Over City
Names: Over CityOver City Ruins
First appears in Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, chapter 3 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
- Ch 3The Over City is a vast ruined city, about the size of Arizona, dotted with small villages; urban floors like it appear every three levels.
- Ch 3The floor's story says a monster in a volcano released poison gas, killing or transforming 90% of the six-layered volcano world.
- Ch 3Holographic signposts outside villages point to settlements, saferooms and stairs; villages are unnamed and rated by size.
Connections
- part ofFloor 3
- containsThe Belly-Rubbed Pug
- containsGrimaldi's Traveling Circus
- containsStreet Urchin
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Mordecai's Over City orientation
Mordecai explains the Over City, its owned NPCs and volcano backstory, then sends Carl and Princess Donut toward a medium village before heading to a pub.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Ambushed by circus lemurs
Knife-throwing lemurs and a giraffe attack, triggering the quest The Show Must Go On; Carl and Princess Donut kill a stilt clown while fleeing.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Mortar attack at dusk
Fleeing the fortifying circus at nightfall, Carl, Princess Donut and Mongo are hit by magical mortars and fall into a buried basement.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Meeting Tsarina Signet
Princess Donut teleports them out to face the Elite Tsarina Signet, whose charm grips Carl until he breaks his own finger.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Signet abducts Carl and Donut
Signet stuns and knocks out Carl and Donut as they leave for the skyfowl settlement. Carl wakes fifteen hours later to find Donut under Signet's Water Lily spell, held hostage until he fulfils his promise.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Staircase revealed at the circus
The circus is gone after a bright light at dawn, revealing a hidden staircase to the fourth floor where Grimaldi had stood.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Ambush at the abandoned pool
While grinding, the party is plunged into magical darkness and attacked by city elves and giant monsters. Carl kills the elves with hob-lobbers and dynamite, but is blasted onto a roof when the Divider's bloated corpse explodes; Donut and Mongo finish the fight.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Flight to the stairwell
Carl leads naked crawlers east through the Over City as precursor bursts kill Conrad E and destroy Donut's crown; they reach the stairwell and descend.