1: Steele J.D. Masters (Simon Hawke)

gellaho

It's here

gellaho

Based solely on the back, I'm guessing someone saw Robocop and didn't understand it

Science God Q Alchemy

"What if robocop but also death wish"

gellaho

You know, sometimes great art isn't appreciated in its own time

sensitive New Age jakesy

The ultimate cop eh

Dr Skin, the dandy

I was going to say post an excerpt. You beautiful human

His clothes look like carpet underlay

Science God Q Alchemy

Wow, that's some dynamite writing

gellaho

3 pages in, and that outfit is accurate

Science God Q Alchemy

Most works of fiction would spend maybe more than a half a second to contemplating the philosophical ramifications of this situation

gellaho

The clothes look like that because it's basically an electric blanket

Dr Skin, the dandy

Steele said "How the hell can be human with a computer for brain?with metal parts and plastic skin?"

"Your not human," Higgins said, "You shouldn't even be speaking! Why is my Dean Martin pyjama real doll speaking back to me?" He asked, reaching for the cattle prod.

gellaho

Also: Missle Backpack

Science God Q Alchemy

Worked wonders for boba fett

gellaho

This is how police trainees dress

Science God Q Alchemy

Steele is the ultimate cop, a descriptor that will definitely not stop being cool ever

gellaho

Also get a description of the World Trade Center

Science God Q Alchemy

"let's give the trainees rocket backpacks" a man who definitely did not end up regretting that idea

Science God Q Alchemy

What year does it take place?

gellaho

In this universe one of the towers is still standing, whoops

The Bloodsucker Proxy

Nobody can panic and empty a clip into an unarmed black teenager like Steele can

gellaho

Don't know yet

Science God Q Alchemy

But It is the future

gellaho

I'm assuming, most of New York has been destroyed

Dr Skin, the dandy

He's overburdened with weapons, to the point he would fall over and die in a puddle.

He can be overcome by a damp meadow.

Science God Q Alchemy

"I bet in the future New York will be blown up but the world trade center will still exists"

Dr Skin, the dandy

All of these people can be immobilised by a large magnet

Or a narrow staircase

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, how's the author going to compensate for his feelings of inadequacy without giving the hero tons of guns

Also of course he's equipped with a .44 magnum

Of course

gellaho

By the way, Steele is the instructor for these trainees. And he's a huge dick

Dr Skin, the dandy

@gellaho

Is there an audiobook, if there isn't do you think they will let you read for it?

Science God Q Alchemy

I think Steven seagal would be perfect to do the audiobook

gellaho

You ready for two yikes?

The Bloodsucker Proxy

wonderful

gellaho

That virus killed billions

Then there was a nuclear holocaust

The Bloodsucker Proxy

why would anyone make a virus like that?

Dr Skin, the dandy

The Chingos and the Green Dragons running together!

This means war when the Mick and Paddy coalition find out!

We better head over to the Bolognese Ciabatta club.

(what year did this come out?)

gellaho

1989

Also, zombies

The Bloodsucker Proxy

can't have post apoc without zombies

gellaho

He just couldn't decide on a post apocalypse

AdomicBomb

What was the fifth mutation? This virus is all over the place.

Dr Skin, the dandy

The fourth mutation caused Parkinson's?

gellaho

AdomicBomb

Huh. Parkinson's then turns to pneumonia. Got it.

gellaho

I don't want to post the whole book, but I'll share Steele's gritty backstory

gellaho

sensitive New Age jakesy

The first Gritty Pre-boot

Like I know there will be a huge amount of major plot holes here, but any virus deadly enough to kill in seconds would not be able to spread worldwide in a matter of hours or days or whatever

Science God Q Alchemy

This book has so much going on, four different apocalypses and it's not even about those, it's about a robot dude who fights crime.

sensitive New Age jakesy

Unless the terrorists are like, UPS

Imagine the logistics you would need to distribute that thing worldwide

gellaho

Everyone's dead, everything is destroyed. There are at least 5 major gangs operating parts of New York. But there are still cops and specialists

Science God Q Alchemy

Make Don diebel a carrier, he'll infect half the world in a matter of hours.

gellaho

No functioning government, but cops

sensitive New Age jakesy

The most important service to restore in the apocalypse is not power, or medical services. Definitely cops

gellaho

The angry police chief literally just mentioned "the feds" but DC is a burning crater

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, the idea that police and military are the most important to maintain order is like, Fascism.

