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An Atypical dungeon
Chapter 1.1: Birth of a dungeon heart

Chapter 1.1: Birth of a dungeon heart

Somewhere, deep underground, in a junction where magic energies gathers, something is about to be born, as magic, matter and a wandering soul encounter, they merge, creating something, a being not from flesh nor vegetable, but of minerals, subjected to great pressure, there is an explosion, and what remains is only an irregular diamond that floats in the middle of an empty space on the rock.

It wakes up, just born, no memories… no parents to guide him… It’s alone in the darkness of It’s hole… Time after, he starts looking around, he notices a few blue-like-streams that enters It’s hole, moves from the edge, and merge where he is becoming a blue fog, slowly but constantly this steam is accumulating on the place filling it. It is curious, It wants to know what this fog is, so It tries to bring it closer, but with no hands or anything like it, It uses his will, at the beginning he does not achieve anything, but because he does not know it's time or seems to perceive it, he does not give up, After an unknown time, It is able to bring the fog closer, when the fog touches It, It begins absorbing it, It feels better so he hastily began pulling more fog towards him, the fog quickly disappears. so he waits for more fog to gather. this repeats for an unknown time.

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As It consumes the fog, it grows. It realizes that if there are more and bigger streams, there will be more fog, so It reaches with It’s mind, feels the walls, tries to reach beyond but can’t, so he rams the wall with its mind, as it continues to do so, it breaks the wall It continues to do so, until a day comes when, while pursuing the source of the blue stream, the wall collapses and it reaches a new area, not a space like it was, the space is smaller, it separates in different passageways, to far from his perception, but It accomplished it’s objective, the first of the blue streams now is bigger, the fog is generate quickier, but a problem arises, since the it’s space is no longer closed the fog leaves to the passageways, It is scared, his fog, what makes it full, escapes, so it quickly consumes all the fog, but not all is bad, the hole is small and it is not on the floor, and the fog fills the space starting from the floor, so, as long as it does not allow the fog to grow to big, it can consume it all. But now it questions himself… should it make the other streams bigger or try to reach beyond what it can perceive?

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