Drek

killer babies · demonic babies

Ravenous, knee-high demon-baby mobs that swarm the Iron Tangle's platforms in packs and can strip an elephant to bone in seconds.

Story so far

Drek are the first Iron Tangle mob the party meets en masse — several hundred surging at Sirin-Station. Level-6 monsters resembling wrinkly, grey-skinned demonic babies with sharp claws and mouths crammed with too many teeth, they stand knee-height on two legs in tattered loincloths, some climbing pillars like spiders and leaping to a train's ceiling. They travel in packs of at least fifty and, per their taunting description, can devour a full-sized elephant to the bone in under five seconds.

They pour into the train cars but can't manage door handles, and one gnaws through Carl's unprotected sole — a painful reminder his pedicure-kit foot buffs had lapsed. Individually weak (each drops ~5 gold), they're lethal only in swarms; Carl's Protective-Shell-bulldozer trick paints whole cars with their gore.

Appearance

Knee-high, wrinkly grey-skinned demonic 'babies' with sharp claws, over-toothed maws, and tattered loincloths, screaming in unsettlingly infant-like cries.

Role

The floor's iconic swarming trash-mob — cute-monstrous, individually weak, deadly in numbers.

Relationships

Carl — Loses a chunk of his unbuffed foot to one; wipes packs of them with the shell trick.

Jikininki — Their taller, grown-up 'janitor' cousins that lair in doorless cars.

The Iron Tangle — The floor whose platforms they infest by the hundreds.

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 27

Ravenous, knee-high demon-baby mobs that swarm the Iron Tangle's platforms in packs and can strip an elephant to bone in seconds.