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“I need cover and time!” Troy shouted. “I can read it, but my [Detect Magic] isn’t high-level enough to tell me what it does!”
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2022-09-27 22:12:03 +0000 UTC View Post“The name’s Lucas,” I introduced myself. “Tour guide for this dungeon.”
“Tour guide?” the [Sharpshooter] asked. “That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.”
“Uh, what?”
“There’s two types of living things in a dungeon,” he said, drawing his...
2022-09-27 01:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostEDITED 9/24: Read the latter half of it again to see the edits. TL;DR a rude level 2 [Sharpshooter] man shows up to the dungeon and catches up to the party, who're resting after the parkour room. Thanks to John Koor for the feedback.
“You may notice some differences from ...
2022-09-24 04:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostI just had to ask for trouble, didn’t I?
The sun was still pink on the horizon, the early-morning breeze cold but comfortable as it brushed against my skin. In the distance, animals of some kind or another—I couldn’t tell if they were mundane or magical from this distance—l...
2022-09-22 17:12:11 +0000 UTC View PostName: Lucas
Class: [Dungeon Core] lv. 3
Spells (ordered by: used recently)
[Spawn Monster]: D
> [Spawn Snake]: D+
> [Spawn Construct]: F+
[Reshape]: C- 2022-09-22 14:13:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“This might take some time to explain,” Lisa said. “I would advise we take a moment to recollect ourselves first.”
I could understand what she really meant by that. She couldn’t act all informal in front of so many other people who might be involved in the Guild in some way, so I ...
2022-09-21 20:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck!” Ryan shouted.
Time slowed down, my dungeon-half and human-half working in harmony to think as fast as possible so that I could figure out how to heal the [Elite Knight] while also processing the situation.
[Displace] was a damn powerful skill from a damn powerful monster t...
2022-09-21 03:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostClara had thought she’d known the risks of this going in. She’d been one of Aedi’s Chosen all her life, yes, her bond strengthened ever since that fateful morning decades ago when the god had reached out while she’d been nothing more than a child assembling a toy. It wasn’t much of a st...
2022-09-20 01:48:10 +0000 UTC View PostEDITED TO CLARIFY ASPECTS OF THE ARI AND THE NATURE OF DUNGEONS
It ended up taking fifteen minutes to integrate the ARI into my interface. Before that, I’d tried to award her some loot from the final room—armor pieces with snake carvings in them and coins, mostly—but ...
2022-09-18 14:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostEDITED TO CLARIFY THE ARI
“Most… popular?” I asked. “In the kingdom? How would that work? So far as I know, Minus One—ergh, that’s a bit awkward to say out loud, shortening that to M-1 really rolls off the tongue better—well, anyway, I think they’re the only...
2022-09-16 16:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostWithin six hours of Iris Alder’s departure, the Guild came. I’d been half-expecting a visitor when I sensed the first person step into the safe zone, but to be completely honest I thought it would be Rose, come here to check on the results of my ‘negotiation’ with her mother.
Instea...
2022-09-13 17:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve learned,” Nishi said. “You’ve progressed far beyond my expectations.”
“So I have,” I said. “And you’ve grown closer.”
“Indeed I have. And you appear to have gained the ability of detection.”
“So I have. What was your purpose in coming?”
<... 2022-09-11 15:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Not an adventurer?” Rose’s mother said. “Would you care to explain?”
“The name’s Lucas,” I introduced myself, bowing ever so slightly. “I’m bound to this dungeon, and I also act as its tour guide.”
“Iris Alder,” she said, offering a handshake. “Head of Ald...
2022-09-09 04:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Was it hard to get?” I asked. “I can compensate you if you need it.”
“Oh, come off it,” Rose replied, nudging me lightly. “You already overpaid us to shit, this is just me returning the favor.”
“If you say so.”
The two of us were situated in the safe room on...
2022-09-08 03:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a fair amount of work to be done on the dungeon. For one, the room that had formerly been a pseudo-jungle gym with plenty of snakes kind of just wasn’t there anymore. I could technically rebuild it in exactly the same way from the ground up, but that was boring.
