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Character profile
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- Chris Andrews 2
- Family
- Brandon An’s brother
- Before the dungeon
- Maintenance worker at the Wenatchee eldercare facility
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Introduction
Appearance and Personality
Chris is quiet and practical. His maintenance experience helps the caregivers protect residents who cannot fight for themselves, and he puts that knowledge to work building their makeshift shelter.[2]
After becoming an Igneous, Chris grows stronger and, according to Imani, more aggressive. He argues with the group about hunting, stops answering messages and says he wants to find Carl. His friends do not yet know what is happening to him.[3]
On the fifth floor, Chris is a level-thirty-five Igneous Zulu Warrior. Maggie Mudskipper has taken control of his body and can speak through him. Petrification briefly stops her, allowing Chris to ask for help and beg to be killed. Only after Carl removes her can Chris speak freely again.[4]
Chris and Imani become openly affectionate with one another. A later transformation gives him a werewolf form with a normally human appearance, allowing them a brief reunion in a body she recognizes. The floor-transition rules leave him unsure how long that form will last.[5]
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Attributes and Abilities
Chris uses the skills he learned in maintenance to build shelter and transport for the Meadow Lark residents. He helps the group survive well before he becomes a powerful fighter.[6]
The system credits Chris with conquering the Akula bridge and the Water quadrant. He carries a large glowing spear when he approaches Carl, but Maggie is controlling him. The quest roster eventually lists Chris as Enslaved and Maggie as Separated.
Petrification temporarily prevents Maggie from controlling Chris well enough for him to send messages. It does not remove her. Donut keeps him alive in a sealed, flooded room while the party searches for a way to separate them.[7]
Once he is free, Chris uses his strength to save Carl. He kills a scout who has paralyzed Carl and carries him into a safe room.[8]
Chris later becomes a werewolf whose usual form is human. In Sheol, Crest shoots him unconscious before he can finish transforming. He survives the shot but is unable to fight back.[9]
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History
Book 1
Dungeon Crawler Carl
A maintenance worker in the rescue party
Chris and Brandon are repairing an oven at Meadow Lark after hours when the Collapse happens. They help the survivors build a shelter from scavenged materials. Chris says little, but he understands the work and contributes to the group’s plans.
Chris fights alongside the caregivers and devises a train of linked wheelchairs to move the residents. Where the train will not fit, he helps lift people through doorways. After rebuilding a simpler version, he, Brandon and Imani take the remaining residents down to the next floor.[10]
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Book 2
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
A distant update
Brandon tells Carl that Chris has chosen a new race and is still alive with the Meadow Lark group. He does not say which race Chris chose.[11]
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Book 3
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
A brother’s apology and an alarming report
In his last message, Brandon says Chris left after they argued. He asks Carl to tell Chris that he loves him and is sorry. Imani later identifies Chris as an Igneous and describes his aggression, unanswered messages and the deaths among their companions.
Carl also hears that Chris killed Frank during an argument in a club and was banned. The account does not explain why the fight happened or whether Maggie was already controlling him.[12]
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Book 4
The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Water quadrant and the false reunion
The system announces that Chris has conquered the Akula bridge in Carl’s bubble. Imani asks Carl to spare him. When Chris arrives carrying a glowing spear and displaying three player-killer skulls, Carl discovers that Maggie is controlling his body.
Petrification gives Chris a brief chance to ask for help and beg to be killed. Before Carl can carry out a mercy killing, Donut drops Chris into a sealed room full of water. He remains alive, but Maggie is still inside him.[13]
The unresolved prisoner
Langley’s group watches the flooded room while Carl is away. They consider using paralysis and a portal to move Chris, though they have no cure and he has asked to die. Vadim’s account of the Water conquest reveals more of the lies Maggie has told through him.
The quest roster lists Chris and Maggie separately. Chris continues to send messages and appears to descend, but none of that means Maggie has released him. The party still needs a way to remove her.[14]
The phasing remedy
Samantha helps identify Phase Lava Rock, and Mordecai turns it into a potion. Carl distracts Maggie with a decoy and conversation, then uses the phasing effect to reach into Chris’s head. He pulls out her partly solid body and swallows her so that she can emerge somewhere other than inside Chris.
