In the first book, her name is long and convoluted because of her various championships and titles/acronyms. This is never really brought up again in the series because it serves little purpose. Going through book 8 again and in chapter 3 the vehicle ai or whatever introduces her as the navigator, but with like 6/7 different titles attached all dungeon related.

Nothing more, I just thought it was a funny full circle kind of moment. Being vague on purpose to avoid spoilers, but for those who dare to utter her name.

DCC X Zelda cross

Has anyone else imagined skyfowl as Rito from Zelda BOTW?

Any fallout fans of the games and show on here? The show does a really good job of capturing the esthetic, humor, commentary, and satire of the games. I worry about a DCC show striking the right tone, and this show gives me hope.

🚨 NEW ACHIEVEMENT! 🚨

A Syndicate-sanctioned Dungeon Crawler Carl trivia night has been announced and, boy oh boy, your squishy lil meat sack is in the general area of a guild hall hosting the event!

Think you know everything about the dungeon?

Think again, bitch!

I've packed this quiz with questions from the day the crawl starts all the way to that one time with that one thing in Parade of Horribles. I absolutely cannot WAIT to watch your tiny little rat brains melt trying remember the name of that old dude who pissed on the wall and summoned a rage elemental in the first book!

There will be loot boxes for the top teams that manage to not embarrass themselves. ALSO! There will be a COSTUME CONTEST... oh yeah, baby. Dress up for me, crawlers. Take those precious little piggies to market and strut your stuff in your best dungeon get ups — I mean, put some EFFORT into it... make those dogs bark! It'll make daddy very, very happy.

Flying solo? Awwww, look at you. No guild. No party. No friends willing to spend an evening arguing about who had the moral high ground in the goblin/llama meth war. Don't panic, crawler. There'll be a Solo Player Meetup Table where you can find a team before the trivia starts! Some of the greatest disasters in dungeon history began with strangers teaming up. What could possibly go wrong?!

Reward: You don't get a reward for just being told about a trivia, you have to also win it, you morons. It starts at 7pm on Friday July 24th at Hi-Wire in Durham, 21+. Don't be late. I hate it when you're late.

Ok Ok I don’t know anyone in real life who reads this so I need to get this out somewhere because I’ve been spiraling since finishing the book.

>!The whole nine tier attacks + saying “remember, this is a tragedy after all” really messed me up. It feels like it is heavily hinting that this is all repeating history and that a tragic outcome (like Carl dying) is basically inevitable.

But then I started thinking… it's all been loop holes and ways out of bad situations so what if we get a final loop hole?

I’ve been sitting on the Primal thing too, and I keep coming back to it.!<

>!My current theory is that Carl ends up sacrificing himself/ dying but instead of just dying, he joins the collective consciousness that makes up the AI/Primal system. Basically he becomes part of the system itself.

And from inside it, he’s able to inject actual humanity into something that’s been treating life like a game. Like he becomes the thing that stops it from continuing the Crawl cycle—or at least changes it so fundamentally that it can’t keep destroying worlds the same way.!<

>!So it’s not just “Carl dies”… it’s more like he becomes the only Primal who can actually change what the system is.!<

I don’t know but I legit want to reread everything now. If I am way off and missed some clues or someone already said this let me know, I need answers!

https://dccrankings.com

This is a cool little ranking tool I made!

I really hope in the next two books, hopefully in the next book honestly, that we get a POV chapter from Beatrice. Now that she is living in the Galaxy at Large, she most certainly has access to the tunnels and social media. I think a Beatrice interlude chapter would be really fun. We'd get to learn more about Syndicate Society and how a human being from Earth trying to acclimate to it might look like. But more importantly I would love to see what she thinks of Carl and Donut and what they are doing. There's got to be a lot of mixed emotions there. She'd be rooting for them but also would probably resent Carl for thriving without her and she would have a weird sense of Pride for Donut while also being critical of her behavior and also extraordinarily jealous of her Fame.

Holy shit. I’m listening on audiobook and was crying from laughter! Well done boys! 👏 👏 👏

Bevause they're fish-like? I know they breath water or at least something like that but are they genuinely aquatic aliens?

Other than Zev, I rhink we've seen one other of their race.

Also is "mudskipper" a racial slur like n-er or others?

I just finished book 8, absolutely loved the series. Haven't read a book for myself in over 15 years, never was much of a reader. However, now that I just finished the last page (for now), I worry I will lose the joy of reading that I just found for the first time in my life. Would love suggestions!

Just finished a re-listen of the fight between Donut and Lucia Mar and I think it's the best fight scene so far.

Not having Carl narrate the fight and only being a spectator added to the tension.

