Motif · from book 3
The Princess Posse
Donut's fan club, named on the fourth floor; by the sixth, seven hundred chapters across the galaxy, a chapter president with a symbiote named Maggie, a lawsuit against the Syndicate over preserved cocker spaniels, and — through Quasar — a non-profit corporation that crowd-funds a spot in Faction Wars. Carl and Donut are its co-warlords.
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
Through book 6
Warlords at a table (B6 ch. 21); fifty thousand troopers (B6 ch. 73).
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Princess Posse in Faction Wars, and the safety-protocol vote | B5 ch. 77 | open · 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. |
| Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter | B6 ch. 73 | open — 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,' |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 3
Donut's name for her fans, spoken after a show ran a video of her and Miss Beatrice winning a cat show: 'good for the Princess Posse to get some culture in with their daily Donut fix.' 'Princess Posse?' I asked (B3 ch. 20).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 1/35 | Ch. 20 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 5/78 | Ch. 24, Ch. 28, Ch. 41, Ch. 43, Ch. 77 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 8/74 | Ch. 3, Ch. 11, Ch. 21, Ch. 35, Ch. 62, Ch. 67, Ch. 72, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
By book
The Princess Posse in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Donut's name for her fans, first heard when she decides it is good for them to get some culture in with their daily dose of her, and Carl has to ask what a Princess Posse is (ch. 20).
The Princess Posse in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Marriage proposals on the Princess Posse server (ch. 24); if Donut is bored, the Posse is bored (ch. 28). Jenn'ifer, chapter president of the Inner System chapter, arrives at the con on a premium pass bought from the fund of The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels (ch. 41); seven hundred chapters and a filtered treasury (ch. 43); a corporation with Donut on the board (ch. 56); a chapter president in a frozen court (ch. 59). At the end a spinning star over her head — Co-Warlord, The Princess Posse — and a team sponsored by TSECS, doing business as Princess Posse Enterprises, claims a Faction Wars spot (ch. 77).
The Princess Posse in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The social media board and what the Posse says about the Faction Wars team (ch. 3); it will not like a rotting stink factory in the party, and it votes on Donut's outfit (ch. 11); at the warlords' table, a non-profit conglomerate with tens of thousands of chapters of intelligent, like-minded, beautiful fans (ch. 21); a Faction Wars cash prize headed for the fan club (ch. 19); an action item to rename Crown Prince Stalwart Captain Enormous, and D'Nadia's emergency item to remove the Posse and delete its warlords (ch. 35); a newsletter promise about an arm (ch. 60); 'the Princess Posse doesn’t leave anybody behind' (ch. 62); a warlord of the Princess Posse Faction Wars team, per Donut (ch. 67); fifty thousand troopers (epilogue).