The eighteenth-floor retreat where the Syndicate’s powerful celebrate while the dungeon AI slips its leash.
Hunter Iota dismisses the idea that the council will shut down the increasingly independent dungeon AI. Too much money is at stake, and the powerful people partying at Club Scolopendra on the eighteenth floor are insulated from the consequences below.
A distant elite venue symbolizing how far the people in charge are from the crawlers' danger.