Floor 10 · Don't Come In Last

Middle Floors · Dungeon Crawler Carl

First appears in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Summary spoilers for the whole series

Don't Come In Last, the tenth floor, is a seven-heat vehicle race. Teams of crawlers drive from hangar garages through tracks including a jungle, a water park and a shrunken apartment building, and meet at shared pit stops. The level timer is suspended. There is no stairwell: the roof of the final building holds portals to the eleventh floor. Exit deals are offered here.

Book by book 13 events

This Inevitable Ruin 1 event, spoilers
  1. Crawlers who reach the Tenth Floor are offered exit deals; a record number take one and just over five thousand go on. source
A Parade of Horribles 12 events, spoilers
  1. Carl and Donut arrive on the tenth floor straight from Faction Wars, race a food truck from their own garage, and the level timer is suspended. source
  2. Hungry Eyes Vendor Village serves as the first pit-stop hub, with safe-room and poisoning protections switched off. source
  3. The war mage Akuma tells the team of the Pineapple Cabaret, a seventeenth floor pocket dimension where crawlers could be counted as lost rather than killed. source
  4. Carl's team kills the cannibal chieftain Great Rusty on the jungle track, triggering the Pasty Inferno quest. source
  5. Dong Quixote and Corcunda die charging the war god Grull, clearing the way for the team. source
  6. The sixth and seventh heats move into the L'Engle Building, and the team begins smuggling volunteers into the Pineapple Cabaret. source
  7. The sixth heat's apartments are revealed to be models of tragic alternate outcomes of the crawlers' lives on Earth. source
  8. A game error cancels the planned gate boss and the invulnerable Sacred Feaster Scarab Beetles attack the racers instead. source
  9. An Outreach Guild opens in Hungry Eyes between the sixth and seventh heats and many crawlers take exit deals. source
  10. During the final heat Scolopendra begins the Nine-Tier Attack. source
  11. Carl and Donut win the final heat by blasting a path up through the building to the rooftop portals to the eleventh floor. source
  12. Only 23 crawlers remain in the dungeon after the tenth floor. source
Connections spoilers

Located in

Hungry Eyes Village, Desperado Club, Club Vanquisher

Travels to

Floor 9 · Faction Wars, Floor 11 · A Parade of Horribles, Carl, Princess Donut, Li Na, Prepotente, Garret

Home of

Hungry Eyes Village

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