I was super proud of my Room of Rust trap room and my Wheel of Fortune luck puzzle and they had worked exactly as intended.
The Wheel of Fortune had 22 slices and to get the key one needed to land on a green slice. With 6 green slices - and 8 each of red and yellow - it normally would have given one roughly a 27% chance of getting the key. While there was no consequence to landing on another color in this version of the wheel, in later versions I wanted there to be consequences for getting red.
Now, in my Dungeon, the luck of sapients was bent already. When spinning my Wheel of Fortune this change in luck was amplified fivefold. As such, the odds were still 27% for people with karma levels between 26% and 74%. For karma levels of 75% or higher the chance of getting the key was about 41%, while 25% or lower only had around 13.5% chance.
If they hadn't decided to break my puzzle, they would have been stuck spinning the wheel as it resets every 5th minute until they finally got the key, or they would have been forced to give up. Instead they got the 'everything gets extra Toughness' penalty.
They even walked straight past two keys while exploring the fortress. I didn't even think I had hidden them that well. The Party just hadn't looked for them.
The Room of Rust would curse all tal leaving the room to rust whenever it hit sothing else or got hit by sothing. That is unless it was 'disard' by having the tal removed from the room by one of my creatures or my sapient 'family'. The curse would last a day, but any rusting would still be there after the curse had disappeared.
By the 5th hit under the curse the tal would be completely rusty but would still hold its form. By the 6th it would turn to dust. I hadn't realized, however, that the curse could be stacked. The elven Party had left The Room of Rust twice and so had gotten double the curse. As such their weapons had turned to dust in half the ti.
With the three 3rd tiers now weaponless and their shields and armor soon breaking down as well - the wood in the shields hadn't been hard but with the tal gone, the wood would fall to the ground - it stood to be a fairer fight. While my two remaining kobolds had shields and weapons - one had a sword, one a spear - the fight was still three against two with the three being vastly higher levels.
I knew my kobolds wouldn't be able to win the battle, but I hoped they might be able to take out one more elf before getting defeated. After all, the elves had no weapons left, and my kobolds had enhanced Toughness. There seed to be a decent chance, one more elf could be killed. So, I ordered my kobolds to focus their attacks on the Fighter, as he was the most wounded.
The sword kobold's last act was to turn the Fighter's armor to dust after which the kobold was punched to death. The spear kobold then got its spear thrusted into the chest of the now unarmored Fighter, puncturing his lung. With a fist from said elf the spear kobold turned into loot like the rest of its clan had.
The Scout tried to do so first aid to save the life of the Fighter but couldn't stop blood from entering his lung. Realizing this the Scout decided they needed to get Hagwin outside the Dungeon and so he could get actual dical attention. Andrathath started carrying the wounded Fighter, an act which agitated the wound and made it bleed more. As they reached the back courtyard the Fighter started to cough violently. Plenty of blood ca up and I wanted to look away. I couldn't, though. I would always be looking after all.
The 13 level 1 dragonets in the courtyard had no such problems, however, and turned away from the sight of the dying man.
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Before the locked door had been ramd open like the ones before, the Fighter had died.
I didn't regret it. He might not have been as bad as the Mage. But he had still lived a life of cri.
That doesn't an I like watching him slowly drown in his own blood.
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It had been almost 3 hours since the 3rd tier Party had entered the Dungeon. At this point lieutenant Tanithil Alnus had given up on them ever coming out. The Dungeon was unnatural and Tanithil wanted nothing more to do with it.
It was getting late, though, so the lieutenant had decided the platoon would stay for the night and leave in the morning. Not directly ho, though. They would do a larger sweep of the area while looking for traces from the run-away slaves. Finding the slaves might soothe over the embarrassnt of failing to complete a 1st tier Dungeon.
A simple dinner had just been served when Erlan and Andrathath appeared next to the Dungeon Portal covered in blood and weaponless.
Tanithil was relieved they had survived, but the lack of two of their Party confird the lieutenant's suspicion of the extra danger associated with this Dungeon.
"dic!" Tanithil called. Normally he would call the field dic Mr. Populus like he had been asked but shouting ‘dic’ would make him aware soone needed dical attention and to co in a hurry.
Tanithil would get the report from the two survivors once they had gotten their wounds cleaned.
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A puzzle was attempted!
You have gained 12 EXP.
First of Your Kind rewards you 3 EXP.
35 level 6 creatures have died.
You have gained 210 EXP.
First of Your Kind rewards you 42 EXP.
Creature Designer rewards you 21 EXP.
1 level 25 sapient has been killed in your Dungeon.
You have gained 2,500 EXP.
First of Your Kind rewards you 500 EXP.
The remaining two elves had, upon realizing the death of the third, looted the dead body and raced to The Fake Core to get out. They didn't even look in the direction of my hidden, unfinished 4th Floor.
Satisfied, I checked my status.
Personal Status Level: 11 EXP needed for level up: 5,000/5,000 Additional EXP: 16,828 Mana paynt needed for level up: 0/1,400 Mana: 247/700 Mana regeneration: 245 per hour Floors: 3/6 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 4 Floor Details Achievents Mission Dungeon Rules
My mana regeneration can't keep up with my EXP gain like this. For a mont I reconsidered focusing on filling out my 4th Floor and instead getting so more levels, but I discarded the thought. I hadn't been able to kill all of them after all and the next Party would surely be stronger.
Though, now that they have reached my Core I wonder if they will continue. It sounded like the 3 elven Parties had simply been told to scout out.
But I can't really know what they'll actually do next…
I suppose I'll just inform the Tribe that I once again survived against the elves. That always makes them happy to hear.
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2 days had passed without any elven Parties appearing, so on the morning of the 3rd day an older rhinoman, bearing the na Molgroor, had bravely volunteered to venture outside the Dungeon and take a look. When he returned, he reported he had seen clear signs that the elves had made camp around the Portal and that the camp was now gone.
To be on the safe side the Tribe sent a dozen adults out in every direction. Only when all 12 had reappeared unhard and having seen no elves did the Tribe relax and celebrate their survival and continued freedom.
And mine too. I was their god and protector, so they made the guest of honor. Well… sort of. I didn't have a body they could party with so instead they toasted in my na.
Many tis…
It might be a good thing they don't have any alcohol. The Tribe was drunk on joy and alcohol would surely have made it worse. Instead of alcohol, the Tribe were drinking yak milk or the watered-down fruit and/or berry juice of their choice. Water had been added to the juice to make the supply last longer. At the ti they didn't know how long they would be stuck on my 4th Floor and the environnt didn't reset as long as sapients were present on the Floor. And this was whether they were considered family or not. Luckily, my creatures were able to transport yak milk, fruit, nuts, and wild vegetables from the previous Floors, so the Tribe wasn't ever actually in danger of starvation. They would just eventually forcefully have beco vegetarian.
Having deed the Surface World safe once more, the Tribe thanked for my hospitality and moved back out the next day.
This was good timing as I had reached my limit for creatures, puzzles, and traps for the 4th Floor, and I had even leveled up once. With no more danger from the elves I soon declared the 4th Floor finished and focused on leveling up till I stopped having the EXP for it.
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