Hobgoblin Dynamite

Explosive filler packed into Carl's barrel bombs alongside gunpowder, capable of leveling an entire city block.

Story so far

Carl's barrel bombs were crammed with gunpowder and Hobgoblin Dynamite plus delay-detonated Smoke Curtains, packed in a way designed to cause the most destruction possible. He described them as unstable as shit — the mere presence of a leaning drunk caused one barrel's integrity to slide downward — but a single barrel could take out an entire block.

Four of them detonated on Zockau's pub row. The block burned, bodies littered the street, thick fog filled the area, every window in town blew out, the first rows of buildings down the residential street half-caved in, and the Desperado Club's entire façade collapsed. Carl and Princess Donut survived only because they were inside The Scuttlebutt, a real saferoom — and even there they were thrown across the barroom.

Role

The explosive that lets Carl level a city block in a single stroke.

Relationships

Carl — Packs it into barrel bombs.

Barrel Bomb — The delivery device it fills.

Smoke Curtain — Delay-detonated alongside it in the same barrel.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 4

Standard explosive sticks Carl carefully slices into twenty smaller pieces while prepping for the hunters.

Chapter 5

Explosive filler packed into Carl's barrel bombs alongside gunpowder, capable of leveling an entire city block.