Essay

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Every long fuse the books have lit, with where it was lit and the latest thing the text has said about it. Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread. Each character's page carries the rows that name them. Read through book 3.

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Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
The Crown of the Sepsis Whore and the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Blood Sultanate, Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire	B1 ch. 7	B3 ch. 15 — D'nadia's gift is addressed 'to Princess Donut of the Blood Sultanate.'
Mordecai's advice to leave Donut before the ninth floor	Mordecai, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 7	B3 ch. 21 — Carl admits he never warned Donut about Hekla because he thought she might be better off.
'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege'	The gods, Mordecai	B1 ch. 25	B3 ch. 32 — Mordecai's rules of summoning; the Cookbook's; Grull himself.
Mordecai's contract, and his history with Odette and his brother	Mordecai, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B3 ch. 7 — Seven days in time-out for a chair thrown at Chaco; he only gets one warning, Clarabelle thinks.
The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal	The tenth floor, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B3 ch. 20 — Loita and Odette: no mention; the deal untouched this floor.
Borant's bankruptcy and the Valtay fleet at the door	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Zev, The Syndicate	B1 ch. 36	B3 ch. 25 — Hinter refused Borant the cores for the pocket system; 'Something happened back at home.'
Maggie My's vow and her Find Crawler potion	Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 43	B3 ch. 19 — Maggie left Frank, took her class alone, and still has the Find Crawler potion.
Agatha's cart and the Valtay hardware	Agatha, The Valtay Corporation	B1 ch. 47	B3 ch. 34 — Level 8, no class, the cart, a ramp, and Carl stopping Imani from asking.
The Vengeance of the Daughter contract for the sixth floor	Carl, Tsarina Signet, The show, Elites	B2 ch. 11	B3 ch. 2 — 'We're avoiding quests this floor'; the sixth-floor role unmentioned.
Seeds: whether they grow faster than the show can cut them	Seeds, Carl	B2 ch. 11	B3 ch. 34 — Renamed in Carl's own words: 'I will break them all.'
Whether Manasa's death served Borant	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Prince Stalwart, Carl	B2 ch. 20	B3 ch. 33 — The Maestro says he was never on the yacht; 'rest well, mom.'
The manufactured feud with Lucia Mar	Lucia Mar, Princess Donut, The show	B2 ch. 21	B3 ch. 35 — No meeting; Lucia Mar first on the board and banned from the Desperado Club for life; Odette alludes to a fight with Florin and Ifechi.
Whether the System AI has interests of its own	The System AI	B2 ch. 21	B3 ch. 2 — It answers the veto with coupons and sets Carl's odds at fifty to one.
Carl's Doomsday Scenario	Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Carl	B2 ch. 25	B3 ch. 34 — Untouched at the sapper's table; 'I'm saving that for something very specific,'
King Rust's deity sponsorship, and the Grull gauntlet	The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl, Mordecai	B2 ch. 26	B3 ch. 33 — The sponsor turns out to be the Maestro, not the king; Grull summoned twice and ejected.
Bounties: 100,000 on each of them	The leaderboard, Carl, Princess Donut	B2 ch. 26	B3 ch. 25 — Katia claims the first bounty of the season by accident; Carl 400,000, Donut 300,000.
Mordecai's 'unfortunate' experience with gods	Mordecai, The gods, Odette	B2 ch. 26	B3 ch. 32 — 'I learned it the hard way. The hardest way possible' — and Chaco's apology names Odette.
What Chaco did to Mordecai, on his manager's orders	Mordecai, Chaco, Odette	B3 ch. 7	'If I hadn't done it, he'd have died. And then we'd all have lost her.' Mordecai will not discuss it.
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and its price	The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Carl	B3 ch. 8	A hidden book passed between crawls; tell anyone and it erases; Carl's own page goes into the 25th.
What the Valtay want for their pill	The Valtay Corporation, Carl	B3 ch. 13	A permanent neural enhancer that sees subspace portals; 'Keeping the Best of You Alive.'
The Ring of Divine Suffering, to be talked about on the fifth floor	Carl, Mordecai	B3 ch. 19	Frank's revenge; Mordecai: the sixth-floor hunters come for its owners.
Eva, alive and unaccounted for	Eva Sigrid, Katia Grim	B3 ch. 24	Thrown from a window, alive on Katia's chat, unseen at station 75 and not found at station 36, her party dissolving under her.
The Bolt of Ophiotaurus	The Bolt of Ophiotaurus, Princess Formidable, Katia Grim, The gods	B3 ch. 29	One bolt, 1 of 100, for a god's eye; a sister's message to her brothers.
What Carl's Unique Kimaris figure summons	The stuffed figures, Carl	B3 ch. 29	Jaxbrin's tags summon the real monster; Kimaris is a demon, Unique, and the tag is unpulled.
The Krakaren, real and spreading	The Krakaren, Borant	B3 ch. 30	A collective mind the Syndicate fears and Borant caricatures; the floor was propaganda about it.
The Maestro is alive, and drives Grull	Prince Maestro, The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl	B3 ch. 33	'my brother had already brought me into the dungeon.' A third humiliation.
Loita in Zev's place	Loita, Zev, Borant, Odette	B3 ch. 35	Zev at reeducation; no more Odette chats; Loita at every interview.
What Odette was about to say about Chris	Chris, Odette, Meadow Lark (party)	B3 ch. 35	He killed Frank Q and walked out; 'It's not like I warned them that Chris…' — muted.
The fifth floor scatters the parties	The Dungeon	B3 ch. 35	Only parties formed before the announcement travel together; Air quadrant, the Dirigible Gnomes.
Why Odette sponsored Hekla	Odette, Hekla	B3 ch. 35	'It wasn't my husband. It was me […] I hope one day to explain it further.'

Resolved (7)

Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
Whether Bea is alive	Bea, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 4	B2 ch. 24 — 'I'm not as dumb as I pretend to be. I know she's dead.'
The leaderboard, blank until the third floor collapses	The leaderboard	B1 ch. 9	B2 ch. 26 — Populated: ten names and a bounty column.
The parallel crawls: Lucia Mar and Hekla	Lucia Mar, Hekla	B1 ch. 14	B3 ch. 23 — Hekla met, used, and killed; Lucia Mar still first and still on screen.
Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead	Meadow Lark (party), Imani	B1 ch. 41	B3 ch. 8 — Elle and Imani found at the Desperado Club, transformed; twenty of Meadow Lark left.
Carl's challenge to Prince Maestro	Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire, Carl	B1 ch. 43	B3 ch. 33 — The Maestro was never dead; he loses to Carl a third time, from inside a god.
Odette's unnamed class choice	Odette, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 48	B2 ch. 1 — Former Child Actor; the Manager benefit binds Mordecai to Donut's saferooms.
Hekla's design on Donut	Hekla, Princess Donut, Katia Grim	B2 ch. 26	B3 ch. 23 — Hekla came for Katia, used a healer as bait, and died against a train wall; Brynhild's Daughters is no more.

Still to watch (1)

Lines from the books read so far that nothing later has answered yet: the things to carry into the next book, each with the line it was noted for.

Noted	What	The line
B1 ch. 47	Agatha on the stairs: 'Them critters already know I'm here'	Them critters already know I’m here. They just don’t know what to do about it.