Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Rosetta Thagra

The Cookbook's ninth-edition author, a Crest, host of the talk show Shadow Boxer, taped in the underwater production trailer, where she hides two messages in plain sight — a yam, and a screen of television shows all set in Miami. A member of the Open Intellect Pacifist Network who vanishes with it after the Homestead box, she reappears in the cockpit of the Homecoming Queen, paranoid, a scrambler at her throat, telling Tipid he paid for neither the ship nor a Celestial box: 'Comrade.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
• 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 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
• Chapter 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
• Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
• 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 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 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• 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 91 — The horribles
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Arc

A hired mercenary with Tipid, converted to a mercenary at the start, and in a red gown and a Gurkha hat by the parade (ch. 1, ch. 90). She buys claw caps (ch. 9), invents Denial of Service missiles (ch. 30), hires Team Helix and the ghouls (ch. 26, ch. 34), knows Menerva's name and will not say how (ch. 39), designs the cactus code (ch. 61) and confirms the holding areas (ch. 79). In the stables, where gods cannot hear, she tells the Scavenger myth (ch. 69) and glosses Chachi (ch. 53); on Harry Tisch and the elites: 'That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads' (ch. 88).