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The following is a list of chapter summaries in This Inevitable Ruin (Book).
Book 7 - This Inevitable Ruin
| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Prologue | A flashback shows additional conversation that occurred between Paulie and Carl before Carl was pulled out by Orren. Carl drinks Paulie's coffee and receives a neural enhancement that gives him access to the failsafe trigger. Paulie says that his people want Carl to pull the failsafe and destroy the star system, but that he thinks Carl should be absolutely sure there are no other options before doing so. |
| Porthus | A flashback shows Porthus, a former crawler and author of the second edition of the Cookbook, making his 11th floor deal to become a game guide. |
| Part I: The Ceasefire | |
| 1 | Carl and Donut enter the ninth floor in Larracos at the start of the 60-hour ceasefire. Quasar warns him that the Dream bought out the Vengeance of the Daughter and are pushing for fulfillment of the guaranteed 3rd season. The Princess Posse allies with Team Retribution against "The Block," an alliance of all the other factions. Cascadia explains the rules of Faction Wars. Donut picks the Deathbed Hellcat class. |
| 2 | Mordecai's new race is Canadian human. Mordecai gets excited about potions, and Carl goes through all his achievements. |
| 3 | Donut's celestial box from Long Haul Biological Waste Management Solutions contains the Tiara of a Thousand Lights. She puts on Quan Ch's cloak and receives various benefits. |
| 4 | Carl opens his boxes, receiving a gold pet box, a patch that grants access to the Midnight Market, and the Hell-Kissed Celestial Skill Potion of the Prince of Woe, which grants him the Gloom Wraith Phase ability. Katia and Louis stop Samantha from hunting down Tish, the ex girlfriend of Ghazi. |
| Dante | A flashback shows Dante and Justice Light being reassigned from non-combatants to guards on the 8th floor during their indentureships and agreeing that they would refuse to fight crawlers. Dante was killed by administrative action for refusing to follow orders. |
| 5 | Carl reveals to Donut that he took in Ren's pet Tummy Acher, Garret, who was reborn as a baby. Carl bonds with him and names him Sir Rendlegore. Katia regrows Carl's hair but they leave the potion on for too long, giving him waist-length locks. The Princess Posse begins to set up a hierarchy and recruit crawlers. |
| 6 | Louis becomes Army Air General after receiving the Party Planner airship from a celestial box. |
| 7 | Donut is offended by Louis' Donut Holes T shirt. Carl, Donut, Louis, and Britney enter the Larracos College of Magic and find War Leader Arief, who tells them that Warlord Juice Box would like to solidify her team's alliance with the Princess Posse through marriage between herself and Louis. |
| 8 | Arief gives the group a tour of Larracos, which has been fully drained except for the bottom 3 levels, just covering the castle. Juice Box has awoken many of the NPCs to the truth of their situation. They discuss the Blood Sultanate and the difficulty of killing them given their stealthy fighting style. They head to the Desperado Club to meet with Juice Box. |
| 9 | Juice Box and Louis reunite, though he seems uncomfortable with the idea of the marriage. Juice Box tells the team that Ferdinand is the mayor of Shanty Town, the area right outside Larracos, and that he also has the Warlord Interface for the NPC team because he is technically from the outside, so they need his cooperation. Drick is the adjutant for Team Retribution. |
| 10 | The Desperado Club is now managed by Hamed and crawlers are banned for the first few days of reopening. Luckily, Drick and Ferdinand exit at that moment, and Carl negotiates mayorship of Shanty Town for himself in exchange for returning Ferdinand's hat and mount in the next two days. Louis and Juice Box have the first part of their wedding. Florin summons Carl and Donut to the Princess Posse HQ. |
| Tipid | A flashback shows traumatized Tipid completing his indentureship and being released from the dungeon, forced to go into debt to repair his brain damage. |
| 11 | Carl and Donut enter the HQ to find that Rosetta, Tipid, Justice Light, and 50,000 other former crawlers have joined the Princess Posse. Carl gets emotional. Tipid fills Carl in, telling him about Doctor Hu and the Crawler Project, and how they got here. |
| 12 | NPCs, mercenaries, and former crawlers get to work building defenses. Tipid tells Carl that the blood bar rules are back in effect for saferooms. They head toward the flag room and encounter Big Tina. |
