Station Mimic
Slain borough-scale mimic whose death blew ghoul generators and dropped the Map of the Stars.
Story so far
The Station Mimic was killed in the trainyard fight, and its death triggered a cascade: even more ghoul generators exploded across the floor, with reports of additional blown generators at several station 72s. Its corpse became an enormous, disgusting pile of gore in the middle of the yard.
A single object appeared on the map inside the remains — the boss drop. Where neighborhood bosses dropped the neighborhood map and borough bosses the field guide, the mimic dropped the Map of the Stars. Carl already knew what it would be from The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and Mordecai, and waded into the gore to claim it even though it came too late to be useful.
Appearance
A vast slain shapeshifting horror reduced to an enormous reeking mound of gore filling the trainyard.
Role
The floor's great boss kill, whose death destabilizes the ghoul system and yields the Map of the Stars.
Relationships
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- Six ravenous monsters disguised as Terminus Station 433 — the trap that devours crawlers foolish enough to disembark at the 'last safe stop.'
- A city boss the size of a neighbourhood block, disguised as a railroad crossing gate — and now sitting in trainyard E.
- There are only six of them on the whole floor, and Katia cannot stop saying that this makes no sense.
- Six of them because the H'lene built six waystations — and each one is sitting on two stations at once.
- It sends pieces of itself out to hit people from behind while the tunnels push them forward.
- As tall as the chamber, only half-pretending to be a building now, with blimp-sized red eyes and a tongue that reaches across a trainyard.
- A level-90 city boss with over 23,000 crawler kills, introduced as a contestant in Carl's death match and cleaved in half two minutes later.
- Slain borough-scale mimic whose death blew ghoul generators and dropped the Map of the Stars.