Theme · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The mobs are victims

The Hoarder begs in Spanish to be sent to Jesus; the Juicer is proud of Carl for fighting through the pain; the tuskling courtesans seem to have no memory of the ball; the goblin shamanka wants only to breed in peace deeper down. Mordecai warns it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here — only those who pay for the privilege.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion

Progression

In the new area the AI recycles mobs from every previous floor with no rhyme or reason (ch. 15); rot stickers are raised as pets and released as missiles (ch. 21); a toyotomi wanted to die defending a building (ch. 28); a goat is lonely (ch. 48). Justice Light believes four hundred lives: NPCs are supposed to be recycled after twenty, but the showrunners skip the deeper audits (ch. 56). War mages are made by nobody, created naturally and rarely recycled (ch. 61); fleshers are the moisturised dead (ch. 69); zarogoths are corrupted souls (ch. 70).