Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Claude Sludgington the Fourth

Eryops Gigantis, level 65 Borough Boss: a river squatter who came to the Naiad Confederacy's fundraising ball — thrown because their aversion to taxes left no money for the castle — and never left the throne room. Killed in thirty seconds.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 36 — Swole

Arc

The squatter in the throne room, teleported to Carl, launched into the sky by a Protective Shell, and eaten from the inside by Mongo (ch. 27). Samantha and Holger are swallowed first; Carl falls into the wound as it topples.