Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

A recipe book to the showrunners and a manual to its holder, read in bathroom stalls: passed from crawler to crawler across seasons, each adding an edition — Carl's is the 25th — invisible to the showrunners, not to the AI, and erased if its holder tells anyone.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 18 — One
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 22 — Mrs. Ghazi
• Chapter 23 — The winding box explained
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• 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

Progression

The manual

Batbilge's warning about the marketplace and Allister's note that it was his last (ch. 3); Herot on NPC awareness (ch. 10); a recipe for burn gel steered so Mordecai seems to invent it (ch. 17, ch. 22); a chapter on circumventing debuffs, excused as a charm-spell memory (ch. 29); ghost-killing bombs, potion lists. The Coffee Shop Author Kit gives Carl a third scratchpad tab, which hides the secret second (ch. 13), and a channel in a toilet stall (ch. 32). Orren wants the 'outside source' named; Carl refuses a Legendary box (ch. 19).

The authors

Coolie (19th), who blew a ship in orbit and wrote his last note there, short of breath and looking at Qurux — and whose notes on the trailer's forcefield make Loita's death possible (ch. 18); Justice Light (8th), on killing a shopkeeper (ch. 32); Sinjin (15th) and Azin (17th) on gods (ch. 30); Priestly (14th) on Larracos, and his last gibberish (ch. 33); Drakea (22nd), a bune, whose kerchief comes from a boss box (ch. 28); Rickard, whose pregnant wife vanished at the gate (ch. 25); Porthus (2nd), who accepted a deal (ch. 34) and is, it seems, the Dr. P. Hu the epilogue's woman calls 'Porthus' (epilogue). Carl's own entries: 'One.' (ch. 18).