Dungeon Crawler Carl Part I: The Crawl

Dungeon Crawler World: The Set up

Okay, here we go, this is what happened to earth. The syndicate is an intergalactic governing system. They go around, taking over planets using bureaucratic loop holes and striping them of their precious minerals. The Universe is a heavenly capitalist hellscape that is completely controlled by Big corporations and the wealthy. Earth is taken over by the Syndicate and (in a very Hitchhikers Guide moment) is informed since they had not filed the proper paperwork in time, they would be striped of anything valuable and subjected to 1 of 3 different punishments- or outcomes. The Borant Corporation, ran by the Kua Tin- a race of fish people, chose The Crawl. All hope isn’t lost! If a Human were to complete The Crawl and complete 18 levels The Dungeon then they can reclaim all of the resources that are about to be taken away, and that person is now the Regent of Earth.

Carl: Unsuspecting Dope. Pacey Witter fan fic?

Upon many mistakes, like failing to file an appeal to for mineral and elemental rights per the Precious Elemental Reserves Code (subsection 543) Carl is also bad at choosing women. However, he has good taste in cats. He’s also 27-years-old and a marine tech near C-attle who had done some time in the Coast Guard (are you seeing the relation to Pacey Witter? I think ol’ Matty might have been a Dawson’s Creek fan. . . or just a Mighty Ducks fan). He fixed electrical systems on party boats for rich assholes (the parallels just won’t stop!) But he is a good guy so when he broke up with his ex Bea (Beatrice for short, she sounds like a bitch because she is one, and there is drama about their whole relationship but I’ll get into that later) he promised to watch after her prize winning tortoise-shell persian cat named Princess Donut the Queen Anne on Chonk, her friends call her Princess Donut.

It was about this time, January 1st 2:23 AM PT in the year of our lord 201X near C-attle that the Crawl came to earth. They had set up about 50 years prior to gather information and set up themes as you will see later in the series. Everyone who was inside, or had a roof over their head of some kind, is not apart of the crawl (foreshadowing? Never heard of her). Every participant had a choice to do The Crawl, but it’s important to point out Carl was in below 0°F weather. He wasn’t expecting to be outside for a long time, he didn’t dress to survive the unusually cold weather, nor was Princess Donut the Queen Anne of Chonk able to survive those temperatures. Carl had a choice of participate in The Crawl or die.