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The party's freed changeling strategist, re-bodied on the fifth floor as a clipped-winged skyfowl cleric who can barely fly but brews potions better than ever.
Mordecai greets the party in Hump Town wearing a new form — a light brown rock-edge skyfowl cleric — the closest to his true skyfowl self in ages, though it thrills and galls him: the cleric body is "clipped," letting him fly only short hops, which he likens to waking as a eunuch in a supermodel orgy. He has already scouted the floor and delivers the grim briefing: the Necropolis of Anser is a towering tomb capped by a domed bubble, the party is stranded with only a few dozen underpowered crawlers, and every one of the bubble's four castles must fall before their stairwell opens. He warns that the extra three days granted (fifteen instead of the expected twelve) likely means a nasty surprise, and orders the family to open their boxes, sleep, and get to work.
A light brown and beige rock-edge skyfowl — an eagle-like body with wings and talons but no arms, smaller and lighter than his preferred centurion form, feathers ruffling at the neck when tense.
The party's manager, alchemist, and floor-strategist, decoding the fifth floor's rules and stacking the odds however he can.
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