Floor
Floor 10 — Don't Come in Last
A race in seven heats: a conveyance, biological or mechanical; legs from A to B with upgrades; last place loses its containment.
Books
Clock
- Countdown: Level timer has been temporarily suspended for this floor. Please wait for the announcement from that inebriated fish if we can manage to wake her up for the details (ch. 1)
- Crawlers: 5,501 (ch. 1)
Cast
- Carl — 87 chapters
- Princess Donut — 86 chapters
- Imani — 61 chapters
- Elle McGibbons — 49 chapters
- Prepotente — 49 chapters
- Louis and Firas — 42 chapters
- Mordecai — 42 chapters
- Mongo — 37 chapters
- The Dungeon — 37 chapters
- Samantha — 33 chapters
- Florin — 31 chapters
- Safe rooms — 31 chapters
- The System AI — 31 chapters
- Dong Quixote — 30 chapters
- Quests — 29 chapters
- Osvaldo — 27 chapters
- Faction Wars — 26 chapters
- Lucia Mar — 25 chapters
- Rosetta Thagra — 25 chapters
- Jurgen — 24 chapters
Chapters
Book 8 — A Parade of Horribles
- Ch. 1 — Chandra; the garage
- Ch. 2 — The wheel; a food truck
- Ch. 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
- Ch. 4 — Miss Talulah; Team Free Love
- Ch. 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
- Ch. 6 — Spider legs
- Ch. 7 — The Moon Reaper
- Ch. 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
- Ch. 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
- Ch. 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
- Ch. 11 — The second cleaner bot
- Ch. 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
- Ch. 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
- Ch. 14 — Hungry Eyes; the Hairpin and the Lollipop
- Ch. 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
- Ch. 16 — The Paramour
- Ch. 17 — Bucket Boy at the wheel; Dr. Metcalf
- Ch. 18 — Heat two: the hail, and Team Sparkles' cannon
- Ch. 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
- Ch. 20 — Prison Pocket and Party Foul
- Ch. 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
- Ch. 22 — Last place; the princess throne
- Ch. 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
- Ch. 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
- Ch. 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
- Ch. 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
- Ch. 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
- Ch. 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
- Ch. 29 — The stampede; Harbinger
- Ch. 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
- Ch. 31 — Luca Di's entry; the ghoul cages; a mile of fire
- Ch. 32 — The skull of Tem; three vehicles over the line
- Ch. 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
- Ch. 34 — Team Helix
- Ch. 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
- Ch. 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
- Ch. 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
- Ch. 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
- Ch. 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
- Ch. 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
- Ch. 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
- Ch. 42 — Into the jungle; Quemada breaks; the Wienermobile
- Ch. 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
- Ch. 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
- Ch. 45 — The garage of One Fine Pig
- Ch. 46 — Glitzy Pizzazz; two traps
- Ch. 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
- Ch. 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
- Ch. 49 — Mehmet's page; the tubes; the trapdoor
- Ch. 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
- Ch. 51 — The Scavenger's Daughter blinks; Azra; heat four results
- Ch. 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
- Ch. 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
- Ch. 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
- Ch. 55 — The cleaner bot plan
- Ch. 56 — Take on Me
- Ch. 57 — The brawl; Sing for your supper
- Ch. 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper
- Ch. 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
- Ch. 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
- Ch. 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
- Ch. 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
- Ch. 63 — Receiving; the jump; Toddler Cocaine
- Ch. 64 — The hole; the dolls; Corky aboard
- Ch. 65 — Upside down: Corcunda
- Ch. 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant
- Ch. 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
- Ch. 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
- Ch. 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
- Ch. 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
- Ch. 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
- Ch. 72 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain; Minus unmasked
- Ch. 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
- Ch. 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
- Ch. 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive
- Ch. 76 — Apartment 231; the peach beer
- Ch. 77 — Miriam at the piano; Pony
- Ch. 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
- Ch. 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
- Ch. 80 — The final heat: the lobby
- Ch. 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
- Ch. 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
- Ch. 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
- Ch. 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
- Ch. 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
- Ch. 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
- Ch. 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
On this floor
Book 8, chapters 1–87. Don't Come in Last: 5,501 crawlers in 1,800 teams, seven heats of nine, vehicles from a hundred-slot wheel of Earth machines or biological mounts, a different driver every heat, an upgrade per heat and a Golden for a win, the audience choosing the loser's, safe rooms closed until each heat ends. A cul-de-sac of garages under a red sun and a neon town called Hungry Eyes; the Caves of the Screeching Death Manatees, a hail track with kangaroo bosses, a downhill of migrating skulls, a jungle and a water park with a pit stop between, a factory of toddler cocaine and molten steel, and two heats inside an apartment building of what-ifs — three teams to one in the last. A hidden singing guild, a war mage's diner, a Pineapple Cabaret reached by pet carrier and cleaner bot, and Scolopendra's first attack at the final start line. The garage and the cul-de-sac; Hungry Eyes Village; the L’Engle Building; the Gasworks; The arc of the story (book 8).