Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The Great Race
The seventh floor, a new level Borant finished just in time with Valtay capital, so that the planned seventh floor became the eighth; named after a fairy tale about a boy in a maze whose tunnels seal behind him: crawlers wake in glass pods on a spiral over a string of portal stairwells, to be slid one by one into hundreds of kilometres of tubes with pitstop saferooms, danger ratings and paths that close behind a party. It lasts ten minutes. Prepotente, holding Pole Position and a hammer and a stick from the masquerade's sponsors, cracks the resurrection chamber and every wall on the level explodes.
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Renamed with Valtay money (ch. 56); a Pole Position boon sold at the prize counter to a goat (ch. 69). Glass pods, a corkscrew, portal stairwells in a string, Cascadia's rules, a stick and a hammer, and dust (epilogue).