city of stairs ch 11 pg 213 to pg 369

Ch 11 pg 213 survivors

A man is on a journey to find Jukov (who im thinking is one of the divinities.)

Instead he finds what u would describe as a party so cool I'm would never be invited to it.  There's an old man he talks to.  I think said old man is joking because he takes off all his clothes and his face and goes into a tent.

The governor goes for a long run cause I guess she wants to punish herself for not previously dying in battle.  She returns to her office and there's a 20 pag2 list of stuff in the warehouse.  It scares her cause its Devine and if there's still a divine alive all that stuff could become infinitely more dangerous. 

Shara is trying to find out how the men disappeared. She does all sorts of stuff with the intention of discovering divine intervening.  One cool thing happens , a silver coin turns to lead.

Sigrud and smShara go to a place where the rich guy that demanded the release of the maid was seen to have dropped off the maid.  They go inside and its empty.  Except Sigrud hears a child laughing.

They find the room with the sound of child laughing. It's a trap.  The thing isn't a child, its a monster.  Specifically a Mhovost, a thing created by the divinity Jukov.  Pretty sure that dipshit Wiclov sent Mrs. Torskeny in here to be eaten by the monster. Also that an affeminite man was here with Wiclov.  Shara lights the Mhovost on fire.

Ch 12 pg 240 recreations

The monster was blocking a door.  The door goes to a tunnel that slopes down.  It goes to what turns out to be the cathedral of the gods.   What they called the seat of the world.  Thers a magic doorway that goes to a door that's in the warehouse.  This is how the rebuilders get in so they could steal stuff.  There's a booby trap abd all of a sudden everything is on fire.  They get the hell out of there and they cave in the tu nel so no one else can go down there.

Something powerfully magical is released from its prison in the warehouse.

Ch 13 pg 264 you will know pain.

city of stairs pg 87 to 215

Ch 5 pg 87 to do what he does best

There's a party some people, assuming these are members of the shady organization we assume killed the old man, do a terrorist attack. I think they want to capture Shara's college boyfriend Vohannes, who she just calls Vo.  But that doesnt work out for them as Sigrud kills them.

Ch 6 pg 118 a memory engraved 

KOLKAN is a good listener. 

They're at the police station. 

They have one the restitutioners in a cell

Shara drugs him to get info

It works pretty well in that she finds out theyre trying to build an airplane and they need metal to do so and Vohannes has plenty of metal.  So the plan was to kidnap him and get him to give them metal.

This questioning is in darkness

The boy says he needs light

She opens the prison door food slot and when she does theyre transported to another place and someone is telling her to come closer and she walks the way the voice is coming from and the next thing she knows she sorta snaps out of it as the boy is on fire.

Why did the boy light on fire?  Divine possession.  So there must be at least one divine still alive.  So thats really scary.

Ch 7 pg 143 dangerous honesty

After Saypur killed the divinities and before it started colonization there was a twenty year period on the continent where every country suffered from plague, famine, etc.  It was hella bleak before they came back to rebuild.

Shara calls her aunt to talk about her investigation.  Her aunt admits she knew about the where house and that Emit had been sent there to resesrxh the deviniti3s and fogure out how to kill one if a new one sprung up.  

Shara doesnt tell her aunt about the divine possession or admit that she wants what emit put in the bank's self deposit box even though her aunt seems to know what's happening there.

Ch 8 Pg 164

According to the Kaj's lutenent there wasn't much fighting on the continent. The gods were already dying. The kaj was the only one that knew how the weapon he used to finish them off worked.  The most fighting was against the demigods. But they died and their boddies burned just like normal people.

Shara kidnaps the old maid they think might have been involved in the murder.  She tells her that she would copy his papers and show these men copies.  She does t know what they said.  She doesnt know how to read.  Shara is pretty sure from the description that the papers the men were interested in were warehouse inventory papers.

They were followed.  Ernest Wilcov shows up and demands she be released.  It's a whole thing. 

Ch 9  Pg 180 what history tells us.

In 1700 the Dreyling people, Sigrud is Dreyling, were sad about their dead king as he was the glue that held their society together.  Now, they've all resorted to savage piracy.

Shara doesnt know what to do so she cooks and they talk about history. Primarily the killing of the gods and the two gods they dont have a record of the killing.  They specifically talk about kloshan and his antiwomen bullshit. The beliefs that most in this city, which is right smack in the .middle of the co tinent, follow to this day. 

