Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Player-killer skulls

The marks the AI hangs beside a crawler's name for each crawler killed — 'Crawler Killer X 3' on Frank Q, five skulls on Maggie My, one big skull and two small ones for Imani's twelve — and shown on the recap forming over Yolanda's head when she shoots Jack. The one achievement Carl wants to avoid: 'everyone else we meet won't know' it was deserved, so be wary of anyone who wears one.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 50 — Homestead
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 58 — Amayon
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Progression

Anton, the only player killer in Paz's group, wears two, with a mess of boss kills and a dagger icon (ch. 5); the skull mark sits on the Posse's flag between Hekla's and Eva's faces (ch. 32); Donut drinks for the first time since she got hers and passes out, Louis reports (ch. 50). Imani's own totem kills her whole squad and the AI hangs four new skulls on her, as it did to Florin when Lucia killed Ifechi (ch. 52); Quan Ch dies with over sixty (ch. 58); Donut sports a new golden one that neither of them mentions, and the nonchalance feels important (ch. 60); Louis's sixth (ch. 65).