Dungeon Crawler Carl

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I mean the fandom doesn't expect a happy ending. I think the last couple of books are gonna be brutal with characters killed off. I don't know if Carl and Donut make it out in the finale. I think Donut dying and Carl living would be a brutal one.

I expect something more bittersweet - like Carl survives but Donut reverts back to a normal cat (perhaps willfully to avoid guilt over atrocities she committed).
 

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my guess is donut dies; carl merges w/ the ai, some primal compatible host for more control, carl reverts the planet while keeping the ai's power to protect earth.
 
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Carl dies, donut rages and kills everyone and everything and then remakes the world in her image.

Gilmore Girls.
 
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Finished the Audio Book

Best part of the book was Hayes portraying the coked up Merc during the one race

The ending was Meh

It doesn't make any sense the AI would allow a pet biscuit to be used on an enemy boss, let alone the Big Bad endgame boss, there would clearly have been a restriction preventing it; and it's weird that the end game boss wouldn't be sapient, end game bosses aren't dumb animals. The ending was phoned in here

Not the best of the series hope floor 12 is crazy, but only
23 crawlers
left, and still
7
floors to go
 
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So

A prior race conquered the galaxy so hard they're like "this is too much, let's all go to sleep", then a future galactic civilization stumbles onto them and starts fucking around and they're now going to find out.

Sounds like a mix of
Mass Effect
,
Hyperion
and
Expanse
. My prediction is it'll end similarly to well, all three of those fictions. Carl blows up everything and turns an interconnected galactic civilization into a bunch of somewhat disconnected civilizations.
 

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It doesn't make any sense the AI would allow a pet biscuit to be used on an enemy boss, let alone the Big Bad endgame boss, there would clearly have been a restriction preventing it; and it's weird that the end game boss wouldn't be sapient, end game bosses aren't dumb animals. The ending was phoned in here
In my headcanon the AI deliberaly sprinkles exploits in like this. One thing I wonder is whether Matt Dinniman engages with the community and reads fan theorycrafting as he publishes chapters, and then uses those theories to resolve problems. Matt claims to not plan out books and just kinda introduce weird abilities and figure out how to solve problems later.
 

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In my headcanon the AI deliberaly sprinkles exploits in like this. One thing I wonder is whether Matt Dinniman engages with the community and reads fan theorycrafting as he publishes chapters, and then uses those theories to resolve problems. Matt claims to not plan out books and just kinda introduce weird abilities and figure out how to solve problems later.

Thank you for writing “canon” and not “cannon.”

No input on the content. Just wanted to highlight a rare correct spelling of the word.
 
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Tuco:

If the AI is on Carl's side, and really wants him to win, sure. Otherwise there's no way these enhanced pet biscuits wouldn't have been referenced in the Cookbook for having game breaking effects. This was for the sake of Carl getting a Centipede Waifu, which just doesn't hit as well as Patrick Warburton scorning a crab until it achieves sexual gratification, so the AI can later claim Carl jerked off a crab. or the line "did you just rip your dick off and throw it at me!?"
 
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