Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Progression

Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions, and a cancellation for conflict of interest (ch. 3, ch. 11); Dictum Waystation Controls' dead end (ch. 16); Theia sponsored on Carl's behalf by Rectrix (ch. 49, ch. 55); Nami surgically remade as Hekla to drive Eris (ch. 62); pilots who may no longer refuse their summons (ch. 61); Huanxin inside Eileithyia, and out of her (ch. 86). A benefactor box for Donut from the Apothecary (ch. 75). Eris, freed, has lost her sponsor and can no longer be sponsored this season (ch. 76).