Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — The Over City explained
• Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
• Chapter 12 — Mongo holds the pyramid
• Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
• Chapter 19 — Danger Zone
• Chapter 20 — Manasa's last song
• Chapter 21 — Katia
• Chapter 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Progression

The corporation that owns the NPCs it prints (ch. 3) and cuts the floor to eight days (ch. 2). Its floor announcement zeroes the experience for killing citizens and gives city guards 'a slight boost in stats' (ch. 7), which Carl remembers at the magistrate's stairs (ch. 18). Mordecai reads its newsletter between the lines: warn the shopkeepers, the crawlers are getting too strong (ch. 21). Carl's chat theory that it engineered the Skull Empire's murder of a Valtay asset (ch. 20). It burns its one veto of the season on 82 Celestial boxes (epilogue) and is 'on the hook' for the one already opened.