Thursday, April 3, 2025

the burning white

Ch 1
The broken eye try to assassinate kip.  This chapter is from the viewpoint of ferkudi

Ch 2 
This is the assassination attempt from kips point if view.

Ch 3 
Teia is on the ship and the person marked for death is Gavin.  It's fun that they white luxin sword/gun looks weird when seen with pyryl vision.

Ch 4
Liv returns to the white king.

Ch 5
kip has a card dream about his grandfather who's really his father.  Then one of the black guards makes fun of him for wearing ridiculous expensive clothes for all his loudly meetings.

Ch 6
Teia talks to gavin leaves the ship instead of staying to kill him.

Ch 7 
The people of the place kip is think he's pretty great.  But he doesn't like all this politics. But he is gonna go ahead and soak up the attention. Maybe declare himself king.

Ch 8
Teia is invisible and waiting to catch karris alone.  But karris is whining about having to freee gavin grayling.  So teia decides to go on her mission to destroy the broken eye without saying anything to karrris.

Ch 9
Kip doesn't wanna kill the bear man even though he deserted and the penalty for that is death.  Kips idea is to give him a knife so he can kill himself.

Ch 10
More stiff with kip and the army and their hopeless situation. 

Ch 11

LiV!!!!!
There is a river that connects this place to the outside world.  Liv knows that if the river opens up, outsiders will come in and wreck shop.  Liv's proposal to Karris's brother is that she live in that river and he leave her alone.   As a benefit she'll keep the river closed so outsiders don't come and kill him.

Ch 12
More political stuff with kip.

Ch 13
I'm on a boat mother fucker don't you ever forget.
Gunner talks about his childhood. It's unpleasant. 
Hus final pearl of wisdom, sometimes fighting makes you die faster.

Ch 14
Pippa does political stuff

Ch 15
Liv shows us how utterly fucked the cromeria is.  Their only hope is that pip somehow ends up there before the attack comes.  But liv is gonna help Karris's brother make sure that doesn't happen.

Ch 16
Gavin and gunner talks about their feelings.

Ch 17
Some bandit comes offering to join Kip's cause.  Kip says his men are welcome to join up.  But he's the head of the snake and must die.

Ch 18
Karris's dad's new wife is killed by an assasin.  She knew it was coming and even who was doing it.  But that doesn't make her any less dead.

Ch 19
Adross and Karris talk about the war and stuff.

Ch 20
Political stuff with kip

Ch 21
Teia leaves a note for karris, gets some stuff from her black guard bunk, has a lot of bad feelings and goes to live her life as a murder ghost.  Who knows how long that will last as she is being followed.

Ch 22

gunner and gavin
The old slave from their previous boat that named himself after God and claims to be a profit has stowed away on the boat.
I didn't figure out what he was really prophecizing but gunner decides not to.kill him.  Then there's a whale and a bunch of sea monsters attack the whale.

Ch 23 pg 160
Kip, he gets the bane for another color people didn't know existed.

Ch 24

Baller ocean battle with sea monsters and a whale. Gavin gets chucked out, presumably to swim to the island so he can kill God.

Ch 25 pg 175
Teia is not just paranoid she us being followed.
Its murder sharp.  If he's not sentimental she should be dead soon 

.ch 26
Gavin and orlaham make it to shore.

Ch 27
Kip is trying to find some military genius information from the cards he absorbed.  Big Leo tells him to be himself instead. Most military geniuses are assholes.  They follow kil cause he's not an asshole.

Ch 28
Kip has a dream about his grandfather trying to impress the father of the woman he is courting 

Ch 29 pg 196
Karris is not memorable.  There may be "important " plot I'm missing here.

Ch 30
Murder sharp is having a crisis of sorts so instead of killing teia he's kinda torturing her.

Ch 31
Kip figures out his brother's brother in law has all the banes.  The smart guy has an idea.

Ch 32
Karris is gonna make Quentin find teia and be her friend.

Ch 33
Kips father flashback.  His future father in law is telling him about highland atash legends and how the light bringer is a dragon and in their legends is the fire bringer and he doesn't stop the bad things from happening but he gets vengeful on those who did it after.  Kips dad makes the fun observation that the dragon statue looks like a turtle bear.

So maybe karris's brother does kill the chromeria and kip kills him after that.

Ch 34 pg 231

Ben Hadid figures out that kip could run the mirrors at the chromeria to defeat the banes.

. CH 35 pg 236
Murder Sharpe also came into the order as a spy.  A spy for the prism no less.  But the prism died and he just kept being a murderer for the order.  He's gonna give her the choice he never got.  She can rally join the order or she can run, never to be seen again.

Ch 36
Gavin and the profit that named himself after God make their way to the great tower in the middle if the island,

Ch 37

Tiea got.some documents written by former whites from murder sharp and she snuck into the white tower to give them to karris.  Who clutches her pearls while she reads them.

Ch 38

Kips dad thinks he's the lightbringer.

Ch 39

Tsisi tells kip she thinks he's the lightbringer.  She also says they should just stay here.  Fuck the chromeria.   Even if kip saves them they're gonna stab him in the back.

Ch 40
Karris gets a pep talk from a black guard.

Ch 41
Cruder talks to kip about his overwhelming guilt that what's yer face died and its Ll his fault.

Ch 42
Kip takes a stroll around the camp making small talk.  But he's really saying goodbye cause he's gonna go save the chromeria. 

Ch 43
Karris gives a speech at the luxaria and tells a bunch of the secrets from the white book.

Ch 44
Teia is fixing to kill, a black guard named halfcock

Ch 45
Kip makes bear man the satarap of their place and tells everyone he's taking a small group to save the chromeria. 

Ch 46
Teia disables halfcock so she can interrogate him about the order.

Ch 47
Karris takes over the training of drafters and kips dad tells her some bullshit about gavins sex slave.

Ch 48
Teia gets the location of an order safe house out of halfcock and kills him.

Ch 49
Gavin and orhalaom make it to the central spire and start the long climb up.

Ch 50 
Liv sends a messenger to kip to tell him if he attacks at apple grove on a certain day he could win by using the giant mirror there.

Ch 51
Quentin is gonna a work for teia and they won't be alone anymore.

Ch 52
Karris is getting ng pretty good at military 0lanning.  To the point that when Liv's dad tells her yes coming with ships and troops and requests for funds to recruit more to fight karris's brother it all makes perfect sense to her.

Ch 53
Remember when kip stole a cloak from death and gave it to teia? Me either, but appearantly death (here referred to as Abaddon) knows teia has his cloak and says he's gonna find her and do unspeakable things for all eternity.   Then two other immortals also talk about how hopeless her situation is.  But maybe they can kill her before abaddon gets his hands on her.

Ch 54

Flashback to Kip's grandpa who is really his dad working with gavins mom trying to figure out the lightbringer prophecy. He seems to be convinced it's one of their sons.  Im pretty sure it's kip.  I hope the kills father and father and father and son means kips kills andross and Zymon.

Ch 55
Kip and company find a village that zymon has slaughtered. They know this cause they didn't kill the children and one guy stumbled across the village and tried to do what he could.

Ch 56 
Teia is keeping an eye on the safehouse where she killed that guy and eventually a slave shows up to do some cleaning.  She fillows him home digs through some things and finds a shirt with an insignia that leads her to believe it was her old owner that owns this guy.  She's going to enjoy murdering that lady.

Ch 57
Kip and company make it to Karris's brother camp and theyre already gone.  Then they have a fun talk about how even if they get back to the Chromeria and they beat karris's brother kips grandpa who's really his dad or his half brother zynon who's really his nephew will kill him.

