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Mordecai

the manager · the Moon Reaper · the table

The party manager, reduced on floor eleven to a non-corporeal animistic spirit that can only speak by occupying an object with a mouth.

Story so far

On the eleventh floor Mordecai's form changes again: he becomes an animistic spirit — a non-corporeal being that occupies physical objects, this time the safe room's kitchen table (with Samantha sitting on him). Princess Donut cheerfully mishears 'animistic' as 'a racist,' then 'anti-Semitic,' before he explains he can hear everyone but can only respond when he moves into something with a mouth, a skill he won't master in the few hours they have. So he coaches Donut on her class choices by chat, steering her toward Elite Gurkha Warrior, and can offer no physical help this floor.

He shares Carl's revulsion at Chaco as parade Grand Master, spitting that he hopes the 'coward murderer' dies. His earlier tenth-floor incarnation was a glitching, doom-prophesying Moon Reaper; now he is quieter, disembodied, and freshly unsettled by his own new limits ('I feel like I gotta pee').

Appearance

Non-corporeal on this floor — an animistic spirit inhabiting objects (currently the safe room's kitchen table); no fixed body of his own.

Role

The party's manager-strategist, now a bodiless animistic spirit who can only coach by chat and by borrowing objects that can speak.

Relationships

Princess Donut — Whom he advises through class selection despite being unable to leave his table-body.
Samantha — The tsunami spirit perched on the very table he currently inhabits.
Carl — Whose plans he still counsels via chat, sharing his loathing of Chaco.
Chaco — The Grand Master he curses as a coward murderer he hopes will die.

Earlier in this series

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

Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The party's freed manager-alchemist and strategist, coaching Donut's class picks from the sidelines.
Chapter 9
  • The party's manager, now in a glitching Moon Reaper form that spouts unbidden doom-prophecies at everyone it meets.
Chapter 92
  • The party manager, reduced on floor eleven to a non-corporeal animistic spirit that can only speak by occupying an object with a mouth.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Shadow mimic (animistic-spirit form, occupying objects) LVL 50
Skills & spells
  • shapeshifting
  • object possession
  • alchemy
  • chat-only communication
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