Krakaren Crotch Dumplings

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I suggest a nice, firm stomp.^[1]

Krakaren Crotch Dumplings are a Fourth Floor mob that emerge from the corpse of a mob suffering from stage 3 of the DTs.

AI Description

Krakaren Crotch Dumpling. Level 1.

Gather around little crawlers. It’s story time.

Once upon a time, on a distant planet, there lived a lonely creature. This planet teemed with flora and fauna, all of them growing and evolving and generally thriving and having a great time as they dashed forward through the eons. This creature also wanted to thrive, she also wanted to have a great time. But there was only one of her. She could not have children of her own. And this made her very angry, very cranky, but also very sad. More importantly, it made her determined.

And as Doctor Ian Malcom once famously said, Life, uh, finds a way.

The creature had a special ability. Her stomach was like a gas-station coffee vending machine, one where you could pick one of a thousand different choices. You could mix and match. She soon discovered if she ate this creature, she could make this substance. And if she ate that creature, she could make a different one. So she began to experiment. The creatures of her world thought of her as an apothecary. She could cure all ails.

But what she truly wished for was to create a child of her own. And after a thousand generations, she did just that. Almost. It’s a complicated process that involves a lot of failures. A lot of troublesome ghouls. But as another Earth saying goes, you need to crack a few eggs to make an omelet, no?

What these wriggling parasites you see really are, are clones. The next part of the Krakaren story, where she discovers the ability to speak to all of clones telepathically, and then eventually form a collective mind, where she starts spreading across the universe and making a general nuisance of herself is for a different time.

All you need to know now, little crawler, is that you have to kill these things, and you have to kill them fast. After all, like all children, they grow up so very fast.

I suggest a nice, firm stomp.^[1]

Appearance

Each Crotch Dumpling is about the size of a grain of rice. ^[1]

Story

Book 3

The Royal Court of Princess Donut comes across this mob at station 75 during the End of the Line Rescue after killing a Razor Fox suffering from stage 3 of the DTs. Carl stomps on them until finally burning the rest with a jug of moonshine. Donita Grace reports they are congregating at Station 24, but dies mid-message. ^[1]

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