Floor 17 · The Backstage Death Maze

Deep Floors · Dungeon Crawler Carl

First appears in This Inevitable Ruin.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Summary spoilers for the whole series

The penultimate floor, officially the Backstage Death Maze: a small hand-built maze of traps ending in a boss said to be close to unkillable. Two forgotten indentured former crawlers rebuild it each season. It conceals the only entrance to the Pineapple Cabaret, a pocket dimension where awakened NPCs and mobs can escape the dungeon. No crawler has yet reached it.

Book by book 3 events

This Inevitable Ruin 1 event, spoilers
  1. After Scolopendra wakes early, the system AI sends the Eighteenth Floor's tourists toward the Sixteenth Floor and warns that they must cross the Seventeenth, which is fully built and running. source
A Parade of Horribles 2 events, spoilers
  1. During Faction Wars the war mage Akuma tells Carl what the Seventeenth Floor is really for; Herot and Menerva built it many seasons ago and were forgotten. source
  2. Menerva is stationed backstage on the floor, overseeing NPCs who build the maze and train for the unlikely arrival of crawlers. source

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