Hump Town
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 1Hump Town is a Dromedarian brothel town sheltered by enchanted sail awnings that are furled when the daily sandstorm ends.
Connections
- inNecropolis of Anser
- containsHump Town Town Hall
- containsThe Toe
- containsSpit and Swallow
- containsWeird Shit Alley
- led byHenrik
- containsDesperado Club
- inFloor 5
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 1Entering Hump Town
Clay the Dromedarian admits them for a blitz stick and warns them off city hall, prompting a quest; Mordecai meets them in his new skyfowl body.
- Book 4 · Ch 2Carl scouts the gnome castle
Carl pays the changeling orphan Skarn to use a gnomish telescope, surveying the floating Wasteland and a patrol ship carrying a Knock-Knock bomb.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rallying Hump Town's crawlers
Carl's team recruits drunk crawlers Firas and Louis and Langley's archer party for a planning meeting at the Toe.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Dead goose in the egg
The dropped egg proves broken, holding a dead Feral Goose boss; with eight more aircraft descending, the team retreats to Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 4The Royal Chariot is built and tested
Carl and Katia design and build a tracked vehicle at the engineering table and field-test it on the dunes outside Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Henrik reveals how the collateral works
Charmed by Donut, the changeling Henrik explains the twinned-watch code proving Wynne alive and the gnome ambassador's inspections, giving Carl an idea.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Quest to save Hump Town
After the gnomes cut off contact with Henrik, Carl receives the quest Squeeze out the Juice Box to save Hump Town before the bombardment.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Hump Town saved
Hump Town survives mostly intact, completing the quest; the Wasteland is reduced to one balloon-borne house holding Commandant Kane and his daughter.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Gerbil siege of Hump Town
A punishing wave of thousands of frenzied gerbils pushes the defenders back to Weird Shit Alley until Carl stomps one, appeasing the AI.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Maggie unmasked inside Chris
Chris's slips reveal he is really Maggie My; as she pulls a celestial grenade, Katia petrifies the body with a bolt and Carl seizes the grenade.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Phase one extractions start
Imani launches the bubble rescues; the first group passes through the gate to Hump Town and hands it on without stealing it.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Return to Hump Town
Carl and Donut cross the Lacuna back to bubble 543, are applauded by crawlers, and Florin thanks Carl before descending.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Setting the gate
Carl buries the winding box near the stairwell atop the bowl; Katia calculates the ninth-floor portal will open 23 minutes before collapse.