Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Memorial crystals

Formed only when a god dies, and kept by the Guild of Suffering: the queen's necklace at the masquerade is a memorial crystal for Apito, which Prepotente calls impossible, since as far as anyone knows the goddess is not dead; Emberus's quest is updated to obtain it, and a Curupira ranger named Osvaldo carries it off.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
• Chapter 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Progression

Osvaldo's two, Apito's and Ysalte's, are both 'wrong' (ch. 41). Apito's, at 0%, lit the sky when Yarilo stepped out of the Nothing and should not exist (ch. 70); at 11.1% after the first attack it protects everyone in a building (ch. 82). Ysalte's protects nothing and passes to Britney (ch. 82, ch. 83). Taranis steals Apito's — 'It was charging up with the Scolopendra attacks' — and Emberus's lies in the dirt (ch. 98).