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The Tenth Floor

The Faction Wars floor

The Faction Wars floor, ended with roughly twenty thousand crawlers alive and every exit deal worthless.

Story so far

The tenth floor is where Faction Wars was fought and where the book's crawl ends. About twenty thousand crawlers survived it - an accomplishment Quasar calls remarkable, and one that means work for half the attorneys he knows.

It is also why the exit deals stink. With that many survivors, the system has no reason to be generous: fifty seasons undead, a Desperado Club bomber's guild slot with a poisonous contingent exit clause, and the Chaco replacement, which is the only offer Quasar rates as anything but garbage and which he says would still stand at the end of the tenth floor. The tenth floor is also where York took his own deal, decades earlier, and exited the dungeon. Carl refuses, and the crawl continues to The Eleventh Floor.

Role

The Faction Wars floor whose enormous survival rate destroys the value of every exit offer.

Relationships

Faction Wars — The war fought across it
Carl — Survives it and declines every deal it earns him
York — Took his deal and left the dungeon at its end
The Eleventh Floor — The floor that comes after it
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
  • A barren world where every manufactured object was sapient, psychotic, and grew in power by eating other objects - remembered by one survivor simply as a nightmare.
Chapter 10
  • The dungeon level beyond this one, where airships are outright forbidden and which Elle doubts they'll ever reach.
Chapter 15
  • Floor at whose end Horatio's wife and child took their deals and left the dungeon.
Chapter 29
  • The floor where crawlers may bow out of the crawl, becoming tenners like Boomer.
Chapter 33
  • The floor where Milk took her deal, and one of the depths where demons actually break into the club.
Chapter 43
  • The deal floor where Volteeg accepts twenty-six seasons as an unprotected external-guild guard.
Chapter 90
  • The next floor, where deals will be offered and where Agatha must be hunted after escaping the ninth.
Chapter 97
  • The next floor down, which a record 20,221 crawlers survive to reach — most intending to leave immediately.
Chapter 98
  • The next floor down, reached by the stairwells crowding the ruins of Larracos.
Chapter 100
  • The Faction Wars floor, ended with roughly twenty thousand crawlers alive and every exit deal worthless.
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