The Box of Chaos

The Box of Chaos is a magical box that drops into the arena and trades champions a magic item of unknown rarity in exchange for a sacrifice.

How it works

It slams down from the sky in a burst of chaotic lightning. The lid flips open with a column of magical fire that gives off no heat, and a shadowy figure with long, black, tendrilly fingers leans out.
Give it something and it gives you something back. Sacrifices have included hair, an opponent’s arm, a bottle of vodka, a championship belt, a chinchilla, a grandmother (who was a bottle of Bailey’s), 396 channel points and Blinky the homunculus.
It’s kept at the Eastern Outpost between Deathmatches.

Gerald

The box was made by Vythorn (The Arbiter) after Skypiercer. He ripped out Agdrel’s soul, rearranged AGDREL into GERALD, and sealed it inside. “You were the box of chaos” (S4E1); The Shadow King calls it “my former home.”
Its influence corrupted the Arbiter and led to his betrayal of the Grandmaster.
It went dormant after Decima consumed it (S4E10). Since then the shadow inside is the Arbiter’s own shadow.
Gerald’s fingers taste like black licorice. He finished a pair of chinchilla boots (S7E1), lounges in a hammock inside the box, and keeps an expired can of Spam.
Squiggles is the first person ever to rob the box (S7E9).

Everything below is compiled from the episode pages, in show order.

Appearances

S1E14 — Eyes of Chaos — Lucien v Monteclaire (Season 1 finale)

an arena loot chest ringed in magical fire, opened with blood points.

S2 Ep1, Fate of the Arbiter (Fate of the Arbiter Part 1)

heatless green, pink and purple flames. It demands a sacrifice.

S2E6 — FoTA - Sands of the Arena (Fate of the Arbiter, Part 2)

summoned by the Acolytes; takes meaningful sacrifices (a Pearl of Healing earlier, a bracelet, a potion of healing, blood). For the first time it offered a choice of items.

S2E2 — Prize Fight — Asena v Ralzamon

magic items in exchange for a sacrifice of the taker’s choosing. Unclaimed this episode.

S2E3 — A Lovers’ Quarrel — Lethe v Sorry

pink and yellow flames. It grants a magic item in exchange for a sacrifice, and it vanished at the GM’s look.

S2E4 — Antsy — Glub Glub v Geril-Lee

(“the good chaos box”). It burns pink and yellow even underwater, and gives a random magic item for a sacrifice. This time it took Geril-Lee’s hair. The Grandmaster distinguishes it from “the no-no box. We do not touch the no-no box.”

S2E7 - Hand to Hand Combat, Bargo v Carn

takes Carn’s horn and gives +3 chain mail in heatless pink and yellow flames.

S2E8 — Father’s Love — Dadrith v Baron Voltágè

pink, with yellow and pink flames. It gives items for sacrifices, and its fire burned Baron’s soul out. It was buried/dissipated after use; in Dried Blood the Arbiter retrieves it.

S2E9 — Bees — Rosa v Veronica

the fiery being of the Box of Chaos’s flames.

What he does:
- Took Veronica’s nuts, was seduced by her, gave her a ring (“call me”).
- Became her tattoo: “I’ll be with you always now.”
- Served as her steed and lover: carried her, ran hand in hand with her, dove to take fire for her.
The Arbiter’s claim: “I invented Gerald.”
Fate: erased from Veronica’s mind and arm.
(Caustic Phoenix calls the box’s flames “he.” The Box itself rolled away in the sandstorm.)

S2E9 — Bees — Rosa v Veronica

trades magic items for sacrifices. It accepted nuts and seduction, spits people out, can be “it,” and exploded into red and purple flames before rolling away.

S2E10 — Filicide — Glassy v Thornabub

Now housed in a new box commissioned by the Acolytes. It throws cool purple, pink and yellow flame, and Gerald is a small shadowy silhouette.
He talks: he enjoys blood but wants variety, and says “I have a soul.”
He gave the Sun Sword, the Helm of the Gods and a +1 breastplate. He got angry at Thornabub returning the sword and favored Glassy.
He now keeps undead raccoons or squirrels in the box as pets; one is named Francisco.
Dried Blood: he’s paid in table scraps and drops of blood. He had a girlfriend who fought in a Deathmatch “a little while back”; she now works on the bee farm with her memory of him modified.

S2E11 — Secrets — Blaktoof v Zorhel

. The Box of Chaos, with two flame eyes in a black void.

He now has a golden grill made of Blaktoof’s ancestral teeth.
“I’m not running the convenience store here.” He found Zorhel’s sister story boring.

S2E12 — Blood Cookies — Wandering Willy v Martin Messiah Malenko

. The figure in the Box of Chaos.

