Character · from book 6
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.
Race and class, since book 7: Crest · Liquid Dervish
First appears: Book 6
Series arc
As of book 7. A Cookbook author in book 5, a pilot in orbit in book 6; in book 7 Colonel Tipid, whose name knocks Carl into a door — 'we couldn't watch anymore' — and whose interlude is a key in bloody hands and a chain thrown away. He holds the FUPA through Operation Ruin and comes along as a bodyguard; a nuke's pulse undoes the Viceroys' repairs to his brain and leaves him a game guide on his last day: 'Who the fuck are you?' and 'I lost my key.' Fine in the dungeon, mush outside it, he cannot take a deal and stays.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tipid's memory, wiped to a game guide's last day | B7 ch. 82 | open — The nuke's pulse ruined the Viceroys' repairs; fine in the dungeon, mush outside; he cannot take a deal and stays with the Posse. |
| Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter | B6 ch. 73 | resolved · B7 ch. 85 — They came: fifty thousand as level-60 mercenaries, three Cookbook authors among them (Tipid, Rosetta, Justice Light), Milk having been in Club Vanquisher the whole season; about 28,000 go back to the ship under the embargo, which is armed and about to bring the war out of the dungeon. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
Through book 7
In the Cookbook
Author of the 4th edition, known from a note at B6 ch. 16. 2 notes in the text so far: B6 ch. 16, 57. The register of every edition is on the Cookbook.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 3/74 | Ch. 16, Ch. 57, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 36/89 | 11–14, 20, 22–24, 28–30, 32–33, 39–41, 46, 48–52, 55–56, 59–60, 65, 69, 78–82, 84–86 · the book's own page |
By book
Tipid in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Tipid in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
The scalped, sun-leathered Crest Liquid Dervish whose name knocks Carl into a door: 'We've been watching, and we couldn't watch anymore' (ch. 11). His interlude: a key in bloody hands, Cassio and Horatio dead, a brain the Viceroys repaired for his pension, a chain snapped and thrown away (ch. 11). He puts Boomer in charge of the 106th (ch. 22), explains gondii (ch. 30), the necklace (ch. 32), and the ring's history, holds the FUPA through Operation Ruin (ch. 59), and comes along to the Reaver castle as a bodyguard (ch. 79). The nuke's pulse undoes his repairs: 'Who the fuck are you? And where the hell are we?' — his last memory is his last day as a game guide, and 'I lost my key' (ch. 82). He holds Louis's ribs open anyway (ch. 84). He cannot take a deal now, and stays with the Posse (ch. 86).