sea of tranquility part 4 to the end

Part 4 bad chicken 2041

Ch 1

Our time traveler is telling his sister about how eventually it will be the end of the world and that's why we gotta have colonies in other solarsystems.

There's a story about a guy who goes to a grave yard with his 4 year old daughter and they find a grave of a four year old abd its the end of the world for him liking graveyards.

Ch 2  pg 106

Timetraveler grew up in the same moon colony as olive the author.  Turns out hes not a fan that took a character from her book and took on the name.  His mom was a fan and named him after the character.

But he did have a mild fascination with her house.  When he was growing up a girl named Talia lived there.  Years later he ended up working for her in a hotel.

Ch 3 pg 114

It's his sister's birthday.  They both live in the good moon bubble. She tells him to come to her office.  She shows him the historical evidence of the blips we know he goes back in time to see.  But she doesn't talk about time travel at all.  She wants to talk about how maybe the whole world is a simulation and thise blips are glitches in the program. 

Ch 4 pg 129

Sister talks about how the best way to investigate whether or not we live in a simulation is to go back in time to investigate these instances. 

There's a lot of.people in moon jail for attempted time travel.

But his sister works at the time institute and we know he traveled back in time so it'll be neat to see how it happens.

Ch 5 pg 132

Sister admits she's time traveled and now she hates it and never wants to do it again.  Time traveler says he wants to be the one to investigate the simulation hypothesis. She says no.

It'll be fun to see how that turns into a yes.

Ch 6 pg 138

Sister is ghosting time traveler. He decides to ambush her at work. Instead,  he runs into a guy they grew up with.  He works there too.  Sister is RIPSHIT about this whole thing.  But childhood friend is willing to set up an interview for him.

Funnest but of this is when Timetraveler and childhood friend are talking about how time travel itself makes childhood friend believe in the simulation theory because no matter how much they seem to fuck up the past it seems to heal itself pretty quickly so the affect on the present is always minimal.

Ch 7 pg 147

Remember Talia that was in the author's house as a kid that also works at the hotel that time traveler does?  Turns out her parents were time travelers.  And when a mission went wrong, they got dropped like a bad habit. She knows she cant convince him not to go, but she tells him to be aware that when things go bad at the time institute, he'll be thrown out like trash.

Ch 8 pg 153

Time traveler gets the time traveler job.  But hes gotta train for 5 years.

Ch 9 pg 157

S8ster is ti.e travelers support person.  Shes injecting travkers into him and telling him how to use stuff.

Ch 10 pg 161

Time traveler goes back in time and talks to the man that plays the violin music that shows up in all the blips.  He plays the violin at the Oklahoma city airship terminal

I wonder how long we would have to use airships rather than airplanes before people started calling airports airship terminals.

Sister is not impressed with his efforts

Part 5 pg 269 last book tour again.

Time traveler tells author to gtfo and she does and she's grateful to still be alive with her husband and daughter on the moon and also she's super duper rich now that her pandemic book is super popular during the pandemic.  But she actually feels a little bad about it and avoids the topic when she can. She does not feel good about benefiting from other people's misery.

Part 6 pg 197 morella and Vincent/ file corruption 

Time traveler is in trouble but not FUCKED like I thought he'd be.  His sister's life sounds sad.  All she has is this job that she kinda seems to hate.

Ch 2 pg 202

I was confused at the beginning of this when he talks about how when he's transported to 1994 it looks it did in 1912.  But in this book he hasnt gone back to 1912 from his point of view yet.

He sees Vincent and the anomaly happens and he feels like he is truly in all three places at once.  He's here in 1994, here in 1912 with Edwin St Andrew and in the Oklahoma city airship terminal way in the future with Olive the author. 

Ch 3 pg 206

Time traveler messages sister to say he's seen the anomaly and it's resl.

Ch 4 pg 207

Time traveler goes back to the present.  Sister tells him he's been taken out of commission and consequences are right around the corner.  

He's like, you gotta help me.  She does and sends him back in time.

Ch 5 pg 209

New York city 2007.  This is another art gallery party.  Hes hoping to talk to Vincent and avoid Mirella.  He is able to talk to Vincent alone but only for a minute.  But long enough for her to confirm that during the blip she heard violin music and what sounded like hydraulics. 

Part 7 of 215 Remittance 1918, 1990, 2008

Time traveler goes back to 1918 to talk to Edward st Andrew.  Edward returned from the great war and a lot of trauma.  Time traveler explains to Edward that what happened in Vancouver was real.

I don't understand how this interaction benefits the time traveler as it's not really Edward confirming it as it is time traveler telling him what's what.

Ch 2 pg 223

Time traveler did this for Edward so he wouldn't end up in an insane asylum.   He actually ended up dying of the influenza 2 days before he had previous to time traveler's intervention. But at least he died knowing he was of sound mind and the traumatic things he saw were real.

Ch 3 

Time traveler is back in the present.  His punishment is that he's to be taken to another time and dumped there.

Ch 4 

Another time traveler comes with Gaspary and shoots a couple dudes and goes back to the future successfully framing Gaspary  for murder.  Just like Mirella describes he recognizes her and shouts her name.  She didn't know he would be drugged to help facilitate the frame job.  But it informs me as to why he's doing something so pointless. 

Ch 5

Prison sucks, but Gaspery is ok with it cause he saved Olive's life and Edward's sanity.

Part 8 pg 231

Ch 1-3

Gaspery has been in prison for 16 years and his sister shows up to break him out.

Ch 4

Gaspery is in a farm near Oklahoma city in 2173.  For reference,  this is 23 years before his interview with the violinist.

Ch 5 pg 240

Gaspery doesnt leave the farm for fear of being discovered by the time institute.  But the elderly couple that runs the farm will soon need help.  So he gets facial reconstruction surgery so he can go out in the world.

Ch 6 pg 242

Talia is here.  I hope to get some sort of vengeance. 

Ch 7 pg 244

Talia tells Gaspery how his sister got her oit to the far colonies, which are beautiful,  but underground. Then she sent her here.

Ch 8 pg 246

They get married. 

