Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Warnings

The system's » Warning: lines, from 'level timers are still active' in the first tutorial guild to 'The cages will permanently close in thirty seconds' in Ralph's boss room on the second floor: the rules read out as they bite, and the AI's temper in them.

Segment appearances

• 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 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 12 — The base camp; Tina
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 26 — Milk; the Empress marked
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 53 — Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Progression

Fifty-six for the war: items from the memory simulation removed, the Ceasefire's sixty hours, 'Your army is at suboptimal force levels', 'You have no officers in your army!', the Bone Clan's truce with the Operatics (ch. 1); six on the tiara's pillow (ch. 3); a pet that will not regenerate below level 5 (ch. 5); airships that may not be allowed on future floors (ch. 6); a red alert incursion (ch. 12); a pet suffering from the Gurgles, Insanity, 'Not Just Rabies, but Eat-Your-Face-Off-Rabies' and a Truck Stop Boner Pill (ch. 21); 'You are giving unauthorized information to the crawlers' (ch. 26); 'You are trespassing in a temple' and 'You have been marked for death by Khepri' (ch. 52); 'A Mantaur Mosh Pit is about to form' (ch. 55); 'Open Hostilities begin in 40 minutes' (ch. 58); messages to unaffiliated crawlers logged for an adjutant, and 'This is still cheating, you clown' (ch. 64, ch. 67); four on the Madness's dead man's switch (ch. 68); 'This city is under siege', a tower's Inexorable skill, the Nest Tower at 25% and 10% (ch. 70, ch. 71, ch. 73); ink that will not fade, 'Not even distance or time or the death of a star' (ch. 75); 'Emberus will destroy the 9th floor in three minutes' (ch. 87).