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Published at 2nd of February 2024 05:57:44 AM


Chapter 9: Everything Has Tiers and Trouble Lurks

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Chapter 9: Everything Has Tiers and Trouble Lurks

You have leveled up! You are now level 3! Karmic woods wyvern pattern obtained. You can now create creatures of level 3. You can now make your 2nd Floor.

Three Parties had now successfully gone through my Dungeon and after the first half hour of my 2-hour closing time I had the mana to level up. Status.

Personal Status Level: 3 EXP needed for level up: 450/450 Additional EXP: 381 Mana payment needed for level up: 0/200 Mana: 0/200 Mana regeneration: 30 per hour Floors: 1/2 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

I still have a lot of EXP!

And the woods wyvern?

Karmic woods wyverns are a small brown feathered species of wyvern with an average wingspan of 1.7 meters. They have traded half of their Charisma and Intelligence for the innate active Skill 'Stunning Scream'. They attack by stunning their prey with a high pitched-screech before attacking with teeth and claws. Their diet consists mostly of small to medium sized mammals. As they are a solitary monogamous species they can only be found alone or with their lifemate. They will refuse to build a nest unless they find a tall tree. As they are karma creatures, they will mirror how sapients treat them. But they get aggressive if a stranger nears their nest.

That gives me ideas for the 2nd Floor, but I want to do more for my 1st Floor first.

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Your 1st Floor has been emptied of sapients.

Timer is set to 9 hours 13 minutes.

Night had come and the 4th Party had left. All Parties had been beastkin at level 9+, but two beastkin hadn't tiered up. 6 times had a karma level risen. Status.

Personal Status Level: 3 EXP needed for level up: 450/450 Additional EXP: 838 Mana payment needed for level up: 0/200 Mana: 132/200 Mana regeneration: 30 per hour Floors: 1/2 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

Game plan: Design some fitting creatures to add to my current rooms while waiting for my mana to reach 200. When it does, I’ll level up. Then I’ll save up half of the needed mana payment for the next level before using the rest on my creatures. When possible, I want to add new creatures during the night and focus on leveling up during the day. Right now I have a lot of EXP though, so I'll focus on that a bit tonight as well.

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2 hours and 16 minutes passed.

You have leveled up! You are now level 4! Bā zú lung dragon pattern obtained. You can now create creatures of level 4.

Status.

Personal Status Level: 4 EXP needed for level up: 650/650 Additional EXP: 188 Mana payment needed for level up: 0/250 Mana: 0/250 Mana regeneration: 37.5 per hour Floors: 1/2 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

Looking good! Bā zú lung dragons?

Bā zú lung dragons are colorful flightless dragons with a serpentine body averaging 5 meters long. Their 8 legs are short, so they attack using their teeth and powerful tail. Their neural spine sail is hard and sharp and reaches around the tail making their tail attack especially dangerous. Their diet consists of rocks, minerals, and gems. As they are karma creatures, they will mirror how sapients treat them. They have traded 3/4 of their Dexterity for the innate active Skill 'Luck Bending' making them incredibly slow and bad at hitting an opponent unless they bend the other's luck. They can curse one being at a time with a bit of bad luck or bless one with a bit of good luck. The effect ends when the dragon dies or after an hour has passed. They can make it rain on command.

That sounds so powerful! They must be really expensive then. How much do they cost?

Creatures

Creatures give you a little EXP when killed and can kill sapients which earns you much more EXP.

Karmic dragonet: 12 mana + 4.25 mana Bìxié: 16.25 mana + 8.5 mana Karmic mimicking dragonet: 24.5 mana + 12 mana Karmic woods wyvern: 49 mana + 21.75 mana Bā zú lung dragon: 82 mana + 34.75 mana

Yeah, it's pretty expensive. But what a discount I get!

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I had decided that every creature after The Trap Corridor was to be level 2 as the 1st Floor could only have level 1 and 2 creatures. I wanted to wait with the wyverns and lung dragons till the next Floor and while I eventually wanted to have two bìxiés in The Waterfall Room for now I only had enough for one level 2 bìxié. The last room is supposed to be the hardest one after all!

I only had enough mana for one more dragonet, so I added it to The Great Pond Room. One last Status and 1st Floor Details before they arrive though.

