Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Scavenger's Daughter

A divine back patch from a celestial box on the eighth floor: a bar of captured soul essence that fills with kills and empties into a single melee blow — the Daughter's Kiss — doubled when the souls are one species; her eyes open in the presence of gods and demons and fill her with their power. A Climb benefit, and a 'mysterious bone key benefit' that opens any lock in the dungeon at the cost of a bone and the jacket, which Carl keeps as a last resort and in the end does not need. Donut sees it glow at the end: a centipede crawling through the skulls. 'I need you reasonably sane. We have so much work to do.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 7 — Duendes
• Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
• Chapter 16 — Ogun
• Chapter 17 — Two goddesses
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 27 — Phase two rules
• Chapter 39 — Lazarus-A-Bang-Bang
• Chapter 42 — Sharp-Elbows
• Chapter 58 — Amayon
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece
• Chapter 69 — A deity has fallen
• Chapter 70 — Golden Combo
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Progression

Won from the celestial predator box, to store soul essence (ch. 3); eyes open for Ogun (ch. 16); a pure bar of one species doubles the Kiss (ch. 27); an itch at nearly full (ch. 39); a hole kicked in the world (ch. 42); dark power for a demon prince (ch. 58); undischarged at the end, and a voice: a centipede in the skulls (ch. 72).