Place · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Nothing

A double spot on the Desperado Club's wheel of fortune — 'the Nothing sure is something' — and a trapdoor under the roulette table that drops a losing player into a hole full of screams. Carl's spin stops just short of it.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
• Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
• Chapter 26 — MaeMae
• Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 35 — Emergency action items
• Chapter 42 — Sharp-Elbows
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
• Chapter 57 — Samantha's secret
• Chapter 58 — Amayon
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece

Progression

Inle, one of only two orishas to have spent time in the Nothing, is not all there and will end up back in it (ch. 15); Orthrus, unleashed from it at the end of the fifth floor, has a memory made unreliable by his time there (ch. 18); MaeMae's missing husband might be in it (ch. 26); Samantha says a goddess there, Makara, with a crocodile's head and a fish's body, makes sushi rolls of her own innards (ch. 31). The casino holds entrances to it, one of a harem of feral sisters gets out, and a voice once called from it for Samantha as Signet fell (ch. 32, ch. 33); Wakinyan's escape (ch. 42); the system's own words: 'The great prison, the Nothing, has been breached, and not for the first time' (ch. 54).