Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Elle McGibbons

Ninety-nine years old, wheelchair-bound, sometimes calling Carl 'Barry' after her late husband, and fond of telling him what she would have let him do in the tunnel of love. When the Rage Elemental's spell throws her against the hallway ceiling, Carl carries her over his shoulder into the safe room.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
• Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
• Chapter 6 — Spider legs
• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
• Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
• Chapter 16 — The Paramour
• Chapter 18 — Heat two: the hail, and Team Sparkles' cannon
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
• Chapter 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
• Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
• Chapter 42 — Into the jungle; Quemada breaks; the Wienermobile
• Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
• Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
• Chapter 45 — The garage of One Fine Pig
• Chapter 46 — Glitzy Pizzazz; two traps
• Chapter 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
• Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
• Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
• Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 72 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain; Minus unmasked
• Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
• Chapter 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive
• Chapter 76 — Apartment 231; the peach beer
• Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
• Chapter 80 — The final heat: the lobby
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
• Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
• Chapter 91 — The horribles
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Arc

Hailstorm Queen with one fan through the quarantine (ch. 5). She freezes and shatters Akuma's left testicle for stealing her gate — 'like dollar-store Christmas ornaments' (ch. 37); ices a burning bus (ch. 45); is a goblin for the last heat (ch. 82). At the goodbye party she speaks of Barry, forty-three years her husband, plays 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?', and unmasks Minus with the real Linus's essay: 'This is our house now' and 'Goddamned amateur' (ch. 72). 'You’re keeping secrets from us. It’s going to bite us on the butt' (ch. 87); 'we will die with hope in our hearts alongside our friends' (ch. 84). Her sign on the Betrayal float: 'To all the viewers of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth: Fuck you' (ch. 92).