Bestiary

One of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's defenders, seen flinging lemurs through the air as living projectiles during the siege on the big top. A giraffe was glimpsed carrying lemurs on its back back at chapter 6, but this is the first chapter to show one actively fighting or to give the type a name.

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A level-17 mob that floods the transit station near stop 283, roughly forty at once, fleeing up the stalled purple line. Per its own card, the design mashes an ordinary earth baboon together with the population of a Florida jail's drunk tank, and the writer credits themselves as especially proud of it. Bulky simian bodies carry disconcertingly human faces, features far too small for the broad fleshy canvas, and scavenged human clothing like ripped band shirts and backwards ball caps. Most are already deep into a staged sickness the interface calls the DTs, which the card notes barely changes their baseline behavior.

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A turkey-sized dinosaur that swarms the forest; many are infected with vampirism.

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A small salamander kept tied to a stick by the dwarf child Ricky Joe and used to needle the 201st Security Group's city elves, managing one spark of flame against a Wand Bearer before Mongo swallows him whole. Vomited back up, then swallowed a second time once Ricky Joe tries to avenge him.

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Level 40, the largest jellyfish drifting above the Akula, roughly fifteen feet across with dangling tentacles. White on the map, meaning not naturally hostile; harmless entirely unless touched.

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A young dinosaur that wears a pink feather boa and attacks ursine settlements.

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Level 20, an almost-human ghoul with green, rotting skin pulled tight over the skull, encountered by the hundreds pouring off station 72's platform onto the Vermillion line. Per its own card, tenacious and top of the line among the Iron Tangle's ghoul types, born one at a time from a soul crystal-powered Ghoul Generator every time a non-undead mob dies anywhere on the floor. Carl crushes two loose heads and torsos underfoot in the train's cab; the rest are mowed down and pulled into Katia's inventory by the trainload.

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Tsarina Signet's own Ink Marauder minions, cast loose from the tattoos on her own skin when she casts her nightly Blood Magic summon. Examined once as a three-headed ogre wielding a saber: "Created by a combination of sacrificial blood magic and an artist's imagination, these short-lived elementals vary wildly in their strength and abilities." Paper-thin and two-dimensional despite towering in size, forming Signet's 'battle squad' against Grimaldi's circus.

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A cluster of mobs Carl and Donut fight while grinding outside the skyfowl settlement, looking like a cross between floating squids and umbrellas. Carl calls them upgraded versions of the mind horrors they briefly faced on floor 2. Slow-moving and easy to kill, with a psionic attack that doesn't touch a high-charisma party; a few drop ink pouches as loot, which gets Mordecai excited.

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A floor 4 mob riding the Iron Tangle's train cars: squat, gray-skinned, and no-necked, with a shark-like mouth, small black eyes, and wisps of oily black hair over a corpulent, pig-like body balanced on toothpick legs. Carries a nail-studded wooden club. Its own card places the Bonker about as high as a commoner can climb in Cave Mudge society, a once star-faring people the game jokes regressed back to the stone age.

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Per Orthrus's own item card, a three-headed hellhound said to guard one of the twelfth floor's stairwell exits, and Orthrus's own older brother. Not encountered on the page; known only from the card's comparison.

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A bird creature that nests on the side of the Necropolis of Anser, carrying a chainsaw the way Ruckus carried her buzzsaw; per Firas M, a miniature version of that same giant boss. Mostly gone from the skies by the time Carl and Donut return to Hump Town, though one strays close enough to shear the cap off Hump Town's water main, blasting itself out of the sky in the process.

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Lucia Mar's rottweiler, grown to nearly twice the size of her other dog, Gustavo 3, for reasons never explained on the page. Shown in recap footage charging Florin during the fight that kills Ifechi; hit and knocked flying by his shotgun, uninjured thanks to Lucia's own reflect spell.

