Floor 5
Names: Floor 5the fifth floorThe Bubbles
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 35 (Epilogue)
Appearances
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B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 35The fifth floor's theme was chosen by paid viewer vote; Odette hints the team's crafting tables will be useful.
- Ch 35Before Floor 5, Donut spins wheels choosing the Air Quadrant and the Dirigible Gnomes, whose sky castle they must storm.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 1The fifth floor, 'The Bubbles', is made of domes; Carl's team enters Bubble 543 of 1172 in the Air Quadrant.
- Ch 1Floor 5 has a 15-day timer, three more than Mordecai expected, which he suspects means a nasty surprise.
- Ch 1Floor 5 has 1,172 bubbles of about 150 crawlers, each split into Land, Sea, Air and Subterranean quadrants with one castle each.
- Ch 1Taking a castle's throne room or killing its boss conquers it; a bubble's stairwells open only once all four castles fall.
- Ch 33Surviving crawlers fall below 100,000, with the fifth floor killing almost half of the previous floor's survivors.
Connections
- includesAir Quadrant
- includesThe Lacuna
- containsHump Town
- containsClub Vanquisher
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 35Spinning for Floor 5
Donut spins the wheels placing the team in the Air Quadrant against the Dirigible Gnomes, and a door opens onto a desert.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Missile battle with Ruckus
Ruckus wakes and attacks; Carl's first two-stage missile blows up short, then three guided missiles fired together hit and explode the boss overhead.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Bounty on the puppy
The AI escalates with a new group quest and a world quest offering huge rewards to any crawler who kills Orthrus.