| 13 | Tina thinks Mongo is her dad. Kiwi is very pregnant. Carl, Donut, Tipid, and Florin enter the Fortress of Unyielding Power and Authority (FUPA) and Florin explains the Ceasefire rules. The Elite Herman the Fleet turns out to be a suicide bomber sent by Sensation Entertainment and is killed by Baroness Victory. |
| 14 | The team enters the Flag Room and Carl and Donut explore their additional display systems. Carl checks his spam folder to find that Shi Maria has been attempting to take control of him and cast spells, and only his Mind Balance skill is stopping her. Mordecai and Rosetta are working on a solution to the issue. Baroness Victory shows Carl and Donut where the enemies are massing and they discuss strategy. |
| 15 | Carl, Donut, and a small group of crawlers hunt Skank Skunks. Rend levels up and Donut gets Skanked. |
| Everly | A flashback shows former crawler Everly's last moments before dying on the eighth floor, during which she gives in to the Inevitable Ruin after being baited into being an advertisement for her sponsor. |
| 16 | Mordecai prepares Glory Bound potions to treat Katia's drug addiction and Carl's Shi Maria problem. Katia will have to face her worst memory, and Carl will enter Shi Maria's memories and try to seal her there so that he remains in full control but keeps some of her power. As they go under, Carl and Katia hold hands and their memories start to blend. |
| 17 | Carl awakens in the Lemig Sortion base, covered in blood and having lost 11 hours. He finds out he was possessed by Shi Maria, who killed everyone in the room. The Lemig Sortion and the Madness had been plotting something and it backfired. Carl recalls parts of the dream, in which Hapanzi said that Shi Maria was successfully trapped within Carl, and Katia says her treatment worked as well. |
| 18 | Carl, Commander Stockade, Architect Houston, and their adjutants convene for an official field ruling adjudication. The Lemig Sortion and the Madness had cheated, using outside information to time their use of the Summon Ally spell. They intended to teleport Carl to the Lemig Sortion base, releasing Shi Maria from his body to kill the rest of the Princess Posse. Instead, Carl was only partially teleported. The adjutants are able to see the crawlers' dreams, and replay Katia's: she had planned to adopt a child, Annie, but Fannar reported her history of drug addiction, and the outcome was unclear because Shi Maria and Hapanzi intrude on the dream. Prepotente, Elle, and Florin report enemy movement. Li Jun reports that Lucia Mar is in Shanty Town. The team prepares their defense. |
| 19 | Panford, the Lemig Sortion adjutant, explains that Stockade attempted to pull Carl fully to his location while Mordecai tried to fully expel Shi Maria from Carl's body, leading to Shi Maria's rampage through the Lemig base. Ferdinand proposes an emergency action item for a live feed blackout to prevent future instances of cheating and it is approved. Stockade goes insane because he looked into Shi Maria's eye and kills himself. The Lemig Sortion is punished for cheating, the Ceasefire ends early, and Carl is teleported back to his base. |
| Christmas Morning | A flashback reveals that after his meeting with Paulie, Carl looked at the Containment Interface and decides to disconnect the containment, rendering the failsafe nonfunctional and "freeing" the AI. |
| Part II: The Ramp-Up | |
| 20 | Everyone prepares for the fighting to begin: Elle, Katia, and Florin heading to the northern border, Carl and Donut to the south, and Louis to his airship. |
| 21 | Carl and Donut join the defense against the Dream, the Prism, and the Nagas in the south. They are also attacked by a swarm of the Reavers' pet Dumplins which are infected with the Gurgles. |
| 22 | After a successful defense, the Princess Posse prepares their own counterattack. Britney serves as liaison with the NPC team. |
| 23 | The Posse's fighters go invisible and cross No Man's Land to assault the enemy trenches. Louis drops bombs in front of the enemy lines to create makeshift trenches. |
| 24 | The Posse uses Build Trench scrolls to join their trenches to the enemies' and Carl sets off his Daughter's Kiss. |
| 25 | They manage to push the enemies back and Carl and Donut enter the castle of the Prism team to confront Empress D'Nadia. |