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Level 9 round clown, one of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's transformed performers, guarding the tunnel into the big top's main arena. Once a portly, unlovely boy with an expert's tumbling skill; the resurrected Clammy clones keep the old act's jolliness without any of its charm, happiest when eating a crawler. Lets Carl pass once he shows a Big Top Ticket.

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A level-65 Eryops Gigantis borough boss that took over Fort Freedom's throne room.

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Level 41, one of the ocean's fastest and most voracious predators, drawn to blood and the most common cause of death in any water-themed dungeon. Jet black with glowing red eyes, roughly fifteen feet long, otherwise built like an ordinary tiger shark. A pair of them tear into an already-injured shark drawn by the blood from Donut's exploding decoy corpses, and more keep arriving once the feeding frenzy starts.

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A devolved, blinded offshoot of the Lepus, a widespread semi-intelligent species, per its own examine card: hunted to near extinction generations ago for a warlord's favorite dish, the survivors fled into permanent darkness and lost their sight, trading it over the generations for an echolocation attack that induces crippling nausea. Tall, skinless, eyeless, human-fingered creatures shaped like upright jackrabbits with oversized ears and a mouth full of teeth. Boards trains at Banshee Station in a steady, cyclical stream, apparently drawn to a dead-end tunnel nearby where empty vials litter the floor; Carl comes to suspect they're getting high there before boarding and coming down by the time they get off.

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Level 5 floor 2 mob, mastiff-sized with a heavy-metal corpse-paint pattern across its face and absurdly long fangs. Its own tooltip warns that Kobold riders and slave masters usually aren't far behind. Drops Poor Dingo Pelts.

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A level-53 Borough Boss, a white goose kept by Commandant Kane as one of a string of pets meant to console his daughter Bonnie after the loss of her pig Sausage. Per her own card, actually Anser's granddaughter, pulled from the seventh floor generations ago through Anser's own gate and left mad and transformed after lingering too long in the Nothing along the way; the gnomes who captured her never learned who she really was. Immune to both magic and physical damage as an "environmental," vulnerable only to ordinary household objects already inside her own house. Kills Kane before the chapter opens and is destroyed by Carl and Donut using the kitchen's garbage disposal.

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A three-headed nodling who died protecting Signet from agents of Imogen and later became one of her tattoos.

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A silver-haired, elf-like war mage commanding a horde of Fleshers aboard the Dismemberment Limited, hunting the train's own engineer, Levi the 7th, for his bones. Denies being an elf when Levi guesses at his race, claiming he needs only a handful more unspecified 'iterations' before Levi will know exactly what he is. Killed by Carl and Donut mid-boast, decapitated through a temporary hole in the barrier blocking his horde.

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Level 6 monsters swarming Sirin Station on floor 4: knee-high, grey-skinned, and baby-shaped, with sharp claws and mouths full of too many teeth. They hunt in packs of 50 or more and climb walls and pillars like spiders.

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A fast-moving mob roughly Donut's size that replaces the Thorny Devils outside Hump Town's walls once the second sun rises. Seen only in numbers on Carl's map, swarming outside town; not yet fought.

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A Canada Goose, level 45 Neighborhood Boss, found already dead inside a dud Dirigible Gnome egg-bomb outside Hump Town, apparently killed by the bomb's own malfunctioning deployment mechanism. Drops a neighborhood map.

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One of the feral gods loosed into the lacuna when the party's stolen bubble-escape method pops open a neighboring bubble: a turkey roughly Orthrus's own size, first spotted pecking harmlessly at nearby worlds. Triples in size gorging on the remains of another exploded feral god, becomes the most dangerous thing loose in the lacuna, and is eventually killed by Prepotente.

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Level 18, thousands of them packed into Station E's trainyard, mistaken for ordinary zombies at a distance until Donut notices a pair talking. What the DTs sickness turns a victim into on dying, not undead despite the name, immune by its card's own claim to anti-undead attacks. Different bodies come out looking different: a moss-covered, bark-skinned pair, a multi-limbed spider-shaped climber, a flaming wolf-shaped one. Devours organic material and seeks out its own kind, per its card, with an unstated purpose that only becomes clear once enough of them gather.

