The croupier revealed as an adolescent Shadow Mimic that devoured the real Mitch — frozen by Carl's Eye and killed, dying screaming 'it's too cold.'
Mitch Fiorelli, the level-120 Wheel of Fortune croupier, is unmasked as an Adolescent Shadow Mimic: at his snapped fingers the whole Desperado Club comes alive as mimics, and Mitch stretches out, his human shape dangling like a discarded puppet over a fanged, serpentine-tongued maw. The AI narrates his truth mid-ambush — the real Mitch was a 'Wall Rat' (an NPC who escaped the dungeon's wipe cycle with persistent memory), eaten by this mimic, which was sent up by the redacted power to 'fuck Hamed's shit up' as part of the Big Six struggle for the dungeon's back door. As Donut and Mongo shred the swarm, a cornered Mitch grows pleading arms and offers a deal, confessing they 'needed some of you for the Cabaret' to control the dungeon's back door contested by the war mages, the ogres, and 'Cock-A-Doodle-Do.' When he lunges to eat dog-form Carl, Carl reflexively opens the Eye of the Bedlam Bride on his forehead, freezing the mimic in place — 'No. Don't do this.
It's too cold' — and Donut finishes him with a full-strength Magic Missile. He collapses into a human-sized blank gray form, which Mongo triumphantly tea-bags.
A stretched, puppet-like human shell hanging over a fanged, serpentine-tongued maw with forming lizard eyes; slain, a human-sized thin gray tentacled corpse.
The croupier-shaped adolescent Shadow Mimic that ate the real Mitch, frozen by Carl's Eye and killed by Donut.