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There’s honor in giving someone a meal. But I wish to cook a feast for the whole galaxy. I wish for them all to choke on our pain.[1]
Milk is a former crawler and the author of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Item) (6th Edition).
Description
Milk is from a clawed race with annual migration patterns. She lived on an island with her family before entering the Dungeon.[2][3][4] Carl described her in dungeon race as a half frog - half bat hybrid.
In the Cookbook, Milk mostly wrote about portals, mapmaking, and various ink recipes (at least one of which uses the toraline).[2] Priestly notes that Milk drew a map of the Ninth Floor city, Larracos, which is still accurate at the time of the 14th edition.[5] Several of her entries were rants about the crawl; Rosetta responds to one, agreeing, in the 9th Edition.[2]
During her time in the Dungeon, she earned at least one player killer skull.
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Story
Book 6
While Carl is on the show Shadow Boxer, hosted by another former author Rosetta Thagra, Rosetta tries to hint to Carl about "potatoes" and "milk". This is in reference to the Toraline and the author Milk, but Carl can't find a related entry in the Cookbook. [2]
Book 7
In a flashback to Floor 5, Miriam Dom, Prepotente and Bianca encounter Milk in a hidden section of Club Vanquisher. Milk has been stuck as guildmaster of two hidden guilds (the Calligraphy Guild and the Cartography Guild) for over 50 seasons, and seems to have lost hope. She cleverly prompts the crawlers to "extort" information from her so that they can escape the club, but she remains behind. Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin
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Later, after Carl destroys the Club, Prepotente guides the team away. He meets Milk and has a very emotional reaction. They "kidnap" her and get her out. Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 55)
“Milk?” I asked. And even though she didn’t know who I was before this, in that moment, she did. I could see it. I could feel it. This was my sister, and I was her brother, and we now both knew it.
Milk gives Carl the Adept's Fountain Pen. Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 75)
Cookbook Entries
Personal Entries
<Note added by Crawler Milk. 6th Edition>
I used to make a stew for my whole family. The recipe in itself wasn’t anything special. Rance meat, bone broth, a wild grass that would grow on the leeward side of our island. We’d pray over the cauldron while it simmered. The stew, when prepared properly, would not only be delicious. It would awaken the old knowledge within the minds of the young. We’re all imprinted with the route of the yearly migration, but something in the traditional meal quickens that knowledge. In sharing this meal with our young, we’re not only bonding with one another. We’re ensuring their survival should we fall. I can’t stop thinking about it. These aliens took us before I could make this year’s stew. The youngest amongst us are not here. How are they faring out there, all alone? How can they possibly survive without our guidance? Who will show them the way?[6]
<Note added by Crawler Milk. 6th Edition>
I am writing the sixth edition of this book. I am putting as much information as I can in here. One day you will find these words, and I pray that they feed you, like the stew I used to serve to our little ones. But is it enough to give this information to just one person? There’s honor in giving someone a meal. But I wish to cook a feast for the whole galaxy. I wish for them all to choke on our pain.[1]
<Note added by Crawler Milk, 6th Edition>
Holy underworlds on high. That last fight... I can’t even describe it. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck.[7]
On Country Bosses
<Note added by Crawler Milk. 6th Edition>
When a country boss dies, it drops persistent loot called the Treasure Map. My advice. Don’t pick it up.
Over 400 of us faced the boss. Less than 50 survived. It would’ve been easier if it had been physically huge, allowing us to all attack at once. But this terror was in a low-ceilinged cave, and it was almost impossible to even get a hit in. We were doing damage to each other just as much as to him. All country bosses have special attacks that kill en masse. Beware the ones who look especially easy to kill. They are inevitably the worst.
When we finally emerged victorious, it did not feel like a victory. We were angry and bloodied and distrusting of our fellow crawlers who’d eagerly killed others just to get a hit in on the boss. What should have been a moment of unity was the calamitous event that spelled our doom.
This was by design. Of that I am certain.
And then we all picked up the map, which showed the location and quality of all the magical gear in the area. Gear we all felt we deserved. It sparked a second slaughter, and I received my first player-killer skull.
I wish I had never picked up that map. It wasn’t worth it. I have blood on my claws, and it will never wash away.[3]
On Demons
<Note added by crawler Milk, 6th Edition>
If you have to fight a demon, and you have access to Sheol Fire, do not use it. It makes the creature exponentially stronger.[8]
On Portals
<Note added by Crawler Milk. 6th Edition>
Portals are hard to understand. It seems like there are dozens of different types that all work in different ways. Sometimes they’re like doors, and you don’t even know they’re there. Sometimes, like the entryways between floors, you just need to touch them and they work. Sometimes you have to put your hand through, and you start to feel like you’re getting dragged. If you let yourself go slack, you get pulled in. But you can still break free. It’s not consistent. Sometimes you have to be big enough to fit through it to work, and sometimes a portal the size of a button will toss you into a monster den. Teleport traps are the worst. [9]
On Stairwells
<Note added by crawler Milk, 6th Edition>
Even though you can sometimes move the platforms upon which the stairwells sit, you cannot put the exit portal into your inventory. You can’t bring a stairwell into your saferoom. I watched one get hit by an Utter Annihilation Wand, and it remained unscathed. I believe that means they are indestructible.[10]
<Response added by Herot>
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 13) (p. 143). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 13)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 61) (p. 544). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter Milk)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 33)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 13) (p. 135). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 46) (p. 437). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 63) (p.594). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 27) (p. 394). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 61) (p. 576). Kindle Edition.
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