Ch 10 pg 198

Vo is homosexual in a place that's basically fantasy world Moscow. It sucks.  He wants it to suck less.  Giving Shara the info necessary to destroy Ernest Wilcov will help do that.  Even if it ends up hurting Vo when it comes out he helped a foreign power against his rival.

This section really ends on page 213

city of stairs pg 1 to 86

Ch 1 someone even worse pg 1

People are doing war in Avlos's name and Avlos does not approve.

We are in a land that Avlos's followers have taken over.  It is against the law to make any mention of the religion that was previously practiced in this land.  A hat maker has a sign that's similar to the old religion symbol.  He is fine 15,000 drekels (which my tablet autocorrects to sheckles)      for this crime.

A messenger comes to tell them court there's been a murder.  At this point the judge feels like this case is stupid and let's the hat maker go with warning.

Who was sent to investigate the murder?  A tiny lady with a HUGE assistant. 

Ch 2 pg 19 We must civilized them.

The guy in charge is a dick about d the tiny lady here to investigate the murder, named Shara, tells him she's truly in charge here and he can go ahead and fuck off forever. 

Shara investigates the body of the murdered man and finds a secret message in his tie.

  Shara uses magic to video chat with her aunt, named Vinya, who's the minister of foreign affairs.  Shara is hoping one dau Vinya can one day become prime minister and if that happens shara can come home.  There was some sort of scandal 16 years ago and since then shara has continued to be a foreign operative and not been allowed to come home.  Turns out Shara is the one that trained the murdered man and its a big time comflict.of interest for her to investigate his murder.  Vinya says she has a week.

Ch 3 pg 41 unmentionables

"Anything is possible "

Kevin Durant

Shara is talking to the governor, a lady named Mulaghesh..  The governer agrees to help Shara if shara can get her a nice tropical beach appointment. Mulaghesh is sick of all the violence and politics and wants to spend her last 20 year somewhere nice and peaceful.  Shara says she can do that.  Mulaghesh drops a some real dangerous knowledge about the murdered man Yamgyui.  He was here to access something they call the unmentionables warehouse.  It's where they store all sorts of forbidden knowledge and magically items and whatnot.  Stuff the public is sure was destroyed hundreds of years ago.  That's probably what got him killed.  

Also, there's some rich guy Shara is familiar with that might be useful. 

Shara's assistant  Sigrud is a very large man.  He's following a guy.  I personally wouldn't have had someone so remarkable try to follow someone, but he feels like he's doing a good job.  The city is still very war torn.  Specifically there's a bunch 0f staircases that go to nowhere because the building they went to was destroyed.  The man Sigrud is following goes up such a staircase and appears to jump off.  There's no sign of him.  But just for a millisecond out the corner of his eye Sigrud doesnt see a city of bombed out buildings.  He sees a city of emense slender white and gold sky scrapers.  

Maybe we're getting to some magic stuff.

Ch 4 pg 67 dead languages 

When Saypuri developed a weapon that can kill a divinity they kinda figured it would be smooth sailing and advanced to colonizing. But before the ships even landed they killed another divinity. Turns out that divinity was the one that built most.of the country.  So when he died everything he built disappeared with him. 

Shara and Sigrud talking about strategy and what not.  I didnt really get a sense that there's a firm plan, but maybe I just didn't understand. 

Flashback to when Shara was in college.  She and this rich guy were an item.  They're both wicked smart and good at board games and they end up doing lots of sex.  Lots of cultural differences that make that relationship really hard 

the dungeon anarchist's cookbook - Matt Dinniman ch 1 - 17

Forward: the fourth floor is a confusing maze.  So if you don't understand stuff, don't worry about it.  There will be a map at the end that explains it all.

Ch 1

We really get off to a running start here.  Our 3 member band is on a moving subway car.  They are on car 20.  The newest member of or team has advanced mapping skills and can see that things don't get interesting until car 15, which is marked with a big question mark.  They dont do anything at first. But then they pull into a station, which is packed with horrible little monsters.  They decide to go into car 15.  It can't be worse than being devoured by a bazillion horrible monsters.  It's not.  There's two monsters and they kill them easily.  But now they have the problem of a train full of horrifying little monsters. Carl uses his protection spell.  It ends up smooshing everything behind them including trains 16 through 20 and all the mobs within. 

