The entry conditions for the Imperial Dungeon Games run to four sheets, with the binding clause on the second sheet, which is where Luna found it. A registered faction descends with four human competitors, named nineteen days before the first gate, with no substitution after the roster closes.
Three is a forfeit, five is a disqualification, under a rule written against cheating rather than against grief. Blackforge had spent two days arguing about whether to attend at all, then the Ivory ledger settled it inside an afternoon.
The sealed archive is destroyed after the final, which is the line the whole roster question hangs from. Nobody in the yard could go on preferring the plan they had all quietly preferred, which was to wait until the Directorate had to open the doors itself.
