Talk:It Lives Beneath/@comment-36744766-20181228054210/@comment-3452092-20181228064725

Probably not. In the first book you needed exactly zero diamonds to save everyone and you could get pretty low in that one and still save them. In this one there are a lot of chances to gain nerve without diamonds (something there wasn't in the other one) and people have gotten them into the 40s and 50s without diamonds. I suspect if you are careful with the free nerve points you can keep everyone alive without any diamonds. Of course we won't know for sure until the book is over and I am more than happy for it to go on for a while. As there are only two notes and one weapon left, I suspect we are looking at between three and five more chapters to the book at this point. The next two will probably take care of the two notes and the remaining weapon and after that we will have whatever the final confrontation is in one or two chapters followed by some sort of epilogue or ending chapter to tie things together. My current guess is that the long number is right and that this will be seventeen chapters long.