Ch 2 pg 19

They make it to a station and they buy a safe room with all sorts of cool stuff.

Ch 3 pg 42

They go into more detail about the cool stuff in their room.  Brandon,  you remember Brandon, the guy from the old folks home. He's dead and he sent Carl a message telling him to find his brother and tell him he's sorry,  he was right and he loves him.  One of the cool things their room has is a training area where you can actually level up abilities just like you're fighting monsters,  you can do this for only 1 hour a day.  So it's not nearly as good as going out into the world and fighting mobs.  With the news of Brandon's death,  Carl decides he will use his time to punch things as hard as he can.

Ch 4 pg 56

They get back on the train and they fight some monsters.

Ch 5 pg 69 ( well done Matt )

More subway monster hunting.  But also they talk to a train engineer about stuff.  And they accidentally kill him via a fire ant trap.

Ch 6 pg 86

They fight more mobs, it goes pretty good.

Ch 7 pg 

They make it.to the safe room.  Mordekai has upgraded their potion making table to level 3.  He made some cool potions.  They have fan boxes.  Donuts is a saddle she can put on Mongo that ups both of their stats when she's riding.  But they probably won't use that because of Donuts very sad constitution score. 

Carls fan box is much more drama.  It's a bit of a mini game show where Carl gets to pick his prise.  On one hand its pretty great.  On the other hand it.sucks shit because the host is someone mordekai hates and he throws a chair at the guy.  He gets put in timeout for 7 days.

The prise Carl picks is THE anarchists cookbook. 

Together,  they will burn it all to the ground. 

Ch 8 pg 121

The book tells Carl that it must be kept secret.  If he doesn't it will, disappears. 

They go to da club and meet up with some old folks home people.  Chris is still alive and hes a lava monster.

Something happens with donut on the dance floor.  She killed a guy.

Ch 9 pg 134

Turns out it was a lady and a guy that attacked donut.  The lady did some sort of explosion to knock out the guards and the guy stabbed donut with a back stabbing knife that was supposed to instantly kill from behind.  But donut has the cockroach feature that kept her alive and of course killed him in self defense.  Then one of the old folks home ladies kills  the explosion lady with an icicles to the head.

Carl does a gamble and wins an upgrade to his toe ring.

Ch 10 pg 146

They go back to their safe room and work on stuff.  The main plot stuff is land mines to derail a train so they can get at the engineer and get their key so they can go all sorts of places they currently cant.

Ch 11 pg 153

The derailment works.  The engineer gets out.  It's a ManTauR.  Half big man, half small man.  It's like a Shaq giving Peter dinklidge a shoulder ride except that the bottom part doesnt have a head.

At first things are cool with the ManTauR.  He greets them as fellow warriors and goes to da club they dont go to.  But things go real bad in a matter of seconds as he comes out of Da Club intent on killing them as he must have learned they were the cause of the derailment.  This guy is hard-core.  He's like giant wolverine.  He nearly kills Mongo with a glancing blow and cuts what's her faces arm off. To make matters worse, he's a follower of the god that carls gauntlet has a 1.5 percent chance of summoning if used against one of his followers.  Making matters even worse, the 1.5 percent adds up.  It procs when it gets up to 11.5 percent.  There is now a 20 second countdown to god summoning. At great risk to kinda everyone, Carl kicks the mantaur in the chest onto the third rail.  The mantaur is dead and Carl is electrocuted a lot.  But donut is able to pull him up to safety and as of the end of this chapter they are all alive.

Ch 12 pg 167

They make their way to the dismemberment limited to shortcut.  The enemies are flesh monsters that desolve your body and steal your bones.  It ends up not being that big of a deal because they block off the end of the train and there's a little scary thing with a war mage but they end up using donuts hole spell and curt pulls the war mages head through the hole and then donut ends the spell and it cuts the war mages head off.

Ch 13 pg 184

The anarchists cookbook is paying serious dividends. There's a whole thing about backpacks and explosive stability that ends up being useless to Carl cause they changed the rules and it got Forkith's sister killed.  That's the downside to having a book written by people from previous iterations of the thing.  You use some else's idea and they change rules and your sister pays the price.

