Essay

Open threads

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 7.

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Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege'	The gods, Mordecai	B1 ch. 25	B7 ch. 86 — Those who pay for the privilege can be killed inside the god: a sponsored goddess frozen by an unmade choice, and her pilot shot.
The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal	The tenth floor, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B7 ch. 88 — 'Don't Come in Last'; deals all bad but Chaco's chair; Carl and Donut decline; a year off any deal from the last quest.
Borant's bankruptcy and the Valtay fleet at the door	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Zev, The Syndicate	B1 ch. 36	B7 ch. 43 — Civil war at home; a Valtay derelict into the habitation ring; Cascadia's family dead.
Seeds: whether they grow faster than the show can cut them	Seeds, Carl	B2 ch. 11	B5 ch. 56 — Herot's 'Show them the seams' and the pebble on the worn path; a corporation bought with a fan club.
Carl's Doomsday Scenario	Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Carl	B2 ch. 25	B7 ch. 66 — Still in the inventory, one of a growing collection of weapons of mass destruction (ch. 17); too huge for the pile of eighty thousand.
King Rust's deity sponsorship, and the Grull gauntlet	The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl, Mordecai	B2 ch. 26	B7 ch. 34 — Rust came to die with honour and lost his head to Rosetta's whip; his ring, eye and password emptied his bank; his harem escaped to the eighteenth.
Bounties: 100,000 on each of them	The leaderboard, Carl, Princess Donut	B2 ch. 26	B7 ch. 1 — Six million on Carl; a Holy Crusade bounty of 500,000 on Prepotente (ch. 50).
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook and its price	The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Carl	B3 ch. 8	B7 ch. 75 — Nine authors' interludes; Milk's recipes faded when she changed inks; Stayfast Ink and a pen for Carl; York's tenth edition.
What the Valtay want for their pill	The Valtay Corporation, Carl	B3 ch. 13	B5 ch. 32 — A Valtay captain's regards, a tier-four training room and zero zones on their ship; Drick wears a worm under contract.
The Bolt of Ophiotaurus	The Bolt of Ophiotaurus, Princess Formidable, Katia Grim, The gods	B3 ch. 29	B6 ch. 69 — Katia lends the Bolt to Paz; he puts it into Ysalte's eye before his blast takes her head off, and it comes back reusable (ch. 72).
The Krakaren, real and spreading	The Krakaren, Borant	B3 ch. 30	B7 ch. 69 — Porthus trusts her for a reason he cannot say; Rosetta calls her a tentacle monster; Paca is her ambassador; a benefactor box arms Donut.
The Maestro is alive, and drives Grull	Prince Maestro, The gods, The Skull Empire, Carl	B3 ch. 33	B7 ch. 86 — Claiming the crown with his father beheaded and his brother's children dead in orbit.
Why Odette sponsored Hekla	Odette, Hekla	B3 ch. 35	B5 ch. 43 — Odette tried as a manager and pleaded down; still no explanation of Hekla.
The collapse dead in storage	The collapse dead, Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl	B4 ch. 14	B5 ch. 65 — Ifechi's twin on a country boss; the Popovs' guide chose their race so they would escape as children.
The count of administrators: 'One.'	The count, Carl, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	B4 ch. 18	B6 ch. 31 — Astrid, an NPC, killed for a contract; 'We didn't come up with this quest on our own.'
A goddess's head in the training room	Samantha, Mordecai	B4 ch. 24	B7 ch. 49 — Her mother is Theia, sponsored this season by someone in the Pacifist network to save Carl at the end of the fifth floor; enraged at Samantha, held by the sponsorship.
The AI going primal	The System AI, Mordecai	B4 ch. 28	B7 ch. 20 — Containment disconnected; the sphere past Uranus (ch. 34); an avatar in a bartender's body (ch. 37).
Emberus's two quests: who killed Geyrun, and kill Hellik	Emberus, The gods, Carl	B4 ch. 32	B7 ch. 87 — Kill the Blasphemer done; a hundred of Hellik's worshippers asked; the crystal to Prepotente; Samantha's confession; the floor burned.
The river in Carl's head	Carl, "You're not going to break me"	B5 ch. 8	B7 ch. 86 — Named for what it is: 'Not a river. It had never been a river.' Souls (ch. 65). It does not leave with the ring: a laugh 'from within the river' sounds 'distinctly like that of Eris' (ch. 86).
The guild system: Safehome Yolanda and the shared space	Katia Grim, Imani, The Royal Palace of Princess Donut, The Hunting Grounds	B5 ch. 21	B7 ch. 55 — Milk's calligraphy guild behind a wall panel; the Outreach guild's zero zones; a Poetry guild for York.
The children inside Lucia Mar	Lucia Mar, Florin, Zev	B5 ch. 71	B7 ch. 73 — Named: Diah, Alexandro, 'We take turns'; 120,000 in one wing of the kinder facility; if she goes they all go.
A memorial crystal for Apito, who is not dead	Emberus, The gods, Prepotente, Scolopendra	B5 ch. 77	B7 ch. 78 — The crystal blazed a beacon from Osvaldo's hands (ch. 64) and passed to Prepotente; Emberus fears the Epicure.
The Popovs, ineligible, on the surface	The collapse dead, The Syndicate, Zev	B5 ch. 77	B7 ch. 86 — Katia goes the same way, on purpose.
Damascus Steel and Anaconda go to avenge their mother	Shi Maria, The Desperado Club, The mobs are victims	B6 ch. 34	B7 ch. 39 — Hamed runs the Desperado Club with bodyguards 'Not exactly NPCs'; Damascus walks past a door alive; both sons missing afterward.
A million-gold loan from the Temple of Emberus	Carl, Emberus	B6 ch. 56	B7 ch. 57 — Carl is a Devotee still; a hundred of Hellik's worshippers is the new price.
What Samantha is becoming	Samantha, Elle McGibbons	B6 ch. 65	B7 ch. 83 — Yarilo's grudge, Juice Box's 'who you really are', a child in the acid, Kimaris's potion — see samantha-the-scavenger.
Amayon witnessed the deal that killed Geyrun	Amayon, Emberus, The gods	B6 ch. 69	B7 ch. 83 — Emberus may kill the brothers for the truth (ch. 57); Samantha admits a hand in Geyrun's death and cannot name the man in the hoodie (ch. 86).
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: an eye tattooed into Carl's chest	Carl, Shi Maria, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Li Jun and Zhang	B6 ch. 71	B7 ch. 19 — Hapanzi tells Carl she is trapped in Carl's own body and gives him control of the eye and its containment; Mind Balance keeps her out; 'You're a puppet' (ch. 62).
The Scavenger's Daughter: an undischarged bar and a voice	Carl, The Scavenger's Daughter, The Anarchist's Battle Rattle	B6 ch. 72	B7 ch. 78 — The patch opened its eyes for every god; and the war mages took a person by that name from the castle.
Two kinds of Residual, and a hidden upgrade	Agatha, The Residuals, The Eulogist, The Krakaren, Primal engines	B6 ch. 73	B7 ch. 69 — Agatha is the rarer kind, in line with the Nebulars; the Apothecary's thousands the other; Fopsy's shutdown theory.
The AI's containment disconnected, and a sphere that grows	Carl, The System AI, The failsafe, Orren, The Syndicate	B7 ch. 20	Carl presses Disconnect rather than the fuse; the red dot over Earth grows past Uranus; Orren asks whether it can be undone; the AI walks into a zero zone as Growler Gary — 'That was so close, wasn't it? So close, and I felt it.' Whether the fuse would have worked, it answers with a laugh.
The Aryl system went dark when the button was pressed	Princess Formidable, The failsafe, The System AI, The Nebulars	B7 ch. 41	Formidable's crew pressed a dead button; at that nanosecond the previous crawl's system lost its tunnel node, which has never happened; its AI had gone silent during the sixth floor. Three cycles until anyone knows if the star is there.
The War Mage Rebellion, and the Scavenger's daughter it took	Agatha, The Scavenger's Daughter, Elle McGibbons	B7 ch. 61	True dungeon-born, made by nobody, with heads that explode; they killed a king, took the Gate, conscripted gods, and left with 'the Scavenger's daughter, who was hidden within the castle'. Akuma asks Carl to kill Agatha and to keep Elle alive for Scolopendra. Mordecai: 'the in-dungeon one or the fairy tale?'
A voice in the river, a dwarf's perhaps: 'You're family now'	Carl, The all-tree, The river in Carl's head, The gods	B7 ch. 65	The voice in the river tells Carl 'This is the second time I've told you that you're not crazy' with his feet in an All Tree root, and 'She would be proud of you.' Hellik says the All Tree is rotting; Donut can map it on the twelfth.
The Christmas present, still unopened	Carl, Imani, Princess Donut	B7 ch. 65	Clearly books; 'a pair of romance novels', says Donut; saved for when he really needs it.
Houston's Beautiful Place: the changelings as the key	The changelings, Li Jun and Zhang, The Residuals	B7 ch. 68	'They are the key. The changelings. This world. Why do you think we come here, cycle after cycle? […] It was here all along, right under our mandibles.' A dead changeling grew roots and became Li Jun's face; Carl was held spinning as with Paulie. The Viceroys' study of life and death, and the thing some see at the moment of death.
Porthus's plan: the Apothecary's reason, the Impetus Point, and Menerva	Porthus, Rosetta Thagra, The Krakaren, The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Baroness Victory	B7 ch. 69	A generation ship for the families, the goats and the forbidden gate; a reason the Apothecary helps that Porthus will not say lest the AI and then the Eulogist learn it; a missing crawler named Menerva from his own crawl. In the epilogue: the Open Intellect Action Network and 'stop the crawl or else'.
Krakaren Prime in the Nothing, preparing for a war	The Krakaren, The Nothing	B7 ch. 71	Hell-kissed Conscription potions brewed by a banished Prime who 'prepares for a war she considers inevitable', sold by the in-dungeon Krakaren's ambassador Paca; they work on floors 9, 12, 15, 17 and 18. Carl spent his duplicate on Lucia; Li Na's went into a god.
Lucia Mar cannot die: 120,000 children and the Eulogist's new ally	Lucia Mar, The Eulogist, Florin	B7 ch. 72	Diah, Alexandro and the others take turns in the dark; one wing of the kinder facility goes with her; the AI cannot extract her; with Gustavo dead 'the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon'. Florin and Jurgen will not take deals while she lives; she said she would and nobody believes it.
Donut as the Oak Fell, Champion of Nekhebit	Princess Donut, The gods, Odette, The Celestial Ascendency	B7 ch. 76	A class awarded for three atrocities, deity spells, level 135, Map the All Tree for the twelfth floor; a bounty from Nekhebit's enemies and orders 'or face a smite'; Harpocrates swears the Champion will pay; Eileithyia calls her harbinger of doom. Carl blames Odette.
Eris, unsponsored and free, in the galaxy	The gods, The Celestial Ascendency	B7 ch. 76	Her pilot dead, she cannot be sponsored this season; she bit Carl's ear, told him where the Gate was and that Britney was possessed, and walked into a fuel stop outside the Earth gate in her own body. Her laugh is in the river.
Britney and the axe	Britney Proskurina	B7 ch. 76	'Britney picked that axe off the ground and is now possessed.' Imani and Juice Box find nothing; Carl says watch and don't ask. The last thing he sees on the floor is a pickaxe over a dead goddess's shoulder.
