Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Carl's bare feet

Carl loses his borrowed Crocs in the first minutes and the AI notices: the Smush skill, the breathy item descriptions, the Enchanted Pedicure Kit of the Sylph, the Platinum Shoe Box. By the second floor his soles no longer feel the ground, his buffs require him barefoot, and the Maestro's parting gift of tactical boots is a taunt.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
• Chapter 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive

Progression

The pedicure is negated by a joey's caustic skin (ch. 21); his feet are on fire at the skull of Tem (ch. 32); the coin reads 'Carl de-feeted' (ch. 35).