Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network

Carl's second sponsor from the fifth floor: an Intergalactic NFC — Not for Conquest, tax-free, a non-profit — that Mordecai has never heard of, that sponsors no one else, and that sends a yam in a silver box, then a custom head-throwing xistera attachment in an emergency platinum box that Mordecai guesses was the most expensive in the game's history. Its president of Outreach Operations is Dr. P. Hu.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Progression

A guess at whom the robed woman in the audience at Carl's panel speaks for — the Apothecary, it turns out (ch. 33); a Gold Benefactor Box from The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Intergalactic NFC (ch. 52); a cryptic, expensive note with a potion, signed P. Hu: 'Will replace' (ch. 55); five sponsorship boxes on the table, all meant for Donut (ch. 63); the potion is spent on a god (ch. 76).