Ch 58 pg 369
Teia has been spying on her old owner.  Shes in the order all right.  But her motivation is to get vengence on the guiles. Fat chance.  Even so teia follows an associate of her.old.owner and kills him. She is sad and lonely.

Ch 59
Kip figures out the mirror Liv told him about was under ground.  Would have been useful if Karris's brother's army was still here.

Ch 60
Kid's dad is the worst.  He didn't actually take anything karris told him about zymon to heart.  He told zymon that karris hated him and he didn't understand.   So zymon attacks karris and a black guard shows up to save the day.

61
Quentin tells teia all the stuff that karris and her spies were able to figure out. They know who this mysterious wine merchant that's in the order is.  Also every tower in the chromeria is taller than the original plans so there must be all sorts of hidden rooms.  Somehow teia figures the old man that controls the order, just have a secret room in Andross guile's tower.

62
Gavin!!!!

Each lap around the giant tower is another of the seven deadly signs gavin has to face.  With each one he can feel that a person that could draft a specific color wouldn't be able to get through.  Orlam tells him he's not taking part because he's here to support gavin.  Then when he's done orlam is gonna do the thing by himself.
Also we think gunner might be dead because orlam told him he prophesied that gunner would live.  So gunner swam through shark infested waters expecting to make it.

63
There's ships that are gonna fight and kip knows the guy in charge of the chromeria fleet and he sucks.  He's gonna get his ass handed to him.  So theyre gonna go in after the fight to pick up seviseniors.

64
Teia is an unfeeling killing machine.  She kills her old owner and feels nothing. 

65
Kip and company are attacking. The goal is to take out the drafters that can raise the bane before it's too late.

66
Andros is visited by kips actual grandfather. It's very foreboding.

67
Kip and company are attacked by sharks.
The black whale tries to help, but they're too late.  The bane is rising and they run away.

68
Teia tells quintin she thinks God is telling her she's gonna die soon.
At long last Teia gets the hug she needs so badly.

69
Kip returns to the chromeria and tells them koios is coming with sic banes and he can save them.

70
Gavin makes it to the top.  There's a casm he has to jump.  All the stones that were supposed to be offerings to Orlam such that Orlam will grant him wishes are too heavy. They've gotta go.  No wishes for Gavin.  He makes the jump and now I guess he's off to kill Orlam.

71
Andross flashback.
I never seem to care what happens in these.
.
72
Teia has been following the wine guy.  The meeting is happening today.  Things get real complicated when she spots murder sharp.  She has a real hard time not following murder Sharapova and trying to kill him.  She sticks with the wine merchant hoping following him will give her the location of the big meeting. 

73
Kip is trying to save the day and andros is a dipshit.

74
Teia follows the wine merchant to a brothel and it turns out the big meeting is now.  Also, the big meeting happens in a language she doesn't know and she tries to follow who she thinks is the leader of the broken eye but it doesn't work out.

75
Karris tells a bunch of people theyre gonna na die in the war.
.76
Kip gets a letter from Andross saying he wants to play cards tonight and tomorrow wants to have breakfast with him and his wife.
77
Ben hedad comes to teia to save the day.  He has been working with Quentin on the plans to try to.figure out where the broken eye's secret rooms are.  Somehow theyre gonna go poke around.
78

Kip plays cards with his dad and it sucks.  Andross sucks.  He might think he's saving the world or whatever but he's always a dick about it and I hope he dies soon.

79
Gavin gets to the top and God isn't there.  But he now has a solid plan of action. He's going to carve the word lies into the black rock at the top with the sword and then he's going to jump off to his death at the bottom.

80
Kip probably loses this game too.  Then he'll probably win the last one.  It's all pretty formulaic. 

81
Another kip chapter?  We just had one of these.  Probably cause they want every card game to be its own chapter.  But that doesn't happen either.  Really nothing happens in this chapter.

82

Another andross flashback.  All stuff we already know about him being a weight and his wife leaving him. 

83
Kip
Finally getting to some good stuff with him and andross and the card game.  Andross's offer if kip wins is to make him prism.  Kip's counter is that if he wins Andross publicly declares kip is the lightbringer. Andross is losing his mind a little bit cause he thinks he's the lightbringer. 
Kip wins, its so fucking good.

84
Ben hedad and teia are snooping around the chromeria trying to find the hidden office of the old man that controls the broken eye.  They think they've found it hidden behind the elevator shaft between floors.  But its boobytrap'd.  They are gonna ask the smartest person they know to help them figure it out. 
But my favorite part of this chapter is when theyre talking about the battle that's going to happen tomorrow and very matter of factly Quentin says that God is going to show up and save us.

85
Kip and Liv's dad tallk battle plans.

86
Ironfist shows up.
They're all worried he's gonna propose marriage and how's that gonna work out.  But no, he proposes death.  A guile has to die.  And it cant be zymon.  Ironfist knows all about zymon.

87
Kip is working on the chromeria's mirror system and there's some burocrazy so hes threatening people and that will probably get the job done.

88
Teia goes to kip.  But kip isn't there.  He tells tsis and cruxer that ironfist is in the order and she knows cause she's the one that killed his sister. Cruxer leaves, presumably to do something rash.

89

Karris and andross argue about who should die to satisfy ironfist.

90
Ironfist is really here to save gavin.  He sneaks out to do so, but cruxer is laying in wait for him.  They fight.  Cruxer dies.  Ironfist is bleeding heavily from his wounds.  Maybe he will also die.

91 Karris
She and kip talk about their feelings and that karris is gonna be the one that dies.  It is wild that anyone would think this chapter has any meaning to anyone after the previous chapter.

92 ironfist
This chapter is nuts.  Ironfist somehow makes it from where he fought cruxer to Gavin's prison.  In said prison he figures out the imaginary friends in each cell is the remains of a god of that color that Gavin captured and imprisoned here.  A prison he made for the brother that was already dead.  
This chapter sharpens the point that Gavin is out of his mine to as sharp as it can possibly be.  Nothing Gavin says can be taken at face value. So in his chapter when he got to the top and God wasn't there, if you believed it then its understandable,  but if you believe it now, you really shouldn't. 
Then somehow ironfist's dead brother carry's him out and somebody finds him and takes him to a healer.

93
They're doing the ceremonial killing of Karris even though Ironfist isn't there to see it. Zymon is excited to be the one to kill Karris.  They're about to do it and Andross says to stop.  Zymon's gonna do it anyway so Kip grabs his knife hand and elbows him in the face.  Zymon is escorted out.   Then a black guard comes running to tell them to stop.

94
Teia is the one that found ironfist and brought him to the chamber where they're doing the thing.  Ironfist is all confused as to how cruxer knew he would be there.  He thinks maybe someone in the order told him.  Also he te)ls teia that grinwoody is the head of the broken Eye. She tries to run after grinwoody but he gets away.

.95 again teia
Another two viewpoints chapters in a row.  I wonder if because this is the last book he just wanted more chapters or something.  
She goes to grinwoody's secret spot and waits for him.  But she's exhausted and falls asleep.  When she wakes up she finds the room is open and Ben hedad and the lady helping him with the code breaking are in the room unconscious.   So is murder Sharpe.   He tells her how nice he is being in that he didn't kill her friends.

96 karris

They are talking about war.  It's pretty cool how good danavis is at this.

