Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Charm

Mistress Tiatha's rule: an NPC fawns when the crawler's charisma beats their constitution plus charisma, by a hundred for a province boss, never for a country boss. Donut's 138 doubled by the Apothecary's thirty-hour tiara, with the toothpaste over 300: guards who do not search, a stage manager who allows a moonwalk, elves in love with heart icons, and Ferdinand — enchanted first, then, with a potion of cat blood, charmed for real.

Segment appearances

Chapter 3 — Quasar
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 46 — Sierra
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme

Progression

Tiatha's rule and a tiara (ch. 72); enchanting versus charming, and a litre of cat blood (ch. 73); a minion (ch. 74); elves in love (ch. 76).