But to the part that's useful for them, anything you have in a backpack counts as being equipped.  So Carl makes basically a dumpster and puts a bunch of metal into it and Katia "equips" it and she can absorb all the metal into her body.  When she reforms as a human sized entity, she's 10 feet tall and hard as a rock.

Also, they all get sponsors and carls sponsor gives him the ability to see through doors.

Ch 14 pg 201

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The nightmare train truly horrifying. It's a cargo train and each cargo carrier holds horrifying monsters.  The only entrance is in the caboose with the idea you have to fight your way through all the monsters to get to the front with the engineer and the keys you need.

So Carl's plan to start up front and bash through monsters with a protection spell isn't gonna work.  Instead they have the insane idea to try to execute that plan in front of the oncoming train.  Then use donuts teleport to get back to the loading zone. How do I know this is a crazy bad plan?  Carl literally just told me.

It works for donut as she makes it back to the platform. Carl isn't so lucky.  He gets hit by the train but his indestructible feet keep him alive.   

Through a series of fortunate events he is able to take control of the train.  He successfully stole a train.  Pretty neat.

Ch 15 pg 218

Carl take this stolen train to the end of the line to see what's there.  What's there is a bunch of portals dumping the old train cars into a HUGE pit.  The engines start over again but they get all new train cars every run.  

Carl take his stolen train and picks up donut and Katia

Donut gets a pair of enchanted sunglasses from her sponsor.

Also she has a love vampire skill it allows her to use an enemy as a shield kinda in that any damage she takes, it does it to that enemy instead of her, until they die.

Carl gets a fancy toothpaste that makes him do tons more damage against bosses.  So hes gonna save that till a day when they're sure to fight a boss.

Also,  the one guy that got super powers is going around blowing up trains and so there's a bunch of stops that people are just kinda stuck at cause no more trains are coming. 

Ch 16 pg 233

They talk about a new spell donut has now that her intelligence is above 50.  It's called minion army.  It takes 5 minutes to cast and the effect is that there's a 2 percent chance that it will make an enemy join your team.  Seems like a bad spell.  But mordecai said it was good.  So I guess we will find out why when he gets out of timeout.

They fight a bunch of monsters called babababoons. 

They get back on the train and head back to the end of the line.  Carl takes a look at all the different portals a train can go through and decides repair is the only good option.

Also, the train is powered by a demon lady npc and Carl specifically didn't tell donut or Katia about it cause he feels guilty and he feels like they're gonna think hes a jerk.

He gets back to the train and donut and the demon lady are having a conversation about how hard it is to be a mom.

Ch 17 pg 243

They go through the portal and immediately they see zombies heading their way.  A repair npc comes to help.  It seems good and there is hope.  But then a zombie kills him and now they gotta figure out how to get out by themselves.

Donut goes up to the control room and Carl drives the train and they are able to drive away.

On their way out they pick up and npc that's an HR lady.  I'm looking forward to her dying. 

The fun thing that Carl tries to do is make her realize that she's a bit part in a simulation. The idea is once you do this NPCs are super helpful.  He does not accomplish that goal in this chapter.  But he does get useful information about a hopeful escape being a trap and informs others about it.

Carl doomsday ch 13 to the end

 Ch 13

They open up their loot and talk to mordekai about strategy.  Funnest things are some fangs theyre probably gonna give to Mongo and am enchantment that makes carls  boxers way more defensive. The main point being that it keeps him pantsless 

Ch 14 pg 163

They cant sleep in safe rooms on this floor so they go to an inn and get a room.  They have some drinks in the inn's bar.  There's a sad ogre lady and Carl wants to do her quest.  Mordekai says mind your own. Carl and donut go to bed.  Carl sneaks out to do the quest and Mordekai is still in the bar and he tells him she left.  And to MIND YOUR OWN!!!!!

They go grinding the next day and kill a neighborhood boss by tripling Mongo and and sending one of his duplicates in with a stick of dynamite. 

Carl finds the ogre from the previous night and the quest is that prostitution is being.murdered and for him to find the killer.  He tells Mordekai about it and Mordekai says MIND YOUR OWN!!!!!

Also they buy a pokeball to put Mongo in.

Ch 15 pg 178

They go to da club.  At the door they're told its dead.  But its packed with people.  Mordekai explains that all these people are super lame NPCs. Like the guy from jumanji that just says "hello adventures " without being useful.  The only reason theyre here is so they can buy a potion making kit.  

