Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The xistera

A jai-alai scoop from a Gold Fan Box, matched to the Cesta Punta skill an Earth Hobby Potion gave Carl at random: a metallic basket that retracts into a bracer, hurls a hob-lobber at 250 mph, and retires the slingshot. The AI's plan for him, traced back to cherry bombs tossed off a cutter onto Arctic ice.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Progression

Hob-lobbers at a heavy pulse gun (ch. 24), at a fleshered influencer (ch. 69), a healing potion ball at eighty thousand people (ch. 69); the head-chucker attachment on the hotlist, and Samantha fired at a volcano (ch. 84, ch. 86).