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Peeling Phase

The Peeling

Faction Wars phase in which every team fights alone and losing warlords kills all their NPCs.

Story so far

The new ruleset is blunt: it is every team for themselves. If the crawlers win, all the NPCs die; if the NPCs win, the crawlers die. Carl recognizes immediately what a huge problem this creates for cooperation.

The Peeling phase rules also dictate the exact failure condition Carl is racing: if both Juice Box and Ferdinand fall, Team Retribution does not automatically lose — War Mage Rebellion would still have to hold The Reaver Castle for six hours — but every existing NPC on Team Retribution drops dead instantly, leaving nobody able to storm the castle. The remaining teams are The Princess Posse, Team Retribution, The Dream, The Reavers and the War Mage Rebellion, with 69 castles left standing.

Role

The governing ruleset of the chapter's battle, setting the clocks and the win conditions.

Relationships

Faction Wars — The larger event this phase belongs to.
Team Retribution — Its NPCs die outright if both its warlords fall.
The Reaver Castle — Must be held six hours by whoever claims it.
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 55
  • The stage of the season when crawlers can finally enter Larracos, constraining where the sultana can hide.
Chapter 78
  • Final stage of Faction Wars, opening Larracos to everyone with defeated teams now dying outright.
Chapter 81
  • Faction Wars phase in which every team fights alone and losing warlords kills all their NPCs.
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