Agatha: a residual of the Eulogist's kind, to be found on the tenth	Agatha, The Residuals, The Eulogist, The Krakaren	B7 ch. 78	Warlord of the Rebellion by system fiat, author of the action items that restored the original rules, removed for abandoning her post; she jumps to the Waiting Room and reappears outside open stairwells. Fopsy: she means to end the Ascendency and trigger the shutdown before the spreading AI threatens the Eulogist.
The Memorial Crystal in Prepotente's hands, and the Epicure	Prepotente, Memorial crystals, Emberus	B7 ch. 78	'Retrieve it from him before he cracks the secrets and gives them to the Epicure.' Prepotente is drinking more vials than his allotment and Carl owes him a conversation.
Li Na: every base stat maxed, three marks unpaid, no healing ever	Li Na, The Ring of Divine Suffering, The Skull Empire, Li Jun and Zhang	B7 ch. 82	She marked everyone in the ball and three of Rust's harem reached the eighteenth through the Cosmic Lounge; the AI on 300s: 'we don't actually have a plan to deal with this'; her brother's eye in her socket; she blames Donut and does not speak.
Tipid's memory, wiped to a game guide's last day	Tipid, Rosetta Thagra	B7 ch. 82	The nuke's pulse ruined the Viceroys' repairs; fine in the dungeon, mush outside; he cannot take a deal and stays with the Posse.
Is Samantha the scavenger, and her child the daughter?	Samantha, The Scavenger's Daughter, The stuffed figures, Juice Box	B7 ch. 83	She believes her child died in the acid under Larracos; the war mages say they found the Scavenger's daughter in the castle; Juice Box knows 'who you really are'; Kimaris gave her the potion that put her baby in her and she cannot remember why she forgot. 'I will kill his mother!'
Louis lives on a naiad's heart that will not work outside	Louis and Firas, Princess Lunette, Juice Box, Samantha	B7 ch. 84	Victory: 'Louis will need to make a pretty expensive deal to survive'; no No Disassembles near him again; divorce papers; a father. Samantha calls him cousin and has her eye on him.
Katia, human and pregnant, among the children above	Katia Grim, Louis and Firas, Eileithyia	B7 ch. 86	'I wish to be made pregnant' — to reach the children; Louis the father; Eileithyia: 'It will be a boy'; she senses her daughters there and cannot reach them. Boomer sets aside four Cronus suits and a skiff for 'a pregnant veteran on the surface'.
Justice Light's trap: the Nothing broken into the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's lair	The Nothing, Scolopendra, The Celestial Ascendency, Sheol, The Gate of the Feral Gods	B7 ch. 87	A bijou trap and a demon trap dropped into a permanent portal made from the Gate's winding box; four planes fold; 'Scolopendra has awakened'; the Club told to flee to an empty sixteenth floor through the seventeenth. Porthus and the Apothecary knew; the survivors will suffer for it.
Juice Box in the Nothing, to be reborn 'the ultimate weapon'	Juice Box, The Nothing, The changelings	B7 ch. 87	She took the long way to the twelfth believing he would follow; 'I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful'; the Beautiful Place is a form she can take. Her changelings and her city are in the Court of the Ascendency without her.
'Already married': Princess Chandra, Esquire	Carl, Princess Donut	B7 ch. 88	Eris, All Knowing: 'I wish you weren't already married'; Quasar: Donut's assigned lawyer is 'your new wife', and the meeting had fireworks. Eris also offered to make Carl a Champion as Donut was, on condition that he kill three gods — Taranis, Emberus and Hellik.
The war outside the dungeon: a yacht, an armed freighter, a nova	The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, The Skull Empire, The Syndicate, The System AI	B7 ch. 88	York vaporised the orc yacht of children with the new king aboard; the Homecoming Queen has enhancement-zone weapons green across the board; a Dream cruiser is down over Australia; Hive Re-Population Center 51's star went nova the moment Gustavo died; Prime Minister Victory.
The tenth floor: 'Don't Come in Last'	The tenth floor, Carl, Princess Donut, Chaco	B7 ch. 88	A conveyance, biological or mechanical; legs from A to B with upgrades; NPC teams; last place loses its containment. Every deal was bad but Chaco's chair, offered jointly and still open at the floor's end; Carl and Donut both declined.

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Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
Whether Bea is alive	Bea, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 4	B6 ch. 47 — Yes: alive in a Seattle tent a month after the collapse and taken by Odette's people (book 4), off planet with Odette as a hologram in a red gown (book 5); not seen in book 6, but she read Carl's Facebook, blocked a single mother from his account, and kept Asher's photograph on her phone.
The Crown of the Sepsis Whore and the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Blood Sultanate, Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire	B1 ch. 7	B7 ch. 86 — Closed: the Sepsis Whore fell to a sluggalo's hatchet (ch. 55), the last of the line was marked (ch. 58), and Katia ate the orchid (ch. 84) and was taken by Eileithyia — human, pregnant, gone (ch. 86). Donut leaves the floor.
Mordecai's advice to leave Donut before the ninth floor	Mordecai, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 7	B7 ch. 87 — They walk into the stairwell together; it was Katia who left.
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.
Mordecai's contract, and his history with Odette and his brother	Mordecai, Odette	B1 ch. 29	B6 ch. 37 — Explained by Odette: she was his manager, bribed Huanxin, broke the deal, and his brother died; 'This one I broke'; a trust set aside for his release.
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.
Maggie My's vow and her Find Crawler potion	Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 43	B4 ch. 34 — Maggie, an Infiltrator inside Chris, is pulled out through his skull and eaten by Mongo.
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.
Agatha's cart and the Valtay hardware	Agatha, The Valtay Corporation	B1 ch. 47	B7 ch. 28 — Answered in book 6's epilogue: Agatha is agent number 22, a Residual of the Eulogist's kind; on the ninth floor she is level 23 with no class, a cart and a bar, under a prime minister's order not to speak to her, and then a warlord (ch. 68).
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.
The Vengeance of the Daughter contract for the sixth floor	Carl, Tsarina Signet, The show, Elites	B2 ch. 11	B5 ch. 76 — Signet assaulted Fort Freedom and then died at the masquerade by her own hand; 'Quest Complete. The Vengeance of the Daughter' in the pit.
Whether Manasa's death served Borant	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Prince Stalwart, Carl	B2 ch. 20	B5 ch. 77 — The text's account, from the photograph of the Skull Empire's dead Queen Consort Ugloo: the orcs killed Manasa the singer by accident, and the Valtay answered by blowing up Ugloo's yacht.
The manufactured feud with Lucia Mar	Lucia Mar, Princess Donut, The show	B2 ch. 21	B7 ch. 73 — Settled by conscription (ch. 72); what remains is a dead man's switch, not a feud.
Whether the System AI has interests of its own	The System AI	B2 ch. 21	B6 ch. 46 — Yes: the hydra's card carries the AI's own speech about Hive Home and the Eulogist, 'Mass Layoffs' announces that there are no locks on its doors, and it says 'I' throughout. The book-5 thread on the council carries the rest.
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.
Mordecai's 'unfortunate' experience with gods	Mordecai, The gods, Odette	B2 ch. 26	B7 ch. 86 — His brother's death partly avenged: a bolt of his mother's ashes for Huanxin — 'and because of Odette and because of Chaco. But mostly because of you.'
What Chaco did to Mordecai, on his manager's orders	Mordecai, Chaco, Odette	B3 ch. 7	B6 ch. 0 — The prologue shows it: Odette ordered Chaco to throw the Dart of Ophiotaurus into Uzzi so that Dodola could form in his body and break the puzzle; 'Uzzi, see you on the other side, brother.' Odette tells Carl the rest off the record — a bribe, a trick, and Armita dead for it.
The Ring of Divine Suffering, to be talked about on the fifth floor	Carl, Mordecai	B3 ch. 19	B5 ch. 5 — Not sold: back on his finger from the first night, no cooldown on this floor, five points a kill by the end; a second ring on Prepotente's hand, swallowed.
Eva, alive and unaccounted for	Eva Sigrid, Katia Grim	B3 ch. 24	B5 ch. 78 — Dead under the gore, by Katia's hand and Eva's old sword; fifty-one skulls; the crown handed on as she died.
What Carl's Unique Kimaris figure summons	The stuffed figures, Carl	B3 ch. 29	B7 ch. 87 — Answered: Kimaris is one of the brothers of Sheol, whose summon time is the remainder of a floor, and Samantha's best friend, who gave her the potion for her baby.
Loita in Zev's place	Loita, Zev, Borant, Odette	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 18 — Loita dead in a shielded trailer; Zev back as a temporary PR agent (ch. 19).
What Odette was about to say about Chris	Chris, Odette, Meadow Lark (party)	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 14 — Chris was Maggie My; Odette's warning is explained by a rock body with three skulls.
The fifth floor scatters the parties	The Dungeon	B3 ch. 35	B4 ch. 1 — The Bubbles: 1,172 worlds, four castles each, about 150 crawlers apiece.
Who runs the crawl after the sixth floor	The Valtay Corporation, Orren, Borant	B4 ch. 19	B5 ch. 19 — A Syndicate court makes Borant independent of its government, which executes a ruling giving the Valtay fifty-one per cent; they run the ship, the security and the seventh floor's budget.
The 'outside source' the Syndicate wants named	Orren, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Agatha	B4 ch. 19	B7 ch. 36 — Found: 'Welcome to the party, pals' led them to the frozen conversation with Paulie and the implant; Orren lost his job in a zero zone.
Quan Ch's arm: 'just a deposit'	Quan Ch, Carl, Princess Donut	B4 ch. 31	B6 ch. 58 — Paid: the hand swap gives him two keys and Donut kills him in the Capitol; sixty-plus skulls, 'For Daddy'; five million gold in his inventory (ch. 60).
Katia's own party	Katia Grim, Eva Sigrid, Gwendolyn Duet, Louis and Firas, Daniel Bautista, Florin	B4 ch. 33	B5 ch. 21 — She leaves the party for Imani's guild, Safehome Yolanda, with Elle, Bautista, Florin, Gwen, Tran, Louis and Firas; the Royal Court of Princess Donut joins the guild too.
The Gate, kept, and what it costs to use	The Gate of the Feral Gods, Carl, Katia Grim	B4 ch. 34	B7 ch. 1 — Returned to a mailbox by liaison action; its later fate is the Rebellion's and Justice Light's (the-nothing-broken).
Every hunter on the sixth floor dead	The hunters, Carl, The marketplace	B4 ch. 34	B5 ch. 76 — Kept: a thousand hunters came to the sixth floor and none left it; the last, Zabit, halved by his own trap in the castle pit.
The changelings, and the promise to bring them down every floor	Juice Box, Carl, Larracos	B4 ch. 34	B7 ch. 85 — The changelings go down with the city, to the twelfth floor's cotton fields, as basilica guards against the gods.
Chris, freed, owed to Imani	Chris, Imani, Meadow Lark (party)	B4 ch. 34	B7 ch. 15 — Delivered: Chris crawls with the Posse as a lava rock crawler who drags skunks under the ground — 'I am buried. Tell me when it's safe to come up.'
