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Book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Year: 2021 · Floors: 5 — The Bubbles The book on its own: The Gate of the Feral Gods

Chapters

• Ch. 1 — Hump Town
• Ch. 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Ch. 3 — A goose from the sky
• Ch. 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
• Ch. 5 — Rapid Detox
• Ch. 6 — City hall
• Ch. 7 — The frog con
• Ch. 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Ch. 9 — Ruckus
• Ch. 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Ch. 11 — The Vahana
• Ch. 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Ch. 13 — Gerbils
• Ch. 14 — Maggie
• Ch. 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Ch. 16 — Denise
• Ch. 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Ch. 18 — One
• Ch. 19 — Orren
• Ch. 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Ch. 21 — Ghazi
• Ch. 22 — Mrs. Ghazi
• Ch. 23 — The winding box explained
• Ch. 24 — Samantha
• Ch. 25 — The Akula
• Ch. 26 — Lusca
• Ch. 27 — Leatherface
• Ch. 28 — Emberus
• Ch. 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Ch. 30 — Get Orthrus
• Ch. 31 — Emberus, summoned
• Ch. 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Ch. 33 — Phase three
• Ch. 34 — Seeding the pond
• Ch. 35 — Epilogue: the Walk-On List

Recurring cast present

Characters

• Carl — 35 chapters
• Princess Donut — 34 chapters
• Katia Grim — 32 chapters
• Mordecai — 32 chapters
• Mongo — 29 chapters
• Louis and Firas — 25 chapters — first appearance
• Gwendolyn Duet — 23 chapters
• Elle McGibbons — 18 chapters
• Juice Box — 18 chapters — first appearance
• Langley — 18 chapters — first appearance
• The System AI — 16 chapters
• Chris — 15 chapters
• Frank Q and Maggie My — 14 chapters
• Imani — 14 chapters
• Tran — 14 chapters — first appearance
• Lucia Mar — 11 chapters
• Zev — 11 chapters
• Odette — 10 chapters
• Bea — 9 chapters
• Loita — 8 chapters
• Miriam Dom — 8 chapters
• Prepotente — 8 chapters
• Samantha — 7 chapters — first appearance
• Bonnie — 6 chapters — first appearance
• Brandon — 6 chapters
• Emberus — 6 chapters — first appearance
• Hekla — 6 chapters
• Quan Ch — 6 chapters
• Skarn — 6 chapters — first appearance
• The Sledge — 6 chapters
• Britney Proskurina — 5 chapters — first appearance
• Daniel Bautista — 5 chapters
• Meadow Lark (party) — 5 chapters
• Prince Maestro — 5 chapters
• Princess D'nadia — 5 chapters
• Ruby — 5 chapters — first appearance
• Florin — 4 chapters
• Prince Stalwart — 4 chapters
• Tserendolgor — 4 chapters
• Bogdon Ro — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Coolie — 3 chapters
• Eva Sigrid — 3 chapters
• Hellik — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Ifechi — 3 chapters
• Li Jun and Zhang — 3 chapters
• Li Na — 3 chapters
• Priestly — 3 chapters — first appearance
• The Popov brothers — 3 chapters
• Agatha — 2 chapters
• Bomo — 2 chapters
• Ferdinand — 2 chapters
• Kevin and Magnificent Troy — 2 chapters — first appearance
• Porthus — 2 chapters
• Scolopendra — 2 chapters
• Tsarina Signet — 2 chapters
• Allister — 1 chapter
• Azin — 1 chapter
• Batbilge — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Drakea — 1 chapter
• Gideon — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Growler Gary — 1 chapter
• Herot — 1 chapter
• Justice Light — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Kimaris — 1 chapter
• King Rust — 1 chapter
• Lexis — 1 chapter
• Milk — 1 chapter
• Mistress Tiatha — 1 chapter
• Orren — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Princess Formidable — 1 chapter
• Pustule — 1 chapter
• Quint — 1 chapter
• Rickard — 1 chapter — first appearance
• Sinjin — 1 chapter

