On his pilgrimage to the secret Casino of Gefestmere, Flike was unlucky enough to be dragged into a secret time altering ritual. With the help of husbands and friends(?), the ritual was thwarted and the city and lives of those in the ritual were saved.
With a new found talent for reading and writing as bestowed by the magic wheel, flike begins a journey of the scholarly arts. JK, he writes a 981,000 word memoir called: "The Mapach and the wheel of indeterminate origin that is of both indistinct form and alignment; considering the effects of early age gambling talent when applied to eldritch energies beyond our plane of existence, the extents of mortal knowledge and the limits of a feeble mammalian mind. Part 1 of 9. Flike and noodle begin to move around from Casino to casino amassing incalculable wealth with the help of flike's clear gambling talent and noodle's unwavering support and affection. Flike marries 8 additional men, adding them to the polycule, and will frequently offer a place in the polycule up as his bet when he runs out of money, so far, no one has taken him up on this because apparently, it's not particularly desirable. Flike keeps in contact with and tries his best to be surrounded by his friends and lovers like Bayle Fyppin the dread, Owen Wilson, and the face of Massimo flike cut off and placed on the body of a mannequin made of twigs, leaves and vines. The last line of book 4 - the one most recently released by the time of the second campaign is: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
