Prepotente

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“Carl. I should have known such a colossal fuck-up could only be perpetrated by such a colossal dolt.”[1]

Prepotente was originally a Boer goat and dungeon familiar to Miriam Dom, who affectionately calls him "Pony" or her "special boy." After the Third Floor, he becomes one of the Dungeon's Top Ten Crawlers and eventually develops a "frenemy" relationship with Carl.

Description

Prepotente was one of fifteen brown-and-white Boer goats that Miriam Dom shepherded into the Dungeon. Even as a goat, he was stubborn and "always a little ornery."[2] Translated from Italian, his name means arrogant, bossy, and stubborn.

On the Third Floor, Prepotente consumed an Enhanced Pet Biscuit and was transformed into a bipedal Caprid. It is unclear whether he chose the Forsaken Aerialist Class after his transformation or if it was assigned to him by the transformation.[3] He promptly equipped a full set of armor and a double-headed battleaxe, and joined Miriam Dom in battle.[3] They developed a system in which Miriam conceals their presence and puts the target to sleep, and Prepotente carefully stacks debuffs onto the target until it dies; his specialty is taking simple, low-powerful spells and compounding the effects.[2][4][5] On the Sixth Floor, he chooses the Profane Vitiate Class.[4]

Pony eventually develops a taste for brandy, a knack for disarming traps, and a comprehensive inventory of spells and potions.[2][4]

Appearance

As a Boer goat, he would have two curved brown horns near the back of his skull, long pendulous ears, and brown and white fur. Before his transformation, he likely weighed around 250 lbs (114 kg) and stood roughly 2' 5" tall (73 cm) on his four hooves.[6][7]

As a Caprid, he seems to have kept his original coloring and his front hooves became human-like hands with stubby fingers and long, curled, black fingernails.[2][5] He has a faded but glowing tattoo depicting an evil-looking satanic goat on the back of one hand.[4] As of the Sixth Floor, he begins wearing and using an Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering and receives a Night Wyrm's Nasty Little Web of Suffering tattoo on his left elbow.[5] Although he initially wore a full set of armor, he now wears a dark robe.[3][5]

He smells like a barn, and speaks in a "nasally British accent, like how a spoiled prince might sound."[4][2]

Gallery

Story

Book 2

At some point during the first two days of the Third Floor, Prepotente consumes an Enhanced Pet Biscuit and is transformed into a Caprid, a race of bipedal goat-people found throughout Syndicate space. It is unclear whether he chooses the Forsaken Aerialist Class after his transformation or if it was assigned to him at the same time.[3] He promptly equips a full set of armor and a double-headed battleaxe, and joins Miriam Dom in battle.[3]

Book 3

“Carl. I should have known such a colossal fuck-up could only be perpetrated by such a colossal dolt.”[8]

Early on during the Fourth Floor, Miriam and Pony appear on Planet Beautiful and discuss Earth hip-hop culture.[9] They generally appear on Plenty of Plenty every few days; while Miriam finds the program "a bit unsettling," Pony finds it relaxing.[4]

Carl and Donut first meet Prepotente near the end of the Iron Tangle, when Carl's team teleports a Station Mimic into the abyss, unaware that Prepotente was some two hours away from killing the Province Boss with debuffs. Pony believed its death would detonate multiple Soul Crystals, which would allow remaining crawlers to safely travel to the next floor. While Pony is pleased to see Donut and expresses a desire to share a brandy with her, he threatens both Carl and Imani until Miriam whacks him over the head with her staff. At Miriam's direction, he tells them, "I'm sorry I wanted to murder you."[2]

Pony and Miriam find a second Province Boss, and Miriam casts a spell to render it unconscious for a few seconds. Pony follows up with a number of potions and spells, which increase the unconsciousness timer from ten seconds to five hours. As they start stacking debuffs onto the boss, Quan Ch zips in and wakes it up. Prepotente scream-threatens Quan Ch as he and Miriam flee.[10]