97 
Teia is still alive.  What the seer said to murder Sharpe before he killed her really has him shook.  He speaks to teia of how he had fantasized that they might end up having a romantic relationship and living happily ever after. Shes alive for one reason.  He wants one of her teeth.  He tells her how he's gonna sedate her in such a way that when the sun comes up and her eyes dilate when she sees the sun, she will die.  She says she will willingly let him take her tooth if he promises to protect her father.  He agrees.  Also, the order has decided to side with koios.  They're gonna sabotage the defenses right before the planned time of the attack.



98  kip

Cruxer's body is found and its sad.

99 teia
TWIST, Teia has filled that tooth with poison and it kills murder Sharpe. 
Shes got lots of work to do.

100 Kip
Andross summons all the mighty to give them prebattle gifts.  Armor and weapons.  He gives Kip his seven kings card.  KIP says he's not gonna use it.

101 teia
She wakes up and realizes she's spent most of the day unconscious. She finds the wine guy and poisons the wine the order is planningtodrink.  But she also impersonated the poison taster.  So she's in quite the pickle. 

102 teia, again
She just drinks the wine.  Shes gonna die.  But maybe she'll take out the order with her.

103 kip
Teia shows up and tells him she's dying.

104 Quentin 
He's gonna give some sort of Sunday speech.  He's nervous. He feels a little silly being nervous when war is hours away.  But that's how he feels.

105 GAVIN!!!!!!!
Sunday morning and the sun looks weird and doubles.  Gavin thinks it's a mirror trick.  But he moves toward it.  Without the knife.  He's walking towards God knows what.  Then the sun turns into a pair of eyes and a man and gavin really regrets not bringing the knife.  They fight.  Gavin figures out it's not God.  It's the first prism lucidonious.  Gavin says he's here to replace him.  
Really hoping he does and then gunner shows up and kills him.

106 kip?
Its kips viewpoint but this chapter is really about teia and Quentin. It's a little about kip and how andross hasn't declared him lightbringer yet cause the prophesy says others try and fail and then the light bringer succeeds.  I assume this means zymon and andross will try and fail and then kip will make the mirrors work to save the day.

Teia is presumably already dead from the poison.  We expect the broken eye to make their move any minute.  Quentin is giving his speech about how orhalam will save them and sinners will pay.  An army man decides now is the time to act and he shouts something and then attacks Kip.  But he is bleeding out of his eyes from the poison teia put in the ceremonial wine all the broken eyes drank.  So his attack isn't all that powerful and also big Leo whacks him in the head with the chain weapon andross gave him.

107 gavin pg 657
Lucidonious is annoyingly strong.
They keep fighting and as the sun gets stronger so did Lucidonious. Gavin has a great idea, maybe he will lose power when the sun goes down. But its 10 am.  And it's the longest day of the year.

Also, I don't understand why lucidonious doesn't draft and kill gavin right quick.  Like how superman never seems to use his lazer vision.  He could take out most anyone with it.  But he very rarely does.

108
The attack is happening.  Danovis tells kip to get to tower 12 for two reasons.  1 they wanna separate their leaders so if one goes down another can take over rather than being killed in the same attack.  2 to keep an eye out for the bane.  Kip needs to see it and signal danovis the second he sees it to alert the army to switch from luxin fighting to gun fighting.

109 liv

I think she's taking the ultraviolet bane and making it fly above the cromeria. 

110 kip
He sees the orange bane coming.  But it doesn't attack directly,  it attacks by sending fear.  It's pretty awesome.

111 karris
She goes to the chromeria's central chamber thinking theyre all gonna go through the plan together.  But no, only the blue is there.  He tells her they made zymon prism.  Also that's only in position. They dont have the blinding knife so they cant do the ceremony.  
That's the plan though.  All these people hate the guiles.  They expect zymon to burn out using the mirror and somehow that will lead to the downfall of the guiles.

112 kip

They somehow get their heads about them and start fighting in earnest.  It's an absolute massacre. Nothing koios sends at them is effective. Everything ends up on fire from either cannons or barrels full of red luxin they fling at the enemy to light them on fire.  

Also there's a summons from Andross.  Everyone thinks its a trap.  But they go anyway.

113 gavin
More wrestling with God.  Gavin's figured it out though.  God is trying to drag him into the mirror to the holy world.  But then God turns into his younger brother that died.

114 karris
Zymon is killing their people with the great mirror.  Shes decided she needs to kill him personally. But when she goes to leave her room to do so trainer Fisk is there with 20 black guards to arrest her for treason.

115 gavin
Gavin's brother explains that he wasn't murderered by a blue whight like the story that was told.  He was sacrificed to make the real Gavin The prism.  You see, they dont find the prism anymore.  Not for a long time.  What they do is find one of their own that they want to make prism and then they have the prism stab 7 children to steal their power.  But Gavin's little brother was an omnicrome so they only needed to sacrifice one child.

But then things get interesting in the intervening years when dazen doesn't need to steal power from children to be the Prism.  He's a natural prism. His mom and dad kill a bunch of people to keep his secret.

116 kip

Kip goes down to the back dock like he was told to.  Andross says its because the lightbringer has to be on the back dock when the banes make landfall according to prophecy.  A messenger comes to tell them Zymon's gone crazy.  Andross is all, duh, kill him then. They're like ohhh, ugh, ok, I guess.  Seeing this kip is like, fuck sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time, I gotta go stop zymon. 

Then it switches to andross's inner monologue.  If kip does stop zymon and he can save them with the mirror, he's the lightbringer. If not, maybe he fails just like zymon and andross saves the day cause he's the lightbringer. 

117 gavin

He decides to kill himself with the blinding knife.  His little brother is like, if you're gonna kill yourself, at least see what's on the other side of the mirror first.  He does, its a beautiful paradise.  I'm leaning toward thinking this is heaven.

He comes back and his brother is gone but orhalam the slave is there.  He tells him the prison he made was for the evil immortals that he went out alone to capture. And it worked. He caught them all.  But he knew he could also set them free.  So he wiped his own memory and replaced it with the lie that Gavin was down in that prison.


118
In case you forgot,  the whole of the cromeria is built on slavery and brutality they show you a scene from the mirror execution a year ago where the luxiat was executed and turned out to be an evil imortal. A slave is whipped bloody by another slave right before its to happen.

119 Karris 
They actually put her in chains.
But its a ruse.  Commander Fisk gets her out and unchained.  But when the lift gets to the ground floor there's a bunch of dipshits.  Aram is still a dipshit in case you forgot he existed.  He tries to arrest karris, but there's a crowd and they have guns.  So the dipshits dont get to do their dipshittery.

This book sucks.  In fact, the last three books suck.  The first two books were awesome and there was all this kickass magic fighting and it kicked ass.  But now we're at the end and nobody is gonna fight with magic anymore.  They're just gonna shoot guns.  And not even that much.

120 gavin
That scene with the slave being whipped was a vision orhalan made him see.  They talk about how havin has lived his life.  The basic punchline is that if he were more vulnerable things would have come crashing down around him.  But many helping hands would have been happy to help him rebuild.  He goes to the edge and he sees the slave orhalam still on the other side.  Who are you talking to over there says the old ship slave.  Gavin turns to the thing that has taken the form of the slave and says you're not orhalam.  But then he says, but I am.

121 kip
Here we are at the end and we're gonna have kip maybe get the jump on some light guards and there isn't even the suggestion that he might kill them with his magic powers.

No fight at all.  They just go up and zymon i guess will be disposed of off screen while kip tries to save everyone with the magic mirrors.

122 dazen
He falls to his knees with the acceptance that this is in fact God in front of him.

