23/35 | 2, 6–9, 12–13, 15, 19–30, 32–34 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 13/78 | 9, 11, 25, 36, 50, 60–62, 67, 72–73, 76–77 · the book's own page |
By book
Gwendolyn Duet in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
A crawler in the chat during the eruption at the stairwell stations, defending Carl's warning: 'The bomber guy warned all of you dumbasses. Fall back to the train lines […] Now clear the chat' (ch. 31).
Gwendolyn Duet in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Bomber guy
The only crawler who answers Carl's message to the bubble: a level-27 Boring Ol' Fighter with a Club Vanquisher ring in the land quadrant, whose team breaches four walls under a chainsaw buzzard and finds the drain that could wash the sandcastle away (ch. 2, ch. 7, ch. 20). Met in person: about forty-five, First Nations, a faded double-V forehead tattoo, arrowhead lines on her hands, a spear, a punched-in nose, a body built on hard labour; 'So you two finally fucking made it' (ch. 20). Katia: a superb fighter with no magic who says every thought aloud twice and bullies when she has made up her mind. She vaults a pazuzu on her spear (ch. 29), refuses to touch a live cable, opens the drain on Carl's word, breaks the crystal spell by sending Tran into a chamber (ch. 24), loots Anser's crypt (ch. 33), gets a new spear, and joins Katia's party for the sixth floor. Credited with liberating the tomb beside two dead men (ch. 29).
Gwendolyn Duet in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Her team's loot from the tomb gives Katia the floor's map (ch. 9); she wants to murder Louis and Firas (ch. 11); she corners two Creepers in a bush-elf village (ch. 50) and takes a grapefruit-sized hole through the gut on a raid (ch. 60). She dies in the castle pit among elves and bugs, Cleiton beside her (ch. 76). 'She was mean, but I liked her' (ch. 77).