Carl and his cat Donut pick a race and a class on floor three, then take on a ruined circus, a murder quest and a blast that the show's owners do not want them to survive.
A fast, crude, inventive second book that stays on one floor and lets the rules, the loot and the jokes pile up. It has heavy swearing, gore and some cruel scenes, and it assumes book one. Four and a half out of five for the right reader (draft opinion).
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Dungeon Crawler Carl book 2 recap before book three: Carl and Donut on floor three, the circus, Signet and Grimaldi, the murder quest, the blast and the veto. Full spoilers for Carl's Doomsday Scenario.
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (2021) is the second book of Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, after Dungeon Crawler Carl. Carl, his cat Donut and a baby raptor named Mongo arrive on the third floor of a deadly game show and have to pick a race and class before the next floor opens.
Content note: the book has heavy swearing, gore, dead bodies and crude jokes. Below you’ll find a full chapter-by-chapter recap before book three (full spoilers), with a floor map and the loot, stats and numbers counted from the text.
A fast, crude, inventive second book that stays on one floor and lets the rules, the loot and the jokes pile up. It has heavy swearing, gore and some cruel scenes, and it assumes book one. Four and a half out of five for the right reader (draft opinion). Read it if: you finished dungeon crawler carl and want the game to get bigger; you like game-show rules, loot boxes and stat screens with jokes; you enjoy a self-contained quest plot inside a longer story; heavy swearing and gore are fine for you. Skip it if: you haven't read book one: this one assumes it; graphic violence, dead bodies and cruelty are a hard line; you dislike crude humor and constant profanity; you want a quiet, literary read.
Book two of Dungeon Crawler Carl takes place on floor three. Carl and Donut pick a race and class, finish a quest against a transformed circus, hunt whoever is killing women in a skyfowl town, survive a magical blast, and then learn the show's owner used a veto to cancel their prizes.
Floor three, the Over City, a ruined city with villages, saferooms and a night and day cycle. Carl and Donut leave for floor four early, with two days and eighteen hours left on the eight day timer.
A level sixty elite, half naiad and half high elf, covered in living tattoos. She uses blood magic to summon an ink army and asks Carl to help her storm the circus, where Grimaldi, the man who took her in as a child, has become a giant vine.
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. This recap has not read it. The author's note at the end of this edition of book two says it was set for April 2021.
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