Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Hump Town

'Bang twice to enter.' A brothel town of dromedarians and changeling prostitutes walled in riveted metal under striped sails they furl onto city hall when the storm ends: nested semicircles, Hump Street's bars, Weird Shit Alley's one true saferoom, and a city hall with a hostage under it. Its city hall burns, its sails tear, a block of dreadnaught lands on the Toe, gerbils overrun it, and the camels rebuild it for the last hours of a world about to end.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
• Chapter 5 — Rapid Detox
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Bang twice to enter

A brothel town of camels and changelings under sails that furl the moment the storm stops (ch. 1); Hump Street's bars, the Spit and Swallow, the Wiggle Room, Weird Shit Alley's Acrotomophilia Oasis, and a city hall with twelve guards, an ID check, pneumatic pipes, a basement over the tomb and a hostage past the barrier (ch. 3, ch. 6). Its gnomes-don't-bomb-us secret is a starved old man and a code on a pocket watch (ch. 2, ch. 10).

Under siege

City hall burns and collapses (ch. 7); the sail goes up on scaffolding; the AA guns uncover; a block of dreadnaught lands on the Toe (ch. 12); gerbils overrun it to Weird Shit Alley and camels die at their guns (ch. 13); the storm buries it (ch. 15). At the end a few dromedarians rebuild a wall for a world with hours to live (ch. 34). The rescue gates all open outside its Desperado (ch. 32).