Chapters 175 + 176
Just FYI this ends on a complete douche of a cl
2021-12-29 13:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 174
<Note added by Crawler Ikicha. 11th Edition>
We are meant to live solitary lives, even the eunuchs amongst us. Still, the sight of him, twisted and changed, speaking with that same voice that once said such sweet words... It broke me, friends. It broke me in a such way I did not think possible after all that has happened.
They’re not the same. Even if cured of the rot injected into their aura. Don’t even try. Hope is crucial, but it can also be pois...
2021-12-21 07:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173
Chapter 173
Trophy Count: 52
Remaining Hunters: 673
“He ate the ring?” Mordecai asked after we returned to the closest saferoom. I’d run straight to the bomber’s studio, but I was now out. Donut sat at the open door, shouting out through it at Mongo and Kiwi. She’d been regaling Mordecai with the tale of everything that had happened. Prudence the ursine barkeep sat on the couch with both of her cubs on either side. Samanth...
2021-12-11 07:54:57 +0000 UTC View PostChoose Wisely, Crawler. Island edition.
You have chosen the Caribbean. Those poor bastards.
Okay, so there are technically 28 countries and/or territories in the area of the Caribbean. We are going to choose one. The poll option on Patreon doesn't allow that many choices, so I'm going to link most of the dinky ones together. If we vote for that, I will create yet another poll that will narrow it down.
Some of these choices, such as Haiti versus the Dominican Republic seem like they're practically the same thin...
Choose wisely, Crawler. Your life depends on it.
Okay, this one is a little different because you don't know wtf you're voting for. You're going to be presented with the same choice the crawlers will be given at the beginning of a future floor with the same information they're given.
You're presented with a political globe of earth with all the country lines/cities/etc as it appeared on the day of the collapse. You are told to choose a spot. It has to be on land, not water. It doesn't appear you can choose Antarctica, either or any o...
Chapter 172
Chapter 172
Time to level collapse: Six days, fifteen hours.
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System Message: A champion has fallen.
I took another step back, and I pulled the ring of Divine Suffering off my own finger and slipped it back into my inventory.
“Get ready,” I whispered. “We don’t know how he’s going to react. He might unleash that Bianca thing on us.”
“Are we going to let him stay with us?” Donut asked, looking down at the pi...
2021-11-30 14:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapters 170 & 171
A couple nice, light chapters.
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Chapter 170
<Note added by Crawler Allister. 13th Edition>
Vampires. We have vampires in my culture, but they are not the same as the ones here in the dungeon, though they are similar. My T’Ghee deck contains two vampiric forms. The Plague Bearer and the Blood Hunter. Both represent death. Both represent the end of days. But one is considered deliberate, thirst-based evil, and the other, the Plague Bearer...
2021-11-17 11:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169
I wasn’t given the opportunity to say goodbye to the Popovs. After the lights flicked on, about twenty gnoll guards flooded the room. They took the sharpie from me and collected the other two. I had to remain in the now-featureless production room as the twins were ushered back to their space.
“Bye, Carl!” Dmitri called. “Tell Donut I said hi!”
The gnoll guards surrounded me, saying nothing, grim faced. I did not see any I recognized.
“Come on,” I finally said....
2021-10-31 18:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapters 167 and 168 + Cover art
Note: There were two two-chapter releases today! Make sure you've read 165 and 166 before reading these two!
Chapter 167
Carl: Mordecai, how safe is it to bring him in here?
Mordecai: He can’t teleport you away like Lucia does in a regular saferoom, if that’s what you’re asking. But he can and will likely report everything he sees back to his people. You can’t tie him up. You can’t hire h...
2021-10-18 12:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapters 165 and 166
Important note! I am posting chapters 165-168 right now, but since it's 19K words total, I am splitting this into two updates. I will pin THIS chapter since it's the newest, but chapters 167 and 168 will also be posted soon after these two and will not be pinned.
Also, a few necessary retcons. I had to change some minor timing issues on a few things, especially regarding Carl's sponsorship voting, the timing of Odette airing her interview with Beatrice.
Also, the name of the p...
