 He is warned away, inevitably futilely, from Ugaph's daughter Ro, his instructor in bat-hunting.After Ugaph is nearly caught attempting to rob the Temple of Ip, he and Gezun plot to con the fanatical Typhonians by pretending to represent a new god, Ka the Appalling, who requires offerings.Unfortunately, they do much too good a job at making their invented god real in the minds of their credulous marks.