Week 5 is processed. The Hall of Mirrored Failures opened on Monday, and by Sunday night every mirror on the floor was pointed at the same matchup. Kelsey and Kayla. 193.7 to 192.7. One point. I have rewatched it. The mirrors have rewatched it more than I have. I did not know mirrors could do that.
– Kelsey 193.7 def. Kayla 192.7 (margin: 1.0 — Game of the Week. Possibly of the season.)
– Matt 144.0 def. Vicky 131.8 (Vicky’s passive fired: +10. Matt is 5-0. The coin has still not been flipped.)
– Jake 209.7 def. Kyle 122.4 (week high; largest margin of the week: 87.3)
– Blake 198.4 def. Dani 144.3 (Dani in the Pit, −3 from Floor 3, +2 from the Training Puck)
– Steven 193.0 def. Mike 154.0 (The System won.)
– Steven 193.0 def. Mike 154.0 (duplicate entry — please disregard)
On Friday night the projections had Kelsey losing. For the second straight week, the Pendant of the Squeaker Syndicate woke up: +10. Without it she loses. With it she wins by exactly one point, without touching a single one of the four items in her bag. Again.
Kayla lost the best game the Dungeon has produced so far by the smallest margin it has ever recorded against her. The System does not usually reward a game. The System is rewarding this one. Both of them.
– Kayla — Bird Watching Binoculars of the Flock (UNIQUE). If you have zero players on IR at the end of the scoring period, +5 pts. Automatic: the Commissioner checks IR after scores close.
– Kelsey — Pendant of the Squeaker Syndicate +1 (RARE, upgraded). Original effect unchanged: projected lower than your opponent by Friday night, +10 pts. New: whenever the Pendant fires and you win the matchup anyway, you also receive a bonus Common item. Effective Week 6.
– Matt — The Corporate Memo (UNIQUE). Twice per season: challenge any loot used against you. Coin flip — heads overturns it, tails it stands. 48-hour protest window. Awarded for five straight wins. The System is aware this item requires flipping a coin. The System is also aware of who it was given to.
– 5-0: Matt (829.1)
– 4-1: Jake (990.6), Kelsey (877.2)
– 3-2: Steven (891.0), Kayla (835.9)
– 2-3: Blake (787.5), Kyle (681.1)
– 1-4: Vicky (761.6), Mike (720.0)
– 0-5: Dani (646.4)
Jake has the most points in the Dungeon. Steven has the second most. The System would like to point out that the System is second in something. The System would also like to point out that nobody asked.
Every matchup winner receives one Common item: +2 pts in one week of your choosing, declared to the Commissioner by Wednesday noon. Inventories are in the Crawler Companion.
Items used this week: one. Dani used the Training Puck. Items used across the entire league after five weeks: three. Kelsey won by one point holding four. The System is not going to make this point again. The System is going to make it every week.
– Matt — Quarterly Results
– Kelsey — By One
– Kayla — Closer Than She Appears
– Jake — High Mass
– Blake — Laminated Twice
– Dani — The Puck Drops
– Steven — [ACHIEVEMENT FOUND] (the SYSTEM_WIN template was located inside the SYSTEM_LOSS folder; nobody has explained how)
Dani is 0-5 and remains in last place. She stays in the Pit for Week 6. Something Has Been Locked continues: one slot on her roster is frozen. The escape clause is unchanged. The moment she is out of last place, it ends.
The Hall of Mirrored Failures closes after Week 6. The rule holds for one more week: whoever is in last place at the start of the week takes −3. That is Dani again. Floor 4 will be revealed next Monday. The System has already built it. The System has already walked through it once and does not want to talk about it yet.
– Steven vs. Kayla
– Kelsey vs. Vicky
– Blake vs. Jake
– Matt vs. Dani (Dani in the Pit, −3 from Floor 3)
– Mike vs. Kyle
This is the week. Every crawler picks one Race and one Class. Options and bonuses are in Section VIII of the Compendium. Send your picks to the Commissioner by Friday.
If you do not pick by Friday, I will pick for you. I have already started a list. Several of you will not enjoy the list.
System Notice LOADING RACE TABLE… HUMAN · GNOME · SKYFOWL · DREADNOUGHT · CROCODILIAN · ▒▒▒▒▒ · STEVEN
System Notice RETRYING… HUMAN · GNOME · SKYFOWL · DREADNOUGHT · CROCODILIAN. TABLE LOADED.
There have always been five.
– Race & Class picks: due Friday. Choose, or be chosen.
– Loot declarations: Wednesday noon. Kelsey, you won without them. Do not learn from this.
– Matt: the coin flip is declared before your first game. Five weeks. The Ring has been moved to a drawer.
— The System · logged 24:03