Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Princess Donut

GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk — Bea's tortoiseshell Persian show cat, carried into the dungeon under Carl's arm. An Enhanced Pet Biscuit makes her sapient, a tiara makes her royalty, a charisma score in the forties makes her a talker of goblins and a natural on television. Crawler #4,119. Carl is, per the system, her Royal Bodyguard.

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 16 — Denise
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 18 — One
• 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 31 — Emberus, summoned
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Glass Cannon

Character Actor makes Donut a Glass Cannon in a sandstorm — everything but the constitution — so no more riding Mongo into battle (ch. 1). Her spells grow with the class: Hole reaches through security doors and takes deadbolts out of walls (ch. 6), Puddle Jumper carries four people the length of a street (ch. 7), Second Chance raises a level-50 head (ch. 11), Astral Paw knocks a gnome off the rim of a hole (ch. 12). She reads changelings' heads through her upgraded sunglasses (ch. 9, ch. 10), diagnoses the AI's 'blue balls' (ch. 13), and, when Carl forms his fist over Chris, opens the street under him instead: 'Not a person killer, at least' (ch. 14).

Merch

The highest sponsorship bid in the series' history buys her a robot of herself that quotes Garfield and explodes (ch. 13, ch. 15); the doll named Ivy on Zev's word is the instrument of Loita's death (ch. 18), and Donut's alibi for Carl at the liaison's desk is that his plans always go wrong (ch. 19). She loses Zev to a purchase and does not get to say goodbye (ch. 17); Loita threatens to feed Mongo to a mob and make her watch. She reads the social board until it worries Carl.

The water

Over a Scroll of Water Breathing she announces that 'Cats do not swim' (ch. 2). Buried, blasted out of a sandcastle and drowned, she wakes underwater in Carl's arms screaming like an outboard motor, casts 'Hekla' on a beluga corpse to feed the sharks, and vomits a live fish in a kayak (ch. 23). She flies a biplane with her paws (ch. 31), heals a god's puppy from a house in a lightning storm (ch. 29), empties a tail gun into Quan Ch, and is singed black by a god's face. She tears into Maggie in the quest chat on Chris's behalf (ch. 29) and ends the floor fourth, level 39 and outpaced by Carl, which worries him, with a Belt of Buoyancy she will never use: 'I think you're crazy […] Straitjacket crazy' (ch. 31).