Ch 9 pg 247

Gaspery,'s plan is to learn to play the violin and become the okc air terminator violin guy.

Ch 10 pg 248

Talia dues if an aneurism. 

Ch 11 pg 249

He's gonna take his dog with him

Ch 12 pg 250

Turns out Gaspery is the anomaly at the end of the book.

Ch 13 pg 253

We get the violinist interview from the old Gaspery's point of view.

Acknowledgement

Surprise!!! You're the monster at the end of this book.  You're only here because your ancestors committed genocide on the people who lived here before us.

sea of tranquility parts 1 through 3

Part 1 Remittance 1912

Ch 1 pg 3

Edwin is a rich boy, he is from England and hes been banished to Canada. 

Ch 2 pg 5

Edwin lives in Halifax and then visits a friend in sesquachawan. 

You should watch the show corner gas.  It's streamable in many places.

Ch 3 pg 11

He visits a friend in Victoria BV and likes it much better.

Ch 4 pg 13

Flashback to the incident that got him banished.

His mother and father and talking about their time in India. Edwin points out that the Indians dont much like to have been colonized.  Somehow this prompts his father to ask if he's a Christian. Edwin isn't sure he is.  Now hes banished to Canada.

Ch 5 pg 19

Edwin has decided Victoria is TOo much like England.  He goes with Thomas up Vancouver island to a logging camp.  He never goes to the logging camp.  He just sits around the boarding house and plays chess.

Ch 6 pg 25

Edwin wanders about some.  He runs into some native girls.  He feels the sad hypocrisy of his life that he's against colonization, yet here he is colonizing.

Ch 7 pg 27

Edwin goes into the forest and in a clearing made by a maple tree has a run in with a preist.

Ch 8 pg 29

One page trying to explain an odd experience Edwin had.

Ch 9 pg 30

Edwin throws up and goes to the ocean to wash it off and has a bad go of it.

Ch 10 pg 31

Edwin goes to church. The priest says his name is Robert and just yesterday came to replace father Frederick. But Edwin knows that's a lie.  No ship has come in for a while.  Any ship that comes or goes is the talk of the town for weeks.

Father Frederick shows up and father Robert is nowhere to be found.

Father Robert is a space alien.  That's the impression that i get.

Part 2 pg 27

Mirella and Vincent 2020

Ch 1

There's so many dead people in this chapter.  Vincent (she/her) is dead.  Her husband Johnathan had been running a Ponzy scheme and Mirella's husband Faisal was a victim and committed suicide.  

Mirella went to a video art show Vincent's brother Paul was putting on.  He says its a video his dead sister made.  This is how Mirella found out Vincent was dead.

In an after show chitchat someone shakes Paul's hand and immediately puts on purrel and talks of Wuhan.  A man named Gaspery Roberts says Covid 19 isn't spread by hand.  Everyone else looks at him like his an alien.  His response to this is "It's only January. "  i suspect Gaspery Roberts is a time traveler.

After the show Mirella goes out for drinks with Paul.  Paul tells her Vincent died falling off a boat.  She was a cook on a container ship.

Mirella needs to decompress having learned how her former friend died.  She goes across the street to a park.  Gaspery roverts joins her and says he investigates stuff like the weird blip that was on Vincent's video.  Mirella says she remembers him.  From when she was a child.   He was getting arrested on an overpass and called her name.

She realizes that's crazy and runs away and grabs a cab home.

Gaspery is probably father Robert from part 1.

Ch 2 pg 55

Chapter 1 was in New York city. This underpass story was when mirella was 9 years old in Ohio.  She ran away from home to New York when she was 16.

In the taxi, mirella remembers the underpass incident.  She's absolutely certainly it was Gaspery.  

Ch 3 pg 58

Mirella goes to a friend's party. This is a friend she's had for a long time. At the party she has a pleasant memory of a time she and Vincent and her husband were on the balcony of this house.  Mirella realizes she doesn't love her girlfriend anymore.

She tells a fortune teller that she wants to kill Johnathan. 

Part 3 pg 64

Last book tour on earth

2203

Ch 1 pg 66

Just kidding, this part doesn't have any chapters.

It's all about a woman named Olive who wrote a book about a pandemic and she's on a book tour while there might be a pandemic starting in Australia. 

There's a lot of very similar stuff going on over and over again as she does her book tour.  Lots of rides with cabbies and similar interviews and calls home to.her husband who might be working on a building that's specifically for time travel research. 

Then on page 97 she meets our time traveler. Funny story, he has the same name as a character in her book. 

He's acting the part of a reporter and asks about a bit in her book where a man is transported. And if its based on something that happened in her real life at the Oklahoma city airship center.

She says she'll talk about it off the record.  She doesnt wanna Come off as eccentric. 

ch 18 to the end The gate of the Feral Gods

Ch 18 pg 270

Let's see if I can get a good picture of this little drawing they have for this chapter. 

Nope, upside down.  Better luck next time.

Carl and Donut go on the show.

Their new awful PR lady Loita is there.  

She doesnt wear fancy armor like Zev, or anyone with common sense should.  She just has a rebreather that sprays water on her gills so she can exist out of the water.

It's less of a show and more of a commercial taping.  There's a script and everything.  Carl goes off script a little.  Like it matters.  It's just a taping.  But Carl says something about it mattering in the dungeon. I dont get it.

All of a sudden there's an explosion. It was in the green room where Loita is.  It was the donut robot toy.  Carl did something to make it explode.

Loita is dead.

This is Wonderful.  As a kid asking for something for Christmas and then waiting for it and then getting it is great.  Being a grownup and wanting something and then buying it immediately is even better.  This is what that feels like. 

Ch 19 pg 285

No picture

They are brought in to speak with a Syndicate representative. 

He asks how many aliens Carl thinks humans have killed during this crawl.  Carl says 0.

15

The previous high was 3.  The Syndicate person asks of they have an opinion on why there are so many this time.  Carl blames it on the Kua-Tin cheaping out on security. 

