Theme · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The mobs are victims

The Hoarder begs in Spanish to be sent to Jesus; the Juicer is proud of Carl for fighting through the pain; the tuskling courtesans seem to have no memory of the ball; the goblin shamanka wants only to breed in peace deeper down. Mordecai warns it will not always be so, and that there are no gods here — only those who pay for the privilege.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils

Progression

A changeling made to be Jessica Rabbit for two drunks (ch. 3); a starved gnome asking to die (ch. 6); a mage eaten daily by a wife who loves him (ch. 21); an ooze's card about unrequited love (ch. 22); a girl drugged by her father so she would not cry (ch. 17); a people with one child in four sterile (ch. 15); a town rebuilt for a world with hours left (ch. 34); Juice Box waking up (ch. 28). Carl's position hardens — 'They're better off dead. We are freeing them' — and a city of NPCs drowns (ch. 32, ch. 34); Justice Light's note warns against exactly that (ch. 32).