Pustule
MinorThe air thickens with rot as she looms near, her bubbling cheek-sore weeping a vile trail that stains everything it touches. There's a greasy menace in her yellowed grin, like she's sizing you up for the butcher's block. You can't help but wonder what foul deals lurk behind that unicorn tee.
Pustule debuts in Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 as a fleeting hobgoblin merchant operating in the dungeon's underbelly, capitalizing on the crawlers' desperation by peddling explosives and detonators. Her single, repulsive encounter with Carl and Princess Donut underscores the crawl's grim economy of suffering and opportunism, where even decaying monsters profit from the violence. Though her appearance is brief, it cements her as an emblem of the dungeon's casual horrors, vanishing as quickly as she arrives without further development in later books.
Physical Description
Towering at six feet, this large muscular hobgoblin female has rough greenish-gray skin stretched over a powerful frame, her face a goblinish nightmare dominated by a wide flat nose, small beady yellow eyes, and jagged yellowed teeth. An open sore on her cheek constantly bubbles with black and green ooze, trickling down her face, over her shoulder, and staining her threadbare pink graphic t-shirt emblazoned with a unicorn wearing sunglasses. She smells overwhelmingly of rot and sickness, her scraggly black hair tied back in a messy knot, clad in ragged pants and battered boots, moving with a hunched, predatory swagger.
Evolution
Dungeon Crawler Carl - 02 - Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Pustule appears as a fleeting but unforgettable merchant in the dungeon's underbelly, hawking her wares to crawlers like Carl with the kind of desperate opportunism only the truly wretched can muster. Her single encounter underscores the grim commerce of the crawl, where even a rotting hobgoblin can turn suffering into profit. She embodies the dungeon's casual horrors—brief, repulsive, and gone before you can forget her stench.
- Appears as a desperate hobgoblin merchant in the dungeon underbelly
- Hawks explosives and detonators to crawlers including Carl
- Supplies bombs directly to Princess Donut in a professional transaction
- Embodifies the dungeon's grim commerce through her rotting, opportunistic presence
- Departs after a single encounter, leaving only her stench and wares behind
Relationships
Hobgoblin merchant who briefly supplies explosives and detonators to Princess Donut during a single transaction in Book 2, with no further evolution or contact in subsequent books.
Book Appearances
Dungeon Crawler Carl - 02 - Carl's Doomsday Scenario
First appears Ch 15