Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The guild system

Live for the first time on the sixth floor: parties capped at thirty, a 500,000-gold charter from a Bopca, five parties, a shared common area and guild-only upgrades. Imani is guildmaster of Katia's guild; Safehome Yolanda holds sixty-three crawlers in six parties; the guildhall keeps the changeling children, the cubs and a television.

Segment appearances

Chapter 3 — Quasar
Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
Chapter 56 — Zerzura
Chapter 57 — I Take it All Back
Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies

Progression

A 500,000-gold charter (ch. 8); who will be guildmaster (ch. 11); Imani's guild (ch. 20); the Royal Palace joins Safehome Yolanda (ch. 21); a guildhall full of children (ch. 63).