Like what's the exact conjugation breakdown going on there? I've spent days
scouring various things and I can't for the life of me figure out the exact
breakdown causing a "かれ".

I'm not leaving off any conjugation bits, so it's definitely not me misreading
something like 叩かれた.

If you could explain what's going on in general terms rather than specifically
-ku verbs, that might be more helpful, but I'm at my wits' end and will
honestly take anything at this point.

> 力いっぱい背中を叩かれ、大介は思わずよろめいた。

Two friends, the person strongly hitting 大介 on the back is a friend trying to
cheer him up. He did it without warning, but it's not aggressive. The sentence
is narrative and describing the situation, non-spoken.
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What's going on when a -ku godan verb like "叩く" gets conjugated to "叩かれ"?
The conjugation is the passive voice of the verb 叩く, which becomes 叩かれる in the
passive. Usually, it would connect to another clause in the て form (叩かれて), but
the continuative form (連用形), which is 叩かれ, is also used as a way to connect
clauses, especially in written Japanese.
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