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Level 8 floor 3 mob: feral, transformed descendants of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's juggling lemurs, wearing painted human skulls as masks and throwing knives instead of juggling them. Appear in a swarm out of a ruined building's windows and roof, some riding a giraffe; Carl and Donut fight through them on the way to a safe room, several catching fire from a thrown boom jug.

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Tall mushroom people assigned to guard the smaller sixth-floor settlements.

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A reanimated left ursine claw that serves Big Tina and tries to rejoin its body.

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Level 40 neighborhood boss and the ochre line's own train engineer: a ManTauR, a genetically engineered creature with an ordinary man's lower body topped by a second, smaller torso and pair of arms. Climbs out of his wrecked engine car once Carl's party derails his train, mistakes them for fellow survivors, and answers a long run of questions about the end of the line before ducking into Club Vanquisher for a drink. Comes storming back out enraged moments later, apparently tipped off that the party caused the crash, and is killed in the fight that follows.

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A yellow tomcat who used to come to Carl and Beatrice's first-floor window on Earth when Donut was in heat, owned by their neighbor Marjory. Donut always called him Ferdinand and spun elaborate romantic backstories about their forbidden love, refusing for two books to say who he really was; Carl finally names him and his real owner live on Danger Zone. Impregnated most of the female cats within three blocks.

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Speaks directly into Carl's mind for the first time, in a voice distinct from the parasite hive's collective one (the hive itself calls him 'Papa Grimaldi'). Calls Carl 'son,' warns he can't regenerate Carl the way he regenerates his own performers, and begs him to break free of the infestation and run rather than stay and join the family. Whether by Grimaldi's own choice, the hive's compliance, or the show's producers pulling strings, as Carl himself hopes might be happening, Carl's own mouth is made to growl 'I have un-banished you, my love' to Signet moments later, lifting whatever had barred her from the tent and ending the nightly standoff. Which explanation is true is never settled on the page.

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Per Imani, a floating, gas-filled mob stationed at station 272 on the Iron Tangle. Easy to kill one-on-one, but attacks with a poison cloud that covers an area. Never seen on the page; described secondhand over chat as Elle and Imani plan their walk toward it.

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Lucia Mar's regular-sized rottweiler, capable of sparking lightning in his own mouth. Shown in recap footage blocking a fleeing crawler's path and charging Florin during the fight that kills Ifechi; knocked flying by his shotgun, uninjured thanks to Lucia's own reflect spell.

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Per her own Neighborhood Boss card: performing since she was a cub, one of the longest-running acts at Grimaldi's Traveling Circus and only weeks from retirement when the cataclysm hit. Now a hunter for the circus, dragging prey back for the clowns to feed on, with rare flashes of the old Heather surfacing to silently hate the crawlers she catches. Fought and killed solo by Carl, who frees her from the parasites controlling her moments before finishing her off at her own unspoken request.

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Level 35, one of Mimic Rex's minions: a huge, standalone mouth of needle teeth with no other visible anatomy. Its own card frames it as the reanimated remains of people who lived for cheap all-you-can-eat buffets, permanently starving and permanently in pain, feeding itself only to hand the energy back to its master. Killed by Carl in trainyard E with a thrown hob-lobber.

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A level-10 magical vine used to protect a city, with each branch counting as an individual non-hostile plant.

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Level 17 ghouls stationed in car 15 of the party's Red Line train, dressed in tattered conductor-style janitor uniforms. Per their own tooltip, the most common and best-behaved of the Iron Tangle's ghoul types, content to leave crawlers alone as long as they aren't bleeding, littering, or trespassing.

