Theme · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The mobs are victims

The Hoarder begs in Spanish to be sent to Jesus; the Juicer is proud of Carl for fighting through the pain; the tuskling courtesans seem to have no memory of the ball; the goblin shamanka wants only to breed in peace deeper down. Mordecai warns it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here — only those who pay for the privilege.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
• Chapter 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper

Progression

Rory and Lorelai remembered at two bugbears (ch. 4); a purge of the problem components (ch. 5); a gnoll quartermaster's children (ch. 9); two sad fathers with pouches (ch. 20); gremlins fed to a boss (ch. 21); knockers robbed of their caves (ch. 63); three mercenaries dead in the street (ch. 44); 'What were two more?' (ch. 76); 'they, too, were victims in all this' (ch. 93).