Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
Sponsorship
The patron system Mordecai explains in the tutorial guild — organisations that sponsor a crawler by buying boxes, and the Benefactor Boxes only patrons can send — changed by the AI as the second floor opens: three patron slots per crawler, each auctioned for one day as the fourth, fifth and sixth floors open, bids from one credit, and 'the more your patron pays for you, the more and higher-quality Benefactor Boxes you may receive.'
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Progression
The Donut Holes win the auction for Donut's open sponsorship slot, with a court case pending on whether to allow it (ch. 1); Tupa is newly sponsored 'by some rich asshole' (ch. 41); Eris is still unsponsorable (ch. 35); Minus takes Linus's identity as his cover (ch. 52).