Layer 8

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Layer 8, also known as Labyrinthine Bedlam.

Descending to Layer 8 will take 8 days.

Ascending back to the Layer 7 from here will take 40 days, and will cost 100 Corruption.

If you are carrying Star Compass you may subtract 5 days from all travel costs on this layer, a Compass or Smartphone will subtract 3 days aswell.[You can use both the star compass and compass/smartphone to reduce by 8 days]

## Threats

1. Inanis Ego
2. Demential Aberrations - If you bring Maru with you the cycle will increase from being attacked once every 7 days to every 8 days.

## Foraging

1. The Bedlam's Banquet - A day's worth of food will lower your standards, romantically and sexually - about 2% from your baseline, stacking additively(with slightly diminishing returns).
2. Lethe Taps - A day's worth of water will diminish your intelligence by about half an IQ point(with slightly diminishing returns). If you have both Saeko and Smartphone you can slow the intelligence lose by a factor of 10.

## Wonders

1. Boundless Space - Travel Time: 15 days
2. Fountain of Youth - Travel Time: 10 days
3. Endless Time - Travel Time: 15 days

## Intro

"After pushing through the gate, you fall. No matter any power of flight, a mysterious force pulls you down. You keep falling for several minutes, through a white, featureless void. You slowly realize that your surroundings aren't as empty as they first appear; the monochrome features merely blend into their surroundings. An Escheresque tangle of impossible and entirely impractical architecture flits past you, filled to the brim with upside-down staircases, recursive loops, and non-euclidean shapes that are difficult to wrap your head around - all of these float in a lonely void, painted in a violent, stark white.

Slowly, you feel the directionality of your fall begin to shift, rotate, and before you realize it you're not falling, but running. You slow yourself and take a look at your new surroundings, a maze of disarmingly welcoming hallways looping back into themselves, doors that lead to nowhere, and rooms too large for the space they occupy. Gravity asserts no dominance this deep in the Abyss, and after just a few minutes of walking, you find yourself back on the ceiling above the floor where you started. Space itself bends to the power of the Abyss, as four left turns around corners don't bring you back to where you started, and walking down the same hallway three times may bring you to three different places. You can feel your sense of time being distorted as well, and as you'll soon discover, it too is twisted and warped here, many different facets of possibility all converging into one point.

Space itself becomes your enemy in this layer, and navigation is incredibly difficult. If you're carrying the Star Compass Relic, you may subtract 5 days from all travel costs on this layer, as having a consistent indicator of which way is downward, which way you need to go to reach your destination, is invaluable here. A compass from Outset Town's shop, allowing you to better keep your directional bearings, is also helpful, subtracting 3 days from all travel costs on this layer.

Getting back up out of this terrible prison and back to layer 7 will take a staggering 40 days, and cost 100 corruption."