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The Eighth Floor — The Ghosts of Earth

A navigable replay of pre-collapse Earth

Floor Eight: a precise, navigable facsimile of Earth's surface as recorded in the weeks before the collapse (Carl and Donut start in Havana's El Capitolio on December 10th). 38,000+ crawlers pick from 293 regions; each is a ~99 km bubble around the start. The living people and animals are intangible “ghosts” you pass through, ripping the clothes from their bodies, but every non-attached object keeps its mass and momentum, so cars crash, windows break, and a whole city can be looted (though earth-memory loot turns to dust at the collapse). Each region is seeded with mobs and bosses drawn sloppily from local folklore. The floor runs in three phases: a two-week squad-building phase, an assault to an exit key, then phase three. The producers clearly mean to march squads past replayed loved ones, Bea among them.

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