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Book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Year: 2023 · Floors: 8 — The Ghosts of Earth The book on its own: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Chapters

Recurring cast present

Characters

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Motifs

Themes

The clock

The countdowns the system posts, in order.

Places entered

Every » Entering card, in order.

In the series

A recording of the Earth, a card game, and a demon's door home. The eighth floor is built from deep-cycle imaging of the surface in the weeks before the collapse and populated with people who are not there; see the arc of the story. It is the book in which Katia's crown is answered by a lock box and a job to kill a fairy, in which Carl finds his father dying in a trailer and a brother he never knew, in which the AI stops pretending and builds a hydra from the faces of his dead, and in which three squads in four are told there is no way out and thirty-three thousand are still alive at the end anyway. A spider tattoos herself into Carl's chest; a Residual recites half a speech; a freighter of former crawlers arrives in orbit. 37 of the series' pages first appear here. Its NPCs — a fairy 'almost done', an ogre who whispers 'They starve us', a prince of hell who only wants to go home — carry the mobs are victims into the game's own bosses.