How are their fucking feds?

how is there a government?

gellaho

No, nobody knows what's going on in most of the country

The Robocop program is called "Project Download" by the way

Science God Q Alchemy

Was there a second draft of this book?

sensitive New Age jakesy

The World Wide Web is in, you guys

Science God Q Alchemy

I actually kind of want to try reading this shit now, it sounds insane

sensitive New Age jakesy

The complete lack of understanding how viruses work makes it a little hard to get into the story but I agree it would be an experience

Like “virus turns into completely different type of virus” is 3rd grade essay level stuff here

It would be like the alien who’s currently running our earth simulation deciding that the next strain of COVID causes AIDS

gellaho

So far, second chapter is all about Steele's wife Janice. And how much she hates/wants to fuck him

Science God Q Alchemy

Wow, we are just balls deep in this authors psyche huh?

gellaho

Well, I'm now reading about Steele visiting a priest (Catholic church, still going strong)

So yes

Science God Q Alchemy

I feel like i have an image of the author in my mind

im going to see how accurate it is

Ok so not quite what I thought he'd look like

apparently JD masters is a pseudonym, of a man who legally changed his last name to hawke and has written, just so many star trek novels

Dr Skin, the dandy

He looks like a body builder got old

Science God Q Alchemy

yeah, i imagined an ill fitting suit

Dr Skin, the dandy

He had the head of a History teacher from Liverpool, the torso and arms of a guy working in the shop at O.C Choppers!

He is Steele!

gellaho

The whole second chapter is about the marriage. I'm a quarter of the way through and this dude hasn't died yet

Dr Skin, the dandy

I may have to unironically read these.

Science God Q Alchemy

Given the politics on display in the book Steele, I wouldn't figure him for a star trek guy

Dr Skin, the dandy

The first time he fucks his wife, he fucks her like they had been married for years.

"Yes!" She says to his proposal, as her mind screams "No!"

gellaho

Now it's turned into a matrix thing where CIA (apparently also still exists) scientists are going to download his police skills and upload them to other cops

Dr Skin, the dandy

Where's the author from?

Is he British? The gangs read like someone from a UK village stretching for gritty New York drama voice

gellaho

Not sure when the robot part will happen

Dr Skin, the dandy

Is there a graphic novel?

Science God Q Alchemy

apparently he's from colorado?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Dammit.

The Chingos and the Green Dragons.

I mean the Green Dragons could be the remnants of some sort of Larpers. I googled Chingo and it means nude in Spanish? Is that correct?

A team up between role players and a gang whose USP is they're naked?

Science God Q Alchemy

The worldbuilding makes no sense, it's a post apocalypse but the cia and many of the structures of government still exist as well as police force, but new york is just violent gangs. But like, laws and shit still exist? Like am I just missing context or what?

Dr Skin, the dandy

So, the intelligence services are basically little organic nations. I can see they would look to survive. They know how to maintain structures in a warzone. They would probably love it. They would probably be over the fucking moon

Is there a court system?

Can someone please draw this

gellaho

The population of the world has been dropped below a billion, but there are still a lot of people in New York

Dr Skin, the dandy

How's the Amazon doing :thinking:

gellaho

So this is how the government works

Science God Q Alchemy

I think if we dropped below a billion no structure would be able to function no matter what

gellaho

Except that 3 states are totally dead, Texas has seceded, there's a war in the Midwest (?), and nobody knows what is going on with the west coast

Dr Skin, the dandy

Waging war on "the survivors"

gellaho

I don't know who's at war in the Midwest

Dr Skin, the dandy

This is the greatest book. I miss those old yellowed trash pages.

If I had read this at 13 I would have taken it so seriously.

Science God Q Alchemy

I cannot wrap my head around how any of this functions? Am I dumb?

gellaho

Here's some stupid shit

Science God Q Alchemy

Like the use government is still around sort of? but everything on fire.

Dr Skin, the dandy

They have brought in the unarmed combat champion ( all branches) of the US army.

