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Rend

the meatball · Tummy Acher

The party's giggling ton-heavy meatball pet — now on his sixth death, permanently memory-keeping, and weak to potatoes.

Story so far

Rend is the party's giant, childlike Tummy Acher pet — a giggling ton-heavy meatball with stubby elephant legs, paired mischievously with Mongo. In the safe room he gets drunk on bugbear beer with the other pets, then blunders too close to Mordecai's glitching Moon Reaper form, whose involuntary Reaper Gaze kills him on the spot ('now you perish once again... the next time will herald the beginning of the end'). He giggles right back to life: this is his sixth death, the threshold at which he permanently retains his memories and identity, comes back 25% stronger, and gains a new random weakness — potatoes — added to his existing list (sylvan crystal, hobgoblin sweat, rivenwing bite, undead flesh, Reaper Gaze).

Carl, unable to keep him safely in either the safe room or the garage, resolves to carry him in his pet carrier except during fights, with the guild's pet stables (home to Simoom and Gonk) as a backup.

Appearance

A giant round meatball creature the size of a small vehicle, now visibly bigger, with stubby elephant legs, a wide giggling mouth, and Donut's class headband slipped low over his eyes.

Role

The party's heavy, lovable meatball pet, now death-hardened and permanently sentient.

Relationships

Mongo — His partner in crime; grieves drunkenly when Rend dies, dances when he revives.
Mordecai — Whose Moon Reaper form's Reaper Gaze kills him for the sixth time.
Carl — Must now cart him in a pet carrier to keep him from dying to the reaper or the ghouls.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 8
  • The party's giggling, ton-heavy meatball pet with elephant legs — a wrecking ball with the mind of a toddler.
Chapter 28
  • The party's giggling ton-heavy meatball pet — now on his sixth death, permanently memory-keeping, and weak to potatoes.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Tummy Acher (meatball pet) LVL unknown
Skills & spells
  • immense weight / crushing
  • memory-retaining (6th death)
  • 25% strength boost
Notable gear
  • class headband
Character portrait