The syndicate guy explains to Carl how Carl did it.  Carl denies it.  Also says, if there was real proof, they wouldn't be having this conversation.  There's not enough firm evidence so Carl gets to go.  The syndicate guy tells him it was the Kua-Tin that decided to let him get away with murder.  Carl's ratings are more valuable than justice for him killing Loita.   The syndicate guy warns him, there's rumors that his people will be taking over on the 6th floor and they will not be so lenient. 

Also, they've been in stasis for 5 days.

Ch 20 pg 299

5 days is an eternity Katia is back in the top 10

Most of the previously level 20 people have been whipped into shape and are nearly level 30

They had to tear the top floor off the baloon house because the game wouldn't let the stairwell on that floor leave this area of the bubble.  Now they have a fun baloon house they can take anywhere

 

The castle on the land is a sand castle.

There's two options here

1. Open the valve that will drain the tomb back to the sea and that will wash the sandcastle away.  Problem with that is the nage with the winding box would wash away with it and the titular gateway would be lost to them

2.  There's a lightning rod that's connected to a door frame.  When the storm starts, lightning will hit that rod and the doorway will become a portal and they can go inside the sandcastle and fight the mage so they can get the box and open the titular door.

They go with option 2.  Problem is the door only stays open for.a few seconds so only Carl, Donut and Katia are gonna go in and fight the mage.

Ch 21 pg 314

They go through the castle and they find the mage.  His backstory is sad and pathetic. 

Carl knocks him out with one punch and steals his box.

He's the npc, kinda like Bonnie in the baloon house. 

The boss they gotta fight is an ooze.

It's also basically immortal in that it can regenerate from a remaining piece that's the size of a grain of sand.

But Carl doesnt need to kill it.  He just needs to neutralize it so he can get into the thrown room and win the level.

Ch 22 pg 332

The problem here is the ooze has spread.kinda everywhere.  If you touch it, you die.  They have to light its core on fire to get it.to contract.  So they use the hole spell from the room above where the oozes core is and they lower Carl down with a rope and he uses his sticky feet to fix to the ceiling of that room and then he drops flammable goo on It and lights it on fire and its WAY TOO HOT and it melts the glass and the whole level is collapsing. Carl tells Katia to leave and the people outside to turn on the water that will wash away the sand castle.  Long story short Donut and Carl make it to the ocean Barely alive and there's sharks and stuff and Donut FREAKS OUT!!!

CH 23 PG 349

There's lots of details and maybe jokes that i dont care about.  The important part is Carl gets out of the water with Donut and they reunite with every one. 

Also, Mordecai says hes making progress with the root vegetable Carl got from the pacifist group.

Ch 24 pg 364

They get back to home base and open up boxes and talk about future plans.  Somehow they get a map of the 9th floor and this makes Carl think, maybe we can use the titular gate to get to the 9th floor.  Mordecai tells him he cannot.  He also talks a bunch about how this whole thing with tourists works.  People on the 18th and 9th floor can go to the 6th floor and start buying gear that crawlers have sold back to the game.

FORESHADOWING: Mordecai takes this moment to mention to Carl that he still needs to sell the crawler killer ring.  Calling my shot here.  The Meistro will end up with that ring.

This chapter ends with Katia stating that all of this is building up to Carl making a horrible decision. 

Chekhov`s root vegetable remains a mystery.

Ch 25 pg 380

I never understood why after the ocean level was beaten why the tomb level filled with water.  Its because after taking the castle, which in this case is a submarine,  the submarine started pumping water into the tomb.  I'm curious if this had to happen or if this is something Megan decided to do.  Either way, at this point the need to make their way to the submarine and turn off the pump so they can go into the tomb and pop the bubble.

Ch 26 pg 397

The group is Carl Katia and a couple guys we don't know.  Someone suggests they wear red shirts.

They get to the submarine without incident.

Except that there's some sort of giant thing below them.  If they don't make a scene they should be ok.

They're mostly to where they want to get, but then the Ptyradactle ghost that's supposedly tomb boss is there.  It does something that almost kills one of the guys.  

Then it leaves the sub heading down and hits the giant thing below the sub. 

On the bright side, the guy with the final piece to create the titular gate is down here.  So Carl has all the pieces he needs to start the apocalypse. 

 This is exactly the kind of thing they were trying to avoid.

The thing below them grabs the sub with its tentacles and drags them down to the bottom of the sea.

But wait, it gets worse.  They are attacked by an octoshark.

Ch 27 pg 409

The octoshark bites the sub in half.  The way this works in the wild is that the mommy octoshark bites something in half and then the babies eat the thing.  The babies are at the front of the sub trying to break in and eat everyone. Carl has an idea, he puts a bomb un the mini fridge and then everyone goes into the room with the stairwell.  At least that was the plan, but one guy goes for the escape pod.  He doesn't eject because they tell him it won't work cause they're inside the shark. The babies break in and Carl sets off the bomb.  It's a bomb he's infused with the bloodlust potion and all the baby octosharks start eating each other. 

There's a timer to indicate when the mom will swallow the half a sub that's in her mouth.  They have a two part plan to get out of here.  Part 1 is katia turns herself into something everyone else can hold onto and then shoots a rocket out her back so they are propelled forward.  Part 2 is Carl does his shield spell to stop the octoshark in its tracks so they can get away.  Part 2 works really well in that it kills the octoshark. Part 1 doesn't go so great and they end up crashing into the bottom of the sea.  Now that they're out of the sub, the sea pressure starts doing damage to them.  Also, they don't really have a good way to move up and also up is a layer of dangerous jelly fish.

On the bright side, the guy in the escape pod was able to eject right through the octoshark. The remaining red shirt wishes they had tried it when the octoshark was alive.

Desperate times call for desperate actions. 

They open up the titular gate.  The portal takes them to just outside of town so they can run to a safe room.

We will see how safe it is with a feral God on the loose.

Ch 28 pg 428

For such a long chapter i feel like not a lot happened.  Everyone is huddled in their safe room.  They open boxes and get cool stuff.  They're basically just waiting for the feral god to leave.  They get confirmation that it has left when other people from other bubbles start complaining about the fire god Emberus going around yelling for Orthus.  He's fucking up shit real bad for so many people.  Carl better do something. 

