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Personal-space utility · Introduced in Book 3
Cleaner bots
Cleaner bots are flying, disk-shaped machines that vacuum up and dispose of waste in personal spaces. They take time to work rather than cleaning an entire room at once.[1]
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History
Book 3
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
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Book 8
A Parade of Horribles
Rishi’s belongings overwhelm the existing cleaner. Carl gets a second, small white bot from Architect Houston’s operating theater. It moves erratically and beeps shrilly until Mordecai resets it.[2]
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Book 8
A Parade of Horribles
Herot’s standing offer to buy cleaners opens a way to move hidden passengers out of the dungeon. Zhang activates a modified carrier, Suckira swallows it and Mordecai turns off the cleaner before selling it. The occupants travel inside with the machine.
A flower on Li Na’s cactus signals that she has reached the Cabaret. By Chapter 73, Imani says another 227 crawlers have been moved through sold cleaners. The Cabaret is a temporary refuge; the signal does not mean they have reached Earth’s surface.[3]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Chapter 30.
- A Parade of Horribles, Chapters 10–11.
- A Parade of Horribles, Chapters 55, 60–61, 67, 73.