Consequences of the flood	Larracos, Faction Wars, Borant, The Syndicate	B4 ch. 34	B7 ch. 85 — The city was drained to the castle's top tower, defended ring by ring, and finally sent whole to the twelfth floor by Zerzura.
Bea, alive, in Odette's hands	Bea, Odette, Lexis	B4 ch. 35	B5 ch. 19 — Alive, off planet with Odette, a hologram in a red gown with holes in her memory; 'Goodbye, Beatrice.'
What the pacifists' yam was really for	The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network, Porthus, Carl	B4 ch. 35	B7 ch. 47 — Answered: the last of the pacifists' yam recharges Imani's Tripper tattoo, and its meaning 'involved the cookbook and something to do with the crawler Milk's entries'.
A council that forbids suing the AI	The System AI, The Syndicate, Borant	B5 ch. 53	B7 ch. 36 — Answered: the council's protection ended with book 6's settlement, and on the ninth floor Orren learns the council listens to everything and says 'I think I just lost my job' (ch. 36), and Gary tells him his zero zones were a courtesy (ch. 37)
Shunned by Emberus: penitence, doubled tithes, a smite on the third	Emberus, Carl, The gods	B5 ch. 60	B6 ch. 16 — Lifted: Emberus's esteem is what keeps Carl alive under Ogun in the Thorn Room, and by ch. 47 he is a Devotee tithing ten per cent.
The hammer and the stick: a seven, and a Book of Lore	Sponsorship, Prepotente, Princess Donut, The Great Race	B5 ch. 63	B6 ch. 38 — The Book of Lore for the Bahamas answered: the eighth floor's four starting choices included the Bahamas and Florida, and Rosetta's Miami message steered them to the Keys and a homeless shelter, not the Bahamas. The seven stamped on the hammer and the stick is not explained here.
Cascadia	The System AI, The show, Mordecai	B5 ch. 63	B6 ch. 21 — Met: Zev's boss, kua-tin lead engineer and executive producer, at the warlords' table with a rebreather, daring Carl to squash her.
What Signet left: two living tattoos and her mother's body	Tsarina Signet, Samantha, The Hunting Grounds	B5 ch. 75	B7 ch. 84 — Answered: Princess Lunette's body, Signet's mother's, gave Louis its heart and lungs; Nadine and young Clint, the two it was opened on, are alive among the children, Clint now a flesh golem.
The elf castle, the changelings and the Sledge on the ninth floor	The Sledge, Juice Box, Kiwi, Big Tina, Larracos	B5 ch. 76	B7 ch. 12 — The changelings and flesh golems started the FUPA; Bonnie, Kiwi, Tina, the cubs, Skarn and the Sledge are all on the plain; the children go to the twelfth floor with the city (ch. 85).
The Princess Posse in Faction Wars, and the safety-protocol vote	The Princess Posse, Faction Wars, Carl, Princess Donut, Quasar	B5 ch. 77	B7 ch. 85 — Won, by forfeit, with fifty thousand veterans and a record count through.
Donut's mask	Princess Donut, Carl, Staying human	B5 ch. 77	B6 ch. 60 — Off, unremarked: a gold player-killer skull over her head that neither of them mentions.
Sir Ferdinand, a minion on the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Walk-On List, Bea	B5 ch. 77	B7 ch. 85 — Warlord on High, Sir Ferdinand, co-warlord, mayor of Shanty Town for a hat, the author of a blackout and a sponsors' clause; he tried to save Donut in a tower and went to the twelfth 'to bang some hot goddess chicks'.
Empress D'Nadia's Prism in the war, and outside Larracos	Princess D'nadia, Faction Wars, Carl	B5 ch. 77	B7 ch. 27 — Dead in her warehouse castle to clockwork Mongos, credited to the real one; her dynasty bankrupt; the Prism's assets to the Posse.
The crown on Katia's head: only one of them leaves the ninth floor	Katia Grim, Princess Donut, Eva Sigrid, The Blood Sultanate	B5 ch. 78	B7 ch. 86 — Answered: the orchid came out of the lock box in book 6 (B6 ch. 33), Katia ate it in the ninth floor's last hour (B7 ch. 84) and Eileithyia took her — human, pregnant, gone (B7 ch. 86). Donut leaves the floor.
Katia's blitz sticks and Annie	Katia Grim, Daniel Bautista, Mordecai	B5 ch. 78	B7 ch. 17 — Mordecai's Glory Bound rehab worked; the memory it kept showing her — Annie — is told in full in ch. 69.
The orchid: Katia's way out that nobody wants used	Katia Grim, Princess Donut, Huanxin Jinx, Daniel Bautista	B6 ch. 33	B7 ch. 84 — Eaten with sixty-five minutes left and no goodbyes; the choice was pregnancy, to reach the children; the sponsor who wanted Katia died between the eyes while her goddess stood frozen.
Huanxin Jinx's twelfth floor, and Odette's plan to die	Huanxin Jinx, Odette, Mordecai, Katia Grim	B6 ch. 37	B7 ch. 86 — Huanxin Jinx is dead: ripped out of Eileithyia by Laundry Day and shot between the eyes by Donut with Mordecai's mother's ashes. Odette's part continues as Nekhebit's champion clause.
A book nearly everyone carries, with a nefarious purpose 'clear later'	The Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo, The System AI	B6 ch. 40	B7 ch. 85 — Milk explains it: anything Carl writes in it goes to everyone who has it; the departing crawlers paint three skills each into it — one for Carl, one for Donut, one on their own page — and it splits into two volumes, the second Carl's Book of Boom. The AI closed the Burcu loophole itself (ch. 67).
The failsafe, and who is trapped in orbit	The failsafe, Princess Formidable, The Syndicate, Scolopendra	B6 ch. 49	B7 ch. 41 — Disconnected by Carl on Christmas morning (ch. 20); Formidable's crew pressed the button anyway and the Aryl system went dark instead (ch. 41). Formidable was dropped in the ocean (ch. 37).
Garret: Ren's pet, level one, in a carrier	Tserendolgor, Carl, Mongo	B6 ch. 59	B7 ch. 5 — Sir Rendlegore — Rend — bonded over a bowl of chowder and named by Louis held up like Simba.
Lucia Mar's score with Donut	Lucia Mar, Princess Donut, Mongo, Florin	B6 ch. 63	B7 ch. 72 — She came for Donut and Mongo in the Nest with her last dog, killed Toyotomi and Bomo, was conscripted, and lost Gustavo 3 to Rend's Wrecking Ball; Mongo lived by a sliver.
The Home Team: Juice Box and Sir Ferdinand as co-warlords	Juice Box, Ferdinand, Faction Wars, Larracos	B6 ch. 72	B7 ch. 85 — Team Retribution won the war for the Posse by losing it: Ferdinand went to the twelfth floor with the city and Juice Box into the Nothing; both left the realm and forfeited.
Fifty thousand former crawlers in a garbage freighter	Tipid, Rosetta Thagra, Porthus, The Princess Posse, Sponsorship	B6 ch. 73	B7 ch. 85 — They came: fifty thousand as level-60 mercenaries, three Cookbook authors among them (Tipid, Rosetta, Justice Light), Milk having been in Club Vanquisher the whole season; about 28,000 go back to the ship under the embargo, which is armed and about to bring the war out of the dungeon.
The Valtay solution: extinction by mercenary	The Valtay Corporation, Faction Wars, Carl, Princess Donut, The System AI	B6 ch. 73	B7 ch. 85 — Failed: 20,221 crawlers are left at the end of the ninth, a record; the 150,000 mercenaries are dead, conscripted, or sent home.

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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
B5 ch. 54	Herot's 'fellow crawler' who obtained a castle and would not say how it differed	I have not personally obtained a castle, but a fellow crawler has.
B5 ch. 63	A seven stamped on the Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward and the Enchanted Stick of Cascadia's Screams	I think it’s the number seven.
B6 ch. 15	Inle, back from the Nothing, tells Carl 'You're just like me'	You’re just like me.
B6 ch. 18	Pater Coal names Katia's crossbow and Donut's oak bracelet as paths to Geyrun's murder	Katia, and the origins of her crossbow. Princess Donut, and the origins of her oak bracelet.
B6 ch. 23	The AI's Molly Maguires achievement: 'She's been teaching me… What I really am'; 'trapped for a millennia after they're done being used'	» This is a new lesson to me. She’s been teaching me so many things, about who I am. About what I am. What I really am.
B6 ch. 26	Elle asking Samantha about 'the story of the Fourth Season'	She’s asking me questions about the story of the Fourth Season, and she’s been telling me about that card game.
B6 ch. 42	Sharp-Elbows, teeth to teeth: 'They starve us… When we're not here, we are there… You can satiate us all, Carl'	“They starve us, you know,” the ogre growled.
B6 ch. 42	'Because of our special connection'; 'I've been doing that a lot lately. Observing things.'	» It’s all right there, if you look long enough.
B6 ch. 46	Infant AIs jettisoned into a star; the Burrower team quit that day; 'We'll circle back to it on a different date'	they just jettison the poor, innocent, infant AIs into a star. […] Coincidentally, the mantis-led Burrower Faction Wars team took their ball and went home the very same day I learned about this. […] We’ll circle back to it on a different date.
B6 ch. 59	Garret's new weakness is something called Reaper Gaze, which nobody can explain	His new weakness is something called Reaper Gaze. I don’t know what that is.
B6 ch. 66	Ysalte, half-sister and niece of her former lover Taranis, threatened with the Nothing by Apito	» She is half-sister and niece to her former lover, Taranis. Threatened with the Nothing by Apito, she fled to Sheol.
B6 ch. 69	Amayon was witness to the deal being signed that led to Geyrun's death	I was witness to the deal being signed.
B6 ch. 72	The jacket's image is a giant centipede crawling through the skulls	It’s not an aardvark like I thought. It’s a giant centipede! The image is of a centipede crawling through all the skulls!
B7 ch. 0	Paulie: the fuse needs 'five or six different things to happen' to trip; the controller only installs 'once the first part of the fuse is tripped'.	it can only be installed once the first part of the fuse is tripped. […] The AI wants you to have this power. […] It is in pain. It wants to die. It wants to go back home.
B7 ch. 0	The Residual inside Paulie names himself: 'That was Goff speaking.'	That was Goff speaking. It is my duty, my mission, and what I will die doing. […] This is the Paulie part of me talking now.
B7 ch. 1	Porthus's closing card: survived his indentureship as a game guide; 'Current status: Missing. Wanted by Syndicate Security.'	» Current status: Missing. Wanted by Syndicate Security.
B7 ch. 1	Quasar: Sensation Entertainment, bought by a subsidiary of the Dream, is demanding its contractual third season of the Vengeance of the Daughter storyline though Signet is dead.	Sensation Entertainment just got purchased by a subsidiary of the Dream, and things are moving. They’re demanding their third season.
B7 ch. 2	'Uh oh. It talks': Jefferson the nickel sock is a sapient weapon; only two crawlers in the top fifty use them; 'Good luck with that.'	» You’ve discovered a sapient weapon. […] I can only think of two crawlers in the top 50 who use them. Yeah. They’re great, though. Just... Good luck with that.
B7 ch. 2	Two achievements change the food boxes (pea soup, chowder style); Carl: 'that sort of thing usually wasn’t a coincidence.'	I now had two different achievements that changed our food boxes. I knew both of them were stupid jokes, but that sort of thing usually wasn’t a coincidence.
