Character · from book 1
Meadow Lark (party)
The party of night-staff and residents from the Meadow Lark eldercare facility in Wenatchee, Washington, camped at the borough boss's stairwell on the first floor when Carl and Donut find them: four able-bodied workers, Agatha and thirty-three elderly residents, with about thirty more in a Waffle House safe room nearby. The Royal Court of Princess Donut fights beside them without ever joining them.
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 3. Book 1's allied party and its moral test, reduced from 250 to a few dozen; scattered in book 2; and in book 3 twenty survivors, transformed, holding a stairwell station to the end. Elle and Imani are the party's second front. Brandon and Henry died on the third floor; Chris left, changed, and is alone.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead | B1 ch. 41 | resolved · B3 ch. 8 — Elle and Imani found at the Desperado Club, transformed; twenty of Meadow Lark left. |
| What Odette was about to say about Chris | B3 ch. 35 | resolved · B4 ch. 14 — Chris was Maggie My; Odette's warning is explained by a rock body with three skulls. |
| Chris, freed, owed to Imani | B4 ch. 34 | resolved · B7 ch. 15 — Delivered: Chris crawls with the Posse as a lava rock crawler who drags skunks under the ground — 'I am buried. Tell me when it's safe to come up.' |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 1
Through book 3
Through book 4
Through book 5
Through book 6
Through book 7
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 9/48 | 22, 26–28, 32, 36, 39, 41, 44 · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 1/26 | Ch. 26 · the book's own page |
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 8/35 | Ch. 8, Ch. 10, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 25, Ch. 29 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 5/35 | Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 10, Ch. 20, Ch. 33 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 9/78 | 3, 7, 9, 21, 36, 53, 62–63, 78 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 5/74 | Ch. 19, Ch. 50, Ch. 52, Ch. 63, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 2/89 | Ch. 11, Ch. 40 · the book's own page |
By book
Meadow Lark (party) in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Meadow Lark is a party name in the interface and an eldercare facility in Wenatchee in the world: 250 residents evacuated by a fire Agatha set, about half pulled into the dungeon's warm ramp, thirty-eight at the borough boss's gate, the four workers and Agatha among them (ch. 22). The ones in the Waffle House safe room, which holds thirty, vote not to come out (ch. 22); twenty-four stay behind, singing, when the floor collapses (ch. 31). The Royal Court fights beside them without joining them: the Ball of Swine (ch. 26), the descent, the grub trap, the train (ch. 37), the Rage Elemental (ch. 38), the people buckets down the ramp (ch. 41). Zev calls it a storyline that plays great with most viewers and is 'dead weight' to twenty per cent of a focus group. Carl never settles whether keeping them alive was a kindness.
Meadow Lark (party) in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Meadow Lark (party) in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Twenty left, transformed — a Frost Maiden, a butterfly, a muscle man who throws frozen heads (ch. 8, ch. 13). They scout a Pooka den and a robot room (ch. 12, ch. 16), ride the conveyor into Yard D (ch. 19), hold station 36 with flamethrowers for the last two days (ch. 31), and wait at the open stairwell until Carl comes (ch. 34). Brandon and Henry died for the escape; Chris left with men who died and he did not; Agatha, who burned them out, goes down the ramp ahead of them again.
Meadow Lark (party) in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Meadow Lark (party) in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Meadow Lark (party) in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Meadowlark folks have not yet been told about the crown (ch. 19); Carl thinks of its staff, Chris and Brandon and Yolanda (ch. 50); Imani's squad of former residents dies in a single moment getting the ninth token (ch. 52); the party numbers over twenty, a few Meadowlark crawlers among them, and the whole Meadowlark party can go where Elle's squad went (ch. 63); Agatha sleeps behind the kitchens of the Meadowlark Elder Care facility, where the brothers work late (epilogue).
Meadow Lark (party) in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
The saferoom where two crest with purple dots wait, and where Carl learns fifty thousand have come (ch. 11).