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The Ceasefire

The Truce

The pause in ninth-floor hostilities, preceded by a wave of changeling assassinations among the Viceroys.

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The ceasefire halted open war between the ninth-floor factions. Justice Light dates Team Retribution's assassination campaign to the days immediately before it: Juice Box infiltrated the Viceroys' headquarters over and over and, he believes, decapitated multiple Viceroys in that window.

The same period is when she claimed she could not reach the Blood Sultanate — a claim Justice calls an obvious lie, given that the Sultanate's security was worse. The ceasefire therefore marks the point at which the changelings shifted from open killing to holding their capability in reserve, waiting on whatever their real objective required. It ends when the timer runs out and Operation Ruin begins.

Role

The truce that ended the assassination phase of the changeling campaign and holds until Operation Ruin.

Relationships

Team Retribution — Ran a decapitation campaign in the days leading up to it.
Viceroys — Lost multiple leaders just before it took effect.
Operation Ruin — The offensive that will break it when the timer ends.
Sources — 16 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • Sixty hours of enforced peace at the start of Faction Wars: recruiting season inside Larracos, after which everyone but the defenders and their allies is thrown out and the killing starts.
Chapter 5
  • A roughly sixty-hour truce before the Faction Wars begin, with three unlikely ways it can end early.
Chapter 9
  • Truce period on the Eighteenth Floor during which the crawlers scramble to organize an army.
Chapter 10
  • Pre-war truce on the ninth floor that forbids hostile action, including flying airships over enemy territory.
Chapter 11
  • System-enforced truce before the faction war's fighting begins, with 56 hours remaining as this chapter opens.
Chapter 13
  • Temporary truce that refreshed the food markets and let every team stockpile supplies before fighting resumes.
Chapter 17
  • The pre-war truce whose countdown reads 52 hours as Carl reaches his base camp, driving frantic construction.
Chapter 18
  • Pre-war truce during which only scouts may cross borders and discovery means teleportation, not death.
Chapter 19
  • The war's opening phase, with fifty hours left to prepare before Ramp-Up begins.
Chapter 20
  • Truce whose expiration counts down over the chapter, standing at 33 hours as Carl hunts skunks.
Chapter 22
  • Countdown truce before the war resumes, standing at 31 hours as Carl and Katia go under.
Chapter 23
  • The truce whose narrow rules make a fifty-body massacre legal and Carl untouchable afterward.
Chapter 24
  • Pre-battle truce with nearly twenty hours left when all three fronts begin moving anyway.
Chapter 25
  • The pre-war truce of the Celestial Ascendency, cut short by 23.33 hours when the Democratic Sortion voluntarily folded.
Chapter 30
  • The truce whose premature collapse left the Posse with only a single trebuchet instead of many.
Chapter 65
  • The pause in ninth-floor hostilities, preceded by a wave of changeling assassinations among the Viceroys.
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