Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Warnings

The system's » Warning: lines, from 'level timers are still active' in the first tutorial guild to 'The cages will permanently close in thirty seconds' in Ralph's boss room on the second floor: the rules read out as they bite, and the AI's temper in them.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 18 — One
• Chapter 22 — Mrs. Ghazi
• Chapter 24 — Samantha
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 31 — Emberus, summoned
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Progression

Twenty-three: a quadrant sealed until a castle is liberated (ch. 1); an Extinction Sigil that makes lizard-class enemies hit harder — 'That's what you get for killing so many poor, innocent monsters' (ch. 2, ch. 3); 'Your oxygen levels are low. In case you're wondering, yes, you do need that stuff', and at depth 'your health will decrease by two percent per second' (ch. 22, ch. 27); an item 'no longer eligible to be held in inventory' (ch. 24); messages from deceased crawlers, three of them (ch. 27, ch. 29); 'Killing a god may have some unintended consequences for all crawlers' and 'You are out of ink' (ch. 32); 'All access to Safe Rooms is now closed' (ch. 34).