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Don't Come in Last

The Eleventh Floor · the-eleventh-floor · The Vehicle Floor

The eleventh floor: a vehicle-based race where the party that finishes last loses its survival containment.

Story so far

Quasar reveals the name of the coming floor to Carl after Carl consents to the penalty — learning it adds a full season to any exit deal taken before the floor ends, though Carl had just earned a free season back from a quest. The information released is limited.

On Don't Come in Last, the party leader chooses a matter of conveyance, biological or mechanical, and the party travels from point A to point B; on reaching point B they are offered an upgrade option for the vehicle. Travel is only permitted using the vehicle, a fixed number of journeys must be made, and if a party comes in last place the survival containment around its vehicle is removed. Multiple NPC teams compete, so crawlers are not necessarily racing each other directly — which Quasar notes is fortunate, since this is not a Battle Royale season. Carl immediately thinks of how Katia would have excelled at it.

Appearance

Known only through a briefing sheet: a course of staged journeys run in chosen vehicles between fixed points.

Role

The eleventh floor of the crawl, structured as an elimination race against NPC teams.

Relationships

Quasar — Disclosed the floor's name and rules for a season penalty
Carl — Party leader who will choose the conveyance
Katia — Carl believes she would have excelled at a vehicle floor
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
  • The floor whose theme Porthus refuses to learn, because asking what is coming makes every exit deal worse.
Chapter 8
  • The floor at whose start Dante took his deal, ending his crawl and beginning his indentureship.
Chapter 33
  • One of the deeper floors where escaped demons normally break into Club Vanquisher.
Chapter 58
  • Upper bound of the range where Club Vanquisher reliably holds the strongest temple on every floor.
Chapter 65
  • Where Justice Light's crawl ended, taking the deal at the floor's beginning at top level 86.
Chapter 67
  • The war-torn current floor, whose collapse is the hard deadline on Emberus's worshiper-killing quest.
Chapter 100
  • The next floor, a vehicle race called Don't Come in Last where finishing last strips your survival containment.
  • The eleventh floor: a vehicle-based race where the party that finishes last loses its survival containment.
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