Ch 29 pg 447

They leave the safehouse and they see a giant two headed dog.  It is named Orthus.  It's not the Orthus Emberus is yelling for.  It's that dog's puppy.  The whole bubble gets a quest to save the giant puppy. Donut and others get into the house balloon and they are on healing duty.

At the same time they also have to kill the ghost Ptyradactle to get the  bubble open. They kill the ghost Ptyradactle with lightening.  The bubble opens and the lightening stops.

But the giant puppy is still being attacked by sharks.

Also Chris, being possed by Maggie is out there somewhere. 

Ch 30 pg 464

It just so happens they have a spell that attracts animals.

They get in a plane and fly away and start the spell and the.puppy follows.

They have a new quest to get the puppy to the god.

Unfortunately wveryone else has a quest to kill the puppy.

Quan, the only guy to open his legendary box is gonna try.

Ch 31 pg 477

Carl uses his invisibility potion on the dog

He worships the god and uses a holy grenade to summon him to where the dog is.

That solves that problem, but Quan is pissed off and he decides to fight Carl.  Luckily the holy grenade has a side effect that makes Carl invisible for a minute. 

It wears off, but Quan doesnt know that.  He tries to get away and somehow Carl rips his arm off.

Ch 32 pg 494

They've got a plan to help the people still in bubbles.  They give those people the titular gate in the desperado club.  Those people use the gate to go to Carl's bubble and then right out the staircase to the 6th floor.  The idea is those people get away and the god is stuck in the bubble.

Ch 33 pg 511

The plan works great.  They save a lot of people.

Katia is gonna leave the band.  

They do one last desperate thing with the titular gate.  They use it to send all the shapeshifters and other npcs to the 6th floor in the baloon house. 

Let's see what god comes out to ruin everything. 

Ch 34 pg 528

The neat thing about all these kids is that they fight each other and poof back to.the nothing. 

But one does not. It's a demon that's got a score to settle with their demigod possessed sex doll head.

Emergency platinum box from the pa ifists.

It's an attachment to Carl's xtera made to throw her.  He does just that and in doing so it summons her mother who kills the demon right away.

Everyone on the outside assumes Carl is going to use the titular gate to summon a god to the 9th floor to rake out the Maestro's family army. The powers that be send him a message saying its cool just thus once. So Carl gets to do this awesome thing without any backlash.   Nice.

Maggie/Chris shows up with the plan to steal the titular gate while they are preparing their 9th floor shenhannegans. Now we get the root vegetable reveal.  Mordekai has created a potion that will allow Carl to phase through magma rock. This allows him to reach into Chris's head and yank Maggie out.

Now Carl reveals his true plan.  The make a gate in the ocean to the 9th floor and it pretty much destroys the town in the center..everyone gets to the stairs to the 6th floor.  See you next book

Epilogue  pg 557

This is awesome,  its a bunch of little viewpoints from people outside of the dungeon.

The first one is from the perspective of the pacifist group thats bankrolling Carl. There's an unnamed woman and  a Dr Hu.

The root vegetable was not given so they could save Chris. It's for something else.

Someone named Sadir is talking to an animal in a cage.  It's a cat and it scratches Sadir and his blood is blue.  They're on earth, theyre going around trying to find a cat named gravy boat.

They're in Seattle and they're thinking why would anyone live here when the equatorial region was a paradise.

BRAD!!!!!!

He's working to rebuild society and keep everyone on New Queen Anne alive.

That selfish pile of human garbage Bea does not.  She just cuddles with a cat and cries.  People are sick of it.

None of that matters.  The cat is gravy boat.  The aliens are coming for them.  Brad is gonna make a move to take them out cause hes hot shit.  One of the aliens get shot.  A new alien is on the scene.  This alien gets on the phone to Odette.  She has plans for Bea.  It all sounds nefarious. 

Book 4 bonus material 

Backstage at the pineapple cabaret.

pg 573

Cock a doodle doo

Cock a doodle doo is a robot hamster.  He's tasked with creating a pet store part of the dungeon on the 17th floor.

He is doing this with two other hamsters.  All they seem to do is get excited about killing humans and have sex, but wait, it gets worse.  They're brother and sister.

So gross.

The entrance to the safe room is at the back of this pet store hes designing.  So if you wanna get to the safe room, you gotta go through this insanity theyre working on.

He remembers the little girl that was his owner.  He loved her with all his heart.  The other two hamsters are psychos and they wanna eat her face off.

All three of them were part of the endless stream of rodents the AI sent to punish Carl for not doing foot stuff.

He's setting up a couple of flame throwers as traps.  He suddenly has the fun idea, what if the flame throwers hit something flammable on the other end of the room.

He calls our immortal Gnoll friend from the 4th floor as hes in charge of booze. 

Cock a doodle doo ends up hanging out with grandma llama and shaman goblin and theyre scheming. If they can get immortal Gnoll on their side and then they can use him to get to the bottom of whatever it is Minerva is really doing here.  

The pineapple cabaret is a heaven like place that has been promised to these people.  There's a succubus that says that's bullshit.

Grandma llama introduces an orc named willow joy AKA jumping jen-jen.  She has a plan and somehow killing Cock a doodle doo is an important part of it, so he runs for his life.

ch 1 to 17 the gate of the feral God's by Matt dinniman.

This is a brand new book and some herkoff already water damaged it.

Diagram of the desert bubble

Ch 1 pg 1

On this new level they re unceremoniously dumped into a sandstorm.  They make their way to town.  The primary npc on this level is camel people.

They learn the objective here is to attack a castle in the sky.  They dont know how to fly, so thats a tall order.

The whole level is made up of these bubbles with four parts.  You cant move to another part until you beat the castle in your part.  Mordekai figures everyone else is useless and theyre gonna have to beat all 4 castles themselves.  16 days, 4 castles, 4 days per castle.  They better get to work.

Ch 2 pg 18

They make their way to a safe room and unpack all the achievements and boxes from the end fight of the previous level.

They talk to some friends that are in the ocean part of the bubble and theyre on boats and they don't know how to use them.

I should probably pay more attention in these types of chapters cause they are full of foreshadowing.   How do I know that?   Mordecai just told me.  He says pay attention to the loot boxes you get at the beginning of the level.  They usually foreshadow what's to come.  They get a lot of poison resistance and water breathing potions so there's gonna be a lot of water and venemous stuff.

