Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Safe rooms

Restaurants, bus stations and storm shelters lifted whole from the surface and set into the maze, where no violence is possible, food is served by surly Bopca Protectors, and three screens count down the collapse, the next episode, and the living. Mobs that attack inside one are teleported out — a rule that cuts both ways.

Segment appearances

Chapter 2 — Night weasels
Chapter 4 — Golden Throat
Chapter 5 — Zockau
Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
Chapter 7 — Whataburger
Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 12 — No matter what
Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge
Chapter 38 — Edict
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
Chapter 51 — The howdah
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
Chapter 53 — Iota
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
Chapter 56 — Zerzura
Chapter 57 — I Take it All Back
Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
Chapter 60 — The raids
Chapter 61 — Marked for death
Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
Chapter 69 — The prize counter
Chapter 70 — Anaconda
Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
Chapter 75 — Sic 'em

Arc

A pub where a tree-like creature watches Carl carried in (ch. 2), a Whataburger (ch. 7), the Scuttlebutt's hallway of doors (ch. 5). Lucia Mar finds the loophole: a teleport cast inside dumps the room's occupants outside (ch. 35); Lucia peppers every town she enters with Loop-de-Loop traps (ch. 37); a third attack inside sends the attacker naked to a nest (ch. 38). Then the blood bar: full to enter, ten hours of rest, a random teleport when it empties (ch. 52, ch. 58).