Character · from book 3
Chaco
Host of the Prize Carousel: a winged, wolf-headed Song Bard, level 66, 'giver-of-prizes, slayer of gods, former Crawler champion,' in a checkered leisure suit. Mordecai throws a chair at him on sight. 'I was just doing what his manager told me to do. If I hadn't done it, he'd have died. And then we'd all have lost her. We'd have lost Odette.'
Race and class, since book 5: Pterolykos · Bard
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
As of book 5. The bard of Mordecai's party and the prize carousel's host in book 3, behind the masquerade's prize counter in book 5: he will not say what he did, only that he regrets it every day, that they would all have died, and that the place makes you turn on your own party in the end. He teleports out the second the seal breaks.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The tenth floor: 'Don't Come in Last' | B7 ch. 88 | open — A conveyance, biological or mechanical; legs from A to B with upgrades; NPC teams; last place loses its containment. Every deal was bad but Chaco's chair, offered jointly and still open at the floor's end; Carl and Donut both declined. |
| What Chaco did to Mordecai, on his manager's orders | B3 ch. 7 | resolved · B6 ch. 0 — The prologue shows it: Odette ordered Chaco to throw the Dart of Ophiotaurus into Uzzi so that Dodola could form in his body and break the puzzle; 'Uzzi, see you on the other side, brother.' Odette tells Carl the rest off the record — a bribe, a trick, and Armita dead for it. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 3
A game-show host the fans put in a room with Mordecai; a chair, a time-out, and an apology that names Odette as the reason for whatever he did (B3 ch. 7).
Through book 5
Through book 6
Through book 7
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 5/35 | Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 25, Ch. 29, Ch. 30 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 7/78 | Ch. 66, Ch. 68, Ch. 69, Ch. 70, Ch. 72, Ch. 73, Ch. 74 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 5/74 | Ch. 0, Ch. 2, Ch. 21, Ch. 37, Ch. 46 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 4/89 | Ch. 42, Ch. 43, Ch. 86, Ch. 88 · the book's own page |
By book
Chaco in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The fans paid a credit a vote for the choose-your-own-prize show he hosts — to put him in a room with Mordecai, Carl reckons (ch. 7). He arrives with game-show music and a leisure suit, ducks a chair, hosts nine prizes with his microphone under the carousel, and leaves an apology for the manager: 'It was a long time ago […] I was just doing what his manager told me to do.' Clarabelle: Mordecai has mentioned him crying into his cup (ch. 8).
Chaco in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Behind the prize counter (ch. 66), in metallic armour, no longer the game-show host: he will not say why Mordecai hates him, only that he regrets it every day and that they would all have died, and that the place makes you turn on your own party in the end (ch. 69). He teleports out the moment the seal breaks (ch. 74).
Chaco in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
A wolf-headed pterolykos preparing the final ritual with Hold Steady and Uzzi, who throws the Dart into Uzzi on Odette's order (ch. 0); the Masquerade prize-counter box and a spellbook were bought from his booth (ch. 2); Mordecai threw a chair at his head at the prize carousel and got a timeout (ch. 21); he killed the trapped goddess in Odette's plan, and Odette has set aside a trust for him (ch. 37); Mordecai suggests the wand purchased from him (ch. 46).