My name is Marcus Knight. I'm 29 years old, living in Munich, Germany. I've been single for most of my life (despite all my efforts to change that). I recently underwent a huge change in my life… well death… You’ll understand when you read on. So, I was playing my favorite city simulation game when fate called at my door with a lightning strike! Seriously, it wasn’t even storming or anything! Sitting on my veranda enjoying a cup of tea and playing a game the lightning went into my laptop and therefore myself as well. It wasn’t a pleasant way to leave this world but there are other much more hurtful ways to bite the dust I think.
As it became dark around me, and I was starting to think that I should have paid more attention to going to church, a female voice called to me.
“Young one, I see that you have no strong affiliation with any gods of your former world and so have been cast away into the void. Fortunately for you I have found you and want to help you. I am Tiria, the goddess of dungeons. And I am in need of a new dungeon core for one of my worlds. So even if you don’t want to be a dungeon, I will reincarnate you as one. Any questions before I send you down?”
I thought for a moment before I answered.
“Could I become a city building dungeon?”
Silence answered me and it took quite some time before the goddess suddenly laughed.
“Haha, that is quite some innovation. I never had a dungeon that wanted to be the core of a city for the mortals. Hmm this has the potential to change the way some of the other gods think about me… a dungeon under my tutelage going the way of light and order. Although you could easily also erect a dominion of darkness and terror if you work for the orcs or other dark creatures. I really like the idea..I will have to create a complete new skill path for you but eternity is somewhat boring sometimes and it will give me something exciting to do.”
I seem to have hit the jackpot with this one here. Perhaps I can make my hobby into my future career.
“Excuse me please if I overstep myself by asking another question here, but could you tell me how developed the world you will drop me into is, oh mighty goddess?”
A little bit of flattery can do wonders sometimes and I will use every chance to better my future life.
“It’s a young world with small kingdoms. There’s magic of course, and the usual races you might know from the fantasy games on your former world. I will drop you down into an undeveloped part of the world near an elven settlement. There you can build your home and try to grow into a splendid city. Make me proud, young one.”
Then a blinding light hit me and I felt myself falling like a meteor down to a blue and green world with a big grey moon just like earth. Three continents could be seen, with the middle one much larger than the others and big mountain chains filling the central part of it. If I guessed right I was on my way down to this place. A bit away from the mountains, with a heavily forested region that bordered to big plains without any trees.
A great river flowed down from the mountains, through the forest crossing the plains and ending in the sea some thousands of miles south.
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Next to the river would be a nice place for a settlement, but it should be a bit higher to lessen the chances for flooding the place. I felt that I could change my descending a bit and changed my flight course accordingly to my wishes.
There should have been some fear in me because of the impact but I didn’t feel it, trusting in the goddess that she wouldn’t kill me outright by throwing me on the planet. I passed some clouds and then birds on my way down and shortly before impact my speed decreased.
I could see small figures in some distance at the edge of the forest when I reached my landing place. The river had cut a valley through some hills and on top of the highest hill I arrived in all my glory.
Watching myself from the outside was a bit disturbing first, but I learned fast, and what I saw didn’t impress me. I was a glowing blue crystal the size of a marble floating 3 feet above the ground. I could see all around me, my gaze penetrating the vapour in the air, watching the former mentioned figures moving in my direction.
I really hoped they were peaceful and didn’t kill me on sight just because I was a dungeon core. In the meantime I could check my skills and abilities for building my first town.
Name:
Marcus
Race:
City dungeon
Level:
1
Mana:
100
Int:
10
Wis:
10
Cha:
10
Luck:
10
Skills:
Earth
Newbie 0%
Water
Newbie 0%
Air
Newbie 0%
Fire
Newbie 0%
Mind Speech
Adept 1%
Architecture
Beginner 1%
Range of influence
30 feet
I wasn’t really impressed but hey, I’m a newbie so it makes sense that I am just starting with the basics.
First I should try to widen my influence and then observe how much mana is used for it. I focused on making my territory bigger and felt mana begin to leave me quite fast. When I was almost out of power I found that I just got 3 feet more range and now there was new info behind my mana score as well.
Name:
Marcus
Race:
City dungeon
Level:
1
Mana:
5/100 1/h reg
Int:
10
Wis:
10
Cha:
10
Luck:
10
Skills:
Earth
Newbie 0%
Water
Newbie 0%
Air
Newbie 0%
Fire
Newbie 0%
Mind Speech
Adept 1%
Architecture
Beginner 1%
Range of influence
33 feet
This could take quite some time if I wanted to get a big place for myself. Suddenly I felt a surge of power near me and a cloud of mist manifested only a feet outside my influence.
There stood a humanoid with pointy ears, tanned skin and hard looking golden eyes glaring at me. An elf. I was astonished with this first meeting of another intelligent species.
“And what do we have here? Seems, Tiria made a mistake this time by sending a young dungeon down to us!”
And then he drew his sword out of its scabbard and went nearer.