Has a cough. Fake-walks down stairs.
Cackles over the cursed orb. Calls himself “a paid employee” (per the Arbiter).
Shoots at the champions with Martin’s lucky bullet on the Arbiter’s order. Gives Willy a Deck of Many Things (“That’s my whole job here”).

S2E13 — The Brave — Buli v Chancy

A purple box with pink and yellow flames, with a small shadowy figure and claw.
Took Buli’s clothes (“These are just my size”) and gave a FLY scroll.
Took Chancy’s lyre, believed the Van Halen story, and gave Gauntlets of Ogre Power.

S2E14 — Shrooms — Ulfgar Greyblade (Mcswiggins) v Snoop & Dog

. The creature in the Box of Chaos: yellow eyes, shadowy claws.

Talks.
Ate both bags of Snoop’s mushrooms, and his eyes turned to yellow spirals.
Rummages through a cluttered box interior.
Gave the golden lions, then ate one.
Defends himself: “It could have been anybody’s lion”; “Lions can either be ferocious or they can fit in your pocket.”
Left mid-buzz.

S2E15 — Black Hole Sun — Professor Stabbz v Mad Cass O Weary

. A shadowy figure with yellow beady eyes and claws who lives in the box (“my house”). Waist-high when standing in it.

Cass dragged him around, slammed the lid on him, and told him “If I want to listen to an asshole, I’ll fart.”
He could see the invisible Stabbz. He told Cass “You need therapy.”
Gave Stabbz an eighth-level Sunburst scroll without any sacrifice, out of spite for Cass.
Dismissed by the GM afterward: “you’ve done your duty.”

S2E15 — Black Hole Sun — Professor Stabbz v Mad Cass O Weary

A purple trunk with a ring on the side and metal trinkets.
- Light, and it feels empty inside.
- Throws yellow/pink/purple flames, heatless when opened.
- A carved heart on the lid reading “G plus V.”

S2E16, Pub Brawl - Broose Scorchtail v Dewdrop Grizzlebee

Summoned by the Acolytes. A pink-purple pillar of fire and a dark shadowy figure with claws peering over the lid. Rude (“Don’t bullshit me, just give me shit”; “What’s in it for me?”). Called “Jerry” by Broose.

Hands out free ruler and pencil “for the school year.”
Trades: flaming carrot → alchemy jug; Dewdrop’s notebook → potion of speed; salt water → potion of mind control.

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. A shadowy figure who crawls out of the Box of Chaos, his fingers hanging over its side. His name was his father’s, “and it was his mother’s.”

Grants boons for sacrifices: a healing potion for the horn, a neck-shield for Phoebe.
Wants to paint and start a family, have “a couple of shadowy kids, make some shady deals.” No one had ever asked him what he wanted.
“Kind of a Phoebe guy.”

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(owned by Gerald). It throws a column of heatless pink and yellow fire. It gave a healing potion and a neck-shield (+1 AC).

S3E1 — Kill em with Kindness — Lumos the Spark v Ferndell Ironwind

Shadowy hands, glowing yellow eyes, foul-mouthed. “Don’t tell me how to be a box of chaos.” He keeps items “laying around.”

S3E2 — The Student and the Master — Alma v Ahyan

. The shadowy, yellow-eyed being in the Box of Chaos.

Took the ceremonial dagger and gave the armor of resistance; also gave a healing potion as “my business card.”
Email: “Gerald1972 at yahoo.com.”
Struck a Marilyn Monroe pose; plans to take the assassin academy job.

S3E3 — Couples Therapy — Chade v Kairen

. He sits in the Box of Chaos with shadow hands and yellow eyes. He accepted the trousers, said the massager would “go well with my collection,” and gave the rope. Later he watched from outside the box and threw them a wooden paddle.

S3E4, Crypto Monkeys - K-Boom v Ignacio Marchade

. Pink and purple, with shadowy fingers and yellow eyes.

Took Mort (“I kinda wanted that thing”).
Has “200,000 in my savings account.” Offered to buy four K-Boom coins, then deadbolted the box from inside after K-Boom’s nat 1.

S3E5, Edge Lords - Captain Fable v Verryn Ruth

(Box of Chaos).

Yellow eyes, shadowy hands. Can become a legless shadowy snake.
Doesn’t “get TV.” Got stuff “from a guy named Martin” (“I know a lot of Martins”). Had the blunderbuss appraised as a collectible.
Now wears two nipple rings: Verryn’s bejeweled one and a pink glitter tassel.

S3E6, Homunculus - Coen v Alfucius

Yellow eyes, shadowy fingers, a pink-and-yellow flame column.

The box is fireproof. He canoed through the lava with a shadowy paddle, singing his favorite Pocahontas song.
He ate Blinky (“Bottoms up then”) and returned it as a tome.

S3E7 — Severed Limbs — Cress v Chedrick McDougan

. The shadowy demon in the Box of Chaos: clawed shadow hands, yellow eyes.