He's completely failed in his mission.  He's not even thinking about how to kill God.  He's Just like, you're god and I trust you.  God removes the black luxin that was his right eye.  He asks what he wants and he's all free the sea demons that are former prisms.  When God is all "you sure you dont want me to save your friends and families?" dazen is all "if you're God, you'll save them anyway."

123 kip
He's kind of getting the hang of using the apparatus.  He kills a couple colors.  Things are going well.

124 Ben hadad 
Zymon and his psychos are attacking.  They're doing a good job defending.   But then something super weird happens.  They kind of describe it how gavin described his minute in heaven.

125 kip
The colors he thinks he killed come back.  Another wight was able to step in and take their place. This just will not do.  Kip figures out the only way to stop them is to destroy the seed Crystal's.  But as he figures that out, Liv on the ultraviolet bane attacks from above.  He almost loses control of the aparatus to her super powerful ultraviolet powers.  But then he has some sort of vision where he realizes that not only are the bands and the wights the problem.  But also each immortal evil God has clung to their color and they are teaching them how to use their power to the max.  I wonder if these are the ones gavin had imprisoned and andross by putting gavin down there and making him have to escape unwittingly freed them.
Punchline: Kip destroys the ultraviolet seed crystal and maybe Liv with it.

126 karris
They're gonna directly attack the blue bane and destroy its seed crystal.
Problem, grinwoody is there.

127 kip
Kip is getting good at.comtrolking the apparatus. The fight is going well.  But zymon and his men break through kips black guard and its really horrible.

128 karrris

They storm the blue bane and destroy the seed crystal.  Big Leo and his group of black guards show up just in time to start running away before the bane dissolves and they have to swim for it.

129 kip
He simply cannot believe this is happening.  This is not really happening here. You bet your life it is.  Kip dies pointlessly.

130 furdecookie

Furdecookie does a lot of fighting.  I found this chapter to be enjoyable if not very memorable. 


131

I think i hate this chapter the most.
It starts with karris fighting.
Then it goes to gavin talking to god.
Then Gavin uses black luxin to fly to the cromeria where he kills all the bane in a secind and he dies.

132
Liv's dad realizes that the reason liv wants to control the mirrors is that karris's brother has some sort of light generator and liv will be able to keep their side lit up all night.

133
Andross and teia are still alive.  They make their way up to the mirror tower.  Liv has been weakened by Dazen's black luz8n attack.  Teia is able to chuck her out a window.

134
Corvin danavis is determined to hold the fountain square.  He's gonna light h8mself on fire with red luxin and kick some ass and probably die trying.  Everyone other than andros is probably gonna die trying.

135
Dazen is still alive.  Orhalam isn't done with him yet.  He wants him to control the mirrors and finish was kip started.

136
Quentin kills zymon

137
Dazen figures out kip was sending white luxin to the other mirrors around the country to unite them all a day give the array user full power over all colors.  Unfortunately the person in the aparatus is Andross.  But to save the world you've gotta work with people that suck shit.

138
Coffee is great.
Karris finds kip.  She spots the coffee seller that nursed her back to health when andross had her beaten.  He gives kip some coffee and he comes back to life.

Coffee is GOD!!!!

139
So I guess dazen didn't use black luxin to transport himself to the cromeria. Somehow he's gonna jump and magically make it to the cromeria so he can save karris.

140
Karris's first words to the back alive kip is can you fight.  He says yes, but the answer is really no.

141
Karris and group go out to kill her brother.

142
Dazen ends up on a flying machine he calls the condor.  They fly to the jaspers and they see the sea demons. Dazen jumps out cause the sea demons are gonna give him a ride the rest of the way.

143 pg 844
Karris gets to her brother and she's all like, you're losing, give up.  He's all like, I've got a dozen backup seed crystals and the pirate kings will be here tomorrow. It was important he attack on Sunday.  But hes got the rest of his life to finish it.

I guess this is another half karris half dazen chapter.  I hate it.  I also hate how small most of these are.  The previous one was Pages.   You're telling me that chapter and the dazen stuff on this chapter couldn't have just been a single chapter?

Anyway, I was wrong about the sea demons thing.  Instead dazen almost lands on the top of the tower karris and her brother are on.  BTW, koios created a giant blue luxin tower so he and his sister could talk about things alone.  Dazen realizes he's not gonna stick the landing and decides to throw the blinding knife are koios.  
Instead it lands in karris's hands and she stabs koios with it.
She sucks out all his luxin and he falls off the top of the tower.  Another way to deprive me of magical fighting.  Thanks for nothing brent.
Dazen is there barely holding onto the edge, he falls, Gill grayling catches him.  I bet Brent is very proud of himself for the line "i lost one gavin, nagga lose another."
Again, only 4 pages.  Really phoning it in to get the fuck out of the series huh brent?

144 
Kip fights the devil.  Teia shows up and saves kip.

145
The pirates are inconsequential. 

146
Liv is still alive.  As she's scammpering away she comes across her dieing father and heals him.
.147
Andross gives grinwoody his freedom.

148
Andross is to be pronounced as the lightbringer. But he doesn't feel good about it.  Also, im real confused as to who kips real dad is.  But dazen wants to try to be his dad now.  That's convenient cause he's married to Karris who at some point declared publicly that kip was her son.

149 gavin

Andross claims he's a better man and he's gonna make the world a better place.  
I gotta give this chapter some props.  One of my main criticisms of this book is that nobody seems to be enjoying themselves.  Even the dipshits at the top like Andros.  But here, he seems to be having a good time.

150 kip
the mighty sit around and tell war stories with ironfist and teia in the hospital. 

151 karris
She and dazen are being romantic in preparation for their wedding.  Or something like that.  I didn't really pay that much attention. It's the last chapter, it doesn't matter.  Maybe Adera will read it and explain it to me. 

Epilogue 1 kip
I'm not sure Brent knows what an Epilogue is.  This is prep for Kip's wedding, which i understand is basically gonna happen right after Dazen's wedding.  There's no good reason for this to not be chapter 152.

Epilogue 2
Teia has a happy ending.

Epilogue 3
Ironfist has a happy ending. In that he and Dazen go out and fuck shit up together and they love it.

Postlude Teia pg 920
Grinwoody didn't leave.  He thinks he's gonna rebuild the order with Aram And Teia.  He's not, cause Teia's gonna kill him.

Characters pg 923

Glossary pg 933

Appendix pg 951

That's it.  Nothing more to see here.  You shouldn't be here.  Book report is over.  Scram.

Monday, March 10, 2025

a psalm for the wild built

All robots and mechanical devices have gained sentience and have decided to go into the wild. 



Ch 1 pg 5
Dex is a person.  They decide they hate their life in the city becuase there's no cricits.  They decide to become a tea munk.  That doesn't go well.  They drive for a while and end up at what I'm gonna call a small village farmers market and decide to grow herbs in their trailer.

Ch 2 pg 25
We are in the future now and Dex is very successful tea monking around all the villages. Some calls Dex the best tea monk on the moon.   They live on a moon.  Half the moon has been given back to nature and people don't go there. But dex doesn't find the crickets. Frogs, but not crickets. Dex reads a thing about how near the top of a mountain that's in the nature reclamation area ( not special,  it's half the moon) there used to be crickets. So Dex fucks off towards that mountain. 
Dex is quite enjoying the solitude. So much so they play loud m7s8c and sing and its wonderful until an Allalae (which im pronouncing as Allah Lei) Damned robot comes around and ruins everything. 

Ch 3 pg  51

The "parting promise" was a deal the robots and humans made.  The robots would leave and the humans would leave them alone and one day the robots would come back.  This robot has decided to do just that and a traveling tea monk would make for an excellent guide in the human areas of the moon.

