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2026-10-10
The voice of the dungeon: a sentence start in book 4, Pater Coal named once in book 7 editorial read · 2026-10-10
The editor's read before launch: a lowercase sentence, and the cleric's description repeated word for word from the book-6 section.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
Carl and the machine: the lead, and three sentences in books 4 and 8 untangled editorial read · 2026-10-10
The editor's read before launch: the lead no longer says each section takes one book; Donut's agility courses, the bugbears, the whisper to the spy and the fail-safe that became a crawler, each said in one sentence.
Pages: Carl and the machine
Open threads: gods shown by name automated review · 2026-10-10
The table printed some gods' page slugs instead of their names.
- Found on an automated reread: The threads table printed some gods as bare slugs ('taranis'). Ruling: Right. A builder fault; gods now show their names, a later name only once its book is in.
Pages: Open threads
Mordecai: book 5's chapters cited in the right order correction · 2026-10-10
The loophole (ch. 70), the money (ch. 60) and Cascadia (ch. 63) now cite their own chapters.
- Found on an automated reread: Mordecai's book-5 section cited its three clauses in the wrong order of chapters. Ruling: Right. The loophole is ch. 70, the money ch. 60, Cascadia ch. 63. Reordered.
Pages: Mordecai
Race and class: dated from when they took effect automated review · 2026-10-10
The line under a character's gloss now gives the book in which their current race and class first held.
- Found on an automated reread: The race-and-class line gave the book of a character's latest card, not the book their race and class took effect. Ruling: Right. A builder fault; the line now gives the book in which the current race and class first held.
Pages: Carl, Prepotente, Lucia Mar, Florin, Imani
The pantheon: 'First named' is now 'First appears' correction · 2026-10-10
The column gives where a god first appears; Samantha's mother is not named Theia until book 7 (ch. 49).
- Found on an automated reread: The pantheon's 'First named' column gave Theia book 4, where she is only Samantha's unnamed mother; she is named in book 7. Ruling: Right. 'The goddess in question was named Theia' (book 7, ch. 49). The column is the god's first appearance, and is now labelled so.
Pages: The pantheon, Psamathe's mother
Carl and the machine: Katia is not the fairy healer correction · 2026-10-10
Book 3's healer is Silfa, a Wisteria Fairy; the essay had called Katia the healer.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay called Katia 'the fairy healer'; the healer is Silfa, a Wisteria Fairy. Ruling: Right. 'A level-25 Wisteria Fairy named Silfa. She was a “Holistic Healer.”' (book 3). Removed.
Pages: Carl and the machine
Carl's page: the Cookbook line reads properly before his first entry automated review · 2026-10-10
Before Carl's first Cookbook entry the line printed an empty list; it now says no entry of his has appeared yet.
- Found on an automated reread: Carl's page at book 3 printed '0 entries in the text so far: .' under the Cookbook. Ruling: Right. A builder fault when no entry of his has appeared yet; it now says so in words.
Pages: Carl
Three early-book sentences no longer say what later books do correction · 2026-10-10
Pages written as of books 1–3 said what the later books would do; they now say what their own book shows.
- Found on an automated reread: Three sentences written as of an early book said what later books do: Carl's idea 'he will act on from now on', Donut's 'series-long shape', and the Maestro who 'will want a fourth' humiliation. Ruling: Right. A page written as of its own book cannot say what comes after. Reworded to what that book shows.
Pages: Carl, Princess Donut, Open threads
Carl at book 2: the queen consort 'believed to be on board', not dead correction · 2026-10-10
Book 2 (ch. 20) reports the royal yacht destroyed and the queen consort only 'believed to be on board'.
- Found on an automated reread: Carl's lead at book 2 said the Skull Empire's queen consort was dead in the reprisal; book 2 says only that she was believed to be aboard the yacht. Ruling: Right. 'The queen consort and Maestro were believed to be on board' (book 2, ch. 20). Reworded to the yacht destroyed, with the queen consort believed aboard.
