Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Prepotente

Third on the first leaderboard: a Caprid Forsaken Aerialist, level 27, whom Carl does not know.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 7 — Whataburger
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
• Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
• Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
• Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
• Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
• Chapter 46 — Sierra
• Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
• Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
• Chapter 49 — Kiwi
• Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
• Chapter 51 — The howdah
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 57 — I Take it All Back
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
• Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
• Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
• Chapter 77 — The mask
• Epilogue — Epilogue

Arc

Pony

Level 55, Profane Vitiate, a satanic-goat tattoo, crying when called Pony (ch. 6), and suddenly Carl's best friend (ch. 7): the caprid whose mother is a vampire and whose family goat is a hellspawn. He names a town Number Four and loses it to a dinosaur (ch. 39). He kills an elite and is paralysed by his own class (ch. 44), Frozen and Fragile in a clearing, a second Ring of Divine Suffering on his hand, marked on his own mother, watching everything while she asks to be killed and dies in the sun on his shoulder (ch. 47). He wakes, eats his ring, screams silently (ch. 48), and vows (ch. 49).

The smart boy

Sponsored by the Plenty (ch. 43), level 70 by the party (ch. 57), he buys Seventh Floor Pole Position with thirty of his thirty-three hands without asking what it is (ch. 69), asks to join the party because he has been collecting clues (ch. 67), and smashes a potion into a blinded queen's face for the killing blow (ch. 76, ch. 77). Party leader for a day in exchange for a saferoom zap (ch. 75). In the epilogue he explains a floor from a talk show and his mother's boots, taps a stick with a hammer — 'You're a good boy, my sweet little Pony' — and the seventh floor explodes to dust (epilogue). He wants a memorial crystal for a goddess who is not supposed to be dead.