| Milk | A flashback shows former crawler Milk working as guildmaster of the calligraphy and cartography guilds. She encountered and helped Miriam Dom and Prepotente on the fifth floor by telling them about secret entrances to Club Vanquisher. |
| 26 | Carl marks D'Nadia with the Ring of Divine Suffering and Carl recalls how he thought D'Nadia might be a friend until she bought a Faction Wars slot for her team, revealing herself to be just as bad as the others. Mongo kills D'Nadia. |
| 27 | Carl and Donut receive legendary 1914 boxes and control of the Prism's territory. Florin and the team on the northern front are having trouble. Carl levels up enough to become the new Party Leader. Donut asks Carl to take of the ring since it seems to be negatively affecting him, but he says not yet. |
| 28 | Li Jun tells Carl that Agatha came to Shanty Town looking for him. Zev tells Carl that Prime Minister Glory himself sends a warning not to interact with Agatha. Carl has one of the Madness mercenaries occupy the Prism throne room to take the territory since they can't defend it and he hopes the other teams will intervene. |
| 29 | Florin's squad in the north falls back as Louis flies over to protect their retreat. Enemies attack and infiltrate the FUPA. Carl, Donut, Tipid and Boomer lead the defense. Carl realizes that Valtay worms have taken over the bodies of some of their mages. |
| 30 | The invisible Madness Monkeywrenchers, Reaver paratroopers, and Gondii brain worms are all inside the castle. Carl realizes that the mages knew about their last line of defense, and they need to kill them before the brain worms gain their memories. Carl and Donut send Tina into the fray, and Carl worries about sending a child to fight. |
| 31 | Tina rampages. Carl gets some background on the Reavers. The Princess Posse manages to take out all of the compromised mages and fend off the initial attack, but the main enemy forces are still approaching from the north. |
| 32 | The enemy forces arrive, with the Skull Empire army led by King Rust. The Posse discusses whether to close off the saferoom to prevent another sneak attack from the enemies' exploitation of the Doggy Door upgrade and decides to do so. King Rust requests an official parlay. |
| 33 | Carl, Donut, and Baroness Victory approach and she explains the rules of the parlay. King Rust's adjutant is Deng Bao, a Grixist. Donut sees that King Rust is crying. |
| 34 | Rust explains that his daughter, Princess Formidable, just commandeered one of his warships and announced to the Syndicate that she is going to manually trip the Failsafe to protect the center system from the rogue AI on this planet. She also revealed that the Skull Empire has been manufacturing security systems with secret backdoors. Rust asks Carl to send his daughter a message asking her to stop on behalf of the people of Earth. Carl makes a deal for Rust's forces to retreat, but as Rust walks away, Rosetta appears and kills him, and his army attacks. |
| Volteeg | A flashback shows Volteeg's backstory. He is now back in the dungeon as a Weeper commander for the Operatic Collective. As the Skull Empire forces start to attack the Princess Posse, Volteeg detonates the explosives in his Weeper, killing 10,000 soldiers and Warlord Hortense Leadership Unit, eliminating the Operatic Collective from Faction Wars. |
| 35 | Rosetta uses Rust's ring and retina scan on a data pad. Carl loots his body. Rosetta, Carl, and Donut fall into a tunnel built by the NPC Semuru dwarves as Volteeg's explosion goes off. Carl gets transferred to the Desperado Club. |
| 36 | Carl is met by Orren, who is having a conversation with the prime minister and mentions that Rosetta successfully transferred over a billion credits from King Rust. Orren demands to know why Carl told Donut he does not believe the Failsafe will work if Formidable activates it. Orren reveals that his team knows what happened between Carl and Paulie, and that he has an illegal implant, but they don't understand how it works. Growler Gary appears. |
| 37 | Growler Gary is currently an avatar of the System AI, who is upset at Orren for trying to kill him. He teleports Formidable to their location to demonstrate his level of control and confirm that the Failsafe is disabled, then teleports her to the Earth's surface. |
| 38 | The AI wants advice from Orren and Carl, and teleports Donut in as well. He uses a convoluted relationship metaphor to ask about whether to side with Agatha's branch of Residuals or the Apothecary, and Donut says to stay out of it until he knows whether the "boyfriend in prison" (Eulogist) is good or bad, or doesn't have a choice. |
