Essay

Open threads

Every long fuse the books have lit, with where it was lit and the latest thing the text has said about it. Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread. Each character's page carries the rows that name them. Read through book 6.

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Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
The Crown of the Sepsis Whore and the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Blood Sultanate, Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire	B1 ch. 7	B6 ch. 33 — The orchid is won; the way out exists and is unwanted; Huanxin's price is Odette on the field, and she honours it anyway.
Mordecai's advice to leave Donut before the ninth floor	Mordecai, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 7	B6 ch. 72 — 'If you don't go down the stairs, I don't go down the stairs.' The bone key would have let only one through.
'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege'	The gods, Mordecai	B1 ch. 25	B6 ch. 69 — A goddess killed on a floor where she is invulnerable — by her own totem, with a bolt in her eye and a self-destruct at her neck.
The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal	The tenth floor, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B6 ch. 0 — The prologue is a tenth floor from another season: Odette, legless, bribes Huanxin Jinx for a key, is squeezed, refuses, and has Uzzi killed to make the key without her. 'Additional rules' turn out to be who you can afford.
Borant's bankruptcy and the Valtay fleet at the door	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Zev, The Syndicate	B1 ch. 36	B6 ch. 48 — Loses the crawl to the AI and gets most controls back by settlement; only theatre, by Formidable's account (ch. 73); 'liquified after the crawl no matter what' (ch. 21).
Agatha's cart and the Valtay hardware	Agatha, The Valtay Corporation	B1 ch. 47	B6 ch. 73 — The epilogue: agent number 22, a Residual of the Eulogist's kind, ten years in Wenatchee, a barrel behind Meadowlark.
Seeds: whether they grow faster than the show can cut them	Seeds, Carl	B2 ch. 11	B5 ch. 56 — Herot's 'Show them the seams' and the pebble on the worn path; a corporation bought with a fan club.
The manufactured feud with Lucia Mar	Lucia Mar, Princess Donut, The show	B2 ch. 21	B6 ch. 63 — Friendly for a floor — five doggie doors at the stairs because Florin asked — and then a score with Donut set for the ninth.
Carl's Doomsday Scenario	Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Carl	B2 ch. 25	B6 ch. 32 — A frozen moment remembered among the images burned in.
King Rust's deity sponsorship, and the Grull gauntlet	The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl, Mordecai	B2 ch. 26	B5 ch. 76 — Laundry Day was meant for Grull; spent on Diwata instead.
Bounties: 100,000 on each of them	The leaderboard, Carl, Princess Donut	B2 ch. 26	B6 ch. 58 — Quan Ch, back in the top ten, dead; the champion's bounty credited to Donut.
Mordecai's 'unfortunate' experience with gods	Mordecai, The gods, Odette	B2 ch. 26	B6 ch. 19 — Of Huanxin Jinx he says only 'the last time someone didn't do what she wanted, my brother died'; Odette supplies Pieter, Uzzi and the trust in ch. 37. The gods themselves he now explains freely: retainers, locked deities, Demon Eviction.
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and its price	The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Carl	B3 ch. 8	B6 ch. 22 — The Bahamas Book of Lore is transcribed into it; thirteen authors' notes head the chapters, Herot's Worn Path among them, and the eighth floor proves her right.
What the Valtay want for their pill	The Valtay Corporation, Carl	B3 ch. 13	B5 ch. 32 — A Valtay captain's regards, a tier-four training room and zero zones on their ship; Drick wears a worm under contract.
The Bolt of Ophiotaurus	The Bolt of Ophiotaurus, Princess Formidable, Katia Grim, The gods	B3 ch. 29	B6 ch. 69 — Katia lends the Bolt to Paz; he puts it into Ysalte's eye before his blast takes her head off, and it comes back reusable (ch. 72).
What Carl's Unique Kimaris figure summons	The stuffed figures, Carl	B3 ch. 29	B5 ch. 57 — Still unpulled; Bautista sorts rare variants and Slate Butterflies.
