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Character · from book 6

Paulie

'People call me Paulie, but my real name is Goff': a Residual in the body of a smoker robbed by his brother-in-law, reciting every morning at a Homestead shelter's Christmas breakfast, red trapper hat on, for a crawler who might one day stand in the memory. 'Biologically, I am gondii, though that is not who I truly am… Let me tell you how to shut off the—' Orren says he never made it into the dungeon.

Race and class, since book 6: Gondii

First appears: Book 6

Series arc

Through book 7

The prologue: the speech everyone at the shelter has heard, then the world frozen and the real one, from Goff, the Residual who wears him — the crawl is unnecessary, the fuse, the AI in pain — and the Paulie part's own plea to be absolutely certain (B7 ch. 0). Orren says he never made it into the dungeon; the parts are disposable (B7 ch. 20). Carl thinks of him frozen in time when a changeling's roots hold him spinning (B7 ch. 68).

Through book 6

'Coffee then speech' on a wall in Syndicate Standard (B6 ch. 50); Goff, gondii, a Residual reciting for a listener who came; 'Let me tell you how to shut off the...' (B6 ch. 51). Orren says he never made it into the dungeon.

Where they appear

Book Chapters they are in (of the book's) Where
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 2/74 Ch. 51, Ch. 52 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin 6/89 Ch. 0, Ch. 11, Ch. 20, Ch. 28, Ch. 68, Ch. 73 · the book's own page

By book

Paulie in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

'Coffee then speech' on a wall in Syndicate Standard (ch. 50); Goff, gondii, a Residual reciting for a listener who came; 'Let me tell you how to shut off the…' (ch. 51). Orren says he never made it into the dungeon.

Paulie in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

The prologue: the speech everyone at the shelter has heard, then the world frozen and the real one, from Goff, the Residual who wears him — the crawl is unnecessary, the fuse, the AI in pain — and the Paulie part's own plea to be absolutely certain (ch. 0). Orren says he never made it into the dungeon; the parts are disposable (ch. 20). Carl thinks of him frozen in time when a changeling's roots hold him spinning (ch. 68).