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Stairwell Chambers

The Stairwells

Exits that generate in a ring around the castle roughly ten seconds after the Faction Wars are won.

Story so far

Everything about the evacuation hinges on where and when the stairwells appear. Carl asks how long after victory; told "immediately," Fopsy refines it to about ten seconds. When Carl presses on the location, Baroness Victory declines to say.

Rosetta answers instead: several will appear right here, in a ring around where the castle currently is, generating the moment the Faction Wars are won, alongside a seventy-two-hour countdown to Level Collapse. With Emberus burning the floor inside the hour, those stairwells are the only way anyone leaves alive.

Appearance

Multiple stairwells generating in a ring around the castle's footprint.

Role

The only escape route off a floor scheduled for cremation.

Relationships

Faction Wars — Winning them causes the stairwells to generate.
Rosetta — Explains where they will appear.
Level Collapse — Appear with the seventy-two-hour countdown.
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The 293 seeded exits off the ninth floor, locked until Faction Wars is won or thirty hours remain before collapse.
Chapter 18
  • Standard dungeon transition rooms whose bare geometry the empty throne room disturbingly recalls.
Chapter 96
  • Exits that generate in a ring around the castle roughly ten seconds after the Faction Wars are won.
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