The Coblyn Corporation
The company the knockers built after the Corporatocracy running the mines took their caves for the minerals underneath. Too weak to fight and with nowhere to go, they started manufacturing high-grade drugs and selling them to the miners; the mine operators outlawed everything they did not sell themselves, vilified the knockers, tried to eradicate them and lost, because a war on drugs is a war on the impulse to find comfort. Flush with money, the knockers incorporated, bought up legitimate businesses, milled the ore from their own land into product, and branched into toys, skateboards and fidget spinners. It was not enough — they had grown as addicted to the earnings as their customers were to the goods. Shut out of the legal pharmaceutical market and watching their doll line sell, they went into cocaine for toddlers, and bought cut-rate elemental magic to guard the secret. Both of the factory's monster problems trace back to that purchase. The System's own write-up declines to draw a lesson from any of it.
Book 8 appearances
- Chapter 63 — Its whole history arrives as the product description on a mountain of raw Toddler Cocaine: dispossessed knockers turn drug dealers, get rich, incorporate, buy legitimate businesses, and finally decide that if they can sell to miners with an E they can sell to minors with an O. The System notes they are all addicts.
- Chapter 65 — The Slag Elemental write-up blames the corporation directly: trying to protect the child-drug operation on the cheap, they got what they paid for — contagious, regenerating, infused and very angry elementals all over the factory.
Related entries
- Knockers (Creature)
- Toddler Cocaine (Item)
- Cocaine Elemental (Creature)
- Slag Elemental (Creature)
- The Nose Candy Star Dusters (Lore)
- Gasworks Screw Factory, Steel Mill, and Doll Workshop (Place)
- Infused Elemental (Notification)
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