Dungeon Crawler Carl: A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure

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Carl gets a bottle of "Pawna's Tears", which will immediately raise any skill of his choice by five levels and is not on a timer. Mordecai immediately advises him to save it for later, once he's gotten a skill to level 15, so he can immediately boost it to 20. Mordecai explains that part of the reason the item is so valuable is that there are quite a few rare and useful skills that don't normally have potions, but Pawna's Tears can boost any skill. Portal Cut: Donut gains a spell called "Hole," which simply puts a temporary hole in a material. Carl's "Surprise Three" is for her to make a hole, drag something through it, and cancel the spell so that the mob is cut in half. They aren't sure it will work until they actually try it. It does work, letting Carl kill an otherwise very powerful warmage with ease. Miriam Dom got one, too, for entering the dungeon with a dozen goats. Her Legendary Pet Box made her goat Prepotente a crawler just like Donut. Insistent Terminology: When Donut accuses Hekla of firing arrows at Katia, while she's attached to the Nightmare Express, Hekla repeatedly reminds Donut that they're bolts, not arrows, instead of defending herself.

Elite Army: By the time the sixth floor is over, pretty much all of the player killers and selfish douchebags are dead, and the surviving Crawlers are a Found Family of Fire-Forged Friends who will do everything they can to keep the group alive, to keep hope alive. The sixth floor ends with an unprecedented 100% mortality rate among the Hunters, and the eighth floor ends with a surprise twist that, instead of 30,000 Crawlers dying to betrayal and despair, 30,000 Crawlers survive thanks to a Hail Mary from Carl. Another floor ending with a big explosion,” Katia said after the train disappeared. “Spoiler alert, Katia,” Donut replied. “It’s always going to end with an explosion.”"Mentor in Sour Armor: Mordecai is fairly grumpy, and specifically unhappy about becoming Donut's manager, which is delaying his retirement, but is very knowledgeable and does prove to be quite helpful. How much of that is because he actually cares about them, vs how much is because he gets financial incentives to help them get as far as possible, is hard to say. Ascended Meme: In universe. At one point, while meeting with their attorney out of the dungeon, the pair encounter a huge Donut stan wearing a T Shirt with the caption "Goddamnit Donut!" in huge letters. The Reveal: As the series continues, we learn a lot about the various characters and their relationships to one another and the larger universe. Katia was an underpowered, underleveled filler character in Hekla's party. Hekla just gathered as many women around herself as possible to turn her crossbow into a killing machine, but that left everyone else trailing behind. Katia's race and class were ... underwhelming in Hekla's view, so she tossed her to Carl and Donut as part of a larger plan. However, with their help, she developed into a strong character and a strong person, able to lead the way on the fifth and sixth floors. Where her Doppelganger race is initially difficult and painful for her to use, she rapidly becomes so adept at it that she can shift into many configurations with ease. Hello, Crawler. As you're about to find, this is a very special book. If you're reading these words, it means this book has found its way into your hands for one purpose and one purpose only.

If I Do Not Return: Before facing Vrah and her siblings, Carl entrusts Donut's safety to Zev in the event that he gets killed. Crippling Overspecialization: Hekla's party is built completely around her, and her overpowered crossbow that becomes more powerful the more women who are in the party. Of almost thirty crawlers, most of them are healers, a handful are offensive mages and other damage-dealers, and there is not a single tank. Once Hekla dies, the party immediately disbands, and Carl theorizes it couldn't have lasted much longer anyway. Ultra-Stabilized, Size-adjustable, race-adjustable alleviating sleep apparatus: Good Rest bonus +10% all stats(*)

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Parental Incest: The only way for Vrah to be cured of her Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea is to pass it on to someone else, but all the other mantids on the floor are dead. So her mother pays an exorbitant amount of money to manifest in the Dungeon as a shapeshifting deity, takes on a male mantis form, and relieves her. Then shapeshifts into a female mantis and starts pumping out baby mantises for revenge on Carl. The Crawlers agree that it's all kinds of messed up.

Florin even gets one for unintentionally killing his girlfriend, by shooting someone with damage reflection. Apparently it doesn't matter whose fault the kill is, just who landed the blow. Post Class Selection / Point Allocation (STR = Toe Ring + 3, / Gauntlet* + 3; CON = Shirt + 4, Ring + 1, Ring + 2, Boxers + 2) There Can Be Only One: Anyone who has ever put on the Enchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whore — even if they later give it up — becomes part of the royal line of inheritance for the Blood Sultanate, and cannot descend past the ninth floor until every other candidate is dead. Donut was so enthralled by its appearance that she rushed to put it on before reading that part. And then Eva puts it on Katia against her will, before Katia can finish her off. Game Master: The Syndicate AI. It doesn't have completely arbitrary power, it has to be more or less fair to the crawlers, but since it can see everything that happens everywhere and can control loot, random encounters, and information, it can easily make or break someone's crawl. Too bad it's showing signs of becoming increasingly insane. With a foot fetish and a crush on Carl.

I just love this series. I love the relationship between Carl and Princess. I like how, Carl is always trying to do his best even though people are always trying to screw him more. Happy to learn more about the floors as we go on. It also feels like I am right there in the action with Carl. I hope the rest of the books go well. Special mention to Fire Brandy, who gains awareness of the dungeon and makes a Heroic Sacrifice to help the crawlers pass the floor. Hekla tries to arrange for Katia to be killed in a way that will cause Carl to get into a fight and get himself killed too, so that Donut will be left alone and open to joining Hekla's party. An Offer You Can't Refuse: Carl is presented with three options for dealing with the Gate of the Feral Gods; two of them involve the death of himself and everyone around him. Not Good with Rejection: After Carl dumped her, Bea freaked out and tried to fly home from her holiday immediately, dragging with her the boy she was cheating with. As a result, she survives the initial Collapse, but she's left broken and hollow afterward. She eventually gets a chance to see Carl and Donut, but can't do much more than stare at them and give minimal answers to questions she's asked.

Magical Barefooter: The AI pushes Carl into this, giving him a pedicure set that makes his feet Nigh-Invulnerable but requires him to wear no shoes. It's worth the trade-off — so long as he doesn't forget to reapply it daily. DCC is very well done, finding a nice balance between plot and character driven story. I especially like that the characters are very rarely purely good or evil, and there is a lot of nuance throughout. (with the exception of Donut, of course, who is always good ;)) Heart Is an Awesome Power: Donut isn't impressed by the Hole spell, which just makes a temporary, small, and shallow hole in a surface, but Carl sees massive potential in it once it levels up a bit. Such as Portal Cuts. Reforged into a Minion: The eighth floor allows squads to collect up to six more "recruits" by beating monsters nearly to the point of death and then marking them with special flags that convert them into summoning cards.The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. The set up of the story was not too grabbing. Like all stories, not enough details were set up in the start, for it to really show how unique it was. Its not everyday that the world gets turned into a game show. Only a few stories on here has that idea. Donut is just a show-winning princess. Were you expecting an actual surprise here? Joke's on you. Now get out there and kill kill kill!