Who’s New In Book Six
This is the new characters guide for The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman, book six of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It is light on spoilers. I tell you who each person is when you meet them, with chapter numbers, and I leave out who dies and how the book ends. Returning favorites like Donut, Katia and Mordecai are not new, so they are not in this list. If you want the full plot, the recap is a separate video.
The eighth floor is a copy of Earth in December, set in Cuba, so most of the new faces are crawlers, gods and monsters Carl runs into around Havana.
Sister Ines, Paz And Anton
The first crawlers Carl meets on this floor are a squad of three, in chapter five. They all came into the dungeon together.
Sister Ines Quiteria is a cat girl, level forty-seven, with the class Poet Laureate. She carries a glowing trident and wears a cloak and bracers. She worships no god. Donut takes one look and calls her a Havana brown, and does not get over it.
Paz Lo is a level forty-five human Santero in shining plate armor with platform boots, and a backwards baseball cap. Anton Lopez is a level forty-seven human Fugitive, covered in prison tattoos, with a crossbow and two player killer skulls. Both worship the god Ogun. Anton is the angry one. He has heard that Carl was with Prepotente, and he is ready to fight about it.
Geraldo And The Monk Seals
Next, the seals. In chapter six, a quest called The Chowder War sets the monk seals against the red land crabs. The monk seals are level seventy sentries, and they will fight you.
Geraldo is the one who becomes Carl’s first squad member in chapter seven. He is a Monk Seal Picket Sentry, level seventy, and he talks in a casual, street way, with a lot of yo and man. In this book, a monster you flag becomes a card, so Geraldo is both a character and a piece of Carl’s deck.
Raul The Ninja Crab
Raul is a Red Maníseros Land Crab, a Sun-Kissed Cloud Rank Warrior, level seventy. He shows up in chapter twenty-four, and Donut reads his stats from a safe distance. His Intelligence is a hundred fifty, his Dexterity is seventy-five, and his claw crushes with three times his Strength.
He is a ninja crab obsessed with cultivating chi. He mutters to himself about being pure, and about never kowtowing. Carl builds a crab trap to catch him. He is silly, loud and very serious about himself, and he is one of the funniest additions to the deck.
Shi Maria, The Bedlam Bride
The title monster. A lore book in chapter eight lists twenty names for her, including The Screamer, The Reviled and The Bedlam Bride, and Donut picks the last one as the best. Carl meets her for real in chapter twenty-six.
Shi Maria is a giant spider with a human face, long segmented legs and a fifth eye in the middle of her forehead. If that eye opens, people go blind or insane. She talks in a calm, silky whisper, and she says she needs to reach the city of Larracos to find her husband and prove she did not kill him. Carl does not trust her. She does not trust him either. I will leave it there.
Asojano, Lord Of Smallpox
Asojano is a level one hundred thirty city boss, in the ghost town Pueblo de los Olvidados, and he first shows up at the end of chapter ten and in chapter eleven. He is an orisha, a former god who faded away, and a spirit you cannot touch. He is also called the Lord of Smallpox, and the book says he kills and heals.
He wears a reed hat, which makes it hard for him to see where he is going, so he bumps into things. Asojano asks the Santero, Paz, for help freeing the spirits his presence has plagued. He is formal, proud and furious when Carl speaks his name. Donut is not impressed.
Rosetta Thagra And Harbinger
In chapter twelve, Carl and Donut go on a talk show called Shadow Boxer. Its host is Rosetta Thagra. She is a former crawler and game guide, a Crest, which is a human race with no eyebrows, and she looks about twenty with a strange yellow tuft of hair. She is released from her contract only recently. Carl suspects she wrote some notes in the cookbook. She is polite and nervous, and her eyes keep going to the guest in the shadows.
That guest is Harbinger, a giant caprid liaison with a line of red eyes. His translation keeps glitching, so he sounds like backwards Latin. Quasar, Carl’s attorney, objects loudly, because Harbinger has been sanctioned before for trying to get Carl killed.
Pater Coal And Damascus Steel
Two Havana locals. Pater Coal appears in chapter eighteen. He is a Hobbledehoy, a tiny High Cleric Supreme of Emberus, level one hundred one, who works inside Club Vanquisher, the temple club. Carl worships Emberus too, so Coal is a useful friend, for a price.
Damascus Steel turns up in chapter twenty-three. He is a level seventy-five ifrit, and a stripper, guarding the door of a very particular club. He cares a lot about his reputation, and Donut is a fan.
Gods On Floor Eight
Floor eight brings the gods into the open. In chapter fifteen and sixteen, Ogun appears, the god of blacksmithery and armor, level two hundred fifty. He is calm and polite, with a hint of a Caribbean accent. He is not nice.
Eileithyia appears right after, and her sponsor is Huanxin Jinx, a rich alien who has her own plans and who matters a lot to Odette and Mordecai. She hands Carl a quest to kill spiders. There is more to it than that. And in chapter fifty-eight, a demon prince named Amayon enters the story. I won’t tell you why.
Astrid And The Guild Of Suffering
One more. Astrid is a sprite, a fairy, who runs the Guild of Suffering in the Desperado Club, a hidden guild inside a nightclub. She first appears in chapter nineteen, as a job that Carl has heard about but cannot say out loud. She is small, fast and well protected by the guild and the club itself. How a crawler gets near her is the problem Carl has to solve.
Which Character Matters Most?
If I had to pick the three that carry the book, I would say Sister Ines, because she pushes Carl harder than any monster. Shi Maria, because she is the title, and Rosetta, because of what she pokes in Carl’s past. That is my opinion, and you may pick differently.
One more thing. Many of the best new faces here are cards in Carl’s deck by the end of the first third. That is the trick of floor eight: the people you meet may also become the team you fight with.
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