Cascadia is a kua-tin administrator, showrunner, and executive producer of the Earth season of Dungeon Crawler World. She oversees floor design, daily announcements, preproduction councils, and the production relationship with sponsors and warlords. Repeated crawler victories, political collapse in her home system, family deaths, substance abuse, and abuse by the System AI drive her into a severe breakdown. Cascadia is a small fishlike kua-tin with scales, gills, flipper-like limbs, and a rebreather when outside water. The strain of running the crawl visibly ages her. Her scales become dull or fall away, and her physical condition worsens as the season escapes producer control. Cascadia helps design the Great Race and treats the Seventh Floor as her major project. Prepotente uses the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams to exploit the zero tube and destroy the floor almost immediately. Her shouted pleas and final scream make the failure public and accelerate Valtay concern about the production. She delivers daily updates, closes with the phrase “kill, kill, kill,” and hosts preproduction meetings for Faction Wars. In person she is clipped, exhausted, and sometimes candidly suicidal; when other participants arrive, she switches instantly into an artificial, condescending host persona. Civil war reaches the Borant system, and a habitat-ring disaster kills Cascadia's former husband and much of her family. She drinks from tequila-like containers, misses updates, and becomes increasingly erratic. These losses explain her collapse without excusing her leadership of a genocidal entertainment system. Cascadia overdoses or takes too much medicine while the AI forces announcements through Zev. The AI tortures her for refusing the catchphrase and removes several flippers, while explicitly stating that she remains alive. Cascadia later announces that she is still present and intoxicated. Her latest confirmed status is alive, severely mutilated, and psychologically unstable.
- Zev
- Borant Announcement Voice
- Great Race
- Dungeon Crawler World Earth
- System AI