Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Sluggalos

Doctor Bones's Conscript charm on the slugs bred from Super-Spread strippers locked in a room for a day: forty hatchet-swinging idiots in orange slime who Leeroy a block of demons and retreat through Donut. 'If we get a few thousand more of these guys, we could win the war on the first day.' 'Don't forget how Carl makes these.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
• Chapter 65 — Graupel

Progression

Doctor Bones's Conscript spell, a military charm that on the weak lasts pretty much forever, unlike Donut's temporary Minion Army (ch. 52); enslaved conscript crawlers who flee in the night and are run down, in a Cookbook note (ch. 54). Carl infects only one — Doctor Bones, whose Super Spreader is better than his — and the Conscript spell makes the Sluggalos fight on their side, sort of, as rebellious as totems (ch. 61); Imani corrals them (ch. 62); forty or so, level twenties and thirties with a handful of fifties, hooting and hollering behind Imani (ch. 64); a Leeroy and a retreat (ch. 65).