Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Growler Gary

Shade Gnoll bartender of the Downward Dog at the interdiction depot, level 25, held at his own door by an invisible wall while Jumping Jen-Jen called him a coward and died. An indestructible NPC — a Cookbook tell — whose left hands start the rapid-response carts. Killed fourteen times for his left hands, and twice more when the carts come up a pair short; after the fifth, told why; 'Do your best to make sure it doesn't hurt.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
• Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge

Arc

The measure of drunkenness (ch. 5); the shade gnolls' kind (ch. 17); a pub that is not a saferoom, like the place he was killed in over and over (ch. 37).