Juice Box
Names: Juice BoxJuicy-Juicethe JuiceWarlord Juice Box
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 5Juice Box is a changeling prostitute who shifts races instantly; Mordecai warns she is far more powerful than her level 17 suggests.
- Ch 10Donut's sunglasses reveal Juice Box and the Toe's bartender are both changelings.
- Ch 10Juice Box claims changelings may only take dromedarian form at the bars, a deal Carl recognises as an obvious lie.
- Ch 10Juice Box says gnomes, the mad mage and the undersea bugbear sought the Gate of the Feral Gods, but changelings seek something else.
- Ch 10Juice Box promises to explain what the changelings seek if Carl saves the town and her people survive the bombing.
- Ch 13Juice Box says she is not a changeling principal and that changelings won't be stopped by the flooding necropolis.
- Ch 14Juice Box recognises that someone else is inside Chris and warns Carl not to kill him.
- Ch 15Juice Box reveals that Henrik is her brother and a Principal, a group said to catalogue species but really seeking one.
- Ch 17Juice Box, in dirigible gnome form, takes the orphaned Bonnie in, saying orphans always have a home in Hump Town.
- Ch 17Juice Box, a changeling, cares for the grieving Bonnie in Skarn's house.
- Ch 27Juice Box is taking her brother Henrik's death badly while sheltering in Hump Town.
- Ch 28Juice Box seems to be remembering past dungeon runs as an NPC, dreaming of a dragon-headed man killing diseased schoolchildren.
- Ch 28Mordecai thinks Juice Box will help with the changeling children, but not for free; she fears sending them all through.
- Ch 33Juice Box warns Carl he resembles her brother, who pushed too hard against an obstacle and died.
- Ch 34Juice Box, now fully aware she is an NPC, agrees to carry the box through in exchange for Carl's promise to try to bring her people down each floor.
- Ch 34Juice Box goes to Larracos to tell its NPCs what they really are, and reveals she loves Louis and they will marry.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 23Juice Box is a changeling somewhere on the ninth floor, and Carl worries she is being hunted too.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 23Juice Box, an NPC wearing the form of Tagg's mother Epitome Noflex, takes the dead viceroy's seat; Tagg's men thought they'd killed her.
- Ch 24Juice Box, Louis's fiancée, is a changeling NPC on the ninth floor who has realised what she is and declares herself her own team.
- Ch 24Juice Box demands a new Faction Wars team for NPCs with full protections and regeneration, threatening continued attacks otherwise.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 1Juice Box, a psychotic changeling in love with Louis, was made warlord of the NPC Faction Wars team.
- Ch 7Juice Box is in Larracos's castle, which is still underwater.
- Ch 11Warlord Juice Box wants to seal her truce with the crawlers by marrying General Louis right away.
- Ch 13Juice Box is Co-Warlord of Team Retribution; as a high-level changeling, her true level cannot be determined.
- Ch 13Juice Box has new scars and struggles to fully form her shape when changing, with features appearing late.
- Ch 13Juice Box has no warlord menus but receives game messages and can now use chat with crawlers.
- Ch 14In her blank form, Juice Box shows as level 120.
- Ch 25Juice Box still has spies in the warlords' courts and burned some of them early to save Carl.
- Ch 49Juice Box will attend the warlord council only virtually, because protections bar dungeon-born from the production facility.
- Ch 50Juice Box stays in the castle during the warlord council.
- Ch 51Juice Box appears virtually in human form and gives Carl a slight nod signalling the plan is underway.
- Ch 52Juice Box, a changeling, condemns the outside world for creating and destroying her people, then warns in a demonic voice that 'it is coming.'
- Ch 65Juice Box says she has lived at least 400 lives, though NPCs are supposed to be recycled after 20.
- Ch 65Justice accuses Juice Box of faking her inability to reach the Sultanate and of positioning spies to kill every warlord at will.
- Ch 65Justice deduces Team Retribution's true goal is for changelings to physically touch as many gods as possible.
- Ch 65Juice Box's digger moves away after hearing Justice Light's plan, signalling she accepts the deal.
- Ch 66Juice Box has suddenly begun lending ground troops, Semeru dwarves and Larracos citizens, to help hold Shanty Town.
- Ch 82Juice Box is Louis's wife and genuinely loves him, to Carl's surprise; she can take forms like a giant dynastes beetle.
