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
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