Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Quasar

A Null attorney in a hula-girl tie, hired after Carl says the magic words in Orren's office (he wants a lawyer), who sums up the job: 'I can't stop you from getting fucked. But I am the condom.' He calls a pending suit over private messages at fifty-fifty (it wins), secures an injunction against the hunters' outside help, licenses Sensation's Vengeance of the Daughter past the sixth floor, explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall, and turns the Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels into a non-profit that buys a Faction Wars spot. 'You're a taxpaying stockholder now.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — Quasar
• Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
• Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
• Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
• Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
• Chapter 42 — Warrants
• Chapter 51 — The howdah
• Chapter 56 — Zerzura
• Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
• Chapter 59 — The sheriffs of the wild west
• Chapter 60 — The raids
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Arc

A Null in a hula-girl tie who appears when Carl says the magic words: lawyers should not exist before the tenth floor, the naked Valtay are the worst, and from now on Carl says nothing to a liaison but 'I want to talk to my lawyer' (ch. 3). A pending suit he called fifty-fifty succeeds (ch. 8), bluffs Sensation (ch. 13), delivers court-ordered messages (ch. 15), gets the injunction (ch. 21), explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall and makes Carl a taxpaying stockholder (ch. 56), and is summoned around a frozen court with a weeping chapter president (ch. 59). He wanted Donut's name on the board, Carl guesses, because everyone else is expected to be dead (ch. 63).