Character · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The System AI

The voice that reads every item description, names every achievement and awards every box — snide, profane, obsessed with Carl's bare feet. Distinct from Borant, which runs the season; the AI runs the game.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The jury room
• Chapter 2 — Race and class
• Chapter 3 — The Over City explained
• Chapter 6 — Signet
• Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
• Chapter 8 — Water Lily
• Chapter 11 — The pitch
• Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
• Chapter 15 — The Desperado Club
• Chapter 17 — GumGum
• Chapter 21 — Katia
• Chapter 22 — The Mysterious Letter
• Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Arc

Recommends Sasquatch, and Carl reads it as bait (ch. 2). Quotes Of Mice and Men as he is knocked out (ch. 8). Upgrades his boxers so he cannot wear trousers over them (ch. 13). Its descriptions on this floor are inaccurate, by Carl's count 'like the hundredth time in the last day' — Katia is 'human,' Miss Quill is an 'assistant' — and Carl notes that he cannot trust them (ch. 22). Mordecai, reading between the lines of Borant's newsletter, says it is making crawlers stronger to compensate for the short floors (ch. 21); it hands out 83 Celestial boxes and the Syndicate court upholds them until Borant burns its veto (epilogue). Carl's suspicion that it gave him the glass case on purpose (ch. 24).