Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Gideon

A human tank-class crawler, active in the chats, allergic to dogs, who stays up in the Lacuna long enough to report a hairless gorilla god killed by a snake with Woody Harrelson's head, and a whip-carrying monster knocked loose from a bubble by the fight.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
• Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
• Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

A crawler who is not in the top 1,000 and likes it that way, nearly killed by a half-genie, half-owl vampire before his cleric got it (ch. 45). The Gideon distraction is Carl's way to empty the castle of guards (ch. 65): he and his team set up in the woods to watch the front (ch. 67) and report two hundred mounted elves and a spotlight on the airship before the message breaks off (ch. 72). 'This crawler is deceased': almost thirty crawlers who stayed back to sow chaos because Carl asked, and Imani does not know yet (ch. 73). Donut counts him among the friends who are dead (ch. 77).