Carl walks through the town and finds a house with a telescope on the roof.  He knocks on the door and a blank shapeshifter child shows up.  The child forms itself into a tiny Carl.  They go on the roof and Carl looks at the castle in the sky.  Lots of gnomes.  The boy tells Carl the reason this level is a wasteland is because there was a war with the gnomes and they bombed the hell out of this place.  Carl is able to use the telescope to look at one such bomb and the description says there aren't many left.

Ch 3 pg 38

They go out in the world intending to go to the other t0wn.  They fight a giant spikey lizard and that goes pretty well.  They take it out with ranged weapons.  Then there's a gnome airplane.  They think they're about to get bombed but it drops something and there's no explosion. But it opens up and it's a dead feral goose.  It's a neighborhood boss so they get a neigh map.  This was staged as an accident that the goose was supposed to be freed half way down but instead it didn't and dies on impact.  But Carl knows better.  They're trying to keep people from being free.  So they fgo back to t9wn.

Ch 4 pg 57

They build a sort 9f dunes buggy on tracks thing.  

They test it out a bit and they figure they're ready to head to the other town.  But before they can head out in earnest, they see the other town get bombed.  They head back to their town and watch the recap show.

Lucia mar kills another crawler completely unprovoked.  So maybe she is that bad.  More importantly we get to see exactly how, it's with a reflection spell.  Someone attacks her and the damage goes to whoever Lucia targets.  Mordecai thinks maybe its shown because the powers that be want people to try to kill her.

Ch 5 pg 75

They go back to the bar to rally the troops .  Two important things come of this.  The first is that the shapeshifting sex workers are super dangerous. So be nice to them.  The second is there are two guys that have been drunk this whole time and one of them has a super powerful spell.  So mordecai detoxes them.

Ch 6 pg 87

They teleport over to city hall and carl makes it down to the hostage.  So he gets rewarded for finishing that mission and now theres a save the hostage mission.  This area is confusing as its on the border of the sky and tomb areas.  Carl finds a map of the tomb area, but that doesnt help him cause he cant go there.  Also I guess the hostage is in the tomb area because some crawlers from the tomb level kill said hostage.

Ch 7 pg 105

Carl and the crawlers that killed his hostage meet up in da club.  Carl has Katia draw them a map of their area.

Their Zev replacement sucks.  I hope she dies.  They get new sponsorships.

Ch 8 pg 120

I have 4 days.  40 pages a day.  I should be able to do that.

Carl gets an add on to show speed and altitude from his original sponsor. I expect eventually there will be flying and it will be very useful. 

His new sponsor is a pacifist group so Carl is not optimistic about this  box even though its silver. 

It turns out to be a very rare root vegetable. It grows under dirt that's covered in Lava.

My personal hope is that somehow this pacifist group is related to the anarchist cook book and Carl will find an awesome way to use it in there.

The storm comes and goes.  Everyone is still alive, no bombing yet.  But a giant bionic bird flies by and Carl is thinking he can test his newly crafted missles on it.  It's a burrough boss and the last time anybody engaged with this thing it destroyed a town.

Ch 9 pg 129

Carl distracts the shapeshifter kid with the telescope while donut steals the telescope.  On the bright side, he does tell the kid if there's a bombing he should go to the Toe as its the only true safe room.  So its not 100% bad.

Carl takes the group out to do battle with the giant bionic bird.  Hes got 4 missiles.  Donut got an upgrade to her glasses from her sponsor.  She's disappointed it's not a new thing.   Mordecai explains that this is how sponsors work a lot of the time.  They send you a really useful thing and then they keep sending you upgrades to that thing.  In the end you have something that's of legendary quality but much more cost effective than sending such an item all fully upgraded.

The plan with the missiles is to hit from miles away.  They created two stage rockets for this.  The first rocket they shoot at the bird doesn't do well, it explodes prematurely shortly after the second stage rocket fires off.  Carl is gonna risk it for the biscuit.  He tells Katia to head toward the bird.  This seems I'll advised, the bird has basically a giant chainsaw it dangles beneath them.  Really it's a bunch of buzz saws connected on a large steel pole.  So very scary.  This time Carl shoots from much closer and he fires 3 missiles at once.  It loses a wing and plummets to the ground and donut finishes it off with magic missles.

Before they can celebrate their achievement,  there's an announcement that something much more important has happened.  Chris from the old folks home has liberated the ocean area.

Ch 10 pg 144

They go back to town and Carl talks to a channeling disguised as a camel person about the proof of life process with the gnomes.  Maybe a changling can look like the gnome and fake it.

It doesnt work

Carl gathers a bazillion npcs into their private room.

All of a sudden Carl gets a mission.  Save the town.  He's got an hour and 15 minutes until the bombing starts.

Ch 11 pg 161

I dont remember exactly why but the gnomes send down a baloon to retrieve the gnome hostage.  Donut has cast her zombie spell on him so when the gnomes check, it confirms its him.  They also test everyone to make sure theyre not changelings.  Katia is the chair that the zombie gnomes is in.  Whe. The zombie spell wears off, she uses her shapeshifter skills to form a representation of him so now she's the chair and him.

Seems like the plan is a success.

Ch 12 pg 176

There's another part of the plan thay unfolds.  The guys on the ground shoot missles at the flying fortress to take out the planes.  It goes really well.  Katia secures herself to the baloon basket and donut casts hole on the bottom of the basket and the gnomes fall to their doom.

They blow up some other stuff on the flying fortress and there's a notification that they saved the town.  Huge success.

They jump out of the baloon and they all take a potion that results in them staying alive when they hit the ground.  It's very painful.

Zev chats at them.  Yay!!!  Shes obviously gone through some sort of brainwashing so not yay.  

Im psyched to see whats in this platinum box Carl gor for saving the town.

Ch 13 pg 190

The AI is angry with Carl.  It wants to see him smoosh things with his feet and Carl refuses to play its game.  So the AI sends an endless wave of feral gerbils and doesn't stop until Carl gives in and gets to smooshing.

