Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Faction Wars

The ninth floor's war, named by Prince Maestro on his own show: nine factions, the Skull Clan victorious six times in the last ten, the Blood Sultanate almost always the first eliminated, and a War Leader's seat the prince intends to take.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
Chapter 2 — The wheel; a food truck
Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
Chapter 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
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 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
Chapter 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
Chapter 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
Chapter 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
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
Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Progression

Its gore is still on Carl when he lands in the garage (ch. 1); its flowers are remembered at the goodbye party (ch. 71).