Place · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Safe rooms

Restaurants, bus stations and storm shelters lifted whole from the surface and set into the maze, where no violence is possible, food is served by surly Bopca Protectors, and three screens count down the collapse, the next episode, and the living. Mobs that attack inside one are teleported out — a rule that cuts both ways.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — The jury room
Chapter 3 — The Over City explained
Chapter 4 — Knives from a window
Chapter 5 — Boxes at the Pug
Chapter 6 — Signet
Chapter 7 — The lion's heart
Chapter 8 — Water Lily
Chapter 14 — The One-Eyed Narwhal
Chapter 15 — The Desperado Club
Chapter 17 — GumGum
Chapter 18 — Miss Quill
Chapter 19 — Danger Zone
Chapter 20 — Manasa's last song
Chapter 21 — Katia
Chapter 24 — Remex
Chapter 25 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Epilogue — Epilogue: the leaderboard

Arc

Pubs and inns now, with rent: the Belly-Rubbed Pug at ten gold (ch. 4), the One-Eyed Narwhal at twenty (ch. 14), an unnamed bare room with one shower (ch. 19). Mordecai appears in all of them. Explosives are inert inside; spells mostly won't cast; an event quest can lock hosts out (ch. 24).