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Hunting Season

the bounties · open season on the leaderboard

The floor-four rule opening bounty hunting on the top-ten crawlers, turning fellow crawlers into threats.

Story so far

With the leaderboard's public debut on The Iron Tangle, Borant Corporation declares "hunting season": every top-ten crawler now carries a bounty, and killing one yields a loot box worth the reward. Carl and Princess Donut, both listed with 100,000-gold bounties, must now fear their own kind as much as the mobs. The rule reshapes the party's behavior — guarding information, hiring Desperado Club security, and staying wary even of allies like Hekla — and pays out only 10% of one's own bounty for surviving the floor.

Appearance

A game-rule change announced by the system, manifest in bounty figures beside names on the leaderboard.

Role

The floor's defining social threat, turning crawlers against one another.

Relationships

Borant Corporation — The showrunners who opened the bounties to thin the field.
Carl — A newly-hunted target forced into caution.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

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Chapter 3
  • The floor-four rule opening bounty hunting on the top-ten crawlers, turning fellow crawlers into threats.
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