Jamal
Names: JamalJar Jar
First appears in Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin, chapter 20 ([ 15 ])
Appearances
What you know
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 20Jamal is a 17-foot hammerhead shark tattoo given flesh who breathes air, can no longer fly, and longs to hop.
- Ch 20Carl built Jamal an automaton leg harness, but Jamal keeps breaking it by hopping.
- Ch 20Jamal ate Fancy Boy during a berserk feeding frenzy and was unaffected by the stench because he can no longer smell.
- Ch 39Jamal, a hammerhead shark still awaiting spider legs from Katia, rolls into battle and seizes mercenaries in his jaws.
- Ch 75Jamal now has enhanced robotic legs and a flamethrower named Velma attached to his harness.
- Ch 92Jamal's legs are wrecked by the initial No Disassemble blast.
- Ch 93Jamal's fifth set of cybernetic legs was ruined by the blast; Katia has made him another set.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 36Jamal now has grabber hands on his front spider legs, designed by Mordecai, and uses them to brush Carl and Donut's daily buffs.
- Ch 46Jamal, the shark, got stuck on the garage ceiling for hours because he is afraid of heights.
- Ch 46Jamal fears that if Carl dies everything simply stops, and he wants to be brave like the Jamal he once was.
Connections
- created byCarlbuilt his automaton leg harness
- enemy ofFancy Boy
- member ofPersonal Guard
Key moments
- Book 7 · Ch 20Hunting the Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Carl's mixed squad hunts a mob incursion at the edge of their territory; Carl breaks the rolling ball apart with hob-lobbers and Rend feeds on the dazed skunks.
- Book 7 · Ch 20Aftermath of the skunk spray
Carl escapes via Gloom Wraith Phase, Bodi paralyzes the skunks, Rend feeds and levels up, and Jamal eats Fancy Boy, while Donut, Mongo and the elves are Skanked.
- Book 7 · Ch 27Carl heads to the southern front
Carl ejects Samantha from Party Planner via Louis, sends the eager kids and Jamal back, and leads his Personal Guard toward the naga border.
- Book 7 · Ch 39Destroying the Reaver beachhead
Tina charges the cyborg paratroopers while summoned card monsters join the fight; Carl detonates their bomb automatons with Tripper, and the defenders finish them off.
- Book 7 · Ch 75Eris's Chaos Ritual
Eris casts Bear Witness and Bring Forth the Witnesses, freezing almost everyone outside structures on the floor and lifting them into the sky, including Carl's army and the Madness soldiers.
- Book 7 · Ch 76Carl presses on to the Madness castle
With the Madness army gone, Carl, Dong, Bigs and Jamal decide to continue the assault on the Madness castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 77Carl breaches the Madness castle
Carl, Dong, Jamal, Bigs and Rend cross the trapped field, are deshrouded, and force a back door into the Castle of the Madness, finding about twenty soldiers inside.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Madness castle guards defeated
Carl's group kills the Madness guards and two Viceroys, captures the conscripted crawlers Selvi and Tuba, and Bigs occupies the Madness throne room.
- Book 7 · Ch 82Carl reaches Larracos
Carl's group travels through the saferoom to the Larracos College of Magic, where Team Retribution and Semeru dwarves fight zarogoths as the city defense towers power up.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Louis rescued from the Reaver castle
Juice Box possesses Louis and teleports him out as explosive robot dogs attack; Carl pockets a frozen nuke dog and detonates No Disassembles, blowing up the castle.
- Book 8 · Ch 46Jamal rescued from the ceiling
Jamal confesses his fear of heights and of dying, and Donut talks him down from the garage ceiling.
- Book 8 · Ch 71Grigori meets Samantha
Samantha discovers the fleshmancer Grigori and demands he find her a body; he agrees to examine her.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Scolopendra's first attack
The AI launches the Nine-Tier Attack quest. A wheel lands on the Beast of Burden Sin, Transformation. Donut, Jamal and Samantha are spared, but Carl is hit and transformed into a four-legged creature.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Leaving the cursed floor
Back at Hungry Eyes, Donut collects two more mounts, comforts the giant dream-Imani, and the truck heads for the stairwell.
- Book 8 · Ch 94Building the Vengeance procession
The team decorates five vehicles and three giant mounts with dahlias and Gurkha gear, assigning drivers and riders for the parade.
- Book 8 · Ch 100Taranis kills Emberus
Enraged at the attack on Penny, Taranis destroys his brother Emberus; the blast wrecks vehicles across the arena, though the crawlers survive.