Walk on List

Story so far

The Walk-On List is the crawl's open secret: an illegal, season-long bounty scheme in which producers who want a specific uncollected 'native' — someone who survived the collapse but didn't enter the dungeon — hire off-the-books tracker crews (like Sadir and Gennrik's) to sneak onto locked-down Earth, hunt them down, and kidnap them to be dragged into the game for drama. The Indigenous Species Protection Act scrambles natives' implants once a crawl begins, so hunters must work blind with stale probe data (worse this season because Borant started early). Survivors fall into three categories — Collected, Crawlers, and Natives — and this season's marks include a woman in the tropical zone (lost to a tsunami by Borant's HQ), a man in the southern hemisphere (a little girl's father), a dead crawler's jungle-dwelling twin, and the cat Ferdinand.

It's how Beatrice comes to be hunted.

Appearance

Not a physical place; a clandestine bounty practice enacted by trackers across ruined Earth.

Role

The illegal bounty scheme driving the hunt for Earth's natives, including Beatrice.

Relationships