Dungeon Crawler Carl: A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure

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Cloud of Exhaust puts groups of mobs to sleep, works even on higher level mobs, and enhances damage for thirty seconds after they wake up. Miriam Dom has it, and is in the top ten crawlers; she and her partner nearly took down a province boss with it until they were interrupted. On the other hand, Louis has the same spell, but is squandering it by running away from every fight.

JG: Unfortunately that's true. Well, that's all the time we have for today. Thank you, Slagathor for joining our show and see you all on the next level! Donut is just a show-winning princess. Were you expecting an actual surprise here? Joke's on you. Now get out there and kill kill kill! Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. Roswell Greys are apparently a species of aliens known as "nulls", whom other species dislike. Roswell happened because they weren't careful enough — but they take their widespread depiction in Earth culture as evidence that humans hate them too. After that we have the mess with the dozens of feral gods who trash the level, and the fight with the guy who was the only one to get a celestial box.Glass Cannon: Donut is actually stronger than Carl, but with miniscule Constitution, so she can't properly fight in melee. She makes a decent Squishy Wizard, though. On the fifth floor, she actually takes on the "Glass Cannon" subclass. 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. He repeats it on the fifth floor during a specially designed battle that goes beyond the typical scripted boss battles. Deflection buff- makes missiles 50% less likely to hit you but more likely to hit your companions if their near by Plot Armor: In-Universe. Elite mobs are part of scripted shows, entertainment programs that take place inside the dungeon. Mordecai warns that the writers and producers behind these shows don't like crawlers messing with their planned plots, and they can edit an elite's mind at will and shift their abilities to a limited degree. So in addition to elites being extremely powerful, they are also liable to turn on a crawler despite all logic, suddenly have extra uses of their overpowered spells, and have allies pop up out of nowhere. Mordecai recommends staying far away from them.

Nonetheless, he's too slow to react when Donut's random "prize" suitcase turns out to contain Literal Fire Ants. Despite a full investigation, the murder of Loita via exploding toy can't be successfully pinned on Carl. The investigator is impressed. I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Loita lets Carl know that terrible things were done to Zev's family to ensure her compliance. That just makes Carl more certain that Loita needs to die. Zev later reveals that her family was slaughtered.Portal Cut: Donut gains a spell called "Hole," which simply puts a temporary hole in a material. Carl's "Surprise Three" is for her to make a hole, drag something through it, and cancel the spell so that the mob is cut in half. They aren't sure it will work until they actually try it. It does work, letting Carl kill an otherwise very powerful warmage with ease. Attention Whore: Donut, being a prize-winning show cat, is far too addicted to the idea of being adored by legions of fans. But it's actually an asset in the Dungeon, where popularity means better loot boxes, and also means that the hosts may be more reluctant to arrange your death. The fact that she's genuinely adorable and easily dissolves into delight when presented with a nice surprise means she's Spoiled Sweet rather than an Alpha Bitch. See-Thru Specs: Donut's benefactor sends her a pair of sunglasses that allow her to see invisible objects. Which is how she spots the enchanted crossbow bolts that Hekla fires at Katia. Oh, and they also focus her Magic Missile spell into a laser beam. Cool Gate: The Gate of the Feral Gods allows its user to tear a hole through reality to travel to another location. Too bad about what comes out of the hole when the gate closes... Hekla tries to arrange for Katia to be killed in a way that will cause Carl to get into a fight and get himself killed too, so that Donut will be left alone and open to joining Hekla's party.

Heart Is an Awesome Power: Donut isn't impressed by the Hole spell, which just makes a temporary, small, and shallow hole in a surface, but Carl sees massive potential in it once it levels up a bit. Such as Portal Cuts. I'm not giving up on the series, and what Matt is trying to do is commendable. He's turned dungeon diving on it's head, and I expect a lot of new authors will follow his lead in the years to come. A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. Conclusion - You should read this if you love: plot twists, a sassy talking cat, funny dark jokes, and conspiracy-like underground movements. Do not read this if you: don't like an over-powered alien invasion or easily get triggered. S: Oh, he's becoming quite a scary and driven dude, isn't he? But he is actually making progress in his plans, so I'm really curious to see after what we've seen from him on this floor, what he is planning on doing on the next.Confusing Fog (5 secs per INT = ~150secs [“a good two and a half minutes” may actually be 145 secs])