Conscript

A military charm spell, Doctor Bones’s specialty. It permanently enslaves the weak-minded (on a weak subject the effect lasts essentially forever) but will not touch anyone already pledged to a specific army, which makes it a defining weapon of the ninth floor’s Faction Wars: most factions spend heavily to keep a Level-15 Conscript caster on hand to enslave unaligned crawlers to their cause. Buying a Faction-Wars team, as Carl did for the Princess Posse, is partly insurance against being Conscripted. Slower-burning and permanent where Donut’s Minion Army is slow-casting and temporary, it is the quiet horror beneath the ninth floor’s politics.

Book 6 appearances

• Chapter 52 — Carl watches Doctor Bones practice Conscript on the AI trainer and recognizes it as the ninth-floor enslavement threat his Faction-Wars team was meant to negate.

Related entries

• Doctor Bones (Character)
• Faction Wars (Floor 9) (Lore)
• Minion Army (Spell / Skill)
• Carl (Character)

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