Chapter 58: First Look at The 10th Floor
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Chapter 58: First Look at The 10th Floor
It was common practice for miners to announce the movement of a tamed Dungeon's Core to the local dungeon master without first exploring the new Floor. For some tamed Dungeons entering an unexpected Floor without express permission from the dungeon master was simply seen as rude while it came with a fee or community service in other Dungeons.
Sarzina Acacia had decided the punishment would be a couple of weeks with 3 hours unpaid Portal guard duty each day. This punishment would likely change as the Dungeon and the surrounding town grew but for now it seemed fitting.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.
The newly arrived sheriff had at this point been handed all information needed to aid him in making the growing town safe from both inside crime and outside forces from lieutenant Alnus, before the remainder of the company had left for the capital. Sheriff Dakath Fraxinus had then been quick to schedule a guard rotation for himself, his undersheriff, and his 8 deputies along with suitable freetime. Some of said freetime he and his subordinates used in the Dungeon during which the relocation of the Dungeon Core was discovered and immediately reported.
When dealing with an unexplored Floor, Zina had already established a certain way of dealing with it. Namely: slowly while taking notes and with a somewhat high level person backing her up against the unknown.
As her usual choice had left, she needed to find a new person to watch her back and point out details she might otherwise miss. After a bit of thought the dungeon mistress had come to two different possibilities: Sheriff Fraxinus or Fader Ginkgo.
The sheriff would be a good exploration partner in the case a puzzle needed Charisma to be solved or if there had been added another room in the Dungeon where the monsters actually attacked on sight, like the werewolves had done.
Should the majority of them even still be called monsters? They only attack criminals and in self defense...
On the other hand, some puzzles were easier to solve with high Awareness and a sense for details, which the high priest might be able to assist her with.
... In reality her Awareness was likely higher or just as high as Fader Ginkgo's. Zina simply hoped he might help her shed some light on the uniqueness of her Dungeon. Even if just through offhand comments his lack of knowledge of the Dungeon's secrets wouldn't allow him to understand the meaning behind.
Having no reason not to simply invite both individuals, the three of them had soon after planned an expedition to the 10th Floor for the next day after breakfast.
Depending on how it went, Zina would invite either both, only one of them, or someone else entirely to explore the 11th Floor with her when it was revealed.
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Both sheriff and high priest had been easy to convince to follow her lead through a Dungeon run. Sheriff Fraxinus expressed a want to learn more about the Dungeon and suggested he might learn more if he went with the dungeon mistress than if he went with his own people.
Fader Ginkgo, on the other hand, had simply said 'yes' to the invitation with no hesitation nor explanation. Simply a nod and a thoughtful look.
Finally! People who like to learn about Dungeons as much as I do! When was the last time I found someone like that?
Professor Cercis?
This time around the three curses were a slight stutter, the need to state the color of any noun said, and the inability to hear names.
At the end of the 5th room there was another closed but unlocked door with a key hanging from a keychain next to it. Only this time the key was an actual key and the door led to a wall.
The similarity of the two parts of the puzzle was the only hint of what was going on.
... That and apparently the Lightning Mage could detect that the key was magical in some way. I knew it was, of course! I just hadn't given any thought to whether anyone would be able to detect that.
So, with the Lightning Mage in the lead the Party solved my puzzle, taking the magical key from the 5th room, bringing it to the first and turning it in the keyhole there.
The first puzzle door of the 10th Floor was now a portal to the otherwise inaccessible 6th room of the Floor: The Blessed Field.
Where my unicorn blessing lived!
The third puzzle of the Floor was a simple 'make all the unicorns in the room like you and your whole Party to make the trapdoor to the next room appear'. Super easy for some, yet impossible for others!
The elves had a surprisingly hard time, however. Apparently a unicorn had killed one of their previous queens? She must have been an evil queen then. The story - most likely alongside a lot of propaganda aimed at making the monarchy seem perfect - had made them incredibly wary and at first even hostile towards the grassing blessing.
But after several moments in tense defensive positions, the Lightning Mage seemed to either realize the unicorns had no intention of harming them or she remembered my words about only killing bad people. Nonetheless, she decided to cautiously approach the nearest unicorn.
Once it was confirmed the unicorns wouldn't harm them, the other two quickly decided to simply avoid and ignore them.
Which didn't do anything to annoy the unicorns but it also didn't make them like the Party. The blessing instead ignored the Party like the Party ignored them.
I wasn't all that surprised when they decided to stop for the day before having solved the puzzle. The Tribe had solved the puzzle quickly due to Begdar having spread the knowledge of my theme around from the moment she knew of it, and because both her and Chief Nerok made sure to regularly remind people of my and my creatures' kindness.
That's to say: Everyone in the Tribe knew half my puzzles could be solved through kindness.
And even though I had informed the Lightning Mage of my theme, she had yet to use the knowledge of it to try and solve one of my puzzles.
As soon as the Lightning Mage had arrived back at - what I presumed was - her office, she began analyzing what she had learned from her trip, like she always did.
