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The Castle

Gone from Larracos, leaving only a bed of dead roots over a giant hole, with its trap tunnels unused.

Story so far

Where The Castle used to stand there is now a bed of roots as thick as elephant trunks, so old and dead they turned to mulch the moment anyone touched them. They seemed to be covering a giant hole, and Carl wondered whether walking out onto them would drop him all the way to the land of the gods. The massive dwarven digger was gone as well, leaving a dark hole behind.

Donut mourned that they never got to use the whole tunnel of traps after all that work: it was built up, and nobody ever got to the throne room to find out it was directly below and that they'd have to go through a whole Home Alone house to reach it. Baroness Victory revealed that Justice Light had built a trans-dimensional trap right underneath the castle, disguised among the regular traps, without Rosetta noticing.

Appearance

A ruin reduced to a bed of dead, elephant-trunk-thick roots that crumble to mulch at a touch, apparently spanning a giant hole.

Role

The crawlers' vanished stronghold, whose elaborate trap tunnels were never used and whose foundation hid a trans-dimensional trap.

Relationships

Larracos — Stood at its heart before the collapse
Justice Light — Built a hidden trans-dimensional trap beneath it
Donut — Laments the unused trap tunnels
Throne Room — The tunnels led directly beneath it
Sources — 16 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 7
  • The stronghold Carl and Donut mean to claim and upgrade, currently the only place on the floor still underwater.
Chapter 11
  • The Semeru structure at the very bottom of the Larracos pit, built on the All Tree's roots as an apology.
Chapter 12
  • The prize at the bottom of the Larracos funnel, its highest tower still submerged under the maintained floodwater.
Chapter 37
  • The crawlers' enormous stronghold, five or six times the size of D'Nadia's, now enclosing the bait shop saferoom.
Chapter 38
  • Carl's captured stronghold, reduced to one defensible entrance as invisible saboteurs strip its wall protections.
Chapter 40
  • Crawler stronghold being fortified and resupplied as tens of thousands of enemies dig in to the north.
Chapter 48
  • Carl's wrecked headquarters, strewn with enemy corpses and stripped of its magical defenses.
Chapter 49
  • The crawlers' fortified castle, newly painted pink and gaining a new defensive wall.
Chapter 54
  • Donut's transfer destination and the launch point for Party Planner.
Chapter 83
  • The strategic objective Donut insists matters more than her own life, and the model for the synergy tower rules.
Chapter 86
  • The objective held by the war mage team, whose continued possession will win them Faction Wars.
Chapter 88
  • The acid-drained fortress stormed by NPCs and troops, its defensive towers going inert once the throne room is entered.
Chapter 93
  • The Dream's castle, under two hours from being captured by Juice Box's forces — which would kill Tagg and Louis.
Chapter 96
  • The structure the escape stairwells will ring once the Faction Wars are finally won.
Chapter 97
  • The seat of Larracos, before which the broken statue of Ysalte is rebuilt in the final seconds.
Chapter 98
  • Gone from Larracos, leaving only a bed of dead roots over a giant hole, with its trap tunnels unused.
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