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Level 30 minions of Lusca: eel-bodied pups roughly ten feet long with a tentacled rear half and a round, tooth-filled mouth the size of a bicycle wheel, mouth-brooded inside their mother in numbers Carl can only guess at, maybe tens of thousands. Ruthlessly competitive with each other once food runs short, since each birthing of two to three thousand pups leaves only one or two survivors.

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A level-60 Mongoliensis Pack Leader with a scarred face and a female velociraptor pack in the jungle outside Point Mongo.

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Level 10 Neighborhood Boss guarding the Rev-Up moonshine operation's boss chamber on floor 2: one clone of a dim, communal-minded species called Krakaren, distinct from a central 'Krakaren Prime' that births two replacement clones for every one killed. Fights blind, swinging screaming tentacles through the walls.

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Level 1, rice-grain-sized parasites that spill out by the thousand when a stage-three DTs monster finally bursts, already visibly growing as they squirm across the ground. The AI's own introduction, delivered in a mock-motherly storytime voice, calls them clones of a single lonely creature from another world who could only reproduce by devouring and copying other life. Confirms Growler Gary's claim that the fallen station is now a full Krakaren nest.

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What the rice-grain-sized Krakaren Crotch Dumplings from station 24 grow into within days: level 14-17, monkey-sized, tentacled things with round, teeth-filled mouths that work like living garbage disposals. Fast, caustic-blooded, and still visibly growing hour by hour. Elle takes a team including Katia and Donut to grind them outside station 24 while Carl works on the crane plan at station 36.

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Level-16 ghost-class mob: floating, disembodied female heads trailing their own organs beneath them on wet ropes of nerve and artery. Per the game's own lore text, said to be the undead shells of women who lived lives of sin, hiding their true form and feeding on the blood of the unsuspecting. A group of three ambush Carl, Donut, and Mongo in a dark alley but flee, screaming, the instant Donut's Torch spell lights them up.

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Level 7 Troll Flesher and Hobgoblin Skellie Symbiote: two creatures that only gained speech and intelligence once combined, driving the Dismemberment Limited as its sole visible crew. Begs any crawler who boards to get off again before the doors seal, since the rear cars only open for the ride once riders are aboard, and something back there wants his bones. The seventh creature to bear the name, per an on-page trivia note, this particular quest chain having triggered six times before since the floor opened.

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Level 1 trap monsters, tagged on-page as such, that poured out of a booby-trapped Yellow Line Reward Room prize suitcase in numbers far beyond what the case could plausibly have held. Their own card describes them as regular fire ants, but literally on fire and out for blood. Individually trivial, but overwhelming in a mass, and set the fire that spread to a bottle of moonshine on the bar, the explosion that ultimately killed conductor Vernon.

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A building-sized shark-octopus hybrid, Level 82 City Boss, introduced live by the special event broadcast as native to the water moon Hayes 17. The AI's own description casts her as a devoted, overworked single mother who mouth-broods a vast litter of pups and needs constant food to keep them fed, occasionally trading a meal for company with a passing male. First seen closing in on the wrecked, submerged Akula with Carl's team still trapped aboard.

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A borough boss Elle's team found while checking one of the Iron Tangle's five-stop transfer platforms and chose to leave alone, reported to Carl only over party chat. Imani calls her an old acquaintance of Carl's without explaining why. Neither the message nor Carl's own memory of the tentacled Krakaren boss he and Donut killed on floor 2 confirms whether this is the same individual or another member of the same species.

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Level 15 mob, one of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's own transformed animals: former dancing lions from Madam Kiki's act, half consumed by a green, pulsating fungus and sprouting worm-like tentacles from the mane. Released by the circus to attack Tsarina Signet every night, six at once; regrow from spores the next day if killed. Fought off by Carl and Donut on her behalf.

