Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The chat

The » Name: lines: where Carl talks to people who are not in the room. A handful of voices at first — Donut, Zev, Brandon from Meadow Lark — and the way a party becomes a network.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The jury room
• Chapter 6 — Signet
• Chapter 19 — Danger Zone
• Chapter 21 — Katia
• Chapter 23 — Ten sticks of dynamite
• Chapter 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Arc

219 lines, seven voices. Mordecai, a manager now, is in it from ch. 4 and takes it over — sixty-seven lines, second only to Carl's ninety-one — and Zev's twenty-five are the show's side; the busiest hours are ch. 9 and ch. 20. The rule of the thing is stated: two crawlers can talk 'only after we both initiated the chat handshake, which had to be done in person' (ch. 21), so a fist bump puts Bautista's name on Carl's list (ch. 23); a post to the whole group draws 'Dozens of responses' (ch. 25); Katia is in it by ch. 24; and Donut blocks Quan Ch 'after he called us assholes' — 'You need to rule with an iron paw' (epilogue).