| 39 | Orren asks Carl and Donut not to share the details of this discussion. The Bone Clan and the Dream leave the Bloc alliance, which now consists only of the Blood Sultanate, the Madness, and the Reavers. Orren teleports Carl and Donut back to base and the Princess Posse regroups. Boomer and Carl agree that it is time to initiate Operation: Snake Pit. |
| 40 | Katia gives Carl a tattoo using the special ink made from the Toraline root to give him one of Li Na's spells. Zev transports Carl and Donut to the warlord council. |
| 41 | Carl and Donut arrive in the production facility along with Ferdinand. Zev tells them that when Formidable's crew activated the Failsafe, although nothing happened inside the dungeon, the Aryl system went dark. The system AI of the Aryl system had stopped communicating a few weeks before, and now no one is able to determine if anyone in that system is ok and a rescue effort is underway. |
| 42 | The warlord council begins. Chaco joins to give live commentary, but is punched in the face by Stalwart. A system message warns that "Scolopendra stirs." |
| 43 | Odette arrives to replace Chaco. Cascadia seems to be having a breakdown. Princess Vinata whispers to Carl, asking him how he will react when his whole family is dead like Cascadia's. Carl demands to know how the other teams are still receiving outsider knowledge, and uses an Emergency Action Item to close the communication loophole. Juice Box transforms into an Unwashed and warns everyone watching that "it is coming for you all." |
| 44 | Architect Houston explains the nature of the Unwashed, which many others think is superstition. Odette reveals that the Sultanate owns the entertainment company that made Blood Hunter. Carl realizes what this means. |
| 45 | Carl and Donut are teleported back. Elle reports that most of the Naga army is already dead, having been killed by Prepotente as revenge for the Blood Hunter show killing Miriam Dom. Baroness Victory tells Carl he can't directly work with Prepotente unless Prepotente joins the Princess Posse. The Posse gets ready to start the next phase of Operation Snake Pit. |
| 46 | Carl explains how the plan was supposed to go before Prepotente got involved. Based on past seasons, Rosetta has worked out that Vinata and her guard are able to disappear before being killed by hiding in Club Vanquisher. |
| 47 | Louis and Donut approach the Naga castle in the airship. Katia tells Carl that if things go south, she wants to give him the flower to get Donut to the next floor. Elle and Imani enter the Naga castle. Prepotente arrives to meet Carl and Katia. |
| 48 | Prepotente joins the Princess Posse. Elle and Imani kill one of the four Nagas that the team needs to kill to fulfill the requirement of the Crown of the Sepsis Whore. Edgar confirms that he senses non-corporeal movement in the castle, confirming Rosetta's theory about how Vinata is getting to Club Vanquisher. |
| 49 | Vinata and her guard are able to transport themselves to Club Vanquisher as part of the recruitment quest for one of the gods of light, likely Khepri this season since the Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network sponsored their usual target, Theia. |
| 50 | Katia, Carl, Prepotente, and Samantha attempt to break in to Club Vanquisher, bringing a long wire with them that can extend Li Na's auras. Li Jun, Bautista, and Zhang join to keep the doors open along their path. |
| 51 | The team successfully enters Club Vanquisher. Li Na activates her aura, and the guards begin killing themselves in disturbing ways, then forming ghosts who are sucked into the ground. The Club security is alerted. |
| 52 | Li Na cycles through her auras, and their effects become more and more horrifying. Carl's group reaches the portal to all the temples and they see Vinata inside the Khepri temple. Samantha is able to open the door, and Carl, Katia, and Prepotente enter. An achievement informs Carl that they have walked into a trap, and his Scavenger's Daughter patch gives him 90 seconds of immortality for being in the presence of Khepri. |
| 53 | Time freezes as the AI announces the fight. The AI mentions that outside the dungeon, the Nagas were only pretending to be broke and had secret plans to seize the shipbuilding facilities. Carl, Katia, and Prepotente use the chat to make a plan. The fight begins. |
