THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Jikininki

also known as Janitor

First seen: Book 3, Chapter 1

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.

Mob

Level

17B3C1

Physical

Appearance:

Hunched, emaciated, and roughly seven feet tall, with white skin, bulging white eyes, and arms that drag the ground, tipped in black, serrated nails that click like porcelain. Their jaws chatter up and down like a wind-up toy, sounding like an industrial shredderB3C1

Uniform:

Threadbare double-breasted suits over blood-splattered white dress shirts, conductor-style hats reading "Janitor" in gold letters, and one of the pair wears a bowtie; the other has a pinback button reading "How may I hurt you?"B3C1

Location

Placed by Carl's own floor-wide tally at stop 12, one of several numbered stops now tied to a specific ghoul typeB3C22

Rail car 15, whose map label switches from a question mark to "Janitor's Lair" once the party actually entersB3C1

History by chapter
Book 3
Chapter 1
  • LOCATION Location: Rail car 15, whose map label switches from a question mark to "Janitor's Lair" once the party actually enters
  • PHYSICAL Uniform: Threadbare double-breasted suits over blood-splattered white dress shirts, conductor-style hats reading "Janitor" in gold letters, and one of the pair wears a bowtie; the other has a pinback button reading "How may I hurt you?"
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Hunched, emaciated, and roughly seven feet tall, with white skin, bulging white eyes, and arms that drag the ground, tipped in black, serrated nails that click like porcelain. Their jaws chatter up and down like a wind-up toy, sounding like an industrial shredder
  • TAG Mob: Two stationed in car 15, the "Janitor's Lair"; per their own tooltip, the most common and most insatiable of the Iron Tangle's ghoul breeds, but generally harmless to anyone who isn't bleeding, littering, or trespassing on their space
  • LEVEL Level: 17
Chapter 22
  • LOCATION Location: Placed by Carl's own floor-wide tally at stop 12, one of several numbered stops now tied to a specific ghoul type