The Big Six
The AI's arbitrary tally of the six power blocs vying to control or escape the dungeon — crawlers, NPCs, gods, sapient mobs, Sheol's demons, and a mystery sixth.
Story so far
The Big Six is the AI's 'completely arbitrary' framework, dumped mid-ambush in the Desperado Club, for the six groups now fighting to control or escape the dungeon: (1) the Crawlers — Carl's people plus former crawlers like Herot and Forkith; (2) the standard NPCs, mostly united (including Juice Box), with offshoots like Hamed's despotic revolution for the early indentured; (3) the Gods, the most fractured and, to the AI, most despised group, likened to drunk philosophy-major freshmen, oblivious their game is about to be upended; (4) the sapient mobs — the Shadow Mimics, the Ogre Imperium, Krakaren Prime, and the war mages — powerful but incapable of cooperating; (5) the demons in Sheol, chaotic yet perhaps the most organized, sealed off like a cyst the AI cannot see into; and (6) a still-hidden sixth group the crawlers will only meet if they reach the eleventh floor. The AI dismisses the rich god-driving tourists and Syndicate security as beneath the list — mere 'rats on the first floor.' The framework crystallizes the whole endgame's warring factions.
Appearance
Not a physical entity — a conceptual six-way map of the dungeon's warring power blocs, narrated by the AI.
Role
The AI's six-bloc map of who is fighting to control or escape the dungeon in the endgame.
Relationships
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- The AI's arbitrary tally of the six power blocs vying to control or escape the dungeon — crawlers, NPCs, gods, sapient mobs, Sheol's demons, and a mystery sixth.