Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Jamal

The hammerhead shark who yearns to hop: Katia designs his spider legs and Rosetta's crafters fit him with Velma, Tserendolgor's flamethrower; the nuke's pulse wrecks his fifth set ('Such woe I have!'). One of the few NPCs who stays with the Posse.

Segment appearances

Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
Chapter 32 — The skull of Tem; three vehicles over the line
Chapter 34 — Team Helix
Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
Chapter 45 — The garage of One Fine Pig
Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
Chapter 51 — The Scavenger's Daughter blinks; Azra; heat four results
Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
Chapter 56 — Take on Me
Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
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 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch
Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Arc

The pit fighter's floor: grabber hands, then a flamethrower (ch. 34, ch. 80). When Hedy tells him that if Carl dies they all die, he sticks himself to the garage ceiling — 'He was so brave, but he was not me' — and Donut talks him down as family (ch. 44); he speaks of his own 'toasty emissions' (ch. 87). In the parade he drives a cabless Tundra with one arm on the wheel (ch. 90); in the arena he leaps through the monsters with the flamethrower roaring, and ends it with his legs off against the wall, gathering the pieces with his mouth (ch. 96, ch. 98).