Only to finally realize just how wrong everything my requests had told her about the 10th Floor was.
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Chapter 58: First Look at The 10th Floor
It was common practice for miners to announce the movement of a tamed Dungeon's Core to the local dungeon master without first exploring the new Floor. For some tamed Dungeons entering an unexpected Floor without express permission from the dungeon master was simply seen as rude while it came with a fee or community service in other Dungeons.
Sarzina Acacia had decided the punishment would be a couple of weeks with 3 hours unpaid Portal guard duty each day. This punishment would likely change as the Dungeon and the surrounding town grew but for now it seemed fitting.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.
The newly arrived sheriff had at this point been handed all information needed to aid him in making the growing town safe from both inside crime and outside forces from lieutenant Alnus, before the remainder of the company had left for the capital. Sheriff Dakath Fraxinus had then been quick to schedule a guard rotation for himself, his undersheriff, and his 8 deputies along with suitable freetime. Some of said freetime he and his subordinates used in the Dungeon during which the relocation of the Dungeon Core was discovered and immediately reported.
When dealing with an unexplored Floor, Zina had already established a certain way of dealing with it. Namely: slowly while taking notes and with a somewhat high level person backing her up against the unknown.
As her usual choice had left, she needed to find a new person to watch her back and point out details she might otherwise miss. After a bit of thought the dungeon mistress had come to two different possibilities: Sheriff Fraxinus or Fader Ginkgo.
The sheriff would be a good exploration partner in the case a puzzle needed Charisma to be solved or if there had been added another room in the Dungeon where the monsters actually attacked on sight, like the werewolves had done.
Should the majority of them even still be called monsters? They only attack criminals and in self defense...
On the other hand, some puzzles were easier to solve with high Awareness and a sense for details, which the high priest might be able to assist her with.
... In reality her Awareness was likely higher or just as high as Fader Ginkgo's. Zina simply hoped he might help her shed some light on the uniqueness of her Dungeon. Even if just through offhand comments his lack of knowledge of the Dungeon's secrets wouldn't allow him to understand the meaning behind.
Having no reason not to simply invite both individuals, the three of them had soon after planned an expedition to the 10th Floor for the next day after breakfast.
Depending on how it went, Zina would invite either both, only one of them, or someone else entirely to explore the 11th Floor with her when it was revealed.
◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇
Both sheriff and high priest had been easy to convince to follow her lead through a Dungeon run. Sheriff Fraxinus expressed a want to learn more about the Dungeon and suggested he might learn more if he went with the dungeon mistress than if he went with his own people.
Fader Ginkgo, on the other hand, had simply said 'yes' to the invitation with no hesitation nor explanation. Simply a nod and a thoughtful look.
Finally! People who like to learn about Dungeons as much as I do! When was the last time I found someone like that?
Professor Cercis?
This time around the three curses were a slight stutter, the need to state the color of any noun said, and the inability to hear names.
At the end of the 5th room there was another closed but unlocked door with a key hanging from a keychain next to it. Only this time the key was an actual key and the door led to a wall.
The similarity of the two parts of the puzzle was the only hint of what was going on.
... That and apparently the Lightning Mage could detect that the key was magical in some way. I knew it was, of course! I just hadn't given any thought to whether anyone would be able to detect that.
So, with the Lightning Mage in the lead the Party solved my puzzle, taking the magical key from the 5th room, bringing it to the first and turning it in the keyhole there.
The first puzzle door of the 10th Floor was now a portal to the otherwise inaccessible 6th room of the Floor: The Blessed Field.
Where my unicorn blessing lived!
The third puzzle of the Floor was a simple 'make all the unicorns in the room like you and your whole Party to make the trapdoor to the next room appear'. Super easy for some, yet impossible for others!
The elves had a surprisingly hard time, however. Apparently a unicorn had killed one of their previous queens? She must have been an evil queen then. The story - most likely alongside a lot of propaganda aimed at making the monarchy seem perfect - had made them incredibly wary and at first even hostile towards the grassing blessing.
But after several moments in tense defensive positions, the Lightning Mage seemed to either realize the unicorns had no intention of harming them or she remembered my words about only killing bad people. Nonetheless, she decided to cautiously approach the nearest unicorn.
Once it was confirmed the unicorns wouldn't harm them, the other two quickly decided to simply avoid and ignore them.
Which didn't do anything to annoy the unicorns but it also didn't make them like the Party. The blessing instead ignored the Party like the Party ignored them.
I wasn't all that surprised when they decided to stop for the day before having solved the puzzle. The Tribe had solved the puzzle quickly due to Begdar having spread the knowledge of my theme around from the moment she knew of it, and because both her and Chief Nerok made sure to regularly remind people of my and my creatures' kindness.
That's to say: Everyone in the Tribe knew half my puzzles could be solved through kindness.
And even though I had informed the Lightning Mage of my theme, she had yet to use the knowledge of it to try and solve one of my puzzles.
As soon as the Lightning Mage had arrived back at - what I presumed was - her office, she began analyzing what she had learned from her trip, like she always did.
