Motif · from book 1
Achievements
The system's running commentary on Carl's conduct, from Boss Babe to You Monster! to This Little Piggy Went to Market. Each one is a joke at the crawler's expense and, read together, a record of what the game wants him to become.
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
_As of book 8. Book 8: Bombs Away!, Default Winner!, Wastrel and Come to Daddy in one sitting, Sing for your supper, an Uh-Oh for a solo driver, and — for splattering Scolopendra with a pet biscuit — What the actual fuck, Carl? with 'Reward: . . . Yeah, I got nothing for this'.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Achievements: what the AI has left to say | B8 ch. 97 | open — Ten achievements in book 8 against thirty-seven in book 1, and the last is the one the AI cannot score: 'Reward: . . . Yeah, I got nothing for this.' Its voice has grown more personal by the book; whether the ledger goes on below the eleventh floor, and in whose voice. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 1
The AI's ledger of Carl's conduct: Boss Babe (B1 ch. 11), You Monster! and War Criminal with their Asshole's Boxes (B1 ch. 19), Bitchmeat! — the first one he laughs at (B1 ch. 21), Two Chicks at the Same Time (B1 ch. 25), This Little Piggy Went to Market (B1 ch. 30), Wait, Bosses Can Leave Their Rooms? (B1 ch. 33), Dungeonpreneur (B1 ch. 35), Like a Moth to the Flame (B1 ch. 39), PETA Enthusiast (B1 ch. 47). Read in order they are the game's idea of who he is becoming; the reward text is where the AI is cruellest.
Through book 2
It's Elementary, My Dear Crawler! (B2 ch. 5); Meet an Elite (B2 ch. 6); Lazarus! (B2 ch. 8); You Can't Fight City Hall! (B2 ch. 10); One Quadrillion!, Yellow-Bellied Chickenshit!, Johnny Quest!, Hadji! (B2 ch. 13); Assassin!, Ultimate Extreme Power!, CockBlock! (B2 ch. 22); Bandit! for the blast zone's survivors, whose Celestial boxes Borant's veto cancels except the one Quan Ch has opened (B2 ch. 26). The AI's verdicts keep pace with the escalation: 'What's next? Killing a god?'
Through book 3
I'm on a train! (B3 ch. 1); Cuck Aquaman! — the AI's grudge against the court (B3 ch. 2); Well-Rested!, Martha Stewart! (B3 ch. 3, B3 ch. 4); Locomotive Breath! (B3 ch. 11); Kept A Rollin', Three Cheers for Slaughter! (B3 ch. 14); Mentally Unstable Clothing Hoarder! for seven hundred hats (B3 ch. 25).
Through book 4
The Quarry Sees Another Spring (bounties doubled) (B4 ch. 1); the fourth floor's harvest — Let There Be Chaos, Divine Epiphany, Indomitable, Smushed for Daddy, Hail Mary!, Extinction Event (B4 ch. 2); Total, Utter Failure ('Reward: Ha.') (B4 ch. 7); Cannonball! and You're the reason why daddy drinks! (B4 ch. 13); Wild Goose Chase! (B4 ch. 16); Milquetoast! and I was in the pool! (B4 ch. 23); Who Let the Gods Out? (B4 ch. 27); Rock Bottom!, Fight the Power! seven times, Janet Jackson's Nipple!, Soft Vore!, Flex in the City! (B4 ch. 28); Man of God! and Disarming Personality! (B4 ch. 32). Twenty-one in the ledger; the AI's opinion of Carl, day by day.
Through book 5
A whole mess on the first night: I Wanna Go Home!, You Crossed a Line You Didn’t Even Know Was There, The Hand that Claws the Master thirty-five times over, Mass Casualty Event (B5 ch. 6); a Gold Junkie's Box, and a tattoo, for the ring (B5 ch. 8); Insurgent (B5 ch. 11); Double-Billed!, which Carl slowly works out (B5 ch. 12, B5 ch. 13); Premature Questjaculation! (B5 ch. 28); notifications suppressed in the con's bed (B5 ch. 32); over thirty stacked up by the first saferoom after Fort Freedom, Uprooted, Bisected! and Temple Defiler! among them (B5 ch. 36).
