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The following is a list of chapter summaries in Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Book).
Book 3 - Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| 1 - Red Line to station 83 | The party enter The Iron Tangle, gaining the "I'm on a train Achievement" and a hat. Donut selects Football Hooligan Class and Mordecai notes she can keep class skills. The train fills with Drek and Psycho Stickers as the party kill Jikininki to hide in the Janitor's car. Carl uses Protective Shell Spell to good effect. |
| 2 - Transfer station 83 safehouse | Carl and Donut's They like me! They really like me! Achievement grants fan boxes. Carl gets a necklace with a skill, and a spell tome, for defeating Quill. Donut gets a Tiara and a spell. Both, and Katia, get a special achievement giving an odd box with personal space coupons that get them a lvl.5 space with Beds, Shower, Crafting Studio, and Training Room. |
| 3 - Royal Palace of Princess Donut | Mordecai explains spaces while Donut customises. Cat tree installed, Carl, Donut and Mongo sleep. Two hours later, on the re-cap, we see Elle, Team Li Na, Ifechi, Florin, Miriam, Prepotente, Hekla, and Lucia. Afterwards Carl discovers a last message from Brandon. Carl trains Bare Knuckles. |
| 4 - Yellow Line from station 83 | Carl places his Alchemy, Sapper's, and Engineering tables in the crafting studio and gets an Achievement for trying out his tools. Carl trades some books with Limp Richard before the party leave the station to kill Cave Mudge Bonkers and Shock Chompers on the yellow line. |
| 5 - Yellow Line to station 116 | At the next station Pollyslogs die horribly to Carl's fortifications. The party find Vernon who tells them about the transit hub at 433, the end of the line at 435 and how the train resets while the staff end up back at the yard. Carl and Donut get 'Reward' cases from the porter. Carl's contains a potion. Donut's contains Ants. |
| 6 - Banshee Station | Escaping onto station 116, the party discuss Vernon's fake wife, and Zev says Katia is boring. They clear the station of Red Cornets, realising how mobs are collecting drugs and teleporting back. Carl explodes some Automatons for scrap, and chats with Bautista. |
| 7 - Transfer station 131 safehouse | Mongo reaches full size and gets a new saddle. Mordecai hands over some usefull potions and items. Carl's fan box triggers the Prize Carousel, introducing Chaco and putting Mordecai in a 7 day time-out. Carl picks a book as his prize. |
| 8 - Desperado Club | The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook is introdued and the sponsor tab unlocks. Carl and Donut visit the Desperado, hire Bomo and The Sledge, and meet up with Elle and Imani. Donut gets a dirty Shirley, in a bowl, with extra cherries, then kills a crawler in self defence. |
| 9 - Desperado Club | Elle kills the other attacker before Astrid arrives to appologise. After sharing some info on the floor and doing some shopping, Carl plays the wheel of fortune at the casino. Just avoiding "Nothing!", Carl gets an upgrade to his toe ring. |
| 10 - Ochre line Station 149 | Katia has been experimenting with her Makeup Table. The team train, Donut rides Mongo, and Carl works with his Demolition Workshop. They travel to an Ochre line station and test out Carl's Jelly Bombs. Elle informs that each 5th station has a Krakaren Clone (Fourth Floor) Boss. |
| 11 - Ochre line Station 149 | Carl gets an achievement for derailing a train and learns from the engineer, Gore-Gore, 2 possible routes for crawlers to return to the stairwell stations. Gore-Gore attacks the party and a summoning of Grull is barely avoided. Carl is sponsored by Valtay. |
| 12 - Dismemberment Limited | In the aftermath Donut is sponsored by Princess D’nadia and Katia by Princess Formidable. Imani fills in the gaps on the Krakaren storyline and the party get on the Dismemberment Limited. Donut uses Hole to decapitate the war mage Dismember. |
| 13 - Mauve Line Station 281 safehouse | Zev contacts the party about the Planet Beautiful show. Carl upgrades his Sapper's table and gets an Armorer's Table, which he uses to build an ugly ass backpack for Katia. The recap shows Quan wrecking trains. Carl gets a neural enhancer for portal analysis from Valtay. |
| 14 - The Nightmare Express from 283 | A crawler info sharing network starts with several fist bumps. Going down the tunnel to hit the front of the Nightmare Express at speed, Carl uses protective shell and Donut puddle jumps them away. Carl is hit by the speeding train, finds his way into the cab to meet Fire Brandy, and gets an achievement with the best reward. |
| 15 - Abyss Station 436 | At the switching station, Carl finds a way to the trainyard via 'Station Repair' portal. Analysing portals in the abyss he figures the souvenir hats allow teleport to the trainyard at the end of the line. Back at 283, Donut has gained an ability and some sunglasses. Quan's rampage has left Imani's team, and many others, stranded. |
| 16 - Back to 436 | Elle and Imani find a secret passage and Bautista approaches terminus station 433. The party fight Babababoons in stage 2 of the DTs. Taking the nightmare back to the Abyss switching station, Carl confirms the 'Station Repair' portal goes to the trainyard, while Katia and Donut get to know Fire Brandy. |
| 17 - Trainyard E to Station 24 | The trainyard is filled with Festering Ghouls, monsters who didn't survive the DTs. Widget tells the party about the Homeward Bound line, before being killed by the ghouls, now breaking onto the coloured lines. Escaping on the staff line, they rescue Madison, who tells them that the terminus stations are mimics. |
