Character · from book 2
Prepotente
Third on the first leaderboard: a Caprid Forsaken Aerialist, level 27, met through a hole in the floor on the fourth floor, courtly to Donut and kept in line by Miriam Dom's crook.
Race and class, since book 5: Caprid · Profane Vitiate
First appears: Book 2
Series arc
As of book 5. The caprid of the fourth-floor stairwell and the crab ranch, whose mother is a vampire and whose family goat is a hellspawn. Book 5: paralysed by his own class while his mother dies in the sun on his shoulder; sponsored by the Plenty; level 71; the buyer of Seventh Floor Pole Position without asking what it is; the killer of the queen with a potion in her face; and, in the epilogue, the goat who explains a floor from a talk show and his mother's boots and breaks it open with a hammer and a stick — 'You're a good boy, my sweet little Pony.' Party leader from the pit until he leaves the party on the seventh floor. Open: a quest that wants the memorial crystal a Curupira ranger took; the sponsors' wish that he and Donut work together.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The hammer and the stick: a seven, and a Book of Lore | B5 ch. 63 | open — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward, Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams, both stamped 7, both spent on the seventh floor; a Book of Lore for the Bahamas, and the sponsors' wish that the goat and the cat work together. |
| A memorial crystal for Apito, who is not dead | B5 ch. 77 | open — The queen's necklace, taken by a Curupira ranger named Osvaldo; Emberus's quest updated to obtain it; Prepotente says it protects against Scolopendra. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 2
A name on the leaderboard at third (B2 ch. 26), a Caprid Carl cannot place.
Through book 3
Second on the leaderboard and met through a hole in a floor: screaming, murderous, courtly to Donut — 'the only two remaining Earth creatures in the dungeon who have gained true sapience' — and kept in line by Miriam Dom's crook (B3 ch. 32). He was two hours from killing a province boss by lowering its blood pressure when Carl portaled it away.
Through book 4
Stacks debuffs on a boss Quan wakes (B4 ch. 4); puts a spider nest to sleep (B4 ch. 17); panics and runs (B4 ch. 20); loosed the hellspawn goat on Club Vanquisher's lounge and earns a Holy Crusade Bounty (B4 ch. 25); kills a level-150 turkey god and reaches 55, the highest in the dungeon (B4 ch. 33).
Through book 5
Level 55 and a satanic-goat tattoo (B5 ch. 6); a town lost to a dinosaur (B5 ch. 39); frozen by his own class while his mother dies in the sun on his shoulder (B5 ch. 47); a vow (B5 ch. 49). Sponsored by the Plenty (B5 ch. 43), level 70 by the party (B5 ch. 57), he buys Seventh Floor Pole Position without asking (B5 ch. 69), kills the queen with a potion in her face (B5 ch. 77), and in the epilogue cracks the seventh floor open with a stick and a hammer his mother's boots taught him to use (B5 ch. 78). He leads the party from the pit and leaves it to Donut on the seventh floor (B5 ch. 77, B5 ch. 78).
Open: a quest that needs the Memorial Crystal: Apito, taken by a Curupira ranger; the sponsors' wish that he and Donut work together.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 1/26 | Ch. 26 · the book's own page |
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 5/35 | Ch. 3, Ch. 20, Ch. 25, Ch. 32, Ch. 35 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 8/35 | Ch. 4, Ch. 7, Ch. 17, Ch. 20, Ch. 25, Ch. 32, Ch. 33, Ch. 34 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 31/78 | 6–8, 15–16, 34, 39, 41, 43, 45–52, 55–57, 60, 63, 66–67, 69, 72–73, 75–78 · the book's own page |
By book
Prepotente in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Prepotente in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Number two after Hekla's death (ch. 25) and 'they hardly ever show that goat thing.' Met through a hole in a floor: a nasal British voice, screams without cause, two hours from putting a province boss into cardiac arrest before Carl portaled it away, an offer to crunch Imani's bones, a genuine wish to share a brandy with Donut — 'the only two remaining Earth creatures in the dungeon who have gained true sapience' (ch. 32). Miriam Dom hits him with her crook and he apologises. 'I'm sorry I wanted to murder you.'
Prepotente in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Third on the board: stacks debuffs on a province boss until Quan Ch wakes it (ch. 4); rolls a cave shelf under a spider nest and puts the spiders to sleep so they fall (ch. 17); has a panic attack and runs off, which gets Miriam cursed (ch. 20); loses his mind when her Vanquisher membership is revoked and loosed the hellspawn goat on the lounge, earning a Holy Crusade Bounty (ch. 25); kills a level-150 turkey god for eight levels, to 55, the highest in the dungeon, and is shown gnawing the feather (ch. 33). Maggie's 'caprid' in a rest area, Carl decides, must be another creature (ch. 34).
Prepotente in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Pony
Level 55, Profane Vitiate, a satanic-goat tattoo, crying when called Pony (ch. 6), and suddenly Carl's best friend (ch. 7): the caprid whose mother is a vampire and whose family goat is a hellspawn. He names a town Number Four and loses it to a dinosaur (ch. 39). He kills an elite and is paralysed by his own class (ch. 44), Frozen and Fragile in a clearing, a second Ring of Divine Suffering on his hand, marked on his own mother, watching everything while she asks to be killed and dies in the sun on his shoulder (ch. 47). He wakes, eats his ring, screams silently (ch. 48), and vows (ch. 49).
The smart boy
Sponsored by the Plenty (ch. 43), level 70 by the party (ch. 57), he buys Seventh Floor Pole Position with thirty of his thirty-three hands without asking what it is (ch. 69), asks to join the party because he has been collecting clues (ch. 67), and smashes a potion into a blinded queen's face for the killing blow (ch. 76, ch. 77). Party leader for a day in exchange for a saferoom zap (ch. 75). In the epilogue he explains a floor from a talk show and his mother's boots, taps a stick with a hammer — 'You're a good boy, my sweet little Pony' — and the seventh floor explodes to dust (epilogue). He wants a memorial crystal for a goddess who is not supposed to be dead.