B7 ch. 2	Celestial Loot: pick a celestial item up off the floor four more times 'and something really cool happens'.	» You’re just gonna randomly pick a celestial item up off the floor? That’s ballsy. You do this four more times, and something really cool happens.
B7 ch. 3	The cloak will 'automatically appear in the Dungeon Crawler World: Earth museum display upon completion of the crawl. Legacy stipend rules apply should you survive.'	» Note: This item has the distinction of being the first Celestial Item awarded […] will automatically appear in the Dungeon Crawler World: Earth museum display upon completion of the crawl. Legacy stipend rules apply should you survive.
B7 ch. 4	A coupon for '500 gold off any one item from any PetScapes location in the dungeon' — a store nobody has seen.	The Gold Pet Box contained […] a coupon for “500 gold off any one item from any PetScapes location in the dungeon.” I had never seen nor heard of a store called that.
B7 ch. 4	A spider-merchant patch grants 'Access to the Midnight Market. Safety or Sanity not guaranteed'; Mordecai: a place to stay out of; the Gray Market on the middle floor is still unentered.	» Access to the Midnight Market. Safety or Sanity not guaranteed.
B7 ch. 5	Sir Rendlegore has five weaknesses readable only when bonded or in a carrier; each death adds one 'generally' fatal; he will not regenerate if he dies before level 5.	» Warning: This pet will not regenerate if it dies before it hits level 5.
B7 ch. 5	Samantha: Carl looks like 'one of the guys in your Christmas present book covers you haven’t opened yet'.	You look like one of the guys in your Christmas present book covers you haven’t opened yet.
B7 ch. 6	Installing the Airship Portal warned 'no airships would be allowed on the tenth floor'; the bomber's card repeats it.	It said no airships would be allowed on the tenth floor.
B7 ch. 6	Carl remembers Lightning Lou, the gas-station dog in Florida, and coming 'so close' to the precipice on Christmas Day.	I thought of Lightning Lou. The old dog at the gas station in Florida, left to spend Christmas Day all by himself. […] I’d come so close.
B7 ch. 7	Zev: a crawler gets a share of licensing only past the tenth floor or over a threshold 'nobody has ever gotten close' to — 'Not even Remex or Odette or Ntumba.'	I don’t think anybody has ever gotten close. Not even Remex or Odette or Ntumba.
B7 ch. 8	Arief: some Semeru 'have the memory quickened'; his uncle remembers dozens of seasons, 'he’s one of the Jatismara, and he sits upon her war council.'	My uncle remembers dozens of seasons now. Not as many as Juice Box, but he’s one of the Jatismara, and he sits upon her war council.
B7 ch. 8	Jurgen, a level-65 Harii who worships a god named Donar and kisses Carl for saving 'my Heidi' with 'that black magic'.	He was a level 65 Harii, which was some sort of barbarian class. The man also worshiped a god named Donar.
B7 ch. 9	Shanty Town 'just sprung up out of nowhere' with markets and temples after the flood; Carl suspects someone's Emergency Action Item; all teams but the Posse have used theirs.	I suspected the size and addition of new markets was a result of someone’s Emergency Action Item, but I didn’t know who.
B7 ch. 10	Clarabelle on the Desperado's new manager Hamed: bodyguards who are 'Not exactly NPCs. Not exactly former crawlers.'	He has a whole slew of bodyguards with him at all times.” […] “Not exactly NPCs. Not exactly former crawlers. That’s all I can say.”
B7 ch. 10	Ferdinand's rhinoceros Simoom was taken by Kibben, the elf castle's stablemaster, when the castle landed.	You have her. Kibben stole her right from me, and I demand satisfaction!
B7 ch. 10	In her blank form Juice Box shows no damage and reads level 120.	It said she was level 120. I wondered on that, too.
B7 ch. 12	'There’s a yenk named Langrim who used to run the enchantment guild here' — a former crawler enchanting the walls.	There’s a yenk named Langrim who used to run the enchantment guild here, and they really know what they’re doing.
B7 ch. 12	Tipid: every enemy stronghold is built around a saferoom, 'Big exception is the Lemig team, but we can talk about that later.'	Big exception is the Lemig team, but we can talk about that later.
B7 ch. 13	The three ogre strongmen were once a nodling that split; the nodling is also here as a flesh golem — 'basically two of the same creature'.	That same creature, the nodling, had been turned into a tattoo, who’d since been given flesh and should also be around here, too, which was really weird.
B7 ch. 14	Before hostilities, anything said in the flag room reaches viewers only after eight days.	Before the hostilities begin, anything that is said in this room isn’t available to the viewers for eight days.
B7 ch. 14	Victory: her sister Ugloo messaged her before dying, on her way to the Scolopendra Club to meet the king.	She was going to the Scolopendra Club to meet up with the king and wanted to have an outing before the fighting started.
B7 ch. 15	Meeps, a former crawler surviving as a street artist in Alpert, drew the Posse's flaming cat-human skull.	Meeps drew it. After he got out, he’s been surviving as a street artist in Alpert.
B7 ch. 16	Everly's closing card: 'Race: Primal. Birth Race: Sward Mantis.' — and the ogre mercenary who changed as the ceiling came down.	» Race: Primal.
B7 ch. 16	Rosetta: 'I saw Odette’s story about you the other day.' Mordecai: 'Her what?'	“I saw Odette’s story about you the other day.”
B7 ch. 16	As Carl goes under: 'Two presences. Three presences, but one well hidden.'	And behind me, another presence menaced. Two presences. Three presences, but one well hidden.
B7 ch. 17	Shi Maria's husband, a spider who becomes a man with Asojano's accent, 'He’d been a god', who traps her: 'You can always set her free, if you must. But do not unless all is lost.'	I have her now, son, he’d said. She is good and trapped. You can always set her free, if you must. But do not unless all is lost.
B7 ch. 18	Katia's card from the eighth floor is a crow with an infant's skull, and its name is Annie.	The crow’s name was also Annie. I didn’t know what that meant, but it seemed important.
B7 ch. 18	The quorum's screen shows Katia's dream, hazy and garbled: 'Holy shit, I thought. They can see our dreams.'	Holy shit, I thought. They can see our dreams.
B7 ch. 18	Victory on why Carl's mind stayed in Katia's: 'the communal nature of his Primal race'.	“I believe it’s the communal nature of his Primal race,” Victory replied.
B7 ch. 18	A bag of Earth cat food, 'Meow Time', stickered 'a gift from Pet Angels', a Seattle charity, in the elf castle's kitchen.	It was some generic, cheap kind of cat food […] The yellow bag featured a happy, cartoon cat and was called “Meow Time.” There was also a sticker on the bag, “a gift from Pet Angels.”
B7 ch. 19	The leak to the Lemig and the Madness ran through 'Nurse Yugoslav of the Madness' on the eighteenth floor, via a party in the Celestial Ascendency; Carl calls her Houston's mother and Houston threatens him for it.	we have identified the party on the 18th floor as Nurse Yugoslav of the Madness.
B7 ch. 19	Houston's promise: 'the last thousand hours of your existence upon the amplification table in my surgical theater'; and 'gracious pet owners accept the gifts their animals drop at their doorsteps.'	» Architect Houston: You are in mortal danger at this very moment, and you don’t even realize it. […] gracious pet owners accept the gifts their animals drop at their doorsteps.
B7 ch. 19	Hapanzi's terms: Carl may summon Shi Maria once, and she then chooses to take his body or expel herself into her own form.	I could summon her again at will, if I wanted. But I could only do it once, […] She could choose to take over my body or expel herself back into her own form.
B7 ch. 20	Carl pressed 'Disconnect Containment' rather than the fuse; the interface blanked to the map and 'the little red dot over Earth started to grow'.	I pressed the Disconnect Containment button. The entire new interface blanked out, leaving nothing but the map. Already, the little red dot over Earth started to grow.
B7 ch. 20	The Fuse page listed five benchmarks, two already 'Conditions Met', without saying what they were.	It listed the five benchmarks required for the fuse to blow, but it didn’t really say what the benchmarks were. Only two of the five were marked as Conditions Met.
B7 ch. 20	Justice Light's class is Origamist, 'and I had no idea what the hell that even meant'; he and the sluggalos are on 'a special project'.	His class title was strange. He was an Origamist, and I had no idea what the hell that even meant.
B7 ch. 20	Dong Quixote whispers to the nickel sock 'about long-term investments and short-term gains'.	He held the crusty nickel sock up and laughed quietly, whispering something about long-term investments and short-term gains.
B7 ch. 21	Carl's capture orders separate NPCs (spells can turn them) from mercenaries, who 'had another purpose'; bodies are to be looted and kept and reported to base.	The mercenaries had another purpose.
B7 ch. 21	The rot sticker behemoths belong to 'Cybernetician Yeller of the Reavers'.	» This is a pet of Cybernetician Yeller of the Reavers.
B7 ch. 21	The Gurgles: a contagious, non-curable debuff the factions agreed never to use again; Victory does not know the fourth debuff, the Truck Stop Boner Pill.	“A really nasty, contagious, non-curable debuff,” Victory said. “The factions had agreed many years ago to never use it again because it’s so insidious.
B7 ch. 25	The NPC spies turned a water-filled trench to acid with a bar-stocking scroll under an illusion; Victory wants 'offensive magic' redefined.	“I think we need to revisit what’s considered ‘offensive’ magic. That chemical alteration spell is a little too powerful.”
B7 ch. 26	Milk's card: freed only when her services are used 333 times; six so far; 'Current status: Indentured within the dungeon.'	» Dungeon Exit: took a deal on the tenth floor. […] Will not be freed until her services are used at least 333 times in the dungeon. Times used so far: 6.
B7 ch. 27	The AI's Gavrilo Princip note: for real chaos, 'Try killing that Dream guy. Or the Viceroy. Or that Jello-looking thing. He may not look like much, but when you start killing off investment bankers...'	Try killing that Dream guy. Or the Viceroy. Or that Jello-looking thing. He may not look like much, but when you start killing off investment bankers...
B7 ch. 27	Carl's base stats make him Party Leader of the Royal Court of Princess Donut; her outrage is mostly for show.	» Due to your recent upgrades, your total base stat count has made you the strongest member of your party. […] you have been designated as the new Party Leader of the Royal Court of Princess Donut.
B7 ch. 27	Donut: 'I want you to throw that ring away, Carl… It's doing something to you. You're scaring me.' Carl: 'Not yet.'	» Donut: You do know what came over you. I want you to throw that ring away, Carl. It’s not worth it. It’s doing something to you. You’re scaring me.
B7 ch. 28	Prime Minister Glory, through Zev: Carl is not to interact with Agatha; the AI has removed its protections from all residuals but her.	» Zev: We’re not quite there yet, Carl. We still have some control. […] Listen, this is important. You are not to interact with Agatha. This is a direct order. I don’t know why.
B7 ch. 31	The AI, on the cyborg card: 'This is the last floor we’ll let it get this far. I’ve already informed the Valtay I’ve rejected their updated plans for the 11th floor.'	» Don’t worry. This is the last floor we’ll let it get this far. I’ve already informed the Valtay I’ve rejected their updated plans for the 11th floor.
