Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The blood bar

Tenth-floor saferoom rules imposed on the sixth, retroactively, as the brambles close in: a bar filled by kills, ten hours of rest when full, a random teleport out when it empties, no entry at zero. Fighting the never-ending thorns fills it without experience — fifteen minutes of garden duty every ten hours — which is how a party of hunters lived in Zockau's saferoom to the end.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth

Progression

In effect between heats (ch. 7); barely raised by a kangaroo suit (ch. 25); Imani's has an hour left when the party plans the eleventh (ch. 69).