Not tryna sidetrack or anything here, but considering the kid was a person before, and therefore excommed...
What heinous shit has the kid done to get served into praetorian hands D:
Actually, on the topic of the flinks being NPCs, it opens up some interesting questions as to how NPCs are designated roles. When a player is excommed and "repurposed" into the game, who... or rather, what set of procedures happen to the bodies before they get added to the "game"? My head's pretty empty on it so I don't know if I wanna delve, but it raises some focal points of interest to the nature of NPCs as a whole. Maybe I'll come back to it some other time.