Subsistence Stipend
The payment a surviving crawler receives on release from indenture - bare subsistence at the low end, double at thirty seasons, and no housing guaranteed.
Story so far
The compensation attached to the deals read out at the Outreach Guild. Low Floor Undead carries a subsistence stipend upon release, with no guaranteed housing - which the attorney claims is not as scary as it sounds, because former crawlers always find a place to live. 'Almost always.' City Attendant for the Hunting Grounds pays double stipend for its thirty seasons. Game Guide is pitched differently again: not on stipend but on the most potential wealth upon exit, which is the reason Porthus chooses it.
It is the crawl's severance package, and the scale of it - subsistence, with housing left to luck - is the clearest statement of what the galaxy thinks it owes the people it harvested.
Role
The economic terms of indenture; the number that makes each exit deal better or worse than the next.
Relationships
Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter
- The payment a surviving crawler receives on release from indenture - bare subsistence at the low end, double at thirty seasons, and no housing guaranteed.