Book 4

On the Fifth Floor, Miriam and Prepotente end up in a bubble laid out like a giant cave, with rocks growing along the inside of the sphere. Trapped in the air quadrant, they are restricted to a shelf of rock ringing the interior wall and must take out a spider nest hanging thousands of feet over their heads.[10] In the first five days, they defeat the spiders by applying a sleep debuff that caused the spiders to plummet to their deaths, conquered the subterranean zone, and head underwater.[11]

With their bubble almost complete, Miriam alone is pulled from the Dungeon to feature on Dungeon Sidekicks. In her absence, Pony has a panic attack, goes "berserk," and runs off. When she goes to search for him, she is struck by a curse that turns her into a Vampire.[12] Club Vanquisher revokes her membership, and Pony retaliates by unleashing Bianca in the lobby; she consumes a bunch of clerics, and the Club places a "Holy Crusade Bounty" on all three of their heads.[13]

All the excitement and vampirism does not prevent them from killing a level 150 feral turkey; Prepotente gains eight levels as a result, becoming the highest level crawler in the Dungeon. The last recap episode shows him "gnawing on the universe's largest feather and screaming over and over while Miriam Dom the vampire shepherd stroked his hair."[14]

Book 5

“I’m sorry, Carl,” Prepotente said. “I shouldn’t have called you malodorous. Nor should I have questioned your ability to inexpertly set off every trap in the area.”[15]

SPOILERS FOR BOOK Book 5
While Carl is at Crawl Con, he learns that Prepotente goes on a Caprid program every few days where they all sit in a circle and scream. Nobody knows what is going on or why they do this.
SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5

On the Sixth Floor, Miriam and Pony travel to Zockau immediately to cast debuffs on the partying hunters: one to increase inebriation, and one to cause the hunters to fight each other. Carl proceeds to bomb Zockau and is nearly killed in the process; Miriam and Pony load Carl's unconscious body into a cart pulled by Bianca and begin traveling away from the city. While Miriam heals him, Pony scouts the area ahead for traps. When Carl and Pony inevitably get on each other's nerves, Miriam orders them to apologize to each other and then hug. For a short while after, Pony tries to be friendly to Carl.[4]

On the sixth floor he managed to kill 10 Odious Creepers and 15 hunters.

Book 6

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 6
He breaks the Seventh Floor, sending all the crawlers to the 8th Floor before the level even starts, angering the kua-tin engineer Cascadia.

Progression, Gear, & Skills

Third Floor: The Over City

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level 27[16]
Leaderboard Rank n/a 3[16]
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear
  • Full Armor
  • Double-headed Battle Axe[3]

Fourth Floor: The Iron Tangle

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level 27[17] 34[18]
Leaderboard Rank 5[17] 2[18]
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear

Fifth Floor: Bubbles

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level 35[10] 55[19]
Leaderboard Rank 3 (Bounty: 400,000 x2)[10] 3[11][19]
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear

Sixth Floor: Hunting Grounds

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level 55[4]
Identifying Tags
Leaderboard Rank 3 (Bounty: 400,000 x3)[20]
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear
  • Ring of Divine Suffering (which he ate)
  • A wand that can create a safe space that last for three minutes
  • A magical spray applicator for spraying herbicide on plants

Seventh Floor: The Great Race

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level
Identifying Tags
Leaderboard Rank
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear

Eighth Floor: Ghosts of the Earth

FIELD FIRST MENTION LAST MENTION
Level
Identifying Tags
Leaderboard Rank
Skills / Spells / Benefits
Equipped Gear

References

  1. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 32) (p. 476). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 32)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 14)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 6)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 47)
  6. ↑ Boer Goat. Wikipedia.
  7. ↑ Hughett, L. (June 20, 2022). Boer goats: Beyond the meat. Backyard Goats. https://backyardgoats.iamcountryside.com/goat-breeds/boer-goats-beyond-the-meat/
  8. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 32) (p. 476). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  9. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 20)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 4)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 17)
  12. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 20)
  13. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 25)
  14. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 33)
  15. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 6) (p. 74). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Epilogue)
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 3)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 25)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 34)
  20. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 8)
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