Pages: Carl
The pantheon: Diwata's links to the Vinegar Bitch and Eileithyia are no longer drawn as family correction · 2026-10-10
Book 5 (ch. 62) makes Diwata one of Apito's brood, and says only that her story has 'something to do with' the other two.
- Found on an automated reread: The family graph drew Diwata as family of the Vinegar Bitch and Eileithyia; the book says only that her story has 'something to do with' them. Ruling: Right. 'One of Apito’s brood, but not a direct child' makes her Apito's kin; 'Something to do with the Vinegar Bitch and Eileithyia' names no family tie (book 5, ch. 62). Those two are now listed as linked, not drawn as family.
Pages: The pantheon, Diwata, Ysalte, Eileithyia
Book 1's pages no longer say what later books will do correction · 2026-10-10
A page written as of book 1 said the series' threads all start there and that later books keep testing what it sets up. It now says what book 1 shows.
- Found on an automated reread: Pages written as of book 1 said what later books will do: the series' long threads all start here, the series will keep testing Mordecai's sentences, the machine will keep producing a feeling, a register will carry the series; and a maintainer's note about promoting a motif was printed to readers. Ruling: Right. A page written as of book 1 cannot know what later books do. Reworded to what book 1 shows, and the maintainer's note removed.
Pages: Book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl, The arc of the series, Mordecai, Carl and the machine, The voice of the dungeon
The pantheon: the Night Wyrm's tier gated to book 5 correction · 2026-10-03
Right. Until book 5 it is listed under 'Names not yet placed'; from book 5, among the demigods.
- Found on an automated reread: The Night Wyrm was listed as a demigod from book 3, where it is only a name on a ring; it is called one in book 5. Ruling: Right. Until book 5 it is listed under 'Names not yet placed'; from book 5, among the demigods.
Pages: The pantheon, The Night Wyrm
The chat: a skill card no longer a speaker correction · 2026-10-03
Right. '» Smush: Skill Level 3' is a card, not a message (book 1, ch. 8). The roster is 107 voices, 4,540 lines.
- Found on an automated reread: The chat roster counted 'Smush' as a speaker; the line is a skill card. Ruling: Right. '» Smush: Skill Level 3' is a card, not a message (book 1, ch. 8). The roster is 107 voices, 4,540 lines.
Pages: The chat
Races: Gimli no longer merged into Osvaldo correction · 2026-10-03
Right. 'This is Gimli. My stone hawk.' Each now has a row of his own.
- Found on an automated reread: The race tables merged Gimli, the stone hawk, into Osvaldo, whose page he shares. Ruling: Right. 'This is Gimli. My stone hawk.' Each now has a row of his own.
Pages: Stone Hawk, Osvaldo
Races and classes: Louis no longer merged into Firas correction · 2026-10-03
Right. Firas is the Hammersmith; Louis is the Pest Exterminator. Each now has a row of his own.
- Found on an automated reread: The race and class tables merged Louis into Firas, who share a page. Ruling: Right. Firas is the Hammersmith; Louis is the Pest Exterminator. Each now has a row of his own.
Pages: Human, Louis and Firas
Races and classes: people who share a page no longer merged correction · 2026-10-03
Right. Each person was recorded correctly; the tables keyed people by page. Each person on a shared page now has a row of their own.
- Found on an automated reread: The race and class tables merged two people who share a page: Zhang into Li Jun, Maggie My into Frank Q. Ruling: Right. Each person was recorded correctly; the tables keyed people by page. Each person on a shared page now has a row of their own.
Pages: Human, Li Jun and Zhang, Frank Q and Maggie My
The voice of the dungeon: the showrunners' announcements out of the AI's evidence correction · 2026-10-03
Right. Each is a 'Hello Crawlers' announcement read for the showrunners, not the AI's voice. Those rows are removed from the table.
