Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Quests

Mentioned once in the first book: Mordecai says that from the fourth floor the stairwells will be guarded, and crawlers will 'have to complete quests or defeat bosses to get to them.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
• Chapter 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• 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 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
• Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
• Chapter 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
• Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
• Chapter 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
• Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
• 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 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 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
• Chapter 77 — Miriam at the piano; Pony
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six

Progression

The floor's plot arrives as quests. I have dreamed thee too long: reunite Dong Quixote with his best friend Corcunda, for a reward that sends 'two stand-ins of your choosing' to the eleventh floor's arena (ch. 13, ch. 24); Half a prayer, half a song, part two of the same quest, restates that reward — the temporary classes in corpse suits come from the achievement Weaseler! (ch. 24, ch. 25, ch. 67). Pasty Inferno is mandatory and mirrored on every track — 'You will not be able to finish this race unless the Maurice on your track is dead' (ch. 43, ch. 47, ch. 50); Ad Infinitum, the ring hunt through the L'Engle Building, is mandatory too, and 'this ain’t a real quest' (ch. 74). The Nine-Tier Attack. Part one opens as 'a Nine-Part Quest' whose reward is revealed only at the ninth attack (ch. 81). And the oldest quest on the list comes due: Kill Hellik, before the eleventh floor ends, which Carl escapes by leaving Emberus's faith (ch. 67, ch. 69, ch. 95).