Locations

• Safe rooms — 25 chapters
• The Royal Palace of Princess Donut — 20 chapters
• The Dungeon — 19 chapters
• The Desperado Club — 17 chapters
• The Nothing — 10 chapters
• Club Vanquisher — 6 chapters
• Larracos — 6 chapters
• The Twister — 5 chapters — first appearance
• The Hunting Grounds — 4 chapters
• Production trailers — 2 chapters
• The Penis Parade — 2 chapters

Motifs

• The changelings — 22 chapters — first appearance
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook — 21 chapters
• Quests — 18 chapters
• Explosives — 17 chapters
• Warnings — 16 chapters
• The show — 15 chapters
• The Gate of the Feral Gods — 14 chapters — first appearance
• The gods — 14 chapters
• Borant — 12 chapters
• Sponsorship — 12 chapters
• The Syndicate — 11 chapters
• The bestiary — 11 chapters
• The chat — 10 chapters
• The leaderboard — 10 chapters
• "Goddamnit, Donut" — 9 chapters
• The clock — 9 chapters
• The hunters — 8 chapters
• Carl's family — 7 chapters
• Loot boxes — 7 chapters
• The Entering notices — 7 chapters
• The Valtay Corporation — 7 chapters
• The xistera — 7 chapters
• Race and class — 6 chapters
• The Skull Empire — 6 chapters
• "You're not going to break me" — 5 chapters
• Samantha's body — 5 chapters — first appearance
• The Celestial Ascendency — 5 chapters
• Carl's bare feet — 3 chapters
• Faction Wars — 3 chapters
• The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network — 3 chapters — first appearance
• The Ring of Divine Suffering — 3 chapters
• The marketplace — 3 chapters — first appearance
• Elites — 2 chapters
• Player-killer skulls — 2 chapters
• The Anarchist's Battle Rattle — 2 chapters — first appearance
• The Blood Sultanate — 2 chapters
• The crawler count — 2 chapters
• The death of Geyrun — 2 chapters — first appearance
• Addiction — 1 chapter
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario — 1 chapter
• Pawna's Tears — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The Great Consensus — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The Walk-On List — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The collapse dead — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The count — 1 chapter — first appearance
• The playbook — 1 chapter
• The stuffed figures — 1 chapter
• Waking the NPCs — 1 chapter

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery — 10 chapters
• The mobs are victims — 3 chapters

The clock

The countdowns the system posts, in order.

• B4 ch. 1 — Time to Level Collapse: 15 Days.
• B4 ch. 8 — Time to Level Collapse: 13 days, 13 hours.
• B4 ch. 17 — Time to Level Collapse: 10 Days and 4 Hours
• B4 ch. 20 — Time to Level Collapse: 4 Days and 22 Hours
• B4 ch. 28 — Time to level collapse: 3 Days, 20 hours.
• B4 ch. 32 — Time to Level Collapse: 3 days, 7 hours.
• B4 ch. 33 — Time to Level Collapse: 7 hours.
• B4 ch. 34 — Time to level collapse: five hours, 30 minutes.
• B4 ch. 34 — Time to level collapse: 1 hour.
• B4 ch. 34 — Time to level collapse: 21 minutes.

Places entered

Every » Entering card, in order.

• B4 ch. 1 — Bubble #543 out of 1172. Air Quadrant
• B4 ch. 19 — the Desperado Club
• B4 ch. 21 — the Sandcastle of the Mad Dune Mage
• B4 ch. 25 — the Akula
• B4 ch. 30 — the Lacuna
• B4 ch. 31 — the land quadrant of the Soulless Prophet
• B4 ch. 32 — the All-Seeing Spleen

In the series

One bubble and four locked rooms, in the wrong order. The book gives Carl the Gate of the Feral Gods, an artifact three floors early, and the floor is built to make him use it; he uses it to empty fifteen hundred crawlers out of their bubbles and then to flood Larracos — see the arc of the story. It is also the book of his first administrator, killed with a toy and a fingernail and counted in the Cookbook as 'One.'; of Maggie My found inside Chris and pulled out by hand; of Katia deciding to leave; of a god taken as a sponsor to be thrown at an enemy; and of Bea alive in Seattle. 32 of the series' pages first appear here. Its NPCs — Juice Box, Bonnie, Henrik, Ghazi and his wife of sand — carry the mobs are victims to the point where Carl decides that killing them is a favour.