Only to finally realize just how wrong everything my requests had told her about the 10th Floor was.
Chapter 58: First Look at The 10th FloorIt was common practice for miners to announce the movement of a tamed Dungeon's Core to the local dungeon master without first exploring the new Floor. For some tamed Dungeons entering an unexpected Floor without express permission from the dungeon master was simply seen as rude while it came with a fee or community service in other Dungeons.Sarzina Acacia had decided the punishment would be a couple of weeks with 3 hours unpaid Portal guard duty each day. This punishment would likely change as the Dungeon and the surrounding town grew but for now it seemed fitting.The debut release of this chapter happened at Nvl-B1n.The newly arrived sheriff had at this point been handed all information needed to aid him in making the growing town safe from both inside crime and outside forces from lieutenant Alnus, before the remainder of the company had left for the capital. Sheriff Dakath Fraxinus had then been quick to schedule a guard rotation for himself, his undersheriff, and his 8 deputies along with suitable freetime. Some of said freetime he and his subordinates used in the Dungeon during which the relocation of the Dungeon Core was discovered and immediately reported.When dealing with an unexplored Floor, Zina had already established a certain way of dealing with it. Namely: slowly while taking notes and with a somewhat high level person backing her up against the unknown.As her usual choice had left, she needed to find a new person to watch her back and point out details she might otherwise miss. After a bit of thought the dungeon mistress had come to two different possibilities: Sheriff Fraxinus or Fader Ginkgo.The sheriff would be a good exploration partner in the case a puzzle needed Charisma to be solved or if there had been added another room in the Dungeon where the monsters actually attacked on sight, like the werewolves had done.Should the majority of them even still be called monsters? They only attack criminals and in self defense...On the other hand, some puzzles were easier to solve with high Awareness and a sense for details, which the high priest might be able to assist her with.... In reality her Awareness was likely higher or just as high as Fader Ginkgo's. Zina simply hoped he might help her shed some light on the uniqueness of her Dungeon. Even if just through offhand comments his lack of knowledge of the Dungeon's secrets wouldn't allow him to understand the meaning behind.Having no reason not to simply invite both individuals, the three of them had soon after planned an expedition to the 10th Floor for the next day after breakfast.Depending on how it went, Zina would invite either both, only one of them, or someone else entirely to explore the 11th Floor with her when it was revealed.Both sheriff and high priest had been easy to convince to follow her lead through a Dungeon run. Sheriff Fraxinus expressed a want to learn more about the Dungeon and suggested he might learn more if he went with the dungeon mistress than if he went with his own people.Fader Ginkgo, on the other hand, had simply said 'yes' to the invitation with no hesitation nor explanation. Simply a nod and a thoughtful look.Finally! People who like to learn about Dungeons as much as I do! When was the last time I found someone like that?Professor Cercis?This time around the three curses were a slight stutter, the need to state the color of any noun said, and the inability to hear names.At the end of the 5th room there was another closed but unlocked door with a key hanging from a keychain next to it. Only this time the key was an actual key and the door led to a wall.The similarity of the two parts of the puzzle was the only hint of what was going on.... That and apparently the Lightning Mage could detect that the key was magical in some way. I knew it was, of course! I just hadn't given any thought to whether anyone would be able to detect that.So, with the Lightning Mage in the lead the Party solved my puzzle, taking the magical key from the 5th room, bringing it to the first and turning it in the keyhole there.The first puzzle door of the 10th Floor was now a portal to the otherwise inaccessible 6th room of the Floor: The Blessed Field.Where my unicorn blessing lived!The third puzzle of the Floor was a simple 'make all the unicorns in the room like you and your whole Party to make the trapdoor to the next room appear'. Super easy for some, yet impossible for others!The elves had a surprisingly hard time, however. Apparently a unicorn had killed one of their previous queens? She must have been an evil queen then. The story - most likely alongside a lot of propaganda aimed at making the monarchy seem perfect - had made them incredibly wary and at first even hostile towards the grassing blessing.But after several moments in tense defensive positions, the Lightning Mage seemed to either realize the unicorns had no intention of harming them or she remembered my words about only killing bad people. Nonetheless, she decided to cautiously approach the nearest unicorn.Once it was confirmed the unicorns wouldn't harm them, the other two quickly decided to simply avoid and ignore them.Which didn't do anything to annoy the unicorns but it also didn't make them like the Party. The blessing instead ignored the Party like the Party ignored them.I wasn't all that surprised when they decided to stop for the day before having solved the puzzle. The Tribe had solved the puzzle quickly due to Begdar having spread the knowledge of my theme around from the moment she knew of it, and because both her and Chief Nerok made sure to regularly remind people of my and my creatures' kindness.That's to say: Everyone in the Tribe knew half my puzzles could be solved through kindness.And even though I had informed the Lightning Mage of my theme, she had yet to use the knowledge of it to try and solve one of my puzzles.As soon as the Lightning Mage had arrived back at - what I presumed was - her office, she began analyzing what she had learned from her trip, like she always did.Only to finally realize just how wrong everything my requests had told her about the 10th Floor was.