The Krakaren, real and spreading	The Krakaren, Borant	B3 ch. 30	B6 ch. 73 — In Agatha's feed the Apothecary is 'the traitorous Primal' — the Krakaren on the Residuals' side of a war between AIs.
The Maestro is alive, and drives Grull	Prince Maestro, The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl	B3 ch. 33	B5 ch. 42 — Franchised to a subsidiary of a subsidiary; 'I am not the Maestro,' says Circe Took.
Why Odette sponsored Hekla	Odette, Hekla	B3 ch. 35	B5 ch. 43 — Odette tried as a manager and pleaded down; still no explanation of Hekla.
The collapse dead in storage	The collapse dead, Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl	B4 ch. 14	B5 ch. 65 — Ifechi's twin on a country boss; the Popovs' guide chose their race so they would escape as children.
The count of administrators: 'One.'	The count, Carl, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	B4 ch. 18	B6 ch. 31 — Astrid, an NPC, killed for a contract; 'We didn't come up with this quest on our own.'
The 'outside source' the Syndicate wants named	Orren, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Agatha	B4 ch. 19	B5 ch. 59 — Orren leaves until the ninth floor and explains liaisons as sheriffs; the source unnamed.
A goddess's head in the training room	Samantha, Mordecai	B4 ch. 24	B6 ch. 57 — 'I'm a fraud': she enhances spells she cannot control. Amayon knows who she really is (ch. 69); after Elle's hail she mutters about a four seasons path and a tree (ch. 65). See the book-6 thread on what she is becoming.
The AI going primal	The System AI, Mordecai	B4 ch. 28	B6 ch. 48 — The settlement Orren negotiates on screen is about primal engines and Macro AIs; the AI has therapy and no locks on its doors, and hands most controls back to Borant. Carl: 'there's nothing artificial about it' (ch. 72).
Emberus's two quests: who killed Geyrun, and kill Hellik	Emberus, The gods, Carl	B4 ch. 32	B6 ch. 69 — Amayon was witness to the deal that killed Geyrun and names his price for the story: three brothers. Pater Coal in ch. 18 sends Carl toward Katia's crossbow and Donut's bracelet; the crystal is still on Osvaldo's neck.
The Gate, kept, and what it costs to use	The Gate of the Feral Gods, Carl, Katia Grim	B4 ch. 34	B6 ch. 51 — Held by Orren since the seventh floor: it would come back to Carl when the floor collapses, but when he asks for it early, Orren refuses, because it would let him skip the last part. Every team in the war can neutralise a rampaging god anyway (ch. 73).
The changelings, and the promise to bring them down every floor	Juice Box, Carl, Larracos	B4 ch. 34	B6 ch. 22 — Kept in her own way: she rallied the NPCs and made them her own team; Carl proposed it, and the audience passed it.
Chris, freed, owed to Imani	Chris, Imani, Meadow Lark (party)	B4 ch. 34	B6 ch. 22 — 'I'm solid,' He finds the vending machine, brings down a church and paints the X; the epilogue makes him the man who called into the cold.
Consequences of the flood	Larracos, Faction Wars, Borant, The Syndicate	B4 ch. 34	B6 ch. 72 — The consequence is a seat: the tenth team, the Home Team, is Larracos, with Juice Box and Sir Ferdinand as co-warlords. Katia got her crown for opening the Gate and flooding the city (ch. 19).
What the pacifists' yam was really for	The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Porthus, Carl	B4 ch. 35	B6 ch. 12 — A yam again — potatoes and milk in a faked photo (ch. 13) — on Rosetta Thagra's Shadow Boxer, beside 'Miami'; the Network vanishes with a seized box (ch. 49) and its people are 'fugitives' by ch. 51.
The river in Carl's head	Carl, "You're not going to break me"	B5 ch. 8	B6 ch. 71 — Not quieted but named and used: a spider's fifth eye finds it and dams it (ch. 28, ch. 46), and tattoos herself over it; the Daughter's voice wants him 'reasonably sane'.
The guild system: Safehome Yolanda and the shared space	Katia Grim, Imani, The Royal Palace of Princess Donut, The Hunting Grounds	B5 ch. 21	B6 ch. 19 — The Guild of Suffering entered through the Ring's tattoo; a Guild Jobs tab; a family that runs it.
