Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The Ring of Divine Suffering

Frank Q's revenge: +5% to all stats and the Marked for Death skill — mark a crawler, gain a permanent stat point when they die, and heal nothing until they do. Yvette wore it and marked Carl; that is why she could not heal, and why her mother killed her. Carl wears it until Mordecai explains what the sixth-floor hunters do to its owners.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
• Chapter 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant

Progression

The AI's achievement Wastrel: 'You feed it to a fucking cat? What a damned waste.' (ch. 10)