Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Elites

A kind of boss Mordecai sets apart from the six main types — 'There are also others, but those are called elites' — and tells Carl not to worry about yet. On the second floor the Laminak Rev-Up Consultants carry the word in their name.

Segment appearances

Chapter 2 — Night weasels
Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
Chapter 14 — Were-castors
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 69 — The prize counter
Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme

Progression

Elites do not level (ch. 13); they are not autonomous, and the showrunners send suggestions (ch. 16); hunters avoid them (ch. 24); a program's climax that its elite lost (ch. 47). Whether they can be woken is the book's experiment (ch. 63, ch. 68, ch. 73).