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Formally examined: a level-52 Borough Boss, a minion of the banished lesser deity Psamathe. Its own unusually somber flavor text frames it as an unwilling servant torn between loving Ghazi, resenting that he doesn't love it back, and an inability to disobey whoever sent it. Regrows from a single grain of sand and can't be permanently killed while Psamathe remains in the world; only shrinks under fire, cold, dilution, or electricity. Burned down to its core and defeated by Carl in the boss chamber, though the castle's collapse and flood happen in the same instant, leaving its actual death unconfirmed on the page beyond the system's own notification.

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A level-50 Bearded Sage Caterpillar and transformed Chee teacher who carries Clint's group.

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Fist-sized mobs that emerge from the bowl's sand dunes after dark in large numbers, per the field guide looted off Ruckus. Carl compares them to the first floor's rot sticker mobs: they run at a target, attach, and explode. Katia and Donut snipe a few from the moving Royal Chariot without stopping to fight properly.

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Undead mole rat creatures, naked with almost-human anatomy, per Morris Sp. Fill the cavern village his crawler team started in at the top of the Necropolis of Anser's subterranean quadrant.

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A powerful plant-controlled monster formed from unbound glamoured fragments.

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Seen for the first time: a two-headed puppy so large he fills half of Bubble #543, stuck in the flooded necropolis with his front legs draped over the bowl's rim. His own item card lists him as a Level 10 Juvenile Gate Guardian and Cerberus's kid brother, innocent enough to be unaffected by the Nothing's blight and immune to fire, but otherwise fragile and not invulnerable like a full god. Testicles still retracted, marking him as young.

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A smaller, white jellyfish drifting near the Akula, per Vadim's own warning to watch for and avoid since they drift; never examined on the page by Carl. Vadim distinguishes them from the larger, harmless Big Boy Blue by their color and size.

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Level 22 fish-featured monsters out of kua-tin mythology, green-skinned with milk-white eyes and built like an oversized, far uglier kua-tin. Encountered lounging on a platform at station 84, waiting to board, secreting acid from their fingers.

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What Festering Ghouls turn into once enough of them gather in one place, per Imani and Elle's discovery at stop 48: worm-like things emerge from the ghouls and pull themselves tightly together into one giant, room-filling creature, too big to leave the space it forms in. Slurps when it moves and is covered in mouths that scream continuously. Imani's team gets a discovery achievement for finding it and escapes before it can act. Never seen by Carl's own party, only reported secondhand over chat.

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A hedgehog-like ogre creature boarding at Mora Station, floor 4's second stop, per the train's own loudspeaker announcement. Too large to fit through a train car doorway, only its arm reaching in before it's obliterated by Carl's Protective Shell.

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A level 93 monster, the corpus's first look at the punishment the broadcast promised for hallway bathroom violations. Fifteen feet tall and just as wide, six-legged and made of sizzling black and purple smoke around a flickering, horned animal skull with fire for eyes. Nearly indestructible and self-healing, said to only dissipate after claiming 666 souls. Its own system card calls this the first recorded summoning of one anywhere.

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Level 11 Neighborhood Boss guarding the kobold quadrant's boss chamber on floor 2: a captive fighting-pit gerbil, launched at Carl and Donut from a handler's cage the instant the fight starts. Ordinary Frenzied Gerbils are floor 5-7 mobs per the system's own card, but Ralph trained specifically to fight and hates humans for it.

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Bipedal rat monsters, per Frank Q's own account of the dungeon's opening chaos: they killed his unconscious ex-brother-in-law moments after he'd choked the man out during the initial fight that dragged both families in. No further description given.

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A level-22 mob Carl deliberately isolated by pushing the cart forward to suck the other stage-three monsters into the abyss portal ahead of it, its nameplate reading Razor Fox even though the AI's own commentary insists that name no longer really applies. Deep in stage three of the DTs, it's a hippo-sized mass with a round, tooth-ringed mouth and thrashing back tentacles, its original shape gone entirely. Killing it doesn't end the fight: its body bursts and scatters a swarm of newborn Krakaren Crotch Dumplings across the track.

