Essay · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Timeline

The book's clock, read off the system messages chapter by chapter: every value the text prints, in the order it prints them (arrows separate successive values within a chapter).

Chapter	Countdown	Phase	Crawlers	Views	Followers	Favorites
Prologue — Prologue
Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars	30 Days or 90 hours after a winner is declared, whichever is sooner		32,429	231 septillion	887 Quadrillion	420 Quadrillion
Chapter 2 — Hosers and achievements
Chapter 3 — The Tiara of a Thousand Lights
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 9 — Juice Box's war room
Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina		52 hours
Chapter 13 — The FUPA; a suicide bomber
Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball		33 hours
Chapter 16 — Everly; Glory Bound		31 Hours
Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up		180 hours
Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
Chapter 30 — Comrades
Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
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 37 — Growler Gary, and Princess Formidable's four choices
Chapter 38 — Relationship advice
Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
Chapter 41 — The production facility; Aryl goes dark
Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
Chapter 45 — Prepotente's rant
Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
Chapter 48 — Colonel Prepotente
Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest		Two Hours
Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
Chapter 72 — Diah
Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
Chapter 74 — Bijanbi
Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
Chapter 77 — Not yet
Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
Chapter 79 — Tart
Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
Chapter 82 — Ursensus
Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
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
Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last