Essay

Timeline

The series clock, read off the system messages: every chapter in which the text prints a floor countdown, a crawler count or a view count, in reading order. Per-book detail, with level-ups and skills: book 1, book 2.

Floor	Book	Chapter	Countdown	Crawlers	Views
1	1	Ch. 2 — The staircase	Five days
1	1	Ch. 4 — The character sheet			0
1	1	Ch. 8 — Rats and Scatterers	Four days, 20 hours
1	1	Ch. 9 — The Polish McDonald's		4,322,395
1	1	Ch. 10 — 4,148,111	4 days, 3 hours
1	1	Ch. 15 — Mapping the first floor	Three Days and Two Hours
1	1	Ch. 19 — You Monster!	Two days and 18 hours
1	1	Ch. 21 — Bitchmeat!	47 hours
1	1	Ch. 26 — Six and a half hours	6 hours 30 minutes
2	1	Ch. 30 — Floor two			0
2	1	Ch. 32 — The pedicure kit			69 Billion
2	1	Ch. 38 — The Rage Elemental	4 days, 20 hours	1,033,992
2	1	Ch. 39 — The recap			212 Billion
2	1	Ch. 41 — People buckets	4 Days, 6 hours		1.4 Trillion
2	1	Ch. 44 — What Donut overheard	3 Days, 14 hours		1.7 Trillion
2	1	Ch. 47 — 124.8 trillion			124.8 Trillion
3	2	Ch. 2 — Race and class		700,000
3	2	Ch. 4 — Knives from a window			371.5 Trillion
3	2	Ch. 8 — Water Lily	6 days, 23 hours		998.3 Trillion
3	2	Ch. 13 — Mordecai's room	5 days, 10 hours		1.4 Quadrillion
3	2	Ch. 18 — Miss Quill	3 days, 16 hours		1.9 Quadrillion