Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
Chapter 6 — Party Planner
Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
Chapter 30 — Comrades
Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
Chapter 33 — Parlay
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Chapter 84 — And then there were two
Chapter 85 — Zerzura
Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

Doggie doors between the college tower, the base's bait shop, a Shanty Town shack, an espresso stand in Reaver country (ch. 7, ch. 29, ch. 82); the blood bar drains only inside them (ch. 12); a mercenary cannot cast an offensive spell in one (ch. 5); the last one at the bottom of the pit (ch. 86).