Motif · from book 4
The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network
Carl's second sponsor from the fifth floor: an Intergalactic NFC — Not for Conquest, tax-free, a non-profit — that Mordecai has never heard of, that sponsors no one else, and that sends a yam in a silver box, then a custom head-throwing xistera attachment in an emergency platinum box that Mordecai guesses was the most expensive in the game's history. Its president of Outreach Operations is Dr. P. Hu.
First appears: Book 4
Series arc
As of book 6. A yam and a head-thrower in book 4, a potion called Escape Plan in book 5, a yam and Miami on Rosetta's show in book 6 — then a seized box with a flyer, a vanished network, fugitives by Orren's word, and in the epilogue the Homecoming Queen with fifty thousand former crawlers in the hull and Rosetta in the cockpit.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| What the pacifists' yam was really for | B4 ch. 35 | open · 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. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 4
Through book 5
Through book 6
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 3/35 | Ch. 7, Ch. 34, Ch. 35 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 4/78 | Ch. 33, Ch. 52, Ch. 63, Ch. 77 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 7/74 | Ch. 7, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 48, Ch. 50, Ch. 51, Ch. 64 · the book's own page |
By book
The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
A sponsor Mordecai has never heard of, with a silver box that holds a yam (ch. 7, ch. 8); an emergency platinum box, 'more than the GDP of some star systems', holding a head-thrower made for Carl 'with design approval by CEO and president of Outreach Operations, Dr. P. Hu' (ch. 34); the yam's real purpose — Dr. Hu says Carl knows it, the woman is not so sure — though he spent half of it on Chris (epilogue). Its president is called Porthus. 'It's the same cause.'
The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
A guess at whom the robed woman in the audience at Carl's panel speaks for — the Apothecary, it turns out (ch. 33); a Gold Benefactor Box from The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Intergalactic NFC (ch. 52); a cryptic, expensive note with a potion, signed P. Hu: 'Will replace' (ch. 55); five sponsorship boxes on the table, all meant for Donut (ch. 63); the potion is spent on a god (ch. 76).
The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Shadow Boxer program is an NFC non-profit owned by the Open Intellect Pacifist Network, one of the party's sponsors (ch. 7, ch. 12) — a yam and Miami on Rosetta's show (ch. 12, ch. 38); proof that the Network employs at least one, likely two, possibly three former Cookbook owners (ch. 13); an Emergency Gold Benefactor Box, seized, with a flyer in it (ch. 48, ch. 49); its members vanish (ch. 50); Orren: former crawlers who want the crawl to fail, now fugitives (ch. 51).