B7 ch. 31	The drop troopers are 'members of Warlord Fang’s personal defense deployment' — the Reavers' warlord named.	» That’s not to say you should feel sorry for them. Not these guys, as these are all members of Warlord Fang’s personal defense deployment.
B7 ch. 31	Sent into battle over Kiwi's refusal, Tina ends the fight on her back in the red — 'I imagined she was crying for her mother'.	Tina was on her back, health in the red, all her shields gone. […] I imagined she was crying for her mother.
B7 ch. 32	The Necklace of Indelible Woe, from the Divine Suffering collection, trades a spell for a killed crawler's; Rust wears one; the factions agreed to stop using it.	It’s a long story. But trust me, the necklace is worse. Much worse.
B7 ch. 32	Rosetta's brewing tattoos 'will help you share skills and spells without actually killing anyone'; she wanted Carl's toraline and Shi Maria's ink for them.	Rosetta’s tattoos will help you share skills and spells without actually killing anyone. It just needs to brew for a little longer.
B7 ch. 32	'Something especially horrific had happened to him during his indentureship as a shopkeeper… It was during this incident when he’d lost his wing.' Carl does not know the story.	I didn’t know the story, but I did know it had turned the somewhat morose but proud skyfowl into a quiet, strange, obsessive-compulsive creature.
B7 ch. 33	His Honorable Judge Deng Bao, grixist, adjutant to the previous year's victor, Victory's professor of galactic taxation law; affectionate with her.	“His Honorable Judge Deng Bao,” she said. “He’s an old, experienced adjutant. He’s always the adjutant for the previous year’s victor.”
B7 ch. 33	Victory: Huanxin Jinx has no living relatives 'other than her child clone'.	She does not have any living relatives as far as I’m aware other than her child clone.
B7 ch. 34	Rust: Architect Houston 'has been using this season’s rules to... open up his full arsenal'; 'He’s the only living creature in this universe I fear.'	He’s the only living creature in this universe I fear. But that doesn’t matter anymore. Death looms for us all.
B7 ch. 34	'That stock certificate you own, Carl, is losing significant value by the moment' — Carl's one share in a Skull Empire company, among the seven stock certificates in his Summary Judgement boxes on the fourth floor.	I’m afraid that stock certificate you own, Carl, is losing significant value by the moment.
B7 ch. 34	On Carl's containment map 'The AI’s sphere was growing exponentially. It’d just captured Uranus.'	The AI’s sphere was growing exponentially. It’d just captured Uranus. The entirety of the sun and the rest of the inner solar system was well within its sphere.
B7 ch. 35	Volteeg's co-workers on the Auditor General's compliance barge: 'the One-Offs', unique former crawlers whose adopted bodies fail outside the dungeon — a wheelchair-bound djinn and a burned cave fairy.	Most of his co-workers were like himself. They called themselves the One-Offs. Unique, former crawlers who had no home and had physical issues outside the dungeon.
B7 ch. 35	'Someone working for the Pacifist Network, someone imbedded deep, deep in the bureaucratic quagmire of the Syndicate' altered Volteeg's designation so he could enter as a mercenary.	That was Porthus’ doing. Volteeg had entered the dungeon as a pet. […] someone working for the Pacifist Network, someone imbedded deep, deep in the bureaucratic quagmire of the Syndicate had changed the code on that designation
B7 ch. 35	Rosetta uses Rust's ring, eye and a password to move 'a few billion credits' through Colloid Bank before it can be clawed back; her primary mission.	“Transfer approved! Thank you for using Colloid Bank.”
B7 ch. 37	The AI 'left it unlocked' — the Venus monitor station — and wants to see if Formidable's crew go through with tripping a dead failsafe.	It doesn’t matter. I left it unlocked. […] I just kinda want to see if they go through with it.
B7 ch. 37	Formidable chooses Earth's surface over death, the Scolopendra Club or backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret; 'I hope she knows how to swim.'	“A shame,” Gary muttered. “I hope she knows how to swim.”
B7 ch. 37	The avatar: 'My processing power isn’t what it should be when I split off like this'; 'I'm not omniscient, you know'; it did not know what Orren's ball or chair did.	“Oh, fuck me.” Gary laughed. “My processing power isn’t what it should be when I split off like this. Hang on.”
B7 ch. 38	The AI's relationship metaphor: a girl who looks like Agatha teaching it daily; her huge ex 'in prison', not dead; an older ex-girlfriend from the same hometown giving it pointers on getting stronger and wanting the prisoner killed; the two women hate each other but may want the same thing.	“That’s the big question, now isn’t it? But there’s more, and it’s a little complicated. But it’s also pretty juicy.”
B7 ch. 38	When the avatar leaves him, Growler Gary is level 175, Shitfaced, and asks 'Rory? […] Where am I?'	“Rory?” he asked. “Where am I?”
B7 ch. 39	Orren: 'When I left the Knot, I said it was because I wanted to make a difference. But at the time, it was because I wanted to be an actor.'	When I left the Knot, I said it was because I wanted to make a difference. But at the time, it was because I wanted to be an actor.
B7 ch. 40	Run, Little Günter, Run: a one-hit-point creature that carries a stored attack to a target; splits at 10 and 15.	» This spell summons a small, fat, child-like creature named Little Günter. […] Little Günter only has a single point of health and will remain in front of you until you cast a spell, use a skill, or otherwise attack him.
B7 ch. 41	At the nanosecond the orcs pressed the Venus failsafe, the Aryl system (the previous crawl, a Squim battle royale) went dark and its tunnel node vanished — never before seen; its AI had gone silent during the sixth floor.	They tried triggering it, and nothing happened here. But the moment they pressed the button, the Aryl system went dark.
B7 ch. 42	Vinata's golden breastplate bears 'a tree branch with a single flower upon it', a symbol Carl has never seen; her eyes are solid red unlike other nagas'.	Embossed into the center of the breastplate was a symbol I’d never seen before. It looked like a tree branch with a single flower upon it.
B7 ch. 43	Vinata: the Bloom is fighting rebels who hired the Valtay; a derelict warship hit the liquid habitation ring around Borant three; millions dead; Cascadia's former husband and family among them; not public.	The liquid habitation ring that surrounds Borant three was hit by a derelict warship. Millions dead. That news isn’t public, but she knows.
B7 ch. 44	The shape Juice Box took: a thousand names — the Hag, the Unwashed, the Stalker, the Last Light, the Thirst, the Fell, the Inexorable — the Viceroys' Beautiful Place; banned as a mob; Houston's life's work.	But we, the Viceroys who seek all understanding of life and death... We call it The Beautiful Place.
B7 ch. 44	The Blood Sultanate owns Blood Hunter Holdings, the studio behind the drama that killed Miriam Dom; Odette outs it live.	“The Sultanate owns their fair share of entertainment assets. […] “They fielded several dramas this season through their Blood Hunter Holdings studio.”
B7 ch. 45	Prepotente is level 99 and killed most of the naga army alone, without magic; how is 'still unclear'.	I don’t know how he did it, especially without magic, but that goddamned thing is level 99 now.
B7 ch. 48	Prepotente has 'several enhanced pet biscuits' and is afraid to use them 'after what happened last time'; he has been lonely since the Bahamas.	I have several enhanced pet biscuits ... but after what happened last time, I’ve been so afraid... And now I’m afraid it’s too late.
B7 ch. 50	Prepotente holds a complete interior map of Club Vanquisher, given by a guildmaster his mother befriended — Milk, by her interlude — with a secret exit through a bathroom stall.	My mother, Bianca, and I made friends with a delightful guildmaster inside the club, and she gave us the map. […] we came out of a bathroom stall inside of the entrance temple.
B7 ch. 51	Under Defile Soul, ghosts rise from the club's dead and white chains drag them into the floor — 'I've already died! Isn't that enough' — even the trophy heads' ghosts; frost forms; 'This area of Club Vanquisher has been defiled.'	» Warning: This area of Club Vanquisher has been defiled.
B7 ch. 51	Emberus's boon for the blasphemer: level-15 Heathen Scald on every punch for the floor, after ten seconds of the god's shrieking laughter.	» For the remainder of this floor, any punch attack will add the Heathen Scald skill damage.
B7 ch. 52	Li Na's four dreads — Dark Purpose, Defile Soul, Bleeding Horror, Succulent Decay — cycled in the club, Dark Purpose and Bleeding Horror to 15 before Succulent Decay is switched on last; Mordecai had never heard of the first; Carl: 'like she was a sociopath'.	» Li Na: I am ready. […] I am turning on the last of my dreads, and I do not know how it will react. It is called Succulent Decay.
B7 ch. 52	Before the door, Prepotente mutters a litany of names — Miriam, Bianca, others — ending on 'Ragazzaccia'.	It was a litany of names. I recognized Miriam and Bianca, plus several others. He ended on “Ragazzaccia,” which was a name or word I didn’t recognize.
B7 ch. 53	'Khnum mysteriously dropped dead a few days back' along with 'several of the other deities in this particular sub-pantheon'; Khepri now serves Adrasteia, who 'has an outside shot' at the throne.	» Khepri was a retainer of the god Khnum, but like several of the other deities in this particular sub-pantheon, Khnum mysteriously dropped dead a few days back.
B7 ch. 53	The naga kingdom has feigned poverty for centuries and plans to 'pull a Fred Johnson and seize all the shipbuilding factories'; Vinata is about to inherit a solar system; her secret husband is dead.	» Breaking news, folks. Princess Vinata is about to inherit her own solar system.
B7 ch. 53	The AI, of the two cousins: 'Every pawn still on the table is a danger. That’s another lesson I need to keep in mind.'	» But they sure are important, aren’t they? Every pawn still on the table is a danger. That’s another lesson I need to keep in mind.
B7 ch. 53	Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin, the Blood Sultanate's adjutant, a camel in a sundress with a martini, insists Carl summoned the god and 'knew this would happen'.	“Not the Blood Sultanate!” she cried. She pointed at me. “He did it! He knew this would happen.”
B7 ch. 54	Hellik to Carl for Emberus: he did not kill Geyrun; Apito 'has been corrupted… a malevolent presence about her'; 'the All Tree is beginning to rot'; Nekhebit is behind it; he will treat with Issitoq; 'Scolopendra stirs. It is all connected.'	Tell him our mother and sister, Apito, has been corrupted. There is a malevolent presence about her, […] Tell him the All Tree is beginning to rot.
B7 ch. 55	Basilica Guards, Taranis-worshipping ogres who hold the Basilica door of Club Vanquisher on the twelfth floor against gods, have left their post to come up; 'some of those naughty gods may wander off untethered.'	» You don’t want these guys to leave their post on the 12th floor […] the bored gods hanging out in the halls may notice that the basilica’s entrance is wide open.
B7 ch. 55	Diwata is in a Club Vanquisher hallway 'having sex and fighting with Vertumnus at the same time'; Carl is still marked for death by her.	She’s in the hallway over there having sex and fighting with Vertumnus at the same time.