They open some boxes.

Chris shows up.

Ch 14 pg 207

Talia gets an emergency sponsor box and she goes to open it.  Also their views are going through the roof.  Seems the viewers know something about Chris that we dont.

They do and its a doozy.

Chris isn't really Chris.  It's Maggie (Frank's wife that wants to kill Carl) controlling Chris as she is a mind worm.  

That is fucking nuts.  But with the previous advice Maggie got from her advisor it shouldn't surprise me that she ended up something insane like a mind worm.

Now it makes perfect sense why Chris killed Frank cause it was Maggie the whole time.

Chris/Maggie Chraggie 

If this stays a thing im sure mr dinnamon will have a much funner couple name for them.

Talia comes back and shoots Chraggie with a bolt.  It's a special petrification bolt.  Chraggie can't move.   But temporarily Chris isn't under Maggie's control so he can chat.

Chraggie had a god summoning orb.

Chris chats that the plan was to summon the god of suffering to make Donut and Carl suffer.

There seems to be a plan that Talia's sponsor can see that results in Chris getting free from Maggie and that's why she sent these paralysis bolts.  But they cant figure it out.  Mordekai says he could whip up something if they had materials from the 6th floor.  But they don't. They have no choice.  Carl is going to kill Chraggie. 

But instead donut opens a hole beneath Carl and Chraggie.  Carl goes down a bit and hits the force shield between the sky area and the tomb area.  But Chraggie has already defeated their castle and they are free to go anywhere and they fall quite a ways down into the Tomb.

Carl realizes he needs to know what the viewers know, so they buy the upgrade that allows them to see their supporters chats.

Ch 15 pg 223

Carl and donut take a plane up to the castle.  The castle is just a house that's being held up in the sky.  There's an evil little girl named Bonnie. You know she's evil becuase she's wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey.

Ch 16 pg 238

Turns out Comandante Kane committed suicide in a creative way in that he bought his daughter an exceptionally dangerous pet that killed him.  

Carl looks his corpse.  Lots of gold and a watch that's used to form the titular gateway of the feral God.

Speaking of Feral things, the pet is a level 53 feral goose and it quickly dispatches the Mongo duplicates guarding the roof.

The goose is pretty kickass.  It kills anything it sees other than Bonnie.  It nullifies all magic.  It shoots teeth out like its a shotgun.  It also appears to be invisible becuase nothing they do hurts it.

Carl figures out the trick when he himself is tricked into thinking Bonnie's lemonade is the solution. It's not and it pisses him off and he throws the lemonade pitcher at the goose and it does damage.  It's marked as an Environmental. What Carl figures out is that only things in this environment can hurt her.  Things like the kitchen's garbage disposal. Goose head in the garbage disposal ends the fight.

I'm a little disappointed Carl didn't get some sort of goose pate accomplishment.

Ch 17 pg 254

The head changling is rebuilding 

Carl is helping

Their awful new pr person tells him to stop that, people dont care about NPCs

I hope she dies

They are getting ready to go on an infomercial for a toy that looks like Donut and says some of her catch phrases.

We're left with Carl saying hes made a decision to do something.  I hope its killing the new PR person 

End of ch 17 pg 269

steelheart part 4

Ch 31 pg 369

Megan is dead

There's some details and  nuance I didnt understand because I was sobbing uncontrollably. 

Ch 32 pg 379

Confluence is a prisoner,  always has been.  He's a slave steelheart uses to power his city.  His name is Edmund and mostly he gifts his power to other people and they actually go out and power stuff.  He can also ungift it.  They tell him to do.so and the power goes out in the city.

Ch 33 pg 388

Edmond has been a slave to other epics since a month after he got his power.  Some of his former masters were angry at him because he can't gift his power to other Epics, just people.  Steelheart wasn't  bothered by this.  He made great use of Edmond .

They decide they're gonna do this confrontation with steelheart even though they don't know his weakness.  They've got a lot of ideas and they're gonna try them all.

Ch 34 pg 402

They are gonna fight steelheart at soldier field. David is tensoring through some shallow tunnels so they can hide explosives to booby trap steelheart. Doc comes to appologize for how he acted with the tensor and Megan's death and what not.  As part of that appologize he let's David ask one question. Turns out Prof was a 5th grade science teacher before all this.  

He didnt invent any of the stuff they use.  Doc is just good at using it to kill epics.

They've also got UV lights setup incase night Weilder shows up.

Ch 35 pg 415

They light off a bunch of fireworks to get steelhearts attention. A ton of enforcers show up and position in the seats of the stadium.   Im imagining theyre all in the lower section.

David is up in the nose bleeds.  He sees a gold person for a second.  He tells the team and they are dismissive.

Prof gets on the loud speaker and asks if steelheart is afraid to face him.

Steelheart and night Weilder and firefight show up.

The first part of the plan is to just shoot steelheart in the hopes his weakness is something from the vault, which is scattered around the middle of the field .  Cody is gonna take that shot.

Ch 36 421

That didn't work. 

Even worse, nightweilder immediately makes a bee line for David.  David runs for it and in running he finds a steel Megan. 

Ch 37 pg 426

David's situation is worse than we thought as firefight is doing illusions to confuse David's even more.

Doc is somehow holding his own against steelheart. 

David thinks he figures out why the epics are a couple steps ahead of them.  He thinks they have Megan's mobile and have been listening in on all their mobile chatter. 

Also, they tested out both the true believer and friendly fire theories and steelheart is unharmed. 

So dad's gun is the only remaining hope.

Unfortunately,  David is already up to his ears in epics and is gonna have a heck of a time getting to steelheart to shoot him with his dad's gun.

A Megan's illusion talks to david. David grabs its arm. He swears its real. But then there's an explosion.

Ch 38 pg 438

David gets on the mobile and Cody tells him he's going to come for him.  David gets an idea to use the idea that the epics might have Megan's mobile so he does some disinformation. He tells Cody to meet him in the closest bathroom. But instead he makes himself a hole to hide in.  What he sees is Megan in a pile of rubble crying for help. Then nightwielder shows up and David kills him to death.  