Science God Q Alchemy

Written by a man who has absolutely been in fights before

Dr Skin, the dandy

Steele is gonna iron Man Vs Captain America his moves

Science God Q Alchemy

To be fair, that cannot be a large pool to choose from anymore

Dr Skin, the dandy

Just him and six guys

It's the golden age of fake Karate

Science God Q Alchemy

like it feels like the author forgets that the world has been reduced to a tenth of it's population, there is no way they bounced back in however many years it's been since the initial virus.

Dr Skin, the dandy

If you haven't got scurvy you are in the top three

gellaho

Time to examine Steele's dick

sensitive New Age jakesy

Hahaha

Is this written by Riker?

Dr Skin, the dandy

"I was wrong, that is a mutilated bratwurst and my stomach is turning, oh my god is that a Balldo?" She asked.

Science God Q Alchemy

"Gotta make sure everyone knows he has a huge dick" - Simon Hawke, genius

Wait, they should as a prank make his dick smaller

Dr Skin, the dandy

What is his next thought please?

Science God Q Alchemy

just a tiny robo chub

Dr Skin, the dandy

At least someone in this damn lab knows to complement a man on his cock, during his RoboCop induction phase.

Wait, his dick is a gun isn't it.

gellaho

Good news, TV is still available

Science God Q Alchemy

"In soviet russia dick shoot you"

Dr Skin, the dandy

What do cyber men with huge dicks watch, after a hard shift slaughtering green dragons?

gellaho

Talk shows

1

Science God Q Alchemy

Your mom?

gellaho

Full page devoted to a fictional ad

Dr Skin, the dandy

I gotta go. @Gellaho you are good man for mining this rich vein of hyper masculinity. Please @ me if post any descriptions of the gang members. I will be disappointed if the Chingos are not Nude Europeans and if the Green Dragons are not medieval role players though.

gellaho

@Dr Skin, the dandy here you go

The Green Dragons are Chinese

1

Dr Skin, the dandy

Oh god I came back into the room my phone was charging to see

sensitive New Age jakesy

Victor Boradini, strong Italian man, gets a nice manly mob name while the Chinese guy is jus “Chang”

Dr Skin, the dandy

I think they didn't even ask 'Chang' his fucking name.(edited)

This is cartoon gold.

Philippe and Chang. Over there Viktor and Akeem.

Then you get "Peacemaker" who is going to get more airtime I hope.

gellaho

Chang is "a young, good looking Asian with a youthful angular face and long, jet-black hair"

That's what you get for him

Phillipe is ignored

sensitive New Age jakesy

“He looks like one-a them Asians”

Dr Skin, the dandy

You know, with kind of an angular youthful face.(edited)

gellaho

At this point, the sexy lady scientist tried to fuck Steele without any build up. And Steele's wife is cheating on him with multiple men(edited)

Dr Skin, the dandy

Isn't it funny the virus killed any person with an expression of individuality. Leaving weird ethnic gangsters.

Science God Q Alchemy

Holy shit

gellaho

I'm halfway through, still waiting for the plot to start

@gellaho

I'm halfway through, still waiting for the plot to start

Dr Skin, the dandy

We must fund the purchase of the entire series. There is nothing else now in my life.

I want to draw "Chang"

Science God Q Alchemy

Well, look man they have to get the worldbuilding done, how are we gonna take this cyborg action series seriously if we don't first learn that his wife's a whore.

also the evolving pokevirus

Dr Skin, the dandy

I imagine he's wearing silk.

He has a ponytail

He is resentful nobody asked him name, which is Stephen.

As it happens it is Stephen Chang. That's not the point.

sensitive New Age jakesy

And like all lady doctors, she couldn’t resist dipping that pen in the company ink

gellaho

Jesus

Dr Skin, the dandy

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE MOTHERFUCKER

That you John Coffee?

Science God Q Alchemy

"He said 'hold right there' but in the way black people say things" - Simon Hawke, genius

1

Dr Skin, the dandy

JUST WATCH OUT FOR ALL THESE BURNT TORN UP MATTRESSES, WE TOO FUCKING STUPID TO SLEEP ON. YOU KNOW THESE THINGS ARE FUCKING EVERYWHERE DOG.

sensitive New Age jakesy

The uhhhh not being able to see him in the dark because he’s so black thing is a little sus id say

Dr Skin, the dandy

Even with predator vision.

