Essay · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Timeline

The book's clock, read off the system messages chapter by chapter: every value the text prints, in the order it prints them (arrows separate successive values within a chapter).

Chapter	Countdown	Crawlers	Views	Followers	Favorites	Skill
Chapter 1 — Hump Town	15 Days	178,887	1.43 Quintillion	7 Quadrillion	2.4 Quadrillion
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	13 days, 13 hours
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	10 Days and 4 Hours		17.72 Quintillion	13 Quadrillion	4.1 Quadrillion
Chapter 18 — One						Infusion (3)
Chapter 19 — Orren
Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet	4 Days and 22 Hours
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	3 Days, 20 hours
Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
Chapter 30 — Get Orthrus
Chapter 31 — Emberus, summoned
Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus	3 days, 7 hours
Chapter 33 — Phase three	7 hours
Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond	five hours, 30 minutes → 1 hour → 21 minutes
Epilogue — Epilogue: the Walk-On List