Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Zockau

The city in the north where the hunters are sequestered before the hunt: a 1950s American downtown with bear-men guards, a row of seven pubs, a manicured park around the stairwell and a mid-century Desperado Club ('So Fun It Hurts'). Blown to fire and fog on the first night; a ghost town of abandoned gear by the end, its hunters gone to the party and its mayor Vrah.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
Chapter 3 — Quasar
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 14 — Were-castors
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
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 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse
Chapter 51 — The howdah
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
Chapter 53 — Iota
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
Chapter 60 — The raids
Chapter 70 — Anaconda

Arc

'That's where the aliens are' (ch. 1); Desperado Club entrances, Orren warns (ch. 3); a 1950s downtown blown to fire and fog (ch. 5); a hallway at one of its few true saferooms and a shielded tavern after the raid (ch. 38); a ghost town of abandoned gear (ch. 70).