Science God Q Alchemy

Is steele a robot yet?

also let's talk about how lucky the robot guy is to be named steele

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

yeah, nobody tells the story of Jacob R. Fleshboy, the cyborg

1

sensitive New Age jakesy

It’s like how every town where the resistance is based is somehow already named Sanctuary

Just crazy coincidence

gellaho

He just got shot to shit, exploded, and then a building fell on him

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

there is a Blaseball player named Oliver Notarobot, who is the reverse

gellaho

So I'd say it'd be robot time

sensitive New Age jakesy

Was it Chang? Tell me it was Chang

Chang deserves revenge

gellaho

That's the mystery

Ferroday, ScapeApe

"a voice that was unmistakably black" has big Wakka energy

Science God Q Alchemy

He couldn't see the assailant, because he was black and it was dark

Dr Skin, the dandy

I know by the naming conventions Peacemaker is an antagonist the author was working on, he will get a cameo.

Science God Q Alchemy

So how far would this story have to tip to become straight up fascist? Like I don't think it's there yet but it's closer than maybe you'd want it be.(edited)

Dr Skin, the dandy

"How's it been Ice?"

"OH YOU KNOW, JUST CANT MAKE UP MY MIND ABOUT WHETHER I SHOULD BE BURNING OR TEARING UP THESE MATTRESSES, HERE IN THE DARK. I EVER TELL YOU WHY THEY CALL ME ICE? THEY DON'T"

gellaho

RoboSteele

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

what a tantalizing glimpse of a Ship of Theseus/Axe of my Grandfather problem that will probably be glossed over after he has his deus ex i never asked for this moment

Dr Skin, the dandy

Your brain will be as obsolete as an amstrad in about 18 months. Good luck.

@Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

what a tantalizing glimpse of a Ship of Theseus/Axe of my Grandfather problem that will probably be glossed over after he has his deus ex i never asked for this moment

Science God Q Alchemy

According to the cover blurb they spend like, a sentence on it before he threatens to rip a dudes lungs out

God, what is the process of upgrading your brain to the newer model?

gellaho

"Electronic sedative"

Ferroday, ScapeApe

a cyberpunk story written by someone that understands neither computers nor human biology

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, is he still the same man?

gellaho

Good news, ladies!

Also some religious philosophy after the dick talk

Science God Q Alchemy

they couldn't save his brain, but they did save his dick

priorities i guess

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

"Your soul was in the grundle, bud, so you're good!"

Science God Q Alchemy

also are we defining humanity based on reproductive ability? Is that what that passage is saying?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Hey readers, in case your wondering he still has a dick. Back to the story.

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

i mean i was waiting for the fuckest shit, gender essentialism/BIOTRUTHS comes as none surprise

Ferroday, ScapeApe

"what about my soul" asked so casually

Dr Skin, the dandy

Catholism isn't clear about the exact location of the soul, so you know. It could be eeerrrrrmmmmm there ( touches elbow)

Ferroday, ScapeApe

glossing over the big transhumanist questions with "who cares, you still have a penis"

@Science God Q Alchemy

also are we defining humanity based on reproductive ability? Is that what that passage is saying?

gellaho

There's some more "but what is the soul, really?" talk on the next page

@Ferroday, ScapeApe

glossing over the big transhumanist questions with "who cares, you still have a penis"

Dr Skin, the dandy

Chekovs penis(edited)

gellaho

But talking about the dick first makes it somewhat irrelevant

Science God Q Alchemy

"If you introduce a massive penis in the first act, it must go off in the third act" - Anton Chekhov

Dr Skin, the dandy

Such weird male insecurity.

I will let you leave me my flaccid flabby man flesh and just give me a super penis, thanks.

Ferroday, ScapeApe

maybe it's just me, but if I was getting a nigh-immortal robot body I really wouldn't give a shit if I still had genitalia

gellaho

He has a nuclear powered heart!

"A miniature fusion generator"

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

BIOTRUTHS

Dr Skin,ndy

Brain, take it.