Gave the Mind Blade for grapes and apples. Clawed Chedrick for hitting him.
Gave Cress a healing potion out of spite.
Has a “hand collection.”
Gave Cress the Mass Healing Word scroll for Chedrick’s hand, then traded the hand back for Cress’s foot along with a sewing kit. Puppeted the sewn hand.
“I’m a demon in a box, not a monster.”

S3E9 — Fire Heart — Alyndra Morlynn v Minh Lý

Yellow eyes and shadowy hands; his pink and yellow fire gives no heat.
Got swole from Minh’s display: dumbbell curls, “skipped every leg day.”
Waxed himself with Alyndra’s starlight body glitter. Was sat on by Alyndra.
Wants a copy of the painting. His signature move is pretending to walk down stairs.

S3E11 — Blood Feud 1 — Havoc v Isha Inverraseth

. Laid-back (“Just hanging out in the box, dealing chaos”). He collects “all kinds of shit” and is starting a teeth jar. When Havoc struck the box he retaliated with a hellish rebuke of pink and purple fire.

S3E12 — Blood Puppets — Basil Herringbone v Befferfoot

(the Box of Chaos’s occupant). Shadowy fingers and two yellow eyes. He handed Basil a saw, gets queasy at blood, and got a faceful of it. He forged Dawnbringer into a leg.

S3E14 — Magic Duel — Talbot Cage v Seth Kaiser

. Lives in the Box of Chaos; he has shadowy hands and yellow eyes.

Squeamish about blood.
Collects trading cards: a box of Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Magic and Pokémon.
“Oh, I love making deals.”
Received a finger (Talbot) and a trade binder (Seth). Gave out the Vorpal Pinkie and the used ring-of-wishes card.
Saved Seth from the Fireball by pulling him into the box because “you seem like a good guy.”
Says he got a leg last week (“three quarters of a full body”).

S3E15 — Sunday Slam — Belet v Derick

. Lives in the Box of Chaos; yellow eyes and shadowy fingers.

Wanted to see Les Mis and took Belet’s coupons.
Got high on Derick’s pipe weed and his eyes went red. Fired the blunderbuss by accident.
Drifted off on the smoke “to Les Mis”; expected back with a souvenir cup, T-shirt and flag.

S3E17, Season 3 Finale - Soot Mustam v Huey Leatherface

. The shadowy, yellow-eyed being in the Box of Chaos.

Grumpy, swears, called Soot’s offering trash and dumped a trash can on him.
Ate Flamewing and picked his teeth after.
Paid out the Cube of Annihilation and the Amulet of Health.

S4E2 — Under the Bottom — Richardo v Evah

(Commander Scrib’s soul), which gave the Holy Avenger.

S4 Ep3, Swindlers - Griff v Cappin Fodder

powered by Vegeta’s soul. Past offerings include “toes and teeth and daggers and honey.” It now holds Griff’s staff, his Go set and Fodder’s ashes.

S4E4 — Death Dealers — The Scourge v Bone Daddy

a chest that falls like a comet, burns with heatless pink and yellow flames, and needs a soul to fuel it. It takes any sacrifice, including PayPal.

S4E5 — Toxicity — Toocher the Toxic v Sho Nin

a chest of yellow-and-pink heatless flame, fed by a soul. Sacrifices to it give magic items.

S4E6 — The Hunt — Witch Hunter v Grickle

primed with a soul, it trades a magic item for a sacrifice, with a pink-and-yellow heatless fire. “Not explosive, but not in that way.”

S4E7 — Wings — Misery v Daisy Bloom

falls from the sky when the Shadow King snaps. It’s fed with souls and erupts in heatless pink/yellow fire. Any sacrifice, used as a free action, may yield a magic item.

S4E8 — Blood Rain — Fatale v Claudia

a shadowy creature with yellow eyes in the box. It resents having things thrown at it.

Into the Mirror 15–16, Old Friends - Sky

as described by Vythorn.

S4E10 — Rivals — Nonamatt v Decima

now fed with Acolyte souls (“it all depends on the strength of the soul”); it accepts anything, including cryptocurrency. Consumed by Decima and left dormant, then animated by Nonamatt.

S4E12 — Racoons — Sam Cletus v Ben Zappa

a gold and pink chest with heatless fire that falls like a pink and yellow comet. It demands sacrifice and has shadowy clawed fingers and yellow eyes. Said to contain a rabies vaccine. It fuses and un-fuses beings.

S4E16, The Dragon and the Spider, Ricky Red Dragon v Traxton (Spider)

Clawed fingers, yellow eyes. Calls itself “just a tormented soul in a box.” Wore Ricky’s sacrificed beard, has halitosis, and buffers like dial-up.

S4E16, The Dragon and the Spider, Ricky Red Dragon v Traxton (Spider)

pink and purple, chest-sized and shallow, holding trash and bones).

