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Wireless PA Speakers

Speaker Number 11

Battlefield speaker network blasting Prince, whose eleventh unit on a cart becomes Li Jun's death lure.

Story so far

Outside the castle, "Little Red Corvette" by Prince blasts from the speaker network while the rolling ball advances. Princess Donut turns the music off when Harpocrates comes for her, and it doesn't help — he keeps coming anyway.

Li Jun sees the use nobody else does: speaker number eleven is still mounted on the back of a cart. He tells Donut to mute every speaker except that one and play a song he sends her, turning the cart into a moving noise source the god will chase. It works, drawing Harpocrates off Donut's tower long enough for the ball to reach the other field, and it costs Li Jun his life.

Appearance

A network of wireless PA speakers spread across the battlefield, one of them still strapped to the back of a cart.

Role

Donut's battlefield sound system, repurposed into bait for an angry god.

Relationships

Princess Donut — Controls the network from the tower
Li Jun — Uses speaker eleven as a lure and dies for it
Harpocrates — Chases the sound
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 69
  • Self-installing tower-wide public address system Donut bought, complete with a mixing board and bard spells.
Chapter 78
  • Battlefield speaker network blasting Prince, whose eleventh unit on a cart becomes Li Jun's death lure.
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