Through book 6
Chaco's godkiller achievement, in the prologue (B6 ch. 0); Elle's holy shitballs at the boxes (B6 ch. 2); Fashion of the Gods! for the patch (B6 ch. 3); Interloper!, and Donut's platinum fan box for singing at the Masquerade (B6 ch. 11); The Molly Maguires, which rewrites itself at the guild's door (B6 ch. 23); Cascadia's Turquoise Taco, and Smeat (B6 ch. 40); Mass Layoffs, in which the AI congratulates itself, and Pincushioned (B6 ch. 48); Columbia House (B6 ch. 56).
Through book 7
Over fifty achievements and boxes at once, from Lord of the Flies to Unbirthing in the AI's throaty voice (B7 ch. 2); Catfish (B7 ch. 3); Gavrilo Princip (B7 ch. 27); Charge of the Light Brigade with no reward (B7 ch. 52); Varg Vikernes, Liquified, Celestial Orgy of Chaos (B7 ch. 57); traitor and a stolen catalytic converter for a tattoo (B7 ch. 75); Lorena Bobbitt (B7 ch. 77); Executive Order 11905, reward nothing (B7 ch. 81).
Through book 8
The achievements
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Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl (37)
- B1 ch. 2 — Trailblazing Crazy Cat Lady
- B1 ch. 2 — Early Adopter
- B1 ch. 2 — Empty pockets
- B1 ch. 2 — Why aren’t you wearing pants?
- B1 ch. 2 — Unarmed combat
- B1 ch. 2 — Loner
- B1 ch. 2 — Fall into an obvious trap
- B1 ch. 2 — You’ve discovered and read an official dungeon sign
- B1 ch. 5 — You’ve inflicted damage on a mob
- B1 ch. 5 — You’ve killed a mob
- B1 ch. 5 — You’ve killed an armed mob with your bare fucking hands
- B1 ch. 5 — You’ve killed a mob a higher level than yourself
- B1 ch. 5 — You’ve entered a guildhall
- B1 ch. 5 — Podophilia
- B1 ch. 5 — Boom
- B1 ch. 5 — Level-Up, Baby
- B1 ch. 6 — Loot
- B1 ch. 6 — Oooh, Magic
- B1 ch. 11 — Boss Babe
- B1 ch. 19 — You Monster
- B1 ch. 19 — War Criminal
- B1 ch. 21 — Bitchmeat
- B1 ch. 25 — Two Chicks at the Same Time
- B1 ch. 30 — Borough Boss
- B1 ch. 30 — Bully and a Thief
- B1 ch. 30 — Battlefield Construction
- B1 ch. 30 — This Little Piggy Went to Market
- B1 ch. 30 — You found stairs
- B1 ch. 33 — Wait, Bosses Can Leave Their Rooms?
- B1 ch. 35 — Dungeonpreneur
- B1 ch. 39 — What goes up..
- B1 ch. 39 — Like a Moth to the Flame
- B1 ch. 41 — Grease Monkey
- B1 ch. 41 — You call that a trap?
- B1 ch. 46 — I’ll take the ceramic dalmatian, Pat
- B1 ch. 46 — Menagerie
- B1 ch. 47 — PETA Enthusiast
Book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario (12)
- B2 ch. 5 — It’s Elementary, My Dear Crawler
- B2 ch. 6 — Meet an Elite
- B2 ch. 8 — Lazarus
- B2 ch. 10 — You Can’t Fight City Hall
- B2 ch. 13 — One Quadrillion
- B2 ch. 13 — Yellow-Bellied Chickenshit
- B2 ch. 13 — Johnny Quest
- B2 ch. 13 — Hadji
- B2 ch. 22 — Assassin
- B2 ch. 22 — Ultimate Extreme Power
- B2 ch. 22 — CockBlock
- B2 ch. 26 — Bandit
Book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (11)
- B3 ch. 1 — I’m on a train
- B3 ch. 2 — They like me! They really like me
- B3 ch. 2 — The early bird gets to squirm
- B3 ch. 2 — Cuck Aquaman
- B3 ch. 2 — Welcome to the neighborhood
- B3 ch. 3 — Well-Rested
- B3 ch. 4 — Martha Stewart
- B3 ch. 11 — Locomotive Breath
- B3 ch. 14 — Kept A Rollin’
- B3 ch. 14 — Three Cheers for Slaughter
- B3 ch. 25 — Mentally Unstable Clothing Hoarder
Book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods (21)
- B4 ch. 1 — The Quarry Sees Another Spring
- B4 ch. 2 — Let There Be Chaos
- B4 ch. 2 — Divine Epiphany
- B4 ch. 2 — Indomitable
- B4 ch. 2 — Smushed for Daddy
- B4 ch. 2 — Hail Mary
- B4 ch. 2 — Extinction Event
- B4 ch. 7 — Total, Utter Failure
- B4 ch. 13 — Cannonball
- B4 ch. 13 — You’re the reason why daddy drinks
- B4 ch. 16 — Wild Goose Chase
- B4 ch. 23 — Milquetoast
- B4 ch. 23 — I was in the pool
- B4 ch. 27 — Who Let the Gods Out?
