Team Retribution
The enemy faction of the ninth-floor war, defeated when both of its remaining warlords abandoned their posts.
Story so far
Team Retribution fielded the armies that besieged Larracos across the ninth floor. By the end its surviving mercenaries were milling nervously through every tier of the city, lending a hand in the rapid construction rather than fighting, awaiting their own removal from the dungeon.
The faction's defeat came through the rules. Ferdinand and Juice Box — both nominally Retribution warlords — left the realm within seconds of Zerzura firing, and the system ruled that under the current ruleset they had abandoned their posts and forfeited their positions. Team Retribution was declared defeated and Princess Posse won the Faction Wars. Its transfer was explicitly part of Carl's plan: the defeat of Team Retribution and the victory of the Princess Posse were the conditions that moved Ferdinand and Juice Box to The Twelfth Floor.
Role
The losing side of the Faction Wars, undone by defection rather than slaughter.
Relationships
Sources — 27 recorded facts, by chapter
- The NPCs' own faction - the tenth team, the defenders of Larracos, and the only ones allowed to remain in the city when the ceasefire ends.
- The NPC-and-crawler faction holding Larracos, marked by a white dot with a green outline.
- The NPC faction in the Faction Wars, co-led by Juice Box and granted full voting rights.
- Ferdinand's warlord faction, allied with the Princess Posse and holder of Shanty Town's mayorship.
- Sir Ferdinand's warlord team, author of the emergency action item that blacked out all outside feeds.
- Carl and Donut's faction, defending Larracos against nine rival teams as Phase One opens.
- The NPC team, served by adjutant Drick, that takes a small part in the Princess Posse's assault.
- Allied team whose NPC spies built the acid trench trap, and whose scout gained nearly twenty levels from it.
- Carl's allied faction, whose dwarves hold the tunnel network Carl's party falls into.
- Crawler faction listed with the Princess Posse in the Good Guys Alliance on the updated map.
- Ferdinand and Juice Box's faction, whose greatest assets are quietly being put to work during the council meeting.
- The first NPC warlord team, led by Ferdinand and Juice Box, holding two emergency action items in reserve.
- Juice Box's changeling organization, allied with the crawlers but pursuing a hidden agenda centered on the gods.
- The crawler-led faction defending Larracos, holding three fronts and about to launch Operation Ruin.
- Allied team whose communications with the Princess Posse run entirely through Britney.
- Rival Faction Wars team that seizes two throne rooms at once and rewrites the ascendency rules mid-battle.
- The team occupying the Bone Clan throne room, awarded all of Stalwart's assets by default when a non-team killed him.
- An allied team whose green-tagged operative dies inside Architect Houston's surgical theater during Carl's approach.
- Warlord team whose throne room falls to the War Mage Rebellion in the opening minutes of the Peeling.
- Carl and Donut's team, holding The Dream's castle while losing their own to the war mages.
- The bulk of the force massed at the college, its changeling officers leading the push to the railing.
- Along with the Princess Posse, fills the ball of flesh with invulnerable but unusable allies.
- Enemy team whose throne room goes inert and changes hands twice before falling back into their control by default.
- Juice Box's faction, credited with 40% of the experience for killing Warlord Fang.
- Crawler faction poised to take the Dream Castle, whose victory will automatically kill Tagg and possibly Louis.
- The last rival faction standing after the Dream falls, with thirty-two minutes left on the clock.
- The enemy faction of the ninth-floor war, defeated when both of its remaining warlords abandoned their posts.