Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Fort Freedom

The naiads' river palace, a quarter mile offshore like a drowned skyscraper — a rampart gone, a tattered flag, a stained-glass window shot full of holes — held by the Confederacy's dukes since the coup that killed Signet's mother, rotting because they will not tax. Its alarm takes forever to reset; its vents flood; Wonderwall gets stuck in one. Taken, with an algae infestation.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
• Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Chapter 36 — Swole
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom

Arc

Named in the quest (ch. 15); a drowned skyscraper (ch. 25); an alarm, vents, blood and algae (ch. 26); the squatter in the throne room (ch. 27); taken (ch. 28), with Wonderwall stuck in a vent (ch. 29).