Brock Hockney
The tribe Brock Hockney led inside FantasticLand.
What are the Pirates?
Travis Barnes's rank and branch of service before his involvement in the FantasticLand rescue.
What is lieutenant in the Florida National Guard?
Ritchie Fresno's relationship to FantasticLand's original founder.
Who is the son of the park's creator (Johnny Fresno)?
The broader social commentary the novel makes through the employees' loss of their devices and tribal behavior.
What is the danger of building identity and civilization entirely on social media / online personas?
The name given to the peace meeting that was ambushed and turned into a massacre.
What is the Council of Pieces?
The name of Brock's brother who died during the blackout in the storm shelter from an asthma attack
Who is Bryce?
The extreme act of eating people that Travis witnessed in other towns before arriving at FantasticLand, showing the widespread societal breakdown.
What is cannibalism?
What Ritchie acknowledges played a role in the FantasticLand disaster during his interview
What is corporate negligence?
The classic novel and the Japanese novel/film that FantasticLand is most frequently compared to as thematic predecessors.
What are Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale?
The central landmark in FantasticLand where the Council of Pieces took place.
What is the Exclamation Point?
The concept Brock dismisses entirely in his interview, believing only power could ensure survival.
What is morality?
Travis describes FantasticLand as a "once whimsical" version of this type of place.
What is a theme park?
The action Ritchie ultimately takes with the park after becoming disillusioned with the board's attempts to hide the truth.
What is selling the park?
The number of weeks employees were stranded at FantasticLand before rescue arrived.
What is five weeks?
The park section where Brock Hockney worked, which became the name and territory of his tribe.
What is Pirate Cove?
The person whose plea deal and recording helped land Brock in prison.
Who is Sam Garliek?
What Travis's account reveals about the FantasticLand events compared to the broader world during the hurricane disaster
What is that FantasticLand was not an isolated incident of societal breakdown?
What Ritchie's board was trying to do regarding the truth about the FantasticLand events.
What is cover it up?
Adam Jakes's lingering conclusion in the Afterword despite all the interviews he gathered.
hat is that he still cannot fully explain why the employees turned on each other?
The name of the hurricane that devastated the Florida coast and isolated FantasticLand from the outside world.
What is Hurricane Sadie?
What Brock's persistent questioning by Adam Jakes eventually forces him to do.
What is admit to (some of) his crimes?
The harrowing discovery Travis describes of people who sought refuge in this specific location and did not survive.
What is a freezer?
The company policy that left employees without this during the entire ordeal, preventing them from contacting the outside world.
What are their electronic devices (cell phones)?
The two factors Jakes points to as likely contributors to the violence, though not definitive explanations.
What are isolation and boredom?
The tribe that used "John" as a marker and meeting place
Who are the ShopGirls?