| 54 | Katia and Prepotente use Black Nimbus potions to get kicked out of the temple. Carl casts the Run, Little Gunter, Run spell and then drops a bomb, surviving due to his immortality but killing everyone else except Khepri, who is blasted backwards, and Vinata, who also has the immortality status. Carl and Vinata are blasted out of the temple in a grapple, and dozens of gods start to come out of the portal and into Club Vanquisher. Khepri comes out of the portal but is banished by Hellik, who tells Carl to tell Emberus that Hellik did not kill his son, everything he believes about Hellik is a lie, Apito has been corrupted, and he believes Nekhebit is behind all of it. Carl's ring is overloaded so his slugpox returns, and one of the slugs kills Vinata right as her immortality ends. |
| 55 | Katia messages Carl that the exit to the Club is locked and they agree to meet at the mapmaker guild. Samantha is upset because her mother, Theia, is an imposter (sponsored by a male Skyfowl). Carl reaches the guild and meets former crawler Milk, embracing her and crying. |
| Part III: Open Hostilities | |
| Justice Light | Justice Light has been working with the Sluggalos in the tunnels to set up a trap system. Justice confronts one of the sluggalettes, who is revealed to be a changeling spy who lets him speak to Juice Box. He asks Juice Box to call of her digger and not destroy the trap system in exchange for keeping this conversation secret. Justice shares his backstory and says he wants to help the NPC team in their real purpose - attempting to physically touch as many gods as possible so that the changelings can transform into them. He says he can show them how to touch a god without getting killed, and asks that her team continue to help the Princess Posse with Operation Ruin. He explains that he has really been building a trap based on the Gate of the Feral Gods. |
| 56 | Toyotomi is leading the construction of a giant synergy tower for the Princess Posse which they are hoping to make a target for enemy spells. Louis is freaking out about his relationship with Juice Box. Katia and Carl are interviewed about their new items, the Enchanted Spiked Knee Pads of the Munificent Goddess Kina and the Enchanted Hairbrush of the Beefmaster. |
| 57 | Carl goes through his achievements and boxes, including one for using a borrowed skill via the ability tattoo, and the AI hints that there is a way to use this with the Voodoo Book. Carl gets the Fuck My Brother quest from Emberus. Zhang receives Zhang's Cape of Odds. Carl gives Li Na the Ring of Divine Suffering he took from Rust at Donut's request. |
| 58 | Carl interrogates their prisoner, Rishi, who explains the Great Consensus and says Vinata was an adherent to this philosophy. He says that Vinata's group had planned to steal the Naga fleet and flee the central system altogether. Rishi offers Carl a signed document that would give all Earth natives citizenship in Naga lands in exchange for allowing the Nagas to settle on the other planets in the Earth's system. Carl marks Rishi with the Ring of Divine Suffering and kills him. |
| 59 | Carl adds a note to the cookbook explaining Operation Ruin, their plan to win the war. Donut gets set up in the Nest, and Carl and Samantha join Louis in the Party Planner. Elle uses the Gate of the Feral Gods in the Dream territory, summoning Meatus and subsequently Harpocrates. |
| 60 | Harpocrates and Meatus start fighting eachother. The NPC dwarves set off a volcano eruption in Reaver territory. |
| 61 | Donut casts spells at the Dream forces from the Nest. Carl and Samantha jump out of the Party Planner in Reaver territory. Eris is summoned to the realm and a demon eviction begins. Carl plans to meet Elle, who used the gate to create a portal to Madness territory, but Stalwart teleports to their location along with Akuma, leader of the War Mage Rebellion. Stalwart explodes and Akuma teleports away with the gate. |
| 62 | Juice Box gets pulled out by the adjutants because the War Mages teleported to her and Ferdinand after killing Stalwart, and there was suspicion of collusion. Carl and Elle go through the portal to the Madness territory and Samantha sees a dragon appear outside the Reaver castle. |
| 63 | Katia, Imani, Splash Zone, Dong, and Bigs the slugalette join Carl and Elle at the Madness HQ. Feral God Yarilo enters the realm and chases Samantha. |
| 64 | In the Madness territory, Apito's memorial crystal appears as a giant rainbow held by Osvaldo, who is not part of any of the Faction Wars armies. This alerts the Madness army to the presence of Carl's group, and they summon Prepotente's forces for backup. |
