Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The System AI

The voice that reads every item description, names every achievement and awards every box — snide, profane, obsessed with Carl's bare feet. Distinct from Borant, which runs the season; the AI runs the game.

Segment appearances

Prologue — Prologue
Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
Chapter 6 — Party Planner
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
Chapter 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

'It is in pain. It wants to die,' says Paulie (ch. 0); 'It was having fun,' Carl decides (ch. 20). Its sphere passes Uranus (ch. 34); it walks into Orren's office as Growler Gary, drops a princess into the room, asks a cat for relationship advice and cracks a desk (ch. 36–ch. 38). It runs a temple boss fight by hand with fireworks (ch. 53), patches Yarilo's effect live (ch. 72), has no plan for a crawler with maxed base stats (ch. 77), and overrides an assassination: 'Don't worry. I gotchu […] There will be no more meddling' — the mantids have just learned what it does when irritated (ch. 81). 'I do like a good loophole' (ch. 67).