The pet area is closed so Mongo stays in the pokeball.  The reason is the Hispanic girl with the two Rottweilers who's now some sort of demon race was here yesterday and the Rottweilers wrecked shit and she froze time and killed an Elite.  I think the point of this story is to show us that there are crawlers way more powerful than Carl and Donut.

Carl tries to have a heart to heart with mordekai as to why he's angry about being a manager.  Mordekai talks about what makes a manager different from an advisor, but never gets to the point where he says anything that makes Carl feel like its actually bad.  Then mordekai makes a flimsy excuse to get outa da club.

Ch 16 pg 192

They go to the silk road and Carl meets the hobgoblin  lady that sells explosives.  He buys some hobgoblin robbers.  They are too big for his slingshot and he's sad about it.  Donut says the slingshot sucks and nobody likes it.

They head out of the club with the intention to go back to the inn and watch the recap show.  Mongo loses his shit and screams and heads down an alley there are a bunch of terrifying floating head ghosts.  Not sure why, but they just fly away and there's an elf that knows Carl and donuts names and tells them he lured Mongo to him and now they will die.  Carl kicks him in the nuts and donut blows his head off with a magic missle.

 

Ch 17 pg 200

The elf was wearing a military looking shirt so Carl takes it to show mordecai later.

They find Gumgum the Orc from the quest dead. 

There's a note that looks like necromancer script and a note from the mayor of the town saying the hobgoblin was dealing with the dead hookers with his blessing.

They open fan boxes and donut gets a framed picture of Bea. It's the picture of her sitting on her ex boyfriends lap that gave Carl the motivation to break up with her. Carl gets something good. A jai alai basket. Now he has a good way to throw bombs and donut is happy that it looks way cooler than the slingshot.

Mordekai explains that the elf is part of a bunch of conspiracy theory nuts that think all ground bound people are trying to kill people that can fly and its their job to get vengence even though theyre ground bound.  If I  didnt mention it before, this town is run by bird people.

Before bed Carl says theyre gonna get to the bottom of this.  The body of a dead sex worker with "no you won't " carved into it falls from the sky.

Ch 18 pg 218

Carl and donut decide to take this up with the authorities. The authorities don't appear to care. They've got a show appearance in two hours and they kill some time fighting mobs.  Instead they are jumped by two dark elves and a bunch of giant zombies.  

Ch 19 pg 234

They get on the show and it's most of the normal stuff related to the dungeon.  But this show is much more of a broad appeal and there are guests completely unrelated to the dungeon.  Carl talks some shit about the asshile host of the club glub TV show. Things go CRAZY when one of the guests disappears and then they get disconnect and they are in a boat and the water is rocking like crazy.  Turns out the boat next to theirs was destroyed. The brother of the asshole glub glub guy destroyed it thinking it was Carl and donuts.  It was a major celebrity and her corporation destroys the ship that glub glub and his mom were on in retaliation. We're in the midst of some serious intergalactic shit here.

Ch 20 pg 252

They go back to town and start some shit with the city elves.  The plan is to have the city elves attack them and then the city guards will help Carl and donut fight the city elves. Turns out the enemy of these city elves is someone called the fallen oak and one of donuts magical items is an anklet of the fallen oak and that's basically why the city elves are against Carl and donut.  Also, there's a theory that the city's magistrate is a necromancer arakokra and these city elves worship the arakokra and so somehow Carl thinks they're doing what they're doing on his orders.  Anyway, things go bad when some dwarf kids that were playing in the street throw a rock at a city elf who reflects it back.  Then their mom comes out and nearly beats a city of to death with a rolling pin.  The guards come to deal with mom and for reasons I don't understand Carl hits a guard.  Donut calls the play mic drop.  In this play Carl throw a boom jug in the air and donut teleports them away.  This kills all the city elves. 

Ch 21 pg 270

They hang out on the roof until night and then go back to their inn.  One of the other guests on the talk show they were on was a lady warrior who's got a whole group of lady warriors.  One of which is close to Carl and donut so as a favour to her they let this lady join their party.  They wait for donuts teleport to recover and they do a thing on the roof of the magistrate's office.  They figure out that the necromancer note is really a listening device and they use it to feed their enemy conspirator misinformation. There are smoke bombs and duplicates of mongo and a hobgoblin bomb.  I suppose we'll find out what happened in the next chapter. 

