Everly

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Everly is a former crawler and author of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (5th Edition).

Description

Everly was a crawler thousands of cycles ago and a member of the Desperado Club. Her team included at least three other crawlers, including a healer, plus additional mercenaries.[1]

Her sponsor, Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited, won her trust by sending her an item that ultimately saved her team. The next Benefactor Box they sent her arrived on the Eighth Floor and lead to her death.[2]

Cookbook Entries

On Mercenaries

<Note Added by Crawler Everly, 5th Edition>

We ended up hiring five mercenaries. I got four from the Merc guild on the sixth floor of the Desperado Club, and another party member got a healer from Club Vanquisher. It was and continues to be a disaster. My guys cost us 1,500 gold a day each, and I’m not sure if it was worth it.

First off, you have to be very careful with them. If they die, you can’t loot their bodies, and our contract stipulates you have to pay their daily rate for the rest of the damn floor. It’s outrageous. The healer charges per spell cast.

Second, getting them from one place to the next is difficult if you use a personal space. It’s easy to lose them. If they leave with me, it’s fine. The door opens, and we walk out together. Otherwise, it automatically defaults to the last place they entered, as if they were a regular crawler. So if they’re not right there with you when you exit, they could end up three or four saferooms away. One of our guys left and never came back. He’s still alive, as I can see him in the chat, but the prick is just wandering around some town having a good ‘ol time and I can’t even fire him because you have to bring them back with you to let them go.

Plus their levels mean next to nothing. My level-40 orc is a significantly better fighter than my level-50 dwarf, who is now dead, by the way. Got hit by a chair, of all things, and he died. Twenty-two more days at 1,500 gold a day. The whole thing is a scam.[3]

On Her Death

<Note added by Crawler Everly, Fifth Edition>

My sponsor sent me a box today meant for someone else in my party. And not a crawler, but one of my mercenaries. A spellbook of Hasten Poison. I was quite upset about it. But not five hours later, he used that spell to kill the boss holding the lockbox key, and it saved the lives of us all. I don’t trust my sponsors, but I do trust that they want to keep me alive. As long as I breathe, their insipid advertisements remain on full display, and their investment is intact.[4]

<Note added by Crawler Everly, Fifth Edition>

The moment I hit floor eight, they gave me a great box, as if to make up for the previous one. A tool that allows me to take shortcuts through this maze. I really want to hope. To think that there’s good out there. It’s in times like this that there’s a spark in my chitin, a longing for a future that contains warmth and stars.[4]

<Note added by Crawler Everly, Fifth Edition>

I take it back. I take it all back. My sponsor was deliberately steering me not toward life, but a death that would be watched and remembered and ultimately heartrending and painful. I was a fool. Fuck you, Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited, whatever that means. I hope your company and all your children die in pain.[4]

<Note added by Crawler Drakea. 22nd Edition>

This is Everly’s last entry. She did not mention the manner in which she was set up, which is unfortunate. Please, future author. Be as detailed as you can.[4]

Speculation

  • She mentions feeling a "spark in her chitin," suggesting that she is or chose an arthropod class.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 6)
  2. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 64)
  3. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 6) (pp. 61-62). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 64) (pp. 565-566). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  5. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 64)
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