Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Growler Gary

Shade Gnoll bartender of the Downward Dog at the interdiction depot, level 25, held at his own door by an invisible wall while Jumping Jen-Jen called him a coward and died. An indestructible NPC — a Cookbook tell — whose left hands start the rapid-response carts. Killed fourteen times for his left hands, and twice more when the carts come up a pair short; after the fifth, told why; 'Do your best to make sure it doesn't hurt.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness

Arc

The AI plucked the bartender from Menerva's Backstage Death Maze on the seventeenth floor, which is why his level was so high (ch. 55); it takes Grigori's body on the parade the way it took Gary's (ch. 92).