Place · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Hunting Grounds

The sixth floor by its NPC name, first spoken by Mordecai on the third: for the over-city's printed residents it is the next level down, an urban floor of bigger and richer villages gone to jungle ruin, once ruled by the high elves. Signet was taken from it as a child, and Carl guesses her story is heading back there. One of the Desperado Club's unlit doors leads to stairs down to it, which open once crawlers reach the sixth floor.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 6 — Monk seals
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 36 — Nekhebit
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson

Arc

A very stinky swimming pool of the blood spilled there, in the AI's accounting (ch. 2); the monk seals' hunting grounds, guarded against land crabs (ch. 6); the Hunting Grounds Casino on the Desperado Club's middle floor, evacuated when the Nothing breaches (ch. 32); 'the Hunting Grounds fiasco' in the Baroness's mouth, where Carl slew distant relations of hers (ch. 36); the Nebulars are still sore about it (ch. 60) and take part in it every season (ch. 64).