Megan thanks David for killing nightwielder. She never liked him.  

Megan is firefight. 

But she seems to have brain damage or multiple personalities or something cause one second she's talking like she's an evil mastermind and the next like she's Megan, but a little confused.

Ch 39 pg 446

Tia has ordered a withdrawal. Abraham is carrying Cody to the extraction point.  But David just cant stomach the idea of leaving without trying to kill steelheart with his dad's gun. 

Ch 40 pg 454

It doesn't work 

Steelheart makes a great speech about something I forget.  It's intended purpose is to draw out Prof.  It works, steelheart kills him easily. 

All of a sudden David has  Kaiser Sose esque realization about steelheart. Only people that aren't afraid of him can hurt him.  That's why he does everything he does. If everyone is scared of him,  he can't be hurt.  

It seems he's a day late and a dollar short here. Steelheart picks up David's dad's gun and shoots David with it.

Unbeknownst to steelheart the detonater is in the gun barrel. So steelheart is setting off the bomb.  He and David are blown to smithereens. 

Ch 41 pg 461

steelheart part 2 AND 3

Ch 14 pg 141

We are bonding and whatnot.  The trail they're following is from the bank to the insurance company.  Hoping the insurance company has records of everything in the bank and that might point to steal hearts weakness.  David is gonna go on a fieldtrip.

Ch 15 pg 154

David goes with Megan and Abraham to an arms dealer down in the catacombs. There's a fun thing with a group of nare do wells where Abraham is like, how about instead of all of us fighting, we do a single mono i mono fight.  Abraham lets the other guy shoot first (cause Abraham has magic armor) and he shrugs off a few bullets.  Then he shoots him in the leg and bandages him up.  It's fun.  Abraham is fun.

They get to the arms dealer and the "guard" is a little girl.  It's fun.  Diamond the arms dealer seems fun.

Ch 16 pg 170

They find a cool gun.  The problem is each shot requires more electricity than their biggest battery can hold.  But they have this plan to capture an epic that generates electricity so maybe that won't be a problem long term.  Problem,  Night Weilder is here.

Ch 17 pg 189

They go to a dead end and use the sensor to make an escape tunnel.  But they make too much noise.  David thinks they're caught.

Ch 18 pg 196

David grabs Abraham's gun and runs over to the arms dealer (diamond) and tells him he fixed it and knows enough about guns to pass as diamonds assistant. Night weilder asks about forensics. One of these forensics shines a uv light. David wants to test out his theory that uv light makes night wielder corporial.  He shines on night wielder. 

Ch 19 pg 203

Night weilder notices, but David keeps staring at the device like he was trying to figure something out and he successfully removes the memory chip from the device.

Night weilder destroys the device.  David gets away and rejoin Megan and Abraham. He watches rhe video and the uv light definitely does something to Night weilder.

Megan hates david.

Ch 20 pg 210

David.and prof talk about the plan to kill steelheart.  David tells prof about how he got proof uv lights make night wielder become solid.  Prof tells him hes being too reckless and if things go bad cause of said recklessness prof will kill him and there won't be any evidence of David's existence. 

Ch 21 pg 225

They're gonna blow up a power plant.  Megan and David are sneaking around and setting explosives.  David is getting good at using the sensor gloves to burrow through steel.  There's trouble when a room they were going to burrow into has a bunch of people in it.  The only way around is up a elevator. David says no big deal, wait for an elevator to go up and jump on.  Pronlemis its the middle of the night.  David is able to make little hand and foot holds with the tensor gloves and they climb up.  Big problem,  security heard them and have opened the elevator door right above them.

Megan hates david because she doesn't like what the team has become. They used to go after the worst of the worst.  Newcago might be the best city in the world because of steelheart.  Megan is from Portland. You know what's there now?  Nothing. 

Ch 22 pg 247

 They do more burrowing around and they steal some fuel cells and they do a small explosion to get an evacuation going.  They really get people in the mood to GTFO when they claim its an Epic doing the destruction.   There's stuff as they evacuate about this building that just doesn't add up to David.  Mystery stacked on Mystery. One thing David got from diamond was a pen that had blasting caps and could be used as a detonater. David finds some explosives that look like they're part of a self destruct system and sticks a blasting cap in just in case.

Good thing too.  Their explosives aren't enough to blow up the building.  David uses his trigger pen and the explosion is way bigger than expected and the building is demolished. 

Part 3

Ch 23 pg 263

They talk about the info they found in steelhearts secret level in the power plant.  It's disinformation about horrible things steelheart has done.  Except its all stiff he hasnt done.  So there's. Secret base in a PowerPlant that's creating disinformation to make steelheart look worse.

The group talks about what newcago will be like after they kill steelheart. They agree it will be much worse.  But the ends justify the suffering of the people. Also, Abraham is like David's dad.  He's a believer that one day good epics will come to save us from the bad epics.

Ch 24 pg 277

One of steelhearts bodyguards is an epic they call firefight.  He's an evil johny storm from fantastic four.  David thinks hes figured out his weakness. The trick is hes not really a fire epic.  Who we think is firefight is really an illusion and david thinks he knows who the illusionist is.  So if firefight shows up, kill the ilkusionist.

Ch 25 pg 288

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Exciting discovery.  TIA Knows where the. Bank David's dad was murdered by steelheart in is.  They think it must be something in the vault that made dteelheart weak.  David thinks its something to do with his dad.

Ch 26 pg 301

They find a ton of gold and jewelry. So even if they don't find steelheart's weakness, they're rich.

Ch 27 pg 311

They have a plan to kill the epic that generates power.  They know he gets transported via a limo with an armored car and 2 motorcycle escort.  So they wait around until they see such a comglomoration of vehicles head out from the main vehicle.  The plan is pretty cool.  Cody is gonna dress up in a costume as this is to be the reveal of lime wire.  Then from behind him, Abraham will destroy the limo with the fancy gun they got from diamond, you know, the arms dealer.

Big problem, night wilder is in the limo and they Are Not READY FOR THIS!!!!!

CH 28 PG 325

They kinda get lucky because Davis shines his UV light on night Weilder and he gets spooked and flies away.  