Ch 22 pg 288

The way the dynamite exploded is confusing to Carl.  In the real world all explosions just sorta go out consistently in all directions.   But this dynamite explosion went straight down.  All the way to the ground floor.  It kinda cored the building like an apple.  When this is done, Carl's first priority is to figure out how explosives really work here.  The explosion killed the lady that claimed to be the assistant magistrate.   It turns out the real magistrate had been dead for a long time and she was running things.  There's what th wry think are dead people on the ground floor, but they turn into floating head monsters, Carl uses a lottery ticket and this time it comes up fireball and he kills all but one of the floating head monsters that turns back into a prostitute. This is what they are,  people by day floating head monsters by night.  The real bad guy is the assistant magistrate's husband.  Hes some sort of undead thing and he has an army of flosting head monsters and sky fowl at his command.

Ch 23 Pg 304

It's not a litch

Ch 24

But it is the assistant magistrate's dead husband.  Turns out she was part of an evil plan going back generations.  She was working on a spell that would kill all nonskyfowl.  All the mana for said spell is stored in a floating gem in this room.  It's about to explode 

Carl's idea for stopping the explosion is to put the gem in the case of a beanie babies he found next to the dead baddie. His theory is the game brought his attention to this item specifically so he could use it for this.

As theyre prepared to die, donut tells Carl he knows Bea is dead.

Ch 25 pg 328

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The gem in the beanie baby holder kind of worked.  It mucked up the works enough for Carl to put it in his inventory. If he ever pulls it out, it will explode.  This is the titular doomsday scenario. 

It doesnt stop the whole cascading disaster from the spell though.  They run for the stairway to the next floor with a bunch of other crawlers.  Most of them make it.

Epilogue pg 340

They do a talk show with Odette. A few fun things happen here.  First,  one of the crawlers got a celestial box and opened it and it was awesome.  83 there's were awarded one but haven't opened them yet.  This is important for the intergalactic conflict of it all as the game runners have to pay taxes on those boxes.  The Borants who are running this season and who's controlling party has been described ad nazis but worse would be immediately bankrupted if they have to pay those taxes so they have appealed the award of said boxes.  That means Carl and Donut won't likely get any cool shit for the exploding they did.  But, they do get experience and theyre in the top 10.  Another surprising person in the top 10 is one of the residents of meadow lark adult care.

Another thing about floor 4 is anyone in the top 10 now has a bounty on their head.

Odette thinks hekla the frost maiden is going to try to get Carl killed so donut will join her team.

Bonus material

Im gonna write up this part real good cause I dont think its in the audio books.

This one is from the viewpoint of the grandma bad llama.  It's just her and two other llamas left and theyre dumb as bricks.  They keep saying theyre going to attack the goblins,  which by all rights they should be angry at as they killed all but 3 of them.  She repeats that there's only 3 of them and wouldbe easily killed by the 23 goblins and even if they won the other groups if mobs would probably kill them as they didn't want to be next after the goblins are dead.  They've been down here a LONG time and these circular conversations are really pissing grandma llama right the fuck off.  Shes seriously considering using her kick spell to do some damage when its announced that the third floor is concluded.

Grandma and a bunch of others, including the goblin from the previous bonus material,  are taken to a smaller room.  These NPCs have had similar roles in dozens of dungeons. All their memories from previous dungeons come flooding back quite painfully. There's an elf lady in charge.  She explains that all of the pain they're going through is for a good reason.  It's to give them the knowledge and power from previous dungeons to design the 17th floor.  She explains that the 17th floor will have NPCs from previous floors with their powers reverses.  So first level NPCs like grandma and sexy goblin shaman will be the most powerful.   The 17th floor has always been self designing.  So even though no players ever get their, a group of NPCs is pulled to design it every time.

ancillary justice ch 17 to ch 23

Ch 17

I was off on the timing of all this.  Narrator has only been away for 19 years. Its Seivardaan that was frozen for a thousand years.  They head into radchaai space and it seems chill.  But them they're summoned to the inspector and the inspector is lieutenant Awn"s old lover lieutenant skaaiat.  This is probably a coincidence. But the radchaai don't believe in coincidence. This is a sign from God.

