Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
The Pineapple Cabaret
One of four fates the AI, wearing the fourth-floor bartender Growler Gary, offers Princess Formidable in Orren's office — 'Death. Scolopendra Club. The Cabaret backstage. Or Earth’s surface' — and glosses only as 'The Pineapple Cabaret? First off, it’s backstage at the cabaret. Not the cabaret itself. Not a bad choice.' She chooses the surface.
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One of the four choices the AI, in the body of the fourth-floor bartender Growler Gary, gives Princess Formidable in Orren's office: 'Death. Scolopendra Club. The Cabaret backstage. Or Earth’s surface.' Asked what the cabaret is, he says 'The Pineapple Cabaret? First off, it’s backstage at the cabaret. Not the cabaret itself. Not a bad choice.' She chooses the surface (ch. 37).