Another big problem,  this was absolutely a trap and now they're getting shot at by helicopters.  

Their van gets destroyed and the bikes David wanted them to buy from diamond are there.  That's right, they went back and bought them without David.  Nobody has died yet, but the last thing we see is David using the big gun to shoot a hole in a wall so the bike he and megan are on can go through it.

Ch 29 pg 240

They are running and running and cops keep finding them.  Right as all seems lost and david is considering killing Magan and himself to avoid capture,  doc shows up saves the day.  His skill with the gloves that can convert stuff to dust is unparalleled. He's turning bullets to dust as theyre fired at him. He's turning cops helmets to dust and knocking cops out!!  There's these things that they describe as being like little versions of Starwa4s atats.  He disintegrates their legs.  

As the remaining cops rn away he declares that he's limelight and if steelheart don't come out to play, he'll keep fucking shit up.

Cody makes his way back to the limo and kills the remaining guards.  There's an unconscious epic in the trunk, he brings him back to base with the theory that he is the one that makes the power.

steel heart part 1

Preamble

There are people with super powers called epics.  Narrator's father thinks despite the fact this far all of them have been evil,  eventually there will be good ones.  Narrator is in the bank with his dad when an epic shows up and starts killing people.  Another epic shows up and narrator's dad thinks hes there to save the day.  Hes not.  He's Steelheart and hes the emperor of this city.  All shall bow down before him.  Narrator's dad shoots him and it goes badly.  Steelheart is basically superman and he can also turn stuff into Steel.

Ch 1 pg 23

It's 10 years later.  Narrator is a grown man.  He lives in what used to be Chicago with an awesome name, Newcago.   It's bad, but most other places are much worse.  Steelheart has been able to keep a semblance of order here.

There's an organization that goes around killing epics.  There's an epic that can see the future and hes their target tonight.  There's a sexy lady thats trying to lure him to a club where there's probably a trap set for him.  But another epic seems to be wise to this and gets involved.  Narrator rushes in.

Ch 2 pg 35

It works, narrator is able to get the other epic away so the lady can move forward with her trap. Problem is narrator tells this epic he works for a dead man.

Ch 3 pg 40

Narrator runs down an alley.  Fortuity,  the epic that can see the future comes back, but hes in handcuffs.  The other epic gets shot by a sniper.  Red dress lady comes back.  She is thinking killing Narrator is a good idea but then he talks about all the stuff he knows and hes trying to help and she let's him live.  But hes on his knees hands behind his back and the sniper is told to kill him if he moves.  But then a bunch of thugs come and red dress lady is gonna die so Narrator pulls out his gun and shoots at the thugs.

Ch 4 pg 46

Narrator's name is David.  He catches up to red dress lady.  He gives her his gun and steals a car and goes after fortuity. There's some cool action movie stuff where David is chasing fortuity and red dress lady , who's name is Megan, is shooting and the windshield is destroyed and fortuity does cool flips.  The end is that David is enough of a distraction for Megan to shoot fortuity in the chest.

Ch 5 pg 52

They are rescued by a garbage truck.  They get away and go down into the steel labyrinth. David is a little excited he might be accepted onto the epic killer team.  But one look at the garbage truck driver told him that wasn't happening.  At best, he was a friendly captive.  

Ch 6pg 60

They do a blood test to make sure hes not an epic.  They ask who told them they were gonna hit fortuity.  He says he figured it out on his own.  He says he wants to join them.  Megan seems to be for it.  But the rest of the team is worried.  So they leave him.

Ch 7 pg 66

As they leave her shouts that hes seen stealheart bleed.  They come back to hear his story.  This causes a sudden swap in Megan's demeanor. She thinks he lying and it PISSES HER OFF!!!  But the leader is intrigued.  He asks who he thinks theyre gonna go after next.  Turns out hes close enough that theyre gonna change their plans.

Ch 8 pg 76

He talks about how all he does is obsess about the epics and the reckoners.  Eventually this gets to him talking about how hes got notes at his apartment. 

Ch 9 pg 83

At first doc just wants to firebomb the place and be done with it.  David convinces him his notes are worth the trouble.  David and Cody and Megan go to his place.  Most places to live in Newcago nowadays aren't traditionally built.  They're carved out of the steel that steelheart has turned the land on the northern half of Chicago into.  David's room is one of these.  It's quite extraordinary for an 18 year old to have their own room.  David basically blew all his factory earnings on it so he can focus on documentation of epics.

They scope out his place and figure out there's a team there waiting to pounce with an illusion epic keeping them hidden.  David concludes the epic must be Refactionary. Her weakness is smoke.  The plan is for David to go inside and use this smoke bomb to expose Refactory and Megan and Cody will cover him from outside.

Ch 10 pg 95

The plan goes ok.  One wrinkle is that one of the enforcers, Roy, knows David.  David convinces him he had no part in the attack, he just heard there was gonna be an epic fight and was there to watch.  When cody and megan start shooting Roy and one other enforcer make it out alive.  David tells them an Epic named limelight is coming to take out steelheart.  The smoke bomb thing doesn't work.  Refactory isn't inside David's room like he thought she'd be. What David does is calls her with Roy's phone and cody and megan are able to take her out.

Ch 11 pg 104

Megan wants to kill Roy and the other enforcer. Cody is the veteran and says no.  The enforcers are not the enemy.  Epics are the enemy.

They make their way to the hideout.  They tell David about the cool gloves they have that turn stuff into powder.  Makes for mining through steel real good.  Supposedly it can carve through anything but doesn't affect living beings. I need A LOT more explaining of that.

Ch 12 pg 116

The team goes through David's files and they are impressed.  What doc isn't impressed with is David's plan to kill Steelheart.  He tells David yes gotta convince Megan that its gonna work.  That's gonna be a tough road to hoe as Megan still thinks David's story where he saw steelheart bleed is a lie. 

Ch 13 pg 120

David talks about the other high level epics in Steelheart's organization and what he suspects are their weaknesses. His basic plan is to take out other epics and claim to be an enemy epic and eventually lure Steelheart out into a fight and then kill him.  Lots of holes in this plan.  But Doc is in and that's all that matters.