- Found on an automated reread: The voice essay's evidence table listed the showrunners' daily announcements as the AI's own lines; the essay's text already said whose they were. Ruling: Right. Each is a 'Hello Crawlers' announcement read for the showrunners, not the AI's voice. Those rows are removed from the table.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
Book 5's arc: the Valtay's 51% correction · 2026-10-03
Right. 'They gained 51% of the Borant Corporation, but the collection action on the whole system is still in limbo' (book 5, ch. 20). Reworded.
- Found on an automated reread: Book 5's arc said the regency change hands Borant to the Valtay; they gained 51%. Ruling: Right. 'They gained 51% of the Borant Corporation, but the collection action on the whole system is still in limbo' (book 5, ch. 20). Reworded.
Pages: The arc of the story
Book 5's arc: the Apothecary as Carl's guess correction · 2026-10-03
Right. 'I had a pretty good idea who this was' (book 5, ch. 16). Now 'whom Carl takes for the Krakaren'.
- Found on an automated reread: Book 5's arc called the Apothecary the Krakaren as fact; it is Carl's guess. Ruling: Right. 'I had a pretty good idea who this was' (book 5, ch. 16). Now 'whom Carl takes for the Krakaren'.
Pages: The arc of the story
Book 4's arc: Carl's resolve and its comfort correction · 2026-10-03
Right. The same sentence ends that saving them from a war 'was enough to ease any concern at what I’d done' (book 4, ch. 34). Reworded.
- Found on an automated reread: Book 4's arc said Carl admitted 'only' that the abuse of NPCs nearly broke his resolve; the sentence goes on to ease it. Ruling: Right. The same sentence ends that saving them from a war 'was enough to ease any concern at what I’d done' (book 4, ch. 34). Reworded.
Pages: The arc of the story
The Cookbook: Carl's 25th edition dated from book 3 correction · 2026-10-03
Right. '- Crawler Carl, 25th Edition of The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook' ends book 3 (ch. 34). Now 'from the end of book 3'.
- Found on an automated reread: The Cookbook's lead dated Carl's 25th edition from book 4; his signed entry closes book 3. Ruling: Right. '- Crawler Carl, 25th Edition of The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook' ends book 3 (ch. 34). Now 'from the end of book 3'.
Pages: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Open threads: the sevens row names the Apothecary correction · 2026-10-03
Right. 'Five items, all in sponsorship boxes from the Apothecary' (book 5, ch. 63). The row now asks why the Apothecary marked them.
- Found on an automated reread: The row spoke of the sponsors' coordination; both marked gifts came from one sponsor, the Apothecary. Ruling: Right. 'Five items, all in sponsorship boxes from the Apothecary' (book 5, ch. 63). The row now asks why the Apothecary marked them.
Pages: Open threads
The pantheon: 'it has never happened' given to Signet correction · 2026-10-02
Right. 'The story is it's some sort of immortality, but it's never happened' is Signet speaking (book 5, ch. 65). Both passages now say so.
- Found on an automated reread: Two passages said a violence-free Masquerade has never happened, as the book's own fact. It is Signet's claim. Ruling: Right. 'The story is it's some sort of immortality, but it's never happened' is Signet speaking (book 5, ch. 65). Both passages now say so.
Pages: The pantheon, Apito
The voice of the dungeon: the mothers' photographs marked as Mordecai's reading correction · 2026-10-02
Right. 'I think the AI just gave you photographs of the mothers of all the plaintiffs' (book 4, ch. 28). The essay now says it is what Mordecai takes them to be.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay said the AI packs the prize boxes with the plaintiffs' mothers' photographs. That is Mordecai's guess. Ruling: Right. 'I think the AI just gave you photographs of the mothers of all the plaintiffs' (book 4, ch. 28). The essay now says it is what Mordecai takes them to be.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
Carl and the machine: the masquerade no longer 'the first' fight lost to an unknown rule reading revised · 2026-10-02
Fair. The book supports the rule he did not know — 'We didn't know about the anti-violence seal' (book 5, ch. 73) — but not 'first'. The word is dropped.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay called the masquerade the first fight Carl loses to a rule he did not know. Nothing in the book says first. Ruling: Fair. The book supports the rule he did not know — 'We didn't know about the anti-violence seal' (book 5, ch. 73) — but not 'first'. The word is dropped.
