Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The bestiary

The system's » This is a… cards — a Kua-Tin, a Safe Zone, a Non-Combatant NPC, a Dungeon Admin, a pet-class mob — and the Crawler # dossiers it prints for people: the dungeon naming what a thing is, in the AI's voice.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
• Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two

Progression

Twenty-four for the war: 'This is a human. This one is something called a Canadian. Part French. Part maple syrup' (ch. 2); 'This is an ally. As you are both officers, attacking him will automatically negate your peace treaty if there are witnesses' (ch. 7); allies, subordinates and a '"non-combatant" observer' (ch. 9, ch. 11, ch. 13); 'a special skunk with a very special set of skills' (ch. 15); a pet of Cybernetician Yeller (ch. 21); 'a hired mercenary. The fee has already been paid in advance' (ch. 28); 'a locked deity. He will not be sponsored this season' (ch. 53); 'a skin ripped off a human named Derek Reilly' (ch. 69); 'an automatic tower' (ch. 70); a pet of Warlord Fang (ch. 79); a team quest (ch. 84). No dossiers.