Carl's father's trailer
Names: Carl's father's trailerthe trailer
First appears in Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, chapter 46 (44)
Appearances
What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 46A vending machine bearing Carl's father's silhouette offers 'One Fight for Nine Tokens' outside a junk-filled single-wide trailer.
- Ch 46The trailer and yard are spliced in from a different time, likely summer, so the showrunners can show Carl something specific.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 46Carl reaches his father's trailer
Crossing a floating chunk of Iowa above the ocean, Carl and Donut find his father's motorcycle and a token-operated fight machine at a trailer spliced in from an earlier time.
- Book 6 · Ch 46Carl enters the trailer alone
After looting the yard and activating a 42-minute countdown, Carl leaves Donut and Mongo outside and goes into the trailer by himself.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Carl witnesses his father's death
Inside a recording of the trailer, Carl finds his dying father, learns he has a young brother, Asher, and watches his stepmother prepare a fatal morphine dose.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Carl confronts his father's memory
Carl whispers that his father is a bully and a nobody, tells ghostly Asher he won't be forgotten, loots the trailer and burns it.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Keyholder fight unlocked
When the timer ends, Carl rejoins Donut and Mongo outside and decides to burn the trailer before facing the keyholder.
- Book 6 · Ch 48The AI hijacks the keyholder fight
As the trailer burns, the AI locks out the production team, replaces Carl's father as boss with a nine-headed Reminiscence Hydra of familiar faces, and rants about mantis-made macro AIs.
- Book 6 · Ch 48Battle with the Reminiscence Hydra begins
Judge Lucian strips their invisibility, Carl blows off one head, Donut summons Jola, and the hydra's totem Alpha Male Carl destroys both clockwork Mongos.
- Book 6 · Ch 48The Reminiscence Hydra is defeated
Carl removes and cauterizes the fire head, letting the moonshine fire hurt the hydra; Shi Maria bites off heads, and the burning hydra dies, giving Carl and Donut the win.
- Book 6 · Ch 48Shi Maria touches Carl's mind
While Carl burns, Shi Maria's magic eye connects with his mind; she kills the Asher head mercifully and says Carl will soon do something for her.
- Book 6 · Ch 49Carl learns Bea hid his brother
After the fight, Donut reveals Bea ran Carl's Facebook, got Sally fired, and knew about Asher, which makes Carl angry at Bea for the first time.
- Book 6 · Ch 49Looting the keymaster's deck
Carl and Donut claim the Champion Pack and discard the hydra's totems, but Alpha Male Carl and Leveled-Up Frank force themselves into Donut's deck.