The ninth floor is the largest in the dungeon and the only one that grows instead of shrinking. It is a
walled city, and for the length of this floor it belongs to nine armies.
Eight of them are sponsored. Mercenary companies bought and paid for by alien warlords from the Syndicate,
who fight for the city, for the audience, and for a prize nobody explains properly. Crawlers arriving on this
floor are not recruited. They are conscripted — divided up and handed to whichever
warlord draws them, to be used as fodder in someone else’s war.
There is a ninth slot. It is not given; it can be taken, if a crawler is stubborn enough to arrange it.
Registration days: 111-134 — the staircase to the next floor opens on day 134.
On this registry, the factions that matter are the ones you build. The
Guilds & Factions
boards are open, and the private faction rooms unlock when this floor does.