Explosive Satchels

Satchel explosives · Satchel charges

Proximity-triggered bomb packs the Reavers strapped to a mass of automatons — and which Carl detonated first.

Story so far

During the barracks-hill fight, Carl's trap sense tingles and multiple lights glare through the smoke from the far right corner of the battlefield. His advanced Find Trap skill fires info boxes one after another: someone is arming a great many Automatons, each equipped with satchel explosives on a proximity trigger trip — an attempt to blow a funnel into the defenders' base.

Carl checks his map, sees only purple enemy dots and a few reanimated mages in that half of the field, warns everyone to brace over Warlord Chat, and casts Tripper. The satchels all go off at once, far harder than he expected: everyone without a Steady buff is knocked flat, Carl's eardrums blow out, and the automatons' gathering point becomes a crater with every cyborg in it simply gone. A sizzling metallic torso lands on the roof behind him.

Appearance

Bulky charge packs strapped to automaton frames, wired to proximity triggers, marked in Carl's vision by glaring trap-detection lights.

Role

The enemy's mass demolition charge, turned into the defenders' decisive weapon.

Relationships

Automatons — Carried them as walking proximity bombs

Tripper — The spell that set them all off prematurely

Find Trap — Detected and enumerated them through the smoke

Carl — Detonated them, wiping out the cyborg force

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 18

Hidden bombs strapped under Herman's clothes, glowing like magic gear and destabilizing after death.

Chapter 39

Proximity-triggered bomb packs the Reavers strapped to a mass of automatons — and which Carl detonated first.