Place · from book 3
Larracos
'The capital city of the disputed lands. It is the prize over which the factions fight,' says a crocodilian guard at the Desperado Club's casino, where a staircase leads down to it and the faction armies party until the crawlers reach the ninth floor.
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
As of book 4. 'Larracos is the capital city of the disputed lands, […] It is the prize over which the factions fight.' — a staircase and cheering from below in book 3, where the faction armies party until the ninth floor. Book 4 makes it real and then drowns it: real stores, the College of Magecraft, every place on Ghazi's list, an inverted cone with a castle at the bottom and nine petals of faction ground around it, and Priestly's poem to it. Its faction market is flooded with sharks and seawater by the Gate, opened by Katia under the sea while a decoy sits in the sand, and its shopkeepers, mercenaries, actors and students die under a rule that says NPCs cannot be replaced; half the faction armies are caught in it. Juice Box is sent there as a bird to tell the survivors what they are.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The changelings, and the promise to bring them down every floor | B4 ch. 34 | open · B5 ch. 75 — The changelings go to the ninth floor inside a Zerzura'd castle; Juice Box's own village was in the brambles' path. |
| Consequences of the flood | B4 ch. 34 | open · B5 ch. 58 — Still flooded, the drains clogged; the Desperado's floors segregated because of it. |
| The elf castle, the changelings and the Sledge on the ninth floor | B5 ch. 76 | open — Zerzura'd from the sixth: a half-destroyed castle, Signet's tattoo warriors, the changelings, a pregnant bear and a dinosaur who found her mother; the faction-wars players may not touch them. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 3
First named at the Desperado Club's casino, where a crocodilian guard explains that a staircase leads down to it: 'Larracos is the capital city of the disputed lands, […] It is the prize over which the factions fight.' where the faction armies wait until the crawlers reach the ninth floor (B3 ch. 9). Mordecai: crawlers pass over that floor 'like it's a tornado passing by overhead' (B3 ch. 30).
Through book 4
Real stores; the College of Magecraft; every place on Ghazi's list; an inverted cone with a castle at the bottom and nine petals around it (B4 ch. 3, B4 ch. 21, B4 ch. 24); Priestly's poem to it (B4 ch. 33). Its faction market is flooded with sharks and seawater by the Gate, its shopkeepers and mercenaries dead and irreplaceable (B4 ch. 34). Juice Box is sent there.
Through book 5
Trace
The thread line by line, in reading order: its presence before anyone could see it, and the lines that made it legible. Each line is verbatim from the cited book.
| Where | The line | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Book 2, Ch. 18 | some dude in some sprawling capital city that was on the ninth floor. | Unnamed in book 2: the top of the Over City's chain of command. |
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 1/35 | Ch. 9 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 6/35 | Ch. 3, Ch. 21, Ch. 23, Ch. 24, Ch. 33, Ch. 34 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 10/78 | 1, 3, 6, 8, 14, 29, 52, 56, 58, 73 · the book's own page |
By book
Larracos in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Larracos in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
The city
Real stores with NPC proprietors, and everyone expelled when the crawlers arrive (ch. 3); the College of Magecraft, the theatre district, the Tome of Scholars (ch. 21); every destination on Ghazi's list (ch. 23). Mordecai's map: an inverted cone dug by dwarves with the castle at the bottom, nine petals around it, the King's Point pre-fortified, a mercenary market deep in the city (ch. 24). Priestly's poem: museums, galleries, colleges, a play the night before expulsion, and all of it destroyed by the end (ch. 33).
The flood
Katia opens the real Gate five hundred metres under the sea, by the Akula's old shelf, into the faction market at the bottom of the cone: twenty minutes of ocean, timed charges, a chum bomb, a feeding frenzy of Concierge Sharks and pain amplifiers; more than half the city submerged by Katia's reckoning, the shopkeepers, mercenaries and food market dead and irreplaceable by rule, the Desperado Club likely cut off, half the armies hidden there caught (ch. 34). Juice Box is sent through to tell the survivors what they are.