Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Louis and Firas

Two level-22 Americans found drunk in a brothel bar on the fifth floor: Louis Santiago 2, a Pest Exterminator from Miami who drove his mother's convertible van down a stairwell and got a legendary knockout spell for it, and Firas M., a Hammersmith with a level-10 Puddle Jumper. Sobered by force, they grow into a bombing crew, the party's pilots and, by the end, something like friends.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 5 — Rapid Detox
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 26 — Lusca
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 30 — Get Orthrus
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Chuckleheads

Found drunk at the Spit and Swallow with a changeling doing Jessica Rabbit on Louis's lap, level 22, coasting (ch. 3): Louis Santiago 2, twenty-seven, from Miami, who drove his mother's Chevy Astro — convertible for Instagram, the Tiddy Twister — down a stairwell on I-95 and got Cloud of Exhaust, a legendary knockout spell with a ten-minute cooldown he had only ever used to run; Firas M., a car detailer with a cleric's mace and a level-10 Puddle Jumper (ch. 5, ch. 6). Mordecai sobers them with Rapid Detox, which makes drinking impossible for the floor: 'It's all I got left.'

The pilots

They knock out city hall's guards (ch. 6), cut a fake throat on cue (ch. 11), fire their two rockets each (ch. 12), and while Carl is gone they cut the top off a house, learn to fly it by riding air currents, wreck a pub when it pops out of Katia's inventory, and get banned from a town when Louis urinates on the owner from the air (ch. 19, ch. 20). Level 30. They ride a bull of a house behind a god's puppy in a lightning storm (ch. 29), ferry every surviving changeling across the Lacuna (ch. 33), and go down with Katia. Louis barges into the haunted bathroom, spills the ink, and — Juice Box says — will marry her (ch. 32, ch. 34). 'You know a plan is really desperate when it requires confidence in people like us.'