Character · from book 6

Doctor Bones

The Penis Parade's crowned skeleton DJ, a level-90 Skin Skellie Bard with a professor's voice off stage, whose patron was Astrid and is now Carl: his Conscript charm and a better Super Spreader than Carl's make the sluggalos. 'Some are even more powerful than yours.'

Race and class, since book 7: Skeleton · Bard

First appears: Book 6

Series arc

Through book 7

'You heathens are dead. All of you!' at the castle door (B7 ch. 30); the keeper of the paper map of the Reaver castle (B7 ch. 79); pulled into the ball (B7 ch. 67).

Through book 6

Off stage, a college professor's voice: a skin skellie who grows flesh for backup dancing or a patron (B6 ch. 52). His patron was Astrid; now it is Carl. His Conscript and his Super Spreader make the sluggalos (B6 ch. 52, B6 ch. 61).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	4/74	Ch. 34, Ch. 52, Ch. 61, Ch. 65 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	6/89	Ch. 30, Ch. 31, Ch. 56, Ch. 65, Ch. 67, Ch. 79 · the book's own page

By book

Doctor Bones in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Off stage, a college professor's voice: a skin skellie who grows flesh for backup dancing or a patron (ch. 52). His patron was Astrid; now it is Carl. His Conscript and his Super Spreader make the sluggalos (ch. 52, ch. 61).

Doctor Bones in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

The former DJ of the Penis Parade, back in his skeletal form at the castle door with Splash Zone and the strippers behind pop-up fan-shaped shields, waiting for real magic to turn back on: 'You heathens are dead. All of you!' (ch. 30). He is among the first on his feet after the blast, with the other NPCs (ch. 31); with the flesh golems when the team regroups (ch. 56); summoned into the automatons with the rest of the party's soldiers (ch. 65) and pulled into the ball without the invulnerability the crawlers have (ch. 67). On the carriage to the Reaver castle he remembers Tart — 'Interesting lass. Whatever happened to her?' — and laughs with Dong and Splash Zone (ch. 79).