Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Butcher's Masquerade

A party the top fifty crawlers and the surviving hunters are transferred to whether they like it or not, in the high elf castle at the end of the sixth floor — and a spell: one of Apito's holiest sacraments, cast once in a life by the most divine, with a guest list chosen by the goddess to sow discord, a celestial peace seal that feeds anyone who breaks it to the Nothing, goodwill ballrooms in which enemies cannot touch, and a boon nobody has ever won. No masks. The name, Carl decides afterwards, has one butcher in it.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 8 — The Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 10 — Pueblo de los Olvidados
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 41 — Jola the Yule Cat
• Chapter 43 — The motorcycle
• Chapter 47 — Operation Slut Stomp
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Progression

Prepotente's cube and the boxes left unopened from it (ch. 2); the AI's greeting to the champion murderer supreme (ch. 2); Gimli eaten and Osvaldo's crystal at its end (ch. 5); Burcu met there (ch. 8); Donut's flawless performance, and the talent contest that got ruined (ch. 10, ch. 14); her platinum fan box for singing there (ch. 11); D'Nadia last seen at its very end (ch. 21); Britney, Tran and Louis, three it broke (ch. 22); the darkness since (ch. 63).