Place · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

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 — I'm on a train
Chapter 2 — Transfer station 83
Chapter 3 — Messages from deceased Crawlers
Chapter 4 — Limp Richard's books
Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
Chapter 7 — The Prize Carousel
Chapter 8 — The Cookbook's first page
Chapter 10 — Landmines on the ochre line
Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
Chapter 15 — The Abyss
Chapter 16 — Babababoons
Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
Chapter 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off

Arc

Back to fast food: Nirula's, Arby's, J.CO Donuts, a mall food court, Everest, Soda (ch. 2, ch. 7, ch. 13, ch. 15, ch. 19, ch. 29). Personal spaces for sale at 50,000 behind the blank door (ch. 2). A Cookbook note passes on the rats' word that the toilet stalls are unwatched — 'Dunno if it’s true' (ch. 8). A station-only bar with a personal-space door but no rooms is not a saferoom (ch. 25). The transit stations stop being safe when the mobs are in withdrawal (ch. 16).