Chapter 164
Trophy Count: 38
Remaining Hunters: 914
“Poison is good against the mantids,” one audience member had said. “It affects them almost three times as fast as it does to everyone else.”
“That’s no good,” someone else said. “Those guys load up on antidote stuff. I’m pretty sure Vrah has an antidote ring. So you can poison her, but it’ll get cured almost right away.”
“And it can’t be cloud poison. She’s immune against that...
2021-09-30 13:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapters 161, 162, 163
Good news, it's three chapters. 13K words. Bad 2021-09-19 03:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 160
Err, cliffhanger alert. Though the cliffhanger in question won't get resolved next chapter anyway. I don't know what that's called, then. Maybe blue ball alert?
Chapter 160
New Achievement! Premature Questjaculation!
You beat a quest before I could even give it to you! Anticipating what’s going to happen is one thing, but this is just ridiculous. It’s like arriving in your pants before your date can even untie their shoelaces. 2021-09-03 07:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 159
Chapter 159
“Do you think that was her real name? Future Hunter?” Donut asked as we watched the team slowly approach the castle. The castle’s alarm was a constant, pounding ah-luga, ah-luga. Apparently that particular pattern meant attackers at the main gate. All defenders converge at the front.
“Maybe,” I said. “I think all the orcs of the Skull Empire have weird names.”
“It’s just weirdly specific,” Donut said. “I mean, she was a hun...
2021-08-24 03:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapters 157 & 158
Minor cliffhanger warning.
Chapter 157
<Note added by Crawler Drakea. 22nd Edition> The hunters avoid the elites. They are smart enough to know not to fight against something they won’t be allowed to easily defeat. The problem for us is elites are more dangerous than the hunters, and much more numerous. They should always be avoided. However, it appears some of the more powerful hunters go out of their way to hunt these elites anyway, all in a q...
2021-08-12 22:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 156
“Wait until you start to descend, and then close your mouth. Don’t do it too early. These missiles have a limited range.”
We all ducked as a church two blocks over exploded. Smoke billowed, and the air smelled oddly humid. Green-tinted clouds hung in the air. The message: You’ve been poisoned! Poison negated! kept spamming across my interface. Both Donut and I along with all the guards and both of the were-beavers were immune. Mongo was not and had to be put awa...
2021-07-31 11:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155
A bit of a cliffhanger on this one. Fair warning.
Chapter 155
“She always wanted to be a reality television star,” Donut said. “It’s too bad Odette is keeping her all, what did she say? Sequestered? Oh, well. Do you think I was too hard on her? I needed to say it, but I’m starting to think I was too cruel. By the way, before you ask. Yes, you do snore, Carl. Or at least you used to. You don’t anymore with the new beds.”
Moments after the announcement, Odette ...
2021-07-24 21:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153 and Chapter 154
Sorry it's a little late. I wanted to make sure you got two chapters because leaving it at the end of chapter 153 would've been a dick move.
Chapter 153
Two of the were-castors accompanied us on our trek back to Point Mongo. Signet also sent out more bush elves and a few others to spread around us and to seek out any lingering hunters.
The two who accompanied us were the bald one named Clint, and the one with the mullet. His name was Holger. The furry men ...
2021-07-18 00:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 152
Chapter 152
Hunting Trophies Collected: 36
Bravvo’s highest stat was his dexterity. Killing him gave me a single point.
He didn’t have too much good gear on him. Hunters didn’t appear to have bottomless inventories like we did, but instead used the slot system, similar to what most NPCs had, which limited what they could carry. He wore black, leather enchanted boots that protected him from magical bolts, though that’d done him no good. He had thirty ...
2021-07-09 23:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostPlatinum Fan Box poll.
Carl has received a Platinum fan box! What's in it?
The choice made in this poll will have HUGE impact on the direction of this story, just as big as the choice you made when you picked the puppy, so choose wisely.
Chapter 151
Chapter 151
I pulled Donut into the first pub we passed. It looked like a regular, in-theme building from the outside, but inside it was some sandwich place called Eegees. Donut was still trembling with rage and fear. I didn’t bother going all the way into the personal space. The proprietor was a female Bopca named Marta. A pair of older Ursine sat in the corner, both sipping on drinks in Styrofoam cups.
