Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Desperado Club

Known in the first book only as a dagger tattoo burned onto Carl's neck and Donut's shoulder out of a Bronze Asshole's Box, three drink tickets, and a warning that holding a Desperado Pass forfeits a Vanquisher pass. Mordecai will not discuss it before the third floor.

Segment appearances

Prologue — Prologue
Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 30 — Comrades
Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

A 1960s concrete box on ring four under new management, every crawler banned by Clarabelle; a kitchen panel to Juice Box's war room; Hunger Hammy kissing Louis (ch. 8–ch. 10). Its manager is the Night Wyrm (ch. 10); Orren's office has a new hall and a painting of Astrid (ch. 36); its Cosmic Lounge carries Rust's harem to the eighteenth (ch. 82).