Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The tenth floor

The floor where, the first announcement says, 'additional rules come into play.' Odette reached the thirteenth floor's stairwell and never went down: 'I'd struck a deal. That's a long story, and it's not for today.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 6 — Party Planner
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Progression

Airships will not be allowed on it (ch. 6); 'Don't Come in Last': a conveyance, biological or mechanical, legs from A to B, last place loses its containment (epilogue). Florin and Jurgen will not take a deal (ch. 78); most will (ch. 85); Carl declines every one (epilogue).