Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
A recipe book to the showrunners and a manual to its holder, read in bathroom stalls: passed from crawler to crawler across seasons, each adding an edition — Carl's is the 25th — invisible to the showrunners, not to the AI, and erased if its holder tells anyone.
Segment appearances
- Chapter 1 — The Ghosts of Earth
- Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
- Chapter 10 — Pueblo de los Olvidados
- Chapter 11 — Asojano
- Chapter 12 — Shadow Boxer
- Chapter 13 — Milk and potatoes
- Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
- Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
- Chapter 16 — Ogun
- Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
- Chapter 20 — Ruby
- Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
- Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
- Chapter 24 — Raul
- Chapter 26 — MaeMae
- Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
- Chapter 32 — Minge
- Chapter 34 — Family business
- Chapter 42 — Sharp-Elbows
- Chapter 46 — The Reminiscence Hydra
- Chapter 47 — Operation Slut Stomp
- Chapter 50 — Homestead
- Chapter 52 — Two of five
- Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
- Chapter 55 — Survival Royale
- Chapter 57 — Samantha's secret
- Chapter 61 — Three out of four
- Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Chapter 63 — The doggie door
- Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
- Chapter 65 — Graupel
Progression
Carl's own note in the 25th edition, 'how quickly everything can change' (ch. 15); notes from Tipid, Herot, Azin, Tin, Rosetta, Milk, Drakea, Priestly, Porthus, Ossie, Allister, Ikicha (ch. 16, ch. 21, ch. 26, ch. 31, ch. 34, ch. 42, ch. 54, ch. 55, ch. 61–ch. 64); little on Club Vanquisher (ch. 18); nothing on the Desperado's passages (ch. 24); the Bahamas book transcribed into it (ch. 22); a line about AI iterations that vanishes when copied, remembered.