Bomo
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 8 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 8Bomo and The Sledge, Donut's bodyguards, are knocked flat during the attack.
- Ch 19Bomo bought a shield spell so he and The Sledge can protect Carl and Donut from physical and magical attacks in the club.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 3In exchange for the gate, Carl received four free mercenaries: Bomo, the Sledge, Clay-ton and Very Sullen, available on floors six to eight.
- Ch 9Carl plans to send Bomo out through the Zockau saferoom pulling a giant bomb to blow up the hunters; Bomo agrees.
- Ch 10Donut plans to use Clockwork Triplicate so a clockwork copy of Bomo rolls Carl's giant bomb out into Zockau.
- Ch 68Bomo collects abandoned gear left by departed hunters in the Zockau saferoom.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 4Bomo is the only one of the four bodyguards left; the other three went down with the high elf castle.
- Ch 6Bomo has a spell that can teleport the party to any stairwell on the floor, and he will be lost when the floor ends.
- Ch 16Carl builds Bomo a massive unenchanted mech-like armor suit with shoulder missile launchers carrying anti-undead stun and smoke missiles.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 70Bomo and Sledge control over 1,500 missiles from Area 52 using modified Trollish Portable Control Rooms.
Connections
- ally ofThe Sledge
- inDesperado Club
- related toCarlbodyguard at the Desperado Club
- related toTeleport to Stairwellcasts this spell
- member ofThe Royal Court of Princess Donut
- ally ofMordecai
- friend ofThe Sledge
- member ofPersonal Guard
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 8Reunion with Elle at the Desperado Club
With hired bodyguards, Carl and Donut meet Elle, now a Frost Maiden, at the Desperado Club.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Donut attacked at the Desperado Club
While Carl talks with Imani and Elle, a human crawler attacks Princess Donut on the dance floor; she survives near death and kills him.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Building a crawler network
At the Desperado Club Carl persuades about twenty crawlers to exchange chat details so they can share intelligence about the floor.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Frank gives Carl the ring
In the Desperado Club a drunk Frank Q. explains Yvette's death and Maggie's vendetta, then gives Carl the Ring of Divine Suffering as revenge.
- Book 5 · Ch 3Mercenaries as collateral
Carl gives up the Gate of the Feral Gods until the ninth floor in exchange for four mercenaries, two of whom carry the teleport spells Teleport to Stairwell and Zerzura.
- Book 5 · Ch 4Secret teleport
Pretending to hunt mushrooms, Carl has Donut put Mongo away and orders Bomo to teleport them to the stairwell in Zockau.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Raid on Zockau
Carl and Donut teleport invisibly to Zockau, plant a missile launcher and bomb barrels among the hunters' pubs, and send Bomo to the Scuttlebutt saferoom.
- Book 5 · Ch 5Escape from Zockau
After the bombs level the block, Carl and Donut flee invisibly through trap-strewn streets while an invisible flying hunter, the town's Grand, shoots Carl with crossbow bolts.
- Book 5 · Ch 9Planning the Zockau bomb
Carl builds a huge wheeled bomb for Bomo to detonate in Zockau before the hunt begins; Donut proposes a clockwork Bomo instead.
- Book 5 · Ch 10Branded troublemakers
The guards turn hostile and Carl and Donut flee into a saferoom to launch the clockwork Bomo bomb plan before the hunters are released.
- Book 5 · Ch 10Vrah's threat
Opening the door to Zockau, Carl finds Vrah's note warning that the hunters are protected from explosions and vowing revenge for her sister; Carl cancels the bomb plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 35Carl lures the Zockau mantis
Back in the saferoom, Carl has Bomo carry a note to Zockau offering the remaining mantis representative protection in exchange for his gear, aiming to reach him before Vrah does.
- Book 5 · Ch 37A male mantis arrives
Bomo returns from Zockau with a small male mantis who urgently wants to talk to Carl.
- Book 5 · Ch 38Edict chooses death
Trapped between ruin, dishonor and Vrah's demand to mate, Edict deliberately attacks Carl a third time and is teleported naked to a mob nest before Vrah reaches him.
- Book 5 · Ch 64The masquerade begins
Inside Ballroom A, Donut meets her sponsor Empress D'Nadia, Chaco runs the prize counter, Vrah charges toward Carl, and Carl signals Bomo, the Sledge and Britney to start the plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 4Reunion with Mordecai as a cyclops
Carl and Princess Donut enter the saferoom to find Mordecai transformed into a Hills Cyclops, Samantha returned, and Bomo the last bodyguard.
- Book 6 · Ch 16Gauntlet run to the temple
At night the group fights through glowing ghommids behind Asojano to the central temple, using Carl's stun bombs and Bomo's missiles; Carl flags the splitter Skylar Spinach at the door.
- Book 6 · Ch 16Plan to kill Asojano
Carl assigns Donut, Bomo and Sister Ines to fight Asojano with him while Paz and Anton rebuild Ogun's shrine; boss music starts as Anton picks up a piece.
- Book 6 · Ch 17Boss fight with Asojano
Anton throws away Ogun's shrine piece; Donut's Phantasm swarm attacks Asojano while Bomo rebuilds Yemaya's shrine and the gods compete for the crawlers' loyalty.
- Book 6 · Ch 17Asojano captured and Yemaya restored
Carl flags the dying Asojano and catches SlugPox, while possessed daggers carry the Sun of Reawakening to Yemaya's shrine; the quest completes and Yemaya re-ascends.
- Book 6 · Ch 19Yemaya and Eileithyia appear
Two goddesses appear in Yemaya's temple; Yemaya gives Donut and Sister Ines cards and teleports Bomo to his friend The Sledge in Larracos on the ninth floor, stranding Carl's group without his spell.
- Book 7 · Ch 37Assault on the Posse castle
Enemy flyers drop paratroopers, saboteurs destroy the anti-air battery and hangar, Reavers enter via a saferoom door, and worm-controlled mages kill defenders from within.
- Book 7 · Ch 82The Nest tower is attacked
Donut is trapped in the Nest by a net while a crawler woman with a dog enters the tower; Toyotomi, Sergeant Bret S and Bomo die trying to stop her.