Cascadia's Last-Two-Heats Announcement
The floor-wide broadcast that sets the terms of the endgame, delivered by Cascadia rather than Zev, audibly drunk and openly past caring whether anyone lives. Two races remain and they run back to back. The seventh heat takes three teams at a time and only the winner survives it. Anyone unwilling to race it can reach an Outreach Guild between the sixth and seventh heats, but a team that loses a member to a deal still has to run with whoever is left, driver included. This will be the first level to carry a floor boss. She refuses to read out the material the AI gave her about the eleventh floor, on the grounds that she wants it to kill her, then gives away the one detail anyway: the whole floor is capped at three hours. The rest is bubbles blown into the microphone, insults aimed at the crawlers, a monologue at her dead husband and about ten seconds of sobbing before the mic cuts.
Book 8 appearances
- Chapter 68 — Cascadia announces two races left run back to back, three teams per heat in the seventh with only the winner surviving, Outreach Guild access between the sixth and seventh for anyone who wants out, no reprieve for the teammates of whoever takes the deal, the level's first floor boss, and a three-hour limit on the eleventh floor, all interleaved with a tirade at Cumberland.
- Chapter 69 — Carl builds his eleventh-floor plan directly on it: four teams per heat narrowing to one, deals urged at the end of the tenth or the start of the eleventh, and the parade ending in an arena with another floor boss inside three hours.
- Chapter 80 — The final heat ran on a four-hour timer Carl expected to finish inside a minute, and its grouping included heats made up entirely of NPC teams alongside the crawler-on-crawler draws.
Related entries
- Cascadia (Character)
- Cumberland (Character)
- Zev (Character)
- Seven Heats (Notification)
- Carl (Character)
- Princess Donut (Character)
- Elle McGibbons (Character)
- A Parade of Horribles (Floor 11) (Place)
- The L'Engle Building (Place)
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