Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Safe rooms

Restaurants, bus stations and storm shelters lifted whole from the surface and set into the maze, where no violence is possible, food is served by surly Bopca Protectors, and three screens count down the collapse, the next episode, and the living. Mobs that attack inside one are teleported out — a rule that cuts both ways.

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 6 — City hall
Chapter 7 — The frog con
Chapter 9 — Ruckus
Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
Chapter 11 — The Vahana
Chapter 13 — Gerbils
Chapter 14 — Maggie
Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
Chapter 18 — One
Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
Chapter 24 — Samantha
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 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

Not every bar is one — the Toe is not (ch. 4), the A.O. in Weird Shit Alley is (ch. 7, ch. 9) — and a saferoom protects Borant's NPCs only while a crawler is inside, which is why Growler Gary died (ch. 4). The personal space is the only real shelter for forty children (ch. 10). A pub in Pandinus; a hatch called the All-Seeing Spleen (ch. 32). The saferoom's shrine appears when Carl takes a god (ch. 32). Monkey soup and crackers for the rest of the floor (ch. 31). Access closes an hour before collapse (ch. 34).