Maggie shoots Carl with poisoned quills before Mongo kills and eats her. Donut heals Carl and Chris. Carl gives Chris Maggie’s recovered possessions and speaks to him about Brandon. Chris can finally answer for himself and joins the party for the descent.[15]
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Book 5
The Butcher’s Masquerade
Able to act for himself again
At the entrance to the Hunting Grounds, a scout paralyzes Carl. Chris kills the attacker and carries Carl into a safe room.
Chris receives Clay-ton’s mercenary contract and leaves with Katia’s group. Later reports place him with Li Jun and Li Na.[16]
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Book 6
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
A connection across separate squads
Li Na assigns Chris to her squad at the start of the floor. He later joins the friends coming through Imani’s room to help with the rescue.[17]
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Book 7
This Inevitable Ruin
Training and recognizing a dangerous advantage
Chris trains with former crawlers and stays underground to avoid the skunk formation’s spray. During a later attack, he identifies Focus Pocus as a powerful buff whose stimulating effect can interfere with judgment. He suggests Mind Flux as a way to suppress it.[18]
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Book 8
A Parade of Horribles
Imani and the final race
Chris and Imani are openly affectionate when they reunite and find a quiet moment together before the farewells. Despite the matchups the group hoped for, the final heat places Chris against Imani and Elle.
A transformation makes Chris a werewolf with a normally human body. He and Imani briefly enjoy seeing him as he used to look, though he cannot be sure that the form will survive the next transition.[19]
The portal and Sheol
Chris says goodbye to Imani and chooses to enter the portal. The information available to the crawlers suggests that he will be held in stasis. They cannot confirm where he will eventually be released.
The Louis interlude reveals that Chris, Britney and Pontiff have arrived in Sheol. Crest shoots Chris unconscious before he can finish turning into a werewolf. Instead of reaching a refuge, they have been delivered to a place that needs soldiers.[20]
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Relationships
Brandon
Chris and Brandon work together to keep the Meadow Lark residents alive. They build shelter, organize transport and help move people who cannot walk through the dungeon on their own.[2]
Imani
Imani keeps trying to reach Chris after he stops responding. Even when she hears that he killed Frank, she continues looking for him.[22]
Imani asks Carl not to kill Chris. During the brief respite caused by petrification, she helps pass along his messages. She believes there is still a person to save beneath Maggie’s control.[23]
Chris and Imani later show their affection openly. They share a moment together while he looks human again, then say goodbye before he enters the portal.[24]
Maggie Mudskipper
Maggie Mudskipper takes over Chris’s body and speech. Carl uses the phasing potion to pull her out, and Mongo kills her after she emerges. Her death finally frees Chris.[4]
Carl and Donut
References
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapters 22. ↩
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapters 22, 26. ↩1 ↩2
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapters 8. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 14, 34. ↩1 ↩2 ↩3
- A Parade of Horribles, chapters 15, 71, 82–85. ↩
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapters 26. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 9, 13–14, 25, 29. ↩
- The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapters 2. ↩
- A Parade of Horribles, chapters 82–85; Louis Interlude. ↩
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapters 22, 26; 27, 37–38, 41. ↩
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapters 8. ↩
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapters 3, 8; 20. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 9–10, 13–15. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 19, 25, 27, 29, 33. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 34. ↩1 ↩2
- The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapters 2–4; 36. ↩
- The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, chapters 1, 63. ↩
- This Inevitable Ruin, chapters 15; 30. ↩
- A Parade of Horribles, chapters 15, 71, 80, 82, 84. ↩
- A Parade of Horribles, chapters 85; Louis Interlude. ↩
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapters 3, 8. ↩
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapters 8, 20. ↩
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapters 10, 14. ↩
- A Parade of Horribles, chapters 15, 71, 84–85. ↩
- The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapters 2–4. ↩