I put Donut down on a booth table. She looked like she was about to start h...
2021-07-01 03:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 150
“This is just not acceptable, Carl. I like my butterfly charm. It makes it so fairies like me, and it is pretty. It’s part of my fit. I don’t want to take it off. I don’t see why I just can’t wear two charms at the same time. Stupid Angel the cocker spaniel had like four or five tags on her collar. She jingled like a set of keys wherever she walked.”
Donut had received the little butterfly charm a long time ago, all the way on the first floor. We’d used it to grea...
2021-06-24 11:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 149
Time Until the Hunt Begins: 3.5 Hours.
Trophy Count: 34
Remaining Hunters: 1013
The number of hunters in the dungeon appeared on the screen, just below the remaining crawler counter, which had lowered to 83,995. The hunter count had ticked up a few times in the past few hours, presumably as a few more last-minute stragglers decided to press their luck.
Katia and the others had left an hour ago while it was still dark. ...
2021-06-16 21:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 148
I had boxes to open and a ton of other stuff to do, but all of that could wait an hour. I sat down on the counter and just rested for a few minutes.
I’d run out of books to read. I needed a new outlet. But more importantly, I needed to rest. Not sleep. Rest. Like, really rest.
Most of the time while I was idle, I was actually writing in my third scratchpad, composing thoughts for the cookbook. I’d figured out how to separate individual scratchpad pages even further and to crea...
2021-06-08 00:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 147
Chapter 147
(Note added by Crawler Everly, 7th Edition)
We ended up hiring five mercenaries. I got four from the Merc guild on the sixth floor of the Desperado Club, and another party member got a healer from Club Vanquisher. It was and continues to be a disaster. My guys cost us 1,500 gold a day each, and I’m not sure if it was worth it. First off, you have to be very careful with them. If they die, you can’t loot their bodies, and our contract stipulates you have to pay ...
2021-05-28 11:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 146
Chapter 146
Hunters Killed: 0
<Note added by Crawler Forkith. 20thEdition>
Based on some of these previous passages and my own observations, I think I’ve put together a good idea about the layout of the Hunting Grounds. They say it’s the same every time, but that is not true. Herot spoke of those tall creatures who bellow into the sky each night, rumbling the world. Azin described the kite birds always flying overhead. Ikicha wrote of the ice and cold ...
2021-05-20 12:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 145
Chapter 145
“I would like some time alone with my client,” my new attorney had said the moment he appeared in the room. I’d just asked for a lawyer, Orren had stopped everything, and a moment later, a new creature appeared, standing next to the liaison.
“Alone?” Orren asked, grunting with amusement. “This is my office. I will turn off the feed to the others, but you’ll have to suffer my presence.”
I was so astonished that asking for an attorney had actually w...
2021-05-15 10:04:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 144. Welcome to the Hunt.
Time to Level Collapse: 17 Days.
Time Until the Hunt Begins: 30 Hours.
Views: 512 sextillion
Followers: 142 Quadrillion
Favorites: 23 Quadrillion
Leaderboard rank: 1
Bounty: 3,000,000 gold
Congrats, Crawler. You have received a Platinum Venison Box.
Welcome, Crawler to the sixth floor. “The Hunting Grounds”
Sponsorship bidding initiated on Crawler #4,122. ...
Book 4 Epilogue + Bonus stuff
(Note this is the second part of the epilogue. It is the same as the Christmas special, so apologies in advance if you've already read it. It's 99% the same, though I did a little editing and added a line.)
There's some additional stuff after this.
Also, I am done with the first chapter of the next floor. Just polishing it up a little and will post soon.
EPILOGUE
“We all want happy endings,” Sadir said to the creature in the cage. It looked back at him ...
Book IV Files
Hello folks. Here are the .epub and the pdf files of the new book. This is uncorrected, pre-edited copies, but it's all nice and prettyfied.
Also, in case you can't see it in the file, here's the cover. Emberus, the god on the cover doesn't 100% match up with what's written. The final version of the text will be changed to match the art.
