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Hooded Syndicate liaison with a gondii in a fishbowl head, who pressures Carl to surrender the Gate of the Feral Gods.
Orren summons Carl to his cluttered office the moment the sixth floor begins, the same room where they met after the death of Loita the administrator. He explains that multiple unseen parties are listening — a Borant representative, members of the Syndicate Crawl subcommittee, other interested parties, and a media representative barred from reporting unless a law is broken. He dismisses Katia immediately, since she only held the Gate of the Feral Gods in her inventory and named Carl its true owner.
Orren reminds Carl he had wanted him removed even before Larracos, and admits nobody on the council is indifferent anymore. The system will not let them confiscate the artifact, so he offers three options: seal the floor against all portal use, Acceleration and death, or surrender the winding box for a receipt redeemable on the ninth floor. He refuses to explain why a liaison aided the Skull Empire against Maggie My, saying only that exploits work both ways and the matter has been dealt with. When Carl demands a lawyer, Orren is openly amused: "You just said the magic words, crawler."
A hooded, grim-reaper-like figure seated at a cluttered desk, hands steepled, with a glint of glass beneath the hood where a parasitic worm floats in fluid.
The Syndicate's supposedly neutral third-party observer, acting as the game's enforcer against Carl.
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