Essay · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Timeline

The book's clock, read off the system messages chapter by chapter: every value the text prints, in the order it prints them (arrows separate successive values within a chapter).

Chapter	Countdown	Crawlers	Views	Followers	Favorites
Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage	Level timer has been temporarily suspended for this floor. Please wait for the announcement from that inebriated fish if we can manage to wake her up for the details	5,501	933 Septillion	3.5 Quintillion	971 Quadrillion
Chapter 2 — The wheel; a food truck
Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
Chapter 4 — Miss Talulah; Team Free Love
Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
Chapter 6 — Spider legs
Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
Chapter 11 — The second cleaner bot
Chapter 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
Chapter 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
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 18 — Heat two: the hail, and Team Sparkles' cannon
Chapter 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
Chapter 20 — Prison Pocket and Party Foul
Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
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 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
Chapter 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
Chapter 29 — The stampede; Harbinger
Chapter 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
Chapter 31 — Luca Di's entry; the ghoul cages; a mile of fire
Chapter 32 — The skull of Tem; three vehicles over the line
Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
Chapter 34 — Team Helix
Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
Chapter 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
Chapter 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
Chapter 42 — Into the jungle; Quemada breaks; the Wienermobile
Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
Chapter 45 — The garage of One Fine Pig
Chapter 46 — Glitzy Pizzazz; two traps
Chapter 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
Chapter 49 — Mehmet's page; the tubes; the trapdoor
Chapter 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
Chapter 51 — The Scavenger's Daughter blinks; Azra; heat four results
Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
Chapter 56 — Take on Me
Chapter 57 — The brawl; Sing for your supper
Chapter 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper
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 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
Chapter 63 — Receiving; the jump; Toddler Cocaine
Chapter 64 — The hole; the dolls; Corky aboard
Chapter 65 — Upside down: Corcunda
Chapter 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant
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 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
Chapter 72 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain; Minus unmasked
Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
Chapter 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive
Chapter 76 — Apartment 231; the peach beer
Chapter 77 — Miriam at the piano; Pony
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 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade	3 hours, 15 minutes
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
Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave
Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit	30 minutes
Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2