Interesting points in the latest text update; namely:
Parson apparently isn’t the first person to cross over from Earth to Erfworld (and you can go home again);
the Arkenshoes are gone (or are they?);
Wanda is where she needs to be; and
Olive is in deep boop.
And Charlie is “The Wizard”, which supports the idea that he is also from Earth.
It’s possible they were just lost somewhere on Erf. The ruby slippers didn’t go back to Kansas–they landed in the Deadly Desert, I think.
…as usual, Jack is on the spot. 
Good. She makes a bloodthirsty maniac and a creepy necromancer seem downright pleasant by comparison. Hopefully, Banhammer will waffle long enough to allow Jillian to do her thing.
Meanwhile, am I the only one who really hopes that, by the end of the story, Jillian and Jack end up together? So far as I can tell, he really, truly, genuinely loves her, and that seems to be even rarer in Erf than it is in our world. It takes more than just Loyalty to be willing to follow someone into a heroin(e) dream to lead them out personally.
There is a certain euphony to the idea, isn’t there? I like to think that their names are signamancy, but even that may have unfortunate implications for them.
Jack’s already broken his crown - he was mad when we originally see him. Well I’ll admit I’m stretching the analogy between crown/head/mind a bit.
Let me tell you the story of a man named Charlie:
On a tragic and fateful day…
Not that much - “crown” in the rhyme does refer to his head.
Well enough, but that still leaves Jillian to “come tumbling after”. Does it suggest that she will fall for him at some point, or just “fall”–in battle, perhaps? (Assuming it means anything at all.)
New Erf Comic, in which King Slately has a word with Parson.
I’d say the updates are moving at a glacial pace, but with global warming I think the glaciers are acually outpacing it.
Interesting that the game has hidden goodies, though.
And there are four (or maybe five, counting the crown) of them.
I wish I had more opportunities to use the word “Kabear”.
New comic and whoo-boy, a new development - but with some questions.
Did the faux-Slately get smooshed in all that rubble?
Is the last panel real, or just another of Jack’s little jokes? I’m inclined to think it’s real this time but then Jack has a history of this sort of thing.
He’s been out of juice for a while now, so I have a hard time seeing how it would have been a joke.
And Wanda no where around, alas.
Looking at the third-to-last panel, you can see what looks like Jack, Ace, and the Battle Bear lying on the rubble. Maybe what looks like a red dwagon behind that. It looks like Antium maybe is on the ground in front of the throne, so from the panel before I’d surmise that Antium made it out of the fall zone, Ditto-Slately didn’t.
Wonder if Ace croaked?
So is there some way to undo some of the carnage?
Well, without something like a turnamancer/carneymancer link-up (which is obviously out of the question), an actual “undo” seems unlikely, but I’ve been surprised before.
The best course I’ve come up with so far is that now that GK controls the city, Parson razes it. No city, no inferno. Then he establishes a new city on the site, and persuades Stanley to shift the capital to the new city. That reestablishes the portal, allowing Wanda and Sizemore to enter (and possibly other casters as well). Wanda decrypts Jack (and everyone else in sight, including Ace) while Sizemore upgrades the city to withstand a counterattack. Stanley hops on a relay-dwagon for the trip out to revert the capital. It’s not a great situation, but it beats burning to death.
The problem with that is contacting Stanley to arrange the capital move (not to mention getting Stanley to go along with it). Parson has no thinkamancer on hand to relay messages, and should be assuming thinkagrams are monitored at this point, anyway. It might be possible if one of the magic items he hasn’t yet used is a communications device, but that seems a bit dubious.
A literal control-Z would be a cheap copout. But I like Balance’s idea. The biggest catch, I think, is whether Parson can establish a new city off-turn. Communications shouldn’t be a problem: He can think to Maggie no matter where she is, as long as she’s paying attention to him (she almost certainly is). Yeah, he’d probably assume that any think would be intercepted, but that’s not all that big a deal: He already knows that all his enemies in the city are dead; what can they do to stop him?
It’s also still conceivable to fight back even an inferno-level fire, especially if he has enough pink dwagons available.
Wait, what about all the casters in the city? Cubbins? Where’s Trammenis?
It is easier if Parson doesn’t raze the city to make it the GK capital while burning, opening the GK portal to Spacerock. Then bring through Sizemore to quench the inferno via dirtamancy (as mentioned), and Wanda to decrypt Jack (and presumably Ace). It wouldn’t even require Move, just schmuckers (which GK has in abundance).
Tramennis and his casters have already flown off to Jetstone. Ace sent Cubbins flying off after them.
Ah, I see the communication problem is covered: Parson has his eyebook with him. So he should be able to communicate with Stanley at least, and probably Wanda and Sizemore as well. He knows it’s not a secure channel, but Chronos has a point–there’s probably not much Charlie could do with the information to make matters worse.
That leaves persuading Stanley, via text messages, to transfer the capital. That’s the main reason I had for Parson razing and rebuilding the city to stop the fire–switching your capital into a city that’s currently an inferno doesn’t sound like the greatest idea, and I figured Stanley was likely to balk at that, if nothing else. No capital transfer, no portal. No portal, no Sizemore to put out the inferno. Hence, I was looking for a way for Parson to deal with the fire without Sizemore. Of course, it still depends on him being able to raze and rebuild off-turn, and it neglects the Chekhov’s Dirtamancy Info from the klog.
I think it’ll be easy for Parson to convince Stanley to switch the capital: all he has to do is convince Stanley it’s something that will let Stanley defeat Charlie. Parson managed that finesse back in Book 1.
He just has to get it done before Tramennis arrives at Jetstone and ends their Turn (when, presumably, everyone in an inferno would croak).
