The Rat King

Description
The Rat King is a recurring character in Just Roll With It.

Appearance
The Rat King is described a malnourished, lanky old man. He has long, scraggly grey hair that falls down his shoulders, some that forming a wannabe beard, reaching to about his torso, but the top of his head is completely bald. He has long, mangled, claw-like fingernails.

Personality
The Rat King is described as a “totally cool, coherent guy” by Br’aad. He appears to be maniacal and often lets out small, random bursts of chuckle or laughter. He speaks in short sentences that sometimes make no sense. He often rocks back and forth and mumbles incoherent things to himself.

Background/History
The Rat King shares the bottom floor of an abandoned warehouse, with Sylnan and Br'aad, who live on the second floor. He overruns the bottom floor with many, many rats.

Interesting Features
Hilltree claims that the Rat King eats rats.


 * "He eats rats. heuargh" - Hilltree

Rats
He is able to control rats, or use them to “see” around the place.


 * “I see what the rats see!” - The Rat King

He is able to let others see what the rats see by touching the person’s forehead. The person must close their eyes in order for it to work. It may give the person a headache, as it did to Taxi.

He claims to have trained the rats himself.

The Rat King's Embrace
Upon touching the person, the Rat King grants them The Rat King’s Embrace, allowing them to turn into a rat once per day. The person’s statistics are equal to those of a rat, apart from stealth. If the person reaches 0 health points in rat form, they return back to themselves.

This ability is a fan submission by Red.

C1E1
The Rat King first appears when the party goes to find him in the abandoned warehouse. He is seen sitting on an empty wooden crate and surrounded by a sea of rats. The Rat King helps the party by showing Taxi what happened to Oriana by using his "gift", and telling the party that the name of Oriana’s attempted murderer is Lupin. Towards the end of Episode 1, the Rat King tells the Sylnan to follow the rats into the sewers to find the cultists, to which he agrees, but The Rat King decides that he is too tired and asks them to wait until the next day.

C1E2
After the party met Olguart, Taxi approaches to the Rat King, who is cradling himself and surrounded by noticeably fewer rats. The Rat King gives the party a rat, who leads them in the sewers and which the party names Tibsy.

C1E3
The Rat King is sitting outside against the wall of the warehouse, knees up to his chest upon the party’s return. He is tying the tails of multiple live rats together to form a crown which he puts on his head. By grabbing Sylnan, the Rat King grants him The Rat King’s Embrace.