The World Dungeon
An 18-level dungeon, announced as the chosen method of 'reclamation' after Earth's surface structures were destroyed.
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[ NOT YET ENCOUNTERED ]
You haven't met this one yet, crawler. Records unseal as you read. The dungeon appreciates your impatience but does not reward it.
Purpose
Resource reclamation dressed as entertainment: survivors reclaim a share of Earth's matter by descending, and Borant broadcasts every minute of itB1C1
Stats
18 floors. 150,000 entrances feed floor 1, clustered close enough that Carl could see several spotlights from one street, and the counts halve each floor down until floor 18 has just two ways in and a single way outB1C1
Every floor runs a collapse timer that hangs in each crawler's vision. Floor 1 gets five days; deeper floors get longerB1C2
4,322,395 and still dropping in real time on the floor 1 safe room's screen, down from just under 10 million only a few hours earlierB1C9
Just under 13 million humans entered; under 10 million were alive when the dungeon sealedB1C4
Connections
- The Borant Corporation:
- The Syndicate:
Operator and regent; chose the dungeon as Earth's reclamation formatB1C1
Rules authority; its observer AI supervises the whole productionB1C1
Contents
Floor 1: The only floor seen so far; goblin territory where Carl landedB1C2
System message
Nothing on file. The Syndicate keeps immaculate records, and this page is immaculately blank.
History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 1
- TAG Artificial: Built from the crushed matter of Earth itself
- TAG Televised: Borant holds the rights to broadcast everything that happens inside
- STAT Floors: 18 floors. 150,000 entrances feed floor 1, clustered close enough that Carl could see several spotlights from one street, and the counts halve each floor down until floor 18 has just two ways in and a single way out
- OBJECTIVE Purpose: Resource reclamation dressed as entertainment: survivors reclaim a share of Earth's matter by descending, and Borant broadcasts every minute of it
- RELATIONSHIP The Borant Corporation: Operator and regent; chose the dungeon as Earth's reclamation format
- RELATIONSHIP The Syndicate: Rules authority; its observer AI supervises the whole production
Chapter 2
- INVENTORY Floor 1: The only floor seen so far; goblin territory where Carl landed
- STAT Floor Timers: Every floor runs a collapse timer that hangs in each crawler's vision. Floor 1 gets five days; deeper floors get longer
Chapter 4
- STAT Crawler Census: Just under 13 million humans entered; under 10 million were alive when the dungeon sealed
Chapter 9
- STAT Crawler Census: 4,322,395 and still dropping in real time on the floor 1 safe room's screen, down from just under 10 million only a few hours earlier