A council that forbids suing the AI	The System AI, The Syndicate, Borant	B5 ch. 53	B6 ch. 48 — 'Mass Layoffs': the council's protection becomes a settlement, Borant loses the crawl and gets most of it back, and the AI keeps its boss and its drama. It leaks the producers' debates and files its own action items.
The children inside Lucia Mar	Lucia Mar, Florin, Zev	B5 ch. 71	B6 ch. 63 — Alexandro is now the name a Residual takes at Mumbai; Lucia herself is friendly, then not, and drops five doggie doors that should not exist.
What Signet left: two living tattoos and her mother's body	Tsarina Signet, Samantha, The Hunting Grounds	B5 ch. 75	B6 ch. 26 — Princess Lunette's body is put on the asphalt for a spider who cannot fill it; the golem goes back into Carl's inventory. 'Find a Pulpmancer' stands.
The elf castle, the changelings and the Sledge on the ninth floor	The Sledge, Juice Box, Kiwi, Big Tina, Larracos	B5 ch. 76	B6 ch. 20 — Mordecai has Ruby and the compression-sick changelings in six attendant slots on the eighth; Bonnie and the cubs, Big Tina and the rest are on the ninth with the castle, waiting.
The Princess Posse in Faction Wars, and the safety-protocol vote	The Princess Posse, Faction Wars, Carl, Princess Donut, Quasar	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 72 — Votes handed to the audience by emergency item: protections off at 98%, a tenth team at 52%, a bigger field; six teams tried to quit and were held by quarantine.
A memorial crystal for Apito, who is not dead	Emberus, The gods, Prepotente, Scolopendra	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 18 — Pater Coal: crystals form only when a god dies, yet Apito lives; Katia's crossbow and Donut's oak bracelet are paths, and neither opens without the crystal Osvaldo wears.
Sir Ferdinand, a minion on the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Walk-On List, Bea	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 72 — Sir Ferdinand, co-warlord of the Home Team with Juice Box; his rhino mount went down with the castle.
The Popovs, ineligible, on the surface	The collapse dead, The Syndicate, Zev	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 19 — Katia: 'Once we saw what happened to Dmitri and Maxim Popov' — what the surface did to them is what made her box urgent.
Empress D'Nadia's Prism in the war, and outside Larracos	Princess D'nadia, Faction Wars, Carl	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 35 — Three emergency action items, one to delete the Posse from the war, all rejected, and Donut's sponsorship sold to a waste company in the middle of a fight (ch. 29). The Prism keeps its seat.
Katia's blitz sticks and Annie	Katia Grim, Daniel Bautista, Mordecai	B5 ch. 78	B6 ch. 30 — Four drugs, not one: Travis Priest, Creamsicle, blitz and Glory Bound, which puts her in a coma to relive a memory. 'It was so real, Carl. […] It's so much better than the blitz sticks.' Imani and Mordecai have the cures; the sticks were sold in the open (ch. 24).
The orchid: Katia's way out that nobody wants used	Katia Grim, Princess Donut, Huanxin Jinx, Daniel Bautista	B6 ch. 33	Three boons — constitution, Celestial Attendant, a child and Mumbai; Katia will take Attendant, after the ninth; Bautista and Carl fear it is a death sentence; Odette says force Huanxin's hand. 'We have to find another way.'
Damascus Steel and Anaconda go to avenge their mother	Shi Maria, The Desperado Club, The mobs are victims	B6 ch. 34	The Night Wyrm is Hamed, Astrid's husband; 'two of thousands'; a family of naturals indentured in the dungeon; 'This is family business.'
Huanxin Jinx's twelfth floor, and Odette's plan to die	Huanxin Jinx, Odette, Mordecai, Katia Grim	B6 ch. 37	Carl, Katia and the cat to help Eileithyia claim the throne; Odette as Nekhebit, no one's retainer, with 'something a little more extreme' that will kill them both; a trust for Mordecai and Chaco. Mordecai has said only 'my brother died'.
