Item · debuts Book 5, Chapter 62 — “The Eve of the Party”

The “Give to Donut” Gifts

Mystery sponsor items · hammer & stick marked “7”

A barrage of Apothecary (and OIPAN) benefactor boxes, sent to half a dozen different crawlers but all tagged “give to Princess Donut”: a wand-recharge scroll, a new tiara and sheet music (their uses clear), plus two baffling “enchanted-but-useless” items, the Hammer of Fast Forward and the Stick of Cascadia's Screams. Carl finds a tiny “7” stamped on the hammer and the stick and realizes the sponsors are deliberately equipping Donut, the most likely survivor, for something on the seventh floor, and that they expect everyone else dead. It crystallizes his dread (echoing Everly's cookbook tragedy) that his sponsor is steering him toward a memorable death.

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