Pages: Carl and the machine
The series arc: Remex as a 'tenner' marked as Carl's guess correction · 2026-10-02
Right. 'I reckon that means someone who got out on the tenth floor' (book 2, ch. 24). The page now says it is Carl's guess.
- Found on an automated reread: The page stated that Remex is a former crawler who took the tenth-floor deal. In book 2 that is Carl's guess. Ruling: Right. 'I reckon that means someone who got out on the tenth floor' (book 2, ch. 24). The page now says it is Carl's guess.
Pages: The arc of the series
The series arc: the Great Race no longer 'the first' floor a crawler ends; the sponsors' line given to Carl reading revised · 2026-10-02
Fair on both. Prepotente cites the legend of the Kiznet boy, and 'All of our sponsors came together' is Carl speaking (book 5, ch. 78). 'First' is dropped and the line is given to Carl.
- Found on an automated reread: The page called the Great Race the first floor a crawler ends, and gave the sponsors' concerted help as fact. The book cites an older attempt, and the line about the sponsors is Carl's. Ruling: Fair on both. Prepotente cites the legend of the Kiznet boy, and 'All of our sponsors came together' is Carl speaking (book 5, ch. 78). 'First' is dropped and the line is given to Carl.
Pages: The arc of the series
The voice of the dungeon: the used-AI story marked as a rumour correction · 2026-10-02
Right. His words are 'Rumor is' (book 5, ch. 53). The essay now calls it a rumour.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay said a hunter explains that a used AI was sold to Borant. He gives it as a rumour. Ruling: Right. His words are 'Rumor is' (book 5, ch. 53). The essay now calls it a rumour.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
The voice of the dungeon: 'the AI's pet' given to the Maestro's viewers correction · 2026-10-02
Right. 'Some say you've been […] only surviving because you're the AI's pet' (book 1, ch. 43). The sentence now gives the charge to his viewers.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay said the Maestro calls Carl the AI's pet. He reports that some of his viewers say so. Ruling: Right. 'Some say you've been […] only surviving because you're the AI's pet' (book 1, ch. 43). The sentence now gives the charge to his viewers.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
Zev's censure: lifted on appeal, and 'difficult' to be un-noticed, on two pages correction · 2026-10-02
Right. 'The censure was removed from my record', and it is 'difficult to get it to un-notice you' (book 1, ch. 44). Both pages now say so.
- Found on an automated reread: Two pages said Zev had been censured or suspended for helping Carl, and that the AI does not un-notice you. The censure was lifted on appeal, and her word is 'difficult'. Ruling: Right. 'The censure was removed from my record', and it is 'difficult to get it to un-notice you' (book 1, ch. 44). Both pages now say so.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon, The arc of the series
The voice of the dungeon: book 4 no longer called the first time the AI's condition is a plot fact reading revised · 2026-10-02
Fair. Mordecai says a countermanded AI 'tends to break' (book 3, ch. 2). 'For the first time' is dropped.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay said book 4 is the first time the AI's condition is a plot fact. Mordecai already explains in book 3 what being overruled does to an AI. Ruling: Fair. Mordecai says a countermanded AI 'tends to break' (book 3, ch. 2). 'For the first time' is dropped.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
Carl and the machine: the fee and the commendation no longer said to follow from one sentence reading revised · 2026-10-02
Right. Zev puts the doubled fee down to the video of the Maestro (book 1, ch. 44). The essay no longer claims cause; it sets them beside the sentence.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay said the doubled appearance fee and Borant's commendation follow from Carl's 'expensive' sentence. Zev gives the fee another cause. Ruling: Right. Zev puts the doubled fee down to the video of the Maestro (book 1, ch. 44). The essay no longer claims cause; it sets them beside the sentence.
