Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Borant

The kua-tin corporation licensed to run this season of the crawl: the voice of the daily announcements and patch notes, the Admins who splash into the guild room, and the government behind them — the Bloom, the Party — that Mordecai says is bankrupt and needs the game over fast.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
• Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance

Progression

Lexis is on loan to Borant while she is stuck in system; everything there is in a shambles (ch. 27).