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A self-replicating, spring-operated sentinel automaton, not the failed invention or organic cyborg earlier guesses suggested. Built by the treasure hunter Shamus Chaindrive and left behind by his submarine the Akula to kill anyone hunting the Gate of the Feral Gods. A brief system glitch just before the fight changes its own boss card, waking it into active anti-boat, anti-intruder combat mode and naming Carl's party enemies of Chaindrive's long-dead captain.

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An emu-like mob native to the Over City ruins. Three appear screeching during the evacuation sprint; Donut drops two with Magic Missile and another crawler's mage drops a third with a lightning burst, though that one only falls rather than dying outright until Carl stomps its neck.

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Bonnie's pet pig, prized enough that Commandant Kane bombed the Bactrian town after Bactrian camels captured and held him hostage. The same pig the Bactrians used as their own proof-of-life collateral with the gnomes, established back at chapter 10 without a name; already dead by the time Bonnie is shown in person.

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Monsters advancing on floor 3 as it collapses, mentioned only in Brandon An's final chat message to Carl. No appearance or level given; Brandon says only that he hates them.

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Level-14 smoke-like ghost-class mobs that swarm out of an alley near the magistrate's building, using a stinging cold attack. Carl's Nightgaunt Cloak resists the cold, and having a physical presence despite being smoke-like, they can be hurt normally by Carl's gauntlet and Mongo's teeth, and are blinded by smoke bombs like any physical creature. Give off an unusually high amount of experience and die easily; Mongo hits level 13 off the fight.

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Level-12 undead mob, a thirteen-foot pile of scavenged human limbs and heads sewn together into a slug-like shape, per its own examine card built from leftover parts left over after the World Dungeon's creation. Slow and mostly harmless in the light, but their power quadruples in darkness, where they turn tenacious and relentless. A pack of them, backed by two city elves casting an anti-magic spell, ambushes Carl, Donut, and Mongo in an unnatural, sudden nightfall outside an abandoned pool.

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A floor 4 mob riding the Iron Tangle's train cars alongside Cave Mudge Bonkers: a human-sized, red-maned snake creature with a lion's head, like a naga crossed with a lion. Carl's party nicknames them 'lesser nagas with mommy issues.' Carries a slow-charging electrical attack that fizzles if the Chomper is struck before it fires.

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A level-65 Northropi vampire and neighborhood boss, once Viscount Fog's mount.

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A level-75 white battle rhinoceros that carries Queen Imogen's familiar in a shielded litter.

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A mushroom Mordecai wants collected, always picked by the stem and never by the top; a crawler who picked one up is shown skewered by it.

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Small vicious mobs resembling half-sized wolverines that emerge from holes in the ground.

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The trainyard-E Station Mimic gets an actual name at last, introduced live as part of a staged Death Challenge broadcast against Carl: level 90, billed as the floor's current record holder for confirmed kills. Cleaved in half by the war god Grull mid-fight, in the middle of trying to reach Carl herself, closing out her long rampage through trainyard E.

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Level 8 janitor mobs of the Over City's ruins: squat, black, spiked creatures about knee-high that roll like tumbleweeds. Per their own tooltip, they were once real pets kept by the Over City's rich before the cataclysm transformed them into what they are now, and their only real purpose is clearing dead bodies and other refuse; they only attack what gets between them and something they're trying to clean up.

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One of Beatrice's mother's Persian cats, described by Beatrice in a memory of Carl's as Donut's aunt or cousin. Pregnant and expecting a litter around the time of their last fight before the transformation, part of Beatrice's plan to take two of the kittens once weaned and sell Donut off separately as a show-quality breeder.

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An 11-foot stilt-clown, level 10, one of the transformed remnants of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus haunting floor 3's ruins. Bone-white skin, no eyes or nose, an oversized red tooth-filled mouth, a red curly wig, a little flowered hat, and a giant butcher knife in each overlong hand. Killed by Carl, Donut, and Mongo together on the last street before a safe room, immune to Carl's Fear spell.

