Book 7 · as of this book

Book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Book 7 on its own, written as of this book alone: nothing here comes from a later book.

Series

• Dungeon Crawler Carl — series index
• This book in the series

Concepts (Parts)

• Part 1: The Ceasefire (20/20 chapters)
• Part 2: The Ramp-Up (36/36 chapters)
• Part 3: Open Hostilities (13/13 chapters)
• Part 4: The Peeling of Larracos (20/20 chapters)

Chapters

Part 1: The Ceasefire

• Prologue — Prologue
• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
• Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends

Part 2: The Ramp-Up

• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 33 — Parlay
• Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
• Chapter 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
• Chapter 38 — Relationship advice
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk

Part 3: Open Hostilities

• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey

Part 4: The Peeling of Larracos

• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 72 — Diah
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 77 — Not yet
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Characters

• Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin
• Agatha
• Akuma
• Allister
• Amayon
• Annie
• Architect Houston
• Areson the Wise
• Arief
• Asher
• Astrid
• Azin
• Baroness Victory
• Bea
• Bianca
• Big Tina
• Bodi
• Bomo
• Bonnie
• Boomer
• Britney Proskurina
• Brother Widespread Tempest
• Bucket Boy
• Burcu
• Carl
• Cascadia
• Chaco
• Chris
• Clarabelle
• Clint Smashgrab
• Commander Stockade
• Corporal Pillbox
• Damascus Steel
• Daniel Bautista
• Dante
• Doctor Bones
• Dong Quixote
• Drakea
• Drick
• Edgar
• Eileithyia
• Elle McGibbons
• Emberus
• Epitome Tagg
• Eris
• Eva Sigrid
• Everly
• Ferdinand
• Florin
• Fopsy
• Frank Q and Maggie My
• Garret
• Gluteus Maxx
• Gonk
• Griffin and Morales
• Growler Gary
• Gustavo 3
• Hapanzi
• Harbinger
• Harpocrates
• Heidi
• Hekla
• Hellik
• Herman the Fleet
• Herot
• Heyzoos
• Holger
• Hortense
• Huanxin Jinx
• Ikicha
• Imani
• Jamal
• Jason Manning Fucks
• Jessica
• Judge Deng Bao
• Juice Box
• Jurgen
• Justice Light
• Kandy Bigs Newton
• Katia Grim
• Kevin and Magnificent Troy
• Khepri
• Kibben
• Kimaris
• King Rust
• Kiwi
• Kristen Cronin
• Li Jun and Zhang
• Li Na
• Lightning Lou
• Little Günter
• Loita
• Louis and Firas
• Lucia Mar
• Luke
• Meadow Lark (party)
• Meatus
• Menerva
• Milk
• Miriam Dom
• Miss Nadine
• Mistress Tiatha
• Mongo
• Mordecai
• Mork
• Nami
• Neelii
• Nekhebit
• Nihit
• Odette
• Opiee
• Orren
• Ossie
• Osvaldo
• Panford
• Paulie
• Penn
• Porthus
• Prepotente
• Priestly
• Prime Minister Glory
• Prince Maestro
• Prince Stalwart
• Princess Chandra
• Princess D'nadia
• Princess Donut
• Princess Formidable
• Princess Lunette
• Princess Vinata
• Quan Ch
• Quasar
• Raul
• Ringmaster Grimaldi
• Ripper Wonton
• Rishi
• Rosetta Thagra
• Ruby
• Ryan Smogo
• Samantha
• Scolopendra
• Selvi and Tuba
• Shi Maria
• Simoom
• Skarn
• Splash Zone
• Tart
• The Desperado Club cretins
• The Night Wyrm
• The Popov brothers
• The Sledge
• The System AI
• Tipid
• Toyotomi
• Tran
• Tsarina Signet
• Tserendolgor
• Volteeg
• Warlord Fang
• Yarilo
• York
• Zander
• Zev
• Zeynep

Locations

• Club Vanquisher
• Larracos
• Party Planner
• Production trailers
• Safe rooms
• Shanty Town
• Sheol
• Squirties
• The all-tree
• The base camp
• The Desperado Club
• The Dream territory
• The Dungeon
• The dwarven tunnels
• The FUPA
• The gas station
• The Homecoming Queen
• The Hunting Grounds
• The King's Point
• The Madness castle
• The Madness territory
• The Midnight Market
• The naga territory
• The Nest
• The Nothing
• The Outreach Guild
• The Over City
• The Penis Parade
• The Piccadilly
• The plains of Larracos
• The Prism headquarters
• The production facility
• The Reaver castle
• The Reaver territory
• The Royal Palace of Princess Donut
• The shelter
• The southern front
• The Sugar Cube
• The Temple of Khepri
• The Twister

Motifs

• 'Goddamnit, Donut'
• 'You're not going to break me'
• Addiction
• Already married
• Atrocities
• Borant
• Britney's axe
• Carl's bare feet
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Carl's family
• Conscription
• Donut's songs
• Dreams
• Edgar's tattoos
• Eileithyia's boons
• Elites
• Explosives
• Faction Wars
• Food boxes
• Juice Box and Louis
• Loot boxes
• Lucia's voices
• Memorial crystals
• Mind Balance
• Odette and Mordecai
• Player-killer skulls
• Possession
• Primal engines
• Quests
• Race and class
• Samantha's body
• Scars
• Sponsorship
• The bestiary
• The blood bar
• The Blood Sultanate
• The Butcher's Masquerade
• The Celestial Ascendency
• The changelings
• The chat
• The Christmas present
• The city defence towers
• The Cloak of the Benevolent Champion
• The clock
• The count
• The crawler count
• The Crown of the Sepsis Whore
• The death of Geyrun
• The Dream
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
• The Entering notices
• The Eulogist
• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
• The failsafe
• The Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo
• The Gate of the Feral Gods
• The gods
• The Great Consensus
• The Guild of Suffering
• The hunters
• The Inevitable Ruin
• The kinder facility
• The Krakaren
• The leaderboard
• The Madness
• The Nebulars
• The nine factions
• The Oak Fell
• The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network
• The Pineapple Cabaret
• The Princess Posse
• The Reavers
• The Residuals
• The Ring of Divine Suffering
• The river in Carl's head
• The river of souls
• The Scavenger's Daughter
• The show
• The Skull Empire
• The Sluggalos
• The stuffed figures
• The Syndicate
• The tenth floor
• The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• The Valtay Corporation
• The Viceroys
• The Walk-On List
• The war mages
• The xistera
• Waking the NPCs
• Warnings
• Ysalte

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery
• Staying human
• The mobs are victims

More

• Achievements
• Cast
• The arc of the story
• Timeline