Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Ruckus

A level-55 Borough Boss: a house-sized steampunk chicken hawk in a brass helmet with organic wings threaded with metal and a twenty-five-foot bar of ten buzzsaws on cables, Shamus Chaindrive's self-replicating sentinel, left circling the island for an age. Killed by three guided missiles from a moving dune buggy; her saw, kept, later cleaves through a city boss's brain. The smaller buzz-ards carry chainsaws and wreck siege towers.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Progression

Her card, her wakening, her death and her saw (ch. 8, ch. 9); the saw through Lusca's brain and buried in the sea floor (ch. 27).