Tipid
First appears in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Summary
A tall Crest and veteran of an earlier crawl who wrote the fourth edition of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. He survived by leaving his friend behind, worked as a game guide and sanitation worker, and joined the effort to dismantle the crawl. He returns as a Colonel in the Princess Posse for Faction Wars and later guides Carl through the tenth floor.
Book by book 9 events
Before
- In his original crawl Tipid and his friend Horatio find a bone key that lets only one of them leave, and Tipid takes it, leaving Horatio to die.
- He exits the dungeon at the start of the Twelfth Floor and takes a deal to work as a game guide, guildhall instructor and occasional guard.
- After release he has no healthcare or inner-system citizenship, spends his pension on surgery for brain damage and takes sanitation work on a Crest colony.
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- From a refitted freighter in orbit with Rosetta, Tipid watches the end of the Eighth Floor and is cleared with 50,000 former crawlers to join Faction Wars.
This Inevitable Ruin
- He enters the Ninth Floor as a mercenary and is made a Colonel in the Princess Posse, commanding a regiment.
- He coordinates defence of the team's headquarters against a large teleportation raid.
- His arm is nearly blasted off by a Valtay attack during a defence and is healed by Bucket Boy.
A Parade of Horribles
- On the Tenth Floor he guides Carl and Donut to hidden performance guildhalls and explains a route to the Pineapple Cabaret.
- By the Tenth Floor the dungeon has wiped his memory of Faction Wars, and allies catch him up.