Pages: Carl and the machine
Book 5's story arc: the memory of the pipes and the note given to Carl correction · 2026-10-02
Right. The memory of the pipes, the basement and the note is Carl's, in the castle (book 5, ch. 73). The sentence now gives it to him.
- Found on an automated reread: The story arc said the castle ties the noise in Carl's head to the pipes, the basement and the note. That link is Carl's own memory, not something the castle does. Ruling: Right. The memory of the pipes, the basement and the note is Carl's, in the castle (book 5, ch. 73). The sentence now gives it to him.
Pages: The arc of the story
The voice of the dungeon: the AI's reply to the veto is among the first things Carl reads, not the first correction · 2026-10-02
Right. It arrives in the same stack, after the safe-room welcome and two other achievements (book 3, ch. 2). The sentence now says 'among the first things'.
- Found on an automated reread: The essay called the fish achievement the first thing Carl reads on the fourth floor. A welcome and two other achievements come before it. Ruling: Right. It arrives in the same stack, after the safe-room welcome and two other achievements (book 3, ch. 2). The sentence now says 'among the first things'.
Pages: The voice of the dungeon
About this companion: “What this is” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
An editorial read of the page before launch; the maintainer accepted the rewrite.
Pages: About this companion
About this companion: “Corrections and requests” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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About this companion: “How it is made” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 5's story arc: “Opening paragraph” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 5's story arc: “The shape underneath” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 2's story arc: “Act VI” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 1's story arc: “Act V” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 3's story arc: “Act IV” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 2's story arc: “Act II” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 4's story arc: “Act VI” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 3's story arc: “The shape underneath” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 4's story arc: “The shape underneath” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 2's story arc: “The shape underneath” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 2's story arc: “Lead” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Book 1's story arc: “The shape underneath” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The series arc: “Floor 3” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The series arc: “Floor 5” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The series arc: “Floors 1–2” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The series arc: “Floors 6–7” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The voice of the dungeon: “A grievance in the first person” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The voice of the dungeon: “A grievance in the first person” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The voice of the dungeon: “A mood the characters have to manage” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The back seat” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “One (Book 4, floor 5)” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The lever” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “Sedition” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “Family, and the price of it” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “Seeds (Book 2, floor 3)” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The 25th edition” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The network” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The pebble on the path (Book 5, floors 6–7)” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “The pebble on the path (Book 5, floors 6–7)” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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Carl and the machine: “Intro” rewritten editorial read · 2026-10-02
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The series read whole for contradictions between pages, and each spoiler level read as its reader automated review · 2026-10-02
Pages that disagreed with each other were reconciled to the books, and places where a page built for an early book counted or named later ones were closed.
The glosses, cast rows, traces and speakers read against the books automated review · 2026-10-02
The short texts no earlier read had covered were checked line by line; 106 quotations were given to the right speaker and 90 watched threads were marked answered.
An audit of the previous week's corrections automated review · 2026-10-02
Every correction made the week before was read again against the books; 317 findings were handled, most of them a chapter reference or a speaker.
Raised, and the page kept
- The essay says Carl uses the Gate of the Feral Gods; Katia is the one who opens it. Ruling: Kept. Katia opens the gate (book 4, ch. 34), to Carl's plan. The sentence is about whose use of the artifact it is, and that is his. 2026-10-02
- The essay says Carl concludes nothing the AI says can be trusted; he was speaking of its map labels. Ruling: Kept. Carl's words are 'we couldn't trust anything' (book 2, ch. 22), said of the AI's descriptions in general after 'like the hundredth time'. The paraphrase is fair. 2026-10-02
- The page says Carl earns a gold coin per kill without saying the kills must be other crawlers'. Ruling: Kept. The page calls it a royalty, which is the condition: 'For every kill made with this device by other crawlers' (book 1, ch. 35). 2026-10-02
- Book 5's arc says Katia was told she could never be a mother; the line is a rhetorical question. Ruling: Kept. Fannar's 'Do you really think you could be a mother?' (book 5, ch. 78) is a telling in the form of a question. 2026-10-03