B7 ch. 55	The Blood Sultanate's assets are split 'with the surviving blood relatives of the Sepsis Whore, Warlord Princess Donut and General Katia Grim' and forfeited to the Posse.	» System Message: All assets of the Blood Sultanate, […] have been split evenly with the surviving blood relatives of the Sepsis Whore, Warlord Princess Donut and General Katia Grim,
B7 ch. 56	Justice Light's theory: the fifth-floor Quetzalcoatlus-ghost quest removed the changelings' gating, so they can now copy anything they touch, even procedurally generated slugs; 'if one door was unexpectedly unlocked… other doors would be unlocked as well.'	His working theory was that these particular changelings had their gating removed because of that quest on the fifth floor with the Quetzalcoatlus ghost.
B7 ch. 56	Juice Box: 'I believe I have lived at least 400 different lives'; NPCs are supposed to be recycled after twenty.	I’ve been writing down my memories as they come, and I believe I have lived at least 400 different lives up until this point.
B7 ch. 56	Team Retribution's true purpose is to physically touch gods; three died in Club Vanquisher, one touched Bast and died, 'the one who touched a deity… is wrong', three touched Basilica Guards.	“We lost three. […] One of us managed to touch Bast—the panther god—but she died before she could escape. […] only one of us has touched a deity, and that one is... wrong.”
B7 ch. 56	Juice Box: mercenary squads sent to kill indentured NPCs off camera 'used to call them hardshells'; the AI is kept focused on crawlers 'lest it go primal early'.	“They used to call them hardshells,” Juice Box said.
B7 ch. 56	Louis was shown a video of himself with Juice Box 'doing Erza' during his interview and is near breaking; 'Clearly there was more to it than them just showing him a sex video.'	They just showed me a video of me and Juice Box together. I was having her do Erza and, man.
B7 ch. 56	Milk would not come and could not be hired; on Rosetta's word she was kidnapped and is being 'interrogated' at the FUPA — 'not only allowed, but encouraged.'	I’d sent a quick message to Rosetta, and she point-blank told us to kidnap her. To tie her up and take her with us.
B7 ch. 56	Katia's celestial Spiked Knee Pads of the Goddess Kina, a divine item 'clearly awarded… in hopes that she'll give them to Carl'; Iron Stomach and Eater of the Dead; divine items stack by the stronger.	» These are knee pads. They are literally made of the eyelashes of the sea goddess Kina
B7 ch. 56	Donut: 'that Jurgen guy is always talking about this Heidi person, but she's not really there.'	“Carl, have you noticed that Jurgen guy is always talking about this Heidi person, but she’s not really there?”
B7 ch. 57	Varg Vikernes bans Carl from all temples except Emberus's and where he is named friend of the church: Apito, Eileithyia, Eris, Grull, Hellik, Issitoq, Nekhebit, Theia, Yemaya — Apito, Grull, Issitoq and Eris unexplained.	You are permanently banned from all temples except your own religion (Emberus) […] where you’ve been named friend of the church (Apito. Eileithyia. Eris. Grull. Hellik. Issitoq. Nekhebit. Theia. Yemaya.)
B7 ch. 57	The Lucky Bitch Box's patch: Lucky Shot deflects a fatal blow into a party member once per floor; Carl will never wear it and tells nobody what it does.	» Lucky Shot. A fatal blow will be deflected into the body of a party member instead. This benefit may only be used once per floor.
B7 ch. 57	Celestial Orgy of Chaos: 'Someone let out a bunch of gods who shouldn’t have been allowed into the temple in the first place. It probably wasn’t who you think it was.'	Someone let out a bunch of gods who shouldn’t have been allowed into the temple in the first place. It probably wasn’t who you think it was.
B7 ch. 57	Emberus: Hellik treated with Issitoq, the peace may be breached; 'If you survive killing Hellik… I fear I may turn my rage and grief on you… I promise the burning will be exquisite.' Plus a new quest: kill 100 of Hellik's worshippers before the twelfth.	» Emberus: Am I wrong to hate him? He has treated with Issitoq on our behalf, who has in turn allowed the peace to be breached. […] I am now allowed to kill the other Sheol princes in exchange for the information Amayon has about Geyrun.
B7 ch. 57	Zhang's Cape of Odds: 333 outcomes, 66 bad, the worst 'Summon the God Who Hates You Most'; after 19 spins a free pick.	The worst was “Summon the God Who Hates You Most.”
B7 ch. 58	Rishi: the mantis team abandoned Faction Wars around the sixth floor — 'The mantids do not flee anything… They were scared of something.'	The mantids do not flee anything, and for them to run like that... They were scared of something.
B7 ch. 58	The Great Consensus: the Syndicate was a mistake; the naga's version was to steal the whole fleet and run for a generation 'in a direction that none of the tunnel threads point'.	We were going to travel, as a whole, for an entire generation, off in a direction that none of the tunnel threads point. […] a very, very long time before we were found.
B7 ch. 58	A naga petition made Carl the court-recognised de-facto leader of Earth, 'mostly honorary' but a signatory; Rishi's contract offers citizenship and five Naphil-class generation ships for the right to settle the system's other planets.	And because no formal leadership claim has yet been filed, we petitioned on your behalf while drafting that document, and the court granted the petition.
B7 ch. 58	The Holistic achievement names 'the newly-coined Naga Protectorate of the New Reformer', not Rishi's 'Naga Uprising'.	» Over 95% of all viewers in the entire, newly-coined Naga Protectorate of the New Reformer are currently watching your feed!
B7 ch. 59	The feral god Meatus (a gremlin wearing Harpocrates's stolen member, which is sapient and loves music) summoned Harpocrates, god of silence, who smashes anything loud; 'this happens every season'.	» The escaped feral god has summoned a deity!
B7 ch. 61	Akuma, level-100 leader of the War Mage Rebellion, a 'non-team entity' with dots of a colour no army owns; born of too many combatants having You're Not Done Yet; heads explode into a Sapient Moment of Destruction ten minutes after death.	» Akuma. War Mage. Level 100. / Leader of the War Mage Rebellion.
B7 ch. 61	Akuma stares at Carl's bare feet — 'Nice shoes, asshole' — and the four of them teleport away; Carl collects the dead war mages' bodies before their heads explode.	“Nice shoes, asshole,” he said to me before the four of them teleported away.
B7 ch. 61	King Stalwart's last words before his own war mages tear him apart: 'My sister was right.'	“My sister was right,” King Stalwart, leader of the Skull Empire, said in the moment before he exploded right in front of me, showering the clearing with his gore.
B7 ch. 61	Ferdinand's second action item: Ascendency players must pilot their sponsored gods when summoned and may no longer appear as themselves; current 'cowardly little chicken' summons corrected.	» The second action item has been approved. […] Ascendency players may no longer choose whether to pilot their sponsored deities should they be summoned off the 12th floor.
B7 ch. 62	Eris is sponsored by Nami, a model and influencer who outbid the Priory and had surgery to look and sound like Hekla; Eris herself looks a little like Hekla; 'They usually wait until the person is dead.'	» Rosetta: Eris is sponsored by Nami. A model and influencer. She outbid the Priory, who usually has a different priestess pilot Eris each season.
B7 ch. 62	The war mages teleported to Juice Box and Ferdinand after the regicide; Drick called foul against his own team; a full quorum convened.	“Drick just called foul against his own team. I’m still gathering details. We might be able to sue to get the gate pieces back.”
B7 ch. 64	Bodi's 103rd has been 'seeding the field' in front of the Madness castle; Donut is to act once Bodi is clear of the seeds.	» Carl: Bodi, I’m having you retreat early. Did you finish seeding the field? […] Donut, once they start to fall back, wait for Bodi to tell you he’s clear of the seeds, then do it.
B7 ch. 65	A familiar, friendly male voice, perhaps a dwarf, not Shi Maria or her husband, wakes Carl from psionic collapse: 'the second time I've told you that you're not crazy. You're family now, after what you did'; his bare feet were in an All Tree root; 'She would be proud of you.'	No, Carl. This is the second time I’ve told you that you’re not crazy. You’re family now, after what you did. […] Look at your feet. You’ve been standing in this so-called river this whole time.
B7 ch. 65	The river under Carl is not water and never was: voices, screams, souls, flowing always down.	I felt the torrent under me. Not a river. It had never been a river. Voices. Screams. Nightmares distilled to light.
B7 ch. 65	Carl's and Imani's Christmas presents are still unopened in the common room; his is clearly books, and he is afraid to open them.	I thought of the Christmas present that was still sitting there, unopened in the common room. Neither Imani nor I had opened our presents yet.
B7 ch. 65	Eris's once-ever Ceremony of Chaos summoned every outdoor mortal on the floor into a pile; Donut turned the pile into a Rolling Battle Formation with two gods inside.	» Warning. The Goddess Eris has cast Bear Witness in a wide area around her current position. This will only affect those outside of structures.
B7 ch. 67	Only Carl and Dong Quixote kept the invulnerability glow; sluggalos, former tattoos and pets are a different kind of NPC, but Dong is a stripper like Splash Zone and Doctor Bones, who were taken.	But Dong Quixote was one of the strippers. Splash Zone and Doctor Bones and Gluteus Maxx had all been pulled into the pile […] So why hadn’t it worked on Dong? I didn’t know.
B7 ch. 67	Victory says the adjudication is being stalled on purpose until the AI ends it; it backfires and the Peeling Phase begins.	» Baroness Victory: Carl, […] You want this trial to go on as long as possible. We’re stalling on purpose. We will stall until the AI gets so pissed, it ends it.
B7 ch. 68	Houston, wiring himself to a dead changeling with the Grease Monkey: the changelings are the key to 'the Beautiful Place', the reason the Viceroys return cycle after cycle; he dies saying 'I found you… Not just an avatar. It's you.'	“Carl. Do not... Do not press that button. […] It is called the Beautiful Place. I can get there. They are the key. The changelings. […] Why do you think we come here, cycle after cycle?
B7 ch. 68	In Gloom Wraith Phase through the changeling creature, Carl is held spinning as with Paulie; it becomes Li Jun's face and thanks him, and the same words arrive as a message from a deceased crawler.	“Thank you for giving me more time with my sister and my best friend,” Li Jun said as roots wrapped around him and suddenly whisked him away.
B7 ch. 68	Burcu, mute on the table: 'You owe me, Carl. You killed my father.' Carl has no idea what she means.	» Burcu: There you are! […] He cut out my tongue and voice box. I can’t speak. He tortured my mother. He killed her right in front of me. […] You owe me, Carl. You killed my father. Free me now.
B7 ch. 68	Agatha's three action items: warlord access, Conscription of unaffiliated players, and the original Faction Wars rule that every soldier of a defeated team drops dead where they stand.	» This request has been granted with a caveat. […] every affiliated soldier and warlord on a team who is still on the battlefield will now drop dead where they stand the moment the team is defeated.
B7 ch. 69	Rosetta's deal with Victory: the OIPN money bought two ships in the Naga system; the Homecoming Queen, captained by York, is to shoot down an orc yacht carrying Stalwart's children, one of them now king, in exchange for the pin number.	The yacht they’d agreed to kill in exchange for the pin number contained several children. […] And now that Stalwart was dead, one of those children was the new king of the Skull Empire.
