In the colossal, decaying world-tree known as the Log, a society is engineered for suffering. Millions toil in the sprawling slums at its base, their despair fueling the power of Jeff, a fascist god who rules from a gilded castle atop the stump. Between the exploited roots and the opulent crown, the middle trunk is a contested zone run by the Collective—a rare bastion of democratic, worker-led organization. When an economic collapse in the outside world forces a desperate man into this vertical hell, he finds himself homeless and hunted, pushed ever deeper into the brutalizing poverty that is the regime’s lifeblood. Our nameless protagonist’s survival hinges on a chance meeting with a band of unlikely allies and a grizzled old goblin revolutionary. Thrown into a violent raid, they are forced to seek refuge with the very Collective they inadvertently attacked. There, the protagonist tastes stability for the first time, but peace is shattered by a fascist assault that claims a friend’s life and forges the group into true revolutionaries. They join the Collective’s newly declared war, embarking on a covert mission to sow chaos in the elite upper levels, where they must navigate a labyrinth of betrayals, sympathetic servants, and rival factions all seeking to exploit the crumbling order. The final ascent is a battle of ideology as much as force. To reach Jeff’s inner sanctum, the party must unite the fractured discontent of the Log into a single weapon. In a climactic confrontation, the protagonist faces not just a god, but his own morality, rejecting Jeff’s nihilistic equivalence to justify revolutionary justice. The victory topples a god, but the work is just beginning: a new society must be built from the ashes of the old, and the crimes of the past must face a collective trial.