| 18 - Stations 24 to 60 | Bautista's group is losing to a mimic at 434. Carl tells him about the Kravyad at 435. Elle and Imani say robots are sending ghouls to the yards via minecart. At 24 Carl finds stairs and one of the Escape Velocity lines. Katia shows him the PVP Coupons and he recalls Bea wanting to sell Donut. They leave Madison at 60, where there is no NPC home. |
| 19 - Back to 41 | They head back to 41 for a rest. Meadow Lark have reached Trainyard D and Bautista has reached 435. At the Desperado club, Carl meets Frank Q for the last time. He wants revenge on Carl by giving him a gift. Carl understands what happened to Yvette, and how dangerous Maggie My is. |
| 20 - "Planet Beautiful" | According to Mexx-6000, the trailer for "Planet Beautiful", on the ocean floor, is in the main AI zone. This allows Carl to steal everything that isn't nailed down. On the show, Donut discusses Cocker Spaniels. Meanwhile, Chris kills Frank, and Bautista's group fail with the Kravyad and start walking to the abyss. |
| 21 - Personal space and back to 60 | Hekla and team have reached the party and entered the saferoom. They ask Carl's help saving 1000 crawlers, including Li Jun's team, stranded at 101 on the Vermillion line. A train is ready at stop 60 and Katia plans to use her body as a plow. Carl has a bad feeling about Eva. Carl is again struck by the unfair treatment of NPCs. |
| 22 - Vermillion line to 101 | During the journey to 101, team Elle, tell Carl the festering ghouls are forming province bosses at 48 while Wrath Ghouls amass at 36. As they plow through 72, Carl sees that Blister Ghouls are spawning there. Silfa is hesitant to heal Katia so Carl and Donut keep her alive until they reach 101. Donut attacks Hekla after having Carl pulls her bolts from Katia. |
| 23 - Vermillion line station 101 | Eva and the Daughters attack Carl while Silfa heals Hekla. Hekla and Carl stop the fighting. Katia, scared and confused, doesn't understand what is happening but Eva keeps provoking her until she lashes out with her Rush Skill. Hekla gets splattered against the wall. |
| 24 - Vermillion line back toward to 75 | Donut casts her Second Chance Spell on Hekla and they get the cab door closed. Carl puts the train in reverse as stage 3 DT mobs attack the train. Finding Silfa, Carl works out Hekla's plan to recruit Donut. Katia reveals that she has Hekla's crossbow. Carl tells Li Jun to take the train to 36 and meet up with Imani for a last stand. Carl's team will detatch at 75 to rescue Bautista. |
| 25 - Vermillion line station 75 | Carl gathers hats and line keys from survivors and the party explore station 75. They enter the personal space in "The Downward Dog". Katia gains a Desperado Pass Tattoo, the Find Crawler Skill, 500k gold, and a cool belt. she is now second only to Quan in level, and is in the top 10. Zev lets the team know that Loita will be taking over. |
| 26 - Vermillion line station 75 | The party meet Growler Gary and form a plan to rescue Bautista's group and the other 2 groups stranded at the abyss. The plan requires 2 interdiction carts per line, the first to clear debris and mobs into the abyss, and the second to send the crawlers to the trainyards. Each cart needs 2 gnoll left hands to operate. Poor Growler Gary. |
| 27 - Vermillion line station 75 | After sending the rescue interdiction carts, Carl sends a train full of explosives down the Vermillion line, blocking the tunnel before 36. A group attempting to disable the generator at 72 instead die after detonating the generator's soul crystal. Creatures in stage 3 DTs start to explode spawning thousands of fast growning Krakaren Crotch Dumplings. |
| 28 - Mindaro line to the Abyss | After the initial rescue partially fails, the party head to the abyss to rescue Bautista. On the way they accidentaly teleport a station Mimic to yard E. At the abyss they give out hats to allow 600 crawlers to get to yard H. Meanwhile Elle determines that the exploded station 72 is now a safe exit point. |
| 29 - Zomp line to station 59 | Bautista tells Carl about his Jaxbrin babies and the party travel to a safe room at 59. Katia gets a Shield and Baton from a fan box, and a Crossbow Bolt from Princess Formidable. Mordecai re-appears and Katia explodes. |
| 30 - Saferoom at station 59 | The team purchase a Cleaner Bot and catch Mordecai up. They discuss the Ring of Divine Suffering and we learn more about the universe, the Apothecary, and the Plenty. Katia works out the true shape of the tangle. |
| 31 - Station 36 | Carl realizes that the stairwell stations are about to connect with the other half of the tangle. As the floor timer ticks to 1 day all hell breaks with Krakaren flooding the stairwell stations. Despire Carl's accurate warnings things look dire for the surviving crawlers. Donut meets Tserendolgor. |
| 32 - To Trainyard E | A plan is hatched to blow every ghoul generator and the party meet Prepotente and Miriam Dom, attempting the same plan on their side of the tangle. Having sent a province boss to the Abyss, Carl and Ji Jun's teams head to the trainyard where they need to deal with mantaurs and a mimic. A plan involving god summoning goes wrong. |
| 33 - Trainyard E | Carl vs Mimic Rex vs War God Grull (driven by the Maestro)! Grull kills the Mimic, Carl gets stepped on, and his friends come to the rescue. Grull is sent to the Abyss. |
| 34 - Stairwells | Carl and Donut bid Firebrandy and Tizquick farewell as the Nightmare takes its final trip. As planned, all the ghoul generators blow, saving the remaining crawlers. Agatha makes another brief appearance and Carl promises to break them all. |
| Epilogue | Before Odette's show, Loita informs the team of Zev's 'Re-education'. On the show Carl calls out Odette over Hekla and Loita censors a warning about Chris. Donut Chooses a sector for the Fifth Floor. |