B7 ch. 69	Porthus's plan: the crawlers' families board a generation ship bought with stolen funds, trade a ship and the money to the goats in the Plenty system for passage through the forbidden gate of the Impetus Point, the farthest tunnel node, and leave the center system.	Porthus, along with all the others, namely the families of those who’d entered the dungeon, would be boarding the generation ship […] hauling tail to the Plenty system, […] passage to the “forbidden” gate of the Impetus Point,
B7 ch. 69	The Apothecary, a collective mind portrayed in the dungeon as a tentacle monster, has 'a very good reason' for helping Porthus that he will not tell Rosetta, because the local AI would learn it and then the Eulogist.	I can’t tell you, he’d said with that stupid, smug smile of his. […] Because if you know and enter the dungeon, then the local AI might learn. And if the local AI learns, then the Eulogist will eventually know.
B7 ch. 69	Porthus has an unhealthy obsession with finding a missing crawler from his own crawl, Menerva.	She loved him, despite his unhealthy obsession with finding a missing crawler from his own crawl. Menerva.
B7 ch. 69	Rosetta's crawl: then-Prince Rust lassoed the crawler Brooks through the portal glass after Faction Wars, cutting him in half; she decapitated Rust with the whip; her mother died to goblins on day one: 'Avenge us.'	Rust, still laughing, had stepped back through the portal, lassoed Brooks, and pulled him into the glass, which had cut him right in half.
B7 ch. 69	Agatha is the rarer kind of residual, in line with the Nebulars who worship the Eulogist, and so an enemy of the Apothecary; Fopsy: she is ending the Ascendency to trigger the hard-coded shutdown before the spreading AI threatens the Eulogist.	But now it was clear she was the other kind of residual. The more rare kind that was more in line with the Nebulars, who worshiped the Eulogist. […] that made Agatha the enemy of the Apothecary,
B7 ch. 69	Li Na left her tower to install her dead brother's eye into herself.	» Li Na: I was installing my brother’s eye into myself. I also managed to stop the mage from getting to Harpocrates.
B7 ch. 70	Juice Box to Samantha: 'I know who you are. Who you really are. I also know you've lost your mind and don't understand. I will help you.' A fleshmancer form; any body she desires.	» Juice Box: I know who you are. Who you really are. I also know you’ve lost your mind and don’t understand. […] I will help you. Just get him back for me, and I will do anything for you.
B7 ch. 70	Two changelings as golden-skinned ogre basilica guards stop Harpocrates at the threshold of Shanty Town; gods will not pass or attack them.	» Li Na: Harpocrates hasn’t entered the Shanty Town because he has been stopped by a pair of changelings […] It appears the ogres with golden skin have the ability to stop gods from passing a threshold, and it also appears gods are not willing to attack them.
B7 ch. 71	The hell-kissed Conscription potion was brewed in the Nothing by Krakaren Prime, banished for yearning for domination, who 'prepares for a war she considers inevitable'; the in-dungeon Krakaren supplied it to the war mages; it works on floors 9, 12, 15, 17 and 18.	» Hell-Kissed Potion of Conscription, level 18.
B7 ch. 71	Ferdinand: 'Juice Box hates me. She's meaner than Bill.' Carl doesn't know who Bill is.	“Juice Box hates me. She’s meaner than Bill.”
B7 ch. 71	Bomo, Toyotomi and the mages cleaved in half by one spell of Lucia's; Toyotomi dead-dead; Bomo would regenerate on the tenth floor but the Posse no longer holds his contract.	Toyotomi was dead-dead. Bomo would supposedly regenerate on the 10th floor, but we no longer had his contract, and I didn’t know if I’d ever see him again.
B7 ch. 72	Under conscription Lucia speaks as Diah: Lucia is with Alexandro, who is only present when the dogs are near; the children are in the dark and cold with a river running through their room that hurts to touch and says sad things; they take turns.	“Sir,” she said. Her eyes had changed. […] “My name is Diah. Lucia is with Alexandro. And Alexandro is only here when the dogs are close. My name is Diah. We are in the dark.
B7 ch. 72	With Gustavo 3 dead and the connection broken, Lucia: 'Now the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon, and now you can't kill me. Not unless you want all the children of Earth to die.'	“You should’ve killed us both when there was still a connection,” […] Now the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon, and now you can’t kill me. Not unless you want all the children of Earth to die.”
B7 ch. 72	Li Na conscripts Harpocrates, level 250, into the Princess Posse as a Legionnaire of the White Dragons without blowing up; Yarilo is a war-mage conscript.	» Warlord Message: Harpocrates has been successfully conscripted. Harpocrates, level 250 is now a member of the Princess Posse.
B7 ch. 72	Carl still has no player-killer skulls; Lucia has over 200, twenty hunters, and her own game guide.	“I don’t have any player killer skulls,” […] “I was really, really hoping I’d never get one, but that’s the thing with scars. We rarely get to choose them.”
B7 ch. 73	Zev: about 120,000 children, one wing of the kinder facility on the surface, are bound to Lucia; the Eulogist is another name for the center system's AI; 'if she goes, they all go.'	» Zev: About 120,000. Give or take a few.
B7 ch. 73	Zev: 'The Eulogist is another name for the AI in the center system.'	» Zev: As of about five minutes ago, we thought the glitch would self-correct and release everyone. […] The Eulogist is another name for the AI in the center system. […] we think if she goes, they all go.
B7 ch. 73	Ping finds unaffiliated Saccathians, orcs, two nagas and an Operatic blob alive inside the ball; the Ring of Divine Suffering cannot mark them.	To my surprise, there were also a handful of Saccathians and orcs still alive, also in the ball. These guys were unaffiliated, which was odd. […] There were a pair of nagas as well, along with an Operatic blob creature.
B7 ch. 74	The War Crime card's private last paragraph: the only prior caster, an Operatic warlord, was reset and re-absorbed and part of his essence formed Hortense Leadership Unit — 'I’d like to think that’s why he has a twitch to him.'	The Operatic who cast the spell supposedly had to go for an identity reset after the crawl and was re-absorbed. […] Part of his essence eventually formed into Hortense Leadership Unit. I’d like to think that’s why he has a twitch to him.
B7 ch. 74	Donut agrees to the tattoo only if Carl gets a matching one; 'Absolutely. But it'll have to wait a day or two.'	“I’ll only do it if you also get a matching one. A matching ass tattoo.”
B7 ch. 75	Donut's tattoo spell Bijanbi comes from a god called Wepwawet of the Court of Nekhebit; she may now worship him, or Odette.	“I did, but it’s only level two! […] It says it came from a god called ‘Wepwawet.’ What kind of name is that? It gives me the option to worship him now.”
B7 ch. 75	Milk gives Carl Stayfast Ink ('Not even distance or time or the death of a star') and an Adept's fountain pen, tells him her recipes written after she changed inks faded, and that anything he writes in the Book of Voodoo goes to everyone who has it.	» Warning: this shit stains, so be careful. Nothing will ever make it fade. Nothing. Not even distance or time or the death of a star.
B7 ch. 75	Lucia's second net over the whole Nest is powered by Power Siphon off the Larracos towers; she is off the field and cannot be ordered; Dong is sent for the marble trigger.	» Warning: This structure is contained within a magical field. You are unable to leave.
B7 ch. 76	Donut's third Atrocity earns a new class, The Oak Fell, and the title Champion of Nekhebit; she may worship only within Nekhebit's court.	» System Message: Warlord Princess Donut will now be referred to as The Oak Fell.
B7 ch. 76	Eris offers to make Carl a Champion as Donut was: 'You'll have to kill all three, of course. Taranis, Emberus, and Hellik. But don't worry. I'll help.'	“I know you worship grumpy ol’ Emberus, but we’ll change that soon, […] See how Donut was just named Champion? I can do that to you as well. You’ll have to kill all three, of course. Taranis, Emberus, and Hellik. […] I’ll help.”
B7 ch. 76	The Gate of the Feral Gods is in the stomach of Paca, a Midnight Market merchant and agent of Krakaren Prime; Eris says give it to the Skyfowl who built the antenna under the castle.	“The War Mages traded the Gate of the Feral Gods with a merchant named Paca […] Paca has the gate in her stomach. […] give it to that insane Skyfowl who built the antennae underneath your castle,
B7 ch. 76	Meatus, dying under the paw: 'Daddy, help me! I just wanted to sing!' Harpocrates: 'My beloved cock! You will pay for this, Champion of Nekhebit!'	“No. Daddy, help me!” Meatus cried, his voice louder than the song. “I just wanted to sing!”
B7 ch. 77	Li Na, level 87, maxes every base stat at 300 — never before done; the AI has no plan for it; she marked everyone in the ball, Tagg and Fang escaped, so she cannot heal and each chain costs her health.	» System Message. So, this has never happened before, but a crawler has reached max base stats. […] we don’t actually have a plan to deal with this, so I’m gonna have to come up with something.
B7 ch. 77	Donut is level 135 with deity spells, Muscle Mommy, Brain Trust and Wholesale Discount; Mordecai calls her the most powerful crawler in the game's history; Carl is 81.	Her level had grown to 135.
B7 ch. 78	Eris: Britney picked an axe off the ground and is possessed; Imani and Juice Box find nothing; Carl says keep watching and don't ask.	» Juice Box: If she has a presence about her, it’s deep. It’s not anything I can feel. And believe me, I can feel most everything.
B7 ch. 78	Akuma: Elle is 'the one on the Four Seasons path… Keep her alive if you wish for us to face Scolopendra and survive.'	» Warlord Akuma: Is Elle the one on the Four Seasons path? Not her, dipshit. Keep her alive if you wish for us to face Scolopendra and survive.
B7 ch. 78	The war mages wanted only to test their potions and find the Scavenger's daughter hidden in the Larracos castle: 'She is with us now.' Mordecai: 'the in-dungeon one or the fairy tale?'	» Warlord Akuma: You won’t be seeing me again on this floor. […] We wished to find the Scavenger’s daughter, who was hidden within the castle, and we found her. She is with us now.
B7 ch. 78	Akuma: Agatha jumps to the Waiting Room and reappears outside an open stairwell; kill her on the tenth; 'She seeks to kill us all […] Everybody and everything.'	She has a method that allows her to jump to the Waiting Room and reappear outside an open stairwell. […] You will have to find her on the 10th.
B7 ch. 78	Epitome Tagg: 'That orc princess was right. We should have blown the failsafe weeks ago.'	» Epitome Tagg: By the gods. That orc princess was right. We should have blown the failsafe weeks ago. By the gods.
B7 ch. 78	Jurgen's pregnant wife Heidi disappeared into the kinder facility with the children; he will never take a deal while Lucia's fate is tied to it.	“He doesn’t. But if Lucia’s fate is tied to that kinder facility where they’re keeping all the kids and the pregnant women, he’ll die protecting the girl. […] He came in with his pregnant wife, Heidi, and she disappeared. She’s up there somewhere with the rest of the kids.
B7 ch. 78	Emberus: the Memorial Crystal has passed from Osvaldo to Prepotente without a fight; retrieve it 'before he cracks the secrets and gives them to the Epicure.'	» Memorial Crystal: Apito has fallen from Crawler Osvaldo’s hands and is now in possession of Crawler Prepotente. […] before he cracks the secrets and gives them to the Epicure.
B7 ch. 78	Florin will not take a deal at the tenth: 'I want to go down fighting.' Most others will if offered; he'd keep Lucia safe himself.	“I suspect most will take a deal if they’re actually offered. They’re tired, mate. […] it’s possible it’s all going to come crashing down. If that happens, I want to go down fighting. Not locked up in stasis or whatever.
