Essay
Timeline
The series clock, read off the system messages: every chapter in which the text prints a floor countdown, a crawler count or a view count, in reading order. Per-book detail, with level-ups and skills: book 1, book 2, book 3, book 4, book 5, book 6, book 7, book 8.
| Floor | Book | Chapter | Countdown | Crawlers | Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 2 — The staircase | Five days | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 4 — The character sheet | 0 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 8 — Rats and Scatterers | Four days, 20 hours | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 9 — The Polish McDonald's | 4,322,395 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 10 — 4,148,111 | 4 days, 3 hours | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 15 — Mapping the first floor | Three Days and Two Hours | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 19 — You Monster! | Two days and 18 hours | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 21 — Bitchmeat! | 47 hours | ||
| 1 | 1 | Ch. 26 — Six and a half hours | 6 hours 30 minutes | ||
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 30 — Floor two | 0 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 32 — The pedicure kit | 69 Billion | ||
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 38 — The Rage Elemental | 4 days, 20 hours | 1,033,992 | |
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 39 — The recap | 212 Billion | ||
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 41 — People buckets | 4 Days, 6 hours | 1.4 Trillion | |
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 44 — What Donut overheard | 3 Days, 14 hours | 1.7 Trillion | |
| 2 | 1 | Ch. 47 — 124.8 trillion | 124.8 Trillion | ||
| 3 | 2 | Ch. 2 — Race and class | 700,000 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Ch. 4 — Knives from a window | 371.5 Trillion | ||
| 3 | 2 | Ch. 8 — Water Lily | 6 days, 23 hours | 998.3 Trillion | |
| 3 | 2 | Ch. 13 — Mordecai's room | 5 days, 10 hours | 1.4 Quadrillion | |
| 3 | 2 | Ch. 18 — Miss Quill | 3 days, 16 hours | 1.9 Quadrillion | |
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 1 — I'm on a train | 10 Days | 43.1 Quadrillion | |
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 7 — The Prize Carousel | 8 days and 18 hours | 50.2 Quadrillion | |
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack | 7 days, 12 hours | ||
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express | 6 days, 23 hours | 123.8 Quadrillion | |
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 19 — Frank Q at the bar | 4 days, 20 hours | ||
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 21 — Brynhild's Daughters | 4 Days, 9 Hours | ||
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 25 — Seven hundred hats | 3 days, 3 hours | 974.1 Quadrillion | |
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus | One day and 16 hours | ||
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 32 — Prepotente | 17 Hours | ||
| 4 | 3 | Ch. 34 — Tizquick and Brandy | Five Hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 1 — Hump Town | 15 Days | 178,887 | 1.43 Quintillion |
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 8 — A yam from the pacifists | 13 days, 13 hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house | 10 Days and 4 Hours | 17.72 Quintillion | |
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 20 — Gwendolyn Duet | 4 Days and 22 Hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 28 — Emberus | 3 Days, 20 hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 32 — Acolyte of Emberus | 3 days, 7 hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 33 — Phase three | 7 hours | ||
| 5 | 4 | Ch. 34 — Seeding the pond | five hours, 30 minutes → 1 hour → 21 minutes | ||
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 1 — The vice principal's office | 17 Days | 85,223 | 512 sextillion |
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 24 — The rock chucker | 11 days 8 hours | ||
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 37 — The rainbow bridge | 66,000 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 48 — The Creeping Apocalypse | Six days, fifteen hours | ||
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 52 — Gehenna Bramble | Five days and 21 hours | ||
| 6 | 5 | Ch. 64 — The attendant entrance | 31 hours | 59,259 → 23,385 | |
| 7 | 5 | Ch. 78 — Epilogue | 20 Days | ||
| 8 | 6 | Ch. 1 — The Ghosts of Earth | 21 Days | 38,532 | 13 septillion |
| 8 | 6 | Ch. 38 — Monroe County | 6 days, 22 hours | ||
| 8 | 6 | Ch. 52 — Two of five | 4 Days and 17 Hours | ||
| 8 | 6 | Ch. 57 — Samantha's secret | 4 days, 12 hours | ||
| 8 | 6 | Ch. 72 — Falling Up | 33,804 | ||
| 9 | 7 | Ch. 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars | 30 Days or 90 hours after a winner is declared, whichever is sooner | 32,429 | 231 septillion |
| 10 | 8 | Ch. 1 — Chandra; the garage | 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 | 5,501 | 933 Septillion |
| 11 | 8 | Ch. 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade | 3 hours, 15 minutes | ||
| 11 | 8 | Ch. 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit | 30 minutes |