“Have...
2022-09-05 02:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe oathtongue had the wrath of the betrayed behind it. As it pulsed across the room, I felt it out, the taste of alignment crossing my lips. Orchid was one of Ditas’. Not one I had hated all too much, once upon a time.
What were the conditions for alignment for his god, again? To gain a ...
2022-09-03 18:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe two of us sat on twin outcroppings of rock, conveniently placed just outside the first room. Speaking in the entrance room was a bit of a necessity, given that the entirety of the first room had been summarily smashed apart by the fight we’d just survived through. I could use a bunch of man...
2022-09-01 03:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe cavern was an utter loss. I was probably going to have to redesign the first challenge room from the ground up, a prospect that filled me with equal parts exasperation and excitement. Losing work sucked, but along with that suckiness was potential. Something new to replace the old, w...
2022-08-28 22:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stepped back into baseline reality, the floaty high that I’d been feeling from the god’s influence dimmed a little. Most of it was still there, but the headiest bits faded into the background, the edges of my mood calming.
I’d demolished the place, I realized. There hadn’t been...
2022-08-25 14:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostFuck, fuck, fuck! I couldn’t deny that that had been a helpful spell, though I was going to have to ask Rose how in the hell she’d actually managed to use it. Still, involving them in this? That was a recipe for three promising young adventurers ending up in a thousand pieces.
...
2022-08-24 16:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis was, to put it lightly, a suboptimal situation. The [Astral Monk] vastly outclassed me in firepower and mobility both—there was going to be no trapping her in a hole and then dropping a rock on her like I’d done with the earlier Kingsguard. If I put her in a hole, she’d make her way ou...
2022-08-24 16:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post[You have died.]
[Special skill conditions met.]
[Special skill [Divine Healer] activating.]
[Channel to divinity created.]
[Channel to divinity activated.]
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“Welcome to the first room,” I said, trying to ensure my facade of calmness wasn’t breaking. “This is an introductory course to less linear combat, which few lower-level parties have had much experience with before.”
I was pretty sure my body had been changed in some way, because ...
2022-08-24 16:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Good luck!” Rose said, giving me a wave. “And thank you again! We’ll make sure to get you more good stuff for the next time we come!”
“Thank you,” I said, having finally managed to get them to take their rewards for the second time. “I look forward to your next trip with me...
2022-08-24 16:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean, you can’t let them in here?” I asked. “And how did they clear but not the dungeon?”
“Give me a moment to explain,” Lisa said, sitting down on a convenient piece of rock with a sigh. “First of all, I need to ask a question.”
“Go ahead.”
...
2022-08-24 16:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post“This is what we call tunnel vision, by the way!” I shouted, trying to make myself heard over Ryan’s horrified screaming and the pseudo-hydra’s hissing. “Never take your attention off the biggest threat in the room!”
It had only hit him once, drawing back afterwards as Troy had ...
2022-08-24 16:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, I could technically use [Song of Displacement] two or three times,” Rose said. She was sitting on the edge of the safe zone, kicking her feet over the water as if there weren’t a whole bunch of snakes in there. “Chaining them together would definitely get me enough speed to get acr...
2022-08-24 16:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostName: Lucas
Class: [Dungeon Core] lv. 2
Spells
[Spawn Monster]: D-
> [Spawn Snake]: D
> [New spell available!]
[Reshape]: D+
[Create Water]:...
2022-08-24 00:46:15 +0000 UTC View PostWith only a day to work on the dungeon, I hadn’t been able to add that much. I had a work-in-progress room that I’d set to one side, but that one wasn’t going to be able to be unveiled for a while. Not on this short notice, at least.
As I ran one final set of checks in my mind, I made...
2022-08-24 00:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning after the adventurers had come, I was ready to start experimenting with the dungeon again. I’d spent the bulk of the night reading books, trying on clothes, and figuring out if there was a way to [Replicate] food items. I’d figured out a way to do it, though it was a lot more mana...
2022-08-24 00:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post