Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo

A Gold Prepotente Box prize handed to nearly every crawler on the eighth floor: an untradeable, indestructible blank book that adds the name of any other owner who comes near, for pinned messages under their name — 'Not because it can secretly be used for any sort of nefarious purpose which will become clear later.' Donut refuses to use it.

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Three entries update in the Madness castle, and Burcu's page draws the traps before the book slams shut: 'This is still cheating, you clown. Nice try, though' (ch. 67). Edgar thinks it could share spells (ch. 74); Milk says anything Carl writes in it goes to everyone who has it (ch. 75). The departing crawlers each paint three skills onto pages — one for Carl, one for Donut, one on their own entry in the original book — so that it should have almost 30,000 pages, though it still has about 500; it is 'segmented into two volumes', the second Carl's Book of Boom, and Donut gets her own, A Banquet Fit for a Princess (ch. 85).