Place · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Safe rooms

Restaurants, bus stations and storm shelters lifted whole from the surface and set into the maze, where no violence is possible, food is served by surly Bopca Protectors, and three screens count down the collapse, the next episode, and the living. Mobs that attack inside one are teleported out — a rule that cuts both ways.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 2 — The wheel; a food truck
• Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
• Chapter 6 — Spider legs
• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
• Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
• Chapter 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
• Chapter 14 — Hungry Eyes; the Hairpin and the Lollipop
• Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
• Chapter 16 — The Paramour
• Chapter 17 — Bucket Boy at the wheel; Dr. Metcalf
• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• 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 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
• 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 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 63 — Receiving; the jump; Toddler Cocaine
• 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 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• 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'
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Arc

Blocked until a heat ends (ch. 1); the Blood Bar governs the time between heats (ch. 7); the party plays Mario Kart in one (ch. 25). They are not safe from the nine-tier attacks (ch. 95).