Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Cascadia

A name on a stick — the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams — and then a voice: the woman who gives the daily updates, to Prepotente 'a nasty little woman who thinks she's smarter than everyone', who screams over the announcement system as the seventh floor comes apart. Mordecai knows of one Cascadia connected to the crawl.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade

Arc

'not feeling well' on air, she screams 'Why won’t you let me die?' and loses a few flippers (ch. 23); drunk on the dungeon-wide, she talks about Cumberland, blown out of orbit with his mother (ch. 68). She 'accidentally' takes too much medicine, and when the AI intervenes a goddess appears in the submerged wings (ch. 78).