Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The Anarchist's Battle Rattle

A sleeveless black canvas patch jacket from a Platinum Spicy Box on the fifth floor: +1 to every stat per patch sewn on, doubled by a back patch, +50% range and accuracy for thrown explosives, and as many slots as Carl can fit. It replaces the burned leather jacket he wore out of Seattle. The first patch is the planet Earth.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
• Chapter 29 — The stampede; Harbinger
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
• Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch

Progression

Inside a kangaroo costume the jacket stays on (ch. 21); 'And I have his patch on my jacket' (ch. 29); the Epicure patch keeps vampires and werewolves off Carl (ch. 70); it survives the change into a dog, with the cloak and the bandanna (ch. 82); a four-leaf-clover patch sewn on above the Midnight Epicure patch (ch. 88, ch. 89).