Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Gwendolyn Duet

A voice in the crawlers' chat at the end of the fourth floor, taking Carl's side when the stairwell stations erupt: 'The bomber guy warned all of you dumbasses. Fall back to the train lines.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 22 — Mrs. 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

Bomber guy

The only crawler who answers Carl's message to the bubble: a level-27 Boring Ol' Fighter with a Club Vanquisher ring in the land quadrant, whose team breaches four walls under a chainsaw buzzard and finds the drain that could wash the sandcastle away (ch. 2, ch. 7, ch. 20). Met in person: about forty-five, First Nations, a faded double-V forehead tattoo, arrowhead lines on her hands, a spear, a punched-in nose, a body built on hard labour; 'So you two finally fucking made it' (ch. 20). Katia: a superb fighter with no magic who says every thought aloud twice and bullies when she has made up her mind. She vaults a pazuzu on her spear (ch. 29), refuses to touch a live cable, opens the drain on Carl's word, breaks the crystal spell by sending Tran into a chamber (ch. 24), loots Anser's crypt (ch. 33), gets a new spear, and joins Katia's party for the sixth floor. Credited with liberating the tomb beside two dead men (ch. 29).