- B4 ch. 28 — Rock Bottom
- B4 ch. 28 — Fight the Power! (x7)
- B4 ch. 28 — Janet Jackson’s Nipple
- B4 ch. 28 — Soft Vore
- B4 ch. 28 — Flex in the City
- B4 ch. 32 — Man of God
- B4 ch. 32 — Disarming Personality
Book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade (17)
- B5 ch. 6 — I Wanna Go Home
- B5 ch. 6 — You Crossed a Line You Didn’t Even Know Was There
- B5 ch. 6 — The Hand that Claws the Master (x35)
- B5 ch. 6 — Mass Casualty Event
- B5 ch. 11 — Insurgent
- B5 ch. 12 — Double-Billed
- B5 ch. 28 — Premature Questjaculation
- B5 ch. 36 — Uprooted
- B5 ch. 36 — Bisected
- B5 ch. 36 — Desecrated
- B5 ch. 36 — Temple Defiler
- B5 ch. 36 — That’s not how you use arrows, dumbass
- B5 ch. 36 — It itches when I pee
- B5 ch. 36 — This little piggy made a boom boom
- B5 ch. 36 — What big muscles you have
- B5 ch. 51 — B’sieging
- B5 ch. 55 — Sex Pervert
Book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (25)
- B6 ch. 2 — Oh shit! A country boss
- B6 ch. 2 — The Scourge
- B6 ch. 2 — Marked for Life
- B6 ch. 2 — Apex Predator
- B6 ch. 2 — Ménage à Quatro
- B6 ch. 2 — Fuck This Floor
- B6 ch. 2 — Pacifist
- B6 ch. 2 — Collective Bargaining
- B6 ch. 3 — Fashion of the Gods
- B6 ch. 11 — Interloper
- B6 ch. 14 — Crybaby
- B6 ch. 19 — Secondary Gig
- B6 ch. 23 — “We Want Meat! We Want Meat!”
- B6 ch. 23 — The Molly Maguires
- B6 ch. 40 — Cascadia’s Turquoise Taco
- B6 ch. 40 — Smeat
- B6 ch. 41 — Cliffhanger
- B6 ch. 41 — Prepare for Trouble
- B6 ch. 48 — LBC
- B6 ch. 48 — Pincushioned
- B6 ch. 48 — Watch where you’re waving that thing, big boy
- B6 ch. 48 — Mass Layoffs
- B6 ch. 56 — Columbia House
- B6 ch. 56 — The Fumble
- B6 ch. 58 — Holy Hell
Book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin (20)
- B7 ch. 1 — Sushi Smoothie
- B7 ch. 2 — Lord of the Flies
- B7 ch. 2 — Demons Hate This One Trick
- B7 ch. 2 — Chickenshit Exploit
- B7 ch. 2 — Celestial Loot
- B7 ch. 2 — Used Pet
- B7 ch. 2 — Uh oh. It talks
- B7 ch. 2 — Touched by a Demon
- B7 ch. 2 — Crab Chowder
- B7 ch. 2 — Unbirthing
- B7 ch. 27 — Gavrilo Princip
- B7 ch. 52 — Charge of the Light Brigade
- B7 ch. 57 — Varg Vikernes
- B7 ch. 57 — Liquified
- B7 ch. 57 — You in my house now, boy
- B7 ch. 57 — Celestial Orgy of Chaos
- B7 ch. 57 — Hey Larry, can I borrow your chainsaw?
- B7 ch. 58 — Holistic
- B7 ch. 65 — You now tread in the realm of gods
- B7 ch. 81 — Executive Order 11905
Book 8 — A Parade of Horribles (10)
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 0/48 | — · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 0/26 | — · the book's own page |
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 0/35 | — · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 0/35 | — · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 0/78 | — · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 0/74 | — · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 0/89 | — · the book's own page |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 0/99 | — · the book's own page |