Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Sponsorship

The patron system Mordecai explains in the tutorial guild — organisations that sponsor a crawler by buying boxes, and the Benefactor Boxes only patrons can send — changed by the AI as the second floor opens: three patron slots per crawler, each auctioned for one day as the fourth, fifth and sixth floors open, bids from one credit, and 'the more your patron pays for you, the more and higher-quality Benefactor Boxes you may receive.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — I'm on a train
• Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
• Chapter 11 — Gore-Gore
• Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
• Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
• Chapter 15 — The Abyss
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Chapter 33 — Death Challenge
• Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy

Arc

Bidding on Crawler #4,122 opens as the floor does (ch. 1); Zev's plans depend on how it goes (ch. 6); the first sponsors arrive on the second day, when bidding closes — the Valtay Corporation for Carl, Princess D'nadia for Donut, Princess Formidable for Katia — with a Sponsorship tab that lets a crawler write to a sponsor but not hear back (ch. 11, ch. 12, ch. 13). The first benefactor boxes follow: a pill, a pair of goggles, one bolt (ch. 13, ch. 15, ch. 29). The Maestro, Carl guesses, bailed on his own sponsorship of Grull after being ejected (ch. 34).