Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Mercenaries

The Penis Parade's dancers hired for two floors with a 100,000-gold coupon and housed in a barracks with a training arcade where they die and regenerate; a DJ who conscripts; an army for the ninth floor — 'Do you remember what we did to the hunters? That was nothing.' And, in orbit, over 150,000 of the sponsors' own, and fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 8 — The Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 34 — Family business
• Chapter 40 — The Book of Voodoo
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
• Chapter 65 — Graupel
• Chapter 69 — A deity has fallen
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up
• Epilogue — Homecoming Queen

Progression

Meat Shields and a coupon (ch. 34); an arcade where they die and regenerate (ch. 52); sappers and slug-throwers (ch. 64); 150,000 of the sponsors' own, and fifty thousand of ours (epilogue).