Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Player-killer skulls

The marks the AI hangs beside a crawler's name for each crawler killed — 'Crawler Killer X 3' on Frank Q, five skulls on Maggie My, one big skull and two small ones for Imani's twelve — and shown on the recap forming over Yolanda's head when she shoots Jack. The one achievement Carl wants to avoid: 'everyone else we meet won't know' it was deserved, so be wary of anyone who wears one.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
• Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
• Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo

Progression

Donut gets hers on the Desperado Club's dance floor, drunk, after a man with a knife — 'I never wanted to get a skull. I'm sorry. Nobody is going to like me now' — and Elle takes one a moment later for the woman about to blast them, and does not seem to care (ch. 9). Katia passes on what Hekla told her: a skull for killing a crawler comes with a Savage box of PVP coupons for the party; Imani's held a coupon for every member, which she tried to burn and left on the first floor, and Elle got none for hers (ch. 18). Eva wears one large skull and three small, thirteen kills, while Hekla wears none (ch. 21). The crossbow assassin's bolts promise no credit and 'Nor will you get one of those nasty skulls by your name' (ch. 22). Katia's, for Hekla, is a special golden skull (ch. 23), with a gold Savage box and the Find Crawler skill (ch. 25), hard to ignore in the trainyard (ch. 28); Mordecai, back, asks first about the player-killer skulls the two of them have (ch. 29, ch. 30).