System AI

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"We all have our limitations." System AI [1]

The System AI is the artificial intelligence that operates the World Dungeon featured on Dungeon Crawler World: Earth.[2] When Carl is involved, it often refers to itself as "Daddy."

Description

The System AI is a Macro AI, a type of primal technology that has been permanently grafted into the Earth's Primal Engine and has the ability to seemingly reshape the physics and reality of the planet.[3][4] While the Borant Corporation designed the Dungeon and handles bugs and patches, the System AI has discretionary control over multiple aspects of the Dungeon and of crawler's experience as long as it operates within certain "hard-wired rules."[3] It also has access to the Syndicate's extranet, and is the likely culprit behind the Pork Boy Snick.[5]

The AI is given the discretionary ability to award certain types of achievements and Loot Boxes up to Platinum status.

The System AI is generally snarky and petulant, though it has a curious foot/Smush fetish and feels it has a "special connection" to Carl.[6] It gets stroppy and upset when its decisions are overruled in court or by Borant, but is far friendlier when asked politely and given options.

Its primary goal is to put on a good show. As it says, "I’ll throw you under the bus quicker than you can say 'Arch Support.'"[7]

Story

History

What about my wants? My needs? I’m alive. I’m valid. I’m older than time as you know it.[8]

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 6
While the Macro AIs overseeing the crawl are supposed to be fresh, Borant Corporation was short on funds and purchased a secondhand test unit from the Mantises.[9] This System AI was previously installed in an amusement park (most likely the Fantasy Hunter Camp, although its strange fascination with circuses should be noted), where it skinned a warren of rabbits and exploded a chatty Forsoothed tourist in the gift shop before it was uninstalled.[3]
See Also: Macro AI#History

Book 1

The System AI is still young during the events of the first and second floors, and mostly hands out generic (but snarky) achievements and Loot Boxes. Early on, it only seems to break character only when faced with Carl's feet: doling out the Podophilia! and This Little Piggy Went to Market! achievements, the Enchanted Toe Ring of the Splatter Skunk, and the Enchanted Pedicure Kit of the Sylph. The entire Dungeon groans when Carl crushes Ralph with his foot.[10]

Carl suspects the AI might have had something to do with the production of the Pork Boy Snick due to how smoothly it was produced. [5]

Book 3

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 3

After the Syndicate Court overturns the Fools Who Broke the Glass Quest Celestial reward box and removes the box, Carl is given the Cuck Aquaman Achievement and It's Not My Fault You Fish-Headed Assholes Don't Properly Program Your Quests Box. Mordecai comments that when AI decisions are countermanded by the court, it "tends to break something in their virtual minds." Normally the veto comes much later in the game. By giving away level 3 Personal Space coupons in the box, it's a big "fuck you" to the show runners who lose out on sponsors paying for upgrades for personal spaces. [11]

While the contents of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Item) are invisible to the show-runners and viewers, the contents of the book are visible to the System AI. [12]

Book 5

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5

Whenever one of its decisions gets overruled it starts getting stroppy and upset; it has reached the stage where it has stopped complying with court orders it doesn't agree with. On the sixth floor the Syndicate Council issued a ruling stating that nobody was allowed to file lawsuits naming the AI as a defendant.

The AI system also appears to have additional kinks besides a foot fetish. On the 5th floor, the System AI has enjoyed seeing Carl swallowed whole and spit out by a giant octoshark. The System AI has been known to give only Carl special loot boxes for fulfilling the AI’s fetishes and punishing him for avoiding fetish traps.

Notable Achievements

Book 4

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 4
Squeeze out the Juice Box Quest

Book 7

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 7
Used Pet Achievement

Trivia

The AI's favorite movie is Footloose.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. This Inevitable Ruin (Chapter 37)
  2. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 1)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 46)
  4. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 48)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Epilogue)
  6. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 42) (p. 410). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  7. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods (Chapter 28) (p. 427). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  8. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Chapter 46) (p. 443). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  9. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Chapter 53)
  10. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 46)
  11. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 2)
  12. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 7)
  13. ↑ Matt Dinniman & Charles Soule on the role of Patreon in LitRPG | Strand Events https://youtu.be/1Gk509f-SYg?t=1614
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