9 TO DIEHow the Quarter Works
How long is a quarter?
A quarter is a 16-minute run of 13 weeks, each 75 seconds long. Calendar bosses arrive at 3:45, 7:30, 11:15 and 15:00, the final boss arrives at 16:00, and beating it wins the floor. Afterwards you can choose Stay Late, which keeps going until you drop.
Thirteen weeks survived. Your reward for excellent work is more of it.
| Booking | Clock | When |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar boss 1 | 3:45 | End of Week 3 |
| Calendar boss 2 | 7:30 | End of Week 6 |
| Calendar boss 3 | 11:15 | End of Week 9 |
| Calendar boss 4 | 15:00 | End of Week 12 |
| Final boss | 16:00 | Week 13, the Quarter Close |
| Stay Late | After the win | Your choice |
Week 13 is cut short: the final boss books the room at 16:00, 15 seconds before that week would end.
What is Monday Morning?
Monday Morning is a 60-second warm-up before the clock starts. Walk the floor, find the coffee and the document someone left out, and press E to place up to three Boundaries. Press Enter, labelled Remind Me Later, to cut it short and start the quarter straight away.
Updates have been deferred. The quarter has begun.
| Boundary | What it does |
|---|---|
| Focus Block | Hurts anything walking through it. |
| Do-Not-Book | Pushes everything except bosses away from it. |
| Headphones | Stops everything nearby for a moment, every 6 seconds. |
The three kinds come in that order as you place them. The Boundaries perk adds a fourth placement and the Work From Home perk adds 30 seconds. Today's Calendar has no Monday Morning.
How do calendar bosses work?
Each floor books four calendar bosses and one final boss, and the horde keeps coming while they are on the floor. A boss that falls drops three boxes and 25 PTO, and it counts for gear at the end of the run. One still alive at the next booking simply leaves, paying nothing.
It has been rescheduled. Please check your calendar.
The lineup differs per floor. See the floor pages for each schedule, or the boss list.
How much harder does it get over time?
Enemy health grows every minute, and each floor past the first adds another 10 percent on top. The floor holds up to 300 enemies at once. Tougher kinds join as the weeks pass, and elites appear more often the longer you last. By the final boss, everything hits much harder than Week 1.
Great work. Now do it with half the team.
Exactly: enemy health multiplies by 1 + 0.32m + 0.012m² at m minutes, damage by 0.55 + 0.14m. Boss health is its listed figure times 1.2 + 0.35m + 0.02m², and each extra co-op player adds 60 percent.
What is Stay Late?
When the final boss falls, the quarter closes and you choose Stay Late or Go Home. Staying keeps the run going past the end with faster, slightly larger hordes, and you keep earning until you go Offline. Going home ends the run at once, and your win is already banked either way.
The lights go to motion-sensor mode, and your manager asks if you have a second.
What does a run pay?
A run pays the PTO you picked up, plus 4 for each minute survived, 12 for each boss beaten and 60 for a win, all multiplied by your difficulty. Talent experience works the same way: 6 per minute, 10 per boss, 1 for every 50 kills and 30 for a win.
Ten days you will never take.