Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Paulie

'People call me Paulie, but my real name is Goff': a Residual in the body of a smoker robbed by his brother-in-law, reciting every morning at a Homestead shelter's Christmas breakfast, red trapper hat on, for a crawler who might one day stand in the memory. 'Biologically, I am gondii, though that is not who I truly am… Let me tell you how to shut off the—' Orren says he never made it into the dungeon.

Segment appearances

• Prologue — Prologue
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty

Arc

The prologue: the speech everyone at the shelter has heard, then the world frozen and the real one, from Goff, the Residual who wears him — the crawl is unnecessary, the fuse, the AI in pain — and the Paulie part's own plea to be absolutely certain (ch. 0). Orren says he never made it into the dungeon; the parts are disposable (ch. 20). Carl thinks of him frozen in time when a changeling's roots hold him spinning (ch. 68).