Let’s get Faustian. (Literally.) It’s time to meet
Eric…
Summary
Death is tending to his bees when there’s a breeze in his realm and the sound of feet running and someone going on about how they don’t want to die. The Unseen University also detects this, but the Archchancellor falls asleep before getting anything done about it, so the Bursar tries to figure out what to do and settles on the Rite of AshkEnte. They summon Death, who explains that Rincewind is the reason this is happening, as he’s trying to get back from the Dungeon Dimensions (see: the end of
Sometimes you just accidentally build a pyramid so large that it swallows an entire land via cosmic powers. It’s time for “The Book of the New Son”, part three of
Pyramids.
Summary
Djelibeybi has disappeared. Well, not disappeared Ptraci discovers you can sort of see it if you’re looking weirdly at the correct spot. But they can’t figure out how to get to it, or put it back, so Teppic decides that they’ll go to Ephebe and ask them some math questions that might get things all sorted. As they’re making their way to the country, Teppic tells Ptraci about their democratic government and elections. Ptaclusp finds the kingdom has been dragged into another dimension, and his accountant son, IIa, has fallen out of step with time and gone all flat, and where they are, their gods are also present. Teppic and Ptraci run into two Ephebians named Xeno and Ibid, who are trying to shoot tortoises with arrows. They’re philosophers, and they refer Teppic to Pthagonal for matters