A level-forty-five Santa-themed Babababoon guards token two and dies before drawing its first card.
The human-baboon hybrid waits motionless beside the road in a parking-lot pool of light. Memory-ghost clothing has accumulated in a circle around it, suggesting it has occupied the spot for some time.
Unlike earlier versions afflicted by the DTs, this Babababoon carries a phase-two card deck. It wears a Santa hat and a suggestive gift-themed shirt, then animates only when Carl and Donut approach.
Carl launches a sticky hob-lobber from his xistera. The explosive projectile kills the creature before it can draw, destroys its hat, and releases twenty cards plus numbered token two.
A broad-faced human-baboon hybrid in a Santa cap and holiday shirt under a lonely parking-lot lamp.
The Babababoon is the first normal roadside token holder and establishes how easily direct attacks can bypass card combat.
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