Ch 18 pg 276

Seivardaan is in some serious legal trouble.  Not sure if we were aware of that or not.  Inspector skaaiat still thinks of lieutenant Awn. Seivardaan is gonna do their own thing while narrator gets a hotel.  The whole thing is real nerve wrenching to narrator. Worried about what the radchaai will do to Seivardaan,  worried about what Seivardaan might do, left to their own devices.  Worried skaaiat might find out who they really are.

Ch 19 pg 292

Breq is invited to tea by a soldier sent by a captain.  Very rude.  Should have invited them personally. Anyway, it doesnt mattter as said captain us only inviting Breq to get to Seivardaan. 

Breq buys some new clothes, gets a nice hotel and watches some TV.  Breq can feel the station watching them so talks directly to the station and finds out Seivardaan is in jail.  Breq bails out Seivardaan and they have dinner and go back to breq's hotel and Seivardaan passes out. 

All of this is quite improper in radchaai culture. It appears as though breq is courting Seivardaan. But breq is actually hiring Seivardaan to be their assistant. Doubt that changes the opinions of anyone that's looking into them.

Also skaaiat invites them to tea and they accept.

Ch 20 pg 309

Seivardaan is invited to meet with the emperor. 

Ch 21 pg 330

The emperor immediately recognizes breq as a ship ancillary and commands her to shoot the other emperor and then blames breq for the civil war that's imminent. 

Ch 22 pg 347

There's a bunch of dramatic stuff and action and in the end none of the bad emperors get out and they effectively stop her from really starting a Civil War.  So it keeps being a cold war except the emperors here know what's what.

Ch 23 pg 366

The one remaining ancillary that used to be a whole ship becomes the captain 0f a ship.  And seivarden is coming with. 

cds ch 1 - 12

Chapter 1 pg 1

Donut picks her race and class.  Shes a cat child actor. As a child actor mordecai becomes her manager.  This is goodand bad.  Bad is he cant do anything else so thats a lot of resources lost.  The good is he's no longer constrained as to what he can tell them.

This was all odette's idea.  

Ch 2 pg 15

Carl picks primal as his race.  Pro: skills that usually top out at 15 go up to 20 for primals. Con: no up front bonuses of any kind.  Mordekai explains this as starting 5 levels below everyone else.

He chooses the compensated anarchist as his class. It's good for both explosives and unarmed combat and it makes him very appealing to fans.  The big downside is the minimum charisma is 25.  That's gonna take up most of his a available points.

Ch 3 pg 30

This level is called the over city and it goes together with the lower levels in an extinct volcanoes apocalypse theme.  There's lots of different villages and lots of abandoned city.  A lot of the stuff that they do with genetic manipulation and mind control to make the mobs and NPCs do their thing is illegal in the rest of the galaxy, so a lot of rich assholes like to "party" on the lower levels of the dungeon.  Nobody has ever made it past the 13th level, so the 18th abd 15th floors are popular for doing all sorts of immoral shit.

There are giant guards, not to be fucked with.  Mordekai suggests running if they ever run afoul of the law or whatever.  Donut wants to go shopping cause they have lots of money.  Mordekai tells the to go to a bigger village 24 km away.

Ch 4 pg 38

They go into an area that used to be a circus and now is full of lemurs that throw knives at them.  They do some fighting but for the most part just run until they get to the first safe room they can find.

Ch 5 pg 48

The safe room isn't as useful as they had hoped because mordekai got drunk and when he teleported here he passed out.  They get some fun random things in boxes like old books that remind Carl of his dad and a cat tree.  They also get random earth skills scutelliphilly and cestA punta..donut now has a spell that can make duplicate pets for a minute.  Having 3 velociraptors at once is gonna be really useful some day.  

They leave the safe house to do some grinding.  They take out a lemur by surprise also this whole circus thing is a quest they can try to solve if they wanna risk it for the biscuit.   

Also in the heat of the moment Carl makes a comment about not risking your life for your pet.  The author makes it clear that will come back to haunt him.

Ch 6 pg 59

I dont think I've mentioned yet that nothing level, the whole world was randomly mushed together rather than being spread out based on where they entered the dungeon like the first 2 levels.  Carl finds some dead people and thinks they might be Filipino. They were killed by lemurs.

