Motif · from book 4

The Walk-On List

The season's list of Natives — survivors who were neither Collected nor became Crawlers — whom the producers want kidnapped into the dungeon for drama, a practice the rules forbid and no court has ever punished. Bounty crews sneak onto the planet to fill it; on Earth, in the last weeks of winter, two of them hunt a cat named Gravy Boat.

First appears: Book 4

Series arc

Through book 7

Among the Sultanate's assets (B7 ch. 43).

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
Sir Ferdinand, a minion on the ninth floor	B5 ch. 77	resolved · B7 ch. 85 — Warlord on High, Sir Ferdinand, co-warlord, mayor of Shanty Town for a hat, the author of a blackout and a sponsors' clause; he tried to save Donut in a tower and went to the twelfth 'to bang some hot goddess chicks'.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 4

Collected, Crawlers, Natives; trackers on a forbidden planet; a cat, a woman, a father, a goat, a twin (B4 ch. 35).

Through book 5

Bounty hunters selling survivors to Borant as bosses (B5 ch. 18); explained to the audience and censored to the crawlers (B5 ch. 19); the Syndicate's sampling of Earth's animals (B5 ch. 41). A cat from the list is the queen's familiar (B5 ch. 51).

Through book 6

Bea as Queen Imogen, had they got her (B6 ch. 46).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	1/35	Ch. 35 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	1/78	Ch. 19 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	1/74	Ch. 46 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	1/89	Ch. 43 · the book's own page

By book

The Walk-On List in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Collected, Crawlers, Natives; a list of natives the producers want, kidnapped by bounty crews the Syndicate never punishes; a cat, a woman in a flattened tropical zone, a girl's father, a goat, a dead crawler's twin; a snapshot two days stale because Borant started early (epilogue).

The Walk-On List in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Bounty hunters selling survivors to Borant as bosses (ch. 18); explained to the audience and censored to the crawlers (ch. 19); the Syndicate's sampling of Earth's animals (ch. 41). A cat from the list is the queen's familiar (ch. 51).

The Walk-On List in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Odette's walk-on list, where survivors of the collapse are taken: they would have used Bea as Queen Imogen, given the chance (ch. 46).

The Walk-On List in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Named by Odette among the entertainment assets the Blood Sultanate has always owned, at the warlord council (ch. 43, ch. 44).