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The Viceroys

Viceroys

The creditors Tipid went into debt to for the brain repairs the blast has now undone.

Story so far

Rosetta explains Tipid's condition to the party: his brain was scrambled during his crawl, and once he left the Enhancement Zone it went to mush. To fix it, he had to go into debt to the Viceroys.

Those repairs appear to have been ruined in the blast, leaving him with no memory past his last day as a Game Guide and unable to safely leave the dungeon. The debt, presumably, remains.

Role

Medical creditors whose expensive brain repairs kept Tipid functional until the blast.

Relationships

Tipid — Repaired his brain in exchange for indentured debt.
Rosetta — Explains his history with them.
Viceroy Chief Surgeon — Their surgical authority.
Sources — 14 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 12
  • Masked outworlder faction supplying The Madness's leadership and surgeons, disliked on sight by Donut.
Chapter 15
  • Masked faction-wars monsters called the Madness, whose systems nonetheless offer the galaxy's best brain repair.
Chapter 24
  • Masked alien race whose leader Architect Houston commands the Madness and whose kind serve as adjutants.
Chapter 29
  • The Madness's true elite, whose robes and masks are worn by ordinary soldiers to disguise their scarcity.
Chapter 35
  • Faction whose leader the achievement text names as one of the kills that would cause genuine galactic chaos.
Chapter 36
  • Epitome Tagg's faction, poised to grab a third section of land if nobody contests the Prism castle.
Chapter 38
  • The genuine article behind the Madness masks — conspicuously absent from the attacking force so far.
Chapter 52
  • The office Architect Houston holds, present at the warlord council in strange undulating robes.
Chapter 53
  • The faction that seeks all understanding of life and death, and that named the death-entity the Beautiful Place.
Chapter 55
  • Past Faction Wars team whose summoning of Mazu accidentally sealed the sultana out of her escape route.
Chapter 65
  • Ninth-floor faction whose headquarters Juice Box penetrated repeatedly, decapitating multiple leaders before the ceasefire.
Chapter 70
  • Enemy faction absent from the opening of the battle, holding its army back to defend its stronghold as predicted.
Chapter 78
  • Science-obsessed species who offer free surgery across the galaxy in exchange for bodies and data.
Chapter 94
  • The creditors Tipid went into debt to for the brain repairs the blast has now undone.
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