Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

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 — I'm on a train
• Chapter 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
• Chapter 15 — The Abyss
• Chapter 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente

Arc

376 lines, fifteen voices: Elle (ch. 10) and Imani (ch. 12) arrive, with Bautista, Donita Grace, Ronaldo Qu and Gwendolyn Duet; densest in ch. 6 and ch. 22. Carl makes it policy — 'I want to get into everybody's chat', so that 'we can create a network where we can all pass information much more easily' (ch. 14) — and reads it at night in place of the Louis L'Amour he traded away (ch. 15). The show reaches in: 'For a small fee, all viewers may now subscribe to your private messages between other crawlers' (ch. 29). On the last night, Gwendolyn Duet: 'Now clear the chat' (ch. 31).