Grievous Harm with a Body: When Hekla's husband didn't survive the first floor, she proceeded to kill the monsters responsible using one of his ribs. The AI was impressed, and rewarded her with a highly magical crossbow. Stated base / Butterfly Charm (+1 INT) / Tiara (+3 INT), Good Rest + shower buffs +10% x2 all stats S: Oh, he's becoming quite a scary and driven dude, isn't he? But he is actually making progress in his plans, so I'm really curious to see after what we've seen from him on this floor, what he is planning on doing on the next. Involuntary Shapeshifting: Mordecai is transformed into a different species on each floor, with no control over the process. On the fifth floor, he actually becomes a different subspecies of his native race, the Skyfowl — which he's happy about, but as he's in a form that can only fly short distances, he's also disappointed. Parental Incest: The only way for Vrah to be cured of her Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea is to pass it on to someone else, but all the other mantids on the floor are dead. So her mother pays an exorbitant amount of money to manifest in the Dungeon as a shapeshifting deity, takes on a male mantis form, and relieves her. Then shapeshifts into a female mantis and starts pumping out baby mantises for revenge on Carl. The Crawlers agree that it's all kinds of messed up.

Metaphorically True: The description of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook isn't exactly lying when it claims that, "Each recipe is accompanied by a hilarious tale by the anonymous author, recounting some of the zany and madcap misadventures they experienced gathering these mouth-watering recipes." It's just that unlike what it implies, the recipes are less about making food, and more about Loophole Abuse— both inside the dungeon and outside. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook warns of the dangers of defeating a Country Boss and collecting the Treasure Map that it leaves behind. Crawlers who have just been through a terrible fight, and have seen their nominal allies trample on each other in their efforts to take the boss down, are suddenly given knowledge of where all the loot is and its quality, which tends to trigger a second bloodbath. Like regular fire ants, but with more enthusiasm. Plus they hate you and want you to die. They're pretty good at making that happen.

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The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: Landing on a "Nothing!" space on either the roulette tables or the Wheel of Fortune game in the Desperado Club's casino results in the hapless wagerer getting literal "nothing" — that is, they get instantly dumped into some kind of hell dimension. Carl doesn't realize this until after he's already placed his bet. His Wheel of Fortune spin comes dangerously close, but ultimately gives him a Scroll of Upgrade instead. Frank lost a hand to a trap, and he was drunk during race selection so even though it could have been healed by taking the right race or class, he was left without it after. The fifth floor's aquatic quadrant is full of sharks. They're really just the "janitor" mobs intended to clean up corpses, but they don't mind getting a head start on any living crawlers they find. From Nobody to Nightmare: From the perspective of the Syndicate and the elites, Carl and Donut are like a specter coming out of the darkness and destroying them. Carl is personally murdering the members of the highest houses and turning their playgrounds into charnel dens. Meanwhile, Donut overthrew a government as a favor to a friend.

Carl gets a bottle of "Pawna's Tears", which will immediately raise any skill of his choice by five levels and is not on a timer. Mordecai immediately advises him to save it for later, once he's gotten a skill to level 15, so he can immediately boost it to 20. Mordecai explains that part of the reason the item is so valuable is that there are quite a few rare and useful skills that don't normally have potions, but Pawna's Tears can boost any skill. Loita: If it were up to me, we'd simply exterminate you and nothing else. You're filthy. You're dry. You're a rot upon the Bloom. Skyfowl didn't have arms. Just feet and wings, like regular eagles. "Can you still, you know, do potion stuff in that body?"We had to step out of the way as a group of tall camels strode by on steampunk-like, metal and spring stilts." Rainbow Pimp Gear: Yes, Carl wears boxer shorts, a trollskin shirt covering some nipple rings, a bandana, and no shoes. At least he's distinctive? Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Carl has a lot of problems with his ex-girlfriend Bea, but since she's dead he doesn't see the need to bring them up. Especially since she was essentially Donut's mother, and Carl really doesn't want to ruin Donut's memory of her by telling her about how she was planning to sell Donut as a breeder and replace her with a kitten. Turns out Donut knew the entire time. Also turns out Bea's not dead.