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World Dungeon · Floor 7
Floor 7
The Great Race is Floor Seven, a race through a maze that ends before the crawlers have a chance to run it.[1]
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Rules
The Great Race begins with a twenty-day countdown. Carl, Donut and Prepotente arrive in a Pole Position chamber, despite an earlier proposal to swap Floors Seven and Eight.[1]
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History
Prepotente uses sponsor gifts and clues from the maze’s fairy-tale setting to break its rear wall. The floor collapses before the race begins, and portals pull the crawlers into Floor Eight.[1]
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Unanswered questions
The destruction leaves the intended course, enemies and finish unknown. Crawlers receive rewards for descending quickly and completing a floor without kills, even though they never ran the race.[2]
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History
Book 6
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Why Mordecai thinks the shortcut worked
Mordecai believes the designers followed their fairy-tale source so closely that they left its weakness intact. He also connects Prepotente’s success to licensing arrangements made before the floor began.[2]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- The Butcher’s Masquerade, Epilogue.
- The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Chapter 2.