Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Daniel Bautista

Crawler #2,165,570, a Tigran swashbuckler with nine boss stars and an orange glowing sword, all that is left of a family of four brothers and sisters and fifteen cousins; his sisters and cousin were the corpses the lemurs left as bait. Owes Carl a debt for avenging them, and tells him the quest Carl ruined by killing Miss Quill is no problem.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
• Chapter 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
• Chapter 20 — Prison Pocket and Party Foul
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 57 — The brawl; Sing for your supper
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 72 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain; Minus unmasked
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade

Arc

A Tigran's card says he 'almost did something really suspicious with his tea' (ch. 19). He teaches Linus the blend and pours his own kettle — 'I will serve my friends' — after Elle asks Linus whether he has poisoned the tea (ch. 71); he had (ch. 72), and leaves for the Cabaret hoping for India — 'Compared to what? Staying with you?' (ch. 71). Kiki's one surviving client, the Quasar interlude says: 'disqualified. Not dead' (ch. 88).