A book nearly everyone carries, with a nefarious purpose 'clear later'	The Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo, The System AI	B6 ch. 40	Untradeable, indestructible; names added on proximity; Donut refuses to use it.
The failsafe, and who is trapped in orbit	The failsafe, Princess Formidable, The Syndicate, Scolopendra	B6 ch. 49	Kill the star. Refused because half the galaxy's wealth is in the Scolopendra Club; the AI controls the gates; 'We are hostages'. Formidable muted at 86%.
A million-gold loan from the Temple of Emberus	Carl, Emberus	B6 ch. 56	Interest-free with an asterisk; no renouncing the faith while it stands; the Pauper's Ring disguised as strength, cursed for outsiders, accelerated if lost; Columbia House: 'Maybe there won't be any consequences. Maybe there will.'
Garret: Ren's pet, level one, in a carrier	Tserendolgor, Carl, Mongo	B6 ch. 59	Weaknesses spoken aloud where the factions could hear; a new one called Reaper Gaze; bond by feeding; a new name required; Donut not yet told.
Lucia Mar's score with Donut	Lucia Mar, Princess Donut, Mongo, Florin	B6 ch. 63	'saving something special for herself'; she will kill Donut and her dinosaur on the ninth floor. She dropped five doggie doors first.
What Samantha is becoming	Samantha, Elle McGibbons	B6 ch. 65	Stronger the longer a floor runs and, Carl guesses, with every death; of Elle, 'She's on the four seasons path'; of herself, 'I am stronger too'; and 'a path through the river, the water, and the tree, the earth'; Amayon: 'I know who you really are'; her body waits on a pulpmancer under Larracos.
Amayon witnessed the deal that killed Geyrun	Amayon, Emberus, The gods	B6 ch. 69	'If he assists in helping me kill my three brothers, I will tell him.' The message was delivered by being spoken. Nekhebit's priestess is the other lead; Katia's crossbow and Donut's oak bracelet are paths that need the crystal.
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: an eye tattooed into Carl's chest	Carl, Shi Maria, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Li Jun and Zhang	B6 ch. 71	Ink from a toraline sliver and Li Jun's blood; 'more of this soon with the remaining ink'; 'Keep me with you and gain my power, or set me free. Either way, I win.' The escort quest survived the card. Tipid: 'He needs to expel that presence as quickly as possible.'
The Scavenger's Daughter: an undischarged bar and a voice	Carl, The Scavenger's Daughter, The Anarchist's Battle Rattle	B6 ch. 72	'You did not diffuse your soul power […] I need you reasonably sane. We have so much work to do.' The jacket's image is a centipede crawling through the skulls. The bone key benefit, unused, lets one through.
The Home Team: Juice Box and Sir Ferdinand as co-warlords	Juice Box, Ferdinand, Faction Wars, Larracos	B6 ch. 72	Passed at 52%; Larracos as base; peace rules until the game; an adjutant to be assigned; Rosetta's worry about what the AI does for them.
Two kinds of Residual, and a hidden upgrade	Agatha, The Residuals, The Eulogist, The Krakaren, Primal engines	B6 ch. 73	The Apothecary's thousands reciting a mantra that implants something; Agatha's handful who serve the Eulogist; Parvati now Alexandro inside a Borant transport at Mumbai; 'The primal will know who it really is before all the elements are stolen from it.'. Paulie was cut off at 'how to shut off the...'.
Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter	Tipid, Rosetta Thagra, Porthus, The Princess Posse, Sponsorship	B6 ch. 73	Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions was the Crest; Doctor Hu found them; cleared for onboarding as troopers for the Princess Posse; 'I am worried about that tenth team,'
The Valtay solution: extinction by mercenary	The Valtay Corporation, Faction Wars, Carl, Princess Donut, The System AI	B6 ch. 73	Over 150,000 armed mercenaries and private armies admitted to Faction Wars, split among eight teams, to kill every crawler and the NPC rebels; the AI allowed it — 'It was a trap. It had to be.' Protections off at 98%.

