Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 27 — Phase two rules
• Chapter 40 — The Book of Voodoo
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Epilogue — Homecoming Queen

Progression

Mordecai's memories of past Borant seasons — a bacterial infection, bridges that could not be built — and the council stepping in (ch. 2). Zev says the Borant Corporation will be liquefied after the crawl no matter what (ch. 21); the admin is back to her chipper self, with tension hidden behind it (ch. 27); the proposal Borant submitted for all eighteen levels, and Cascadia humiliated (ch. 40); Borant loses the crawl — 'Things about to change, fam' (ch. 48); theatre in an ocean headquarters (epilogue).