Personal Status Level: 4 EXP needed for level up: 650/650 Additional EXP: 188 Mana payment needed for level up: 125/250 Mana: 1/250 Mana regeneration: 37.5 per hour Floors: 1/2 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

Floor Details for the 1st Floor

77/90 levels worth of creatures

2/2 puzzles

Creatures Puzzles Traps

... No, thank you... But cool...

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The 4th Party was about to leave when I had enough mana to level up again.

You have leveled up! You are now level 6! Karmic galespike pattern obtained. You can now create creatures of level 6.

Status.

Personal Status Level: 6 EXP needed for level up: 1,082/1,200 Mana payment needed for level up: 0/350 Mana: 0/350 Mana regeneration: 52.5 per hour Floors: 1/3 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

I remember when my mana regeneration was only 5. Such boring times!

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As this day had started earlier than the previous day - and due to people getting faster at completing my Dungeon by having heard so many tales of my tricks -, I had time for a 5th Party before it grew dark. Shortly before said Party was due to arrive a window popped up:

Achievement tier up: Careful Preparation (II): You have decided to prepare your Dungeon some more before going to the next step. Condition: Wait at least 1 day before opening your Dungeon after the option has appeared or wait at least 1 day after getting access to a new Floor before making it. Do both of these once or the latter twice. Reward: An extra 10% mana regeneration and the Ability to use the next mana payment for level ups as a Mana Bank.

You have gotten an Achievement tier up while having 1 passive Achievement. Do you wish to change which Achievement is passive?

No. How many times can Careful Preparation tier up? It seems a bit overpowered.

Serial Achievements start as (I) and can tier up 4 times to (V). The only exception is karma related Achievements which can tier up 9 times to (X). Karma related Achievements get more difficult to achieve after (V).

So Careful Preparation can give me a regeneration of 35% of my max. mana per hour! Powerful, but not completely broken.

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Dawn of the next day had almost arrived and I felt good about all the work I had done through the night.

The Great Tree Room, The Burrow Trap Room and The Hidden Tunnel Room had gotten their dragonet counter boosted to 6. Thus all rooms had 6 dragonets except The Room of Kindness - where there were no creatures - and The Rainbow Forest - which only had 5. I had other plans for that room.

Needing another 4 levels worth of dragons to reach my own self-imposed goal, I added another level 2 bìxié to The Waterfall Room and one to The Orchard. I thought it would fit in well there.

As I had now reached the amount of dragons I wanted to have on the 1st Floor, The Rainbow Forest got a couple of electric eels instead. Or rather 'fledgling karmic elemental sea serpent - Lightning' as those for some reason counted as draconic. They were basically eels with stronger electricity and the ability to become really gigantic. The last of which would never happen due to it being spawned by a Dungeon as a youth.

When I had first seen the name of the eels I had to ask the System for more information.

Elemental sea serpent? And what's with the 'Lightning' bit? The race of it? It reminds me of how the beastkin races get mentioned.

Elemental sea serpents are true dragons, which have a natural control over mana of a specific elemental type. All elemental creatures have races categorized based on their prefered element.

And yes. I am counting it as a non-dragon despite it being described as a ‘true dragon’. If it looks like an eel and acts like an eel, then it's likely a mimic but you can pretend it's an eel. Or at least I'm going to! It's much cheaper that way! I had been trying to design electric eels and wanted them to be cheaper, so I made them draconic. It turns out the creature already existed, and so I couldn’t name it myself. Not that ‘draconic electric eel’ is a much better name.

As the eels were meant to deter people from crossing streams, they might be tempted to but shouldn't, I also added an eel to the stream guarding The Great Tree.

The Swamp Route got a couple of level 2 karmic log crocodiles - one on each side of the route. They were a bit expensive due to not being draconic, but my discounts made it alright. Log crocodiles resembled a roughly 2 meter long tree log while staying still, which had inspired their name.

Floor details and status, please.

Floor Details for the 1st Floor

90/90 levels worth of creatures

2/2 puzzles

6/10 traps

Creatures Puzzles Traps

Personal Status Level: 6 EXP needed for level up: 1,200/1,200 Additional EXP: 256 Mana payment needed for level up: 88.25/350 Mana: 0/350 Mana regeneration: 70 per hour Floors: 1/3 Allowed number of sapients in each Floor: 6 Floor Details Achievements Mission Dungeon Rules

I just need some more traps and I'll be ready to make the 2nd Floor.




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