Dungeon Crawler Carl: A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure

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Carl gets a lot of mileage out of exploiting the system rules. Sometimes exploits get patched, but other times they remain feasible.

An Offer You Can't Refuse: Carl is presented with three options for dealing with the Gate of the Feral Gods; two of them involve the death of himself and everyone around him. Mongo's first reaction to Robot Donut is to bite its head off. Actually, Mongo does that to a lot of things.

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Because Donut sounded like a helium-drunk cat being crushed by a steamroller when she attempted to sing, that was why. And even though she wasn't that bad of a dancer, when it came to making a song emerge from that tone-deaf gullet of hers, her rhythm was that of a drunk, three-legged donkey trying to negotiate its way down a set of ice-covered stairs. Nonetheless, he's too slow to react when Donut's random "prize" suitcase turns out to contain Literal Fire Ants.

From Nobody to Nightmare: From the perspective of the Syndicate and the elites, Carl and Donut are like a specter coming out of the darkness and destroying them. Carl is personally murdering the members of the highest houses and turning their playgrounds into charnel dens. Meanwhile, Donut overthrew a government as a favor to a friend. Odette lost her legs as a crawler and received a belt that allows her to attach monster parts to her own body. As a show host she is shown to own a personal hover-platform she can fly on. The only reason he makes number 1 on the top ten is because of something he does later in the book. I won't spoil it, but it had nothing to do with the level itself.The Gate of the Feral Gods releases a rampaging god after it closes. But if the origin point was inside one of the indestructible bubbles on floor 5, then the god is trapped and harmless. Furthermore, Crawlers absolutely cannot use it to cross floors. But NPCs can, and they can even bring Carl's flying house through, making it available on the next floor. And so can mobs, allowing Carl to flood a city with shark-infested water.

Out-Gambitted: Borant Corporation and the Skull Empire have enough warning to adapt to a feral god being dropped on the Skull Empire's camp on the ninth floor. Too bad that Carl had found a secret way to coordinate with his team, outside even the crawler chat, and arranged to instead flood the city of Larracos, catching them completely off guard and wiping out their supply lines.

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Hello, Crawler. As you're about to find, this is a very special book. If you're reading these words, it means this book has found its way into your hands for one purpose and one purpose only. Crime of Self-Defense: Carl lays a trap for two people who tried to murder him without cause, which kills their daughter, who he was unaware even existed. They both decide to murder Carl for what he did to them. Frank is at least self-aware enough to realize he's a Hypocrite (though he's still out for revenge), but Maggie is so crazy she has convinced herself that everything was entirely Carl's fault. The "robot Donut" toy placed with Carl has anti-tampering features that cause it to explode when damaged. He can't get his head around how this is supposed to be marketed to children, but Loita insists that the reason he keeps destroying them is just because of his dungeon-enhanced strength. Frenzied Gerbils are dangerous, but low-level and fragile; a single one is not a big threat. A literally endless swarm of them, though...

An Arm and a Leg: Severed limbs are one of the few things that the dungeon can't heal (except with specific races or classes, or expensive healing items).Mentor in Sour Armor: Mordecai is fairly grumpy, and specifically unhappy about becoming Donut's manager, which is delaying his retirement, but is very knowledgeable and does prove to be quite helpful. How much of that is because he actually cares about them, vs how much is because he gets financial incentives to help them get as far as possible, is hard to say. Before the dungeon, Miriam Dom was a vegan. So the producers thought it would be hilarious to arrange for her to be cursed and turned into a vampire.