Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

A recipe book to the showrunners and a manual to its holder, read in bathroom stalls: passed from crawler to crawler across seasons, each adding an edition — Carl's is the 25th — invisible to the showrunners, not to the AI, and erased if its holder tells anyone.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 3 — Quasar
• Chapter 4 — Golden Throat
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
• Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
• Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
• Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
• Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
• Chapter 36 — Swole
• Chapter 38 — Edict
• Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 46 — Sierra
• Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
• Chapter 49 — Kiwi
• Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
• Chapter 54 — The blood bar
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 61 — Marked for death
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
• Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
• Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
• Epilogue — Epilogue

Progression

Where Carl learned what a Null is (ch. 3); Forkith on the floor's unchanging map (ch. 5); Everly on the mercenary scam (ch. 6); a third scratchpad of drafts and nothing about a masquerade (ch. 8); Ikicha the yenk (ch. 13); Coolie's last view (ch. 17); Drakea on coin over life and Herot on helpers (ch. 24); Allister on vampires (ch. 45); 'Fuck everything about this place' (ch. 47); a recipe used under cover of bravado (ch. 50); the returned dead (ch. 52); Herot's three castles and her pebble on the worn path (ch. 54, ch. 56); Milk on the Treasure Map (ch. 61); Everly's end and Carl's plan, pasted in as a record of his demise (ch. 63, ch. 64); Chaco's warning about turning on your party (ch. 69); Tin wrong about god invulnerability (ch. 76).