Place · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Abyss

Station 436 and the pit above it: a mile-wide burning hole ringed with hundreds of portals through which every finished train is thrown away, a catwalk of lizards, and the centre of the floor's map — the galactic core. Reached by the named trains' switching cavern (Auxiliary, Station Repair, Recycle). Where the interdiction carts send what they scoop, and where the Nightmare goes at the end.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Gore-Gore
• Chapter 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
• Chapter 15 — The Abyss
• Chapter 16 — Babababoons
• Chapter 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
• Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
• Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
• Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
• Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
• Chapter 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
• Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
• Chapter 26 — Growler Gary
• Chapter 27 — Physical
• Chapter 28 — Plan C
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
• Chapter 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off
• Chapter 32 — Prepotente
• Chapter 33 — Death Challenge
• Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy

Arc

An hour of stairs to a catwalk over a mile of fire, trains falling out of the sky, ghouls on the wrecks, and the portals' true rule: gated to conveyance and key holders, and the hat is a key (ch. 15). A memory of the Grand Canyon. Later the rim holds five or six hundred hatless crawlers with the catwalks collapsing (ch. 25); the carts scoop the lines to it (ch. 27); Bautista's six hundred walk through in hats (ch. 28); the Krakaren under the party's 36 drain into it through the hanging portal (ch. 31); a province boss and a god are dropped in (ch. 32, ch. 33); and the Nightmare ends there (ch. 34). The centre of the galaxy, on the map.