Club Vanquisher
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 15 (15)
Appearances
What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 55Blood bars don't drain inside the Desperado Club and Club Vanquisher once a full blood bar is used to enter.
- Ch 58From Floor 3 to Floor 11, the strongest temple is almost always inside Club Vanquisher.
- Ch 59Floor 9 has only two Club Vanquisher entrances; the one outside Larracos is in Shanty Town's Temple of The Dagda this season.
- Ch 60Club Vanquisher sounds a shelter-in-place alarm, reporting demonic activity in the lobby.
Connections
- inOchre line
- inPandinus
- includesThe Temple of Yemaya
- includesEmberus High Temple of the Ending Sun
- containsCalligraphy guild
- inFloor 5
- inLarracosentered via a temple outside the city
- containsTemple of Khepri
- containsTemple of Theia
- related toTemple of The Dagdaentrance to
- containsMap-Making Guild
- inHungry Eyes Village
- includesBasilica
Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 20Carl enters Club Vanquisher
Suffering worsening slugpox, Carl clashes with the door guard Potsy before Pater Coal of Emberus escorts him inside.
- Book 6 · Ch 58The Emberus loan and ring
Several days earlier, Carl borrowed from the Temple of Emberus to have his strength ring enchanted to suppress his slug debuff, earning the Columbia House achievement.
- Book 7 · Ch 33Milk offers a way out
Ashamed of years of inaction, Milk invites the crawlers to 'threaten' her so she can give them a map of the club's secret exits.
- Book 7 · Ch 55Rosetta's theory of the vanishing sultana
In a flashback, Rosetta argues from past seasons that Vinata escapes into Club Vanquisher through a temple outside Larracos.
- Book 7 · Ch 58Rosetta's theory confirmed
Edgar's detection of a Bijou confirms Rosetta's theory, and Carl deduces Vinata's court will travel to Khepri's temple in Club Vanquisher.
- Book 7 · Ch 59The fake bounty ruse
Carl pretends to have captured Prepotente, persuading the ram guard Mork to summon Club Vanquisher's guards.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Breaking into Club Vanquisher
Katia's fake demon alarm and Bautista's pyxies sow chaos; Carl hits Mork with Black Nimbus and the team kills the guards and holds the portals open.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Li Na's dread massacre
Li Na's wire-amplified Dark Purpose makes guards and trophy heads destroy themselves, their ghosts dragged away by chains, defiling the lobby.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Race to the temple portal
Carl, Katia, Prepotente and Samantha cross the blood-soaked club to the temple portal and dial Khepri's temple, where Vinata is visible.
- Book 7 · Ch 63Gods pour into Club Vanquisher
Blasted out with Carl, Vinata crushes him as dozens of gods emerge; Hellik banishes Khepri and gives Carl a message for Emberus.
- Book 7 · Ch 63Death of Princess Vinata
A sluggalo bursts from Carl's slugpox boil and kills Vinata with a hatchet once her immortality ends.
- Book 7 · Ch 64Operation Head Banger
Carl berserks the mantaurs with alarm-trap music, nimbuses a Basilica ogre and uses Profane Iron to fight through to his friends.
- Book 7 · Ch 67Carl reviews his Club Vanquisher rewards
Carl reviews achievements from the Club Vanquisher raid: a temple ban, an unwanted Lucky Shot patch, a celestial box, and a new Emberus quest to kill 100 Hellik worshipers, plus a menacing message from Emberus.