Essay · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Timeline

The book's clock, read off the system messages chapter by chapter: every value the text prints, in the order it prints them (arrows separate successive values within a chapter).

Chapter	Countdown	Crawlers	Views	Followers	Favorites	Skill
Chapter 1 — The jury room
Chapter 2 — Race and class		700,000
Chapter 3 — The Over City explained
Chapter 4 — Knives from a window			371.5 Trillion	7.8 Trillion	1.1 Trillion
Chapter 5 — Boxes at the Pug						3 (Cesta Punta)
Chapter 6 — Signet
Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
Chapter 8 — Water Lily	6 days, 23 hours		998.3 Trillion	16.5 Trillion	3 Trillion
Chapter 9 — Heather the Bear
Chapter 10 — The big top
Chapter 11 — The pitch
Chapter 12 — Mongo holds the pyramid
Chapter 13 — Mordecai's room	5 days, 10 hours		1.4 Quadrillion	30 Trillion	6.2 Trillion
Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
Chapter 15 — The Desperado Club
Chapter 16 — The Silk Road
Chapter 17 — GumGum
Chapter 18 — Miss Quill	3 days, 16 hours		1.9 Quadrillion	72 Trillion	13.1 Trillion
Chapter 19 — Danger Zone
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