Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The bestiary

The system's » This is a… cards — a Kua-Tin, a Safe Zone, a Non-Combatant NPC, a Dungeon Admin, a pet-class mob — and the Crawler # dossiers it prints for people: the dungeon naming what a thing is, in the AI's voice.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 2 — Night weasels
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
• Chapter 42 — Warrants
• Chapter 44 — The Recital
• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 46 — Sierra
• Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
• Chapter 49 — Kiwi
• Chapter 51 — The howdah
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube

Progression

Twenty-three, the AI's temper in them: 'a pet of Hunter Zabit' (ch. 2); 'an Unaffiliated Hunter' (ch. 5, ch. 58); an arrow tipped for 'Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea' (ch. 15, ch. 35); 'This is a feather. It's pink. It's garbage. Fuck off with making me describe this shit' (ch. 28); minions of Big Tina and of Princess Donut (ch. 44, ch. 45, ch. 49); a high elf — 'A DNA test would tell you that they're identical to bush elves' (ch. 51); a small hammer that 'just doesn't do anything magical' and a stick that 'can do something truly magical' (ch. 63); 'a depiction of Scolopendra. She's dreaming. It's said when she finally awakens, she will destroy everything and free us all' (ch. 66). No dossiers.