- Ch 82Juice Box promises Samantha any body she wants via a fleshmancer form if she rescues Louis, saying she knows who Samantha really is.
- Ch 91Juice Box turns into an invisible Hunter Wraith to fetch Louis from the Reaver castle.
- Ch 92Juice Box, Louis's wife, possessed him as a Hunter Wraith to teleport him out of the Reaver castle.
- Ch 94Possessing Louis as a Hunter Wraith revealed to Juice Box that he fears her and doesn't truly love her.
- Ch 94Juice Box says she has something very powerful inside her that she has feared using.
- Ch 95Juice Box has a Fleshmancer form, which she takes to perform Louis's organ transplant.
- Ch 97Juice Box tells Carl she and Justice Light are taking 'the long way' to the 12th floor.
- Ch 99Justice Light believes Juice Box, if she survives the Nothing, will be reborn as the ultimate weapon to end the war.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 12Juice Box had said she was going somewhere with Justice Light before he died; Carl wonders whether that was the plan.
- Ch 89According to the AI, Juice Box was unceremoniously dumped in Sheol, which is outside the AI's direct view.
Connections
- member ofChangeling
- related toChangelingis one
- family ofHenriksiblings
- related toBonnietakes her in as a guardian
- partner ofLouis Santiago 2engaged
- enemy ofEpitome Tagg
- enemy ofCrown Prince Stalwart
- leadsHome Team
- related toLouis Santiago 2proposed marriage partner to seal the truce
- leadsTeam Retribution
- ally ofJessicaspies for
- ally ofJustice Lightproposes a pact
- member ofTeam Retribution
- ally ofFerdinand
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 5Crawlers meet in the personal space
Carl brings the drunk Louis and Firas and the archers into the personal space to plan against the gnome fortress, while Mordecai warns everyone to be polite to the changeling prostitutes.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Children sheltered in personal space
Carl leads about forty town children, plus Juice Box, from the Toe into the personal space ahead of the bombing.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Juice Box hints at the changelings' goal
In the personal space, Juice Box asks if it leads to the Hunting Grounds, the changelings' ancient home, then clams up when Carl mentions Quetzalcoatlus.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Maggie unmasked inside Chris
Chris's slips reveal he is really Maggie My; as she pulls a celestial grenade, Katia petrifies the body with a bolt and Carl seizes the grenade.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Planning to save Chris
Carl, angry but relieved, sends Mordecai after antiparasitic ingredients and plans to question Juice Box before attacking the last castle.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Juice Box explains the Gate of the Feral Gods
Juice Box explains Henrik's aims, compression sickness and the three-piece gate artifact, and Carl receives the Gate of the Feral Gods quest.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Settling Bonnie in
Carl, Katia, Donut and Mongo visit Bonnie at Skarn's house; Carl gives her old bed and photo, Mongo gives her the pink bunny, and Juice Box comforts her.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Setting the gate
Carl buries the winding box near the stairwell atop the bowl; Katia calculates the ninth-floor portal will open 23 minutes before collapse.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Slit attacks
Slit, a feral demon, attacks hunting Samantha; Carl uses his sponsor's gift to throw Samantha's head far into the Lacuna, drawing Slit away.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Death of Maggie My
Chris bursts from the sand and hurls the winding box; Carl, phased, pulls the Maggie worm from Chris's head, purges her from his own body, and Mongo eats her.
- Book 4 · Ch 34The real plan revealed
The thrown box was a decoy; Katia opens the real gate underwater, draining the sea, bombs and sharks into Larracos's faction market on the ninth floor.
- Book 6 · Ch 23Viceroy beheaded at the meeting
The Madness's viceroy is decapitated and Juice Box, in Epitome Noflex's form, takes his seat, enraging Tagg and Stalwart; Cascadia says the AI won't let them intervene.
- Book 6 · Ch 24Juice Box's demands
Juice Box demands NPCs become their own Faction Wars team, Carl tables the motion, and her detonator blows up the Operatic Collective's representative before an arrow drops Stalwart.
- Book 7 · Ch 11Meeting War Leader Arief
Leaving the college, the group meets War Leader Arief, a Semeru dwarf officer, who says the NPCs want to discuss tactics and that Juice Box wants to seal the truce by marrying Louis.