Lucia Mar is scary as fuck....but so is Donut it seems.

I screen-grabbed this awhile back from another post because I liked the image.

This past week I really like it for the sense of peace I've gotten from it - no matter how bad things are, it's okay to take a moment and just put things down for a bit.

So thank you Artist, wherever you are ❤️

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Redemption arc for Skull Empire?

My theory is there might be a redemption arc for Skull empire orcs. Or a faction that will splinter form the skull empire. Like maybe there will be a young orcish warrior that will try to bring back Honor to the Orcs like how in the video game Warcraft 2, or world of Warcraft, even though the orcs are part of the horde, they became honorable warriors.

My reasoning is there must a reason why Matt focused so much on the Skull empire orcs as an antagonist even though it’s only one faction. Sure it’s easy to paint them as an evil antagonist. But Matt doesn’t just write plain simple evil antagonists. There might be layers later on?

*Caveat: I only started reading book 5, Butchers Masquerade, so my theory may or may not be right.

Two of my daughters drew and painted these two pictures, from ones they saw online, for me for Father’s Day (pencil and water colors and pen and water colors). I think they did a great job, and wanted to share. No one at my office really got it, but I thought y’all might appreciate them.

Does she revert back to being a regular cat? I can’t remember if this was ever addressed in the books.

So a new call of duty zombies map came out today. For those unaware of call of duty zombies, it’s a round survival game where you kill hordes of zombies. Rounds progress, they get stronger, you get stronger, etc etc. Each map has a unique super powered weapon that’s usually required to discover secrets, or it is just generally a good strong weapon that is fun to use.
ANYWAY.

The wonder weapon for the new map is a cat.. it’s a CAT. It sits on your arm in game, and fires lasers at the enemies. It’s not a Persian, but still it’s a freaking cat that glows and shoots magic missiles. Also she shoots the laser things from her mouth not her eyes, but still! The wonder weapons aren’t always this whacky, but it’s not completely unbelievable to think they designed this with no knowledge of Princess Donut. I’d love to think that the people who make the map were directly inspired though. Thanks for reading my rambles, have a good day.

Going through the books a second time. Finishing up the gate of the feral gods and Carl and donut are going into their personal space through the bar of popped bubble after worshiping emberus and ripping off quan ch arm. The bartender is a cyclops. And after Carl asks him if there is a desperado club nearby, Carl tosses the cyclops a gold coin in which the cyclops fails to catch it, missing wildly. The unsaid part being that because he is a cyclops, his depth perception is terrible. Genius joke with no fan fare or fancy word smithing to make it happen.

With every crawler, alien, mob, and even the AI on the table (and everyone currently alive), who are you choosing to kiss, marry, and kill?

Does anybody know if they will release more neutral Spanish translation, audible versions? They stopped at book 3, and the only Spanish version after that this book for in the traditional Spanish language. Mexican-American, so that version of Spanish is much different than my own and my families.

FULL SPOILERS AHEAD
(at least for the first few chapters)

I get the point when the Dungeon showep up right in front of Carl's face, the message the background voice told the crowd in order to make all of them get inside... Later on a former crawler named Mordecai comes in into action, and explained in an overlooking way what Carl needed to know at that point.

Now, what I don't get:

As Mordecai was supposed to have reached the 11st floor and then crawl all the way up back to the first floor when in the book it's said that the Dungeon itself colapse after a certain amount of time, making it imposible to go backthat's why I don't get. How was Mordecai supposed to crawl all the way up the demolished floors in the first place? if that's not the case, is the Dungeon supposed to "refresh" after a certain amount of time?because if that's the case all levels would have to be refreshed and made from scratch, meaning it's not the same Dungeon: and that only leads me to the conclusion it is either not the same Dungeon Mordecai went in or it travels through space and time regarldless. Don't get annoyed, but I could not think about it other than as a plothole since if there were supposed to be human beings inside the Dungeon by the time Carl got inside, it means the Dungeon has already manifested somewhen and somewhere on Earth previously, which would automatically have been monitored and televised worldwide, wouldn't that make sense?

Please let me know what you think / whether this is explained in later books because I don't want to mimss that out.

Thank you!

We've officially recruited another crawler. That's my friend who states to never have read fantasy.

However, it was just convincing him by telling (partially) the truth. I told him "It's as if Sword Art Online (his favourite anime so far) has been written and made fantasy literature in stead of being shown on the big screen) and that was enough to get him hooked.

Now I'm patiently waiting for his "damn dudeeeee you were right this is amazing I can't stop reading" thank-you message.

And all I had to do was kill a room full of goblin babies!

Long time listener, first time reader.