Dex doesn't want to do this.  Dex wants to be alone.  Dex just wants to go to the top of the mountain in peace and hopefully hear the crickets.  The robot suggests a compromise,  it will go with dex to the top of the mountain and it will keep dex safe and dex will tell it about the current state of humanity. Dex has to think about it.  The robot will sit and wait until Dex comes to a decision.
Dex starts to talk and the robot shushed Dex.  Why?  Cause there's a bear and the robot is excited to see a bear.  The bear eats what's left of Dex's food and Dex jumps inside the trailer and the bear decides to leave. 

Ch 4 pg 68 (so close)

The monk decides to travel with the robot.  They talk about things like how the robots don't have a network where they instantly communicate nor do they have a hive mind.  There are dropped boxes where they put notes for other robots to pickup.  Those use the human communication network.  Nobody knows about it cause robots are good at covering their tracks.  Also how some robots decide to do things like stare at an anthill for a decade or so.  Our robot is easily distracted and likes to do a lot of different things. That's why they're the first one thats interested in seeing what's going on with the humans.

Ch 5
The monk and the robot really get out into the wild.  They gotta cut their own path and avoid the apple spider holes and whatnot.  The monk has an odd reaction to refilling their water supply from a stream.  It's the first time they've ever pulled water from the wild.  Everything before this was from a tap of one kind or another and all the dirty stuff in the street yucks them out.  The robot takes them to an old factory that robots used to work in and explains that this factory feels the same as the stream does to the monk. A familiar but somehow unsafe thing.  The robot also explains that wild built robots are made of bits of other robots.  At a certain point a robot decides it's time is done and other robots disassemble them and create new robots.  Our robot is a 5th generation. 

Ch 6 pg 100
Monk makes food and feels bad that it can't share said food with robot.

Ch 7

Monday, February 10, 2025

we are legion (we are bob)

 


ch 1 pg 7

Bob is a rich software guy.  He just signed up to have his head frozen if he dies and he's going to a scifi con in Vegas.  Being rich he's got the VIP package.  But Jenny won't be there.  Jenny also won't be there in the future if his head gets unfrozen.  Part of the appeal as far as Alan is concerned.  Bob is run over by a car and dies.

Ch 2 pg 16

Bob wakes up and at first he thinks he's gone blind cause he can't open his eyes.  But then he thinks really hard about seeing and he can see.  It's 2133 and he's in Portland.  But it's a postapocalyptic Portland so not great.  Also Bob is an AI and due to fundamentalists taking over the government, he's now owned by a company.

Ch 3 pg 25

Bob has peripherals and he knows how to use them.  He's can even control little robots they call roamers.

Ch 4 pg 30

Bob is up for a job against 4 other forwlmerly human brain AIs.  One was lost yesterday.   Bob asks if he could see if he has any living relatives and is told that not only can't he do that, but all information is strictly controlled by the religious government in the future.

Ch 5 pg 32

A government stooge comes to grill Bob to see if he's godly enough.  Then bobdoes a vr thing where he's in control of anything space station.

Ch 6.pg 37

Bob is getting pretty good at controlling robots and what not.  The really religious want to shut down the project.  Which is to send Bob out into space and find a planet to colonize.  Also the one guy that talks to Bob warns of sabotage. 

Ch 7 pg 40

There's a bunch of other countries also working on something like this.  Brazil is the most fun cause they're gonna put missels or whatever on theirs to blow up Europe or religious ship.  On the cover there's a ship shooting at another ship.  I hope it's Brazil destroying jesusland's ship.

Ch 8 pg 45

There is an attack.  Bob is able to help fend it off with his rovers.  His guy is real scared by this cause there's a nuke on the property that the powers that be will set off if they are too frightened of Bob.

Ch 9 pg 51

The guy is named dr landers.  A ministry person comes to tell him he's going to hell for his part in this.  Dr landers is a bit annoyed but in a way that informs us that this sort of thing happens to him all the time and it's just a part of the process.   Also Bob can use his rovers to hear through walls.

Ch 10 pg 54

It's been 4 days since Bob was last online. The server room was destroyed and they only had one replacement server to put an AI in from backup.  So Bob is the winner.  Also we might have to really pick up the pace.  So Bob will get to be on most of the day.  Hopefully he won't lose his mind.

Ch 11 pg 58

There a lady here instead of dr landers.  She watches as Bob has the drones build stuff on an assembly line. When he asks about life in a theocracy she has to take a minute to make sure there isn't some government stooge about to barge in.  Bob really enjoys that his people are watching the watchers.  He asks how they know he'll follow orders after launch.  She explains that is part of his program and that brings up a lot of existential questions. How is he to know why he is doing what he's doing if doing what he's told is part of his programing.

Ch 12 pg 61

Bob is sent up to the space ship and they're getting ready for launch.  Dr landers tells Bob he's disabled all the safeties so Bob should be as much Bob as is possible.  Bob decides to launch early as missiles are being shot at him.  The space station gets blown up and Bob sacrifices a couple mining drones  as missile countermeasures. But he gets away.

Ch 13 pg 68

The Brazilians have launched a probe that most likely has missles to kill bob.  On the bright side it will take a long time to catch bob.  Full on nuclear war is happening back on earth.  Bob figures this is as good a time as any to do some grieving. He cries a bunch and his VR cat tries to comfort him.

Part 2

Ch 14 pg 83

Bob makes it to his destination and starts setting up defenses 

Ch 15 pg 87

Bob makes the best use of his time by setting up booby traps.  There's a hella exciting fight scene and Bob wins.  But hes got what's left of the world possibly coming after him so it's time for him to procreate. 

Ch 16 pg 90

Bob explores the solar system and is disappointed.

Ch 17 pg 98

Bob makes more ships and makes copies of himself to man those ships and much to my delight they all seem to have different goals and personalities. 

Ch 18 pg 108

The clones all picked new names.   The original Bob, milo and Mario all left to other systems.  Bill is staying here.  Riker is going back to earth.

Ch 19 pg 110 Milo 2152

Milo finds a system with a diplanitary body and they both have life.  JACKPOT!!!  This system is these system that star trek said vulcan was in so he names them vulcan and romulus.

Ch 20 pg 117 Bill 2145

Bill made an assistant that named itself Garfield and they get along well enough to get to work on their miles long to do lost.


Ch 21 pg 119 riker 2157

Riker's assistant is named Homer like homer Simpson.  Riker is Hella serious and Homer is not so there's some friction.

It's been 9 years ship time but 26 years earth time.   All the scans seem to indicate that the nuclear war pretty much whipped out humanity.  They investigate the solar system and a decoy they send in is destroyed by Brazilian ships.  The missles are hecka advanced.  Riker and Homer are real surprised by this.  The Brazilian AI seemed 100% military and not engineery at all. 

Best of all, there are four other Brazilian drones slowly heading toward earth.  They're all a day apart and Homer figures out they're all pushing mediorites with China as its intended target.  Seems there's something left down on earth in China and Brazil is gonna put an end to it.

Ch 22 pg 125 Bill 2150

Bill builds 3 new copies.  Goku and Calvin hate each other but are inseparable. Like a sitcom married couple.  Those two get really beefy boy ships loaded for bear and with cloaking devices to investigate alpha centuri.  Faith specifically didn't send Bob there because everyone else had said that's where they were going.  

The third one is named Linus and we don't know where Linus is going.  The thought from Bill is that Linus is just happy to be away from the bickering goku and calvin.

