Floor 8
Names: Floor 8the 8th flooreighth floorThe Ghosts of Earththis eighth floorthe eighth level
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 28 (28)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 28Carl's cookbook warns that mimics are everywhere on the 8th floor.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 76On the eighth floor, a squad leader picks a starting country from a globe; parties over five are split into squads.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 3The eighth floor, The Ghosts of Earth, is an exact replica of Earth's surface as recorded in the weeks before the collapse.
- Ch 3On the eighth floor, people and animals are intangible ghosts replaying their lives, but non-biological objects are physical and can be moved or destroyed.
- Ch 3Anything looted from the Earth memory on the eighth floor turns to dust when the level collapses.
- Ch 3Crawlers are split into squads of at most five and must fill six extra slots with captured monsters within fourteen days before phase two.
- Ch 74About 38,532 crawlers reached the eighth floor; 33,804 remain near its end, a surprisingly low death toll.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 76Choosing an eighth-floor start
Donut, as squad leader, picks a Caribbean starting location that turns out not to be the Bahamas.
- Book 6 · Ch 3Cascadia announces the Ghosts of Earth rules
Cascadia explains the replica-Earth environment, the squad system and T'Ghee totems captured with twenty flags before phase two in fourteen days.
- Book 6 · Ch 50Saferoom Christmas party
Back in the saferoom, Louis's Christmas party is in full swing; Carl objects, but after Louis's angry plea Carl joins in by offering turkeys to roast.
- Book 6 · Ch 50The system AI takes control
Instead of the recap, Cascadia and liaison Orren announce the system AI has seized operations from the showrunners and begin explaining Primal Engines and Macro AIs.
- Book 7 · Ch 21Everly's death in the tower
Everly climbs a tower maze using her sponsor's compass, finds it was a deadly advertisement, and is crushed by the descending ceiling with her mercenaries.