The Gingers

Story so far

The Gingers are humanlike cannibal mobs infesting the jungle Heat Four track, a storyline the AI lifted wholesale from the never-realized seventh floor. Pale, slightly pudgy naked humans in loincloths and crude African-style wooden masks, they swarm by the thousand, hurling themselves suicidally against the Big Shot Chicken food truck's survival containment shield and exploding 'like bags of tomato soup,' shrieking and maddened by Princess Donut's full-blast Torch. Per the AI's gleefully bigoted lore, Gingers are actual Earth redheads — the result of ancient alien meddling (suspected Nullians) in humanity's development, like octopuses — who hide among ordinary humans; the men are 'sexually deviant to a fault,' the women 'extra spicy,' both with warped pain tolerance that makes them susceptible to heat and cold but immune to electrical and acid attacks, and prized targets of dentists and serial killers.

Most dangerously, they can Soul Suck a victim (the 'Gingered' debuff), leaving them in a soul-drained fugue — a curse Carl's Mind Balance and Donut's stats shrug off, but which fells the mercenary Olga. Two warring settlements, north and south, hold the forest; decimating one, the AI needles, would spark a devastating regional power vacuum — a barely-veiled parable of colonial exploitation.

Appearance

Pale, slightly pudgy naked humans in loincloths and crude wooden tribal masks, carrying spears and hide shields; unmasked, ordinary red-haired humans.

Role

Soul-sucking redheaded cannibal mobs and jungle-track hazard, split into two warring tribes.

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