Entry Blog 4.0 Gunslinger Introduction

The Gunslinger aka Roland of Gilead is the last surviving soldier of the White Army from the place in the parallel universe where “the world has moved on”. Roland is on a quest to catch the man in black who’s his archenemy, and that’s the first step on his long journey to his ultimate goal- reaching the Dark Tower. Dark Tower is the place he has to reach in order to save not only his and our world but the all the worlds that exist, and in the same time he does not know what’s in the Dark Tower or what is he supposed to do when he gets there. On his way through the desert he stops to spend the night with the farmer Brown and his crow Zoltan, where we learn about his time spent in Tull, the city he visited prior to coming to desert. Roland leaves the farm and comes to the way station and meets Jake Chambers 11 year old kid who joins him. They proceed to the mountain where they have to go through underground tunnels. There they get attacked by “Slow Mutants” creatures from underground. After the tunnels they get close to the man in black and gunslinger has a chance to catch him, but in the meantime Jack gets in  trouble and gunslinger has to make choice between saving  Jack and catching up with the man in black. He chooses to go after the man in black, and just before Jack falls to the abyss he tells Roland “Go then, there are other worlds that these”. Roland catches up with the man in black and has palaver with him, and the man in black reads gunslinger’s fate from cards. He finds out that in order to reach the Dark Tower he needs to bring three other people to the All- World from the other world to join him, and one of the people is Jake who just died in this world but still lives in other world, and that his true enemy is the one who controls the Dark Tower. The man in black tries to persuade gunslinger to give up on his quest, but gunslinger refuses and the man in black makes him sleep for 10 years. When he wakes up he finds dry bones beside him and assumes that these belong to the man in black. Gunslinger continues his quest and starts to think of ways to bring the rest of the crew to the All-World. Part I stops here.