Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Mordecai

The tutorial guide assigned to Carl and Donut: a former crawler, born skyfowl, who chose Changeling and reached the eleventh floor of his own season, now serving out an indentureship as a shapeshifting NPC in a guild room with his mother's ashes and a photograph of his brother. He is bound by rules about what he may say, and he says as much as he can.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
• Chapter 6 — Spider legs
• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• 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 11 — The second cleaner bot
• Chapter 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
• Chapter 16 — The Paramour
• Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
• Chapter 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
• Chapter 31 — Luca Di's entry; the ghoul cages; a mile of fire
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
• Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
• Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
• Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
• Chapter 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant
• Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
• 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 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 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
• Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch
• Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'

Arc

A Moon Reaper this floor — a fifteenth-floor janitor the princes of hell fear — which is really a shadow mimic in 'an impossible combo'; the hood falls and a prophecy comes out for each of them, once, and again unbidden: 'The Oak Fell lives up to her name' (ch. 7, ch. 25, ch. 61). He wants Rend out of the safe room (ch. 6), brews a bard potion and a compound that skirts cooldowns (ch. 39, ch. 56), designs the pet-carrier-in-a-cleaner-bot exit and lectures until Elle stops him (ch. 55, ch. 61), names Dong's curse a sapient weapon's (ch. 59), and warns that the whole thing is 'so far off the codex' the system may refuse it (ch. 55). On the eleventh he is an animistic spirit in the table Samantha sits on, unable to speak without a mouth (ch. 88, ch. 89); 'I hope you do, you coward murderer' — to Chaco (ch. 88).