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Warlord

co-warlord · warlord title

The ninth floor's command title — a seat the system can grant, and did, to stop a massacre.

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Warlord is the rank that leads a team into Faction Wars. Carl and Princess Donut hold it jointly over The Princess Posse, one of the ten teams on the floor.

The title's stranger property is that the system can hand it out as a solution. Juice Box, a psychotic changeling, "has been running around, killing everybody until the system put a stop to it by making her a warlord" — an intervention that solved a problem by promoting it. She now leads the NPC team. It is a good illustration of how the crawl handles disorder: not by punishing it, but by giving it a title, an army, and a broadcast slot.

Appearance

Not described as a visible mark; a rank conferred by the system with command over a faction.

Role

The command rank governing the ten teams of Faction Wars, held by Carl, Donut and Juice Box among others.

Relationships

Faction Wars — The floor in which warlords lead the ten competing teams.
Juice Box — Made a warlord by the system specifically to end her killing spree.
The Princess Posse — Led jointly by co-warlords Carl and Donut.
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  • The ninth floor's command title — a seat the system can grant, and did, to stop a massacre.
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