Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Tipid

A Crest and former crawler, author of the Cookbook's fourth-edition notes ('It was me or him, and I chose to save myself'), who pilots the Homecoming Queen — a Long Haul garbage freighter converted to carry fifty thousand former crawlers — into Earth orbit as troopers for the Princess Posse. He knows what the bone key costs, because he once faced a similar choice between saving himself and saving another.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
Chapter 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
Chapter 34 — Team Helix
Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
Chapter 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper
Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch
Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit

Arc

Asleep on the training-room floor, with no recognition of Carl (ch. 7, ch. 10). He remembers Herot from his game-guide days and cannot sing 'Love Shack' (ch. 39); he knows the holding areas from a season on a site-prep crew (ch. 83). He drives the parade and then the One Fine Pig truck into the arena (ch. 90, ch. 96) and loses both legs there (ch. 98). Carl, to him: 'Your story isn’t done, Tipid' (ch. 93).