The final showdown between URIEL and their greatest nemesis to date: a UC Berkeley grad student.

Westercon ‘73 gets a little strange • The St. Francis slips deeper into ontological instability • Viv meets the field team • Jocasta arrives at the scene, loaded for bear • Roger runs damage control • The office team debates how to counteract Carl and Richie’s plan • Marshall worries about the PR fallout with Granite Peak • Archie starts formulating the idea of a meme-laden live-action “role playing game” • Mitch and Jocasta go bull hunting

"That's a large and effective parcel," Mitch says in Danbe. It sounds better in Danbe.

Sophie and Charley visit the Cyclotron Building at Berkeley to discover what Carl and Richie were up to. They also have a pretty serious conversation about dreams and Project loyalty.

Roger and Mitch corral a catatonic Rich to safety, and enlist Viv in managing the fallout of the ikoter blast.

URIEL figures out Carl and Richie’s nefarious plan • Mitch and Roger race to apprehend them • And get blasted through the door by an ersatz ikoter-shotgun • Jocasta takes Andy into involuntary protective custody • Viv gives her keynote speech and reading from her new book • The crowd loves it (they have no choice, she uses NLP) • Mitch and Roger get to the con floor too late • It all goes to shit

Mitch sits down for the St. Francis Hotel’s famous continental breakfast and bumps into Richie Talbot.

Roger and Mitch surveil acclaimed science fiction author and paranoid recluse, Andrew H. Krane.