Chapter 4 of 26 · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Chapter 4 — Knives from a window
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Opening
Donut worked on Mongo’s training while we walked along the road.
Summary
371 trillion views. Zev reports the choices played well and no VIPs are nearby. Then a knife bounces off Carl's chest: Former Circus Lemurs in painted human skulls, a quest tab, trumpets — The Show Must Go On — and a drunk Mordecai fifteen minutes into the floor, raging in chat about his mother's ashes.
A jug burns the lemurs' building; a giraffe flings more of them; Terror the Clown, eleven feet of Slender Man in a red wig, goes down to a low missile, Mongo at the ankle and Carl on the chest. The Belly-Rubbed Pug is a saferoom, and Mordecai teleports into it with his pants at his knees, addresses a grandmother who isn't there, vomits, and passes out. Gordo, behind the counter: 'You two are so dead.'
Characters
- Carl — First quest, first clown, first Big Top Ticket.
- Princess Donut — Missile to the knee; 'Sic 'em!'
- Mongo — Noticeably larger by the chapter's end.
- Mordecai — Blackout drunk within twenty minutes.
- Zev — The morning check-in.
- Gordo — Introduced with 'sheath your sword.'
Locations
- Grimaldi's Traveling Circus — Its outriders.
- The Belly-Rubbed Pug — Reached.