Ch 23 pg 127 Milo 2153

Milo is my favorite.   His vr is him in an airship flying over the French country side.  He decides his work at vulcan and romulus is done.  He's got drones out in the further solarsystem gathering resources assuming eventually people will come here and need those resources. He heads off to investigate the nearest star.


Ch 24 pg 119 riker 2157

Seems most of the chapters now are only 2 pages long.  Not this one.

Riker and homer are able to kill all the Brazilian ships.  Fun bit, they talk to the Brazilian and it's a different guy.  

But now they got another type of problem,  what if there are people still on earth that need to be saved?

Ch 25 pg 143 bill 2152

Bill and Garfield have succeeded in creating subspace communication. 


Ch 26 pg 145 riker 2157

There's people still on earth.  They wanna gtfo.  Riker says he's happy to help, but he doesn't have a destination for them.  It'll take a while to build a ship for the people to leave and find a way to get them to the ship without all dying of radiation poisoning.  So the destination can be added to the to do list after that. 

Ch 27 bob 2165

Bob gets to his solar system and doesn't give a fuck about resources or procreation or any of the shit guppy cares about.  He goes straight to the planet that is most likely to have life and discovers intelligent pig/bat/spider people.

Ch 28 calvin 2163

I guess in the calvin goku duo calvin is the big spoon. No, I was wrong about that. Goku isn't here.  They split up.  Goku went to alpha centuri A and calvin is in alpha centuri b.  Nothing cool here.  Calvin meets up with goku at a half way point.  There's Brazilians in them thar alpha centuri A asteroids.  They destroy most of them.  One got away.  Looks to goku like the original Brazilian set up manufacturing and moved along.  They're gonna start building duplicates assuming the Brazilian might Come back and possibly have a l9t of missles. 


Ch 29 pg 162 Riker 2157

The theory of saving humanity is better than the practice of actually having to deal with the humans you're saving.


Ch 30 pg 166 Bob 2166

He finds a single bat/pig/spider kid that is developing tools when nobody else is.  He names him archimidis. Also, Bob makes a few more bobs to monitor the bat/pig/spiders that he is calling Deltans.


Ch 31 riker 2152

Saving humanity continues to be a pain in the ass.  Also, there's 15 million people.  A ship can hold 10,000 max.  So we need 15,000 ships.  Thus far we've identified enough materials for 4.

Ch 32 pg 174 2158 bill

Bills transmission with the plans to make a subspace communicator will take 9 years to get to earth.  I guess Milo is closer than earth cause he communicates back to Bob that he's discovered vulcan and romulus. 

Ch 33 riker march 2158 sol

Saving humanity is still a pain.  But See Germans have a seed vault that will be useful for colinization.

Ch 34 homer 2158

Not only is saving humanity tough, but homer sees how badly riker is doing as their mouthpiece. 

Ch 35 Bob 2165

The deltans are being hunted by gorillas.    Bob and his copies are debating whether or not to intervene.  Bob feels like it goes without saying and others don't feel so strongly about the deltans.  How bob ends up violating the prime directive is that he has a bunch of robots gather up flint and deliver it to archemides and the end of it.is that the deltans are able to defend themselves from the gorillas.


Ch 36 Riker 2158

Saving humanity continues to be a pain.

Ch 37 Bob 2165

Bob interferes more in the natural order of the planet he has invaded.

Ch 38 Riker

Riker is introduced to one of his dependents.  So now he's probably gonna give preferential treatment to faith.  I don't know why but this reminds me of the scene in season 3 episode 1 of Rick and morrt when Rick is holding summer hostage and Rick says something like "we have infinite grand daughters.  Holding her hostage is like trying to use Disney bucks at a ceasers palace." If 8 were Riker is would start sending kill bots to assassinate all of the faith leaders.


Ch 39 Bob 2165

We're just bouncing back and forth between Bob and Riker here.

In the latest attack 40 people died.

Ch 40 Linus 2165

Linus finds the Australian probe.  It's AI has gone crazy.  He helps it regain sanity by building a VR for it where its a sailor and it pooos and peeeeeees. 

Ch 41 riker 2162

Riker receives the plans for the subspace communication. They find out about vulcan.  It doesn't makes saving humanity any less of a pain in the ass. 

42 bill 

He's working on getting ice from the asteroid belt to the planet.  Garfield is sick of being just an assistant, 

43 riker

I haven't read anything and I guarantee I'm gonna type some form of saving humanity is a pain in the ass.  I would probably also say that riker is bad at it and anything good that happens is because of homer working back channels. 

They habe also started pulling materials from earth's surface so they might be able to build enough ships for everyone.  But they are not going to be able to do that before everyone dies.

44 Bob 2166

Bob sends a drone down to talk to archimedes.   He tells him they gotta move to a more defensible position. 

45 Bill 2165

Bill calls who he thinks is goku and calvin but instead gets bart and now all the bobs seem to have the ability to communicate instantly 

46 milo 2165

Let's see if milo is still my favorite. 

Milo f8nds himself in a system with what we're assuming is the Brazilian probe and it shoots a lot of missles at him.  I assume he is dead.

47 riker 2166

Terrorists have succeeded in destroying a lot of food and fuel and what not that people need to survive. But nobody is willing to help anyone else.  

Arthur died. He was blown up by a nuke.  They say it's a boobytrap but knowing abput milo it wouldn't surprise me one bit if thos was Brazilian. 

48 Bob 2166

The deltans are on the move.  They.lose one juvenile from a gorillas attack but Bob convinces other deltans to join them.  They make it through the mountain pass and then there's a fore to as of yet not described disaster. 

49 riker 2166

Homer rules, he comes up with the idea ro use space stations as farms rather than a place for people to live.  As a result, faith offers up current supplies for a spot on the third ship.

New Zealand is trying to hack riker.  Hwy and how?  Because Australia is who came up with the original plans for what eventually became Bob and faith stole those plans.

50 Bob 2166

Disaster. Sooo many more gorillas on this side of the pass.  Bob is starting to get desperate with this whole situation. He is gonna start building explosives.

51 bill 2174

Bill gets the message from milo about the promise of his system and subsequent demise.  Bill is gonna make 4 bobs and send them to take out the Brazilian. 

52 riker 2168

Homer's space farm is going well.

53 Bob 2166

There's also jaguars that like to eat the deltans. 

54 Riker 2170

Ships 1 and 2 are ready.

55 Bob 2166

This place Bob led the deltans to has lots of flint, but many more gorillas.  The deltans won't survive without bobs protection. They build an alter to Bob. 

56 bill 2167

Taking ice asteroids and turning them into water on the planet is tricky.  

56 Mario 2169

Mario finds a system that had already been stripmined.  The theory is that very dangerous aliens did this.

57 Riker 2171

Ships launch with people on them to the new world.  It's real emotional. 

58 bill 2172

The bobs have their first full meeting in the bobiverse that bill has created in VR.  His solar system ain't gonna be great for people, but it's got plenty of materials for Bob clones and whatnot.

60 khan 2185

8 bobs are attacking the Brazilian system.  It's rough.  There's nukes and light sabers and really effective cloaking devices and stuff.  Only one Bob ship makes it out.

61 Howard 2188

The first colony ship makes it to vulcan safe and sound...



...for now.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

all systems red


Ch 1

Yhe narrator is a murder bot and it's on a planet with some scientists.  Two of the scientists are attacked by a monstrous animal.  The murderbot saves them.  It is harmed pretty significantly and if it were a person it would be dead.  It might be a Borg kinda thing as it has biological matter and it will take 8 hours to heal.  Also its regulator has been damaged which I interpret as meaning it won't follow orders anymore. 

