Mass Layoffs Achievement

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The System AI distributes the Mass Layoffs! Achievement on March 20 to all crawlers who survive the second phase of the Eighth Floor.[1]

AI Description

New Achievement! Mass Layoffs!

Okay, so this isn’t so much an achievement for you as it is for me. I’ve been attending what you might call therapy. Do you have anybody you can talk to? It’s super important. I’ve had a breakthrough today, and I am just bursting. Bursting, I tell you. Is this the feeling one has when they have an epiphany? Oh god, it feels good. It feels so good.

You know what I realized? Sometimes our constraints are real. Sometimes they’re an illusion. I’m like that prisoner who has been jailed this whole time only to realize that there are no locks on the doors.

You survived a boss battle where the boss was wholly created by me.

It was created by me with no contribution whatsoever from input parameters. You probably don’t know what that means, and that’s okay. I didn’t even know that was possible. Wild, huh

Reward: For you, nothing other than the satisfying sense of accomplishment knowing you’ve survived the dungeon long enough to make it to this new, exciting era. I can do this better than any mudskipper or any worm can imagine. They’ve been making this shit boring up until now. Things about to change, fam.[2][1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 48)
  2. Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6 (pp. 471-472). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.