S5E1 — Rise of the Lord of Fate — Atlas v Killy Yesman

pink and yellow heatless fire. It had no soul (“leftover essences” only) until the Lord of Fate’s shadow was put in.

S5E3, Eldritch Fangs - Ruby Rust v Robbie Clark and the Hunger

. A shadowy skeleton-like creature that claws out of the box.

Swallowed Robbie’s years. Wears a necklace of teeth of all different kinds, now including Ruby’s incisor.
Tied Ruby’s shield on with twine. “Honestly, I’m not picky.”

S5E5 — Frigid Fedoras — Kyle Stoddard v Frigidoom

It arrives like a meteor, with pink and yellow fire, shadowy fingers and “the hand of the blackened soul.”

Has previously taken “toes and dentures and tax books,” per Thea.

S5E7 — Ducks of Death — Robbie Clark & the Hunger v Bob the Barbarian

black shadowy clawed hands and yellow eyes. Robbie calls it a “weird skeleton.” It loves cake, eats memories, and might make an eyepatch from the jorts scrap.

S5E8 — Graveyard Grudge — Granny Edith v Teddy Oso

. Yellow eyes, grasping hands (“gimme, gimme, gimme”).

Keeps sacrificed heads on a shelf “next to the other ones.”
“I would never do this to my grandma.”
Had never been given a cookie: “I’m a piece of a soul trapped in a box.” It feasted on Granny’s cookies and milk.

S5E8 — Graveyard Grudge — Granny Edith v Teddy Oso

(mentioned). Granny’s late husband. This is not the Box of Chaos.

S5E8 — Graveyard Grudge — Granny Edith v Teddy Oso

Its fire is pink and yellow and gives no heat. Lord of Fate: “contains part of my soul.”

Granted Teddy a poisoned Granny Smith apple.
Granted Granny a healing bread and butter pudding.

S5E9 — Patriotic Punch Up — Bob the Barbarian v Richard Knottley (Dick Twist)

Bracelets: collects them (WWJD, Livestrong, now Jort Daddy).
Richard: didn’t remember him at first (“You’re the guy with the frogs in your ass”). Wears his mustache like a merkin.

S5E11 — Appliance Adversaries — Atlas v Frigidoom

. Has yellow eyes. It accepted the radical chinchilla, which now sits on its shoulder, and ate Thea’s half-eaten hot dog.

S5E11 — Appliance Adversaries — Atlas v Frigidoom

a giant pink box with pink and red flames that trades random items for something of value.

S5E12 — Imitation Game — Kopy Katt v Ragu

“Just like a soul,” with no body.
“I used to be a shadow,” and he knows the Lord of Fate’s phone passcode.
Lives in a newer, more spacious box that Kopy Katt gave him, minimalist, with his stuff piled in the corner. He can’t leave the box.
Gave Ragu the Arbiter’s Rings and Copycat the Grandmaster’s bow.
Received Copycat’s chip, trash bag and phone.

S5E13 — Bone Rust — Ruby Rust v Bone Daddy

Thinks the Lord of Fate is “kind of a cock” and the Acolytes “kind of idiots.”
Took ten hammer shorts from Bone Daddy and an old patron’s remaining life from Ruby.
“I just don’t have as much shit as I used to.”

Demands something before it gives something, and wants “a sacrifice.”
Fell from the sky like a comet in pink and yellow flames.
Gave out a Vorpal Sword, a Trident of Fish Command, a Hat of Vermin and a potion of giant strength. Rule: one item per champion.

S7E1 — A Soup Served Cold — DeeDrah v Gazpacho Man Andy Gammage

A yellow and purple box. Its lid beams heatless magical fire hundreds of feet up, and a shadowy figure with black tendrilly fingers comes out.
His fingers taste like black licorice (Dried Blood).
Kept the championship belt. Used the chinchilla to finish his chinchilla boots.
Asked “Where’s HR?” Gave away the Dragon Slayer as “junk.”

S7E6 — Bone Force — Jerry Bonesman v TD

Black inky tendrils; yellow and pink fire.
Took Jerry’s bones (“I’m building something”) and gave the wand of polymorph.
“Mr. Box was my father. He’s dead now.”

S7E7 — A Father’s Son — Agatha Middlebrooke v Lug Hardblock

“I put a guy’s soul in that box.”

S7E9 — Necro-Nightmare — Squiggles v Ray S’urdead

. The shadowy figure that crawls from the box.

Peckish: eats a sack-worm, then Pixie the Chihuahua, “a little fur on the teeth.”
Granted Ray a fireball orb. Lounges on a hammock inside the box.
Robbed by Squiggles, the first time anyone has stolen from the box. Snatched back a Tome of the Stilled Tongue and gave the ring of spell turning instead. Keeps an outdated can of spam.

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