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 8
Its accounts are seized by Chandra, and the Donut Holes sell the Princess Palette (B8 ch. 1) — a bootleg turns up in a box (B8 ch. 10). Elle's Snow Cones, once raiders of the Posse, are allies now (B8 ch. 61); its message board is what outed Minus (B8 ch. 72).
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter | B6 ch. 73 | open · B8 ch. 27 — Lexis: the ship 'is decked out in enhancement-zone weaponry that actually works now that the AI has escaped containment'; the Network took every major ship in orbit in a day. |
| The Princess Posse in Faction Wars, and the safety-protocol vote | B5 ch. 77 | resolved · B7 ch. 85 — Won, by forfeit, with fifty thousand veterans and a record count through. |
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).
Through book 7
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 |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 42/89 | 1, 6, 10–15, 17–23, 27–30, 35, 39, 42–45, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 64–65, 67–70, 72–73, 77, 80, 84–85 · the book's own page |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 3/99 | Ch. 1, Ch. 72, Ch. 84 · 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).
The Princess Posse in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
A team of two with fifty-eight soldiers and no officers (ch. 1) that fifty thousand former crawlers join as level-60 mercenaries who keep nothing but what they know (ch. 11); battalions named in hours — the Bulwark, the Bloody Leeches, the Crocodiles, the Naughty Little Piggies, the White Dragons, the Scream Warriors, the Tenner Wraiths (ch. 15, ch. 20, ch. 29). Of 32,500 crawlers 20,221 reach the tenth, a record; of 50,000 veterans about 28,000 remain (ch. 85). 'Congratulations, Champions' (ch. 85).