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creature
Cretins
Hired mercenary creatures including Sledge, who vanish rather than transfer when Zerzura fires.
Story so far
When Carl worked through what would happen to each class of fighter, the hired mercenaries — including Sledge and the other surviving cretins — fell into the category that would simply disappear.
They would not move to The Twelfth Floor. Instead they were bound possibly for NPC Storage to await the next crawl, possibly tossed back into the Mercenary Markets, the same fate as the for-hire dungeon-born mercenaries fielded by all teams.
Role
Hired monster mercenaries whose contracts end with the floor rather than following the crawlers down.
Relationships
Sledge — One of the surviving cretins, and the one who casts Zerzura.
Mercenaries — Fall under the hired mercenary rules for disposal.
NPC Storage — A possible destination after they disappear.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 14
- Desperado Club guard creatures whose survivors were airlocked and shipped to the mercenary markets.
Chapter 27
- Four huge, grumbling allies too heavy for the flatbed transports and left to walk or wait behind.
Chapter 36
- Desperado Club guard race fired and replaced alongside the sai after the demon massacre.
Chapter 90
- Race whose normal spell list doesn't include the Sledge's missile spell, making changeling extraction unlikely.
Chapter 97
- Hired mercenary creatures including Sledge, who vanish rather than transfer when Zerzura fires.