Skin/ face, take it.

Penis, whoah. This kings sceptre, the seat of the soul. These four inches of Albion? NO. Way.

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

i mean i think it's important to have something that makes you feel like a person, whether that's taste ealistic skin, the junk, or whatever

Ferroday, ScapeApe

as long as I still have access to the basic senses to interact with the world around me I do not care if I'm classified as human anymore

gellaho

I don't know what this book is about

Ferroday, ScapeApe

at least, biologicallly

like, just put my brain in a robot suit and leave me be

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

if you can think and reason and shit you're still human

body is a fuck

real gnostic hours

Dr Skin, the dandy

I dunno guys. I think the digestive system has a lot of play. All the irrational stuff is important.

@Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

if you can think and reason and shit you're still human

Ferroday, ScapeApe

exactly, the rest of your flesh is irrelevant

PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH

gellaho

I said "fuck off" out loud after reading this

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

but everyone has a different way of feeling like a person

maybe you need to eat to feelr eal

maybe you need to bone

maybe you just need to read

there's different needs

Ferroday, ScapeApe

"wondered if a cyborg was capable of tears"

"he wasn't

GOOD

Dr Skin, the dandy

His eyes are going to go all gross and dry.

The author is an idiot

The Bloodsucker Proxy

"At least I'm still too manly to cry"

Science God Q Alchemy

Im a materialist, so I don't believe separating mind from body is possible.

Ferroday, ScapeApe

he weeps from his penis now

Science God Q Alchemy

He has the clap?

Dr. W. Sanguine, PhD PhD

the body influences the mind, but i'm no materialist

gellaho

He's working out now for some reason

Dr Skin, the dandy

"My dick is still here too, Susan's gone. Probably won't be back for a few minutes" Steele thought to himself.

Science God Q Alchemy

And that's the story of how he lost his dick and had to get a robot version

don't jerk off with your uncalibrated robot hands

sensitive New Age jakesy

Too tough to cry, too flabby to forget leg day

Dr Skin, the dandy

He peeled back the latex nyskin to expose his terminator arm.

Determinedly and without crying (for the first time in years) he began to masturbate while he focused on revenge fantasies against his wife. Who is, for some reason only in the story to be utterly deplorable.

gellaho

I think he forgot that this is post apocalyptic

Science God Q Alchemy

he keeps doing that

Dr Skin, the dandy

What the fucking fuck is the issue with the wife?

sensitive New Age jakesy

Lol at legal proceedings and apocalypse landlords

Like look guys NY is ruled by roaming gangs but you’re 3 months late on rent and the bank is about to foreclose on me

How am I going to save up for my daughter to attend Fordham at this rate?

Science God Q Alchemy

JUST:clap: KILL:clap: HIM :clap: WITH:clap: YOUR:clap: HANDS

Dr Skin, the dandy

"Your cowbag of a wife called, she's told the kids you died sucking Chang's cock and it's Robbie's birthday. It's best if you don't focus on correcting your relationship with your children and just store up the rage for later"

The Bloodsucker Proxy

"And then they got an eviction notice and -wait, shit, the world ended. God, what is in these pills? How long have I been awake?"

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, his legal status is nebulous, so he can't be tried for murder right?

also everyone died of a virus so like, who gives a shit?

sensitive New Age jakesy

On top of all this, I gotta take the LIRR at rush hour!?

Dr Skin, the dandy

Who granted a restraining order against a deadman who's been ressurected as a Robocop

sensitive New Age jakesy

Oh wait, apocalypse. Right. The LIRR is just a tunnel now. A gang tunnel

Dr Skin, the dandy

Why would he pay a blind bit of notice. This all screams messy divorce for the author.

Science God Q Alchemy

Are you saying this man has had trouble with women?

gellaho

Where Robocop shot a rapist in the dick, Steele... arrests a mugger

Science God Q Alchemy

Wait, a mugger? can you imagine living in the end times and fucking mugging someone?

sensitive New Age jakesy

Also, he’s a cyborg cop. What’s going to happen if he breaks the law? Is there a super cyborg cop to arrest him and take him to mega jail?

