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
As of book 2. The series' most useful and least trustworthy adult, by her own account: a former crawler who took a deal instead of the thirteenth floor's stairs, Mordecai's trainer, a broadcaster paid in access. Her book-1 advice about a class choice cost Mordecai his freedom of movement in book 2's first chapter; her book-2 epilogue delivers the Celestials, the leaderboard, the deity sponsorship, Hekla — and 'Not as long as you're still alive.'
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 · B2 ch. 25 — Manager by Donut's trick (ch. 1), freed when she reaches the fourth floor; the history keeps leaking. |
| The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal | B1 ch. 29 | open · B2 ch. 24 — Quint says push through to eleven; Remex, a tenner, is a battery in a warehouse. |
| Mordecai's 'unfortunate' experience with gods | B2 ch. 26 | open — Odette's aside says Mordecai has a lot of experience of gods, unfortunately; what kind she does not say. |
| Odette's unnamed class choice | B1 ch. 48 | resolved · B2 ch. 1 — Former Child Actor; the Manager benefit binds Mordecai to Donut's saferooms. |
All threads: Open threads.
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.
Through book 2
Her book-1 advice is followed to the letter in book 2's first chapter, and it costs Mordecai his freedom of movement (B2 ch. 1). She is the one who was with him on the sixth floor (B2 ch. 13). On the couch in the epilogue she is at her most useful — the Celestials, the leaderboard, the deity sponsorship, Hekla — and admits she paid almost nothing for them. 'Not as long as you're still alive.'
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 |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 13/26 | 1, 4, 6–8, 12–13, 15, 19–20, 23, 25–26 · 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.
Odette in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Present before she appears: her instructions for stealing Mordecai as a manager are followed to the letter (ch. 1), and her fingerprints are on Mordecai's sixth floor (ch. 13). On the couch in the epilogue she explains Celestial boxes and Borant's veto, unveils the leaderboard, warns of King Rust's deity sponsorship and Grull, says she watches Mordecai all day, admits she paid almost nothing for their season, tells Carl that Hekla wants Donut for the manager, agrees that Donut will not leave him 'as long as you're still alive,' and identifies the last number on each line as a bounty.