Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Explosives

Goblin dynamite that sweats, hobgoblin pus with a deodorant-stick detonator, a ton of funpowder, and eventually Carl's own entry in the Dungeon Codex. The skill tree the game keeps rewarding, and the reason a marine technician can drive a level-93 elemental into a stairwell.

Segment appearances

Chapter 2 — Race and class
Chapter 5 — Boxes at the Pug
Chapter 9 — Heather the Bear
Chapter 13 — Mordecai's room
Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
Chapter 15 — The Desperado Club
Chapter 16 — The Silk Road
Chapter 17 — GumGum
Chapter 18 — Miss Quill
Chapter 20 — Manasa's last song
Chapter 21 — Katia
Chapter 22 — The Mysterious Letter
Chapter 23 — Ten sticks of dynamite
Chapter 24 — Remex
Chapter 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Progression

Bomb Squad Tech, the class that would stop explosives degrading, turned down for Compensated Anarchist (ch. 2); Bomb Surgeon letting him feel a blasting cap (ch. 5); dynamite hidden in shelves and set off with a hobgoblin-pus detonator (ch. 21); hobgoblin dynamite that collapses building faces (ch. 20); hob-lobbers from a xistera at 250 mph (ch. 18); ten sticks around a warehouse (ch. 23); and the thing that is not a bomb but a caged one — Carl's Doomsday Scenario (ch. 25). Pustule prices the boom jug at 7,500 (ch. 16).