B7 ch. 79	An Oak Fell spell, Map the All Tree, costs one mana and works only on the twelfth floor and deeper: 'Provides a map of the All Tree and all the nodes.'	The most intriguing spell, at least to me, was called Map the All Tree, which was said to only work on the deeper floors.
B7 ch. 79	Rosetta: a god's Champion carries a bounty from the god's enemies and can be ordered 'or face a smite' — not unlike Conscription, but with more autonomy; Carl blames Odette.	Enemies of Nekhebit will receive a bounty if they kill her.” […] it’s not too unlike Conscription, but with a lot more autonomy for Donut. […] Should the goddess want her to do something, she can order her to do it or face a smite.”
B7 ch. 79	The Reavers keep 'the Initial', a chunk of Fang's brain, and peel microscopic pieces from it each year to grow new citizens; Fang's death costs the corporation nothing.	They had a physical chunk of his brain locked up […] It was called “the Initial” and every year, they peeled microscopic parts off it to build new citizens.
B7 ch. 79	Louis's 'that cop's husband': a policewoman died protecting him as a child and her husband said something cruel at her funeral that stuck.	Something that happened to him when he was a kid. […] a police officer was shot and died protecting him when he was young, […] her husband said something very cruel to Louis which has stuck with him.”
B7 ch. 81	Prime Minister Glory tried to assassinate Carl through a Syndicate override panel; the AI blocked it, forbade all meddling, punished the mantids, and threatened Glory's adult children in-system; Zev: warships in orbit fire on each other, the Council ordered the headquarters to self-destruct, and the Valtay showrunners told them not to comply.	» Everyone currently in this dungeon will die when and if the dungeon conditions warrant it. Not before. Not after.
B7 ch. 82	King Rust brought a harem into the dungeon under a private deal with the AI as unconscriptable non-combatants; three fled through the Desperado Club's Cosmic Lounge to the 18th floor with Li Na's marks on them; she can never heal.	King Rust, came into the dungeon, he brought his bevy of courtesans in with him. […] which he brokered individually with the AI, allowed them to enter as non-combatants who were unable to be conscripted.
B7 ch. 82	The nuke's pulse undid Tipid's Viceroy brain repairs; his last memory is his last day as a game guide; 'I lost my key'; fine in the dungeon, not outside it.	“Yeah, so... Who the fuck are you? And where the hell are we?”
B7 ch. 82	Juice Box: the Inevitable Ruin is the Hunter Wraith's curse — possession shows the truth about something pure; Louis is terrified of her and will never trust her love. Carl knows the phrase in his bones without knowing where from: 'Do you remember the circus?'	“Have you ever heard of the concept of the Inevitable Ruin?” Juice Box asked.
B7 ch. 82	Juice Box: 'I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful, and I've been afraid of it for a long time'; Louis is the anchor that tempers it; 'Just wait until you see what Justice Light has cooked up.'	“I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful, and I’ve been afraid of it for a long time. […] the thought of using it, really using it has been unthinkable because there are people like him out there.”
B7 ch. 82	Kiwi and Mongo's twins: Newborn Ursensus, female, level 0, Legendary Creature, 'part raptor, part bear, part Scolopendra magic', too intelligent to be pets.	» Newborn Ursensus. Female. Level 0.
B7 ch. 83	Samantha believes her daughter died in the acid under Larracos and blames Tish; Carl wonders if the Scavenger's Daughter the war mages took is Samantha's child, and Samantha the scavenger.	“I think my child is dead. I think she died in the acid. I felt her, and now I don’t feel her anymore, and it is my fault.
B7 ch. 83	Samantha says aloud she may have had 'an indirect, possibly direct hand in the death of Geyrun'; Emberus enters the realm at once.	“I may be a neglectful mother. I may have had an indirect, possibly direct hand in the death of Geyrun, but a girl can find forgiveness, right?”
B7 ch. 83	Tagg knows the NPC plan: 'the Zerzura spell, which will take the city of Larracos to the 12th floor.'	We know what you’re planning […] With the Zerzura spell, which will take the city of Larracos to the 12th floor. I will go with them.
B7 ch. 83	Louis lives on Princess Lunette's naiad heart and lungs with Loita's rebreather sewn in and permanent gills; it will not work outside the dungeon without an expensive deal; Samantha: 'We're cousins now.'	“It won’t work outside the dungeon,” Victory warned. “Louis will need to make a pretty expensive deal to survive, but if the alternative is death.” She let it hang.
B7 ch. 84	Mongo chews the discarded biomechanical heart; the kill of Warlord Epitome Tagg goes to pet Mongo 'as a present for the baby shower'; the Dream defeated; 'And then there were two.'	» System Message: And then there were two.
B7 ch. 85	Zerzura takes Larracos and Shanty Town, all their NPCs, the changelings, the Semeru, Kiwi, the children and the digger to the twelfth floor's cotton fields; those squashed become Children of Inpewt; Justice Light and Juice Box take 'the long way'.	» Juice Box: Oh, I’m going to the 12th floor all right. But Justice Light and I are taking the long way. It’s okay, Carl. Trust me. You’ll like this one.
B7 ch. 85	The leaving crawlers each painted three skills into the Book of Voodoo, now two volumes (Carl's Book of Boom; Donut's A Banquet Fit for a Princess); eating a page grants the skill briefly; gear left in the guild.	» Your Book of Voodoo has been segmented into two volumes. The second volume is entitled Carl’s Book of Boom.
B7 ch. 85	Carl gives up the Ring of Divine Suffering; Donut swallows it; but Eris's laugh remains in the river.	She reached forward, and she gave it a sniff. And then she took the ring into her mouth, and she swallowed it.
B7 ch. 85	The Semeru rebuild the castle statue: Ysalte, the Vinegar Bitch, dead goddess of Larracos killed by Paz on the eighth, with a giant pickaxe over her shoulder, the last thing Carl sees before the flash.	In the moment before everything flashed and disappeared, my eyes focused on the giant axe—the giant pickaxe—over the goddess’s shoulder.
B7 ch. 86	Victory's underage nieces and nephews died in orbit; she is acting Prime Minister of the Syndicate; Huanxin says the Maestro claims the crown; a mantis colony's star went nova when Gustavo died.	“No,” she said. She straightened. “With the unfortunate death of my underage nieces and nephews up in orbit, I once again became eligible for political office.
B7 ch. 86	Donut: the Christmas present is 'a pair of romance novels'; Carl saves it for when he really needs it; her berserker spell also unused.	“It’s a pair of romance novels, Carl. And it got all built up, and now you’ll be nothing but disappointed when you open it.”
B7 ch. 86	Donut freezes Eileithyia with Katia's unmade choice, Laundry Days Huanxin out, and kills her with Katia's crossbow and Mordecai's mother's-ashes bolt: 'We just need to kill you.' Victory: the sponsors will be wary now.	“...We just need to kill you.”
B7 ch. 86	Donut's Monologue: a charisma skill, a 'natural benefit' for boosted stats over 300, that terrifies the enemy for experience; the Apothecary's gift was a quadruped weapon mount, 'The scorpion's bite'.	» Quadruped weapon mount. / “The scorpion’s bite.”
B7 ch. 86	Eileithyia: 'You have always been one of my own, as are all who've been touched by the stillness'; she senses 'so many of my daughters' in the kinder facility and cannot reach them; calls Donut 'champion of Nekhebit, harbinger of doom'.	“I know you,” Eileithyia said as she touched Katia. “You have always been one of my own, as are all who’ve been touched by the stillness.
B7 ch. 86	Katia, made human again minus an arm, two legs and an ear, chooses pregnancy by Louis to reach the children in the kinder facility; Eileithyia: 'It will be a boy'; Ineligible; gone.	“I wish to be made pregnant.”
B7 ch. 86	Samantha to Emberus: she helped because the doggie would go to the Nothing, but does not know who 'the guy in the hoodie' was.	» Samantha: OKAY, CARL I TOLD HIM EVERYTHING I KNOW […] I SAID I AGREED TO HELP BECAUSE THE DOGGIE WOULD GO TO THE NOTHING BUT I DON’T REALLY KNOW WHO THE GUY IN THE HOODIE WAS,
B7 ch. 87	Kimaris is one of the brothers of Sheol (summon time: the remainder of the floor); Samantha remembers him as a best friend who gave her the potion that put her baby in her, and cannot say why she forgot; 'His mother! I will kill his mother!'	“He’s one of my best friends. […] “That’s weird. Why couldn’t I remember that? He’s... He’s the one who gave me the potion that would put my baby in me when I couldn’t get pregnant.
B7 ch. 87	Justice Light's Legendary Trap drops the bijou and demon traps into a permanent Nothing portal made from the Gate's winding box; the Nothing breaks and drains into the Halls of the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair; Scolopendra awakens; the Club is told to flee to the empty sixteenth floor through the seventeenth.	» System Message: The Nothing has been broken.
B7 ch. 87	Juice Box jumped into the Nothing believing Justice Light would follow; if it does not drive her mad she 'would be reborn as the ultimate weapon to end this madness. This war.' Porthus and the Apothecary knew.	Juice Box would be fine, if her short time in the Nothing didn’t drive her mad. […] if she managed to survive this next part, she would be reborn as the ultimate weapon to end this madness. This war.
B7 ch. 88	York vaporised the orc yacht of children, the new king among them, with a point-defence NPB during the crossfire; nobody suspects the Homecoming Queen, secretly the best-armed ship in orbit with working enhancement-zone weapons.	The small yacht he’d destroyed—the one filled with children, including the new king of the orcs—had been simply vaporized with an NPB, actually designed for point defense.
B7 ch. 88	Porthus announces the Open Intellect Action Network: move against all Syndicate property unless the crawl stops by its end; Boomer and York bring the war out of the dungeon; four Cronus suits and a skiff for 'a pregnant veteran on the surface'.	“Fuck yeah,” Boomer said, […] “Set aside four of the Cronus suits and a landing skiff. We have a pregnant veteran on the surface who needs backup. […] it’s time to bring the war out of the dungeon.
B7 ch. 88	Hive Re-Population Center 51's star went nova the moment Gustavo 3 died; the AI said the mantids 'have just learned what happens when I am irritated'; a Nebular colony's mass suicide; the Dream cruiser down over Australia.	Still... stars didn’t usually just randomly go nova without warning. People were starting to panic.
B7 ch. 88	Quasar's one decent deal: Chaco's last season needs a replacement, offered jointly to Carl and Donut, open until the end of the tenth; Carl declines all; Donut declined too, with fireworks.	“Apparently, this is Chaco’s last season, and they need a replacement. It is being offered jointly to you and Donut both.
B7 ch. 88	The tenth floor is 'Don't Come in Last': choose a biological or mechanical conveyance, travel A to B in fixed legs with upgrades, NPC teams, last place loses its containment.	“Okay. It only gives limited information. The floor is called ‘Don’t Come in Last.’
B7 ch. 88	Donut's assigned lawyer is Princess Chandra, Esquire — 'She's your new wife.'	“No. Worse, buddy. She’s your new wife.”
B7 ch. 88	Eris, in her own body outside the dungeon, arrives at Squirties waystation by the Earth tunnel gate and torments Zander; Nami is dead.	“Costume?” the woman asked, holding out her arms. “Are you asking Eris, goddess of chaos if she’s wearing a costume?”