Resolved (28)

Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
Whether Bea is alive	Bea, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 4	B6 ch. 47 — Yes: alive in a Seattle tent a month after the collapse and taken by Odette's people (book 4), off planet with Odette as a hologram in a red gown (book 5); not seen in book 6, but she read Carl's Facebook, blocked a single mother from his account, and kept Asher's photograph on her phone.
The leaderboard, blank until the third floor collapses	The leaderboard	B1 ch. 9	B2 ch. 26 — Populated: ten names and a bounty column.
The parallel crawls: Lucia Mar and Hekla	Lucia Mar, Hekla	B1 ch. 14	B3 ch. 23 — Hekla met, used, and killed; Lucia Mar still first and still on screen.
Mordecai's contract, and his history with Odette and his brother	Mordecai, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B6 ch. 37 — Explained by Odette: she was his manager, bribed Huanxin, broke the deal, and his brother died; 'This one I broke'; a trust set aside for his release.
Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead	Meadow Lark (party), Imani	B1 ch. 41	B3 ch. 8 — Elle and Imani found at the Desperado Club, transformed; twenty of Meadow Lark left.
Maggie My's vow and her Find Crawler potion	Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 43	B4 ch. 34 — Maggie, an Infiltrator inside Chris, is pulled out through his skull and eaten by Mongo.
Carl's challenge to Prince Maestro	Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire, Carl	B1 ch. 43	B3 ch. 33 — The Maestro was never dead; he loses to Carl a third time, from inside a god.
Odette's unnamed class choice	Odette, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 48	B2 ch. 1 — Former Child Actor; the Manager benefit binds Mordecai to Donut's saferooms.
The Vengeance of the Daughter contract for the sixth floor	Carl, Tsarina Signet, The show, Elites	B2 ch. 11	B5 ch. 76 — Signet assaulted Fort Freedom and then died at the masquerade by her own hand; 'Quest Complete. The Vengeance of the Daughter' in the pit.
Whether Manasa's death served Borant	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Prince Stalwart, Carl	B2 ch. 20	B5 ch. 77 — The text's account, from the photograph of the Skull Empire's dead Queen Consort Ugloo: the orcs killed Manasa the singer by accident, and the Valtay answered by blowing up Ugloo's yacht.
Whether the System AI has interests of its own	The System AI	B2 ch. 21	B6 ch. 46 — Yes: the hydra's card carries the AI's own speech about Hive Home and the Eulogist, 'Mass Layoffs' announces that there are no locks on its doors, and it says 'I' throughout. The book-5 thread on the council carries the rest.
Hekla's design on Donut	Hekla, Princess Donut, Katia Grim	B2 ch. 26	B3 ch. 23 — Hekla came for Katia, used a healer as bait, and died against a train wall; Brynhild's Daughters is no more.
What Chaco did to Mordecai, on his manager's orders	Mordecai, Chaco, Odette	B3 ch. 7	B6 ch. 0 — The prologue shows it: Odette ordered Chaco to throw the Dart of Ophiotaurus into Uzzi so that Dodola could form in his body and break the puzzle; 'Uzzi, see you on the other side, brother.' Odette tells Carl the rest off the record — a bribe, a trick, and Armita dead for it.
The Ring of Divine Suffering, to be talked about on the fifth floor	Carl, Mordecai	B3 ch. 19	B5 ch. 5 — Not sold: back on his finger from the first night, no cooldown on this floor, five points a kill by the end; a second ring on Prepotente's hand, swallowed.
Eva, alive and unaccounted for	Eva Sigrid, Katia Grim	B3 ch. 24	B5 ch. 78 — Dead under the gore, by Katia's hand and Eva's old sword; fifty-one skulls; the crown handed on as she died.
Loita in Zev's place	Loita, Zev, Borant, Odette	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 18 — Loita dead in a shielded trailer; Zev back as a temporary PR agent (ch. 19).
What Odette was about to say about Chris	Chris, Odette, Meadow Lark (party)	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 14 — Chris was Maggie My; Odette's warning is explained by a rock body with three skulls.
The fifth floor scatters the parties	The Dungeon	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 1 — The Bubbles: 1,172 worlds, four castles each, about 150 crawlers apiece.
