Outreach Guild
A guild opening between the final two heats where crawlers too afraid to race can take a deal and leave the game.
Story so far
The Outreach Guild is the escape hatch the announcer Cascadia reveals for the tenth floor's climactic finale. Between the back-to-back Heat 6 and Heat 7 races, any crawler 'too cowardly to just fucking die' may enter the Outreach Guild and take a deal to leave the dungeon. But the mechanism is a cruel trap: the final Heat 7 still requires three teams per heat, so if one team member escapes via a deal, the others are left to complete the race anyway — and woe to a team whose seventh-heat driver is the one who jumps.
It dovetails with Carl's survival math: he needs some fifteen hundred crawlers to take deals (on top of the roughly two hundred bound for the Pineapple Cabaret) to thin the lethal crawler-on-crawler matchups, though most survivors, knowing deals are better at the start of the eleventh floor, are balking.
Appearance
An accessible guild opened only during the pit stop between the final two heats.
Role
The between-heats guild offering escape deals, central to Carl's plan to reduce crawler-on-crawler races.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- This Inevitable RuinBook 7
Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter
- A guild opening between the final two heats where crawlers too afraid to race can take a deal and leave the game.