Place · from book 5

The Great Race

The seventh floor, a new level Borant finished just in time with Valtay capital, so that the planned seventh floor became the eighth; named after a fairy tale about a boy in a maze whose tunnels seal behind him: crawlers wake in glass pods on a spiral over a string of portal stairwells, to be slid one by one into hundreds of kilometres of tubes with pitstop saferooms, danger ratings and paths that close behind a party. It lasts ten minutes. Prepotente, holding Pole Position and a hammer and a stick from the masquerade's sponsors, cracks the resurrection chamber and every wall on the level explodes.

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 6

The stunt still costing the Valtay (B6 ch. 21).

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
The hammer and the stick: a seven, and a Book of Lore	B5 ch. 63	resolved · 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.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 5

Ten minutes of the seventh floor: glass pods, portal stairwells, Cascadia's rules, and a goat with a stick and a hammer (B5 ch. 78).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	4/78	Ch. 56, Ch. 69, Ch. 77, Ch. 78 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	3/74	Ch. 2, Ch. 21, Ch. 72 · the book's own page

By book

The Great Race in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Renamed with Valtay money (ch. 56); a Pole Position boon sold at the prize counter to a goat (ch. 69). Glass pods, a corkscrew, portal stairwells in a string, Cascadia's rules, a stick and a hammer, and dust (epilogue).

The Great Race in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Mordecai was a slime for the ten minutes the seventh floor was open, and Donut never got her book-of-the-floor delivery from it (ch. 2); it was Cascadia's baby, and its ruin was the stunt that brought the ships early (ch. 21); Carl had thought the eighth floor would catch up on the death missed there, and the count, 38,532 down to 33,804, says otherwise (ch. 72).