Ricky Joe is a level 2 juvenile Fathom Dwarf NPC encountered by Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo on the Third Floor in Carl's Doomsday Scenario. He is one of the children of Eunice, a pregnant level 30 Fathom Dwarf who lives beside a corrupt temple in the Medium Skyfowl Settlement. Ricky Joe carries a salamander named Benjamin tied to a stick as part of what he describes as mining-hat training. Mongo eats Benjamin during a street confrontation. Ricky Joe responds by punching the dinosaur, which bites off his right arm below the elbow. Carl rescues the child from the battle, gives him a health potion, and later returns him to his family. Ricky Joe's final scene has him running to help during his mother's labor, still missing the arm. Ricky Joe is a child-sized Fathom Dwarf with a low combat level. The System identifies him by name, age category, species, and level. The text does not provide a formal class, occupation, or complete physical description. After the confrontation with Mongo, he becomes a one-armed child. A health potion closes the wound and restores his health bar, but it does not regrow the missing limb. He carries the severed arm for a time, along with Benjamin's repeatedly swallowed remains. His speech uses the local dwarf dialect. He refers to Eunice as his mum and speaks matter-of-factly about family punishments, mining traditions, and the strange visitors to the neighboring temple. Ricky Joe lives with Eunice and several siblings in a house attached to or directly beside a temple used by a group of city elves. His named brother, Bubba Lane, tells stories about creatures seen near the temple and makes insulting comments that Eunice punishes. Eunice is pregnant during the encounter. The System displays a second health bar for the fetus when an elf freezes her. Later, Ricky Joe recognizes his mother's scream as labor and says he is responsible for holding her left leg. The family is not presented as a formal quest party. They are local NPC residents caught in a conflict involving the corrupt temple, city guards, visiting women, and a larger settlement mystery. Benjamin is Ricky Joe's small salamander companion or animal. The child ties Benjamin to the end of a broken stick. Carl interprets this as cruelty. Ricky Joe insists the salamander enjoys the arrangement and explains that Fathom Dwarves strap salamanders to their hats when entering mines. The explanation suggests a cultural training practice, but the text does not confirm whether Benjamin is a pet, mining tool, light source, or ordinary animal used by children. The salamander is already dead after Mongo vomits him back onto the street. Ricky Joe describes Benjamin as his best friend. His grief is genuine even though Carl and Donut disapprove of how he handled the animal. Carl, Donut, and Mongo enter a chaotic street scene involving city elves and Fathom Dwarves. Eunice attacks an elf with a rolling pin. The elves and local guards respond, turning the argument into open violence. Mongo vomits the dead Benjamin into view. Ricky Joe approaches and calls to the salamander. While the boy kneels beside the body, an Icer elf blasts Eunice with a freezing attack. Her health and the fetus's health drop into danger. Two level 75 settlement guards advance on the frozen mother. Carl attacks a guard even though he knows the act will brand him a troublemaker. At the same moment, Ricky Joe strikes Mongo in the face and blames the dinosaur for killing Benjamin. Mongo reacts instinctively. He bites off Ricky Joe's arm below the elbow and swallows it along with Benjamin. Donut orders Mongo to hold, stopping the dinosaur from continuing the attack. The child stands between the guards while blood sprays from the stump. Carl picks him up and carries him away from the immediate attack. Donut uses Puddle Jumper to move Carl, Donut, Mongo, and Ricky Joe onto a nearby rooftop before Carl's boom jug explodes below. The blast kills the remaining elves and burns the corrupt temple area. Eunice and the other children have moved far enough away to avoid the fire. The guards survive with little damage. Carl forces a health potion into Ricky Joe's mouth. The potion stops the bleeding and returns his health to green, but the lost arm remains gone. The distinction shows that health restoration and regeneration are separate mechanics. Ricky Joe tries to hit Mongo again with his remaining arm and demands the return of his limb. Mongo vomits up what he swallowed. The scene mixes physical horror, slapstick, and the continuing danger of keeping a combat pet near frightened civilians. Ricky Joe waits with Carl and Donut until sunset. Donut's Charisma calms him once the protective effects around the temple weaken. He sits holding his arm and Benjamin's corpse, angry that the limb cannot be reattached. Carl and Donut lecture him about tying the salamander to a stick. Ricky Joe defends the practice through Fathom Dwarf tradition. His reply prevents the moment from becoming a simple lesson delivered to an ignorant child. He understands the animal through a cultural practice the crawlers do not know. The rooftop conversation also turns Ricky Joe into an information source. Carl asks about unusual activity around the temple, and the child provides details that support the wider investigation. Ricky Joe reports crying, strange odors, unfamiliar women, and a visiting female skyfowl. His brother claims to have seen a krasue fly from the roof, although Ricky Joe assumes it may have been the skyfowl woman. He says elves, dwarves, and humans visit throughout the day, often dressed as though they are going to the Desperado Club. A skyfowl arrives near dark and leaves with groups of women. Ricky Joe does not know their destination because Eunice forbids the children from traveling beyond their street. The information helps Carl connect the temple to disappearances and later quest activity. Ricky Joe does not solve the mystery, but his ordinary neighborhood observations are more useful than the official story told by local authorities. Carl carries Ricky Joe down from the roof because Puddle Jumper has not reset. He accidentally drops the child the final ten feet. Ricky Joe suffers little health loss but begins crying again. A scream comes from the nearby building. Ricky Joe identifies it as Eunice going into labor. He announces that he must hold her left leg and runs toward the house after saying goodbye to Donut and Mongo. This is his final direct appearance. Carl later thinks about the one-armed child and wonders whether Eunice delivered the baby. The novels do not confirm the result of the birth or Ricky Joe's fate after the Third Floor collapse. Ricky Joe is impulsive, stubborn, and loyal. He attacks a much larger dinosaur twice because he believes Mongo killed his best friend. The action is dangerous but emotionally understandable from a grieving child. He also accepts Donut's authority more readily than Carl's. Her Charisma helps calm him, and he says goodbye using her title. His return to help Eunice shows that family responsibility overrides his anger once he hears the labor begin. Ricky Joe has no demonstrated combat skill beyond an ordinary punch. His level 2 status and juvenile classification make him extremely vulnerable beside level 75 guards and higher-level crawlers. He can survive a major amputation after receiving a health potion. The potion heals immediate damage but cannot restore the arm. He also knows local customs and family routines, which makes him useful as a witness. No evidence gives him magic, a mining class, dungeon inventory, or later prosthetic. His association with Fathom Dwarf mining practice comes only through the explanation about salamanders. Ricky Joe is alive when he runs into the building during Eunice's labor. Carl later remembers him but receives no confirmation after descent. His status should be listed as alive when last seen, later fate unknown. The Third Floor eventually collapses, but NPC recycling, transfer, and scenario rules make it unsafe to infer a specific death from the floor's end alone.
- Eunice
- Medium Skyfowl Settlement
- Mongo
- Fathom Dwarf
- Third Floor