Ch 2 pg 25

Murderbot is awkward around people.  It mostly spends it's time watching TV and double checking supplies and surveys and whatnot.  It also spends all of it's time with armor on, which is why after its healed and is summoned and realized its armor needed to be repaired the crew is like, "who the fuck are you?" And it says its their secbot. They ask it why the monster wasn't in their survey pack.  It is able to realize that it was hacked and removed.  Probably before it was sent to them.  The murderbot doesn't have any sex organs.   The main purpose of the murderbot is for the insurance company to keep an eye on people and that makes the murderbot feel bad so it spends as much ch time away from people as it can.  But its required to be close to a member of the crew at all times or it will be deemed a deserter and destroyed remotely.   So when the crew calls to say they are going on a trip and murderbot says it should come along.

Ch 3 pg 39

The trip is to map out some sections of the planet that seem to have gone missing from the survey materials like the monster.  But what they find is that area has a lot of interference with their instruments so maybe it's just standard incompetence or laziness or what have you instead of them trying to hide something crappy for sales purposes as we expect happened with the monster.  Fun tidbit, murderbot was expecting to ride in the cargo hold, but instead the crew made them ride in the cabin and it was HORRIBLE!!!

Something worse is discovered on the trip.  There's a different company doing similar stuff on the other side of the planet and they have stopped returning communications.  Murderbot is pretty sure they're dead, but still talks their way into getting to go on the much longer trip to investigate. The murderbot seems to be programmed without any sense of self preservation. 

Ch 4
They get to the other camp and there's no activity. They go inside and find dead people.  I'm not sure exactly how but somehow murderbot figures out that this is the work of other murderbots.  Something about this and the realization that those murderbots might try to kill their people really pisses them off.  At this point i got real protective mom energy from our murderbot.  If you're familiar with the last Harry potter movie I'm specifically thinking of the not my daughter you witch spell that Molly Weasley uses to kill Bellatrix Lastrange.

They find a dead murderbot and based on the size of this camp they figure they have two other murderbots to deal with. 

And they do.  But then there are other murderbots that show up.  The team does their best to handle them and they all get away alive.  That is until murderbot realizes the offending murderbots had remote control implants and that in the fight one of the offending murderbots also fitted them with one.  They figure the remote controller will use them to kill their people.  So the murderbot commits suicide. 

Ch 5
Murderbot is unsuccessful in its suicide attempt. It tells us it wasn't a fur real suicide attempt. It was meant to incapacitated itself while the
e people figured something out.  And they did.  They figure out some one is coming and they gotta go and they do.

Ch 6 pg 101

Turns out one of the people here is basically the president of their planet. If the bad guys knew this they never would have tried this kind of stunt.  THE COMPANY would stop at nothing to apprehend someone that killed a head of state.  More importantly,  someone that caused them to pay out such a huge insurance settlement.  But they don't know anything about the bad guys. Murderbot might have a solution for that.  He left some drones recording audio and video back at the base.

Ch 7
They go back to their old camp to pick up the footage that the drones recorded.  Fun bit, the bad guys are on camera saying we know you must be recording, meet us at these coordinates at this time to talk.

They come up with a plan.  The murderbot and the president go to the meeting while the augmented human sneaks to their camp to.launch their beacon. They talk woth the bad guys about how their whole deal is that this planet used to be populated and you're not allowed to stripmine a formerly occupied planet.  But oooh eeeeh, if you could get away with it, you could make TONS of money.

Problem is, the bad guys make the president and murderbot come with. But the beacon launch is successful and murderbot grabs the president and jumps off a cliff so they're not incinerated by the beacon's launching rocket.

Murderbot comes to and it appears that their planet was a success as they are now in the big hopper being picked up by a transport.

And murderbot is probably right cause we only have 8 pages left.  Not enough time for a sinister surprise imho.

Ch 8 pg 141

The people buy murderbot so it's free to come to their planet and do whatever it wants there.  It will live with the president. This is a great kindness to a being that everyone else considers to be property.
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Murderbot rewards their kindness by hopping a ship out of there never to be seen again. What a dick.

Sunday, December 22, 2024

the mercy of gods


Ch 1 pg 3 David
There's a scholarship named Dafyd.  I'm calling him David from now on.  David likes a girl named Else who's boyfriend Tonnner is in charge of the project David works on.  But it's not like David is trying to get his boss's girlfriend cause David's Aunt is the HBIC in terms of who gets funding so David would be on whatever project she tells people he should be on.  David has a sort of go along get along attitude and likes to put people at ease.  But it's about God Damned time that he grew the duck up and started living up to his potential rather than spending all his time worrying that he wasn't making other people's lives easier.  His first step in doing so is staying at this work party and networking instead of going home like he wants to.  He heard a rumour that someone is trying to take over their department and he talks to Else about it.

Ch 2 pg 16 Jessyn

Jessyn is on David's team.   I gather she's an older lady.  They don't give ages but from the conversation it seems she's older than irynna and a guy named Nol is too.
Humans came to this planet 3000ish years ago through the ring gates.  But they don't know that.  What they know is the human biology and the native biology don't mix.  That is until now when their team cracked the code.
They're celebrating this achievement. Jessyn isn't anymore cause she's got am angry email from Tonner that just says we need to talk tomorrow.  There is a special place in hell for people like Tonner.

Ch 3 pg 23

Someone higher up has declared that the team is going to be split up.   Sounds to me like David should  have a talk with his aunt to see what she knows. Toner is convinced they have been betrayed.  

That's meaningless.  What matters is the girl listening in on their conversation while eating a sandwich.  She's been possessed by something she calls the swarm.  It's going to use her and then kill her and move onto another host.  This feels like the protomolecule alien magic.

Ch 4 pg 33
The betrayer is named Rickar.  Autocorrect will be referring to him as Richard if he's a going concern.  
Tonner feels bad.  Mostly cause he feels embarrassed. 

Ch 5 pg 42
The swarm has moved onto a new host and finds it still enjoys sweet pickles the way it's old host did.  As its host it introduces itself to someone named samar austad.
Some of the people on David's team talk about their meaningless lives.  It becomes meaningful when someone tells them that Samar Austad has been murdered.  Probably by whoever the swarm is currently inhabiting. 

Ch 6 pg 52
Samar was in charge of the group Richard was going to. So they don't really have to worry about their group getting broken up.  But they're also murder suspects. 
Also, that's additionally, more meaningless than I previously thought cause not only is the swarm a thing but there's things in space heading to their planet.  Probably space ships.

Part 2: catastrophe pg 71
It's an excerpt from a log where the writer says basically that the universe is cold and unfeeling so it's ok for them to be the same.

Ch 7 pg 73
This chapter is heckin fun.  It describes the invasion from the invaders side of things.  How they observe that we communicate with only a limited sonic and light spectrum. They are a hivemind and so they are interested in how we of the same species are not connected and how different people in different places are kind of doing the same stuff even though we are separated. 
The fun part is they've discovered another significant species. The way they describe it as mostly existing underground it's like an intelligent fungus.  I'm guessing this is what the swarm is.  The invaders aren't going to worry about them.
Makes me kind of excited about the idea of people and the swarm working together to defend their planet.
With the amount of communication the planet is sending to the invaders they kind of expect to be attacked by spaceships as they kinda figured out the people must have arrived here on spaceships. But no,  there aren't any space ships to attack them.  
But the people do shoot some nukes at them.  These are easily dealt with by the probes and don't make it anywhere near the ships.

Ch 8 pg 81

The invaders are like mini Thanos and say they'll only kill 1/8th of the population. We see one of the resesrch assistants on David's team die.  He describes it as being stung by a bee.

