Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Quests

Mentioned once in the first book: Mordecai says that from the fourth floor the stairwells will be guarded, and crawlers will 'have to complete quests or defeat bosses to get to them.'

Segment appearances

Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
Chapter 7 — Whataburger
Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 12 — No matter what
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 51 — The howdah
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
Chapter 54 — The blood bar
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
Chapter 56 — Zerzura
Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
Chapter 77 — The mask

Progression

The Recital, triggered by accident (ch. 11); Premature Questjaculation, no reward (ch. 28); a quest that will not be ignored (ch. 39); a world quest nobody may opt out of (ch. 48); the Recital's real mechanism (ch. 49); a story 'not yet done' (ch. 52). Both complete in the castle (ch. 75, ch. 76); a god's quest updates in the pit (ch. 77).