Rage Elemental

I was less confident about this than I was with the whole portable fortress idea. That time I knew we faced a mob meant to be killed. This was different. This was something meant as a punitive action, a punishment. It wasn’t meant to be fair, to be survivable.^[1]

Rage Elementals are berserking mobs typically found on the Thirteenth Floor, and possibly tied to Dungeon lore.^[2][3] On the Second Floor, the Borant Corporation introduces a patch that summons a Rage Elemental if a human urinates outside of a bathroom.^[2]

AI Description

Rage Elemental – Level 93

The first recorded summoning of a Rage Elemental, blah, blah, blah. If you are reading this, you likely don’t give a shit about the monster’s (rather interesting and tragic) history. You’re probably running. It’s not going to matter. The almost-indestructible Rage Elemental is said to only dissipate after it has claimed 666 souls.

In other words, you are fucked. Absolutely, bite-the-pillow, fucked.^[4]

Description

Rage Elementals are creatures of intangible smoke and physical claws capable of rending humans to ribbons and scouring enchanted stone.^[5] Apparently formed from sapient creatures under specific circumstances^[3], Rage Elementals are in a constant state of partial invulnerability and berserking similar to the Bitch, What? Spell.^[6]

Nearly indestructible, Rage Elementals are immune to blunt damage and rapidly regenerate health even in combat.^[7][5] They are susceptible to incendiary attacks fueled with napalm; a level 93 Rage Elemental lost 25% of its health to a Carl's Jug O'Boom and recovered slowly as the napalm continued to burn.^[8]

In addition to their claws, they can cast a limited-range Reverse Gravity Spell and can move impossibly fast.^[5] Rage Elementals can also explode, although it is unclear whether they explode when killed or if they have a self-destruct ability.^[9]

Appearance

Rage Elementals appear to be made of intangible, sizzling black and purple smoke,^[5] and will be as large as the space where they are summoned allows.^[10] Its head is marked by a massive, flickering (incorporeal), badger-like skull with curved goat horns and fiery red eyes that ooze smoke. Its six legs end in gleaming, obsidian claws the size of rakes, which seem to be the only corporeal part of its body. The claws on its two forelegs are longer and jointed, almost finger-like.^[5]

While Rage Elementals can stand, they can also fall forward on all six legs and run impossibly fast, shaking the ground like a locomotive. They shriek and hiss, and their roars can shake the dungeon.^[5]

Gallery

Soundbooth Theatre Immersion Tunnel: 1x07

Art by @JohnRubio, Instagram

Art by u/OutFold, Reddit

Official art by Erik Wilson^[1]

Art by u/Content_Office_2479, Reddit

Art by @oakfield.art, Instagram

Story

Book 1

After crawlers arrive on the Second Floor of the current dungeon, the Borant Corporation introduces a patch that spawns a Rage Elemental any time a human urinates outside of a bathroom.^[2] A human Borant employee, not realizing that the patch applied to all humans, was "splattered" shortly after.^[11]

Later, due to the proliferation of Brindle Grubs, the Royal Court of Princess Donut and Meadow Lark team up to ferry the (39) remaining level-1 patients to a Stairwell using a centipede-like train of wheeled carts connected by Yog's Special Chain and pulled by leather pig harnesses.^[12] Jack, Randall, Elle McGibbons, and Donut are sharing the final car, and Carl is chatting with Zev, when Jack drops his pants and lets loose on the Dungeon wall. Donut moves as though to kill him only to abort her attack. Yolanda Martinez shoots him a second later. It's not fast enough.^[5]

The wet stain starts to sizzle and boil, emitting purple and black smoke, before the Rage Elemental materializes in the Dungeon. Unbothered by Confusing Fog, it shreds Yolanda, Randall, and Jack into a fine mist, and snaps its head through Carl's Protective Shell Spell before the shield repels its claws. The surviving crawlers race for a safe room as the Rage Elemental casts its Reverse Gravity Spell, and Carl races back into the area of effect to rescue Elle, whose health is dangerously low. He shields her body with his when he leaves the spell's area and lands painfully on his back.^[5]

The Elemental thrashes and pounds on the Safe Room door for hours, never tiring. Carl, Donut, and Elle receive the What Goes Up Achievement, and Carl and Donut receive the Like a Moth to the Flame Achievement.^[8]

With the help of Brandon Andrews and Chris Andrews, Carl builds the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) and hooks it to the Goblin Copper Chopper. As 1 trillion viewers tune into Donut's feed, Imani opens the Safe Room door for the dozenth time, the Rage Elemental attempts to crash in and is teleported away, and Carl and Donut set off. They use the Chopper to stay ahead of it, use the bombs to keep it from gaining too much ground, and guide it toward the nearest stairwell. At Carl's instruction, Donut releases a flood of Goblin Oil and they leap from the motorcycle as it careens into the stairwell. The Rage Elemental slips in the oil and skids toward the stairwell and Royal Court. Donut casts Puddle Jumper Spell; the Royal Court teleports 500 feet down the hall and hear an indignant shriek, "followed by the distinctive whoosh of a big-ass explosion" which Carl believes was caused by the "Oh Shit" bombs he left behind.^[1]

They do not receive experience for killing the Rage Elemental because they exploited a Dungeon bug that Rory had told them about previously: mobs dissolve if they make it halfway down a stairwell.^[1][13] Donut receives a slew of bomb-themed that Carl had already received, Carl receives the Grease Monkey Achievement achievement, and both receive the You Call That a Trap? Achievement.^[14]

Later, when Carl and Donut go on Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, Maestro mentions that the battle was the most watched second floor battle in the history of Dungeon Crawler World. ^[15]

When the fight is shown on the Recap Episode, the monster's health is shown to be almost completely gone when it disappears down the stairwell. Carl suspects that would be too easy to kill, and is most likely a trap to try to lure the crawlers into summoning it again. ^[16]

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