These days I was visited by 4 or 5 groups of 4 a day. The elves seed to have concluded my Dungeon was 'either only dangerous in its second tier or taming the Core cald it'.
To be on the safe side they had all agreed to wait on visiting beyond my 5th Floor till the Lightning Mage had finished going through all my Floors.
Surprisingly, my newest Rule hadn't been noticed. But then again, people tended to group up with people they knew. aning either the group were 4 soldiers who had all been in my Dungeon before and thus had minimal distortion to their mories, or none of the 4 had been in my Dungeon before and thus all of their minds were more scrambled than their soldier counterparts.
With equally scrambled brains, everyone appeared to know the sa amount at all tis. That the civilians used way longer to, for instance, find the hidden entrance to The Trap Corridor than the soldiers did, simply wasn't noticed. They weren't there at the sa ti, after all, and the civilians kept thinking 'I was told the entrance was riiiight over there' and 'why did I go over here, when I was inford it was over there?". These things were even said out loud plenty of tis, but - while confused in the mont - they had no idea how to explain their own actions and saw no reason to inform my 'mistress' of their own embarrassnt of being unable to rember her hand drawn maps.
Speaking of: My 'mistress' had chosen to explore and docunt one additional Floor a day and use her evenings to go over all she had learned that day - both from her own exploration as well as other Parties' reports -, hoping to understand what made so unique.
She had yet to co up with a conclusion she was satisfied with. The Door of Speciesism constantly caused her frustration, as, while all of the Parties could get The Door to open, none of them had solved it. My traps' secondary trigger condition was another constant annoyance for her.
At the end of the previous day's exploration the Lightning Mage had, naturally, noticed the lack of a Caged Core in the room at the end of the 8th Floor. And as such, she quickly realized I had finished my 9th Floor, which made her super excited.
Still, she refrained from exploring the new Floor right away as she had written more than enough notes already that day and needed to start going over them.
She had stopped taking her dawon with her as she had realized that if she herself were earning small amounts of EXP after leaving my bigger and more creature-filled rooms, then the dawon was too.
… Not that I understood why, all of a sudden, that was a bad thing…
In other news, Thenac had bonded with the level 17 lynx of the 9th Floor. As requested the lynx had high Dexterity and Awareness and as promised it - sorry she - had the innate passive Skill 'Eyes of Clairvoyance'. Which essentially ant the lynx was passively learning about everything in its sight. And that included whether it could actually see it or not! Anything invisible would still be known to a lynx, which is why I had thought it such a perfect partner to Thenac! No more surprises! With a bit of concentration a lynx could even see through solid objects!
It was no wonder its species had gotten the title 'Keeper of Secrets', it was impossible to keep a secret from a lynx!
It was even a semi-sapient, so even lynx originating from outside my Dungeon could level up.
Though, I doubt many did. Dungeons seed to be pretty… controlled… by the sapient species. And the only other way to earn EXP was through leveling Skills up, which was sothing semi-sapients didn’t normally have a lot of.
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While talking to lieutenant Alnus during their daily, but informal, morning eting, Sarzina Acacia had ntioned the 9th Floor being finished which prompted the lieutenant to volunteer to join her in exploring the new Floor.
No one else wanted to be among the first to explore the newest Floor - Why not? -, so Alnus and Zina ended up braving the 9th Floor alone.
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