Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The Night Wyrm

A name on a ring: the Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering, Frank Q's revenge, 'for the discerning Crawler Killer', whose owners, Mordecai says, are the first the sixth-floor hunters track down.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani

Arc

The cult's guild has a new leader: Hamed, Astrid's 'husband' and the father of Anaconda and Damascus Steel, who took over the Desperado Club after Carl and Katia killed her. Splash Zone, Gluteus and Doctor Bones go to ask him about Splash Zone's wife and do not come back (ch. 55, ch. 59); his guards fear him and the Cosmic Lounge holds some weirdness of his (ch. 85); the AI says the shadow mimic Mitch was sent 'to fuck Hamed’s shit up' (ch. 86). Carl wonders whether Hamed waits behind Orren's old door (ch. 87). The shadow mimics were sent to wreck his 'ill-advised' revolution for the early indentured (ch. 79, ch. 85, ch. 86).