Book
Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Year: 2020 · Floors: 1 — The Tutorial, 2 — The Second Floor The book on its own: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Chapters
- Ch. 1 — The transformation
- Ch. 2 — The staircase
- Ch. 3 — Da Tutorial Guild
- Ch. 4 — The character sheet
- Ch. 5 — Inventory and the ratings panel
- Ch. 6 — Donut talks
- Ch. 7 — The Royal Court
- Ch. 8 — Rats and Scatterers
- Ch. 9 — The Polish McDonald's
- Ch. 10 — 4,148,111
- Ch. 11 — The Hoarder
- Ch. 12 — Six tiers of bosses
- Ch. 13 — Rebecca W
- Ch. 14 — The premiere
- Ch. 15 — Mapping the first floor
- Ch. 16 — The Goblin Copper Chopper
- Ch. 17 — Building the bomb
- Ch. 18 — The blast
- Ch. 19 — You Monster!
- Ch. 20 — Frank Q
- Ch. 21 — Bitchmeat!
- Ch. 22 — The encampment
- Ch. 23 — Painting over the signs
- Ch. 24 — The Juicer
- Ch. 25 — No gods here
- Ch. 26 — Six and a half hours
- Ch. 27 — After the arena
- Ch. 28 — The green room
- Ch. 29 — Odette off air
- Ch. 30 — Floor two
- Ch. 31 — The first floor collapses
- Ch. 32 — The pedicure kit
- Ch. 33 — Plan Pied Piper
- Ch. 34 — The Krakaren Clone
- Ch. 35 — Dragged out by a cat
- Ch. 36 — Zev
- Ch. 37 — The janitors
- Ch. 38 — The Rage Elemental
- Ch. 39 — The recap
- Ch. 40 — Bomb Chicken
- Ch. 41 — People buckets
- Ch. 42 — The Maestro's show
- Ch. 43 — The Maestro explains himself
- Ch. 44 — What Donut overheard
- Ch. 45 — The kobold boss chamber
- Ch. 46 — The dungeon groans
- Ch. 47 — 124.8 trillion
- Ch. 48 — Epilogue: Odette's couch
Recurring cast present
Characters
- Carl — 48 chapters — first appearance
- Princess Donut — 47 chapters — first appearance
- Mordecai — 32 chapters — first appearance
- Bea — 21 chapters — first appearance
- Brandon — 16 chapters — first appearance
- The System AI — 15 chapters — first appearance
- Imani — 12 chapters — first appearance
- Chris — 11 chapters — first appearance
- Odette — 11 chapters — first appearance
- Agatha — 10 chapters — first appearance
- Lucia Mar — 9 chapters — first appearance
- Meadow Lark (party) — 9 chapters — first appearance
- Frank Q and Maggie My — 8 chapters — first appearance
- Zev — 8 chapters — first appearance
- Prince Maestro — 6 chapters — first appearance
- Elle McGibbons — 5 chapters — first appearance
- Ferdinand — 5 chapters — first appearance
- Lexis — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Mistress Tiatha — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Mongo — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Li Jun and Zhang — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Hekla — 1 chapter — first appearance
- King Rust — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Li Na — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Prince Stalwart — 1 chapter — first appearance
Locations
- The Dungeon — 39 chapters — first appearance
- Safe rooms — 28 chapters — first appearance
- Tutorial guilds — 13 chapters — first appearance
- Production trailers — 6 chapters — first appearance
- The Desperado Club — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Club Vanquisher — 1 chapter — first appearance
- The Over City — 1 chapter — first appearance
Motifs
- Explosives — 23 chapters — first appearance
- Loot boxes — 21 chapters — first appearance
- The show — 19 chapters — first appearance
- Borant — 17 chapters — first appearance
- The Syndicate — 16 chapters — first appearance
- "Goddamnit, Donut" — 15 chapters — first appearance
- The clock — 14 chapters — first appearance
- Carl's bare feet — 13 chapters — first appearance
- The bestiary — 10 chapters — first appearance
- The chat — 10 chapters — first appearance
- Warnings — 9 chapters — first appearance
- Carl's family — 7 chapters — first appearance
- The Krakaren — 6 chapters — first appearance
- "You're not going to break me" — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Elites — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Player-killer skulls — 4 chapters — first appearance
- The Skull Empire — 4 chapters — first appearance
- The crawler count — 4 chapters — first appearance
- The tenth floor — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Sponsorship — 3 chapters — first appearance
- The Blood Sultanate — 2 chapters — first appearance
- The Valtay Corporation — 2 chapters — first appearance
- The gods — 2 chapters — first appearance
- The leaderboard — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Faction Wars — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Quests — 1 chapter — first appearance
- The Crown of the Sepsis Whore — 1 chapter — first appearance
- The Entering notices — 1 chapter — first appearance
Themes
- Entertainment as machinery — 4 chapters — first appearance
- The mobs are victims — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Staying human — 1 chapter — first appearance
The clock
The countdowns the system posts, in order.
- B1 ch. 2 — Time to Level Collapse: Five days.
- B1 ch. 8 — Time to Level Collapse: Four days, 20 hours.
- B1 ch. 10 — Time to Level Collapse: 4 days, 3 hours.
- B1 ch. 15 — Time to Level Collapse: Three Days and Two Hours
- B1 ch. 19 — Time to Level Collapse: Two days and 18 hours.
- B1 ch. 21 — Time to Level Collapse: 47 hours
- B1 ch. 26 — Time to Level Collapse: 6 hours 30 minutes.
- B1 ch. 32 — Time to Collapse: Five days, ten hours
- B1 ch. 38 — Time to Recap Episode: 1 hour 40 minutes.
- B1 ch. 38 — Time to Level Collapse: 4 days, 20 hours.
- B1 ch. 41 — Time to Level Collapse: 4 Days, 6 hours
- B1 ch. 44 — Time to Level Collapse: 3 Days, 14 hours
Places entered
Every » Entering card, in order.
- B1 ch. 9 — Safe Room
In the series
The tutorial floors, and the threads the book leaves open: the tiara and the ninth floor, the Skull Empire, the Valtay and Agatha, Maggie's vow, Mordecai's history with Odette, the mantra. Structurally it is two floors bracketed by interviews, each ending at a stairwell with a choice about other people — see the arc of the story. It establishes a method (look for the clues) and an argument (staying human against entertainment as machinery). 64 of the series' pages begin in this book.