Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Sponsorship

The patron system Mordecai explains in the tutorial guild — organisations that sponsor a crawler by buying boxes, and the Benefactor Boxes only patrons can send — changed by the AI as the second floor opens: three patron slots per crawler, each auctioned for one day as the fourth, fifth and sixth floors open, bids from one credit, and 'the more your patron pays for you, the more and higher-quality Benefactor Boxes you may receive.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 17 — Two goddesses
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 29 — Der Schachmeister
• Chapter 35 — Emergency action items
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 49 — The Shepherd's House flyer
• Chapter 51 — Residuals
• Chapter 55 — Survival Royale
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Progression

A sponsor appearing as herself (ch. 17); Donut sold to a waste company (ch. 29); a scroll of worship from Princess Formidable (ch. 19); a benefactor box seized and overridden (ch. 48); the garbage company's celestial box (ch. 72) — which was the Crest all along (epilogue).