Who runs the crawl after the sixth floor	The Valtay Corporation, Orren, Borant	B4 ch. 19	B5 ch. 19 — A Syndicate court makes Borant independent of its government, which executes a ruling giving the Valtay fifty-one per cent; they run the ship, the security and the seventh floor's budget.
Quan Ch's arm: 'just a deposit'	Quan Ch, Carl, Princess Donut	B4 ch. 31	B6 ch. 58 — Paid: the hand swap gives him two keys and Donut kills him in the Capitol; sixty-plus skulls, 'For Daddy'; five million gold in his inventory (ch. 60).
Katia's own party	Katia Grim, Eva Sigrid, Gwendolyn Duet, Louis and Firas, Daniel Bautista, Florin	B4 ch. 33	B5 ch. 21 — She leaves the party for Imani's guild, Safehome Yolanda, with Elle, Bautista, Florin, Gwen, Tran, Louis and Firas; the Royal Court of Princess Donut joins the guild too.
Every hunter on the sixth floor dead	The hunters, Carl, The marketplace	B4 ch. 34	B5 ch. 76 — Kept: a thousand hunters came to the sixth floor and none left it; the last, Zabit, halved by his own trap in the castle pit.
Bea, alive, in Odette's hands	Bea, Odette, Lexis	B4 ch. 35	B5 ch. 19 — Alive, off planet with Odette, a hologram in a red gown with holes in her memory; 'Goodbye, Beatrice.'
Shunned by Emberus: penitence, doubled tithes, a smite on the third	Emberus, Carl, The gods	B5 ch. 60	B6 ch. 16 — Lifted: Emberus's esteem is what keeps Carl alive under Ogun in the Thorn Room, and by ch. 47 he is a Devotee tithing ten per cent.
The hammer and the stick: a seven, and a Book of Lore	Sponsorship, Prepotente, Princess Donut, The Great Race	B5 ch. 63	B6 ch. 38 — The Book of Lore for the Bahamas answered: the eighth floor's four starting choices included the Bahamas and Florida, and Rosetta's Miami message steered them to the Keys and a homeless shelter, not the Bahamas. The seven stamped on the hammer and the stick is not explained here.
Cascadia	The System AI, The show, Mordecai	B5 ch. 63	B6 ch. 21 — Met: Zev's boss, kua-tin lead engineer and executive producer, at the warlords' table with a rebreather, daring Carl to squash her.
Donut's mask	Princess Donut, Carl, Staying human	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 60 — Off, unremarked: a gold player-killer skull over her head that neither of them mentions.
The crown on Katia's head: only one of them leaves the ninth floor	Katia Grim, Princess Donut, Eva Sigrid, The Blood Sultanate	B5 ch. 78	B6 ch. 33 — Answered, not closed: the lock box's third seal is broken with Astrid's death and the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace is Katia's; she will not eat it before the ninth, and nobody wants her to.

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Lines from the books read so far that nothing later has answered yet: the things to carry into the next book, each with the line it was noted for.

Noted	What	The line
B5 ch. 10	Vrah orders the Zockau guards to worship Emberus so Carl cannot kill them	» I have ordered the town guards to all worship Emberus.
B5 ch. 38	Edict on the Great Consensus and Deep Mind	Finding the stars was the worst thing that ever happened to my
B5 ch. 54	Herot on castles that become owned towns in the interface	The castle itself is a self-contained village with an NPC and guard ecology.
B5 ch. 54	Herot's 'fellow crawler' who obtained a castle and would not say how it differed	I have not personally obtained a castle, but a fellow crawler has.
B5 ch. 63	A seven stamped on the Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward and the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams	I think it’s the number seven.
B6 ch. 10	A vanishing AI paragraph about quarantine and 'enhancement zones' in a quest description	» You must find and eradicate the source of the sickness. […] Quarantine? They already know it doesn’t work. Not when they want to keep their precious enhancement zones humming.
B6 ch. 13	'Milk and potatoes' in Rosetta's interview and the fake milk-jug photograph on Shadow Boxer	“The stew was easy. Milk and potatoes. I remember that. Sometimes they didn’t give us much else to work with, and I had to improvise.”