- Book 7 · Ch 13War council with Juice Box
In a hidden room at the Desperado Club, Juice Box shares maps and plans, explains Shanty Town and reveals Ferdinand controls her team's systems with Drick as adjutant.
- Book 7 · Ch 13Louis and Juice Box agree to marry
Coached by Donut in chat, Louis declares that he and Juice Box should marry right away and tells her he loves her.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Trade for Shanty Town
Carl gives Ferdinand a temporary bowler hat in exchange for the mayorship of Shanty Town, and the alliance is renamed The Good Guys.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Louis and Juice Box marry
Louis and Juice Box hold a small changeling wedding in the entrance bar, whispering private vows; the Confirmation will follow in a month. Florin then summons Carl to headquarters as recruits flood in.
- Book 7 · Ch 51The warlord council assembles
The warlords gather at the production facility; Carl meets the imposing naga warlord Princess Vinata, whom his team plans to kill.
- Book 7 · Ch 52Carl closes the communication loophole
Learning teams talk to the outside by renaming news programs, Carl spends an Emergency Action Item to close all such loopholes.
- Book 7 · Ch 52Juice Box's warning
Juice Box denounces the outsiders, transforms into a terrifying tentacled alien and warns that something is coming for everyone, then leaves.
- Book 7 · Ch 65Justice Light unmasks a changeling spy
Justice Light sends the sluggalos away and confronts the changeling posing as Worgo, who lets Juice Box speak through her.
- Book 7 · Ch 65Justice Light's confession
Justice Light tells Juice Box how Dante died refusing to kill ice elves and how he lost his wing and obeyed out of fear.
- Book 7 · Ch 65A deal over the gods
Justice reveals he knows Team Retribution wants to touch gods and offers to help in exchange for loyalty to Operation Ruin and a larger war.
- Book 7 · Ch 65Justice Light reveals his great plan
Justice Light explains to Juice Box the trap he has secretly been building, inspired by the Gate of the Feral Gods, and her digger withdraws.
- Book 7 · Ch 78The Peeling Phase begins
Larracos opens; Agatha's War Mage Rebellion gains Conscription, makes defeated teams die on the spot, and seizes Team Retribution's throne room and the city defenses.
- Book 7 · Ch 82Juice Box's deal with Samantha
Carl meets Juice Box, who frantically asks about Louis; learning he is bound in the Reaver castle, she offers Samantha a new body to save him.
- Book 7 · Ch 91Raid on the Reaver castle begins
Carl's group travels to the bombed Reaver castle to rescue Louis; spotting invisible Fopsy among the adjutants, Carl suspects a trap and switches to plan B, sending Juice Box in.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Louis rescued from the Reaver castle
Juice Box possesses Louis and teleports him out as explosive robot dogs attack; Carl pockets a frozen nuke dog and detonates No Disassembles, blowing up the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Warlord Fang dies
Calliope crashes from the sky and dies; Fang was hiding inside her, and Carl gets most of the credit. The Reavers are defeated.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Tagg found inside Louis
Juice Box discovers the Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs and that Epitome Tagg is present in them, so they keep Louis unconscious.
- Book 7 · Ch 94Juice Box's confession
In the medical tent, Juice Box tells Carl the Hunter Wraith's curse showed her that Louis doesn't love her; Carl insists nothing is hopeless.
- Book 7 · Ch 95Samantha's plan to save Louis
Samantha suggests transplanting Princess Lunette's golem heart and lungs into Louis, giving up her body; Juice Box takes a Fleshmancer form to operate.
- Book 7 · Ch 96Louis's transplant and Tagg's death
Mordecai, Edgar, Juice Box and others transplant Princess Lunette's organs into Louis while Donut taunts Tagg; Tagg dies and the Dream are defeated.
- Book 7 · Ch 97Larracos is sent to the Ascendency
The Sledge casts Zerzura, transferring Larracos and Shanty Town with their NPCs to the 12th floor while mercenaries and outworlders vanish from the dungeon.
- Book 7 · Ch 97The Princess Posse wins Faction Wars
Both Warlords Ferdinand and Juice Box leave the realm, forfeiting; Team Retribution is defeated and the Princess Posse wins.
- Book 7 · Ch 99Justice Light breaks the Nothing
Justice Light drops a bijou fairy trap and a demon trap into his portal to the Nothing, breaking it and flooding the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair before he dies.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.