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Every long fuse the books have lit, with where it was lit and the latest thing the text has said about it. Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread. Each character's page carries the rows that name them. Read through book 1.

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Thread	Entities	Opened	Latest
Whether Bea is alive	Bea, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 4	Donut loves her more than Carl and says so; the question is raised and refused.
The Crown of the Sepsis Whore and the ninth floor	Princess Donut, The Blood Sultanate, Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire	B1 ch. 7	Donut is bound to the Blood Sultanate; Mordecai calls it a challenge, the Maestro a death sentence.
Mordecai's advice to leave Donut before the ninth floor	Mordecai, Princess Donut, Carl	B1 ch. 7	Overheard by Donut; not answered by Carl.
The leaderboard, blank until the third floor collapses	The leaderboard	B1 ch. 9	A screen in every safe room.
The parallel crawls: Lucia Mar and Hekla	Lucia Mar, Hekla	B1 ch. 14	The show's favourites, known only through the screen.
'There are no gods here. Just those who pay for the privilege'	The gods, Mordecai	B1 ch. 25	Said solemnly after the Grull gauntlet; Zev mentions deity sponsorship in passing.
Mordecai's contract, and his history with Odette and his brother	Mordecai, Odette	B1 ch. 29	The contract only counts if a crawler reaches the fourth floor; the brother was a crawler Odette steered.
The tenth floor's rules, and Odette's deal	The tenth floor, Odette	B1 ch. 29	The 'additional rules' were announced in chapter 2 (B1 ch. 2); Odette's deal is chapter 29: she never took the stairs off the thirteenth.
Borant's bankruptcy and the Valtay fleet at the door	Borant, The Valtay Corporation, Zev, The Syndicate	B1 ch. 36	Mordecai's whispered politics; Odette: the next season is the Valtay's.
Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead	Meadow Lark (party), Imani	B1 ch. 41	Thirty-six residents and three workers down the ramp before the party.
Maggie My's vow and her Find Crawler potion	Frank Q and Maggie My, Carl, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 43	'I am going to watch you die. You and the fucking cat.'
Carl's challenge to Prince Maestro	Prince Maestro, The Skull Empire, Carl	B1 ch. 43	Single combat, offered on the prince's own show; King Rust in orbit.
Agatha's cart and the Valtay hardware	Agatha, The Valtay Corporation	B1 ch. 47	Three Valtay items in Carl's inventory history, including an illegal relay.
Odette's unnamed class choice	Odette, Princess Donut	B1 ch. 48	A class among Donut's options that will make someone very angry.

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Lines from the books read so far that nothing later has answered yet: the things to carry into the next book, each with the line it was noted for.

Noted	What	The line
B1 ch. 47	Agatha on the stairs: 'Them critters already know I'm here'	Them critters already know I’m here. They just don’t know what to do about it.