| 65 | Fighting breaks out and the Viceroys unleash their mind magic, but Carl is able to withstand it as his Mind Balance skill reaches level 16. Eris initiates the Ceremony of Chaos, freezing almost everyone other than Carl, the sluggalos, and the strippers, and then teleporting all the frozen people into a big pile next to the Dream castle. |
| 66 | The witnesses in the pile are frozen but conscious and invulnerable. Party Planner is destroyed and Louis falls into the Reaver castle. Donut casts Rolling Battle Formation on the pile and Meatus pulls Eris into it. |
| 67 | Donut directs the ball toward the field of corpses near the Madness castle and tries to distract Harpocrates, who is chasing the ball. Carl and Dong infiltrate the Madness castle and find a group of crawlers inside. |
| 68 | Carl and Dong rescue some conscripted crawlers and find Architect Houston in his surgical theater, in the process of joining his body to a changeling body. Meanwhile, Harpocrates marks Donut for death and Li Jun tries to protect her and is killed. Carl disrupts Architect Houston's procedure and Gloom Wraith Phases through him, killing him and giving Carl a vision of Li Jun in the changeling's face. With the defeat of the Madness team, the Peeling phase begins. The adjudication completes and the War Mage Rebellion is made an official team under Warlord Agatha. Original Faction Wars rules are applied, stating that all members of a defeated team will die upon defeat. |
| Part IV: The Peeling of Larracos | |
| Several Days Earlier | Katia's dream is revealed, showing her last interaction with Annie. |
| Rosetta | Rosetta and Baroness Victory discuss the deal arranged by Porthus. Victory provided the pin number that allowed Rosetta to rob Rust, and Rosetta's people were able to purchase ships from the Nagas. They will complete their side of the bargain by destroying an orc yacht, leaving Formidable in charge of the Skull Empire, assuming she is still alive. Porthus and the families of the former crawlers plan to use the ships to escape the center system. Porthus is working with the Apothecary, who Rosetta does not trust. |
| 69 | The War Mage Rebellion is occupying the Larracos castle and will win if they hold it for 6 hours. Baroness Victory says that Akuma and Agatha are co-warlords and Akuma is upset about it. Donut casts You're Not Done Yet on the field of corpses, creating Fleshers to attack the enemies within the ball. The War Mages conscript Yarilo using potions exchanged for the gate on the Midnight Market. Fopsy, the Dream adjutant, theorizes that Agatha may now believe that the AI is a threat to the Eulogist and is trying to end the ascendency game so that the AI can be shut down. |
| 70 | Fighting continues in Larracos. Donut tracks the gods' positions from the Nest and finds the location of the War Mages' Zerogoth generator. Juice Box worries about Louis and tells Samantha that if she saves him, Juice Box will turn into a fleshmancer and give her a body. Donut realizes she is trapped in the tower by a net spell cast by Lucia Mar. |
| 71 | Carl rushes to the Nest to help Donut. Donut summons Raul, and he and Carl fight Lucia. Carl uses a a Hell-Kissed Conscription potion that Li Na took from the War Mages on Lucia. |
| 72 | Li Na conscripts Harpocrates. Carl prepares to kill Lucia but hesitates when one of the other children within Lucia speaks to him. Mongo is almost killed by Gustavo 3, but Rend saves him and kills Gustavo. Lucia says that now that Gustavo is dead, "the Eulogist has another ally in the dungeon," and Carl can't kill her without killing all the children of Earth. |
| 73 | Lucia gets pulled out by the admins. Zev confirms that if Lucia is killed, the children on Earth's surface will also die. Warlord Agatha abandons her post and Akuma is given full leadership of the War Mage Rebellion. Rosetta, Milk, and Edgar join Carl and Donut in the tower to give Donut a tattoo. |
| 74 | Donut reluctantly agrees to get the tattoo that will let her use the Bijanbi spell. Li Na is holding Harpocrates back from destroying the ball of witnesses. |
| 75 | Donut prepares to cast her final spells and then jump out of the collapsing tower with Carl, but they realize Lucia cast a second net spell and they are still trapped within the Nest. Donut casts War Crime, combining the Bijanbi and Spectral Paw spells over the battlefield as the ball of witnesses breaks apart. |
