Story so far
Mordecai combines Odious Bloom weedkiller with holy anti-undead enhancements and creates four jugs of Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill and Undead Repellant, Extra-Strength Edition. He estimates each jug can kill several Creepers if absorbed before the flammable liquid ignites.
He warns Louis to cast Tent the House only at maximum distance and tells Carl that the monsters can control foliage for at least half a kilometer. Three crawlers have already been squeezed to death and harvested for parts. Mordecai doubts Carl could truly derive and test his smoke-curtain solution in five minutes, but lacks time to press the concealed source.
Appearance
A rat-like alchemist guarding four oversized jugs of bubbling yellow potion.
Role
Mordecai provides the killing agent and the safety constraints for two different delivery systems.
Relationships
Carl — He suspects Carl's instant aerosol breakthrough has an undisclosed source.
Louis — He directs Louis to use maximum range and avoid ignition.
Odious Creeper — He formulates poison around their plant and undead traits.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 20 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- The party's trainer, who advises Donut against a permanent class and pushes Carl toward the melee specialty he ignores.
Chapter 2
- Reincarnated as a knee-high Pocket Kuma, Mordecai scolds Carl while everyone laughs at him.
Chapter 3
- The party's manager, planning safe-room upgrades and waiting on the recap to learn how the guild system works.
Chapter 4
- The party's trainer, running spell schedules, buying herbs, and planning the crawlers' route deeper south.
Chapter 5
- Carl and Donut's trainer, discovered eating a banana split in the personal space and appalled they attacked Zockau.
Chapter 7
- The team's manager, whose planned lecture is derailed when Donut recites it back at him first.
Chapter 8
- The crew's trainer, who explains the Guild of Suffering, four seasons builds, and worries about Katia.
Chapter 10
- Carl's trainer, supplying a five-page shopping list, map lore, and the warning not to touch Vrah's knife.
Chapter 11
- The party's manager, coaching Donut through Point Mongo's settlement menus and accidentally triggering a quest.
Chapter 12
- Their Bopca trainer, whom Donut told it was okay for Carl to keep taking dangerous risks.
Chapter 13
- Soaked and forbidden to fight, Mordecai identifies the downed hunter and is left in charge of the town's defenses.
Chapter 16
- Off-page all chapter, but his fingerprints are all over the newly fortified approach to Point Mongo.
Chapter 17
- Fuzzy-eared trainer in improvised earmuffs, robbed of a potion recipe by a screaming severed head.
Chapter 18
- Absent from the room but named as the key: whatever Odette did to him supposedly explains everything.
Chapter 19
- Carl and Donut's guide, whose indenture survives the ownership shake-up by the thinnest of legal margins.
Chapter 20
- The trainer reads a corporate coup through the shop's software and concludes, for now, it is business as usual.
Chapter 21
- The team's trainer, small and squeaking now, cataloguing lethal mushrooms and old convention gossip.
Chapter 22
- The party guide whose potion work extends Carl's Ping and whose warnings define the risks of levitation and Samantha's durability.
Chapter 48
- Mordecai identifies the Creepers as plant-commandeered undead and urgently warns that approaching them without a tested aerosol treatment will cause a slaughter.
Chapter 50
- Mordecai formulates an anti-Creeper weedkiller, prescribes extreme range and no fire, and becomes suspicious of how quickly Carl invents a working aerosol system.