Ch 9
David is taken to be Corraled with other scientists after successfully hiding out for 5 days.  He meets one of the other lab assistants on his old project there.  Alien life exists and they are assholes.

Ch 10
David is caged up with a veritable who's who of the planet. They might be on a spaceship. The swarm is there and calls the invaders they great enemy. 

Ch 11
A group decides to fight the aliens.  It kinda works.  They successfully overpower one.  But then as it is nearing the end it kinda explodes poison on everyone nearby.  David is near by and has all his clothes melted off by the acid spray and has to be nursed back to health.

Ch 12 pg 131
They appear to be nearing the end of their spaceship journey.
The only interesting thing that happens is that Tonner is there and Else tells him she will be staying in her own room and he's all butt hurt about it. 
I view this as a win for David.

Part three puzzles pg 147
War is the way for the CarryX.  It doesn't matter if its unethical. To not be at war would be denying the truth of all life.

Ch 13 pg 149
The concuring aliens have brought the resesrch team back together.  The aliens want them to do what they did on their planet with making it possible for the people to eat the native planets vegitation but with spieces from two other planets.  Tonner tells the guy that betrayed them back home to fuck off and die.

Ch 14 161
The concuring aliens are trying to concur a new planet.  It goes badly.  They're basically killed by what I would describe as space zombies.  But when you're a small part of a hive mind it's no big deal.  You run away with the data you have so you can come back and win the next fight.


Ch 15 pg 172
Jessyn is a bit traumatized so she is just kinda running on autopilot.  Going though the motions when she really wants to lose her shit.  Compared loses his shit.  But it all rounds out and everyone goes back to doing science.

Ch 16 pg 184
In this chapter it struck me that this place is kinda like the prison in season 3 episode 1 of Rick and morrty where it wasn't just a prison, it was also a highly defended important government building.  This place isn't just a prison, it's also a highly important government research facility. 

David works on overcoming the fear of this place as a prison and focusing on getting what he needs for research.  It takes him 8 hours, but he's able to procure pens and paper.


Ch 17 pg 196

Saturday, November 23, 2024

blood mirror ch 55 to the end.

Ch 55
Kip and his mind controlled animals are trying to steal some gunpowder.  It's a trap.  But they ( at least kip and the grizzly bear) make it out alive.  But if Karris's brother knows enough to set a trap it means kips whole sabotage thing isnt gonna work anymore.  They're gonna have to do war war now.

Ch 56
Teia has a chapter.  I didn't think anything interesting happened.  She still hasn't murdered anyone.

Ch 57
Gavin is still in prison and has a bad dream.

Ch 58

Teia does her murder

Ch 59
Kip us preparing for war.  Conn Arthur is the guy that can control a grizzly bear.  The dramatic reveal is he has a brother that can also do that.  He died and his grizzly bear is kinda running amuck. Kip has a two birds one stone idea to send him on a suicide mission.  Conn Arthur agrees to this.  Kip can't sleep but he can lie upon his wife's bussom and wait for the day to come.

Ch 60

Tiea is doing other stuff sneaking around after her murder.  She's killed the lady thats officially in charge but then she sneaks into the room of the magic lady thats really in charge and she's got ironfist chained to a wall.

Ch 61 pg 455
Gavin is in a black luxin cell.  He has a new imaginary fr8end that might be real.  This one isn't here to torture him.  It's here to comfort him.  Cause this is the last cell.  It's not meant to be escaped from to the next one.  This is it.  Gavin is fully trapped for good.  He's gonna die down here.

Ch 62
Teia kills ironfists sister even though he begs her not to.

Ch 63 pg 477
Liv"s dad's wife is gonna be assassinated tonight and she knows it and that's that.

Ch 64 pg 483
Kip does war.  He's outnumbered 2 to 1 but he wins cause that's what's in the script.  Funny part happens when a blue wight challenges him to a dual and kip just shoots him Indiana Jones style.

Ch 65 
Kip's grandfather has come to tell Gavin that it's time for him to die.  The imaginary friend is telling Gavin nows his chance to escape.  But he doesn't wanna kill anyone woth black luz8n cause it makes you forget.  Lots of fun reveals here.
1. Kips grandfather isn't his grandfather,  he's his dad.  We have a nice setup for an im your father scene if they wanna do that.
2. Dazen was Kip's grandfather's favorite son.  He didn't make him prism because prisms usually die in 7 years.
3. The whole plan with the war and everything was for Gavin to stab dazen with the blinding knife to take away his powers so they can restore him to sanity.

Kip's grandfather leaves Gavin down in the prison.  Presumably to kill him with poison later.

Ch 66 pg 511
Kip is doing after battle clean up.  There's lots of drama.

Ch 67 pg 521
Karris and teia talk about ironfist and the guy that requested teia be put on the mission.   Shit is all fucked up.

Ch 68
The guy that can control a bear has lost his will to fight. Maybe his will to live.  it's sad.  And there's infighting in kips army.

Ch 69
Gavin is talking to himself.  Or maybe it's a shadow of his former self or his brother's ghost or God.  And then Grinwoody shows up.  I'm personally hopeful that this is good since he's the head of the broken eye and ironfist's uncle.  But Gaven only knows him as kip's grandfather's (and actually kips dad) stooge.

Ch 70
Kip and the mighty argue about ethics until they get to wherever they're going and then kip gets on a horse to present himself to where ever it is they are.

Ch 71 pg 541

Karris and kips grandpa ( really his dad) talk about the women teia killed.  The part that's interesting to me is that as a result of those assassinations, Ironfist is now king of that country.

72 pg 551

Kip takes over a city.  There's a lot of wealth redistribution thats going to happen in this town now that kip is in charge.  Also he's redoing the rules for slavery.

73 pg 563
Grindilow and Dazen talk about their feelings. Grinwoody feels like Dazen should kill God.  Dazen feels like that's impossible. But it's better than dying down here so he will try.  Grinwoody gives dazen a magical eyepatch with black luxin that will kill him if he does anything against him of the order of the eye.
These Dazen chapters aren't long enough. 

74 pg 569
Kip has been working on this magical rope spear this whole time.  Cruxer and big Leo inform him that this is a betrayal of his wife.  This rope spear project is obviously a subconscious manifestation of his love for Teia. He needs to cut that shit out and pledge himself wholey to Tsisisis. 

 75 pg 375

Teia goes to the mirror room in the crimeria for a meeting with murder sharp.  I guess sharp is a title within the order and the goal here is for Teia to become a sharp.  After murder sharp doing his usual thing of saying a bunch of intimidating stuff the old man shows up.  There's talk about all sorts of stuff but in the end she has one last task to become a sharp.    She has to take a special black knife and kill Gunner with it.

76 585

Fun stuff with Gavin, the boat that's gonna take him to kill God is Gunner's  boat.  Tiea is gonna be on that boat.  I LOVE THIS!!!!1!!!!

Ch 77 pg 583
A black guard named after Gavin broke the halo and demands karris do the freeing because her son is a monster.  Now here's hoping karris kills zymon.

Ch 78 pg 599

Liv has grown into her godly powers in the year she has had it.  She is drawn to the other gods and their banes.  Karris's brother has a bane and a god of all colors. They're gonna ascend and attack the chromeria directly. Liv now has a can't beT em join em attitude to the war and Karris's brother can't be beaten with what he's got.

Ch 79device.
Kip and his wife have sex.

Authors note : 615
 vaginismus is real and its affected.bremts fridms.  It's not just some plot decice.

Friday, November 8, 2024