| 76 | Upon committing her third Atrocity, Donut receives the Oak Fell class and is named Champion of Nekhebit. Carl's Pied Piper benefit from Harpocrates is made permanent by Eris, who tells him the location of the gate and that Britney is possessed by an axe she picked up, and mysteriously mentions that Carl is married. Donut and Li Na finish of the surviving enemies that were trapped in the ball. |
| 77 | Donut is now the most powerful crawler in history. Li Na had marked all the enemies in the ball with the Ring of Divine Suffering and is able to max out all her base stats, but some enemies escaped, including Fang and Tagg. She will be unable to heal until she finds and kills them. |
| 78 | Warlord Akuma tells the Warlord Chat that the War Mages are leaving the floor after successfully finding the Scavenger's Daughter, who they are taking with them. He warns Carl and Donut that Agatha is an enemy to them all. Carl tells Justice Light the location of the gate so he and the sluggalos can retrieve it. Carl and Donut head out to rescue Louis. |
| 79 | The rescue team enters the Reaver castle. The dragon continues to circle above, and Carl's Ping spell tells him she is Fang's pet. The Dream and Reaver adjutants appear. Juice Box transforms into a hunter wraith. |
| 80 | Back at the FUPA, Kiwi goes into labor. The Reavers' robot dogs attack the rescue team. Juice Box finds Louis, possesses him, and teleports him out, dropping a bunch of No Disassembles in his place. Carl detonates them, blowing up the castle and killing the dragon and Fang, who was hiding within his pet. Juice Box says that the Reavers were doing surgery on Louis and replaced his heart and lungs, which contain pieces of Epitome Tagg somehow. |
| 81 | Carl realizes Tagg is a cyborg, and Glory tries to assassinate Carl but is stopped by the AI. The group heads back to the safe room. |
| 82 | Li Na and Prepotente share that they were unable to find the additional people marked by Li Na because they were non-combatant members of Rust's harem who escaped to the 18th floor. Tipid's brain was re-scrambled by the No Disassembles blast. Juice Box tells Carl that she does truly love Louis, but when she possessed him she realized that he does not love her. Kiwi gives birth. |
| 83 | The team tries to figure out how to help Louis, and Samantha volunteers her flesh golum to save him. Samantha also says she previously felt her daughter's presence on this floor, but now she is gone, and she admits that she was involved in the death of Geyrun. Emberus enters the realm. |
| 84 | Emberus wants to interrogate Samantha, and will destroy the floor in 66 minutes regardless of the outcome. The team jumps into action: Katia eats the orchid, Justice Light confirms that his trap is already set, and Mordecai and Edgar operate on Louis. Epitome Tagg dies and the Dream is defeated, leaving only the Princess Posse and Team Retribution. |
| 85 | Carl gives up the Ring of Divine Suffering. Carl and Donut receive messages, spells, and gear from the members of the Princess Posse who will be leaving the dungeon after this floor. The Sledge casts Zerzura, transporting Larracos and Shanty Town to the 12th floor along with the NPC team, and transporting the outworlders (former crawlers and mercenaries) out of the dungeon. Juice Box leaves "a different way" shortly afterwards, and the NPC team is defeated, making the Princess Posse the winner of Faction Wars. |
| 86 | Samantha meets Emberus to buy time. Posse members start to enter the stairwell to the next floor. Victory reveals that she is now acting prime minister. Katia wakes up and Eileithyia enters the realm. Donut casts Laundry Day on Huanxin and she is ejected out of Eileithyia, leaving the goddess frozen until Katia chooses her boon. Donut kills Huanxin. The team says goodbye to Katia and she chooses to become pregnant so she can help the children on Earth's surface. |
| 87 | Carl summons Samantha back and the team enters the stairwell, leaving only Justice Light, who reveals that Juice Box entered the Nothing in order to be "reborn as the ultimate weapon." He triggers his trap, killing himself and breaking the Nothing, causing it to drain into the Halls of the Ascendency and Scolopendra's Lair. Scolopendra awakens. |
| Epilogue | York reflects on his actions taken as part of Porthus' plan, and the former crawlers return to the Homecoming Queen. Porthus announces that the Open Intellect Action Network will now be moving openly against the Syndicate. Carl meets with Quasar, who gives him his tenth floor deal options, which he declines, and tells him that Donut's new lawyer, Princess Chandra, is Carl's new wife. Eris leaves the Earth system through a waystation. |