Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
The AI's confessions
The system AI speaking about itself in cards, quests and announcements: 'Everything hurts'; the hero rant on Donut's crupper; the Coblyn Corporation's war on drugs; Ad Infinitum ('a snapshot of my mind when I’m thinking of you'); the Big Six; 'l-l-l-losing control'; and the four-part history of the Primals on the parade — 'I am her. And she is me.' The voice glitches more as the book goes on.
Segment appearances
Progression
'Everything hurts' (ch. 2); what a hero is (ch. 9); 'Good boy' (ch. 10); a photon into a dead gazelle (ch. 23); gingers and the Nullians (ch. 43); ginger genocide (ch. 50); 'o-o-o-offered' (ch. 58); the Coblyn Corporation (ch. 63); 'l-l-l-losing control […] Beware exits' (ch. 67); Ad Infinitum (ch. 74); 'Sue me' (ch. 75); 'You gave me dominion' (ch. 81); the Big Six (ch. 86); 'I am her. And she is me' (ch. 91); four parts of five (ch. 92); a stern dad (ch. 94); 'I am eternity' (epilogue).