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Brass dungeon
chapter 1

chapter 1

"Yo, Grant."

"Yo, Mike, have you seen Monty? He left the hotel with me, but he should’ve been here by now."

"Yeah, he’s at a gift shop looking for something to buy for his sister."

"Ready to go back home? Paris is fine and all, but I miss my own bed," Grant asks.

"Yeah, same. But they have some damned good wine here—too bad I couldn't bring one back home."

We sat in the terminal, chatting for a bit.

"So where’s the rest of the class? It's getting close to our departure time."

"Dude, we are an hour early. They’ll be here in like half an hour or so."

I groan, having already been here an hour just roaming the giant airport. I remember a bar just down the hall. "We might as well go and get our last legal beer while we wait."

Now it's Mike's turn to groan. "Dude, it’s like 6 a.m. It can't be good to be drinking this early."

I give Mike a stupid grin. "Come on, we are only going to be young once. Soon, we’ll be looking for jobs or going to college. Best we enjoy the time we still have left. So, are you coming, or am I going to have to drink alone?"

"Fine, I'll come with, but at least pick a spot near a TV. I wanna watch the news."

We sat in a bar watching a soccer match. As we sat there, looking at the French news broadcast, Mike saw Monty heading to the departure gate and called him over to sit with us.

Monty sat down and joined in on our banter. Slowly, we saw more and more of our classmates heading toward the gate.

"Grant," Monty asked, "do you have any plans for after graduation?"

"Yes, I’ll take a gap year and help my dad at the workshop to learn the family trade."

Mike spoke up. "It's almost time. We should go to the gate."

We headed to the gate, and as we arrived, the teacher checked us off the list. As we sat on a bench, we watched the last few stragglers file in and waited to be let onto the airplane back home. Half-asleep, I sat there until the gate attendant told us we could start boarding.

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We started to board the plane, and I took the window seat, planning to sleep most of the flight back home and not get up much before that point.

Mike came and sat next to me, saying he wasn’t looking forward to sitting for 13 hours. I gave him a nod of agreement as I fastened my seatbelt, turned off my mobile devices, and only half-listened to the safety instructions of the flight staff. As soon as the seatbelt light turned off, I unfastened it, put in my earplugs, and soon after, I dozed off.

When Grant awoke, everything was… off.

He lay on a cold stone floor, surrounded by massive stone blocks. In the center of the room, a glowing orange orb floated, radiating a soft, pulsing light.

Before he could react, a translucent blue screen appeared in front of him.

Name: Grant Larsen

Race: Human

Titles: Dungeon-Summoned

Attributes:

* Vitality: 194

* Stamina: 228

* Mana: 6

* Strength: 67

* Agility: 89

* Intelligence: 23

Abilities:

* Minor Luck Enhancement

* Fast Recovery

* Fire Resistance

Skills: None

Grant scoffed. "Oh, come on, I’m not that dumb," he muttered at the screen, feigning offense.

As he sat up, he noticed Monty out cold on the floor. I stood up, my legs feeling a bit numb, and headed over to try to wake him up. He might know where we are. But as he opened his eyes, he looked at me in confusion—clearly as lost as I was.

Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly got startled by something I couldn’t see.

"Can you see it too?" he asked, pointing at something in front of him.

I looked where he was pointing. "No… are you okay? Do you smell toast?"

Then it clicked—he must be seeing the blue screen, too.

"Do you mean the blue thing?" I asked. "Yeah, I saw it when I woke up. Something wrong with it? Does it say you have chlamydia?"

"Oh, fuck you, Grant." Monty shoves me away.

"Where are we? The last thing I remember is falling asleep on the plane."

Before Grant could answer, the orb starts to glow brighter and a new orange screen pops up.

Welcome to the brass dungeon!

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