Science God Q Alchemy

"Steele has qualified immunity, the qualification is that he's too strong and no one can stop him"

"We may have made a terrible mistake"

sensitive New Age jakesy

Nobody survives UltraRikers

gellaho

He just fucked the lady scientist

Ferroday, ScapeApe

of course he did

Science God Q Alchemy

With his gross human dong

sensitive New Age jakesy

Any of these New York references landing?

Ferroday, ScapeApe

"I- I mean, my character is a badass cyborg that doesn't need to cry and has super duper cyborg powers and has a really big dick and bangs all the chicks and he doesn't even NEED you Sharon."

gellaho

No

Science God Q Alchemy

Yeah, let's actually talk more about Steele is incapable of crying

that's hilarious

sensitive New Age jakesy

Oh wait! He’s Tappan Zee lady scientist!

Science God Q Alchemy

Like, can you imagine the level of insecurity?

imagine being that guy

Dr Skin, the dandy

The author has apparently attempted a set of humourous murder mysteries, with William Shakespeare as a detective.

I'm not going to lie, I'm interested

The Bloodsucker Proxy

as an elevator pitch, that kinda rules

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, they can't be worse can they?

Dr Skin, the dandy

This clearly isn't the man to write it, but that is NETFLIX material

Ferroday, ScapeApe

what's this guy's name again?

Science God Q Alchemy

Simon Hawke, writing as Jd masters

he changed his name to hawke, legally

which will never stop being funny to me.

Dr Skin, the dandy

All the Shakespeare's murder mysteries would have to feature thinly disguised characters from Shakespeare's creations.

Oh my GOD HE'S A GENIUS.

Macbeth with Shakespeare as Poirot?

gellaho

Cover continues to be on point, here comes the laser eyes

Ferroday, ScapeApe

OH MY GOD IT'S A SERIES?!

The Bloodsucker Proxy

honestly, if you handed that idea to, let's say Taika Waititi, I could see it working

Ferroday, ScapeApe

Steele, Jagged Steele, Targeted Steele, Killer Steele, Cold Steele, Renegade Steele

Dr Skin, the dandy

@Ferroday, ScapeApe

Did you miss the covers?

Ferroday, ScapeApe

I just looked him up on amazon

Dr Skin, the dandy

That's one the greatest runs this discord has had

The missing hand fiasco

The Bloodsucker Proxy

and then there was the porn parody, Hard as Steele

sensitive New Age jakesy

Oh no he just has a spare hand. It ain’t missing

gellaho

It would have to be a series, I'm almost done with this book and they've been in the lab for 75% of it

Dr Skin, the dandy

Bandolier jetpack straps

Non dextrous stabbing hand

Ferroday, ScapeApe

the cover for the first book he just looks like someone drew over a ghostbuster

Science God Q Alchemy

The entire Steele series is like, a desperate cry for help from a dude having a lot of problems with his masculinity

God, I remember dunking on these covers. I secretly worried they might not be that bad, but here we are.

Dr Skin, the dandy

His eyes glow red as he sees red, red dots appear on his target's heads

Science God Q Alchemy

so we have found the point the editor just gave up

Dr Skin, the dandy

These were written in an age where books needed publishers right?

gellaho

Here's the classic, stop or I'll kill the kid scene

Laser eyes, of course

Dr Skin, the dandy

This is the most ineffective use of government money.

He would not be deployed in this fashion.

gellaho

This feels like it was written by a computer

Science God Q Alchemy

I mean, the entire oversight committee died of virus an unspecified amount of time ago

The Bloodsucker Proxy

there's this reviewer called Yahtzee who once said that no amount of super soldiers is going to be more effective in combat than a good bomb

gellaho

Like, why did the gang member just decide to pull out a knife

Dr Skin, the dandy

You notice in the justified violence fantasy, it's not required that you immediately check on the victim

Who is only there as a sort of provocation

Dr Skin, the dandy

Was there a butterfly knife moral panic in the 80's?

Science God Q Alchemy

Dude who doesn't take a child hostage gets shot in the head, but he disarms and incapacitates the dude holding the child hostage.

Also "snikked out his knife"

The Bloodsucker Proxy

there was a moral panic about everything in the 80's

gellaho

He was dropped off at the Green Dragons' territory. I don't know why, but I only have twenty pages left