Gregor Chapters

Gregor the Overlander     -- Chapters
Chapter	Content
1	Intro to characters and situation – Gregor and Boots fall
2	Still falling,  lands, "beeg bugs,"   bugs decide to take them to humans, to stadium, huge bats, meet Luxa
3	Describes Luxa,  learn about Luxa
4	Gregor finds out he can't go home, that other Overlanders had been there, that he is in danger,  through the arch into Regalia
5	Sees Regalia for the first time, (valley, buildings out of gray rock), into building without doors, Boots making friends, taken to a place to wash, Gregor begins to form a plan using the waterway to escape.
6	Gregor meets Solovet, dinner with the Underlanders, learns history of Underland
7	went to bed early, tries to escape with Boots, steals a boat, chased by the Underlanders, lands on a beach, met by a monsterous rat
8	Rats talk about eating Gregor and Boots, the rats think Gregor may be the one, Underlanders come to save them, Gregor fights with torch,  Luxa saves him.  Shed says,  "Overlander,  we hunt you to the last rat."  burn the beach
9	Gregor apologizes, hands bound, under armed guard, Luxa slaps him, Vikus cuts his ropes, finds out the Luxa's parents were killed by rats, they know or suspect they know about Gregor's father, show him the keychain
10	Gregor finds out that his father was there, tried to escape, was captured by rats, is still alive, rats trying to get him to invent for them, they take him to the room of carvings, prophecies of their founder including "The Prophecy of Gray" (page 109) Gregor finds out he may be the warrior foretold in prophecy.
11	Gregor tries to convince them he is not the warrior, he is called to the council, asks for help saving his father,  they believe he is the warrior foretold in prophecy, plans to go on a quest, Boots to be left behind, but Gregor insists on taking her, bat and injured woman fly in to tell them that the king of the rats -- King Gorger has launched his armies.
12	Underlanders getting ready for war, Gregor gets to look through items from Overland, picks out flashlight, hard hat with built in light, batteries, slightly dented can of root beer,  meets Henry's sister Nerissa who "knows things," Gregor and Boots ride with Vikus, finds out the Solovet is a military leader, Luxa to become queen when she turns 16 (she is 12 now), the Prophecy tells who must go on the quest, they need to get cockroaches and spiders to go along, visit bats to get permission to take their companion bats on the quest, bats agree that Gregor is "the one."
13	Vikus and Solovet meeting with the bats, they are on a high pillar, and Henry tosses Boots off -- knows a bat will catch her, he argues with Luxa and Henry, finds out the rats also killed Henry's parents, we find out the Gregor is very afraid of heights
14	The group travels to the home of the cockroaches, they again meet the cockroaches who had taken them to the humans: Temp and Tick.  The cockroaches refuse to send any of their own on the quest.  Humans tend not to think much of the "crawlers," as shown by Henry.   In the night the cockroaches dance around Boots.
15	The cockroaches honor Boots.  Roaches announce that Temp and Tick would join the quest.  Vikus announces they will travel to the land of the "spinners."  They encounter rats.  The others tell Boots to run, he runs in to an enormous spiderweb.
16	A spider begins wrapping him up, partially wrapped and 50 feet up, The rest of the group finds and frees them.  They had killed all the rats.  Meet the spider queen, All are trapped by the spiders.
17	Gregor realized a tantrum from Boots can distract the spiders enough that they can break through and escape.  They break out, but the spiders try to capture them again or kill them. The queen spider is almost ready to bite Luxa's neck . . .
18	. . . when Gregor pulls out his root beer can, shakes it up, and sprays it at the spider.  They get away.  They land to rest on a ledge.  There is some root beer left in the can, and Gregor shares it. Vikus announces that he, Solovet, and Mareth will head back to Regalia to help with the war there while the others continue on.  Before they go, they introduce a new guide: "a rat with a diagonal scar across his face."
19	Henry tries to fight the rat, whose name is Ripred, and is defeated.  He is an old "enemy" of Solovet.   The Prophecy of Gray requires that a rat be part of the quest.  Ripred is there to help, hoping that the humans will help him overthrow King Gorger, king of the rats so they can restore peace between the rats and humans.  He and Vikus had been planning this for a couple of years, in anticipation of Gregor arriving.  Gregor finds out that four of their party will die.
20	Gregor worries about Ripred killing them. Ripred has read about the Overland. He can quote Shakespeare and knows about the Revolutionary Ward. Gregor has to show Luxa and Henry how to prepare food.   He shares with everyone in the group. They have to travel though a small wet, stinky tunnel where the bats have to ride on the cockroaches.  It turns out that this is so their scent will be covered up.   Two spiders stagger in, asking to join the quest.  One dies.
21	The spider colony had been attacked by the rats.  Luxa explains to Gregor about the bond between human and bat.  Boots is getting sick.  Henry is standing over the sleeping Ripred, ready to kill him.
22	Gregor warns Ripred.  Ripred injures Henry.  Gregor defends Ripred from Luxa and Ares. Boots is sicker.  They are about to cross a swinging bridge when attacked by rats.  Tick gives up her life to save the rest of them.
23	Gregor and Temp mourn Tick's death.  Ripred tells them Gregor's father is near, they wrap their feet in spider webs to be quiet, and go on. Gregor is feeling hope that they will soon see his father.   Ripred saves the group from rat guards. They find Gregror's father in a pit.
24	Gregor's father is very ill with a fever like Boots'.  Henry betrays the group to the rats.  He had allied himself with King Gorger.  Gorger kills Gox the spider.  Knowing that he was the one the rats most wanted, Gregor runs and throws himself off the high precipice.
25	Gregor is expecting to die as he hits bottom.  He sees that the rat army and Henry were falling too since the edge of the canyon had broken with them on it.   Ares (Henry's bat) saves Gregor instead of Henry.   As those who are left of the quest head back on the bats, they realize they are lost.  Ripred isn't with them anymore, Luxa is in shock
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