Book
Book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Year: 2021 · Floors: 3 — The Over City The book on its own: Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Chapters
- Ch. 1 — The jury room
- Ch. 2 — Race and class
- Ch. 3 — The Over City explained
- Ch. 4 — Knives from a window
- Ch. 5 — Boxes at the Pug
- Ch. 6 — Signet
- Ch. 7 — The lion's heart
- Ch. 8 — Water Lily
- Ch. 9 — Heather the Bear
- Ch. 10 — The big top
- Ch. 11 — The pitch
- Ch. 12 — Mongo holds the pyramid
- Ch. 13 — Mordecai's room
- Ch. 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
- Ch. 15 — The Desperado Club
- Ch. 16 — The Silk Road
- Ch. 17 — GumGum
- Ch. 18 — Miss Quill
- Ch. 19 — Danger Zone
- Ch. 20 — Manasa's last song
- Ch. 21 — Katia
- Ch. 22 — The Mysterious Letter
- Ch. 23 — Ten sticks of dynamite
- Ch. 24 — Remex
- Ch. 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
- Ch. 26 — Epilogue: the leaderboard
Recurring cast present
Characters
- Carl — 26 chapters
- Mordecai — 26 chapters
- Princess Donut — 26 chapters
- Mongo — 24 chapters
- Zev — 15 chapters
- Odette — 13 chapters
- The System AI — 13 chapters
- Bea — 11 chapters
- Tsarina Signet — 10 chapters — first appearance
- Ringmaster Grimaldi — 9 chapters — first appearance
- Hekla — 7 chapters
- Lucia Mar — 7 chapters
- Katia Grim — 6 chapters — first appearance
- Prince Maestro — 6 chapters
- Frank Q and Maggie My — 5 chapters
- Brandon — 4 chapters
- Daniel Bautista — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Pustule — 4 chapters — first appearance
- Scolopendra — 4 chapters — first appearance
- King Rust — 3 chapters
- Ripper Wonton — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Agatha — 2 chapters
- Ferdinand — 2 chapters
- Florin — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Kimaris — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Lexis — 2 chapters
- Miriam Dom — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Mistress Tiatha — 2 chapters
- Prince Stalwart — 2 chapters
- Princess D'nadia — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Quan Ch — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Quint — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Chris — 1 chapter
- Clarabelle — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Elle McGibbons — 1 chapter
- Ifechi — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Imani — 1 chapter
- Li Jun and Zhang — 1 chapter
- Meadow Lark (party) — 1 chapter
- Prepotente — 1 chapter — first appearance
Locations
- Safe rooms — 17 chapters
- The Dungeon — 17 chapters
- The Over City — 14 chapters
- The Desperado Club — 12 chapters
- The Hunting Grounds — 7 chapters — first appearance
- Production trailers — 6 chapters
- Tutorial guilds — 4 chapters
- Sheol — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Club Vanquisher — 1 chapter
- The Penis Parade — 1 chapter — first appearance
Motifs
- Quests — 20 chapters
- Explosives — 16 chapters
- The show — 15 chapters
- Carl's family — 12 chapters
- Elites — 11 chapters
- Borant — 9 chapters
- Race and class — 9 chapters — first appearance
- The bestiary — 9 chapters
- "Goddamnit, Donut" — 7 chapters
- Loot boxes — 7 chapters
- The Syndicate — 7 chapters
- The chat — 7 chapters
- The xistera — 7 chapters — first appearance
- Warnings — 7 chapters
- The gods — 6 chapters
- The playbook — 5 chapters — first appearance
- "You're not going to break me" — 4 chapters
- Faction Wars — 4 chapters
- The tenth floor — 4 chapters
- The Blood Sultanate — 3 chapters
- The Oak Fell — 3 chapters — first appearance
- The Skull Empire — 3 chapters
- The Valtay Corporation — 3 chapters
- The clock — 3 chapters
- The stuffed figures — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Waking the NPCs — 3 chapters — first appearance
- Carl's bare feet — 2 chapters
- Seeds — 2 chapters — first appearance
- Sponsorship — 2 chapters
- The Entering notices — 2 chapters
- The Krakaren — 2 chapters
- Addiction — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Carl's Doomsday Scenario — 1 chapter — first appearance
- Player-killer skulls — 1 chapter
- The crawler count — 1 chapter
- The hunters — 1 chapter — first appearance
- The leaderboard — 1 chapter
Themes
- Entertainment as machinery — 4 chapters
The clock
The countdowns the system posts, in order.
- B2 ch. 8 — Time to level Collapse: 6 days, 23 hours.
- B2 ch. 13 — Time to level Collapse: 5 days, 10 hours.
- B2 ch. 18 — Time to level Collapse: 3 days, 16 hours.
Places entered
Every » Entering card, in order.
In the series
One floor, three quests, none of them chosen: the book where the series' machinery — Elites, serials, producers, fan boxes, bounties — is shown from inside, and where Carl's answer to it changes from we were expensive to seeds. Structurally a triptych of inversions — see the arc of the story. It fixes the party's shape (Primal, Compensated Anarchist, Former Child Actor cat, a manager who cannot leave), adds a third member, and ends with a city-killing bomb in an inventory and a number next to every name. 29 of the series' pages first appear here; seven that book 2 makes matter were named in book 1 and are traced back on their pages — the gods and the tenth floor are the first threads marked recognised in a later book.