Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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

Prologue — Prologue
Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
Chapter 6 — Party Planner
Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound
Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
Chapter 33 — Parlay
Chapter 34 — The king's message; Rosetta's whip
Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
Chapter 72 — Diah
Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
Chapter 77 — Not yet
Chapter 79 — Tart
Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
Chapter 85 — Zerzura
Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

The ninth floor is a war on a plain the size of a country with a real city in its middle, and the dungeon behaves like one: no offensive magic for a week, gates a kilometre wide, a suppression field, and the AI running a temple fight by hand (ch. 14, ch. 53).