Character · from book 1

Odette

Host of Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette, the most-tunnelled private program in the galaxy. On camera a crab-taur in a mantis helmet; off camera a legless human woman on a floating disc who was once a crawler, once Mordecai's trainer, and now makes money from Carl and Donut staying alive.

Race and class, since book 1: Human

First appears: Book 1

Series arc

Through book 1

The series' most useful and least trustworthy adult, by her own account. Book 1 gives her two interviews, a history (a crawler who reached the thirteenth floor's stairs and took a deal; Mordecai's trainer, who pushed him too hard), and a motive she states plainly — money. She holds first refusal on every floor opening (B1 ch. 36). Her unnamed class choice at the end of the epilogue is the book's cliffhanger.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
Mordecai's contract, and his history with Odette and his brother	B1 ch. 29	open — The contract only counts if a crawler reaches the fourth floor; the brother was a crawler Odette steered.
The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal	B1 ch. 29	open — The 'additional rules' were announced in chapter 2 (B1 ch. 2); Odette's deal is chapter 29: she never took the stairs off the thirteenth.
Odette's unnamed class choice	B1 ch. 48	open — A class among Donut's options that will make someone very angry.

All threads: Open threads.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl	11/48	27–31, 35–36, 42, 44, 47–48 · the book's own page

By book

Odette in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl

Two Odettes. On air (ch. 28) she is a naked crab-taur in a praying-mantis helmet with breasts on the desk, host of the most-tunnelled private program in the galaxy, who makes Carl say his catchphrase and gives Donut a stage. Off air (ch. 29) she pulls the helmet off: sixty, human, legless, floating, a crawler who reached the thirteenth-floor stairwell and took a deal, Mordecai's trainer, and a woman who drugs the cat treats for a better interview and says so.

Her advice is the best in the book and she charges for it in attention: loot is not random, so stop complaining about pants; Donut must stay a cute cat; never trust anyone whose motivations aren't clear — hers being money. In the epilogue she supplies the Valtay warning, the class advice (pathfinding, let Donut go first, ignore the AI on race), the word 'velociraptor', and a last suggestion she does not name, a class hidden among Donut's choices that will make someone very angry. Mordecai would rather eat his children than work for her; she admits she pushed him too hard.