Place · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Dungeon

The eighteen-floor structure that replaces the surface of the Earth at 2:23 in the morning, into which some thirteen million people descend: a maze of quadrant-sized squares, safe rooms, tutorial guilds and boss lairs, run as a broadcast for an interstellar audience and collapsing a floor at a time on a timer.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — I'm on a train
Chapter 4 — Limp Richard's books
Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
Chapter 7 — The Prize Carousel
Chapter 8 — The Cookbook's first page
Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
Chapter 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
Chapter 22 — The kebab plan
Chapter 23 — Rush
Chapter 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
Chapter 26 — Growler Gary
Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
Chapter 32 — Prepotente
Chapter 33 — Death Challenge
Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy
Epilogue — Epilogue: the wheel

Arc

The fourth floor has a rulebook read off a sign and a system that announces its own self-destruct (ch. 2, ch. 31). Mexx-6000 explains the wiring: Borant runs a cheap dual-layer planetary zone to sea level with no admin bubble — 'spit and duct tape' (ch. 20); Zev adds that the pocket system never switched on because Hinter refused the cores (ch. 25). Floors 12 and 15 are sketched: gods who never leave the twelfth, Sheol Bricks lousy on the fifteenth (ch. 2, ch. 14). The fifth is chosen by wheel: Air, the Dirigible Gnomes' Wasteland Fortress (epilogue).