The Mercenary Arcade

The communal training room that comes with the guildhall's mercenary barracks, unlocked once Carl hires the Penis Parade crew as Faction-Wars mercs. Run by the same AI drill sergeant as the regular practice room, here spawned in many instances at once, it lets hired mercenaries level up by sparring, including being killed and regenerating a minute later, Growler-Gary-style, and fighting one another to the death. A magical healer tends the mercs (never Carl, who isn't safe in the room). The barracks hold twenty by default and expand to a hundred for nearly five million gold; mercs must be housed in the communal barracks, not a private safe space, to train here. Carl quietly locks his strippers inside with the skin-skellie bard Doctor Bones for a secret 'team-building exercise.'

Book 6 appearances

• Chapter 34 — Katia tells Carl over guild chat that they bought the training arena for the newly hired Penis Parade mercs and that it's called the Mercenary Arcade.
• Chapter 52 — Carl tours the arcade, studies the mercs at their weapons, and hatches his team-building plan: racing to buy the 100-merc upgrade before the floor collapses.

Related entries

• Meat Shields (the Mercenary Market) (Lore)
• The Penis Parade (Place)
• Doctor Bones (Character)
• Growler Gary (Character)
• Carl (Character)

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