Place · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The parade route

A yellow-brick road across a fogged plain lined ten deep with thousands of masked, dug-up horribles, watched by every screen in the galaxy; five floats in themes, a judging stand of bound stand-ins, and the arena at its end. The staging area is a safe room.

Segment appearances

• 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 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance

Arc

The staging area, a safe room (ch. 88); a yellow-brick road on every screen (ch. 89); the horribles ten deep (ch. 91); five floats, the judging stand, the sluggalos (ch. 92).