Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Loot boxes

Bronze, silver, gold, platinum and legendary boxes awarded for achievements — mostly torches, potions and pet biscuits, occasionally a Nightgaunt Cloak, a war gauntlet or a pair of enchanted boxer shorts. Odette says it plainly: the boxes are not random, and complaining about pants is why there are no pants.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Boxes at the Pug
• Chapter 8 — Water Lily
• Chapter 12 — Mongo holds the pyramid
• Chapter 13 — Mordecai's room
• Chapter 21 — Katia
• Chapter 22 — The Mysterious Letter
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Progression

Earth Boxes that reach into memory — a candle, a cat tree, a cactus, the Sacketts (ch. 5); a Scroll of Upgrade that makes boxers the best item Carl owns and takes his pants and a casino chip from the Lucky Bastard box (ch. 13); fan boxes (ch. 17); and the Celestial box, 2,145 ever given, worth enough to make a crawler nearly immortal — eighty-three of them awarded and eighty-two vetoed (epilogue).