Essay · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Timeline

The book's clock, read off the system messages chapter by chapter: every value the text prints, in the order it prints them (arrows separate successive values within a chapter).

Chapter	Countdown	Hunt	Crawlers	Hunters	Trophies	Views	Followers	Favorites
Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office	17 Days	30 Hours	85,223	360		512 sextillion	142 Quadrillion	23 Quadrillion
Chapter 2 — Night weasels
Chapter 3 — Quasar
Chapter 4 — Golden Throat		21 Hours
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		3.5 Hours		1013	34
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 12 — No matter what
Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
Chapter 14 — Were-castors					36
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 18 — Ten minutes, Odette
Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 21 — CrawlCon
Chapter 22 — Samantha, open wide
Chapter 23 — Congratulations, Murderer
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker	11 days 8 hours				38
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
Chapter 31 — The juvenile quickdraw
Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
Chapter 33 — Crawling Through the Ages
Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis				914	39
Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 37 — The rainbow bridge			66,000
Chapter 38 — Edict
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 40 — Kapitan Whiskers
Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
Chapter 42 — Warrants
Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
Chapter 44 — The Recital
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 46 — Sierra
Chapter 47 — My beautiful boy
Chapter 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse	Six days, fifteen hours
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill				673	52
Chapter 51 — The howdah
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble	Five days and 21 hours
Chapter 53 — Iota
Chapter 54 — The blood bar
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 59 — The sheriffs of the wild west
Chapter 60 — The raids					66
Chapter 61 — Marked for death
Chapter 62 — A squirrel with antlers
Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance	31 hours		59,259 → 23,385
Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 67 — Slate Butterflies
Chapter 68 — Off-worlders
Chapter 69 — The prize counter
Chapter 70 — Anaconda
Chapter 71 — Jill
Chapter 72 — Cat-nac the Magnificent
Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
Chapter 75 — Sic 'em
Chapter 76 — Cage Fight Extreme
Chapter 77 — The mask
Epilogue — Epilogue	20 Days