Motif · from book 2

Carl's Doomsday Scenario

A massively overloaded soul crystal shut inside a Sheol Glass Reaper Case: an explosion 'large enough to rattle the teeth of a god,' status Explosion Imminent, un-stabilisable, and in Carl's inventory, where it will detonate the moment it leaves. The book's title, and the most dangerous thing he owns.

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

As of book 3. Book 2's city-killing bomb, still in Carl's inventory in the Sheol Glass Reaper Case that once held Kimaris, and the reason he knows soul crystals pop like fuses. 'I'm saving that for something very specific,'

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
Carl's Doomsday Scenario	B2 ch. 25	open · B7 ch. 66 — Still in the inventory, one of a growing collection of weapons of mass destruction (ch. 17); too huge for the pile of eighty thousand.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

Made in B2 ch. 25; the book's title; in the inventory.

Through book 3

Untouched at the sapper's table; the reason Carl knows soul crystals pop like fuses (B3 ch. 22, B3 ch. 31). 'I'm saving that for something very specific' (B3 ch. 34).

Through book 4

Still in the Reaper Case in Carl's inventory, a 'C-quality' crystal that would flatten forty-five square kilometres (B4 ch. 17).

Through book 5

Copied into a simulator at last: 'One day' (B5 ch. 4). Considered and set aside in the ballroom — would he kill Donut, Katia, Imani, Elle and the rest to make certain the hunters died? (B5 ch. 73)

Through book 6

A frozen moment remembered (B6 ch. 32).

Through book 7

Too huge for a pile (B7 ch. 66).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	1/26	Ch. 25 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	3/35	Ch. 7, Ch. 22, Ch. 29 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	1/35	Ch. 17 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	3/78	Ch. 4, Ch. 38, Ch. 73 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	1/74	Ch. 32 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	2/89	Ch. 17, Ch. 66 · the book's own page

By book

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Made in ch. 25 by closing a Sheol Glass Reaper Case around a soul crystal seconds from detonation (ch. 24) and pulling the red-hot result into inventory: 'an explosion large enough to rattle the teeth of a god,' status Explosion Imminent, un-stabilisable, and lethal the instant it leaves his pack. The AI's description calls him a man who murders babies and steals from his elders.

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Still 'Pretty Damn Rare' and at the bottom of the value list (ch. 7), untouched at the sapper's table (ch. 22), and the reason Carl knows what soul crystals do under stress: the ghoul generators' smaller crystals pop like fuses (ch. 31). Elle suggests using it on the abyss; 'I'm saving that for something very specific' (ch. 34).

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Still a broken soul crystal in its Reaper Case, 'C-quality', that would flatten forty-five square kilometres the moment Carl takes it out (ch. 17). An F-quality crystal on a necklace keeps a house aloft (ch. 17).

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Copied into a simulator at last: 'One day' (ch. 4). Considered and set aside in the ballroom — would he kill Donut, Katia, Imani, Elle and the rest to make certain the hunters died? (ch. 73)

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

A softball-sized crackling gem that Carl takes, for a terrifying moment, for a massive soul crystal (ch. 14); the last seconds before the bomb did not go off, remembered as a frozen moment alongside Hekla's death and Bonnie's tears (ch. 32).

Carl's Doomsday Scenario in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Emberus's quest still wants the Soul Crystal — Apito (ch. 2). A soul crystal goes into the bomber (ch. 6); Carl counts the scenario among his growing collection of weapons of mass destruction (ch. 17) and rules it out against a pile of people as too huge (ch. 66); the war mages' zarogoth generator runs on a soul crystal with a capacitor that captures and corrupts souls (ch. 69, ch. 70).