They get some loot off their dead bodies. Carl suddenly sees the appeal of being a crawler killer.  Way better loot than mobs.

Mordekai pings them and tells them to get to a saferoom ASAP.  Night is coming and its crazy dangerous. They get bombed by circus folk and come across a neutral super powerful npc.  She's a sexy tatood elf lady and Carl breaks his own pinky so as to not be charmed by her.  They try to skedaddle so as to avoid being caught in the crossfire as they expect her to fight circus NPCs.   But its too late for escape. They're surrounded by zoo beasts.

ch 7 pg 74

Carl throws up a shield and donut casts fog of war.  Carl and the velociraptor kill one li9n and donut uses his spell to turn the lion into a zombie and then another spell to turn it into three lions and with some punches and magic missles they kill the remaining lions.  All the while the tattooed elf lady does nothing.  Turns out her plan was to see Carl die and then use his blood to summon something to kill the circus folk and reclaim her land.

Carl says they'll meet again tomorrow to talk about how they can help each other.

They make it back to the safe room and mordekai is beside himself with incredulous anger at Carl for getting involved with the tattooed elf lady.  She (and other important npcs like her ) have their own plot lines that they have long term plans for and if a crawler accidentally ends up in the way of said plotlines the powers that be have no problem smooshing them out of the way. All donut gets from this is that its another show and as such more viewers of they stay involved with tattooed elf lady.

Ch .8

Mordecai's advice is to run the hell away from the circus to get away from this quest that is way out of their league.  That d9esnt work out.  They are stunned.  Carl wakes up in a dark room and has received a platinum box for having survived a level 15 spell.  Excited to see what's in the box.  In the dark room the tattooed lady whispers in Carl's ear how disappointed she is.  What ends up happening is that someone needs to bleed to death in 9rder for tatood lady to do her thing.  So she's set up a mano eeee mano fight between Carl and a mutant bear named heather. Either way one of them will die and tattooed lady will do her summons and get her vengeance against the circus.

Ch 9 pg 104

Carl and mutant bear fight.  It's not going great for Carl as the bear has these worms that not only physical hurt you but also psychologically damage you.  In a desperation move Carl uses his lottery scratcher.  It's 50/50 fire ball or healing custard.  It ends up custard.  But in a weird healing hurts the undead kind of deal the custard turns Heather back into a normal bear.  A very tired bear that's ready for all of this to be over.  Carl punches her to death.

Tatood lady (Tsarina Signet the ELITE) uses Heather's blood to turn her tatoos into giant paper cutout monsters. But they get the job done.  All the circus monsters are killed or flee into the circus tent.  Neither Signet nor her paper army can enter the tent.  Carl had a circus ticket and can.  The mission is to bring down. The three poles holding up the tent.  This will allow Signet and her Army to end this thing.

Also, Carl is chatting with their publicist and there's some mysterious request that Carl has that the AI might allow under very specific circumstances. 

Ch 10 pg 119

Carl goes into the circus tent and its all horrifying. All except the smell.  The smell is just like a real circus.  It reminds him of a time his mother took him to a circus. The gist of the story is either his dad got sole custody and he never saw her after that or she died.  

Long story short, the ringmaster is a giant vine.  Think the magic beanstalk Jack climbs up.  Carl tries to poison it.

Ch 11

Carl is getting great ratings with the poisoning.  He makes a deal with the producers.  He'll keep doing this plotline exclusively if he and donut can be regulars on the show. But he doesn't end up poisoning the ringmaster.  Instead he eats a worm ice cream cone and casts a spell that prevents mind control the result is that he has the ringmaster in his head and can communicate with him and he goes outside and he talks to Signet and she and the ringmaster are able to make peace.  Signet says donut will wake up in the morning.  Carl heals himself and runs back to donut cause she has low health.

Ch 12 pg 138

Carl finds donut and mongo (that's the name if their pet velociraptor) nearly dead.  They're surrounded by things that look like giant sea urchins.  Mongo and donut are full of needles from the things.  Turns out they're the cleanup mobs on this level.  They came here to "cleanup" all the protective stuff Carl built up around donut.  Then Mongo fought them to defend donut and that's how we ended up here.  Carl corals mongo and throws more garbage out to the urchins and they do their thing without further incidendt and Carl heals donut and mongo and when donut wakes up in the morning they head to the nearest town.