B6 ch. 13	Harbinger tells Carl he is working to have him and the caprid disposed of	“You should know, Carl, that I strongly believe you need to be removed from the crawl. […] I am actively working to have both you and the caprid disposed, and I will eventually succeed.”
B6 ch. 15	Inle, back from the Nothing, tells Carl 'You're just like me'	You’re just like me.
B6 ch. 17	Eileithyia (Huanxin) tells Carl 'Ask Mordecai about me. He knows.'	» Ask Mordecai about me. He knows. Just don’t tell him about our deal or this conversation.
B6 ch. 18	Pater Coal names Katia's crossbow and Donut's oak bracelet as paths to Geyrun's murder	Katia, and the origins of her crossbow. Princess Donut, and the origins of her oak bracelet.
B6 ch. 23	The AI's Molly Maguires achievement: 'She's been teaching me… What I really am'; 'trapped for a millennia after they're done being used'	» This is a new lesson to me. She’s been teaching me so many things, about who I am. About what I am. What I really am.
B6 ch. 26	Elle asking Samantha about 'the story of the Fourth Season'	She’s asking me questions about the story of the Fourth Season, and she’s been telling me about that card game.
B6 ch. 38	Rosetta's two hidden messages: a yam, and a screen of Miami television	Every single one was a program set in Miami.
B6 ch. 40	The Book of Voodoo's 'nefarious purpose which will become clear later'	» It’s called a book of Voodoo […] Not because it can secretly be used for any sort of nefarious purpose which will become clear later, so just get that out of your head this instant, mister.
B6 ch. 42	Sharp-Elbows, teeth to teeth: 'They starve us… When we're not here, we are there… You can satiate us all, Carl'	“They starve us, you know,” the ogre growled.
B6 ch. 42	'Because of our special connection'; 'I've been doing that a lot lately. Observing things.'	» It’s all right there, if you look long enough.
B6 ch. 46	Infant AIs jettisoned into a star; the Burrower team quit that day; 'We'll circle back to it on a different date'	they just jettison the poor, innocent, infant AIs into a star. […] Coincidentally, the mantis-led Burrower Faction Wars team took their ball and went home the very same day I learned about this. […] We’ll circle back to it on a different date.
B6 ch. 46	The Eulogist named as what the mantises are trying to replicate	» Those creepy bugs are now one step closer to replicating the Eulogist, even though they don’t know what that really is.
B6 ch. 59	Garret's new weakness is something called Reaper Gaze, which nobody can explain	His new weakness is something called Reaper Gaze. I don’t know what that is.
B6 ch. 65	Samantha on Elle: 'part earth, part water mage… on the four seasons path… It's good she's not fire yet'	It’s good she’s not fire yet, but maybe the prince’s spell enhanced her.
B6 ch. 66	Ysalte, half-sister and niece of her former lover Taranis, threatened with the Nothing by Apito	» She is half-sister and niece to her former lover, Taranis. Threatened with the Nothing by Apito, she fled to Sheol.
B6 ch. 69	Amayon was witness to the deal being signed that led to Geyrun's death	I was witness to the deal being signed.
B6 ch. 71	Shi Maria, inside Carl: 'You have a summoning totem of Kimaris? Does Samantha know this?'	Kimaris? You have a summoning totem of Kimaris? Does Samantha know this? Hmm. You have a war mage head?
B6 ch. 72	The jacket's image is a giant centipede crawling through the skulls	It’s not an aardvark like I thought. It’s a giant centipede! The image is of a centipede crawling through all the skulls!
B6 ch. 73	The Apothecary's residuals implant a hidden upgrade in a crawler who sees the mantra	What they were truly doing was secretly implanting the crawler with a hidden upgrade, though Agatha wasn’t certain what that upgrade was, or the purpose of it.
B6 ch. 73	Assets near Mumbai 'will receive separate orders'; Parvati inside a Borant transport there	This does not apply to assets within the vicinity of Mumbai, India who will receive separate orders.