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Level 15 Borough Boss guarding the spiral maze around the floor 2 stairwell: a rolling, orgy-formed sphere of at least 30 Tuskling knights and courtesans, transferred into the dungeon from their own world.

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The Akula's own neighborhood boss, an automated sentinel gun mounted in the ceiling of a semicircular antechamber outside the bridge, already dead by the time Carl reaches it. Killed not in combat but by System Deactivation: a small hidden control box beneath the floor that Maggie My somehow circumvented, letting her solo the bridge's borough boss beyond and claim all its experience. Carl finds the box still intact and loots it.

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The neighborhood boss Carl and Donut find while grinding outside the skyfowl settlement: a giant manta-ray-like creature that blends against a building's side and tries to drop on passersby. Donut's new Acute Ears skill catches it lurking before it can ambush them; killed in under a minute using a new play, The Boomy Boy.

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A level-17 neighborhood boss, a two-headed sea creature with a whale's body and a pair of long, Loch-Ness-monster necks, found already dead in an abandoned, half-collapsed indoor swimming pool. Killed days earlier by a crawler named Daniel Bautista 2, its bloated, riddled corpse is still rotting in the empty pool when Carl falls on it mid-ambush; the impact, or the shockwave of two nearby explosions, bursts it and buries the whole street in gore.

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Leader of the goblin clan at the engineers' workshop, occupying a sealed boss room the same size and shape as the Hoarder's. Still unnamed and unmet face to face; glimpsed only by Donut through the open door as a huge, ugly goblin sitting down reading a book, moments before Carl and Donut try to blow the room up.

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Level 7 Neighborhood Boss, floor 1: a transformed human woman trapped in a room-filling garbage pile, protected by cockroach-like Scatterer minions she vomits up on command.

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Level 9 Neighborhood Boss, floor 1: a transformed human bodybuilder fused with a Troglodyte Basher, holding court in his own gym boss room until Carl and Donut kill him.

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The circus's strongman ogre, seen up close for the first time and given a real name: Apollon the Mighty, also marked an Elite. Runs an 'Iced Cream' stand in the big top's main arena, its cones filled with the same white parasitic worms that infested Heather the Bear. Bears a striking resemblance, jagged scar included, to the center head of Tsarina Signet's own three-headed ogre tattoo.

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A grizzly-bear-sized, spike-covered desert lizard, level 34, common on floor 5. Fast, dumb, and aggressive, with thick natural armor that shrugs off crossbow bolts; per its own tooltip, they keep harems, and the queen is worth fearing most. A lone male dies to Carl's party outside Hump Town, gored open by a clockwork Mongo before a hob-lobber finishes it.

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The harem-keeping matriarch of the bowl's thorny devil population, flagged as the one worth fearing back at chapter 3's first thorny devil tooltip. Killed off-page in a fight against Langley's archer team, Louis Santiago 2, and Firas M; every ordinary thorny devil mob in the bowl vanishes the moment she dies.

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A level-25 Night Weasel Scout belonging to Hunter Zabit.

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Level 75 guards posted at floor 3 village gates in full plate, faces obscured, armed with long steel blades. Per their own tooltip, protect the population centers from what roams the Over City Ruins, but only while the sun is up.

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A mob Bautista reports over chat congregating near the intact gangway his group needs to climb one level up to the Mindaro line, forcing them to fight their way through. Not seen by Carl's own party, and not described beyond the name.

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A level-40 venomous plant creature that lashes nearby targets with vines.

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Named only in passing by Widget, the Station E mechanic, as one of the things that sometimes turns up loaded into the drug-tunnel cage carts alongside ordinary Festering Ghouls, breaking or spilling the cages when it does. Never described further at first mention.

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Waist-high, semi-intelligent armadillo-like monsters fought in a mass on the train toward station 131. Roll into armored balls once they start taking damage, though the balls are small enough for Mongo to swallow whole and crunch through like hard candy.

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