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Team Meadow Lark

Team Meadowlark

The controlling party of Safehome Yolanda, running a floor-wide manhunt with drilled precision.

Story so far

Team Meadow Lark is shown at work on the Recap Episode: Elle, Katia, Bautista, Florin and others raiding a small druid town on the ground while Louis and Firas float above directing the attack, with Elle and the newly airborne Imani moving together behind the ground element. They were hunting Eva and she had already gone — she appears to have a special ability that prevents magical tracking. The ambush she had prepared, an entire NPC population charmed into attacking the raiders, collapsed when Imani counterspelled it, and the raid ended without violence.

What Carl notices is the cohesion: they all worked in tandem like they had been doing this for years. He also notices absences — no Li Jun, no Na, no Zhang, though he knows those three are working with the team now, and no Chris, and none of the cretin bodyguards. Watching it gives him a pang of regret and loneliness at having gone off alone for this floor, immediately overruled by the judgement that his path is too dangerous to share and that his presence would only be a distraction from the important work they are doing.

The team is also the controlling party of Safehome Yolanda, the guild The Royal Court of Princess Donut joins this chapter, and its members are pushing hard on the pursuit — Eva is backed into the hot springs and lava tube region and Li Na can track her.

Appearance

Seen as a moving formation on broadcast footage: fliers above, a ground element advancing on a jungle town, all of it drilled and unhurried.

Role

The largest allied crawler organisation on the floor, controlling party of Safehome Yolanda, and the force hunting Eva.

Relationships

Imani — Guildmaster of the guild the team controls, and its counterspell and command element in the field.
Katia — A core member, exhausted from a raid that ended an hour before she walked into the Personal Space.
Carl — Deliberately separate from them this floor, watching their work with regret he refuses to act on.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
  • Crawler team gathering with Bautista's group at a settlement south of Carl's position.
Chapter 7
  • Allied crawler team still traveling toward the bugbear town, awaited by Chris and Clay-ton at the bar.
Chapter 9
  • An allied crawler team that ran into trouble on the path and needed Katia's group to assist.
Chapter 21
  • The controlling party of Safehome Yolanda, running a floor-wide manhunt with drilled precision.
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